"Alphonse Elric? O-Our Alphonse Elric..?"
"Yes, Hawkeye. Our Al.."
Ed slowly awoke, instantly tuning into the conversation that was being held between the two State Alchemist, Riza Hawkeye and Roy Mustang. Memories started to quickly flood through his tired mind. The blonde curled up into a tight ball, giving a small whimper. It was beginning to become reality, he had killed his own brother… He was the only Elric left, besides his no good father.
Tears rimmed the edges of his golden eyes, "Al.." He whimpered putting his hands on top of his head to bring himself tighter into a ball.
His mind was racing, he just wanted to curl up in a ball and die quietly. So he could join his mother and brother and he can be happy, once again.
"Edward.."
Ed opened a golden eye to meet the beautiful face of Riza Hawkeye. Ed tightly closed his eyes again and bit his lower lip, his stomach starting to turn. He didn't need anyone trying to make him feel better, how could he possibly feel better now that his one and only brother was dead…
Ed felt warm arms bring him into a embrace. Ed's eyes shot open.
"I-I'm so sorry.." Riza whispered holding on to Ed as if he would keep her planted on the ground.
Ed pushed away from Riza and gripped both of his shoulders, trying to back himself further into the couch. He wanted to die, couldn't anyone see that? He wanted to be left alone so he could slowly die inside knowing that he took his own sibling from the world.
"I thought I had everything right.." Ed whispered, "Even Roy checked over everything, everything was right… Wasn't it..?"
Roy's expressionless face stared down at Ed, showing a wee bit of sympathy for the 15-year-old boy. He was too young to bear the weight of this.
"Ed." Roy spoke, "I carefully made sure that I checked everything over, I did it more than three times. Nothing in your transmutation circle was flawed…"
"Then why was Al taken away from me!" Ed yelled shaking his head bring his chin down to his chest. "Tell me Roy, why?"
Roy took a step forward towards Ed and quickly stopped in his tracks. He didn't know the answer, he couldn't answer it for him, he didn't know what he could do for the boy anymore. Roy released a shuttered breath.
"Ed, I wish I could bring Al back for you…" Roy stated, "But, maybe trying to give Al back his body wasn't supposed to be."
Ed stood up from the sofa that he had been sitting on. Riza couldn't help but jerk back and stand up. Ed's golden eyes narrowed.
"I promised Al I would help him get his normal body back! Even if it meant giving up my life!" Ed yelled stomping his auto-mail leg down on the hard wood floor. Ed's knee's shook underneath him as his legs collapse from under him and he sank to the floor. "Instead of searching through the pieces of Al's armor, I should of just transmuted his soul to another body." Ed whispered.
Roy just stood there, his dark eyes resting on Ed's body. Riza knelt down beside the boy, her arms out to try to calm the boy. Ed gritted his teeth and wiped the gathering tears from his eyes and stood up once again to face Roy face to face.
"I can bring back Al, I know it!" Ed said, "Just like I…"
Ed stopped right in the middle of his sentence. He lowered his golden gaze to the ground. That was right, he didn't successfully bring his mother back, she just turned into a Homunculi. Ed put a hand to his head, he felt as if he was going to vomit.
Al.. Ed thought, the good and bad memories flooding through his mind. "He must of suffered so much." Ed whispered, tears starting to flow from his eyes.
The next thing that happened was Ed found himself in the arms of Roy, he had nearly passed out and fell over. Ed doing do or say anything, he felt as if his voice and soul had been ripped from him. All Ed could do was sit there in Roy's arms crying as he attempted to keep his mind in reality.
Cat: Psh, short chapter I know. -sweat drops- But this is all I could mug up for this chapter. Like I said, don't kill me yet! Oh, and don't yell at me for getting anything wrong, I had just gotten to Episode 49 and I know Ed's mom was turned into a Homunculi. Something about, a failed human transmutation. -nods- Something like that. Please don't get mad at me if I get anything wrong! -tears- Please, review?