What if Trisha didn't die? What if Alphonse had the same illness? What would Edward do?


Edward Elic sighed deeply as he dropped onto the couch. He was so tired from taking care of both his ill mother and brother. The poor eleven year old hadn't slept in days. He needed help and he needed it fast.

A knock from the door made him groan as he went to go answer it.

"What do you want?" he growled.

A girl around his age stood in front of him. She had brown hair and deep green eyes. She wore her hair in a low ponytail tied with a simple white ribbon.

"I'm sorry. Is this the Elric residence?" she asked.

"Yeah. It is."

"I am Kayla Torre. My family practices medicene and specializes in the disease that your mother has. My father was supposed to come over instead to offer help but the was an accident. I'll be filling in for him." she said.

"But your only a kid."

"I am most certainly not! I have been practicing ever since I was five and I am twelve for you information!" she huffed. "Would you like help or not?"

"...Yeah. I need to sleep. Let me introduce you to my mom and little brother."

He led her into his mother's room first.

"Hey, Mom." he greeted sitting in the chair next to her bed.

"Ed, my dear, who is this young lady?" she asked weakily.

"This is Kayla. She'll be helping out around here while I go out."

"How wonderful. You do look tired, sweetie. You need rest, Ed. Thank you, Kayla."

"No problem, Miss Elric." she said.

"Call me Trisha." she said with a weak smile.

Edward kissed Trisha's forehead then left to introduce her to Alphonse.

"Ed, who's this?" he asked.

"I'm Kayla. I will be helping Ed take care of you two." she answered kindly.

"Oh. I'm Alponse Elric. Call me Al." he said.

"I will. Do you need anything?"

"No I'm fine." he said with a wave. "I just need some rest."

Edward pulled her to the kitchen so no one could hear them talking.

"You couldn't have come at a better time. Listen, I'm going to central in order to look for a job. I need you to tell them I'm at school or something. We're running out of money and wee need it soon." he explained.

"Okay... but be careful, okay? When will you be leaving?"

"In a few hours. I had already planned this and was going to ask Pinako to watch them but I don't need to anymore. Thank you so much." he said before rushing upstairs to get his things. "If you need anything go to this address. The Rockbells are good friends of ours."

"Alright. Now go." she said pushing him towards the door. "You need to suport your family, right?"

"Of course."

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Edward sat on the train heading to Central City. He let his mind wonder.

Ed and Al trained with Izumi Curtis for a while before coming home. Their mother was ill so they had to come back to help out. He remembered how Al hated seeing Winy so sad because of losing her parents. So Al asked Edward to help him do something crazy; preform human transmutation in order to bing her parents back. Edward strongly opposed to it and told him he would how no part in it.

It didn't seem to bother Al, he researched it anyways. He wanted to see WInry happy again. He'd do whatever it took in order to do so. But before he could try to do it he had found out he had the disease as well, it was a hereditary after all. Edward was so scared of losing him. He said he would do whatever he wanted. Alphonse said he would've like to do the transmutation but it was too late and didn't matter anymore.

Edward read this the wong way, taking it as a resquest for Ed to do it. After months of reading his notes he commited the taboo and failed. Since he had tried to bring back two people he lost both his arm and leg. Lucky for him Winry had decided to bring over some pie that day and found him bleeding on the floor.

Winry dragged him all the way over to her house before he could bleed to death. It was a miricle he lived. Edward then asked them to give him Automail which they did. Afterwards it all calmed down and he resumed taking care of his mother and brother.

Edward sighed. He watched the setting sun through the window and closed his eyes. He feel asleep only to relive the nightmae of preforming Human Transmutation.


Questions? Coments? Concerns?

I based Kayla's look on Hungray from Hetalia. I think she's really pretty.

A review would be nice~~~