Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction ❯ Sometimes ❯ Sometimes it's all a big surprise... ( Chapter 4 )

Sometimes it's all a big surprise…

 

She remembers the night everything began as if it were only the night before. The door was practically ripped off its hinges by, as she first thought, some crazy man in a suit of armor. That was until she heard Al's voice coming out of it: “You've got to help him, please!” While she was trying to process the fact that Al was inside a suit of armor, a moan caught everyone's attention. She thought she was going to be sick. Her best friend was in his brother's arms, bleeding profusely and dazed from the blood loss. Once he was cleaned, she saw that the first glance wasn't a trick of the eyes; he was indeed missing an arm and a leg. Her grandmother told her in a monotone what to do, and she did it numbly. Although she wanted to, she never cried, never screamed. That is, she never did until tonight.

She woke up in a cold sweat, screaming, which immediately gave way to sobbing and hiccupping. A figure burst into her door, yelling her name and inquiring whether she was all right. She instantly started screaming again. He grabbed her and held her shoulders gently, softly repeating that “It was just a dream. It's OK.” When she'd finally calmed down, she looked in his direction, dumbfounded. “No, it's not. You're like this, he's like that, and, and…” She resumed her sobbing and hiccupping. He held out a glass of water. She took it with a raised eyebrow and a murmured thank you, and sipped enough to stop the hiccups. Then he enveloped her in a hug. “I'm sorry,” he whispered. After a few moments, he silently got up and left, but not before leaving a kiss on her cheek. She lifted her hand to her cheek after he closed the door, her eyes wide. “You're certainly full of surprises, aren't you, Edward?”