A Brother's Memories
A/N: Since I'm doing these all at once this will probably be the last "author's note" I do unless I think there is something that needs explained to you.
Chapter 1: Pain
Al was eternally grateful that Edward hadn't been wearing his jacket when he was killed, otherwise he would have nothing to remember his brother by. Memories and the jacket were the only things Al had of Edward and he was determined not to lose them too.
Currently though he was sitting at home staring at the scribbled notes of his brother's research. He had never talked much about it, but he had been researching the reason why their parents had died and who had done it. Al couldn't understand why someone would want to kill his brother for doing this as far as he knew the brothers were the only ones who cared why their parents were dead.
In his option people were cruel; from Ed's notes almost no one had come to their parent's funeral and besides Al no one at all and come to Ed's. He stared at the notes for hours and hours until he was too tired to hold his head up. Stretching his stiff limbs he got up and staggered over to the bed. Falling in it he was almost instantly asleep, and his dream was memories. It was a good dream too, up until the very end.
"Ed your doing wonderful" he sat there patiently as his brother struggled to write out his name. So far Ed's only mistake was his E's were backwards so when he was done it read "3dward 3lric" smiling slightly he suggested they take a break, but Ed shook his head, "no I'm going to get this right" he said firmly and started again. "Alright, while you're doing that I'm going to work on the next set of words" he said as he grabbed the spare pencil and a sheet of paper.
"Brother please be careful I don't want something caught on fire again because you forgot the stove was on." He said as he closed the door, he had been called into work again today and had to leave for a few hours. "Al wait" he turned around to see Ed in the doorway holding a paper. "I wanted to give you something" Ed held it out and he took it with a smile. "Thank you brother."
"Brother?... Brother?... BROTHER!" he ran across the living room to where his brother was laying in a pool of blood. Ed's skin had become very pale and his eyes were only half open. "What happened?" as he picked Ed up Ed's hands fell away from his chest to expose a huge gash in his stomach that went all the way through him. He could feel the blood soaking his pants as the gash in Ed's back continued to bleed. "Al" Ed said with some difficulty "Al I'm so sorry, I didn't see him."
Al jerked awake, fresh tears rolling down his face, "no Ed I'm the one that should be sorry. I'm the one that didn't look after you."