Chapter 6

Ed lay in bed looking up at the sky, he felt hopeless. There was nothing he could do, for Al….his little brother. A silent tear fell down the side of his face, and the moisture sunk into the bed.

So what was he supposed to do, just do nothing at all? Just let Al die before his eyes, Ed slammed his fist into the bed, mad at himself for letting this happen. But the worst part….

The worst part was….he had done it. Edward himself had done it, he had done something wrong with the transmutation, and….left some of Al's body parts in the gate?

What could have happened? He wondered. He tried to remember the transmutation, but it was all was a blur….he couldn't remember anything.

A knock on Ed's door interrupted his thoughts; he figured it was Rose wanting to talk about Al. Without waiting for a reply, the mysterious person opened the door and walked in.

Ed was shocked but also relived to see Winry, he didn't want to talk about Al right now.

"What are you doing here" he asked Winry.

"I was just….. coming to see how you were doing" Winry replied sighing in mid sentence.

"Not so good" Ed replied. Winry grimaced, but her mouth turned back into a straight line.

"I hate to see you suffer like this, you and Al" Winry said and Ed could tell by how much her voice was trembling that she was crying.


"Oh Winry" Ed said, and he started crying too, letting it all out. Winry went to him and he gathered her up in his arms. Ed kissed her head and Winry stopped crying long enough to just lie down on Ed's bed.

The both lay there; tear stained faces, and facing each others back. Winry turned toward Ed, she started playing with his golden hair, and suddenly she was met with his golden eyes looking into her blue ones.

Ed kissed her, Winry kissed back. They broke away, and Ed brushed his hand to her pale face. They heard a bump sound, and foot falls coming down the hall.

"I better go before Rose comes in" Winry said.

"Yeah" Ed said, and watched her figure leave, and shut the door behind her.

Ed woke up to the phone ringing, he put the pillow over his head groaning and wishing he could smash it to pieces. He heard Rose's voice rising up the stairs to meet him.

"Hello" he heard her say. Then there was a pause, and he knew the person on the other end of the line was speaking.

"Yes umm…this is Doctor Decosta" he said. Rose grabbed the telephones line, hoping this was good news.

"Yes" she said, Winry beside her on the couch.

"You umm….might want to come and….see the patient one last time, he's blood sugar has dropped deathly low (because of his loss at his pancreas). And umm…his lungs are filled with blood which is suffocating him (Tuberculosis). We cannot do anything for him, the blood keeps coming…..we have taken him off all life supports (even the I.V.). And the blood is a very strange black and brown color because we have taken him off the machine that cleans his blood…he's dying….." Doctor Decosta said taking a breath after.

Rose didn't say anything, she nodded her head like he could see her, and hung up the phone. She looked at Winry, tears blinding her view of the blonde girl. Winry knew what was going on immediately; she hugged Rose and walked up stairs to get Edward.

She came up, Ed had been unable to go back to sleep, and he was fully dressed and about to come down stairs for breakfast. Winry ran up there.

"Ed we have to go to the hospital...Al is…" but she didn't get to finished her sentence. On the mention of the hospital Ed knew it was about Al, so he had ran down stairs and out the door as fast as his (short) legs could carry him.

Rose following behind him, Winry got in the car along with him and they raced off to the hospital, neither of the girls wanting to tell Ed what was happening with Al.

They got to the hospital each of them almost running toward his room. When they got in front of his room though, Doctor Decosta, and four other Nurses were covered with brownish, reddish blood on their white robes.

There was another Doctor with Decosta too. Ed came running, and was going to past them and go straight to Al's room. But he was stopped by the other Doctor, and Decosta was holding back Winry, and Rose.

"I'm sorry" Decosta said.

"I cannot allow you to see the patient" The other Doctor said.

"He isn't a patient; he's my little brother dammit!" Ed yelled trying to wriggle out of his grasp. "His name isn't patient, it's Aphonse Elric" Ed added, he kicked a trashed finally wriggling out of their grasp, frantic to see his brother.

When Ed reached the room, he saw clearly now why the Doctor's had held him back….the sight before him now was gory. Al was on the floor, coughing violently, lying in his own blood, and blood saturated the beds sheets.

"Al" Ed yelled, and went over to his brother's side. He picked him up, covering his hands in Al's blood. Al was breathing un easily and every breath he took sounded like water was readying itself to come out. He couched again, blood pouring out.

Al opened his eyes, falling back down on the floor and coughing. The coughing stopped, and Al tried to pick himself up off the floor, but he just fell again coughing.

Rose, and Winry made it to the room, and Rose stared in horror.

"Why does it hurt so much brother" Al asked between sobs, at this Ed started crying. Al coughing again more blood came up.

It was only a matter of a few minutes when his lungs were filled with blood so much he couldn't take a breath without coughing up blood. The Al couldn't breathe at all, and he vomited blood, and coughed it up. But he couldn't breath, and when he tried he would bring more blood.

Finally he coughed, and more blood up. Al lay there, trying to breath but failing, and then he didn't do anything anymore. He just lay there, unmoving…..dead.

"Al" Ed said grabbing his shoulder, and shaking him, shocked to find him cold. "Al…no" Ed said balling up his fist. "I'm the older brother…I'm supposed to die first" Ed said, more tear pouring out of his golden eyes.

The Doctors and security guards came to get them. Ed was like a rag doll, he didn't care anymore, and he allowed them to drag him outside. His clothes still soaked with Al's blood.

Winry followed Ed out, not wanting to be touched by any of the security guards, she went willingly. Rose how ever, she didn't want to leave, she wasn't ready to leave Al yet.

Rose struggled against the Security guards hold on her, her arms flailing out, as if she was trying to catch Al's whole room in her hand.

"NO!!...You say you would pull through! You said we would be together for ever and that you wouldn't leave me" Rose yelled. She screwed up her face in emotional agony, and slipped out of the guards grasp.

Rose fell to the ground, and cried violently. The guard attempted to pick her off the floor, but Ed stopped him. He held up his hand, and the guard went away.

"Al said a lot of things didn't he Rose" Ed said to her. Rose shook her head "yes" in answer. "Al couldn't predict the future Rose, forgive him please" Ed said, his hand on her shoulder.

Rose allowed Edward to pick her up off the floor, and they all got in the car, going home. It was quiet, and every body was holding back tears still.

When they got home, the house didn't seem as cheery, or warm/cozy without Al there. Izumi met them there a few hours later, Sig behind her. There were more tears between the three women. Edward had locked himself in his room after taking a long bath and cleaning his clothes.

He didn't feel like talking to any one, the only person who knew him through, and through. The only person he had ever loved (besides Winry and Trisha)...Al...His little brother was gone. And half of it was his fault.

Ed didn't want to go to the funeral, it would be too hard for him. No body forced to either, so Ed stayed home with Rose who was distraught in her room and wouldn't stop crying.

Ed curled himself into a ball, a tear went down his cheek. It was like Ed's mind was completely frozen, his whole soul was frozen. In just two weeks his little brother was gone from him, his brother was dead.

A/N-Aww Ally be deady…lets' all have a moment of silence please…….okay now...please don't give up on me! And ….just please stay tuned for the next chapter...which will be very interesting. please don't hurt me!!