A/N: I'll be updating We Never Had Pictures tomorrow, seriously. I'm sorry for neglecting my FMA fics a bit… Naruto and school have been almost equally guilty. Anyhow, I recently found a list of 50 prompts which practically screamed 'Write Envy x Rose!'. I've been looking to write more of this couple but have had a hard time thinking of a plot, so this seemed like a good idea.

Generally these are rated T, but I'll put in individual warnings with the chapters that need them. I'll also say if it's AU, very AU, semi-canon, so on. Oh, and I'll be doing a 50 prompts for the Animeverse soon, just FYI.

Disclaimer: I don't own FMA or the prompt list.


01. Prologue

It was a strange story, theirs, sewn together with the fragile threads of coincidence and the suspension of disbelief. Rose was never much of a storyteller, but Envy's fascination with tales has given her a bit of experience, and she amuses herself by thinking of how she'd arrange the cobweb-thin fantasy woven between the two of them.

Start with Lior, perhaps, because that's at the root of their meeting, the greatest coincidence. Envy was not one to usually take on assignments that weren't his, and she had never been strong enough to stand against the opinions of others and stay in a place where she was not wanted. Funny how they both changed just enough soon enough to meet, with a touch of the divine about it; Rose would like to think so, although Envy would laugh the idea off. She was always the religiously inclined one, even after the Leto fiasco.

Start it in Lior, yes, but for the opening lines of the broken-and-patched fairy tale that was the two of them together, not Rose or Envy but Envy-and-Rose… She knew what they would be.

Once there was a girl called Rose, who believed everything.

Once there was a homunculus called Envy, who always lied.

They were destined to meet.


A/N:… seriously, they were.

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