A/N: It's me, back home once again (as much as that term has any meaning at this point) from house-sitting at Al's. Which was fun - I like being on my own a lot. It makes me look forward to college. I also got the chance to spend a ridiculous amount of money - I needed accessories for my laptop, and a digital camera for school, and then I got posters for my dorm room. And The Sims 2, which is how I spent the majority of the last three days - I downloaded a bunch of anime and game characters and played with them. I got Sims!L and Sims!Raito (Death Note) to have sex! Awesome. Anyway, ficcage - this is so emo! One of my "Ed and Roy have a truly dysfunctional relationship" series, and sort of a mirror to the last chapter - not the same incident, but how Ed deals when put in the same scenario Roy was before. Which is...not well. I don't think Ed copes with failure.

Disclaimer: I own (or will once they get delivered): a Naruto poster where he and Sasuke look like they are about to either kill each other or make out with each other, probably the latter, a Gackt poster where he looks as uber-sexy as he always does and has the world's most gorgeous hair, and a Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children poster with Cloud holding Kadaj in his arms that is the most beautifully awesome thing I have ever seen, all three of which will serve the important purpose of advertising to anyone that enters my dorm room that I am the world's biggest geek. I do not own FMA.


Dead

There is a moment when Roy turns away, his hand on the door; it would be so easy to just let him walk out. Ed knows if he did, it would be over, completely, unalterably dead, and it might be the wisest thing. Because it has been dying for a long time, and at least this would be quick. It would be better than more of this, more days of screaming and silence, anger and hatred, and the slow death of love.

But it has always been a flaw of Ed's that he cannot give up, even on the dead.


A/N: Please please please review! I know people are reading these, but they've been getting hardly any reviews, and it makes me paranoid. Don't encourage the Russian in my head!