The Pen is Mightier! (penismightier) wrote in chaotic_library, @ 2010-02-06 15:05:00 |
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[Trisha; G] With This Ring...
Character/Series: Trisha Elric; Fullmetal Alchemist
Rating: G
Notes: Written for gryphcat; Theme - "Ring"
Title: With This Ring...
Author: yuuo
Word Count: 678
Summary: It'd been two years since Hohenheim had left, leaving her with their two sons to raise on her own.
Trisha Elric still wore her wedding ring.
It'd been two years since Hohenheim had left, leaving her with their two sons to raise on her own. He promised to be back as quickly as he could, and 'quickly' was becoming subjective. Even she was starting to mentally take the 'quickly' off and cling to the promise that he would be back at all.
"Edward, stop splashing your brother," she scolded, soaping up a wash rag, trying to bathe two very rowdy boys who'd spent the afternoon making themselves muddy down by the river.
"He's in my space!" Edward protested, shoving water at his brother again.
Alphonse responded in kind. "I am not!" the youngest said, crossing his arms petulantly.
Trisha sighed. "Boys, please stop fighting." What she wouldn't give for Hohenheim's help in times like these. The two boys were a handful and a half and Trisha didn't have enough hands some days.
She took the washcloth to Edward's dirt-streaked face, much to the little boy's consternation, as he squirmed to get away from the washcloth. "Mama, that hurts!"
"I'm sorry, Edward, but you're dirty," she told him. "If you hadn't gotten so dirty, I wouldn't have to scrub at the dirt so hard." Logic escaped little boys sometimes.
The comforting glint of gold of her ring registered in her awareness as she pulled her hand away to inspect her work on Edward's face. Satisfied, she dunked the washcloth and soap again to rinse and resoap the cloth for Alphonse.
It wasn't until Alphonse's face was clean to her satisfaction- entirely too clean for the boy's satisfaction, of course -that she noticed the ring was missing. It had to have fallen off in the water while she was rinsing the washcloth.
"Out of the tub, both of you!" she commanded frantically, both hands diving in to search for the missing jewelry. The boys scrambled to get out of the tub, confused by their mother's sudden panic. "No, no, no, no!" she cried as her hands failed to close around the ring. "Where did it go?"
She couldn't bear to have lost that ring. She couldn't imagine where else it could be but anything was possible, she supposed. She started looking on the floor around the tub.
"Mama?"
"Not now, Edward," she told him, still feeling around for the ring.
A small, chubby hand clutching a gold ring appeared in her line of vision. "Is this what you're looking for?" Edward asked her.
Relief washed over her as she grabbed the ring, putting it back in its proper place on her finger and pulling the little boy into a tight hug. "Thank you, Edward, yes, that's what Mama was looking for. Thank you. Where did you find it?"
Edward pulled back and pointed to the tub. "I felt it when you were washing Al's face," he said. "So I picked it up. It's pretty, so I thought it was yours. I was gonna tell you when you were done."
Trisha ran a wet hand over her face. "Thank you, Edward," she said, looking at the tub and ignoring how wet she was from her frantic search and from hugging Edward.
Edward and Alphonse both made faces. "Does this mean we have to get back in the tub?" Alphonse asked.
Trisha laughed tiredly. "Yes, it does," she told them. "In, in now." She got up as she waited for them to reluctantly get into the tub to finish their bath. The ring was too easily lost when her hands were wet. She needed a safe place to keep it.
"Mama, the water's getting cold!" Alphonse complained as Trisha walked around the room, looking for the flowered box Hohenheim had made for her.
"So get to washing yourselves," she told him. "You're big boys now, you can do that." Ah, there it was. She took down the box and hid the ring inside. There, in there it'd be safe from the mud and the water and soap of her daily chores.
Trisha Elric stopped wearing her ring that day.