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Chapter 7- Sleep

"Orchid get up." I awoke to a female voice and a hand shaking my shoulder. "Come on Orchid. You're late as it is. I had to come back home from HQ just to get you. Now get up!" I came to realize that the voice was Riza's.

"UGH!" I grunted pushing myself off of the bed.

"Get ready and I'll meet you at Central command." Riza murmured slightly angered.

"Yeah, Yeah." I muttered getting out of bed and walking over to my closet.

I slide into my usual military attire and ran to HQ.

"Eternal!" I heard an all too familiar voice yell.

"Fuhere." My body straightened up and my heavy breathing began to subside.

"What are you so late?" He asked clearly angry.

"I was sleeping."

"Ugh. Get to work."

And with that I went into my office to see a pile of paperwork waiting for me. "Gah! Every freaking day! Paperwork! Paperwork! Paperwork!"

"Sounds like somebody's a little mad." Alphonse chuckled as he walked into my office.

"Damn right I am! I was sleeping just fine until Riza woke me up and made me come here!" I plopped down in my desk chair and grabbed a pen to start filling out the papers.

"Oh god forbid you don't get a full ten hours of sleep." Al chuckled to himself rolling his eyes.

"I only got about four, Al." I grumbled giving him a death glare. "I didn't get home until five." My eyes widened once I realized what I had said.

"Out again?"

"Yeah." I looked down at the papers in front of me.

"Just be careful."

"I always am." I permitted him a smile.

He returned the smile and sat down in the wooden chair in front of my desk.

Al was always good company. I remembered when I was little and I had a cold he'd come to see me. He would sit by my bed and tell me stories of him and his brothers adventures. That would always make me feel better. He was almost like my twin in a way. Sure we weren't the same age or even look alike but we knew almost everything about each other.

Al's birthday was February 3rd. He loved all seasons and was easily fascinated. He never took anything for granted and was generally a happy guy. His eyes were green and could never truly hate anyone, no matter how much he tried.

Threw out the day Al kept me company and chatted nonchalantly with me.

"Do you remember the first time we met?" He had asked me.

I smiled at the fond memory. "How could I forget?"

"I just thought of it now for some reason. You were so little." He smiled.

"I was six. Of course I was little. What were you…fifteen?" I giggled.

"Yeah. I can't believe it's been nine years. So much has changed."

"I know I'm not even human anymore and your twenty- four now." I sighed. "Were getting old." I stuck out my tongue.

"Well one of us is. You'll stay this way forever."

"Ew. Forever."

Around six I got done with the damn paperwork and dropped it off at Roy's office. Roy and Riza walked home with me.

"You guys were done rather early." I stated.

"Yes. It's nice." Roy added.

"We actually wanted to get a Christmas tree if that was okay with you." Riza said a clear smile in her voice.

I turned around, beaming with a huge smile spread wide across my face.

"I take that as a yes." Roy laughed.

We choose a big one. It touched the ceiling in the living room and the ceiling was pretty high. We needed a latter to string the lights on. Roy had started a fire in the fire place and chatted quietly with Riza and I while we decorated the tree with the ornaments we fished out of one of the many storage closets in this house.

As much as I would have absolutely love to do this with my real mom and dad, I was having fun, there was no denying that. Riza always made Christmas fun.

Roy and Riza went to sleep around ten but I stayed in the living room with the tree lights glistening as I sipped hot coffee in front of the fire place. The flames were almost therapeutic, captivating. They help my complete attention until they burned all the wood and went out. I shut the tree lights off and took a quick shower before walking to my bed room.

I opened the door and just about jumped out of my skin when I saw Envy there lying on my bed, his hands behind his head like it was a normal thing for him to be here.

"Holly hell! You scared me."

I than realized what I was wearing. A towel. A single towel, with my hair almost dry hanging around me. I blushed making my way over to my closet and grabbing a set of clothes.

"I'll be right back." I informed him, rushing back to the bathroom.

Once I slid into my black bra and matching panties, blue tank-top and white and black plaid short shorts I scampered back to my room to see Envy once again on my bed.

"Hmm." He hummed sitting up. "I think I liked the towel better."

