Come Back To Me🪭 ✔️

As The World Falls Down

As Alphonse headed back towards the warehouse Edward had resurrected the Colonel in, he was surprised to see said colonel on the sidewalk in front of him.

"Colonel?" he asked slightly.

Roy turned to Alphonse slowly and smiled tiredly.

"Hey, Al... I was hoping not to run into you."

"You... didn't want to run into me?"

"No."

"Why?"

"Because I thought you'd be pissed off at me for what happened with Edward and/or go into your Mother Hen mode and tell me to go back home."

Alphonse put his hands on his hips.

"I'm not a mother hen!"

"You do it all the time to Fullmetal-" He coughed and shivered. "I don't have time to really talk."

"Are you going to the warehouse then?"

"Are you?"

"Lieutenant Havoc and I heard Ed down in the sewers and he thinks that Brother might be heading back to the warehouse."

"That's what I thought as well..."

Alphonse looked at his weak superior, who was barely holding on to the wall of the building, and sighed.

"Colonel, will you let me carry you?"

"I don't need-"

"You just got your wound worked on properly and expelled a lot of nasty chemicals from your body. It's also trying to revive and destroy at the same time. You're exhausted, Colonel."

Roy was going to deny the offer again when he felt his legs give out on him even though he was on the wall. He was weak but he had to get to Edward...

"If you have to carry me, do it now." He grumbled.

Alphonse smiled and picked up the Colonel. Being off of his unreliable legs helped Roy focus on other things at hand, like finding his subordinate.

"Can I ask you something?" Alphonse asked.

"Anything."

"Why did you say that to him? Why did you tell him to get away from you?"

Roy made a face, remembering but not at the same time.

"I was in a limbo state and very confused. In all honesty I can't remember much but I know that I'm the one that caused it."

Alphonse shook his head. "He was already a little crazy before but was coming to terms with it, or so we thought. Something made him think of doing the taboo and bringing you back."

"What did he do, trade his sanity for my soul?" Roy growled, thankful, but not at the same time.

"He said that it was able to work because you hadn't been dead that long and your body was available. He used your blood from the pipe and made the epicenter of the transmutation circle out of it. He said that by doing that, it allowed a smooth transfer of your soul back to your body. In essence, he did the same thing he did to me but just with your own body. He's attached your soul back in."

"But what did he sacrifice? I mean, if he sacrificed his sanity, he wouldn't remember about it."

"He didn't sacrifice that. I don't know what he sacrificed. Rest assured, it cost him something."

"But what is the issue..."

"We need to find him and make sure he's alright."

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