Shell

He remembers, from years ago, finding his mother collapsed on the floor; he remembers a slow, numbing terror that spread out from the pit of his stomach to his limbs and his brain. He remembers thinking that it must be a dream, that it could not happen to him, but it had happened to Winry, and –

Winry. With a sudden, violent lurch, he remembers –

Wake up –

This is not a dream.

There is a sick silence over the room. Homunculus's form is familiar poison; Ed realizes, distantly, that he is being mocked.

Hohenheim turns to the creature in Al's body and whispers, "You bastard."


A/N: I know this isn't what happened, but it would have been the icing on the cake, huh?