This was in a collection of drabbles but they are not doing so well so I've decided to split my one shots up to maybe get more people to read them because they are good. Least I think they areā¦..
Blast Off
The fact that Roy Mustang had a previous engagement that night didn't seem to deter the trigger happy blonde as she pointed her standard military pistol at his temple.
"The
barracks are full so the Elric's have no where to stay there fore I
think it would be in their best interest if they were to stay with
you Colonel sir." Hawkeye suggested as the barrel clicked
ominiously. Roy sighed closing his eyes feeling defeated.
"Why
do I have to put them up? Al, fine but full metal? I can't even
imagine what my apartment will look like come morning." He said
pouting. So it came to pass that Roy accustomed to going home alone,
at least at such an early hour, had in tow Edward and Alphonse Elric.
Roy dropped his keys on a table next to the door and plopped down on
his couch. He closed his eyes as one of them shut the door and felt
their eyes on him as he rested his.
"So as of right now we're
off the clock right?" Ed asked mischeif clearly in his voice.
Roy nodded his head slowly.
"Basically..." Roy said
softly. He could picture in his head the slick smile as it crossed
Ed's face and the desperate glances from his younger brother pleading
with him not to do anything rash.
"Alright then bastard
colonel. I'd like to let you know what I think about you." Ed
said clearing his throat. Roy cracked an eye open watching as Edward
took out a folded piece of paper from his jacket pocket and opened it
up.
"What's
that?" Roy asked taking in noting as Alphonse held his hands to
his helmet slowly shaking it from side to side in disbelief.
"What
I think of you." Ed stated innocently.
"You made a
list?" Roy questioned cocking an eyebrow at the younger
alchemist. Ed smirked.
"Number one, you are a bastard. Number
two, you are an egotistical glorified pyromaniac. Number three, all
you care about is a damn promotion. Number four..." Roy cut him
off with a loud side.
"I'm
going to shower. The sofa's a bed so you can pull it out if you want.
See ya' in the morning." He stated standing up and stretching
yawning in the process and walking down the hall. Three hours later
and Ed lay pouting on the sofa bed. He stared at the ceiling thinking
about his list. He hadn't even gotten to the best part and the
bastard had cut him off.
'Yet another thing to add to the list.'
He thought as he turned over. Al had left to take a walk assuring Ed
that he would be back soon once again triggering Ed's guilt.
'He must get so bored at night when I'm asleep. If I could I'd stay up to keep him company but...what's that weird smell?' Ed wondered as he sat up and peered down the short hallway that ended with a closed door. Ed stepped onto the floor and walked as quietly as he could to the door that belonged to the colonel's bed room. The light was on he could see so the bastard was still awake and the smell was definately coming from his room. Ed got down on his hands and knee's peering underneath the door frame only being able to see the bed spread that hung to the floor. Ed stood up and actually pondered going to back to bed and falling asleep. A wicked smile cross his face as he clapped his hands together and pressed them to the door. Roy at first in his current state thought he was seeing things as his door dissapeared and there stood Ed Elric before he remembered through some haze that Ed could transmute without a circle and he just transmuted his door possibly into the wall.
"What
the hell is that nasty smell." Ed said taking in Roy's half
lidded look. He held what looked like a ciggarette, a really big
ciggarette.
"Full metal? Get out of my room." Roy said
lazily blinking his eyes a few times. Ed cocked an eye brow and
placed his hands on his hips walking closer to investigate.
"What
is that?" He asked his eyes watering over as the smoke burned
his throat. Roy looked at it for a moment then back at Edward an evil
smile crossing his face.
'Should I...this is the opportunity I've
been waiting for. Why not we only live once.' Roy thought.
"Oh this? It's nothing really just something to relieve stress, calm the nerves that type of thing. Wanna try?" He asked holding it out to him. Ed looked at it curiously feeling uneasy at the colonel's tone of voice as well as the weird look he was giving him as if he were offering him a poisoned drink.
"It's
understandable." Roy stated taking a drag. "After all I
would expect someone of your stature to turn this down. He said
exhaling in Ed's direction. That was the nerve to hit.
"WHO
ARE YOU CALLING SO SHORT THEY'D GET LOST IN ALL THE SMOKE!" Ed
yelled walking forward and grabbing it out of Roy's hands. His mother
had always worn him not to take candy from strangers and Roy Mustang
was about as strange as they came but he couldn't let the bastard get
the better of him. Ed brought it to his lips and inhaled choking and
sputtering out smoke his first try but the second was easier not as
easy as the third though.
Al walked in the door and heard laughing from the direction of the colonel's room.
"That's not funny. You...you don't understand it's so bright in here and the music was playing. My heart was going dun, dun, dun, dun to the music and then it stopped! Oh my god it stopped my heart!" Ed's frantic yells came from the room. Al walked briskly in the room and took in the sight of Edward sprawled out on the colonel's bed his hair hanging in his face like a curtain that partly concealed it. The colonel sat in a chair next to the bed laughing so hard his face was bright red.
"You
idiot full metal. The music didn't stop your heart, the evil witch
did with her cursed magic." He said his expression becoming
serious as he clenched his hand into a fist.
"Ummmm, is there
cause for concern here?" Al asked cautiously. Both Roy and Ed
looked in his direction noticing he had just walked in and stared
their eyes hazy as if they were drugged. Ed suddenly jumped up
bouncing off the bed and falling to the floor.
"Brother!
What's wrong with you?" Al asked picking Ed up off the floor.
"Al
my...my body it's so numb...I can't feel anything. Nothing!
This..this is...hey...hey...you know I was thinking and we should
ummmmmm..." Ed said blinking his eyes a few times as he clung to
Alphonse's arm.
"We should what?" Al asked softly.
"What?" Ed asked him confused. "What should we do?"
Al replied. Ed stared at him.
"I don't know what should we do
Al?" He asked. Al glared at Roy whom sat in his chair staring
placidly at his hands.
"What did you do to him?" Al
ordered. Roy looked up at him.
"Do to him?" He asked
confused. "And your another one. What's going on with the two of
you?" Al asked. Roy smiled widely.
"To be blunt."
He said laughing harder as the last word escaped his lips. "We're
stoned." He said. Al stared at him.
"Stoned, as in
high?" Al asked irritated. Roy shook his head smirking.
"Yep!
Off our asses." He replied. Al picked his brother up and walked
out of the room trying to calm him down.
The
next day Roy sat as usual at his desk with a mountain of paperwork.
He stared at it sighing heavily. Ed had woken up normal for the most
part with no after effects and left. Al had remained silent and
refused to look at Roy to which he shrugged off. 'It was just a
little harmless fun.' He thought as his office door slammed open to
reveal a clearly aggitated blonde. Hawkeye slammed the door behind
her locking it.
"So I got a call at about three a.m. saying
that you got Edward Elric so blasted that he barely even knew who he
was." She stated sweeping the paperwork off his desk and getting
out her gun. Roy stated at her unaffected by this display as she set
the gun down. He smiled reaching into his pocket.
"So I
thought to myself that that must mean your running a little low."
She stated producing a small package as Roy forked over the money.
