When September Ends
By: Mustang'sBunny
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Gees. That's kind-of depressing when you think about it. And yes, the title is from the song "When September Ends" by Green Day. I thought it was a fitting title and "theme song" for this fan fiction. By the end you should understand, but really it has nothing to do with the story...
Oh, and please...NO FLAMES!
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Chapter Twenty: Snow
It was a snowy winter morning, and Central Command was buried under a blanket of white fluff. Of course, I tend to try and avoid the white snowflakes so my alchemy gloves don't get wet...
But Ed...
I looked out my window during the afternoon when everyone was in their offices, and saw Ed standing in the snow. Somehow, that day, I was able to look at him just a little more different than any other day. He looked around like he was going to steal a cookie from a jar, and before I could guess as to what he was up to, he flopped backwards into the white powder, and began to make a snow angel. He didn't know it at the time, but he and I were both grinning like idiots. He was so adoreable swinging his arms in the snow, that I doubt he even realized that I was watching him from my second story window. Then something happened that I couldn't have predicted.
I went down to join him.
I walked out the building as quietly as I could, luckily not drawing his attention until I fell down beside him and stared up at the slate gray sky that was shedding more white flakes.
"Bastard Colonel?!" he gasped.
He bolted up right, and was about to jump to his feet, but I pulled him back down with a yank.
"It's alright, Fullmetal. I won't tell anyone."
He didn't lay back down right away. Instead, he continued to watch me with those golden orbs that in time, seemed to brighten and warm my day upon looking into them. Suspision was clearly showing though in them, but he slowly and eventually laid back down, staring at the sky just like me.
"What are you doing out here?" he asked, his cheeks a ridiculous shade of pink that contrasted with the black outfit he was wearing.
"Joining you. I think that should be obvious, Edward."
Ed looked at me strangely then. And I looked back just as strange. What had I said that produced such a face?
"Say that again," he demanded, but not angrily like he usually did.
"Joining you?"
"No, the other thing."
"I think that should be obvious, Edward?"
"The last part."
His blush had intensified, and I realized it was the fact that it was one of the few times that I had actually called him Edward.
Not Fullmetal.
Not brat.
Not shorty.
Not migit.
Edward.
A beautiful name that seemed to roll off my tongue. It was true at the time I was just starting to notice him, but I never realized...
"Edward."
His blush blossomed into a deeper red, and I realized that he must have actually liked that. Me calling him by his name instead of his dog name was what he had wanted all along.
Both of us sat up, and continued to watch each other's next move. I wasn't sure how to go about talking with him, after all, it was just a little awkward...
But Ed, he was always a quicker thinker than myself. He watched me watch him, and figured that I had no idea what to do next. So, being the eccentric little genius...
He kissed me.
I was shocked at first to say the least, but I found myself accepting, and more than that, liking his cool lips touching mine. I leaned in, and I think I startled him. He hadn't been expecting me to like it.
So I made the kiss harder. I leaned in, pressing harder on him, until he was lying on his back. He had closed his eyes in the process, and was making a lovly moaning sound beneath me.
When I pulled away, he kept his eyes closed a couple minutes longer, almost like he was relishing the moment. After a while, he opened his eyes, and smiled at me. His smile was like none I had ever seen. It wasn't like his normal grins, or his smiles at the women or his elders that were only polite. This one was geniune, and very cute, yet shy.
"Did you like it, Edward?" I asked, wearing a small smirk.
He continued to smile, and leaned forward so his lips were close to my ears I could feel the vibration as he made the following words.
"That's all I ever really wanted, Roy."
I know...It was short...And kind-of cliche...Rrrrrr. I wanna continue with the actual story! I know you all want to know Ed's fate...
But I can tell you a couple things: Hughes will not die (I fear the wrath of Hughes fans...), Al won't die (hasn't he gone through enough?), and that there will be a sequel!