So, the assignment was "Hohenheim is allergic to cat fur".
I was having a hard time coming up with something.
Trisha was one day very unexpectedly confronted with her Hohenheim's other side. The side that looked like crap and was emitting loud sneezes.
'Maybe you should be going back to bed?' was her careful suggestion.
The blond man simply shook his head. 'I'm not sick, Trisha. I believe it's an allergy.'
'To what?'
'If I knew that, I would not look like this.' With that, her husband went off to his books, sneezing once in a while.
Trisha was puzzled. She had no idea he was allergic to anything, and apparently, neither did he. But he was suffering from it very loudly, which made her decide to quest for the source of the allergy and solve the problem.
'Dear?'
'Yes, Trisha?' It came mumbled as the alchemist was concentrating on whatever it was that she couldn't understand.
'Do you think I should have dusted more in here?'
'No, it's perfectly clean.' He smiled and turned a page, without looking up at her.
'Then it must be something that came in recently…' She left him alone with his books and his allergy, and started searching the entire house. Nothing had changed, especially not lately. After she got done, she sank down at the kitchen table with a discouraged sigh.
A little stray cat suddenly spurted out from under the table, running into Hohenheim's study. Almost immediately, more loud sneezes were heard, interrupted by the occasional swear word which was very rare to hear from such a calm man.
Smiling to herself, Trisha went after the kitten to catch it and remove it from the Elric household.