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11. Dreams

Greed is sitting by their smokeless fire, red eyes searching for threats. Ling is hovering just beneath him, using his dragon-pulse feeling ability to go with the homunculus' advanced senses (they're perfect humans, after all- and perfection and enhancement is nearly the same thing).

'Behind us, there's something.' Ling says, and Greed can hear soft footsteps. He almost prepares himself for an ambush, but realises that the odd noise is a dainty foot stepping down, coupled with a metal foot clanking, but still going as quietly as possible.

"S'up, Kitten? Why're you out of bed?"

The nickname of kitten was the latest substitute for kid, since Greed decided that 'kid' was un-feminine and utterly un-embarrassing and un-funny for anyone listening. So, since Ed is small and adorable and bite-y and has Lion-man running around like a surrogate parent, he calls her Kitten. She sometimes blushes when she hears it, sometimes takes it as a 'short' dig, sometimes sticks her tongue out; but mostly doesn't do anything. ("It's more personal than 'kid'" she replies, when he asks her out of curiosity why she'd stopped chasing him up trees with her hand-knife every time he calls her it. "And there's no way you're gonna stop, is there?" Now, it's all he calls her in public.)

She sighs, sitting down on the log next to him and gazing into the fire. "Dreams."
"Dreams?" He quirks an eyebrow, then scowls internally at Ling. 'Keep looking out for threats, you can look over this later, brat.'
She snorts. "Nightmares."
"Wanna talk about 'em?" He offers, knowing full well that she won't take him up on it. No-one really likes to talk about dreams and shit, they're too personal.

"Not really. It's just the normal ones, with Truth and Mum and Al and Nina." (She's lying, though Greed doesn't notice. It features people killing Greed until he dies, Ling going with him, the fight in Gluttony's stomach, Heinkel and Darius turning like Nina, and Al forsaking her because of the gender change.)

Greed sees flickers of Ling's memory of when she opened the gate, with the eye, and the feeling of being disassembled and reassembled. 'That was horrible enough. I wonder what she saw though, she was in there longer. And she's been there more than once.' Ling says, before quickly forcing his control over limbs and hugging Ed close.

She snuggles into his side, and even when Ling slides away, Greed stays.

A.N: Awww! Aren't they just the sweetest?!

Sorry that it's been so long, but it's push push push at school, and I've only just had a spare half-hour to get number twenty and twenty-one finished.

No requests this time, I'm just going to go through the five main ones for the next few drabbles, 'kay?

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed!

-Tom

[Thanks to Hyper V, Fluehatraya, Mini Hayden and Silence-That-Kills-Me for reviewing, and sorry I haven't replied.

I love you all in a wierd platonic non creepy way and I hope you forgive me for being late updating and not replying to you.

C:]