Here you all go Ch 2 is up more are on their way. today or tomorrow. see the starting notes of Ch1 if you want to know the origins.
I made my way to a small seedy bar and sat down at the sticky bar letting my head fall on it with a thump.
"Aren't you a bit young to be in here kid?" the barkeep asked as he 'cleaned' a mug with a dirty rag.
"Wouldn't you enjoy having four limbs?" I growled in response.
The fat barkeep laughed breathing hot alcohol laced breath in my face. "A twerp like you making big threats like that!" he laughed some more as I glared at him. "All right kid I'm sure your mommy wants you home, out!" he said as the rest of the inhabitants of the bar laughed. In normal conditions I would have gladly obliged after killing the bastard for those comments.
I clapped my hands to the bar and transmuted it into a giant hand that grabbed the barkeep and held him aloft upside down in the air. "I take that as a 'please relieve me of theses useless limbs'" I growled glaring at the other men who stopped laughing very fast.
"P-p-please put me down!" the man pleaded as the blood rushed to what he had of a brain.
"You gonna let me pay for a drink?" I asked.
"S-s-sure any-anything you want just let me go!"
"Now we are talking." I sighed as I returned the bar to its original form. The other men looked away and became absorbed in their own drinks.
"What d-d-do you want sir?" the bar keep asked.
"Whatever will help me forget the fastest." I said looking at the sticky bar as if it was fascinating my voice sounding as dead as I felt.
"Here you go" he said giving me a large glass of some dark amber liquid. "Girl troubles" he said in a voice that sounded like he'd seen countless men come in like that.
"I don't want to talk" I growled turning my attention to the drink and downing it. The alcohol was really bitter and burned on the way down but I didn't particularly care. After just that one drink my thoughts were already getting a little hazy. "Another!" I shouted getting a refill quickly.
The other five drinks went down in silence as the bar kept a distance from me and I was getting lost in the inebriating drink. "Anot'er!" I shouted after the sixth glass. And the world spun crazily around me.
"No kid, if I give you any more you may die of alcohol poisoning, your not driving I hope?" the Barkeep said taking the glass.
"I wan more!" I growled unable to hold my head up to properly glare at him.
"No more kid, I broke the law giving it to you in the first place I don't want you to die and I get the blame."
"M'be I wan die" I slurred watching colored lights dance in my vision.
"I doubt that kid out now." He said nodding to one of the other men.
"I wan more!" I insisted struggling weakly against the man who was escorting me out.
"I mak yur pay!" I growled as the man dropped me in the ally next to the bar.
"Sure kid, whatever" he sighed and returned to the bar.
I tried to get up but all coordination had deserted me and I just fell over on some trash. After a few more attempts I gave up and retched on the ground next to me. "I wan die" I groaned to myself, and then a thought hit me through the drunken haze.
I tried five times before I finally clapped my hands together and formed my arm into a blade. "I can die" I sighed struggling to bring the blade to my neck.
Just as I felt the cool metal touch my neck I had the arm pulled away from my neck and held up.
"What the hell are you doing Edward!" whatever that had my arm hissed angrily at me.
"My arm ba" I groaned trying to see what had interrupted my suicide.
"You reek of alcohol Ed; how the hell did you get drunk!" the thing growled.
"I drank" I slurred frowning lopsidedly.
"Wow and I thought you were supposed to be a child prodigy"
"Be mean, nur kid" I growled at the thing.
The thing sighed and lifted me up causing the world to spin even more dangerously of its axis. "Come on, I'm taking you back and you can explain this to your brother"
"Broski?" I asked
"Yes Ed your brother Al who is probably out of his mind with worry."
"Al? wh're you?" I groaned feeling sick again.
"Roy, are you really that drunk that you can't even recognize me?" he replied sounding worried, as he walked with me on his back.
"Oy? I nur mem'er" I groaned "oy I fe si" I groaned feeling bile at the back of my throat.
Roy took a second to figure out what I said but got me to the gutter before I was sick all over him. After I finished throwing up again he wiped the rest off my mouth and got me back on his back to take me home.
"Can you tell me why Ed?"
"Hy?" I repeated.
"Why you got drunk?"
"Oh…nry…hate me" I groaned.
"nry? Who or what is that?"
"Pink" I replied losing focused on the conversation.
"Whatever it is I'm sure Al might know" he sighed deciding not to talk to me any more.
"Yur hat me tooo?" I asked drawing out the o in to and getting more depressed as I finally figured out who Roy was. By that time we had arrived at the door to my office/home.
"No I don't can you stand for a bit?" Roy asked lowering me down.
"Nurp!" I said as I fell onto him.
