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Falling Away With Me

By: DudeGetATree

Chapter 3: Roy's Memory Lane: Pt 1

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"Hey, Mustang! Are you planning on opening your eyes any time soon? I know you're awake!" Roy groaned at the booming voice, trying to register who was the source of it.

"E-Edward?"

"Ya, Bastard! It's me! Doc over here had to put you to sleep in order for the stone to work on your eyes without the risk of any side effects."

Roy opened one eye slowly, closing it quickly as the bright light hit him hard. "Ugh."

"Ya, he said it would take you awhile to adjust. Anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days."

Roy felt a shift on the bed as the boy moved closer.

"Fullmetal...how long have you been here?"

"A few days."

"Why?" Roy could feel the younger man's body slightly tense up next to him.

"God, Colonel. You're so dense. Did you ever stop to think that maybe I was worried about you and wanted to make sure you were okay?"

Roy's heart fluttered the same it always did when the boy showed him his rarely seen caring side. It fluttered the same way it always did when Roy saw the boy at all.

"Thanks..."

"Hmph." The room stayed quiet as Roy kept trying to open his eyes and adjust to the light streaming into his hospital room. His colleagues had came to see him for a few hours, however it had been quiet since they all had left.

By midnight that night, Roy was drained and had a major headache. However, he attempted to open his eyes yet again, hoping the moon that shined through the window wouldn't be too bright for his sensitive eyes to handle.

One eye peeled open and slightly adjusted. It was blurry, but after many painful attempts, it wasn't too bad.

Roy closed his eye once more only to reopen both of them. He looked around, trying to form shapes of things around the hospital room, only to catch a glimpse of familiar blonde hair in a chair next to his bed..

"Ed?"

The blonde stirred in his sleep. Roy smiled softly. He hadn't even known the boy was still around.

"Ed," he spoke a little louder, shaking the blurry figure.

Ed groaned and peeked one golden eye open. "What, Bastard," his voice still coated with sleep.

"I can see," Roy whispered excitedly. He watched as Edward's golden eyes widened.

"What?" The blonde shot straight up.

"I can see."

Ed smiled a bright smile that made Roy's chest tighten. Ed laughed and stood up out of the chair.

"That's amazing, Roy! I'm going to go get Marcoh!" Roy blushed as Ed ran out of the room, more excited than he had ever seen the younger one.

"Yes, yes it is amazing..." he whispered to himself, as he heart still danced in his chest.

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"Colonel! You have mail," Riza said, dropping it on the pile of paperwork on his desk.

"Just another piece of paper on my desk," Roy muttered. He began tossing it, but caught a glimpse of the sender's name. 'Elric?'

Roy tore open the letter quickly, tossing the envelope aside as he began unfolding the paper. It had been two months since the Fullmetal Alchemist left, just weeks after he got his sight back.

'Bastard,

I'm not really good at writing letters. Hell, I'm not even good at speaking in general. I haven't even wrote Winry or Alphonse, but I just felt the need to write you. Maybe because when I left, things felt so unfinished.

For the past month and a half I was in Creta, studying their culture. It was interesting. I met someone just like you there. Cocky, arrogant, full of herself. I had to go off on that bitch a handful of times. But arguing with her was nothing like arguing with you. With you it's – it's different. I never hated your bastard ass. In fact, I've always liked arguing with you.

I shouldn't have wrote that.

I suck at this.

Anyways, I'm going to be arriving in Aerugo tomorrow. I hope to stay there for awhile longer than I did in Creta. I want to study their culture and their alchemy. I also want to learn their language. You think it's something I can do in a few months time?

I got you this ring at the Creta train station. The red stone reminds me of fire, which in turn reminds me of you. You don't have to wear it. It's a men's ring, so don't go and get all offended. They're actually really popular outside of Amestris.

You can reach me at the address below if you plan on writing back.

Or not.

Whatever you prefer.

-Ed'

And that's how it began. Roy wrote a letter in response that very day. He told the blonde how he liked the ring very much and he would wear it on special occasions, though he wore it everyday. He also told him how things in Central were. He spoke of how Havoc got his legs back and how he was growing a mustache much to his team's dismay.

Ed sent two letters back, one telling Roy a story he heard from an old man in an alley. The story was how soul mates were connected by a red string of fate. The two people who are connected by this string are destined lovers regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The other letter merely expressed Ed's thoughts of who might be on the other side of his string.

Roy joked in his next letter that he was on the other side of Ed's thread, however Winry broke it and now she was on the other end of the blonde boy's.

Ed didn't even speak of the red string of faith in his letters after that, however Ed wrote more affectionately.

And the more the blonde man told Roy how much he missed Central, the more Roy realized that it was him that Ed had missed.

And he missed Ed as well.

And in his last letter to Ed, after venting about Hawkeye and how much more paperwork he had to complete now that he was General, Roy finally gained the courage to write 'I love you,' on the very last line of the letter.

A month had passed once he got another letter from Ed. It took Roy three days to open it, in fear of rejection from the blonde. But once he did finally tear the envelope open, he couldn't help but smile lovingly as he read the only seven words on the paper.

'I love you too.

See you soon.'

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