1Sentence: RoyEd
By: TG
Author's Note: Been a little out of practice writing since I've been in London… There's just no time with all the traveling and exploring I'm doing! So I figured, to keep my mind in shape, I'd do a couple of these.
Disclaimer: Don't own FMA
Warnings: Some sentences rated M and others are cliché and over-long. Sorry. Also, some of these may be converted to longer drabbles or one-shots later on.
1. Comfort – Ed's life has been nothing but hardship after hardship; Roy can't erase his past, but maybe he can be enough in his present and future.
2. Kiss – The first time they kissed, it wasn't magical –there were no fireworks going off in his head –but it did feel right, and that's how he knew that Roy was forever.
3. Soft – Winry missed braiding Ed's hair –it was always so soft and warm and heavy; she knew it wasn't her place anymore, now that Ed was Roy's.
4. Pain –Pain was something Ed was used to; loving Roy was just a different kind of pain.
5. Potatoes – ". . .and that's why I can't eat potatoes," Ed finished, blushing under Roy's incredulous stare; "What? It's a legitimate –" he was interrupted as Roy laughed and tugged him into his arms; "God I love you, Ed."
6. Rain –Roy used the rain to hide his tears when Maes died, but at Ed's funeral, he had no more tears left to give.
7. Chocolate – Roy knew Ed loved eating sweets; he certainly didn't mind it when their kisses tasted like chocolate.
8. Happiness –Happiness is something Ed knows he will never find with Roy; but he'll keep falling into him anyway, because that's what love does.
9. Telephone – "How's the mission" (How are you holding up) "I'm fine, you'll have your report soon enough" (I miss you and I'm coming home soon) "Good" (I love you.)
10. Ears – Maes grinned as grunts and moans filled the inner office and thought that it was about time; he turned around and announced to the outer office that they should leave Roy alone for the day and left the office among confused glances; his friend really needed to be quieter if they were going to do that here.
11. Name – Roy's name from Edward's lips is the best sound he's ever known.
12. Sensual – Watching Ed writhing underneath him broke his brain and set fire to his skin.
13. Death – Death didn't scare him, but the thought that he'd never see Roy again did.
14. Sex – Hard and fast, slow and sensual; Ed didn't care as long as Roy touched him like he should be worshipped.
15. Touch – Their fingers touched when they accidentally reached for the same document, and Ed blushed at the fire that sparked inside him; if only Roy could feel that too.
16. Weakness –Ed knew everything of him, and yet he stilled loved him anyway.
17. Tears – Al and Winry cried at Roy and Ed's wedding, but for different reasons; Al because he'd always known Ed would have a happy ending, and Winry because she had just let her happy ending slip through her fingers.
18. Speed – Roy was used to one night stands with faceless, nameless women, but Edward was different; with Edward, he had to take it slow, because love was not built on the foundations of speed.
19. Wind – Al's body is restored and the homunculi are dead; he still winds his pocket watch though, because even though everything is put right, he still can't allow himself to forget his past: Don't Forget 3 Oct 10.
20. Freedom –It's something Ed hasn't had since he was ten years old; when Al was finally restored and his goal finally reached, Ed didn't know what to do.
21. Life –Death holds no fear for him –he's died once before, after all ; it's life that scares him.
22. Jealousy –Ed hated to go to these stupid military functions with Roy; not only did they make him uncomfortable, but he can't stand one more minute of watching his lover flirt with other people.
23. Hands –The sound Edward's hands make as he claps them together to transmute, soft flesh and powerful automail, echo through Roy's dreams every night in that frozen cabin in the North, and he misses him that much more.
24. Taste –Some days he tastes of happiness and contentment, and some days he tastes of mischief; today, though. . .today he tastes of love.
25. Devotion –Roy prides himself on being able to read people, but Fullmetal has always alluded him; however, at home, alone, Roy has no problems reading the devotion in those golden eyes, and he knows that this is it.
26. Forever –Forever is a long time; Roy is afraid of forever, but then Ed came along and he realized that forever wasn't nearly long enough.
27. Blood –Roy has never been afraid of blood, but every time Ed comes into his office covered in blood and bruises from his newest mission, Roy feels a jolt of fear run down his spine.
28. Sickness –Ed's guilt is a disease; it turns food to ash in his mouth and his blood to lead in his veins and there is no medicine in the world to make him better again.
29. Melody –When Roy speaks, Ed sometimes tunes out just to hear the sound of his voice as it rumbles through his chest and slides past his throat; it's beautiful.
30. Star –Ed and Roy had failed in so many ways. . .how could they accept being called heros?
31. Home –Ed hadn't had a house to call home in years, but, he realized, home doesn't have to have four walls; his home was a certain black-haired bastard General.
32. Confusion –Havoc looked around at the others from the office, frowning; "But. . .but I thought the Colonel was straight. . .why else would he steal my girlfriends!"
33. Fear –Roy has known fear –he has been in a war, for godsakes –but when he came home and saw Ed standing on the stairs with a packed suitcase in hand and coat on, the breath stuttered out of him as his heart stopped beating.
34. Lightning/Thunder –Ed is like thunder –completely brash, loud and predictable; Roy is like lightning –you don't realize he's there until he's already gone, and he doesn't strike the same place twice; apart, they are nothing, but together they are deadly.
35. Bonds –Sometimes Ed's pull on Roy is so strong, and Roy knows that Ed can live without him, but he also knows with a certainty that if Ed ever left him, he would break.
36. Market –The market reminds him of Risembool –there are flowers for sale and hand-made wares and smiling vendors; Ed almost smiles, but then he remembers that this is Germany, and he won't ever see home again.
37. Technology –Ed is all for the development of new technology, but not when that new technology turns out to be machine guns for the army.
38. Gift –Roy's love was a gift, but since when did Ed deserve anything that wonderful?
39. Smile –Ed's smile is rare, but when it comes, it's like the sun coming out after an eternity of night, and Roy loves him more for it.
40. Innocence –Why everyone has Al pegged as the innocent one, neither Roy nor Ed know.
41. Completion –Roy had fucked about with all those women for a reason, but once the short, blonde, bad-tempered alchemist stepped into his bedroom he realized he'd found his completion.
42. Clouds –Ed misses the days when he, Al and Winry used to lay on the grass and watch the clouds go by; Al and Winry might be married and living in Risembool, but at least Ed has Roy now.
43. Sky –Constellations are the same and the sun sets and rises on a new day, every day, but this world will never be Ed's home; Ed's home is in the arms of a certain Colonel Bastard.
44. Heaven –Ed might not believe in Heaven or Hell, but this, here with Roy, was the closest he would ever come to paradise.
45. Hell –Roy knew some viewed his relationship with the Fullmetal Alchemist as a sin, but he figured if he was going to Hell anyway for the atrocities he'd committed during the Ishbal War, what's one more sin?
46. Sun –Warm and hard, smooth and golden, breathtaking, beautiful; with the sun in his bedroom every morning, was it any wonder that Roy became a morning person?
47. Moon –Pale and slender, silver scars picked out against smooth, warm skin, and if Ed was the sun, then Roy was his moon; opposites, maybe, but they needed each other all the same.
48. Waves –Roy had dictated Ed's life like the moon dictates the tides of the earth; now Ed is the one doing the dictating and he doesn't even know it.
49. Hair –His hair spilled like golden ink on the pillows, glowed in the moonlight, felt like silk between his fingers.
50. Supernova –All Ed has to do is clap his hands and the world turns bright blue with crackling energy; the strength in Ed is something Roy knows he will never have to fear, but he will always feel sorry for the bad guy.
TG © June 2010