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"Ah, shit..." Ed muttered as he watched the blood fall down his arm. Roy walked over to the cabinet and rummaged through the drawers, looking for bandages no doubt, and returned with a first aid kit. He sat down in front of Ed who was looking away towards the ground and gently took his arm. Ed winced as he wiped disinfectant on it before he wrapped a bandage over his now clean arm. Roy grabbed his auto-mail arm and tried to pull him up so they could sit down on the couch with Al to discuss this incident.

Ed was so confused by the concerned look he let Roy lead him over to the couch, he noticed Al had shut the door and locked it, whether to keep him in or others out, he didn't know, probably both.

"Ed, we need to discuss both of those things I saw in the bathroom. First and most importantly, what kind of trick were you trying pull by hurting yourself like that?" Roy asked, trying to keep his voice calm so he didn't scare the boy beside him. Al sat in front of them on the table since there wasn't enough room on the couch for him.

"I-I thought you guys would hate me..." He mumbled.

"So you decided to try and end your life?" Roy yelled back, causing Ed to flinch at the volume of his voice and look down at his lap, avoiding eye contact with either of them.

"Brother, you said you would never do anything that could get you killed again after the incident with Scar. You promised!" Al said as quietly as possible as not to scare Ed again.

"I just thought... Well, it doesn't matter anymore" he replied, upset when he realised what Al meant. He had broken his promise and felt awful about it. He was a terrible brother.

"If it's bad enough to make you do this, it does matter, " Roy said, as he tilted Ed's face so he could look him in the eyes so he knew he meant it.

"Well, uh" he hesitated, "I read about chimeras being taken away by the military if they were found and experimented on in awful ways which always ended up in death a few years ago, so..." Ed trailed off.

"You thought if anyone found out that they would send you to the military and you would end up being experimented on for those uh" Mustang gestured to his ears and tail, "things".

"Well, yeah..." Ed said as if it were obvious.

"So that's why you were going to do that, guess that makes sense if you believed we were going to dob you in to the military" Roy began before he looked at Ed furiously and slapped him across the face.

"O, what the heck was that-"

"We're your friends Ed! Why the hell did you think we would turn you in just for being a chimera?" Roy yelled at him.

Ed shrank back and muttered "I-I'm not a chimera" before looking away and pulling at some of the loose strings on the couch.

"What do you mean you're not a chimera, brother?" Al quietly asked him.

Ed sighed before he continued, still picking at the thread, "Well, these" he gestured to his wolf appendages, "weren't put on me by alchemy" he said.

"Care to elaborate?" Roy said when Ed paused.

"I was getting to that you jerk, anyway uh, well it happened a while ago, this guy I was trying to help dragged me into the woods and uh, well you won't believe me anyway, so why does it matter?" Ed said before crossing his arms. He began biting his lip, they would laugh at him for being so foolish enough to let some random guy use magic on him instead of running away when he should have.

"Brother" Al sighed at his stubbornness. "Of course, we'll believe you no matter what you tell us," he said so sincerely it hurt Ed to see him so worried.

Ed could taste blood now, he must have bit his lip too hard, oh well. "The guy was kinda weird, and well" Ed paused, feeling slightly silly as he said the next words and waited for the laughter that would follow, "he was an uh, wizard..." He trailed off and continued biting his lip even though it hurt badly now and would surely begin to bleed even more heavily if he continued.

"So he used magic instead of alchemy to do this to you? Well, I've seen weirder things" Roy muttered as an afterthought.

"Wait, you believe me?" Ed said, shocked. They actually believed him?
"Of course, dummy, why would you make something like that up, and I don't think your imagination could make that up anyway" Al laughed.

"HEY!" Ed exclaimed. He smiled slightly, they believed him and didn't hate him. They weren't going to send him away and trusted him. Ed felt loved for the first time in years and even though he wouldn't admit it, he was glad to have these two with him.

"So you weren't born like that, how long has it been since you've been like this? A year, two?" Roy asked. Ed sighed and decided he may as well admit it.

"Um, about ten years," he said under his breath.

"TEN YEARS! Brother, you should have told me ages ago. You've been worried about my reaction for ten years? I would have accepted you no matter what!" Al said before he practically tackled Ed into a hug, nearly crushing him in the process.

"Ow! Al, you're hurting me! Not so hard" Ed exclaimed. Al apologised and loosened his grip a little. Ed just laughed and attempted to hug him back, which probably looked awkward but oh well.

"One more question" Ed groaned as Roy said this. "Shut up Fullmetal, anyway, I can understand the tail, but how did you hide those ears of yours?" He poked one and Ed hissed at him, causing him to laugh before he apologised.

"Well, there's this thing I can do" Ed muttered so quietly that they couldn't hear him, "I wish for human ears" they gasped as they saw the wolf ears disappear with a small poof and human ears replace them.

"Well, I think I've reached my limit for strange and alarming things I've seen today, Ed, I'm expecting that report on my desk by tomorrow, do not forget again and" his eyes softened a little "don't forget to change that bandage to keep the cut clean" Roy said before he left the room, shutting the door behind him.

"Well, at least now I don't have to kill my tail 99% of the day until I get into the shower," Ed said as he swished his tail about making Al laugh slightly. "Uh Al, you can stop hugging me now," He said when he realised the armour was still practically attached to him.

"Oh right, sorry. Well, have fun writing that report" Al laughed before leaving, probably to go to the library or take in more stray cats.

Ed sighed, happier than he had been in a long time. It felt great to have others know about his secret and not reject him for it, heck maybe one day he would tell Winry and Pinako. He paled as he thought about the huge, wrench shaped bruise he would get on his head and the long lecture about secrets he would definitely receive and decided to wait a little longer.

Okay well that's it! I may come back and edit this chapter later but for now I'll leave it. Thanks so much for all the reviews again, they made my day :)