It was dinner time and they were sitting at the dinner table. Russell eating and Edward moving his food around his plate with his fork. Ed put his fork down and looked up at Russell.
"Can i please be excused?" Ed asked quietly.
"What? You havnt eaten anything."
"Yeah, im not hungry."
"No. Just eat it"
Ed looked down at his hands in his lap. Thinking if he should just walk away or eat something. He looked at his food and scrunched his face up in discust and anger. Ed lifted his hand up over his head and in one swift movement he knocked his dinner half-way across the room.
"ED!"
With that Ed got out of his seat and ran to 'his room'

Russell stared at the door mouth wide in shock. He put his knife and folk down and walked up the steps to Ed's room He knocked on the door.
"Ed? hey, let me in."
"Go away! i dont want to talk to you!"
"Please, we have to talk about this. Meet me in the study in 10."
"Why should i!"
"Cause your staying at MY house, your eating MY food and I'M the one taking care of you. Remember?"
Ed through open the door, in a huff. Russell acted nutal to the sudden moving door swinging away from his face.
"Taking care of me? I'm older then you. I can take perfectly good care of myself!"
"Yeah cause that worked so much with Roy. He took PERFECTLY good care of you, didnt he, Elric!"
Ed flinched when Russell had said his last name. Tears pricked his eyes and he looked down. Russell sighed.
"Meet me in the study, in 10." and Russell walked away.

Ed watched the clock next to his bed moving every 60 seconds. 10 mintues finally came around and Ed dordled to the study. He knocked quietly, but it still echoed in this too quiet house.
"Come in."
Ed gulped and walked into the small narrow room. Ed bit the inside of his lip, making it bleed.
"What's wrong? nervous? sit down. I just want to talk."
Ed did as he was ordered and took a seat on a black desk chair.
Russell picked up his clipboard and pen.
"So, whats gotten you so angry?"
"Nothing" Ed said stubingly.
"You have to talk to me about this, otherwise your not leaving here."
"'Leaving here'? as in this room, or this house?" Ed asked confused.
"What ever it takes."
An awkward silence filled the room.
"Ahh! Fine! what do you want to know!" Ed yelled in defeat.
Russell smiled an award-winning-smile.
"Well start from the begining."
Ed smirked.
"I know what your thinking, don't be a smartass, i don't want the bird and bees talk."
Ed groaned.
"Fine. Well, it all started when Roy and I got together. It started out great at first, you know dinner dates, movies, parking, beach se- well you know fun stuff. Roy was sweet to me, always nice. So he asked me to move in with him. Of course i jumped at the offer. We were doing alright for a few months, untill, its like one day he just snapped, it started off with yelling. That turned to a slap in the face. Which turned to a kick in the guts, eventually it made its way into my dreams aswell. Scared to be awake and asleep."
"Why didnt you tell any of us about it? Al? Fletcher? The police? Or even Me? any of us would have helped you, you know that, right?"
"Yeah i know that. But i was just scared, i guess. He told me not to tell anyone, otherwise he would kill me when i lease espect it. He even threatened Al a few times. I can't let any harm come towards my brother."
"So, why'd you leave, when you did?"
"It was an opitunity. He was at the pub i knew he'd be there for hours. So i packed up my curage along with my cloths and what i needed and ran to Al's place."

I sat there telling Russell every detail of what had happened when i was with Roy. Then we talked about normal stuff. childhood memories, our brothers, the time he and Fletcher stole mine and Al's identity.

The next morning i woke up in my bed. The smell of bacon filled the air also the sound of Russell's voice telling me to get my bum out of bed filled the air. I walk down those too many steps till i reach the bottom.
"Morning Ed. Food is on the table and i didnt know if you wanted coffee or juice..so i pored you both."
I look at him with a raised eyebrow, thinking...'no milk? THANK GOD!' I smile to myself. Russell smiles too.
"Nice to see you smile again, Ed. It been a while. But hopefully we'll see it more often okay?"
My smile dropped a bit but forced it back up.
"Yeah, that'd be good" i coughed.

After Breakfast, Russell sent me to the study to grab a book that could teach me stuff. Who gives him the Authority to tell me what i should do?