AN/ Ello y'all im sorry I didn't update sooner, I actually planned on getting this chapter out a few days ago but I got tied up at work and I'm redecorating my room on top of that heh. Anyway enough babble and on with the story!

Broken

Chapter 3:

Ed's P.O.V

I stared, motionless, before the mirror. I stayed till I was convinced that there was no glass, nothing separating me from the room I see on the other side.

I imagine that everything is different over there. Better.

But as my hand reaches the world I so long to be in...

My hand hits the glass.

I know that if I'd only waited just one more second...

A soft sigh escaped my lips. I had been released from the hospital two days after the incident with Winry and the others.

During those two rather uneventful days I realized something.

Sometimes you can cry until there is no wet in you.

You can scream and curse to were your throat rebels and ruptures.

You can pray all you want, to whatever god you think will listen.

And, still, it makes no difference.

It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you.

And somewhere deep inside you, you know that if it ever did relent...

It would not be because it cared.

I gave up on trying to sleep. Every time I close my eye's, the memory of that day haunts me. I haven't spoken to anyone since the incident at the hospital, I also refuse to let any more tears show.

I guess you could say that I closed myself off from the blood stained world that surrounds me.

I don't know weather I'm alive, dreaming or dead, I don't even know who I am anymore.

I'm no hero, I couldn't save myself.

I..I couldn't even save mom or Nina.

"Nii-san..."

I looked up towards the amour that encased my brother's soul.

For him, I forced a smile.

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My smile soon faded as I saw my reflection within the armor.

My face was marred with scares and bruises that were no longer supposed to be there. My hair and clothes caked with blood. I took a deep breath in attempt to calm myself, but the sent of the man who who took my innocence wafted through my nose.

I quickly shove Al out of the way, flinching as the cool metal pressed against my flesh hand. I ran to the bathroom slamming the door shut behind me.

I the turn the shower on hot and commenced peeling off my clothes.

Norm. P.O.V

Edward took a hesitant step into the steaming hot water, wincing as the said object made contact with his pale skin.

Grabbing some soap and a cloth he commenced washing his body in attempt to rid himself of the smell and blood that only his eye's and nose could detect. He scrubbed until his flesh turned a bright red and then grabbed the shampoo and conditioner, pouring the substance into his hair. After washing and rinsing his hair he repeated the same process once more.

As Ed brought his hands to his face for examination, he saw the blood still remained, he looked down towards his upper torso seeing the same thing. The smell of blood, sweat and liquor was etched into his entire being.

His eye's then scanned the bathroom, in search for anything to help get himself clean.

He then found it, a scowering (sp?) pad, which Alphonse had left after attempting to clean the washroom. He grabbed the object with his automail hand taking a few seconds to rub it against the bar of soap.

And he scrubbed. He kept on scrubbing his entire being until he bled. But the pigment withing his imagination would not lift.

Ed then collapsed to the ground golden eye's widening as realization dawned upon him. The realization off doing something which would accomplish nothing, nothing was there, no blood, no sent. He sat in the marble bathtub for along time not moving, the shower water now turning cold.

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Well there ya go chapter 3! don't forget to review and I'd also like to thank those who did review in the last 2 chapters! ...I'm not sure but i think im going a bit to deep and ansty with this... please tell me if I am getting to Emo with this fanfic.