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9. Drink

Alcohol is an accepted part of their little routine. Heinkel has his brandy, straight from the hipflask he keeps in one of the pockets of his coat. He sips it when Darius is being difficult and over-compensating (which, although he loves the guy like a brother, he can admit happens far too often); when Greed is being obstinate and particularly irritating about his past -and how often does this happen? That's right, too damn often, in his opinion-; or when Ed is being Ed. Really, she should just take all her crazy-ass alchemy, and put it somewhere (maybe then he'd get somewhere in his self-defence-without-relying-on-alchemy-is-really-serious lectures) and stop all her 'life is important!' speeches when they're trying to teach her to survive (how to kill, how to maim, how to get away -it's in her own interests after all).

Greed drinks whatever he can get hold of. He's not sure whether he does it to remember (a little pub in the bad side of Dublith called Devil's Nest) or to forget (I killed them, I lost them, they were stolen, I forgot them, I remember them, I've replaced them, stop, rewind, replay). He's the one that visits the seediest bars, goes to hookers and bullshits his way into getting drugs. He doesn't do it that often (and everyone's thankful of that - a drunk, emotional, hung-over, high, off-his-face homunculus, while funny, is really rather dangerous).

Unfortunately for Greed; due to his head-mate going off and getting pissed, Ling is often able to retake his body. It works for him, allowing him to take control of their body and fight off Greed's hangover (it's Greed that went out to gutter crawl, not Ling, so it's Greed that gets most of the effects, luckily.) , and conversing with the little gang of people they've got, plaiting Ed's hair and swapping stories, going into debate about politics with Heinkel, and learning about culture from Darius (he's a secret geek, and Ling finds it far too amusing). But Ling also has to deal with Greed's memories and rants and experiences, and while he can say that he's a typical teenage boy, he really, really didn't need to partake in such things (even if secretly he wants to, and has concubines to help back in Xing, whom he misses from time to time).

Ed and Darius play poker and nursemaid, never drinking themselves, letting the others do the drinking for them. Someone's got to look after them, after all.


A.N: I can't think of anything to say after this one, apart from LING! 8D I haven't had much oppurtunity to write more than a line or so for him, so this is awesome.

Back to school today, so I'll do one more this evening, and then you'll have ten and I'll have twenty and I can go on and write a birthday ORIGINAL FIC for my friend, involving ninja pirates and idiots and alcohol.

No, I don't get it either.

Any requests for characters, mini-plot lines, hell, even ships; as well as any requests for AUs, fusions and cross-overs are taken and much appreciated.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed!

-Tom

{Thanks to Fluehatraya, Hyper V and Mini Hayden for reviewing - they all make my day!
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