Schadenfreude.
"Pikachu"
Characters: Elysia Hughes, Selim Bradley
Pairings: onesided Selim/Elysia
Word Count: 148
"Elysia?"
Elysia looked up to see Selim Bradley standing beside her, obviously hiding something behind his back.
"Selim? Aren't you homeschooled?"
"Was? Ah… ja."
He was speaking German again, which made Elysia stare blankly at him.
"Um… Selim? I don't speak German."
Selim blushed a rather bright shade of red before holding out what looked like a bright yellow, plush, oversize chipmunk with rather large ears.
"Um…? What is it? Is it for me?"
Selim nodded. "Es ist ein Pikachu."
Elysia stared at the plushie.
"Es erinnerte mich an Sie."
He forced the Pikachu into her hands and ran off.
"Who was that?" Elysia's friend asked.
"Selim."
"Is he your boyfriend?"
"No. Our dads work together."
Elysia's friend shrugged, and they went back to wandering around the playground.
Though Elysia was sure that she could see a blur in the sky out of the corner of her eye.
Note: According to Google Translate, Selim's lines translate roughly to "What? Oh, yes." "It's a Pikachu." and "It reminded me of you." If it's wrong, please tell us. We're not exactly experts in German. Also, um, yeah. Their dads would be King Bradley and Maes Hughes, both of whom work at Amestris High School (Bradley is the principal and Hughes teaches photography). The whole German thing comes from two points: Amestris in the first anime being pretty much a parallel to Germany, and German being Selim's first language due to his, erm, real parent(s) - he is, like manga-Selim - nothing short of a genius, and, as such, is perfectly fluent in English - to the point where he has an American accent when he speaks it.
And I'm aware that Pikachu's a mouse Pokémon, but... it looks more like a chipmunk than a mouse, or at least it would to an eight-year-old girl. (Seeing as the timeline here is... four or five years after the main FMA story line, Elysia's eight).
Also, I don't think that we said, but this fic is going to be posted in anachronistic order, which we think fits it better than chronological order. It adds to the insanity and chaos of the story. So, technically, you could view this as a one-shot compilation that takes place within the same universe. Or you could view it as a crackfic. Your choice.