"Just lean there while I knock" he growled looking down at me.
"K" I agreed blinking up at him.
Rou knocked on the door and soon Al showed up at he door gasping as he took in the sight of me leaning drunkenly on Roy singing about peanuts.
"What happened?!" Al asked taking me and dragging me in.
"I found him in an ally with that blade to his throat and drunk out of his mind, other than that I have no idea what happened." Roy sighed.
"Brother!" Al shouted at me interrupting my song.
"Wa?" I growled making a face at him from my position on the floor.
"How could you!"
"Wa?" I asked lost now.
"I don't think you're going to get much out of him right now, I'll come over before I go to work tomorrow to check up on him. I would put him to bed after getting that arm back to a safe state." Roy said "good luck Al" he added as he left.
"Thank you Roy" Al said answered by Roy holding a hand up in a wave as he walked off.
"What am I going to do with you Brother?" Al asked me sadly.
"Sweepy" I moaned before falling asleep on the floor.
I groaned and threw a pillow over my head trying to block out both the evil sun and those obnoxious voices making a racket in the hall. I had the headache to end all headaches and none of this was helping. Not to mention last night was a crazy blur that I couldn't make out.
Al opened the door to the bedroom both he and Rou entered. "Go away" I moaned again under my pillow. "And take the damn sun with you too!"
"Edward, here take this it helps trust me" Roy sighed forcing me up and handing me some water and a pill.
"What is it?" I asked squinting at it.
"Aspirin just take it Ed" Roy said.
"I glared at it a little longer before taking it. "What are you doing here anyway?" I growled at him though the pain was lessening.
"You got drunk Edward, not to mention nearly killed yourself." Roy said rubbing his forehead. "Care to explain why?"
Al left to work on unpacking some more at this point.
"Sorry but I can't remember," I groaned taking this information in to add to the collection of blurry memories I had. "Last I remember I was at the movies with Al and Win… Shit" I groaned as I did remember up to the point where I got drunk.
"What?"
"Nothing, go away" I growled burrowing under the pillow again.
"'Nothing' is not something that drives people to get drunk even if it is illegal and then try to kill themselves!" Roy growled at me dragging me back up "now tell me or I may take you in for underage drinking!"
"It is none of your business bastard!" I growled back. "Why do you even care?"
"Because Edward you know better!"
"That's my problem go away Mustang!" I growled the man just did not take a hint.
"No Edward" Roy said pinning me down on the bed my hands twisted behind my back the fact that he still was a field cop showing through.
"I had a fight with Winrythat's all, happy now" I growled into the pillow my face was pressed against after escape proved elusive to me.
"Now was that so hard" Roy asked getting off me.
"Was that so hard" I mocked falling out of bed as he tried to pin me again and I dodged. "Ow I told you now, go away!" I growled picking myself up.
"Alright, just don't do it again or I will have to bring you in Edward" Roy said seriously as I glared at him and crawled back into bed after he left.
Al came back in after Roy left sighing. "He was just worried about you, you know" Al said to my back as I turned away.
"Yeah well he should just shove it" I growled.
"If he hadn't found you in time you could have been dead!" Al shouted at me causing me to turn back look at him. "I know that you and Winry had a fight and I know she hurt you more than she probably meant to. But why would you do that to yourself!" He said angrily glaring at me. "Sometimes you are just so impossibly stupid Brother! Why would you think it was ok to commit suicide? Why would you get drunk law or no law! You know what alcohol does to people and furthermore you know how harmful it can be to the body!"
"Sorry Al, I wasn't thinking" I said as he paused for breath still glaring at me, truth be told I would rather face Envy than a mad Al.
"Damn right you weren't!" He shouted, uh oh he was really mad now if he was swearing. "And don't you dare push it off as nothing! You are not the one who had to take care of your drunken ass after worrying about you and then hearing that you tried to die!"
"Your right Al, I was stupid and you have every right to be mad" I said trying to calm him down "and your also right that it isn't nothing, I'm sorry I did that to you. I promise I will never do that again" I added relieved that he had stopped glaring.
"Make sure you don't, I was really afraid Ed" Al said softly the last of his apparent anger dissipating. "Do you feel well enough to eat yet?"
"Uh what do we have?"
"Cold cereal or toast."
"Toast sounds good" I sighed getting up to make my breakfast.
"Oh Ed, I'm gonna go try talking to Winry will you be ok here alone?" Al called after me as I moved down the hall.
"Sure Al how much trouble could I get into making toast?" I replied knowing there was a deeper meaning to his innocent enough question 'your not gonna try to off yourself again are you?' being high on the list of other meanings.
