Yay! I finally uploaded this. x) its just getting a bit angsty now but not as much as it should be or could be. hehe though there will be a major angst moment... It will be depressing but it mus be done. though it will be far off in the future of this story... yes indeed.

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Warning: The usual swearing crap from everyone but not Al.

Envy frowned for a second then opened his eyes, finally awakening his dead senses to the world from his pseudo sleep. His eyes flickered up at the ceiling thoughtlessly, they were still a little bit bloodshot from all the drinking he and the others did, but otherwise, they were staring up at the ceiling blankly in a zombie like fashion.

Envy then grew bored of this, and directed his attention to the small blond, glancing down at the Edo who was dead to the world, and snuggling deeper in to his arms still fast asleep. He chuckled a little bit at the cute teeth rotting sight and the green haired teen's hands began to drift unconsciously toward the messy braid on Ed's head disinterestedly and started toying with his hair for a while until he decided to play with the band. He messed with the band long enough for it to break and release the braid from its confines. Envy grinned at being able to break the hair band so easily without waking the little blond captive in his arms. He then took the broken band and tossed it away from them and started to weave his hands in and out of the blond curls, untangling them with his fingers softly. With every soft tug and pull of his hand, Envy unbraided Ed's hair and hand brushed it slowly until it became untangled. The shrimps blond hair soon spread out evenly all over his back and Envy's chest in curls wildly. Envy kept stroking the blond's hair in a comforting manner even thought it was all brushed and neat. Edward soon became to edge subconsciously closer to the androgynous teenager's hand and started cuddling deeper into Envy's chest.

Edward grinned a little bit at this and closed his eyes again with the past evening's events replaying over his eyelids again.

"So… How we gonna get Hohenheim back? Envy questioned looking back in Lust's and Prides directions boredly. They were in the basement, at the table in a meeting and it was boring. He was leaning against the wall in a chair while the others surrounded the table sitting.

Lust looked up at Envy bored. "Soon, He'll come back soon, and if he doesn't we'll just use the human children. They are getting stronger." She contemplated, airly waving a hand in the air in his direction.

"Whatever." Envy leaned back in his chair with his feet keeping him up on the table. A silence soon overshadowed them

"Now what?" Greed said bored out of his mind now. All the Elrics were gone now and their was nothing to do. His feet were resting on the table in the basement, leaning back on the chair.

"Sleep." Sloth muttered already half asleep with her head lying down on the table.

"Yea... No" Greed said while he threw a pencil at her that was conveniently placed on the table near him. Sloth growled angrily at him but otherwise was still lying on the table.

…"Poker?" Envy guessed.

"Strip Poker." Greed said while smiling alligator like.

…

"Sure why not." Envy said cockily grinning at Greed.

That got them drunk off there asses Envy thought ill humorly at the memory, though it did kill a few hours, even if it did mean him seeing a near naked Gluttony. He shuddered at that image, jostling Edward a bit but he didn't wake him thankfully. Envy sighed in relief at this, he didn't want a angry blond attacking him right now like a feral cat.

RING

Damn it, Envy thought furiously, he didn't need Edward to wake up right now. He mentally willed the phone to shut the hell up.

RING

God must have hated him today, Envy concluded dryly with his eyebrows furrowed, he peeked down at the little blond silently hoping for him to still be asleep. But of course he was wrong; Ed was wiggling in his arms a little bit about to wake up as it seemed. Now Ed's nose scrunched at this and his eyes closed even tighter Envy saw looking as if he was mentally willing the phone off too. DAMN you PHONE, Envy thought angrily.

RING

Now Edwardo's eyes were opening. He was gonna feed that phone to gluttony he thought darkly. Edward looked up at him and childishly rubbed his eye. "I'll get it." He muttered with his voice thick and sluggish with sleep.

RING

"Nah Ed, just go back to sleep and let it leave go to voice mail." Envy's said a bit proudly at knowing what voice mail was, He started tightening his arms around him possessively. "You need your sleep anyway, so why bother." Envy added before Ed could say something. "See it stopped so you can go back to sleep now." Envy said hastily hoping for Ed to give in.

