Family History

Chapter 13 and 14

So, they've just started telling Lily their idea... But didn't really explain their reasoning beforehand...

On with the story!

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"Wha- no! No! That's a horrible idea!" she protested loudly, a furious look on her face.

"Why?" Ed moved away from her a bit, thrown off completely by her reaction. What happened to the die hard fan?

Lily quickly recovered from her outburst, now just kind of quiet as she rested her head on her fist for a moment. "This is just like the whole ouija board deal." She sighed silently. "I don't really believe in ghosts, but if, on the small chance that they really exist, you shouldn't be treating them as if they're just a toy. You shouldn't play with forces like that. If you attempt alchemy, who knows what can happen."

"Has someone ever asked you to play that game with them?" Al asked, curious if this was said from experience.

"No, and I'm glad." Lily gazed down to her hands. "I know that they are just stories, but bad things happen to people that do things like try to contact the dead or anything else they really shouldn't do, especially when they say 'it's just a game'. Heck, look what happened to Edward and Alphonse!"

"We aren't treating this as a game!" Ed argued.

She looked back up. Something happened to her eyes they'd never seen before. The brown eyes behind black rims suddenly reminded them of Fullmetal's. "I don't believe you."

"If you'd just let us explain!" Ed shouted as he scowled at her, but she still didn't really give them time to talk.

"There are fanfics about crazy fangirls attempting alchemy and it actually works, but they end up nearly dying multiple times and go through the same torture as a lot of FMA characters throughout the story. Does that sound fun to you?!"

"What about modern day-"

"How much better would that be than where you live now?" she challenged.

"Well-"

"You have a complete life! All of your family and friends, amazing grades, whatever else that I don't know about!" Lily listed. "It might sound egotistical," the angry glint in her eyes now dimmed down into a sad tone, "but you also have ME. I love both of you, and I know that if you disappear off the planet..." She looked both in the eyes. "If you try to do this, imagine how much you might throw away."

"I know, but I feel it would be worth it." Ed said stubbornly.

"And I feel you both will die."

"I didn't know you'd be so against this." Al sighed. Anger flashed back onto Lily's face.

"Then you don't know me enough, Matt."

"Ouch." Ed winced as he glanced at his brother, who looked a little offended- it was like when a mother called her child by their full name when they were in trouble.

"You are not off the hook, John."

"Ow."

She breathed in and out deeply. "I want both of you to tell me that you are NOT going to do this. Go ahead and study alchemy if you want to, just dabble in it, but you won't even think about actually doing it." Lily held out her pinky.

The eldest crossed his arms, scrutinizing her outstretched hand skeptically. "I don't think I can make any promises with you."

She frowned and dropped her finger when the pinky promise was turned down. "Fine then, John. How about... I give you a day or two to give me your answer. BUT," she warned, "I don't want you two to pull an Elric on me!"