I rolled my eyes and flopped down on my stomach next to him. He laid back down and rolled onto his side, propping his elbow up and resting his head in it.

"How long have you been here?" I asked quietly so I wouldn't wake Riza and Roy.

"Since you got in the shower." He answered. "I was tempted to surprise you in the shower."

I smirked just as he did.

"Were you planning on coming to see me tonight?" He asked.

"Yes. I was going to leave after getting dressed."

We stayed quiet for a while and I realized my eye lids were slowly closing and I was drifting off.

"Orchid." Envy said in a sing-song-voice, poking my cheek.

I opened my eyes. "Sorry. I haven't been getting that much sleep."

"Its okay. It's may fault. I've been keeping you up at night." He said putting an arm around my ribs and pulling me close.

"It's not …*yawn*…you fault. I was the one who left the house." I said snuggling into his chest.

I fell asleep quickly.

(time skip)

My eyes fluttered open and saw Envy's sleeping face inches from mine. I sat up and looked at my alarm clock. It was eleven.

"God damn it!" I cursed. "I'm late again."

"No you're not." Envy grumbled, half asleep. His arm, still around me, pulled me back down on the bed. "Riza came in with Roy. They decided to give you the next three days off." He said with his eyes still shut.

"Uh…and where were you when they were in my room?" I asked trying my best to stay calm.

"Outside your window."

I sighed in relief. My mind couldn't even begin to fathom what would have happened if they had seen Envy. Much less Envy, in bed, with their adoptive daughter, the daughter that said she had killed that very homunculus.

"Ahh. Three whole days off." I closed my eyes. "When's the last time I had three days off?" I asked myself.

I rolled over under Envy's grasp to face him. Now his eyes were open.

"Good morning." He said quickly kissing my forehead.

"Morning." I smiled back to him. "Is it weird for you to be up during the day?"

"No, not so much. I only sleep about half of the day. I don't need as much sleep as humans do." He explained with a smirk.

"Ha! I do if not more."

He pulled me closer, eliminating any and all space between me and his chest. I stayed there for a while, content. But, my stomach had to ruin it but letting out a quiet gurgle.

"Hungry?" He chuckled.

"Mhm."

He jumped out of my bed and slung me over his shoulder. I couldn't help but giggle. He walked down the stairs and threw the dining room and finally into the kitchen. He set me down.

"That's another difference." Envy said. "Homunculi don't eat but you do."

As I walked over to one of the refrigerators I asked, "What other differences have you noticed?"

"Well you don't have an Ouroboros tattoo." He pointed out.

"Nope but I do have this." I said pulling my shirt up to reveal the Japanese symbol for eternal life. "Only five, now six beings know about it."

"An than there's the eyes." Envy added.

"And you can change forms." I said.

"How we were created is different."

"Yes. Ed and Al have told me how homunculi are created."

Deciding there was nothing I wanted from the fridge I moved to a cupboard. I took out a package of pop tarts and tore it open. I rested against the counter.

Sighing, I said, "When I was dead, I was very confused, I was in a white space. It couldn't even be described as a room. It was endless, endless white." I bite in to the pop tart and after swallowing it I began talking again, "I saw Truth there. He explained to me that I was dead. Before he could tell me anything else the gates behind me opened and black hands pulled me back in. I woke up in the center of a transmutation circle, my father gone and mother going insane."

"Wow. You've had it pretty rough." Envy stated slightly surprised.

"Yeah well your one to talk. Am I wrong?" I raised one eye-brow and took another bite of the sugary breakfast.

"Well when I woke up in this new life I remembered nothing from my past life. Absolutely nothing. Father told me what I was and what I was supposed to do. I did as I was told and after he died, I left our HQ. Homunculi HQ was actually under military HQ." He looked to me.

"I know." Ed and Al had told me this.

"I got the name Envy because I was jealous of humans."

That weird from the stories I have heard Envy seemed to absolutely hate humans.

"You're the first person I've told that too." He said looking down at his feet.

"You're the first person I've told my story too." I murmured walking over to him and kissing his lips lightly.

ANOTHER QUICKISH UPDTAE. W00T! DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN FMA: BROTHERHOOD EPISODE 27 WILL BE ON ADULTSWIM?