"…fine." Ed grumbled then closed his eyes again to sleep everything off.

-Morning-

After a few hours of lying down doing nothing but reading, Envy's eyes flickered to the alarm clock unamused. It was two in the morning exactly. Grumbling, Envy started adjusting Edward to sleep on the pillow, after a few minutes of fidgeting Envy finally got Ed off him.

Though his little hands were still hooked to his shirt, growling, Envy pried them off as softly as he could, Envy decided to change tactics and pet his hair again. This made Ed come closer, sighing Envy kept it up until he managed to get one of the tiny hands to let go of him. He removed the other hand from his shirt easier then the last one.

He then grabbed a pillow and put it in Ed's arms so he could cuddle something while he left. After a moment of watching Ed for any signs of waking, he slowly got off the bed. He then glanced at the clock again to see how long that took him, it was now 2:42 a.m. Wow he thought silently, that took him a lot longer then he thought it would.

He stretched up like a cat, popping his back as quietly as he could. A huge yawn ripped open from his mouth tiredly. He was kinda mentally tired in a way, though his legs were restless, so he decided to see what the message said downstairs.

He padded over to the door leading out to the hallway silently as he could. Glancing over his shoulder every so often to see if the little blond was still asleep, he grasped the doorknob and turned it slowly and opened the door as fast as he could to minimize the creak. It barely made a sound, but his hair was still standing on end. He watched quietly as Ed fidgeted a second then stilled once more. Sighing slightly in relief Envy left the room soundlessly.

He closed the door just as fast as he opened it but made sure it wouldn't slam on him. That would just be his luck. But he managed to shut it softly with a smothered thud. He pressed his ear to the door listening for any noise in the room. He only heard the soft rhythmic puffs of breath from Edward. A small grin was placed across his face at the thought of the sleeping child.

He lumbered out the hallway and down the stairs soundlessly. He walked over to the kitchen till he finally reached the phone. There was blinking lights that screamed '1 Missed Message'. He rolled his eyes and pressed the message replay button.

"Trisha Elric has unfortunately died Central Hospital by an extremely rare disease. We have contacted Hohenheim Elrci to foster Alphonse Elric and Edward Elric."

His eyebrows shot up for a second, then a grin popped up on his face, then his eyebrows furrowed at the reaction Ed would give at the news. He would be devastated he thought numbly. Sighing he would go tell Lust the news first then go break it gently to Edward.

He walked up the stairs numbly and through the hallway till he got to the purple door that was Lust's. He opened the door and slipped into the room. Looking around he spotted lust speaking to Sloth. They both looked up at him questionably.

Lust narrowed her eyes, "What do you want?"

"Well Hohenheim is coming back to raise Pipsqueak and Pipesqueak's brother, Since Trisha died this morning." He said carelessly.

Lust's eyes widen for a second before a small grin rested on her face. "good." She said happily. "Now how did she die? Who is going to care for the little humans now?" She questioned disinterestedly.

"Some rare disease killed the her, and don't know." He said boredly at the last part. "Well see ya later." He grinned and slipped out of the room before anymore questions could be asked.

He groaned in dread at the thought of telling Ed and proceeded to shuffle back to his and Ed's shared room miserably.

He opened the door carelessly, not bothering to mask the noise of the door at all. He made a loud entrance when the door slammed into the wall, probably making a dent in it. Oh well. Edward shot up from the bed pissed off at who ever woke him up from his sleep. After recognizing who woke him up, Ed grabbed a pillow and chucked it at him. He looked at the clock which clarified that it was only around 6:05 in the morning.

"Why the HELL did you wake me up so early!" Edward cried out furiously.

Envy watched him coldly not saying anything to Edward ranting episode, his eyes were narrowed. He shut the door behind him smoothly with the back of his foot carelessly and walked over to the bed smoothly. Once he had Edward in grabbing distance, he snatched him into a hug and grumbled out "Sorry Edward but I got bad news for you."

Ed struggled for a few minutes before relaxing in his grasp. He looked up at him with wide eyes. "What do you mean? Is mom sicker? Is that bastard coming back?" He said the last part bitterly.

