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Mar. 2nd, 2012 10:27 pm
duke_of_illusions: (mysterious fan)
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Barma wakes up an hour or so later, yawning.

Reaching to check on Al right away.

Date: 2012-03-14 07:20 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Don't go)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
"You can't leave-"

He whispers, and his voice breaks.

It wasn't the fire. It wasn't the danger. It was the thought of Barma leaving him behind. Of being forgotten.

Again.

Date: 2012-03-14 07:23 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Reaching out for you)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Alphonse ducks his head against him, shivering hard. The tears are silent now.

Date: 2012-03-14 07:39 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Fight the Tears)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Al doesn't bother looking up. He just grips Barma's shirt and tries to fight back all the fear, all the old pain he thought he'd numbed out and learned to simply accept.

It was one thing to have someone disappear. It was quite another to believe, even for a moment, that someone he loved would deliberately abandon him.

Gradually, he stops shaking, but he doesn't open his eyes.

Date: 2012-03-14 07:43 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Paradise)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Al slowly opens his eyes, though it takes a few seconds to focus on him.

"I'm still mad," he whispers, but doesn't protest the touching.

Date: 2012-03-14 07:46 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Little lights)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
"I would have gotten out," he tells him, wiping at his eyes.

Date: 2012-03-14 07:51 am (UTC)
al_truism: (In a whisper; say goodbye)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
"Every day," he whispers back, pressing his cheek into Barma's palm.

"Kiss me? Touch me? I need-"

Date: 2012-03-14 07:54 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Trying not to let it show)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Al wraps his legs around his waist and pulls him closer. He's exhausted, still shaky around the edges, but he needs this.

"No, just- just that. Abandonment."

Date: 2012-03-14 07:58 am (UTC)
al_truism: (And a life no one could touch)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
"That was it," he confirms, very softly. The shame is creeping in now.

Date: 2012-03-14 07:59 am (UTC)
al_truism: ([Moon])
From: [personal profile] al_truism
"Why?"

Mildly astonished. Surely Barma's just used to saying that by now.

Date: 2012-03-14 08:04 am (UTC)
al_truism: (NUDITY)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
"... you can find any reason to be proud of me," he marvels, softly, and kisses him again.

Date: 2012-03-14 08:09 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Take to Wing)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
"I had a taste of it. An inkling. Surviving was more important right then.

If I had been left alone with it and nothing else, you would have seen something very different."

He half-smiles, sadly.

"My whole life has been made from facing terrible things. I've learned to stay alive before everything else. That wasn't the first time, and it won't be the last."

Date: 2012-03-14 08:14 am (UTC)
al_truism: (NUDITY)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
"How?"

Gently.

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