Let's keep this beginning bit short: RoyEd with a parental complex, both subtle and being shoved down your throat. There is angst in basically every character except my six-year-old OC; it's kind of insane. There is so much OOC-ness that it's unbelievable. You have to be careful or it will eat your soul. Literally.

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Aiden, Alphonse, and Gabriel entered Hooligan's together, one after the other. Aiden yawned.

"Tired?" Al asked.

"Yeah, and it's only the evening. Today was a long day." Aiden yawned again. "I might go take a nap. Would you mind watching Gabriel?"

"Not at all." Alphonse said. Aiden left the room yawned before Al turned to Gabriel. "Hey Gabriel, how does coloring sound?"

"Yay coloring!" Gabriel yelled. "You! Sit!" He commanded Al, and then ran to his room to get his coloring book and crayons.

Gabriel's only coloring book was simple—animals that went along with letters of the alphabet. Most of it was already colored, but Gabriel managed to find two pages that weren't. They might have been the last ones.

Gabriel decided that Al got the tiger and he got the monkey. The two of them laid the floor on their stomachs and began coloring. At some point, Al decided he was thirsty.

"Hey, Gabriel, I'm just going to go get a drink." He said. Gabriel nodded without looking up.

Alphonse found Raphael in the kitchen when he walked in.

"He nearly got that coloring book filled?" Raphael asked.

Al nodded as he filled a glass with juice he found in the refrigerator. "I think it is done, actually."

"Good. Now I know what to get him for his birthday." Raphael winked at Al, who smiled.

"Okay. Glad to be helpful." Al then drank his juice. "Well, I should get back to him."

"Okay." Raphael said. Al set his glass in the sink and walked back to the living room to Gabriel, who eagerly showed him a purple monkey.

A little while later, as he was coloring the background, Gabriel fell asleep. Al looked next to him to find Gabriel lying on top of his paper. He chuckled softly, and then picked up Gabriel to carry him to his bed. Al was surprised at Gabriel's weight—Ed made him look so light!

Once Gabriel was settled in, Al looked over at Aiden, who was apparently still taking his nap. Alphonse sighed. Apparently Aiden wasn't waking up any time soon.

Crawling in on the side that Aiden wasn't on, Al settled himself next to the other teen, and soon fell asleep himself.

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A/N: ...Wow. That seemed like such a pointless chapter when I could just skip to Gabriel's birthday. Well, there's going to be more happening later in the night. There. That was a teaser.
Well, its purpose was not actually to tease you.
It was to tell you why this chapter wasn't pointless. The problem is that I'm too tired to write anymore tonight (this was written last night).