Centre of Gravity
08 – Slow and steady
When Alphonse meets up with Fletcher Tringham for the first time in his real body, the boy is surprised. Al is only slightly discomforted when Fletcher can take his eyes off him that night, he is used to people staring at him, when he was armour and when he suddenly wasn't. Then he starts watching Fletcher, sees how the boy isn't really a boy any more and is becoming a man, how his hair has darkened a couple shades but his eyes seem lighter when they meet up with his own. The first moment, that really changed anything between them, was one instigated by Fletcher, who slowly and very carefully, places his hand between Al's flesh and bone fingers. Fletcher's own hand is clammy and warm, but to Al, still starving from lack of touch, grips the limb tightly and relishes the feeling, still wanting, needing more of the Plant Alchemist's skin.
