A Reason to Flinch Away by HPFangirl71
Alphonse Elric never backed down from a potential challenge…
No, there had never been a fight too big for the youngest Elric boy. That had always been true up until now…
Now Al had found a new type of challenge. A challenge that had him flinching from his own brother's loving touch. Not flinching in abhorrence but flinching instead out of hidden desire. A desire that had Al afraid of himself... so very afraid.
This desire kept him at bay, made him hesitant and doubtful. About Al's desire, the eldest Elric brother could never find out. If he did, then Al might lose everything that had ever been precious to him.
That's why Al kept flinching away from the easy camaraderie he and his older brother had once shared. For if Al didn't keep a distance, then he just might give into that dark desire gnawing daily at him. He'd give into it and then Ed would know the feelings his baby brother now harbored. Feelings that were no longer brotherly. Instead, they were feelings that had grown into lustful desire. A desire for Ed that Al knew to be wrong and forbidden, yet he craved it all the same…