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The Truth of a Sin	By : SkerenDreamera Category: Fullmetal Alchemist > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 2977 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Title: The Truth of a Sin

Author: Skeren Dreamera

Rating: R until further notice

Pairings: Elricest. Not sure what else.

Disclaimer: We all know only the idea is mine

Warnings: A slight TWT issue, there are spoilers

Feedback: Mickeofas@yahoo.com

Notes: I said the when of the story last chapter, now I'm going to warn you that I am taking liberties with a character that wasn't introduced in the bits I've read yet. Yay. Oh, and Al finally enters the story!
Chapter one

Alphonse became aware of his surroundings slowly. He was rather alarmed when he realized that he had no idea how he came to be in his current predicament. He moved slightly, and the clink of chains made him aware of what the sensation was around him. He couldn't feel the chains exactly, but he'd been aware something was there. Looking around, he noted that he was in a dark place, and that the wall he was against was within arms distance of the sliver of light coming from under the door across from him.

This situation was looking depressingly familiar. "Niisan isn't going to be happy..." Sighing to himself, he rattled the chains around, making sure he was as well secured as he'd originally thought. It wouldn't be very wise if he had to be rescued when he could have left on his own.

The soft words seemed to be enough to draw attention from outside the room as the door swung open scant moments later, revealing a slender figure being highlighted with the light from behind him. A second later the door closed and Alphonse got a look at the captor who'd come to greet him. "Awake are you Armor-san?"

"Don't call me that." Alphonse never liked being reminded of what he was. "My name is Alphonse Elric. What am I doing here? Where's my brother?"

"Yeah, I know who you are, and there's no need to be like that." The emerald haired sin crouched down in front of Al with a wide grin. "I thought you knew your chibi-san rode off into the sunset! Here you need me, Envy, to tell you that! For shame."

Alphonse, contrary to the cocky sin's intentions, relaxed back against the wall with a subtle clank. He'd forgotten that Armstrong had made off with his brother not too long before this happened.

Envy's smug grin faltered with this reaction, and he tilted his head, trying to understand what comfort the armored boy could possibly have taken in his words. "Aren't you worried he won't come back?"

"Niisan will come back. He made me a promise, and he doesn't break his promises." Alphonse turned his face away from the baffled sin, listening as he left the small room after a moment of hesitation.
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Envy visited often after that, asking questions that drew out honest answers which seemed to somehow throw him off balance in turn. He was always alone, so the other sins didn't see the un-Envy-like actions. That was why Alphonse wasn't really all that worried when the door opened, though he quickly changed his mind as he saw an unfamiliar round shape blocking off the light. He wasn't given time to try to identify the new person, instead being quickly undone from the wall and dragged out into the bright light of the room beyond the one he'd spent so much time in. The actions were a bit more violent than was really required since Al didn't try to fight.

"Calm down Gluttony. If you break him, we might not be able to make this work. Lust wouldn't have liked that."

Al froze, forgetting to resist as the chains were rearranged around him. He knew that voice. He ended up as he was because he'd wanted to hear that voice again. "Mom?"

The woman being addressed spun around to face him, giving him a spacey smile as she shook her head. "I don't think we've met child. No, be good and you won't need to worry any." She patted the top of Alphonse's head before she turned to tug on Gluttony. "Leave him to Envy. I'll get you something else."

The oversized sin whined, giving Alphonse a decidedly disturbing look. "But Sloth!"

"Lust would have wanted it like I say." Waving a hand as her vacant look returned, she wandered away, completely ignoring the stunned teen she left in her wake.

"Lust..." Sighing mournfully, Gluttony turned and quickly followed the woman, mind having been firmly placed upon his dead friend.

Alphonse could only stare, in shock that one of these destructive beings wore his mother's face. Envy took advantage of the distraction to come stand in front of the teen. "You look confused Armor-san."

"Stop calling me that." He thought he'd gotten Envy out of that habit. His thoughts immediately circled back around to the being that looked like his mother though, unable to keep them at bay. He came to a conclusion that disturbed him about her, yet seemed to also fit. It wasn't an encouraging thought.

Envy sat in front of where Alphonse had been chained and tilted his head. "I still don't understand why you trust."

"I've told you before. You can't live without trusting someone." Alphonse studied the sin, moving his attention from his outlandish hair to his feet before sighing, not sure he should be curious about the attire.

"But you aren't alive." Envy smirked, shaking his head.

"I am alive! I might not be flesh and blood right now, but I am alive!"