"…Don't know bout your father, but that's not the bad news, Edward… Trisha… your mom died at the with some rare disease." He said gravely holding eye contact with Ed firmly to show that he wasn't lying.

"WHAT! No! MOM! SHE CAN'T BE DEAD! NO!" Edward screamed stubbornly, thrashing in Envy's arms trying to get away.

"She is damn it. They left a message on the answering machine for you." He growled while tightening his hold on Ed.

Ed kicked Envy in the stomach and crotched shortly after another hard.

"FUCKING RUNT." A sharp scream ripped through Envy's throat. He then dropped Edward and knelled over a bit over his abused organs, which gave Edward enough time to run out of the room.

He jumped down the stairs two at a time till he reached the bottom, he still didn't hear Envy so he ran to the kitchen and stuffed himself into one of the cupboards and breathed as quietly as he could. Hopefully Envy wouldn't find him he thought dully.

Envy was pissed off. He slammed open the door looking for his prey. He banged open all of the doors in the hallway to see if he was in them. He even asked all the others, but none of them even saw the pipsqueak. When he got to Lust's room, he nearly got stabbed for 'being rude'. Fuck if he cared. Greed was just as perverted as always so he punched him in the gut before he left for another room to search for the runt. When he ran into gluttony's room, he was a little afraid to see if Ed was being eaten by the chubby man. But he was eating some other human, how he got one he would never know. He shuddered at the thoughts that coursed through his mind at that and slammed the door to try another door from the hallway. Sloth was still with Lust so when he finally got to her room, he had to do a fast sweep of the room for the little chibi, before he left to try somewhere else. When he entered Pride's room, nobody was in there either, so he had to do another search in a room before he could leave. The midget wasn't in there so he left to try Wrath's room. Wrath was playing video games and kept yelling at him to shut up and leave so he had to pull the plug on the game to get an answer. Which caused Wrath to tackle Envy to the ground, but Envy quickly beat the shit out of him to get his information. The pipsqueak wasn't in there.

He wasn't upstairs, so Envy snarled and ran down the stairs three at a time and jumped the last five, landing with a heavy thud he ran across to the living room and checked all the usual hiding places Edward hid. Finding nothing he tried all the rooms of the house until he finally reached the Kitchen, still finding nothing, this was the last place.

He stopped in the middle of the kitchen carefully listening to any noises. He heard some soft breathing from inside the kitchen. He silently stalked to the door and locked it tight, so little Edward couldn't escape. He then followed the soft breathing to the counters. Envy shook his head a little, in a cabinet how simple. He could have found it before if he started here instead of every where.

He squatted down carefully, smirking, he pulled open the door in front of him with a solid grip a threw it open. Inside was a little, wide eyed Edward, he was huddled in the corner on top of all the pots. He flung his legs out trying to kick Envy, but Envy caught one of the thrashing legs in his direction as quick as lightning and started to tug him out of there. He quickly grabbed the other flailing leg and began to ease him out of his hiding place without letting him go as fast as he could manage.

Once Ed was out of there, Envy threw him over his shoulder lazily, he strode over silently to the phone. He clicked the button to replay the message.

… the message softly clicked, alerting that it was done. Distantly the grandfather clock was ringing to let everyone know that it was seven in the morning.

After the message played, Ed's thrashing ceased, he simply laid limply on Envy, sagging on his shoulder and just hanging off him, not even bothering to hold on, his arms dangled along with his head. He blinked back tears.

Envy loosened his hold on Ed, allowing him to get slid off him a little, but didn't release him the hold way in case he tried to run away again. He set Ed down on the floor and sat down beside him soundlessly, he gathered up the frail blond in his arms and allowed him to rest on him in a hug.

They sat there for hours while Envy petted Ed's silky hair, rubbed his back, and held him for comfort. He once in a while grumbled some comforting words. He didn't feel up to this, he didn't know what to do or act around the little blond. The small blond's hands were fisted around his clothing tightly as if Envy would disappear if he didn't hold on tight enough.

Envy was still unsure how to act around the blond in his pitiful state, so he just was going to be himself. He was stiff from sitting straight as a board for two hours, he leaned against the very cabinet he found his little chibi in.

