Eve jerked awake with a little bit of a start when she felt something heavy wrap around her waist as she was dragged a little across the bed she'd been sleeping so soundly on mere moments ago only to wind up half laying on top of her brother Alphonse who was snoring softly in his sleep.
Flushing at catching her brother in her bed snoozing she raised her hand to slap him, and suddenly stopped when she realised that he had dark circles under his eyes. A sure indication of just how rough things had been on him last night when she had gotten sick. Letting her breath leave her lungs in a small puff that blew some of her long bangs away from her face, she dropped her arm slowly so as she wouldn't disturb Al and then squirmed until his arm fell away from her body. Leaving her free to move about unhindered.
If she recalled right, Al had promised that once she was rested up a bit more she could have a shower. And since she was feeling a bit better and her stomach wasn't cramping so painfully anymore- and- She glanced down at Alphonse again just to make sure he was really still asleep and then grinned. And since he was still out of it and couldn't stop her at the moment, she'd just go ahead and take her shower while she could.
Quietly getting up off of the bed, she made her way across the room that she and Al shared and grabed some clothes from the dresser. Nothing too flashy or girly, just...the norm for her. Panties, a weird torture device known as a bra, some socks, a baggy black shirt, and some clean pants- and then made her way to the bathroom and set everything down on the counter and stripped slowly due to some aches that she was still experiencing.
Once she was down to her panties and bra, she took a moment to look in the mirror above the sink. And nearly flinched at what she saw.
Dear god in heaven... How could she possibly be Edward Elric? True enough she looked slightly similar to Al- what with the blond hair and some facial features...but everything else. The green eyes, the length of her soft blond hair, the gentle curve of her jaw, the slender build of her petite body, the size of her breasts (though slightly small) would have been more noticable if not for the clothing she wore. And then there was her hieght.
Fucking five foot four. Which was the total opposite of Alphonse's slightly impressive five foot eight.
No wonder everyone called her a pipsqueak. She thought in despair as she reached up and ran her fingers through her thick, tangled hair. No- there was no real way that she could believe that she had once been the boy Edward Elric. Not even after Alphonse had told her everything that he knew.
Sighing, she glanced down at her automail arm and wondered if it and her missing leg were the only things linking her to her former self or if maybe something else was. God knew her relationship with Alphonse had been off ever since she had awoken in the home of Pinako, and Winry Rockbell. Her memories of Alphonse from before were sketchy.
She knew that she knew his name. His age and blood type. How many times he had been sick as a baby and how many times he had wet the bed over the years. The fact that she held some sort of peculiar affection for him. But she couldn't recall anything else beyond that. Where as Alphonse and Winry and Pinako had all taken turns trying to refresh her memory.
But nothing they had told her seemed real to her. Confusing yes, but not real.
Which had made the first few months after what had happened, fairly awkward for her. Interacting with the three had been almost painful to watch from an outsider's point of view, she had floundered and stumbled around so much verbally that she had almost taken up the habit of shutting herself in the bedroom in an effort to hide her embarrassment.
Although if she were to be totally honest, there were still times when she felt the need do so. But they were fewer and far between now. And Alphonse reacted to the few times she did shut herself away from him with such amazing grace that she would cry if he looked directly at her.
Mentally shaking herself for wasting so much time on such thoughts, she finished stripping and then turned on the tap in the shower and waited a moment for the water to heat before climbing in. She needed to clean herself quickly if she wanted to get dressed and grab something to eat before waking Al and then heading off to meet Mustang and give her latest report.
