Well, here we are...my 100 theme challenge for AlxSheska, most likely one of the more cracked-up pairings in Fullmetal Alchemist fanfiction(which I don't think gets enough love. . ). All but 5 of the themes I thought up myself, and the 5 I didn't think up came from the SatoshixRisa 100 themes collection on the Feather White LiveJournal community.
These themes will have all sorts of different timelines and plots, and some will be related, and some won't...it just depends on what mood I'm in at the time when I write them. They will also range from shortfics to drabbles, to flat out oneshots, depending on my mood and the story. But if you're ever in the mood for something new, or just a simple romance oneshot to add to your diet as you wade through the countless fanfiction on here...
Oh yes! I forgot! Every story will have AlxSheska, but there will also be other pairings mentioned, such as EdxWinry, RoyxRiza, maybe even a little bit of RoyxEd dashed in (hehe). I'm trying to appeal to most of the fandom here, despite writing a set of oneshots dealing with the most cracked up pairing in the universe. ()
Oh, and I should probably do the normal disclaimer...Fullmetal Alchemist is not mine. If it was, then Al and Sheska would have paired up a long time ago, and Fury would have been a more integral character (he's just so cute!).
Okay...here we go!
Theme: #1: Kittens
Rating: G
Genre: Romance/Fluff
Timeline: Post Conqueror of Shamballa; AlxAlter!Sheska, as well as EdxAlter!Winry
Words: 476
It was the only gift that Sheska could think of for him. Sure, the two had known each other relatively well, especially due to their frequent run-ins while on the way to numerous errands (he to the university, and she to the library), as well as the occasional home-visit on their off-days. But even with all that, the only truly concrete thing she really knew about Alphonse Elric (besides his unconditional love for his elder brother) was that he loved cats and fluffy animals more than just about anything else.
Not that she wouldn't have wanted to figure out more about him, at least more that he would be willing to tell without hiding it behind one of the famed "Al smiles", as she called them…but Alphonse was busy helping his brother with his new wife (and Winry tended to be a pain when she wasn't messing with some sort of machinery—something she couldn't do since she was now six months pregnant) and Sheska had her parents' bookstore to run (as well as books to read at the library). It made her sigh sometimes, and wish that they weren't as busy as they were, but there was just no stopping it.
Though…despite her hammering heart and building fears (what if he didn't like it? What if I had been wrong about what breed to choose? What if his brother wouldn't let him keep it? So many thoughts were running through her head at that moment that an entire dictionary couldn't fit it all in), she had handed Alphonse that cute brown-and-gray tabby with a small blush forming on her face, which only got bigger as the moments wore on.
But she didn't expect him to blush the way he did, his gentle smile seeming to pierce right through her and replace what was taken out with a warm and fuzzy feeling akin to drinking hot apple cider on a cold winter day. She also didn't expect him to take the kitten with an affection that one might give an old lover, or perhaps a really close friend, and name the little thing "Sheska" ("She looks like you," he had told her, scratching the cat behind the ears. "She even has your eyes.").
But that was nothing compared to the surprise she felt when, three days later, he held out a snow-white kitten to her, with an expression that was almost begging her to take it, as if his own feelings relied on it. She had smiled at him and named the little thing Alphonse.
However…
The most frightening part was…
That the two cats ended up mating and breeding almost the second the two ran into each other, and they were old enough to mate.
And Alphonse just looked at the two cats, and then at Sheska, an almost…knowing twinkle in his gray eyes.