NOT UNTIL EASTER
CHAPTER 4
Ed: in this story, Ed is not an Atheist! I repeat not an ATHIEST! In the story that is the only thing I have changed! However, please still enjoy XD!
Ed was infront of the tall establishment he called work. Ed worked as a accountant, he's the main reason that the house that him and Roy live in is still going. Roy just put in his share of profit, but not as much as Ed. Ed opened the clear glass door slowly, looking at the front desk "Damn it." He grunted. He saw a woman with short plum colored hair reading the newspaper. He quietly closed the glass door and tried to sneak past the desk, hoping that his shortness will help him get to the elevator safely without detection.
"You're late, Elric."
Ed froze when he heard that cold stern voice. "I guess I am." he laughed nervously.
The women sighed and put down the newspaper "Was it Roy again?" Ed nodded his head disappointedly.
"Sigh. Hide and seek?"
Ed nodded his head left to right.
"Tag?"
"No."
"Leap frog?"
"No. Treasure hunt."
"Again?"
"Yeah."
"You know I have to tell Izumi you're late again."
"Just once Dante! Don't tell her!"
"I'm her assistant I have to tell her everything. She mostly wants updates about how you're doing."
"Ugh! Alright then fine tell her!" Ed walked to the elevator and pressed the numerical number five.
"I'm on it." Dante picked up the phone and pressed a button. "Hello can I speak to Izumi?"
Ed sighed and leaned against the railing on the elevator "Just like High school." Ed did not like the fact that his gym teacher was his manager of this wondrous building, always picking on him to motivate him. Calling him shrimp cocktail or toothpick legs to get his temper up so he can beat the hard obstacle in his old School.
The elevator door opened to his destination. He got off as other people boarded on it. He sat at his desk greeted by familiar faces.
"Why are you late Ed?" asks one person.
"Well good morning to you too, Hughes." said Ed.
"Roy again." says another man.
"I'm sure it was." said another.
"Yes I'm sure it was Breda and Fury." said Hughes as he rubbed his facial hair.
"Will you guys shut up!" Ed yelled..
"Hey! Don't yell at us, he's your lover!" said Hughes.
Ed blushed and picked up a pen and started to sign checks. "So what was it this time?" asked Hughes.
"Sigh. If ya'll shut the hell up, it was treasure hunt." Hughes nodded, and the rest followed in his agreement. "Will you guys shut up." Ed looked at the elevator, as he heard it open. A few employees walked out. He sighed and worked again. Unlike a normal boss, Izumi likes to meet her employees in person. She will call them down when it is something she does not want anybody else to hear.
"Eventually Izumi will get pissed enough to fire you." said Fury
"Won't that be a blessing?" Ed chuckled.
"Really now, Edward?"
Ed fell out the chair at the women's voice. She was standing behind him from the side. "You haven't changed a bit Edward." said the woman.
"Se-Sensei!" Edward looked at the elevator, he did not remember it opening.
"I took the stairs Edward."
"What makes you th-Oh sensei- I would never!" he laughed nervously.
"...Don't you dare lie to me Edward." Edward froze. "I've been your gym teacher for four years in High school, I know your lies."
"Sensei." he sounded gullible.
Izumi slammed her fist on top of his desk "NOW I HEAR YOU WERE LATE AGAIN!" Edward jumped up a little from the shock that she cracked that hard maple desk. "I s-see your still the ruthless teacher I've always known." he smiled.
Izumi gave a sinister chuckle and pulled out a long gym sock, with a round curve at the bottom. "Now!" She slammed the heavy sock on the desk making it crack more. "No not The Sock!" Edward has always feared that heavy indestructible thing. Izumi used it when her so-called pupils would act up against orders in High school. She smacked them with a hard thrust leaving a mark of remembrance, warning them to never do it again, or never piss her off again. Edward should know he still has a small bump on his head, which receded after a good few packs of ice, but it was still there. He did know what was at the bottom of the sock, but damn was it heavy and hard.
"You still have that?"
"Yes I do! Now tell me why you are late again! It was Roy wasn't it?"
Ed shook his head.
She sighed, "Ed you need to talk to Roy about keeping you from getting to work on time, every time you're late your paycheck recedes."
"You try to tell him that!" Ed started to rise, using the balance of his chair "He's been kind of persistent lately, actually more persistent."
