Title: One Moment

Summary: All it takes is one moment to change everything. AU, Drabbles.

Chapter Title: The UnReveal

Straightening up from his position of sitting on the bed, Hohenheim cast his son a confused look. "What do you mean?" he asked, though he was almost a hundred percent sure he knew what the boy was talking about.

Envy, too, realized what his dad was doing, and snarled, faint tears evaporating. "Don't play dumb! How were you able to bring me back, when no one else could?" He sounded quite irritated, and began to pace, scowl firmly in place. "I looked in every book, eavesdropped on conversations, and absolutely no one has been able to bring back people from the dead!" With that, he pivoted, finger pointing right at his dad with anger in his eyes, most likely a substitute for the vulnerability he was probably feeling. "So what the hell did you do?"

Hohenheim sighed, before letting out a self-deprecating shrug and a sheepish smile. "Your old man is just good at Alchemy?" he told him, making the statement into a question.

His son's eyes narrowed. "Bull. Shit." Still, it went a bit to diffuse the tension, and the father felt that he had done at least something right with that statement.

"I'm not going to tell you." Envy's eyes flashed, and his mouth opened to probably argue and yell some more, but Hohenheim held up his hand, and the boy, perhaps realizing the seriousness of the situation for once, snapped his jaw shut. "I will, eventually, but not until it's absolutely necessary." Sensing the fact that his son was going to continue to argue, the Alchemist threw out his trump card. "Or when Dante's out of the picture."

Argument halting in place, as they often did whenever the boy's mother was brought up, Envy's expression changed towards unhappy understanding, though there still was a hint of rebellion in his face. "…Fine," he muttered, turning away. "But I'm holding you to that." As if he had expected anything less.

Word Count: 321 Words

A/N: …And nope, Envy's not gonna find out that easily. In fact, he's not gonna find out for a long time. Anyway, this little 'mini-arc' is over, and it's back to our regularly scheduled fluff on Tuesday. C: And score, up to chapter 25! And we're maybe a third through this? Tops?