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Drabble the Sixteenth: 5th Lab: Hall
It had been nearly ten minutes since Scar had given up on trying to keep Alphonse from following him, and the still there had been no change in the perfectly smooth hallway; there was absolutely no way to tell if the two of them had even been moving forward at all. It was enough, Scar mused, to drive a person mad. In the very depths of his subconscious, the Ishbalan was beginning to feel the tiniest bit glad that the boy was there, if only because he was another presence which meant that Scar was not entirely alone in this seemingly endless white passage. The clanging of Alphonse's footsteps, which had previously been an annoyance, was now practically welcomed; it was the only thing keeping the silence from becoming completely overwhelming, and Scar's mind clung to the sound like a drowning man to a life preserver. If Alphonse hadn't stayed, if he'd been alone…he gave a slight shudder, forcefully steering his mind away from that thought.
"What is it?" Alphonse asked quietly.
"I…" Scar searched his mind for the right words to express what he wanted to say, but couldn't quite find them, "I don't…like this place," he finished the sentence with his voice only barely above a whisper. His answer was nowhere near accurate; he couldn't stand this place. The utter lack of life, of color, of sound…he wasn't sure why he'd answered the question at all, maybe he'd just wanted to fill the silence for a moment.
"I don't like it either," was Alphonse's only reply, and Scar could tell from the boy's tone that he meant it just as much as the Ishbalan had.
The thought crossed Scar's mind that perhaps this was what hell was like.
A/N: This one actually was originally going to go right into where Scar was flashbacking, but it turned out to be yet another scene that wasn't actually in the series. -sweatdrop- Poor Scar-san, poor Al…I think they might have preferred the booby traps…-has the sudden mental image of Scar and Al fleeing for their lives from a gigantic Indiana Jones boulder- Or…maybe not. Anyway, yay for more character bonding/development! I heart all of you and your wonderful reviews. :D