"Well I'll be back, just don't burn the place down." Al sighed and I heard the door close behind him as I waited for the toast to pop.
After I ate I got dressed surprised by my reflection no wonder those two were so worried I looked like death warmed over. I cleaned myself up and began more of the tedious unpacking.
After and hour I got hungry again made a sandwich and crawled up to the roof to eat looking out over the city and the clouds lazily drifting by. I sighed as I leaned back to think for awhile.
Flashback
"That one looks like a wrench!" Winry shouted pointing to a cloud.
"You think everything is a wrench!" I said just to be argumentative it did look like a wrench.
"Do not!" she defended threatening me with her wrench.
"Do to you machine junky!"
"At least I'm not an alchemy freak!" she retorted as Al sighed seeing us arguing again.
"Take that back!" I growled jumping on her.
"Brother! Winry! Stop it you two!" Al said as we wrestled.
"She started it" I pouted.
"Liar, liar pants on fire!" Winry said glaring at me "besides your just upset 'cause you're so short!" she said meanly turning away.
"Who are you calling smaller than a stupid wrench!" I shouted at her as Al held me back.
"Brother please she didn't say anything like that" Al sighed.
"She's just a stupid girl anyway what would she know" I said dusting myself off and heading home not looking at her. She threw that wrench at me again though.
"And you are the stupidest of all the dumb boys out there! I hate you and I never want to see you again Ed!" she shouted grabbing her wrench and running back to her home.
"Brother that wasn't very nice" Al said to me.
"What are you mad at me for? She is the one throwing wrenches at heads! Besides I don't care I never want to see her again either!"
End flashback
I groaned remembering that fight back before even Winry's parents had been killed. It had been a month before she'd look at me and then another before she said anything remotely non-insulting to me. I wondered how long this one would last. I was brought out of my thoughts by hearing Al shout for me.
"What?" I asked sticking just my head back in the room.
"There you are! What are you on the roof for" Al asked looking relieved.
"I ate lunch up there" I said coming back down "wait, what did you think I was gonna do?"
"Nothing never mind" Al said looking away. "Anyway it seems like Winry is still mad at you, perhaps if you explained how you feel…"
"No Al, I've told you before, I do that and she rejects me and we stop being friends anymore." I sighed "stop trying it is not gonna happen, ever. I'll just wait it out to let her cool down."
"But brother,"
"No end of story Al." I growled.
"Oh and she said she was going to leave tomorrow" Al said giving up for now on hooking me up with her.
"I thought she was gonna stay a weak?"
"She… she said that something came up."
"Oh… that bad huh?" I sighed. "Don't worry I'll say bye to her," I said seeing his look.
We were there at the station early the next morning. "Bye Al, it was good seeing you again, sorry I had to leave so soon" Winry said hanging out the window sounding perfectly happy.
"Yeah, well that's life right, see ya Winry" Al said looking at me for the first part of that sentence.
"Bye Win" I said just loud enough to be heard. She frowned but didn't look at me at all she turned around and pulled herself back in the train car.
I sighed again I seemed to be doing that a lot lately and lowered my head to hide behind my bangs. I was aware that she had chosen such an early train because she had been hoping I wouldn't show up.
As the train pulled away I looked up hoping that perhaps she would turn back around to say goodbye. But the train steamed off into the distance and no sign of her lemon blond hair.
I left Al who was still waving because the train was still in sight; I sat on the curb outside resting my head in my hands.
"I'm sure that by the time she gets home you'll be forgiven" Al said putting a comforting hand on my shoulder.
"Sure Al" I moaned looking at him out of the corner of my eyes as he sat next to me.
"Brother this is nothing, come on cheer up"
"Whatever, look I need some coffee want any?" I asked looking at him.
"Sure, decaf for me though"
"K" I grunted as I went to the coffee house across the street and returned with our drinks, Al's decaf and my very, very dark sugar filled concoction.
"That can't be healthy for you." Al said seeing that my drink was as close as I could get it to caffeinated bitter syrup.
"Don't give me the crap of coffee stunting growth Al I'm not in the mood."
"Hey Ed I was thinking that if we are out on a case we should get cell phones to keep in contact." Al tried again to get me to act less like the zombie I was right now.
"That makes sense, we need a computer anyway, and a coffee maker those baristascan't make a decent cup to save their lives." I said downing the last of my coffee.
"Want to go get them now?"
"Might as well" I agreed. So I pulled out a note pad and jotted down the things we needed to get and we set off for shopping.
i do realize that they may be a bit OOC but i attribute that to this being an AU and an old story that was before i really tryd to perfect the Characters.