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[avariceshield]

WHO: Alphonse Elric bloodseal_bond , Envy mercury_victim , Greed avariceshield
WHAT: Alphonse comes by to confront Envy.
WHERE: Devil's Nest.
WHEN: After this.

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[mercury_victim]

Envy leaned in close, so that there was a bare inch or two between their noses. His eyes were unexpectedly large from such a short distance, stunningly violet-- a shade of chemical purple that belonged to no real human being. He did not blink, only staring into his younger brother's face with a sort of cutting scrutiny, as if he were trying to gauge Alphonse's soul through the windows of his eyes. Envy tilted his head slightly, regal gaze narrowing just faintly.

"Father is like that," Envy responded at length, moving away again to prowl around the room before perching with impeccable balance on the armrest of a couch, one leg tucked up to his chest while the other hung down. "A fucking coward who only knows how to run away." He bared his teeth again, not seeming to realize how feral his expression had become. "He couldn't face what he'd done to his own fucking son, so he left me for dead and went to start a cute little fucking family somewhere else."

Restless, he slid down from the couch, approaching Al again. "The most pathetic thing is, I'm killing you to hurt him, and he probably doesn't even care." Envy gave a soft, malicious little laugh. "But at least I'll get the satisfaction of destroying something of his."

[bloodseal_bond]

He could not remember ever feeling more uncomfortable around another person. He wasn't sure if it was the utter wrong that Envy seemed to carry, Or the lack of boundaries or...okay he was very sure that what Envy was saying had a lot to do with it, but Alphonse was both unnerved and in all honesty scared. The worst part of all of this was knowing that no one had any idea where he was. That one guy knew, but considering Envy's apparent trust in him it didn't seem likely that Al would get any help from that man if things went very badly.

Alphonse was struck by the urge to defend his father as Envy spoke but cut it off. That seemed like it might be the stupidest thing he could do in his current situation. Envy didn't seem...well... entirely all there and a lot of that seemed to wrapped up in their father.

"What...what did he do?" Al honestly wanted to know, there had to be something that was the reasoning for why Envy acted the way he did. There had to be, and maybe if Al knew it then he could find some way to help and... Al had always been the hopeful one, but even he could tell that there were somethings that he didn't know how to fix or even know how to look at unbiased.

"What happened to you?"

He tried to ignore the way that he felt cornered, like a a mouse in a snake's cage. Alphonse tried not to show that the words were scaring him and he wanted to yell that, yes, their father did care, but he was sure that would not go over well at all. He also tried to stay in one place, but soon failed taking a step backwards as Envy go closer.

[mercury_victim]

There was a reason that Hoenheim Elric had attempted to burn down his laboratory and the forbidden creatures within it. Yes, there was a god-like power in bringing back the dead-- but they were never the same. Their faces, yes, even their voices. But no memories. And their minds were fragmented, twisted. Unstable. Inhuman. Like Envy-- a golden-haired child with a sunny smile, and now the farthest thing from what he once was.

"He wouldn't let me stay dead," Envy spoke, his voice a low, like rough velvet. The edges of anger touched his eyes, his expression. "He made me like this. So, now I will take this body Father gave me and I will hurt you." He leaned in close to Al's ear, whispering with a murderer's intimacy. "I'm going to make you cry. I'm going to make you bleed. I'm going to show you pain like you've never known before."

His generous mouth curved into a dark smile, almost fond in a twisted sort of way. His hand reached up abruptly, snagging in Al's hair, jerking the boy's head to the side. "It will get better," Envy promised, "Before you die, your body will accept the pain. It will open itself to me."