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This one is after the manga… I think its influence is the scene at the end of Brotherhood.

Prompt; mammals

Dragging his arm across his forehead, Ed groaned at the sweat he felt. His shirt sleeves rolled up and his shoes untied, he squinted at the sun as if he expected his glare to melt it away, before sighing back to the unfinished tiling beneath him.

"Brother!"

Al's voice. Ed inched closer toward the sound but didn't have time to call in return to his brother's panicky expression.

"Why is Den up there with you?"

With a nonchalant blink, Ed waved him off but didn't care to yell back. Al kept calling but only when Ed's gaze edged to the right, did he see the triumphant dog perched on the far edge of the roof.

"DEN?" Ed yelled in disbelief.

"That's what I was trying to say!" Al slapped his hand on his forehead. He tried to look sharp when Winry emerged from the house, a snoozing puppy in her arms, to investigate the sudden commotion.

"How did you get up here, Den?" Ed begged for an answer as he scrambled toward the dog. He snaked his arms around the animal and his smug tongue ran across his face as Ed tried to balance them both on the slant of the roof.

"DEN?"

Al sighed beside Winry and took the rudely awoken puppy from her before she could continue yelling. However much he was adjusted to the tempers of his brother and childhood friend, Ed and Winry themselves were still not fully aware of how loud their vocals could get.

"Ed, it's dangerous to have Den on the roof!" Winry squealed in her rage.

"It wasn't my fault!" Ed scowled back, trying to messily keep the dog on his feet – it was only Ed that was flailing around anyway. "He just appeared up here!"

"Oh, yeah, sure! Just get down here!"

She turned to the pup in Al's arms and he almost flinched away from her, half-expecting her to fling it at her husband in blind fury. Instead she prodded it in the nose and spoke loud enough for Ed to hear.

"You tell your father to go to sleep tonight on top of the man of the house."

"We all know how much Ed hates that," Al laughed nervously.

Meanwhile, under the searing heat Ed's patience had snapped, and lay strewn across the roof. "Yeah?" He yelled down and turned to Den. "You make sure to give the lady a huge sloppy kiss, just from me!"

Winry snatched the puppy from Al and stormed back inside. Al stayed where he was watching Ed try to shift toward the ladder with Den, knowing Winry would return minutes later when she realised they probably wouldn't get down without her help.

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