NEVER LEAVE, STAY FOREVER;

AN: a romance about finding lost love, if I don't get reviews I won't update!

Ed x Roy.

Al x Winry

this is the updated version, mrawgirl109 was kind enough to point out a few mistakes, so i took some time to right em'.

thanks.

Disclaimer; they own the neighbourhood, I just rent the house.

Enjoy!

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Belledonner.

Roy stared straight ahead, his eyes not seeing the still morning countryside before him, his attention, though it may seem otherwise, was completely focused on the blond head beside him. In his peripheral vision, Roy saw Edward shift slightly and glance to the left, away from him and towards his very much so alive brother on the bench a few meters behind, then his eyes refocused straight ahead, refusing to neither look at the now general or completely away.

He couldn't take the deafening silence that had formed thick around them, he was the first to break, and though he hated that fact he hated the silence more. "Why are you leaving?"

"I don't know." Edward; he had never given an explanation to his sudden departure from Resembool. He had just suddenly gotten up from their bed and announced it after his automail had been replaced and Al had told them he wasn't leaving Winry. Roy had wanted to come with him, but Edward said he needed to go alone, and nothing more was said about it.

"When will you be back?" Roys voice was low and smooth, the perfect imitation of a lecture tone he would take with any subordinate.

"I don't know" Edwards voice was bland and void of any emotion, those he held in his eyes. In the corner of Roys vision he could see the panic-like calm and the hardened glare that showed his determination in a way that no words could explain or describe.

"Will you come back to me?"

"I don't know."

"Your mine now, forever. Don't go, don't leave me." The words were hard to say, but he choked them out in the hope of Edward staying with him.

"Don't say that." Edwards voice had taken on a slightly frozen edge, like he was afraid of what he would do if he let himself go.

"Why not? I plan on you staying with me for the rest of our lives. I am yours, completely, heart and soul. As you are mine. Please, don't leave me." Roy didn't take his eyes of the train tracks before him as he studied his young lover, saw the tension in the set of his shoulders and the slouch in his posture as he studied a particularly interesting bird poop with just a little too much attention than strictly necessary.

"If you never own something, you can never lose it. But if something is owned, it can also be lost. If something that's is not owned goes astray, then it was never yours to own and have the chance to lose."

"I never lose things so close to my heart. Don't go, if you are here then I can never lose you."

"If you love something…"

"Set it free…" Roy sighed as the familiar lines of the poem fell through his mind.

"If it returns…"

"It will be yours forever"

"If it fails to come back…"

" Then it was never yours to keep."

The train pulled into the station, breaking the silence the poems lines had incurred and had settled over the pair once more.

"You haven't set me free." Said Edward after second longer, his voice was still clear and empty. Roy cursed that voice, remembering when it had been filled with life and passion as he called out Roy's name.

"Because I am afraid." Roy's mind was remembering the better times they had shared and wondering if there would ever be more, his hard blue black eyes shining in the morning light as equally golden eyes swung his way with just a flicker of fire and anger in their depths. The passengers began to disembark and crowed into the small platform, both men lowered their voices as the people began to crush closer to them.

"So instead you would cage me?" even if his eyes were now glued on Roy, his body was angled straight ahead, his face not even turning a degree to his right to give himself a better last view.

"God loved the bids and created trees. Man loved the birds and created cages." Another line from a poem, since when had he turned to a sappy romantic? Since he had met Edward apparently.

"If you truly love me then you will let me go. Set me free."

"I will miss you." Roy stated, not expecting an admission in response but hoping for one all the same. It was rare that the Fullmetal alchemist would show that much open affection with words, preferring to use actions instead.

"I know"

Roy gently squeezed Edwards hand. And without another word, Edward headed towards the open carriage doors.

And for the first time in his life Roy walked away from something he couldn't win.

Xx

Belledonner