Backtrack (A FMA Fan-Fic)

Forbidden Promises

About six months later the dark times just started. The reign of a bliss childhood was coming to a close, all starting with Trevor's mother dying. I was there when she died. She watched me and Trevor with her last breathes of life. She fell ill with some disease with a strange name. Soon she wasn't able to get out of bed. Her illness was progressing, worsening every day.

 Trevor and I were playing near her bed on that day. It was raining so our fathers kept us inside. It was when we thought she fell asleep we left the room so she could sleep in peace. But she wasn't sleeping. 

She died on us. 

That first night it was storming. My father and Trevor's father left us in my house. They tucked Trevor and I into cots set up in my room, as like any good father would do for their child. Trevor was scared every time the thunder rumbled. I could hear him shaking and crying. 

"C-C-Clair, c-can I sleep in y-your bed? I-I'm s-scared." Trevor stumbled with his words. He did his best to ask me without crying. We both already knew it was going to be a long night. How could anyone sleep at a time like this?

I nodded in agreement as we huddled close for warmth on the cold spring night. We slept like that for the next few weeks, scared of what happened to his mother happening to us. We didn't wanna go too. We were just too young and scared.

The funeral was the hardest. Trevor cried a lot. I did too. She was like my mother, even though I only knew her for a few months. I loved her as if she were my mother. She was the closest thing I'd ever get to a mother

The more I thought about her fate, the more I cried and held close to Trevor. He was more than a friend. He was my brother. Our families were always together. I thought of him as my little brother at this point, not my older brother. He needed me here for him, and I needed him too right now. 

"Clair, do you think you can use alchemy to bring dead people back to life?" Trevor asked me one night as we gazed up at the stars in the barn. The barn didn't belong to us anymore. It belonged to another new neighbor; however they didn't mind that we were up in the barn all the time.

"I-I don't know. I think so." It was forbidden. I didn't know why. That's where my rash thinking started. I just wanted Trevor to be happy again. "But if it is, I promise I'll bring your mother back as soon as I know how."

But then my father disappeared, that's what set me off.