Title: Satisfaction
Author: Sofipitch
Series: either
Word Count: 493
Rating: G
Characters:Elric bros, mentions of others
Summary: There was no alternative, they had to have her there.
Warnings: none
Subject: prompt 172, Bare or Bear, "Satisfaction"
The original idea had been to learn alchemy to please his mother. To entertain her with the shapes and figures that reminded her of their father. He had loved that, the innocence of it all. Just a carefree game, a mother and her two sons smiling, imagining father's face when he came home and saw the mess his study had been turned into.
Once their mother died alchemy was no longer a small hobby, it took over their lives. They plunged into alchemy books, sucking in all the information like a towel would water. They needed to learn alchemy, because they needed to bring their mother back. They her needed her with them. They couldn't be left alone, not like Winry had been.
When they met the talented alchemist with the dreadlocks, they knew she had to be the one. The most talented alchemist in Amestris. The one who would teach them the alchemy that they needed to know to bring their mother back. The one who fought bears in the Briggs mountain range. The one who ran a meat shop in Dublith. The one who claimed to just be simple housewife.
Izumi taught them well, but every time they so much as mentioned human transmutation, she would lecture them about how they should not ever engage in the forbidden art. The thing that puzzled him the most was that she never told them why. And maybe if she had, if she had warned them that it would only lead to failure and the loss of their bodies, they may not have done it.
But maybe her warning them wouldn't have mattered. Maybe they still would've done it. Maybe they would've thought that they could do it, and make it work out. Maybe they would've been too vain to think that they couldn't, because at the time it seemed there was no other alternative to living. They had to have her there.
That night, the night of the transmutation incident, they were taken away from everything they had, stripped bare, naked, alone. Or so it seemed. They had family, Winry, Pinako, Den, and they had bodies, although they were a little unusual. They still had enough to live on, even though it was different from most people.
Alphonse Elric had wanted to stop there; he didn't want any more mistakes, but his brother wanted to keep going. He still wanted to find an alternative, a way to live a happier life.
Alphonse followed his brother because he didn't want him to be alone. He kept going because what the world had given them wasn't enough to satisfy his brother.
And a part of him knew he himself wasn't satisfied either.