A/N: As promised, here is the second part. Go nuts. PS- I do not own FullMetal Alchemist. Flames will be used to make Roy a flamethrower.


Immortal Hearts

Prologue Part Two:

" … There's a corpse in this bed?"

("Early Sunsets Over Monroeville" by My Chemical Romance from I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love)


Edward Elric had died a week ago defending his superior officer from a rabid chimera attack; his sacrifice had given Riza Hawkeye just enough time to burst into the room and put a round into the creature's skull. What she found in that office was a crying Roy Mustang with Edward's dead body clutched tightly to him. "I promised him I wouldn't leave him," the man whispered when she tried to take the teen from him.

"And you didn't, Sir," she murmured soothingly. "You didn't leave him for a moment."

"But he was so afraid of being alone, of losing me."

"Sir, he's not going to be alone. I'll stay right by him until he gets to Alphonse."

"But-"

"I'll take care of him, Roy. You know I will."

He sighed, letting her extract the boy's body from the protective circle of his arms. "He told me that he loved me before he died," he whispered brokenly, in shock.

"He did, Sir?"

"I think he did. He never finished saying the words though."

She patted his shoulder comfortingly. "Go home and get your wounds treated, Sir. I'll take care of Edward and Jean'll keep the place from imploding while you're gone."


Roy didn't come back that entire week. He had always had a soft spot for his blond subordinate, and now that he was gone after just returning to this side of the Gate, the man didn't quite know what to live for. He knew better than to try it, he knew he'd promised Ed, Al, and Riza that he wouldn't try it back when Maes's murder was still fresh in his mind, but the loss of the blond had made him forget.

He had all the ingredients laid out, including a strand of blond hair he had kept in a little envelope since he realized he was attracted to the boy, and had even drudged up a few extra incomplete Philosopher's Stones, Red Water, and the array Edward and Alphonse had used to bring back Sloth. The price didn't matter to him, so long as he had Ed back.

Unfortunately, the Gate had something else in mind. The cost for one Edward Elric was one Roy Mustang, and because Roy had foolishly told the Truth he would pay anything to have the blond back, the toll had been paid in full.


"Eat up, little brother, I don't have all day to wait for you to change back to your normal chibi self without them," a cold voice snarled, pressing something rather sharp into his mouth that tasted rather like candy. He ferociously devoured them, to the satisfaction of the other. "Good, at least I won't have to force-feed you, Pride."

"My name is Edward, you good-for-nothing palm tree," the newborn homunculus hissed, turning his golden eyes onto the slender form crouched before him.

"Your sin is pride, just as mine is envy, so as I am Envy, thus you are Pride."

"Where's Roy?" he rasped, noticing the Ouroboros tattoo on his right hipbone, but the shapeshifter didn't need to respond for him to know the answer. "Roy-sama!" he cried, throwing himself on the prone form of his admiration, of his Colonel. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM?"

"I didn't-"

"YOU KILLED HIM JUST LIKE YOU KILLED ME, DIDN'T YOU?"

"Um, you kinda aren't exactly dead because of me, per se, so that's not the most accurate of metaphors."

"YOU CAN'T JUST LET LOVE BE, CAN YOU?"

"LISTEN, YOU LITTLE PUNK!" he roared, fury shining in his lavender eyes, "I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO LOSE THE ONE YOU LOVE, OKAY?"

Ed was jarred from his single-minded concentration. Envy had loved? "What?"

"When I was only 200 or so years old," the elder homunculus muttered, reluctant to drudge up memories he just wanted to leave well enough alone, "I fell in love with a girl, but shortly after we got together, she died of a disease that ate at her brain. No one really cared that she was gone because she had been ruled mentally insane due to the fact that she was a necromancer or a psychic or whatever it is you call it. Point is, she could see dead people, and I mean really see dead people, and because of it, she was considered a freak."

"What am I supposed to do then?" he asked quietly, trying to hide the tears creeping from his eyes under his golden bangs. "I know I've told a lot of people how to move on, but how am I supposed to do it without the one I love?"

"The same way I did, by pretending it doesn't hurt to smile and that you've long since forgotten the way a carefree laugh made your insides turn to delighted mush. It's the only way to keep living, pipsqueak, because you're gonna do that for a really long time now."

"I'm not short," Edward ventured tentatively.

Envy smiled sadly, ruffling the blond's hair. "That's the spirit, Pride." He paused then, feeling a little awkward. "I'll give you a moment to say goodbye, then we've gotta hit the road, find your human remains and keep them safe from vengeful alchemists trying to do the right thing."

Ed turned back to Roy's prone form, brushing back the Flame Alchemist's hair from where it was over his closed eyes. Somehow, he did not look satisfied, even in death. "I love you," the homunculus whispered, kissing the still lips with as much fire as he possessed, his first kiss before he left, very much conscious of his half-brother's warning.

At the twin funerals for the People's Alchemist and the Hero of Ishval, no one noticed the gold watching the ceremony forlornly from underneath a black hood, aware that he would never see anyone that mattered to him ever again.


A/N: Cookies are nice, but reviews are nicer! I'll even give you a cookie! Oh yeah, after this, it's all yaoi from here, with the occasional flashback to Elena, but if you want Elena back, you'll have to bug me for a prequel and bribe me with a bajillion reviews. In the meantime, SO LONG, SUCKERS, PEACE OUT!