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More Alter!Series ficlets. I wrote this once, then read something that ![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/ij-userinfo.gif)
hime1999 sent me, and took it down to reedit it. Still not sure how close to canon this is, but I enjoyed doing it.
Spoilers for episode 51, and the rest of the series can be found here.
Sometimes it bothered Al. the way that Ed acted was not the same that he remembered.
Oh, part of it was that there was a larger age difference now. But the same thing had happened with Winry. She was so much older than him now that Al felt left behind.
Part of it was that Ed remembered things that Al didn’t. Four years worth of memories. Al had watched as Ed mourned people Al couldn’t remember. He had watched as Ed and Roy had toasted to a man Al had read about, but didn’t recall ever knowing.
Once, when Ed had been talking about meeting is brother’s duplicate, he had mentioned a girl named Nina. Another name that Al only knew from his readings.
Sometimes, Al wondered if it wasn’t better he didn’t remember those things. Ed would always get the saddest look in his eyes when he talked about them.
Then Roy would make snide remark, or Winry would tell Ed to cheer up. Other times, Ed would look at Al and smile, or Masuta would chirp something in that strange language he and Ed called Japanese.
Sometimes, Al thought that helping Masuta adjust was the best thing for his brother. The transplanted man would follow Ed for the most part, though he was slowly beginning to break that habit.
It was good for both of them, really. Things had changed while Ed had been gone. Al had regained himself at the cost of his brother and his memories. While trying to regain the former, he had replaced the later, growing up without Ed’s presence.
Sometimes, Al thought he had brought back two strangers, not just one.
Then Ed would do something like bullying Masuta into teaching him a language called French, and had forced Al to learn it as well. Roy had expressed interest in Japanese, and Al was sure that the newcomer was going to teach him. Then Ed, with a smirk on his face, had spoken with Masuta, both of them obviously debating something, even if Al couldn’t understand what they were saying.
In the end, Masuta had declined the offer to teach Roy Japanese, but offered up German in its place. According to him, Ed had already started to learn the language, and it would only be fair to finish teaching it to him. The glare Roy had given Ed shouldn’t have been familiar, but it was.
Sometimes, Al decided, it was time to move beyond the past. He had dwelled on it so long, but he didn’t need to anymore.
He had his brother back.
That was all he needed.
Makes the smutty bunnies go away. I blame them on Gluttony.
hime1999 sent me, and took it down to reedit it. Still not sure how close to canon this is, but I enjoyed doing it.Spoilers for episode 51, and the rest of the series can be found here.
Sometimes it bothered Al. the way that Ed acted was not the same that he remembered.
Oh, part of it was that there was a larger age difference now. But the same thing had happened with Winry. She was so much older than him now that Al felt left behind.
Part of it was that Ed remembered things that Al didn’t. Four years worth of memories. Al had watched as Ed mourned people Al couldn’t remember. He had watched as Ed and Roy had toasted to a man Al had read about, but didn’t recall ever knowing.
Once, when Ed had been talking about meeting is brother’s duplicate, he had mentioned a girl named Nina. Another name that Al only knew from his readings.
Sometimes, Al wondered if it wasn’t better he didn’t remember those things. Ed would always get the saddest look in his eyes when he talked about them.
Then Roy would make snide remark, or Winry would tell Ed to cheer up. Other times, Ed would look at Al and smile, or Masuta would chirp something in that strange language he and Ed called Japanese.
Sometimes, Al thought that helping Masuta adjust was the best thing for his brother. The transplanted man would follow Ed for the most part, though he was slowly beginning to break that habit.
It was good for both of them, really. Things had changed while Ed had been gone. Al had regained himself at the cost of his brother and his memories. While trying to regain the former, he had replaced the later, growing up without Ed’s presence.
Sometimes, Al thought he had brought back two strangers, not just one.
Then Ed would do something like bullying Masuta into teaching him a language called French, and had forced Al to learn it as well. Roy had expressed interest in Japanese, and Al was sure that the newcomer was going to teach him. Then Ed, with a smirk on his face, had spoken with Masuta, both of them obviously debating something, even if Al couldn’t understand what they were saying.
In the end, Masuta had declined the offer to teach Roy Japanese, but offered up German in its place. According to him, Ed had already started to learn the language, and it would only be fair to finish teaching it to him. The glare Roy had given Ed shouldn’t have been familiar, but it was.
Sometimes, Al decided, it was time to move beyond the past. He had dwelled on it so long, but he didn’t need to anymore.
He had his brother back.
That was all he needed.
Makes the smutty bunnies go away. I blame them on Gluttony.