X. Sun and Moon
"Tell me a story mommy!"Wrath demanded, cuddling into her waist, she wanted to strangle him for trying to replace her boys, an idea already echoing through her mind, she tried desperately to ignore this thought process and instead turned her focus back to Wrath, smiling at him softly.
"Once upon a time..."she began, and Wrath wiggled in excitement,"there was a very happy family, a mommy and daddy and two little sons. But one day, the daddy had to leave for a very important reason, and so the mommy became very sad, and one day she had to go away to a different place then the daddy. The two little sons were not happy, so they tried to bring her back using alchemy, creating a homunculi in the process who had their mother's very special memories. The little sons did not know this, and began to go on adventures together, slowly forgetting their missing mommy's homunculi. Until one day, the eldest discovered he was very very ill, and would die soon. This made everyone sad, so the mommy's homunculi came and visited to make him feel better, but he died anyway. The end." Wrath frowned.
"That's not a good ending mommy!"she raised an eyebrow at him.
"How should it have ended then?"
"Well if the mommy homuculi still loves them she should have saved the brother!"
"And how would she do that?"
"Well...I remember that some times people would offer themselves for others, so maybe she could've sacrificed herself for the brother!"she stared at him for a moment, and closed her eyes tightly, trying not to think about it. The idea was reinforced by Wrath's story ending, but she couldn't...she absolutely wouldn't go through with it!
"Time for bed Wrath."she said simply tucking the child in.
"Love you mommy."he said, closing his eyes. He didn't need sleep, but she made him sleep anyway.
"Yes."she said, because she'd had enough with lying for the day, and slipped out of the room, hoping to figure out what to do next.
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Ed woke up tiredly, his fever gone, and slightly more responsive, much to all their joy. they crowded into the recovery room, discussing small things, because any questions on what happened in the mansion would make him seize up and stop talking for nearly half an hour. but other than that, he was acting like himself.
"Do you still want to go to Arquoya Ed?"Winry asked when the conversation started to run down.
"Yeah! This is just a delay on our vacation, okay? We'll still go!"Winry and Al nodded, thougth worry lingered in their stances.
"Maybe Russel and Fletcher should come along?"the two blonds smiled.
"I'm afraid not, you were lucky to catch us in Resimbool as it was. Fletcher and I stopped in Central to visit our mother, we were heading back to Xenotime and caught you going into the secret passage."Winry nodded.
"Okay."she avoided going further into the subject, the whole rescue mission had been nothing but luck. Envy had left a note with how to get to the secret passage and into the underground mansion area, but it had been encoded, luckily Al and Winry had cracked it, then ran into the Tringhams on their way into it.
"Which reminds me, our train is leaving soon, I apoligize for our abrupt depature, but we have to go." The Elrics and Winry nodded in understanding.
"We understand."Russel nodded and stood.
"It was nice meeting you Winry, and seeing you in you proper forms Elrics."they prepared to leave.
"Oh, I'll walk you to the train station!"Winry offered, sensing that the brother's need some alone times. As soon as the house was emptied by all but the two silence seemed to prevail.
"I had a strange dream last night Al..."Ed began, Al nearly jumped in surprise, Ed hadn't been starting conversations at all, joining in on them mostly.
"Really?"Ed nodded.
"Yeah, it was strange, I dreamt that this was all a dream, and mom was still alive, and that I was sick and had to get better." Al looked at him in shock.
"You had a dream about mom to?"Ed blinked in surprise.
"Um..yeah, you did to?"
"Yeah, but in my dream she was an angel who had come to visit for the night, and she told me that she was waiting for us in heaven and that she missed how we used to say our bedtime prayers together."Ed nodded.
"I'm dying."he said after a moment of silence.
"I know."Al answered. They stared at each other for a moment, and it was odd, because of the two things that met.
Ed had always been the sun, bright and buoyant. Al had always been the moon, quiet and thoughtful. But now, as those golden eyes met Al's Hazel ones, their roles where switched.
The sun, bright and full of life with a dark spots along him.
The moon, small and oh so hopeless, already dead.
Then they blinked and the moment ended, but the roles remained. The dead sun and the glowing moon.
AN: I know, really short, but surely Wrath's appearance and lines made up for it? I don't generally like to wirte Wrath, but he's surprisingly easy for a pyscho, and even if I have a slight grudge against him for stealing Sloth from the Elrics (Oh, did you notice?), I actually kind of like him, but only if he has Izumi around, or Sloth is mentally cussing him out.
I think the last few line sof this chapter are pretty damn deep to, and so therefore worth the shortness, well I think so anyway.