"I rent."
That's what he said. He said, "I don't own emotion, I rent."
It was simple. Nobody really owns an emotion. He told me that too.If he owned an emotion then how would other people feel it.Anyway, you probably don't know what I'm talking about. Let me start from the beginning.
I just got back from a mission that Col- General Bastard sent me on and was just about to give him his damn report. Well I walked into his office and found him sitting in his chair with a bottle of whiskey in one hand. It got me pissed to see that. I don't want to admit it but the guy's sorta like a father to me and I didn't like it.
"What the hell's your problem?You call me in to give you this damn report at ten at night and you get drunk even though you knew I was coming!" He didn't even look up.He kept staring at the picture on his desk. It was the only one so I knew it was of him and Hughes.
"Stop being depressed all the time.It's like you and only you own depression. Other people.."He cut me off there. Like I said something wrong.
"I don't own emotion, I rent." I didn't understand what he meant at first. But the more I thought about it the more I understood.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It's what he told me...When I asked him why he was always sad...Nobody owns emotion Edward..." I was shocked when he used my real name instead of Fullmetal or Elric. And once again I didn't get it. I wasn't sure who he was talking about.
"Who told you that?"
"Hughes...Hughes told me that when we were kids. And that's what he said... 'I don't own emotion, I rent'"
"I don't get.He always seemed happy...Why would he ever be depressed?"
"Losing your family can do that to you." I didn't say anything after that. I knew not too. I walked over to Mustang's desk and put the report there and left without saying a word.
But even though he's depressed all the time he's still a bastard.
When I walked into mine and Al's hotel room he asked me how it went. And I surprised him when I said it went okay.
Al kept asking me what happened to make it go okay.I kept telling him that it wasn't his concern, and then he started to think I was finally warming up to that bastard...HELL NO!!