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The Pen is Mightier! (penismightier) wrote in chaotic_library, @ 2011-08-29 01:57:00

[Edward Elric; PG] Even With Regret
Character/Series: Edward Elric; Fullmetal Alchemist (original)
Rating: PG
Notes: Second person POV.
Title: Even With Regret
Author: yuuo
Word Count: 279
Summary: Your world has changed.


"There is a change that (even with regret) cannot be undone."
-Pink Floyd

Your world has changed.

The faces, they're all the same. But they don't know you. The friends you had are now strangers, and you are alone in an alien world.

Your roommate has turned you into a puzzle to solve. You ignore him, try your best to tune him out. Let him wonder. Offer no answers. You'll only be seen as a madman anyway.

Your past has been erased. It does not exist here. Your mother. Your brother. The little girl who lived down the lane from you. They're all gone. Somewhere, you could find their faces again. But they will not know you.

You hear the voice of an angel when you drink. You spend much of your time buried in the bottom of a dusty bottle of scotch, hoping that you can forget a world that no longer exists, people who are now strangers.

You cry at night, although you do so silently so not to wake your roommate. You wake up with a headache, a stuffed up nose and red eyes that make you look like you were drinking, even when you weren't. Your coworkers- more strangers that used to be friends- think you're a drunk. An erratic genius with no name.

You do not exist here. There is no record of you. You simply appeared amongst their midst, left to figure out what to do and how to do it by yourself.

Your world has changed.

And the more you search for the way to change it back, the more you realize such a feat is impossible.

You are trapped here. Lost and alone.

And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.