Envy's smirk widened with that and he shook his head. "Don't be like that. I'll even be nice and let you in on something. I'm not alive either. Better?"

Al sighed, drooping as he realized that even if Envy got it, he was going to pretend he didn't. "You seem more alive than I am." He finally took the time to look around the area they were in. It seemed to be some sort of well-lit underground room. "Where am I?"

Envy rolled his eyes. "Why would I tell you?"

Alphonse sighed, seeing the return of the playfulness that Envy favored now that the others had left, and he tugged at his chains. "Right. Of course. How long have I been here?"

Flashing a dark grin, Envy spoke. "Two weeks."
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Alphonse spent the next two days watching the sins working on alchemy arrays with a rising sense of worry. He didn't comment on the work, having been brushed aside early on when he'd bothered to comment, and instead just watched the detailed circles form. There were two mirrored arrays on the walls, facing each other to Al's left and right, but they were miniscule compared to the veritable mural that lay between them, the one on the floor being more intricate by far. Sloth and Envy seemed to be arguing now, and clearly had been since before the three sins had entered the room. He'd gathered, so far, that it involved the circles, and a way that they were to be used on him. The thought alone was petrifying.

"If we do this, we'll be no better than them." Envy tried once more to talk Sloth down, apparently having been playing the part of sanity in the argument.

She simply waved away the argument as though it were nothing. Certainly, Dante wouldn't be happy if this were discovered, but she saw no reason it might come to light. Beyond that, she didn't see any point in worrying at all. "We will do better, you need not make such cruel comparisons."

Envy growled, watching the others as the pair brought various items into the circle. He hated how he was always brushed off like this. He was the eldest, they should listen to him. "It won't prove what you want it to, so you really shouldn't mess with things that will get you in trouble."

Sloth merely smiled and shook her head, finding her own odd solution as to the reason for his arguments. "It's alright Envy, you can just watch. You don't need to help."

Alphonse felt her eyes on him then, but simply ignored her, the presence that she seemed to exude disturbing him far more than anything else. No, his attention was trained on Envy, and he caught the determined glint in his eye. He'd learned within the first five times that they talked that if he applied what he knew of his brother to his being, that he wasn't really all that hard to read. His musings were rudely interrupted by Gluttony, who'd detached him from the wall and was hauling him into the center of the circle that was spread out over the floor.

Sloth was walking around the circle as she checked that Gluttony hadn't messed up any of the chalk markings, but her satisfied expression turned annoyed when she realized her bulky partner seemed disinclined to release Alphonse from his grip. "Put him down, it's ready."

Gluttony tightened his grip on the figure for a moment before dropping him with a loud clang onto the items already in place. He moved to Sloth, pouting. It wasn't a very appealing look for the sin. "I'm still hungry."

Sloth sighed, shaking her head. "Later, this first." It was immediately apparent that there would be an argument, and the woman pulled her partner aside to try to reason with him.

Envy took advantage of the distraction to move forward, changing a few of the marks with a dash of the chalk or a smudged line. He made sure to keep an eye on the pair who'd done most of the actual work on the circles. Alphonse saw a chance for answers and seized it, whispering. "What's going on?"

Slit violet eyes shot to Alphonse before the sin smirked. "Something. Hope for your own sake I did it right." The opportunity for gaining any further answers was lost as the other two returned, Envy moving to join them. "I'll help. You two don't have a chance of doing this by yourselves."

There was a flash of light, the colors swirling brightly around Alphonse before suddenly he was unaware of anything at all.
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The next thing Alphonse knew, he was suddenly very... cold. He could feel the icy stone floor against his front and face, as well as the slightly warm fingers that were touching his upper back. The shriek of outrage that followed the movement of those fingers actually hurt too, seeming far louder than anything he'd heard in years.

"What did you do? This should be gone! He should be gone!" That could only be Sloth, as he knew the tones of his mother angry very well, even if this woman was not really her.

There was a laugh before another, warmer, hand rested on his back as well, between his shoulder blades. It was Envy that replied to Sloth's anger. "That seal is still there because I made it so." The warmer set of fingers caressed where they rested, drifting higher, and Alphonse shuddered with the force of the sensation that caused. "But look! He's no human with this. You failed what you wanted to do, stop being angry and just live with it."

Suddenly, Alphonse felt himself being lifted, the air moving around him being almost too much for his sensation starved mind. He clenched his eyes shut with a whimper against how much brighter everything seemed all of a sudden. He only heard a hushing sound before everything faded away. He'd passed out.
To be continued.
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