Izumi stared at Ed for a minute. "Ed are you on Lent?"
"Uh maybe."
"What did you give up?"
"Nothing special!"
Izumi glared at Ed "You say he's more persistent than usual?"
"Uh-yeah."
"You gave up sex with him didn't you?"
Ed twiddled his fingers.
"Well there ya go."
"You did Ed?" asked Hughes. "Ya'll aren't going to last for a week" he laughed.
Ed shuttered down in his desk blushing.
Dante came up behind Izumi. "If you keep neglecting his needs Elric he'll get it from somewhere else, you know how Mr. Mustang is sex driven."
"Shut up Dante! He would never!" yelled Ed angrily.
"I'm telling you what a man does after not having something for so long, that's why-"
"That's enough Dante, what do you need to tell me?" asked Izumi.
"I just got a call; they need you at a meeting."
"Alright."
Izumi was going for the steps again "You sure you don't want to take the Elevator Mrs. Izumi?" asked Dante.
"I've got to stay physically fit, you can take the elevator if you want too." Izumi speeded down. Dante sighed and followed.
Ed watched as Hughes and the rest put bets on him, he sighed angrily. "He would never do that." he whispered.
Roy was sitting at flat desk that connected with others. He worked at a suicide hotline helping people get over the problem of killing themselves. He really did not do a good job at it, he made them want to kill themselves more, but sometimes he is helpful. His work phone started to ring, he looked at Havoc. Seeing he was already occupied he picked it up.
"Hello suicide hotline."
My kids are dead! So is my husband: cries: I don't know what to do! I have been fired from my job! My bills are overdue and my lights and water has been cut off! My grandmother died yesterday and-and I have a gun to my head and I am ready to trigger it!
"Ok, one thing ma'am its kind of hard to talk to you when your wailing and talking at the same time, get your crying over with then call and secondly, if you want a job I can give you one to start you off."
Really?
"Yeah, you can have mine." he said coldly
Havoc snatched the phone from Roy. "Hello? Ma'am? Are you still there?" There was only a dial tone. Havoc slammed the phone back on its receiver. "She hung up?" Roy questioned.
"Yeah thanks to you!"
"What I do?"
"Roy you keep killing our costumers!"
"No I don't, they kill themselves."
"Past the point! We are supposed to keep them living for a little bit longer until God does his job and smites them himself. Until then we have to keep them alive when they call."
"Have you ever thought they were intended to die that way? Killing himself?" he questioned.
Havoc slapped his forehead.
Roy looked at the clock "I wonder what Ed's doing. I hope he made it to work on time."
"You played your little game this morning didn't you Mustang?" said a woman sternly.
"Uh you can say that Riza." he smiled nervously. "But he's being more resistant than usual, usually, he would give in after awhile but now he's really defending himself more then ever."
"Maybe he's tired of you constantly doing that, I know the feeling of you cussing out the costumers." he laid his head on his hand. Riza came behind him and stood there so she could hear the conversation better.
"Or maybe he's cheating on you." said a voice.
Roy looked a woman with a face of a dark evil mermaid. "Shut up Lust."
"Don't be mad Mustang, but there is a chance that might be true."
"Quiet Lust!"
"All men are the same when they get tired of something, they get fresh meat to conquer, that's how it was for me, always cheating and lying. I couldn't take it until I found that one special person which made me feel like I was always wanted. She never cheated on me and never will."
"Doesn't mean that your going out with Dante doesn't mean she ain't doing the same thing." sneered Roy.
"Well I'm surer than you are." she toddled her way to the door. "Think about it." she left.
"Don't worry about it Roy."
"Seriously don't. Havoc and I have been married for three years now, he has not cheated on me, and he is a man. Well at least I hope not." she glared at Havoc.
"Of course not! I would never do that! Especially when you have the power of lead on your side." he laughed nervously.
"I know you wouldn't do that to me Havoc, I completely trust you." she pecked him on the cheek
"I gave up my cigarettes to be with you, and I'll give up everything else." he said sweetly.
"Yeah your right he would never cheat on me! Ed loves me too much and I love Ed too much! He would never do that!"
"See told you!"
"But doesn't mean Lust isn't right either." he whispered, as he heard the work phone ring.
Sorry for the non-yaoish chapter! More Yaoi in the next chapter promise! Sorry for the weird couplings like LustxDante XD! Review!