Title: The World According To
Author: S J Smith
Rating: Gen
Summary: Roy tells Ed some of the differences in his role facing the Homunculi.
Disclaimer: These are Hiromu Arakawa's characters, not mine. Drat it.
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"Let me get this straight." Edward looked as if he wasn't sure he could believe what Roy was saying. "You demoted yourself, and went to Briggs? Because of me. Rather than following your own ambition, and helping to fix the government and helping the citizens?"
When put like that, it sounded very self-indulgent.
"What did Captain Hawkeye say about this?" The expression the young man wore reminded Roy of someone who'd caught a whiff of a bad odor. "Tell me she tried to talk some sense into you!"
"She did. But after I recovered," Roy said slowly, "I needed time to think. Briggs seemed the best place."
Making a disparaging noise, Edward folded his arms. The jacket he wore hid the fact the right arm was weak, and not as muscular as the left. "Briggs is the best place to freeze your balls off. I don't know about anything else."
"I killed the Fuhrer. His son died in my arms. And then I faced Archer, who'd come back from what seemed like the dead in a nearly complete automail body." Roy took a breath. He couldn't say the bullet that took his left eye had ricocheted out of Archer's metal body, and had come from Hawkeye's gun. It wasn't just that he'd gone to Briggs because of Edward, but also because Hawkeye had changed after his recuperation. They'd gone from compatriots, to living closely together during his healing period, to their realization he'd survive, and didn't blame her – though she blamed herself. It seemed easier to take himself out of the picture for failing to save a child, and putting his adjutant in such straits.
Edward shook his head, saying almost to himself, "I need a tutorial to get through all these differences."
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A.N.: You are now caught up on all the chapters written for Brave New World. I have fragments that I need to whip into actual chapters, I'm hoping I can get to them soon. A new prompt also came out at Fanfic_Bakeoff that's got a couple of ideas churning around.
For those of you Ed/Winry fans, I'm hosting an art and fic contest at Live Journal, the 2011 Fire and Ice Contest: http: / fireandice2011. livejournal. com / - take out the spaces for the link. You are not required to have a Live Journal account to participate! Sign ups close September 4th, so if you're interested, go check it out!
Additionally, I'm hoping to finish my stories All the Flowers Growing Wild and Season of War this year, am participating in the FMA Big Bang, just completed FMA Ladyfest (I'll be posting that story shortly, it's Mei Chang-centric), FMA SlashFest (I can't post two of the stories I wrote for that here; they'll be at my sister account on Archive Of Our Own, under my pen name, Evil_Little_Dog), and am working on Springkink, Help Japan and Help The South stories I promised to do. Anything I write that's either been illustrated or is over a Teen-R rating is up at Archive of Our Own, as FFN has removed some of my stories for sexual/violent content in the past. The link to AO3 is: http :/ / users / Evil_Little_Dog / pseuds /Evil_Little_Dog. Be sure to remove the spaces for the link.
Aaaand...now I have actual work I need to do. Hope you continue enjoying my writing, and for those of you celebrating, have a safe and fun Labor Day!
