flowers for a ghost
Characters: Winry Rockbell, Trisha Elric
Summary: The memory is the last to go.
Winry would never claim that she could understand what drove the brothers to the act of desperation. She had tried to understand them – especially Ed because she knew that he had been the first to think of the taboo, of the forbidden alchemy. She had long stopped to wonder whether she might have done something because the answer was depressing: no, she could not have done anything to stop him – well, she might have hacked off his arms and rendered him forever incapable of using alchemy (was it a curse or a blessing, she often wondered) but nothing else would have stopped Edward.
So she waited for them.
And while she waited, she visited Trisha's grave.
She remembered the kind-hearted woman who had done so much for her sons nearly as well as she remembered her own mother and she wondered what she was supposed to feel. She remembered how she had cried over her parents' death, how she had climbed up that tree where her grandmother could not find her and how Trisha had suddenly been on the branch next to her, hugging her and rubbing her back.
No, she could not understand why the brothers' had brought all of this over themselves, even though she tried so hard that her heart nearly burst with compassion and sympathy. The only thing she knew was that Trisha had been worth the risk.
And so she lay down another bunch of wildflowers on her grave.