Title: The Better Man
Author: Evil_Little_Dog
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, I don't make any money.
Summary: Al's too little to do anything. From the prompt: Fullmetal Alchemist, wee!Ed+wee!Al, "he adores his big brother but sometimes he gets tired of always being second-best"
Ed was the bigger brother. He got to do everything, like climb on the bookshelf. When Al tried, Ed would say, "You're not big enough!" and bring him down.
"When will I be big enough?"
"I'll tell you!" Ed promised.
Ed and Winry played together, and sometimes left Al out. "You can't run fast enough to keep up," Ed said.
"Can, too!"
"You can't. When you can, you can play with us."
Al couldn't go down to the road by himself. He couldn't go into the basement himself (not that he wanted to, there were really big spiders down there, big enough to eat him!). He had to go collect vegetables with Ed, and Ed wouldn't let him carry the basket.
And then they got the bunk bed.
"I want the top bunk," Al said, pointing.
"You're too little!" Ed said. "I need the top bunk!"
Al didn't cry this time, or run to Mommy. Instead, he balled up his fists and jumped on his brother, whaling away.
In the end, neither of them got the top bunk, but Al definitely won the fight, if the black eye Ed sported was any indication. And Al was never going to take anyone calling him 'too little' again.
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