Part Two
Chapter Two
Old meetings can become new meetings
Edward thought 8:00 P.M would never come. He was nearly banging his head against the wall around seven. Alphonse helped him pack for the weekend and scolded him for screaming at the top of his lungs ("EIGHT DOESN'T EXIST"). He left a couple minutes before eight, well more like 15 minutes before eight. He opened the auditorium doors and saw that a dark haired man around 20 years of age sat on the stage, looking like he was waiting for someone.
"Hey!" Ed called up to the man who seemed spaced out. Ed blinked. The man seemed familiar to him. The man blinked a couple times and looked down at him. "Sorry, hello, has anyone else come in yet?" The dark haired man said in a deep and exotic voice. "No, not yet, are you waiting for someone?" Edward asked as he looked the man up and down. The man wasn't that bad looking. His dark short hair covered the base of his nape, and his dark eyes fascinated Edward. They were so mysterious. He also thought the man had a good sense of color in clothing, casual black jeans and a button up navy shirt with the first three buttons undone, with black sneakers. "Yes, am I that obvious? We agreed to meet five minutes before everyone got here and I came a half an hour early." Edward blinked then laughed. "Wow, who'd thought you'd come this early as well" The man blinked then smiled, laughing with the blonde. "You're him, then, stranger."
"Roy Mustang, Blonde." Roy smiled as he hopped off of the stage. "Edward Elric." The blonde took Roy's hand into his smaller one. "It'd figure you'd be the person who was on chart one in the top ten." Roy smirked and admired the smaller man. Golden hair matching the golden eyes, dressed in black leather pants, black long sleeved shirt, and white gloves. "You're the person who set the science lab on fire." Ed smirked. "Hey, they got over it." He's really short... Roy thought as he noticed the major height difference. Edward came partially up to Roy's chest. They both jumped as the doors opened, there stood Maes Hughes. "ROY! OH BUDDY!" He cheered, carrying in his own backpack.
"Damn." Roy muttered under his breath, making Ed laugh. "A friend of your's?" Roy glared at Ed, then nodded. "This is going to be so great! Imagine! A house were the world's greatest hero's of the 1920's disappeared!" Maes smiled, then noticed Ed. "Hello! I'm Maes Hughes!" He shook Ed's hand. "Edward Elric." Maes gave him a big smile and pushed a photo of his girlfriend in his face. "Isn't she just the finest lady you've ever seen!" Edward nodded and was releived as Maes started showing Roy a new 'album' of pictures.
As Roy and Maes were distracted with photos, Edward watched as several people entered the auditorium. Some he recognized from his own classes, like Cain Fury and Breda (Which he wasn't so sure about either), and then came Jean Havoc, Riza Hawkeye, and a professor from the Paranormal Wing. The professor was a tall.(..abnormally tall... Edward thought.) female with cold eyes, she smiled at Edward and walked over to him. "Hello Mr. Elric, I'm Susan Parker. I'll be the professor supervising this 'project'." Edward shook the cold hand of Professor Parker. "I'm pleased to meet you, Professor."
After everyone was introduced, they all took a seat in the empty auditorium. Ed stole glances at Roy as the professor started to explain the group goals. Ed leaned back in the seat looking up at the hologram screen that show the very old looking house. "This is were we will be staying for the next three days. We will not be able to leave once the caretakers leave. This is a very deserted area now. The closest town is a good 20 miles away." The screen switched images and the inside of the house was shown.
"There are several rooms, we each assigned one of you to each room. This is the Blue room." A picture of a giant bed with silken sheets and blankets, blue rugs, and blue walls with tasteful art hanging on them came into veiw. "Roy Mustang, You are assigned to this room. This is the Red Room." A picture of a bright red room with a giant bed in black satin covers and pillows followed the pervious image. The rugs were a blood red and had different Alchemic arts in the room. There were bookshelves of what could only be assumed to be Alchemy texts. "Edward Elric, you are assigned to this room. This is the yellow room. Assigned to it is Breda..." Edward looked at Roy, he seemed so familiar to him. He dismissed it as seeing him sometime at the college, and from talking with him everyday through the Internet.
Ed looked in time to see the 'Mirror room' which was assigned to Riza Hawkeye. He marveled at the designed mirrors that hung around the room, almost making everything look like an optical illusion. The 'Smoking room' which seemed for visitors who smoked, which went to Jean Havoc. There was an 'Animal room', which he decided Al would have loved. Gotta take a picture of that room for Al. "...Outside there is a garden maze, where the 'heroes' bodies were found in the 1920's. I must warn you. That garden is off limits...the caretakers do not want anyone going in there. The rotating library, as you can guess, rotates. So as your in there don't be surprised if it starts spinning. I also must remind you, there is very very low technology. There will be no cell phones; you won't get any signals, no computers, no vocal commands, and there are no working land phones." The speech was finished of with the history of the house.
The story of the house bored him nearly to death. He yawned as everyone starting to get up, heading to a huge beaver bus. Roy sat down next to him on the bus. "Do you know how weird it is to be talking to you in person?" He laughed as Roy wiggled his eyebrows. "Yeah... you're right about your friend, Maes. He's totally crazy about his girlfriend though, that's cute." Ed smiled, making the other man laugh. "Cute? I'd say obsessed." Ed leaned against the window, smirking at the other man. "I'd love it if I had a ...uh girlfriend that obsessed over me. It's nice to know that their thinking about you all the time" He watched at the other looked over to him thoughtfully with a certain regretful look in his eye.
Ed felt a blushed spread across his face and looked down. He couldn't deny that Roy was hot. Hell, he was the hottest man he seen ever, since he left the middle east. He could never find any women attractive. So he was gay, but he was scared to admit it. Sure, people weren't as prejudice as they once were towards homosexuality, but some places were harsh to live in if you are gay. Gay. That is so lame. Gay means to be happy or over joyed. God, and fagot means a pile of sticks...do I look like a stick? Ed sighed then noticed Roy was staring and smiling at him. He blushed brightly and looked away. Damn it, why is he staring at me!
Roy raise an eyebrow as he saw a blush appear on the blonde. He smiled and leaned on the blonde, closing his eyes. He knew the shorter man was probably blushing even brighter then it was before. But hell, Edward made a great pillow.
Edward walked into the beautiful manson; he was in awe by the arrays. The professor laughed behind him. She leaned over his shoulder and smiled coldly. "I'm glad you like the sights. Everyone, I'll show you all to your rooms now." The professor walked down the carefully cleaned hallways, and opened the doors to the red and blue rooms. "These rooms are connected, so you two will be sharing a bathroom. Enjoy tonight, you get to learn the 'stories' of deaths in these rooms tomorrow." Yep. That made him feel very welcomed. Ed sighed and looked at Roy, then went into his giant room.
He jumped onto the fluffy bed. "OH MY GOD! This is so comfortable!" He shouted and cuddled into the silky sheets. He whined when he had to get out of the bed to strip out of his clothing but settled right back in afterwards.
Roy laughed when he heard the other man scream in joy. He put on his blue pajamas and settled into the blue sheets and kept the reading light on to read one of the books he brought with him. He couldn't help but think about the blonde. He looked up at the celling...for a brief moment. He thought he saw a face. He shook his head and looked up again. Just my imagination. He laughed lightly, then really felt uncomfortable in the room.
Let's answer everyone's question here...Yes they are recarnations of the Characters. It saves time answering all reviews indiviually. What will they fall in love again... well read to find out! I'm not going to ruin the surprize!