Hohenheim's Mistake 3

Hohenheim walked down the step of the basement, after shutting and locking the door, carrying a tray of food. He walked over to the elevated bed that was towards the edge of his office, and peered inside. He was met with angry, hate and exhaustion filled eyes. "Hello, William" Hohenheim said smiling at him, briefly disappearing from sight to put the tray down " I see that you are awake" he said smiling at him once returning and reaching towards William's head as if to move aside some of his hair, only to stop when he was given a particularly venomous glare. "I promise William, this isn't as bad as it seems" he said gently, his hands out in front of him like he was trying to placate a wild animal. "This is for the best, I promise. Now, are you hungry?" he asked. William glared at him harder "I'll take that as a yes" Hohenheim said and used alchemy to change the bed into almost a chair like structure except, it had various loops wrapped around William's waist, arms, chest and the top of his head to keep him upright and to keep restrained, not that Hohenheim thought they would need to serve that purpose. The coat fell into William's lap.

"I bet you're wondering why you are so weak aren't you." Hohenheim asked grabbing a bowl and spoon off the tray "besides the obvious, me taking your stones" he said, sitting on the edge of the chair bed "Your body has been so used to having the stones' power, it's mostly shut down, going through withdrawal. You won't die from not having them but you certainly aren't going to like them being taken from you. I've also taken your baby tooth, if you remember seeing it and made a necklace out of it, which you are currently wearing, for safety" he explained, stirring around the contents of the bowl.

Hohenheim put some oatmeal on the spoon and held it up "Trisha made this, she's quite the cook, in my opinion. You'll like her food. You're going to be eating it quite often." he told him as he put the spoon on William's unmoving lips "William…I can easily open your mouth and have you eat this. You still need some type of energy to depend on and in this case, it will be human food." He said putting it back in the bowl. He gently slid his hand under William's jaw, after they had a staring contest for a minute "it'll taste nasty cold William, and if you don't eat, I'll have to keep feeding you myself" he said pushing his jaw open, ignoring the hate filled eyes looking his way "If you eat, you'll get energy and maybe eventually, I won't have to do this for you." He said sliding the spoon into mouth and then shutting it. "I really don't mean to make you mad William, but you need to work with me on this. You're getting yourself nowhere" he said massaging William's throat so that he would swallow. "Please William, stop looking at me like that. I promise, I'll find a way to make you more comfortable during your stay here. I know we aren't exactly on…good terms but I'm going to try make it up to you, even if this isn't the most covenantal way…" he said trailing off

Envy was furious. How dare this man try to explain himself, like this was something not even on the scale of madness it was. He'd dare to keep him, Envy, imprisoned?! Telling him what to?! TOUCHING HIM?! Envy ranted internally. He finally 'gave in' however, eating the oatmeal without Hohenheim making him open his mouth, just so that man would quit touching him. I didn't do it for your benefit old man Envy thought angrily as Hohenheim smiled at him. It was getting harder to eat. He began to pant, causing worried looks to come from Hohenheim. Don't look down on me! He thought, heat flooding into his face as he finally couldn't finish the action of chewing, oatmeal dripping out the side of his mouth.

Hohenheim sighed and wiped the food off his son's face gently, with a cloth. "William, we are going to do an experiment" Hohenheim said watching him carefully, William's eyes widening, Hohenheim not completely sure if it was from shock or fear. "I'm going to take that tooth off of you, so you eat. However, those binds will keep you from attacking me and you don't have the means to transform. If you somehow manage to do so anyway, the tooth goes back on you. Blink twice if you understand." Hohenheim told him. William blinked twice.

When Hohenheim took the tooth off, Envy instantly felt better. Not quite to his regular homunculus standard, but like having three Gluttony's on him instead of twelve. He took the bowl that Hohenheim was holding out to him, the imbecile! And stuck the spoon in it as viscously as he could, getting some on his coat, just to spite him. Hohenheim, by a sigh he gave, wasn't too pleased with it. It was small, but it something. He shoved the spoon in his mouth and about choked it. As he was coughing, he heard Hohenheim laughing. How dare he? How dare he laugh at him when this was his fault?! He thought, in a rage and before he knew it, flung the bowl of oatmeal in Hohenheim's face. He smirked. Who was the one laughing now?

Hohenheim sighed and wiped oatmeal from his eyes. I should have expected that he thought as he looked at a now laughing William. He supposed he did deserve that one. "Now William, you've gone and wasted perfectly good food." He said chastising him. That made William stop laughing abruptly and glare at him. "Would that happen to mean you aren't hungry anymore?" he asked as William spat "I wasn't hungry in the first place you old man!" and suddenly lashed out at him, with his foot, catching him in the jaw and by surprise.

Yes! He thought as he had managed to stun Hohenheim just long enough for him to slip out of the binds and rush towards one of the tables, where he could see the red stones laying. NO! He thought in panic because when he got over to them, they turned out to be some type of other stone why didn't I run for the exit? A hand gripped his shoulder, forcing him to turn around.

Hohenheim sighed and glazed into is son's hatful eyes "William, please calm down, I promise, after a while, this can be a better life here than one with Dante" he said. He was rewarded be William attempting to punch him. He caught his hand and was about to say something before both of them heard "Daddy? Where are you?" a small voice shouted from upstairs. Hate, pain and something else flashed through William's eyes as he began to say "HEY-!" Hohenheim pressed the tooth back onto him, instantly quieting him. He tied it back around William's neck then caught him as he fell. He placed William back into the chair and retransmuted it back into a bed, this time making an actual blanket. It could get cold in the basement, especially during this time of the year.

The last thing Envy heard was "Again, I'm sorry William. I really hope to reconcile, please, even if this isn't the best way. When I come back, I'm going to read you a story, so you won't be as bored. It's made just for you" then a few clunks, the sound of a door shutting, and a child's laughter.

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