"Hey chibi." Envy said a little bit obnoxiously, breaking the silence at last.

Edward looked up glassily from his perch in Envy's lap, nodding once stiffly before resting his head back on his breathing pillow that was Envy.

"You still have me ya know, I won't die with whatever you try to do to me. So your stuck with me till you die." He said cockily, tucking a hand under the shaky blond's chin and lifting it up so he could look at him straight in his eye.

The blond looked lifeless for a few seconds before acknowledging what he said in his mind. He then smiled weakly and burrowed back into his chest, wrapping his arms around Envy successfully pulling him in a tight hug.

"Thanks Envy" Ed said firmly but was muffled by Envy's turtle neck midriff shirt. The tiny blond shook his head roughly to clear the thoughts from his head and got off of Envy and stood up on his own two feet without the help of Envy. He could deal with this, he dealt with his bastard father leaving them and making there mom fall into depression. This was just a on a bigger scale… but he would move on some time.

"Come on… We have to tell Al."Ed tugged on Envy's arm.

Envy stood straight up at the sound of the key turning in the lock. Ed Froze shock still.

"Edward? Alphonse?" A familiar voice called out.

"Hohenheim." Ed growled as he's eyes darkened into a glare, clenching his hands repeatedly as the man he hated came into view.

"What do you want!" Ed cried out, more pissed then ever. The man probably just came for the money.

"Ed your mo-"

"I already know." Ed interrupted coldly. If glares could kill this man would be dead by now Envy thought humorly at that thought.

"…Oh. Does Al know?" He questioned, glaring back with equal force.

"…No." Ed shuffled his feet for a moment, he was about to speak up again but he heard feet running down the stairs. Al must have been coming down.

The grandfather clock rang, signaling that it was six in the morning.

"Nii-san! Nii-san! Me and mom forgot to give you your birthday present yesterday. Sorry it's not wrapped it just came in the mail yesterday morning." Al cried out while running into the kitchen with a red bundle in his hand.

Ed pouted a bit for a second. Why was everyone suddenly giving him cloths all the sudden, first with Envy giving him his all black attire, which he didn't take off yesterday from exhaustion, yesterday morning and now today with Al and the red cloths. His face softened immediately into a pitiful smile, though it was the last gift his mom would ever give to him, he would cherish it always he thought sadly. Damn he was going soft he thought after the whirlwind of emotions stopped… or into a girl.

Ed jumped slightly when Al's face suddenly popped up while a the red cloth was bunched up in to his face.

Ed grabbed it and examined it thoroughly. It was a big red trench coat that looked like it was made for an adult. It had a hoodie and the hospital symbol on the back of it. It looked amazing too, Ed smiled a little bit at it and tried it on, the bottom hem of it dragged on the floor and the sleeves were way too big for him. He pouted a little bit. "It's awesome… even if it's a bit big, thanks Al" he said firmly.

Al giggled a bit at that, but before he could utter anything Hohenheim opened his big mouth "Edward, why don't you go upstairs to bed… Me and Al need to talk about some things." He said obviously that something was wrong.

Ed rolled his eyes and was about to argue that he could do it himself but Envy was already dragging Ed inconspicuously out of the kitchen without drawing attention to Edo that he was forcing Ed out of the room, he then haul Edwardo up the stairs before he could say anything. Just so the squirming blond couldn't say anything he covered his mouth with his hand, to not get the others down stairs suspicious with anything the tiny blond could say.

He got him in their room without making a scene and through Ed on the bed for him to sleep.

"So do we have to go through this process again? Read a book or something or I will stuff milk down your throat too." Envy said cockily with a hand on his hip, his eyebrow raised to see if Ed would comply and go to sleep.

Ed huffed a little bit but then got a book that was stashed under the covers, he knew he was no match for him right now since he was emotionally tired already.

He could already sense Al's crying. So he tried to stay awake and keep reading to comfort him later but his eyelids kept getting heavier and heavier, why was this book so boring? It was probably because he woke up so early in the morning.

He soon fell asleep but not until feeling an strangely warm yet teary body snuggle next to him. He thought incoherently that it was Al and hugged him as he fell asleep. He would comfort him in the morning.