Drabble Rating: G
Status: 54/100
Word Count: 200
Secondary Genre: Angst
Theme: Roy/Ed #29: "Wretched/Heartless"
It was useless. No matter how hard he tried, Alphonse couldn't stop thinking about his brother. When he trained, his thoughts drifted to what he was missing. When he ate, his mind replaced the conversation around the table with the clear tone of his brother's voice. The loneliness he felt was palpable, an ache that followed him wherever he went and didn't let him have a moment's peace.
Even his dreams were filled with his brother. And what Alphonse truly found maddening was the simple fact that he didn't know whether what he saw were memories... or just dreams. And because of Roy's extorted promise, he'd never find out what the truth was.
That promise drove a wedge between himself and the others. More and more, he found himself wandering the vast fields around Resembool, desperately clinging on to the visions he had seen. Some nights he didn't bother going 'home'; he stayed out under the stars, wondering whether, somewhere, his dear brother was looking at the same sky and wondering about him.
And, especially, he found himself estranged from Roy. He didn't want to look in the face of the man who had taken his brother away from him.