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The Law
His topaz eyes stared out the window. The sight of the countryside passing him by helped slow down his rapid heartbeat, but only sped up the rate at which his happiness expanded through his whole being.
They'd been through so much, the three of them. And, even after all the pain and loss he, his brother and best friend had gone through, he knew that what they had gained was far greater and better than anything they could've asked for; loyal friends and allies, countless experiences along with remarkable life lessons, and of course, restoring their bodies.
He could say that they had proved the law of Equivalent Exchange to be true. Proved that it wasn't, nor is, falsifiable, in fact, it's very much a tautology; the law is true in any possible interpretation. If you put out effort, something of equal value will be returned to you for that effort. In the end, what you receive in return may not be what you expect or what you want, but you'll still receive something.
He took this law to heart, saw it as a law of the world.
However, she did the impossible. She came along and completely disrupted the law, tipping the balance as if it was nothing.
He'd offered her half of his life.
She'd overturned the law, saying she would give him all of her life. Well, maybe 85%, but still, it was more than the 50% he'd offered.
It was true, her answer had taken him by surprise. His pessimistic self held out only a small bit of hope that she would accept his proposal.
Still, the events from moments before made him feel jovial.
He wasn't one to know much about love, but he still felt glad to have been able to attain the love of such an amazing and pulchritudinous person, without having any real experience in that field himself. He wondered if that was Equivalent Exchange as well, but doubted it. He knew that love was an inexplicable thing, more complicated than any alchemic text he'd ever studied. It could bring joy or pain, pain that he hoped to never feel by her side.
In all honesty, he wasn't even sure if Equivalent Exchange, the most basic of all laws, applied to love or if it was just another exception.
Of course, that was something they would both have to discover on their own, whether their happiness came at a price or not.
A/N - Just wanted to say happy belated Halloween! I meant to update yesterday, but I found a pumpkin and decided to carve it instead. I'm sorry, but hey, at least I'm being honest, right? :I Anyway, I hope you had fun yesterday and I hope you had fun today and ate lots of sugar skulls if you celebrated All Saint's Day aka Day of the Dead! :)
BTW - Pulchritudinous means beautiful, in case it wasn't clear... I don't like using the same words over and over so I use my handy dandy Thesaurus every once in a while. xD