Mustang awoke to a firm slap to the face, he shaking his head to find himself tied by both his wrists and fingers, no way to snap, his legs tied to a chair. He growled and shifted, seeing no way to break free and that he was blindfolded.
"Whoever you are you honestly expect me to talk!" A chuckle was heard, a familiar one.
"Of course not Mustang, I expect you to laugh." A hand was felt on his face before with a swift movement the blindfold was gone. Mustang let his eyes focused and jerked back at what he saw. Edward sat on a chair facing towards the wall to his left, Edward sitting with his elbows on his knees and looking at him from the corner of his eye, his head facing forward, away from Mustang, a small smile on his face.
"Wha...? Fullmetal! Get me out of here!" Edward chuckled, the smile not leaving his face.
"There IS no way out unless the release you, trust me, all you need to do, is SMILE." Mustang gave a incredulous look.
"What are you talking about? You're not tied up so get us out of here!" Edward sighed, the smile lessening but still there.
"If you don't at least smile, they'll never let you leave. Even if you were to escape, Mustang, they'd have you back the next day, trust me, I KNOW." Edward sat up and crossed his legs, resting his elbows on his one raised knee. Mustang growled.
"What do you know?" Edward chuckled again, Mustang shivering at the morbid sound from it. Edward turned his head towards Mustang, a long scar from the edge of his lip on the right side to two inches before his ear coming into view, Mustang crying out in shock.
"If you don't LAUGH, they'll never let you leave. You try to leave WITHOUT they releasing you, you get punished, until you finally LAUGH about it." Edward turned his head away again. "I can't NOT smile, or they'll never let me leave. You HAVE TO LAUGH while they do it Mustang, or you'll never leave." Edward chuckled, the smile now sad, Mustang's eyes widened.
"You allow them to do it?" Edward laughed before softening down to a small grin.
"Of course, if I don't then they continue until I laugh, they're training us Mustang." Mustang tilted his head.
"T-training us?" Edward nodded, the smile still there.
"We were trained when we joined the military to," Edward put quotation marks up, "laugh in the face of pain and danger, they are TRULY, training us to do so." Edward stood up, pulling a dagger from his pocket and put it to Mustang's cheek. "Remember," He slashed a bloody line, "you need to LAUGH." Mustang winced and Edward walked to the door to Mustang's right, the scar completely visible, a scar on Edward's eye becoming obvious as well. "LAUGH Mustang...or you'll NEVER leave."
just a morbid thought i can up with, not finished if asked to continue :3 if no requests then i'm done, i'll just entertain myself in my head. :3 R&R Thx!