[#8]

[handsforhealing]

ED! AL! WHERE ARE YOU?! PICK UP THE PHONE DAMMIT!

[ Despite the obvious blood where her friends should be sleeping, Winry has spent the last few minutes screaming into the phone, only pausing to choke on her tears or wait for a response. Even the TV program hasn't really sunk in yet. ]

Wh-what's going on? They usually pick up so fast... Ed always answers when I yell for him... Al too... They just went out. They just went out.... Th-they're not...

EDWARD! ALPHONSE! Please, ANSWER ME!!!!

[ At which point, it finally sinks in that they're dead. Winry drops the phone, which falls as far as the cord will allow and knocks against the wall. ]

This can't be... You two can't be... We were all together again, l-like before and... And we were supposed to be safe here, together... This can't be happening! You can't be dead! Idiot! You were supposed to make me cry happy tears! THESE AREN'T HAPPY TEARS AT ALL!!!!

[ And then all of this dissolves into sobbing ]

I won't forgive you! Whoever did this! I'll never forgive you for this!!! Give them back to me! Give back Al! Give back Ed! GIVE THEM BACK!

Comments

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

I'm...sure they'll come back. Eveyone does here.

Are you alright?

[wontjustwait.livejournal.com]

I-I know that but...



Not really... Ed and Al... My two best friends are both dead... I can't really be "alright", even if they might come back...

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

....

I'm sorry.

I only knew them for a while. But Al...

...I can't believe he's gone.

[wontjustwait.livejournal.com]

Me either... After everything they've been through...for this to...

I can't believe it. I don't want to believe it...

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

You're from the same world as them aren't you?

[wontjustwait.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am... we grew up together...

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it must be nice to have your friends here with you.

What was the world like where you were from?

[wontjustwait.livejournal.com]

... Well, I live in the countryside. A little town called Risembool... But Ed and Al travel a lot. It's a bit deserty, and there aren't any big oceans or anything...

[k1-sauce.livejournal.com]

Winry...

[wontjustwait.livejournal.com]

Ke...Keiichi..! H-have you heard from them?! At all? Ed and Al?!

[k1-sauce.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't. I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry.

[wontjustwait.livejournal.com]

Why is this happening?! Ed's dumb, but he didn't deserve this!!! A-and Al didn't either! Why would they do this?! To both of them?! Why would they leave me all by myself like this?!

[k1-sauce.livejournal.com]

No one's deserved it. I...I don't know how much of a consolation it would be, but...considering the situation, you can come to my house. We should be safer in numbers and we should stay with people we trust, so...

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

Winry.