Got bored so I'm going to see how this turns out. I haven't really gotten an idea, so this is just what my muse spouts off into my finger tips.

Ch.1 Strange

Edward's eyes were pinched shut, forehead sweaty, sheets clenched tightly in his fist.

Al sat by his brother's bed on the floor, listening to his brothers deep and fast paced breathing. It was like this every night. Some terrible nightmare, some terrible past event Al couldn't remember even if it happened worse to himself than it had to his brother.

Ed shot up straight in bed, gasping for air to fill his lungs. His breathing slowed, reality finally coming back into focus.

"Brother, are you alright?" Al asked.

Ed didn't answer for a minute, his waking brain taking a moment to process the question, "Yeah." He sighed," I'm alright."

Al watched his brother as he collapsed back down on the bed, kicking the sheets off with his feet, "What time is it?" Edward asked raising his right arm to cover his eyes, its cool metal cooling his forehead.

"About 4:25am." Al replied standing up so he could see the desk clock over the sofa.

Edward breathed deeply, sitting back up and swinging his feet over the bed, standing up to stretch. He headed towards the bath room to take a shower.

Al waited for the shower to turn on before releasing the sigh he'd been holding back.

He wondered sometimes…If he would have as vivid nightmares as his brother did, had he be in his real body.

Would he feel the exhaustion his brother did, the dense weight he held up high on his shoulders?

True, both brothers blamed themselves for what happened that night, but Al always thought Edward carried far more burden than he did- that was something he couldn't forgive himself for.

Alphonse had told his brother countless times that he should slow down, rest for a while before returning to research but his brother would always refuse.

Edward turned on the shower, feeling the weary sleepiness leaving him as the hot water burned his skin, a little too hot.

He didn't reach down to adjust the water though, he simply stood, the images of that night still freshly burned into his memory.

A streak of red flashed across his white tiled military issued shower that looked about the same in every dorm room he'd ever gotten while in Central barracks.

Ed blinked hard, trying to clear his vision from whatever the heck that was.

Ed flinched as his head started to throb, this had been happening a lot lately.

He raised his hand and held it hard against his head, the pressure easing the throb only a little.

The pain slowly eased over a short period of time, and Ed was able to finish up his shower.

He didn't understand what exactly was happening. Every now and then he would get flashes, past events that seemed to stick more than other memories, bad memories.

Nothing really had to trigger them either, they seemed to come at their own accord, usually when he first woke up, but he didn't know their extent.

About an hour after the shower had turned on, Al heard a 'thump' the noise every shower in the barracks made when it was turned off.

Several minutes later his brother appeared in the door way, hair dripping wet onto his black tank top.

Edward yawned widely, stubbing his automail toe on the sofa leg.

He looked down, eyes showing how thankful he was it wasn't his human toe.

"Maybe, you should lay back down brother." Al suggested as his brother pulled his black leather jacket over his shoulders, yawn returning a second time.

"Nah, I'm too awake now to fall back asleep." Edward replied finishing off his yawn.

Sure you are brother….. Al thought to himself.

"C'mon lets go." Ed opened their dorm door, stopping to wait for Al to get up.

"Where are we going?" Al asked.

"The library, where else?" he replied.

"You realize what time it is?"

"Course I do, it's like 9."

"Brother, its 6:25am."

Ed stopped in the door, "Well…still, its open all the time anyways." He waved his brother off, heading on down the hallway.

Al quickly followed after his brother, closing the door on his way out.

So yeah….I think I know where this story is going now, I'll post a second chapter soon and you guys will be able to decide better then whether or not you like this story.