Prose Alchemist

Title: Him
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: PG for dark themes and in-canon character death.
Characters: Edward, Trisha, Alphonse.
Setting: Pre-series AU. Based on first anime canon, but as an AU, it should work all around.
Summary: Edward’s mother makes a deathbed confession that shakes his entire world.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: I’ll be up-front and admit that this “Things That Never Happened” story somewhat borrows from myself. However, while it involves an idea I’ve used before, it’s a very different variation on it… and perhaps an even creepier one. Trisha’s suggested actions would be highly out of character in canon, so please bear in mind that this is (if you take the claims as fact) a rather extreme AU; and looking at unlikely, often-dark twists is, after all, the whole point of the “Never Happened” series.
This story is submitted as an extra treat (or rather a “trick”) for apgeeksout in the 2014 trickortreatex. It also fills the prompt Families at both genprompt_bingo and hc_bingo, and the prompt AU: Other at trope_bingo.

( Edward Elric didn’t need to be told that his mother was dying. )

Title: Winter Wonderland
Author: jordannamorgan
Archive Rights: Please request the author’s consent.
Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Alphonse, Edward, and several original guest characters.
Setting: Any.
Summary: Al finds a creative way to pass the night after a snowstorm.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written as a fandom_stocking gift for kristensk. It also fills the prompts of “sleeplessness/insomnia” for genprompt_bingo, and “snowed in” for trope_bingo.

( In the northernmost reaches of Amestris, snow had come early and hard that year. )