Title: To Ratify the Contract
Author: Tiamat's Child
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist Manga
Word Count: 300
Rating: T
Characters/Pairing: King Bradley, (the near future) Mrs. Bradley
Summary: There are things that are done and things that aren't done, and it's important to remember which is which.
Warnings: None.
A/N: Written for fma_fic_contest at Livejournal, prompt 31, "second person". Spoilers for the Devil's Nest arc.
To Ratify the Contract
"Open your eyes," she says, and you shake your head and smile, your eyes squeezed shut, your hands over them. "Open your eyes, King," she says, and you can feel her lips against your lips, you can taste her breath in your breath and her lashes touch the backs of your hand and you flutter and shiver, but you do not waver, and you do not open your eyes.
"Oh, King," she says, and your tongue catches her lip when you try to moisten the nearly healed split in yours. She leans against you, leans in, and you let her, let you tug you down, but you do not open your eyes even as you open for her, let her in, let her catch you and hold you for as long as she pleases. "Silly man," she says eventually, "silly man, you hate to kiss with your eyes shut."
"We're not married yet," you say. "We're not at the altar. I'm not supposed to see you yet." She laughs at you, and you smile, but you do not open your eyes. "We're not married yet," you say again.
"You're absurd," she tells you, and you bite her lip, because you can do that without looking, but not very hard, never very hard. "You're absurd," she says, "and I'm going to need all the luck I can get with you, King, so keep your eyes closed then, you impossible man."
"Yes," you say, and do.
You know the proper way to behave. There are right ways and wrong ways and proper ways and you know the proper way to behave. You take the proper way. You do not open your eyes. It's important, because there are right ways and wrong ways and proper ways and you do not open your eyes.