Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction ❯ Lonely ❯ Truth ( Chapter 5 )

This is my second FMA fic. There are a few warnings: Winry bashing, Al OOC, Ed OOC, and this will be an Ed/Roy pairing. This fic switches POV back and forth between Ed and Roy. Some chapters with have both, some only one. I don't own FMA but this original story is mine.

 

There is also a color key.

 

Black: Author's notes and other people speaking.

Black with * means random noises.

Blue: Roy (Both thoughts and speaking in and out of POV mode)

Red: Ed (Both thoughts and speaking in and out of POV mode)

Now without further ado, here's the story. Enjoy!

 

Lonely

 

Where am I?! This place is beautiful! Is this Heaven? Huh? Something soft is next to me? I look over on my left and see a yellow teddy bear with a blue ribbon.

 

I sit up and wonder how I got here. Winry was yelling at the last thing I remember as Roy was holding on to me. Then it's all a blank. I pick the bear up and hug it for comfort. The door opened and it was Roy with a tray.

 

“Good morning, Ed,” he says as he put the tray in my lap, “I hope you're hungry.” On the tray there was enough food to feed an army! I put the bear down and was about to start on the pancakes when I realized what Roy said.

 

“Morning?!” I squeaked, “What happened to last night?”

 

Roy told me about what happened. Winry's anger, Al's regret; Roy and Hawkeye taking me to his house, bundled in a blanket, and Armstrong getting me the bear.

 

“Thank you,” I whisper with a small smile, “It's been so long since anyone cared about me so much.”

 

Roy smiled for a bit, then his face became serious. He looked at me and asked, “What happened to you, Ed? What happened while I was away?”

 

I felt tears welling up in my eyes again. I put the tray down on a side table and started hugging the bear again.

 

I took a shaky breath and said, “Al and I had the strongest bond ever, or so I thought, until I gave him back most of his body. We had fought with the homunculi for hours, though it felt more like years,” I hug the bear harder. “Al got most of his body back by accident when he fell into a vat of `Philosopher Stone' mix. It glowed and I thought I had lost him forever. Then he came out, not as armor or a homunculus, but as a human missing his right leg from the knee down. I was so happy! We clothed Al and got out of that place before it blew up from, what we later learned, a bomb that was in there. We went back to Resembool, where Al got an automail leg installed. It wasn't long after that Al and Winry fell in love. Five moths later, Al proposed and Winry said yes. That's when I started to be ignored. I thought at first that that everyone was just excited for Al and Winry but, days turned into weeks and week turned into months. I was fully ignored for eight months and if anyone ever said anything to me, it was `short' jokes.” I lay my head back on the pillow, held on to my bear and sighed as the tears flowed. Roy sits over me with a concerned and sad look on his face. Still crying, I said, “Then, after Al, Winry, and I moved to Central, I got abused in other ways. I guess Al and Winry weren't very happy that I chose to stay a State Alchemist. Winry would call me names, hit me, lock me in closets and starve me for going on missions or not doing what she wanted. I tried to leave time and again but, I was always found and beaten for it. Al didn't even try to stop her. Whenever I told him about Winry hurting me in some way. He'd just say, `Edward! Your jealousy of Winry is stupid!' or `We know what's best for you.' I would cry myself to sleep every night.”

 

Then I turned my back to Roy, held the bear, and started sobbing.

 

TBC! Some Roy/Ed mental fluff coming soon!