Don't Forget
By: Hakai
Disclaimer: I Hakai don't own anything Fullmetal Alchemist related. They belong to their respectful owners. Beware bad writing skills.
A/N: Thanks for all the comments guys! Sorry this chapter took so long to come out! Please enjoy, if you even remember what happened before this. Because I sure don't! XD
Set post-series, restored Al, Roy/Ed, Winry/Al, one-sided Envy/Ed
Chp. 7 - Toganin - Offender/Criminal
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Finding an ultra, hyper, super, small alchemist in the middle of Central City was even harder then it sounded, as Colonel Roy Mustang soon discovered. Why had he volunteered to find someone who didn't remember him and probably didn't even want to see him?
Oh, that's right. It was because he was in love. Roy snickered as he adjusted the white flint gloves. The Flame Alchemist had always heard that love could make people do funny things. Unexpected things. Things that just had no reason at all. But was he really in love? He loved Edward. They never had to verbalize it, but each knew in their heart what the other felt. With many of the woman he had dated in years past, they were always eager for confessions of love. But not Ed. That was another thing he had liked about his relationship with the young alchemist. Talk was cheap, and they both knew it. "Show me, don't tell me" had always been their motto. But to be 'in love', to Roy, implied that one loved and was loved.
The braided blonde had forgotten about him. Forgotten about his feelings towards his superior. Forgotten him so completely that they were no more then strangers. But even if Ed had forgotten how he once felt, Roy remembered. Roy felt his heart tighten whenever he saw the golden-eyed youth. Knowing the Edward was so close to him, and yet so far out of his reach, was simply too much for him to even think about.
"I should just go angst in a corner." Roy chuckled to himself. Half of him, however, wished he could do that. The mushy, romantic, half wanted to go in a corner and cry until Edward came to comfort him. As if that would ever happen.
Like a knife to the heart, Roy's thoughts were torn away from him by a piercing scream. A name flickered past his mind. Edward. In a flash the Flame Alchemist, Colonel Roy Mustang, was on his way to the aide of an unknown person from an unknown place. But he promised himself, if it was Ed he found there, he'd tell him those words that he couldn't say before. Those words that had little importance, but so much meaning.
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"Al!" Winry greeted excitedly as she gestured Al into the small apartment she was currently sharing with Scieszka.
"Where's Scieszka-san?" Al asked looking around.
"She has some work to do. She'll be back later." Winry explained closing the door. "Have a seat, Al. Your pie's just about ready."
"Our pie." The blonde boy corrected taking a seat.
Winry smiled at him before going into the kitchen. "Our pie." She agreed.
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Ed wiped his mouth of the vomit that had escaped him. Had he screamed before he passed out? He couldn't remember anymore. Envy had been hurting him and threatening him… and then what? He was pretty sure he'd fainted somewhere in the middle of that. But what had the Homunculi been doing while he'd slept? The Fullmetal Alchemist shuddered. He didn't want to think about it.
"Oh? Awake already?" Envy asked taking a seat in front of Edward.
"What do you want?" Ed scowled as he tried to haul himself upright. When he had finally gotten into a sitting position he chanced a glance and Envy. It was almost eerie how he could stare almost innocently at him when Ed knew he was definitely plotting something of the opposite nature. "What?! I kept your secret. I didn't tell anyone you're still alive! Now let me be."
The black-haired being seemed to be pondering this thought as he liked his lips. "No. Let you go back to your brother? Let you be happy with him? I can't let you do that."
"Why not?" Ed caught himself before it came out as a plea. "If it's about the Philosopher's Stone, I don't have it anymo-"
Envy placed a finger on Ed's lips, signaling him to be quiet. The teen unwillingly obeyed. "It's not that."
"What then?" The alchemist demanded jerking away from the black-clothed man.
Envy licked his lips again. "Normally, I'd say 'you'," Ed flinched as Envy moved to hover over him. His voice was caked with lust. But the next words that came out of his mouth shocked the young alchemist. They were almost… wistful. "but I know I can't have you. Equivalent trade and all. You let me live, I let you be with your lover."
"Then, why-"
Envy hushed him with rough kisses along his neck. "How can I keep my end of the bargain," He bite Ed's shoulder and the blonde winced. "if you don't remember who your lover is?"
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"Here you go!" Winry said placing the slice of fresh, warm, home-baked apple pie in front of her childhood friend.
"Thank you." Al said looking rather downcast at the pie laid before him.
"What's the matter, Al? I promise I didn't poison it." Winry joked trying to lighten the mood.
Alphonse managed to crack a smile at that. Scooping a piece of the dessert into his mouth his smile began to broaden. "Winry! This is good!" The mechanic beamed. "Almost… too good…"
Winry blinked at the younger blonde sitting before her. "Al?"
"I'm sitting here and eating delicious pie made by Winry-chan, when I'm not even sure if Nii-san is alive!" Al choked out staring at his hands. "How can I be so selfish?!" He yelled startling the blue-eyed girl.
Winry shook her head as she cut herself a piece of pie. "You sounded so confident about letting the Colonel find him this afternoon."
"I've had time to brood." Al stated with a weak chuckle.
The chair scraped against the wood floor as Winry stood up. "Alphonse. You're a very caring little brother, and you have every right to worry about him. But, Al," And the grey-eyed boy was shocked to find himself embraced by the soft, caring arms of the girl he loved. "you have to trust the Colonel to find him. You have to trust Edward to come back to you."
"I do trust him." Al said choking back tears.
"Then don't worry so much." Winry instructed standing back. "Besides, Edward would be furious to know you're beating yourself up over him."
Al chuckled whipping his eyes of moisture. "You're right."
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"WHO'RE YOU CALLING TOO SHORT TO HAVE SEX WITH?!" Edward hollered sitting in the colonel's office, on his couch, wrapped in nothing but a blanket.
Roy smirked at his subordinate, and newest lover. "I never said that." He said pretending to be offended.
"You said," Ed preparing to go into his mocking-the-colonel voice. "What's this? I seem to have lost Edward. Perhaps-" But the teen's mocking was cut short by said Colonel reaching over the desk to pull Ed into a hungry kiss.
"By the way, Fullmetal." Roy said letting Ed's lips go, but not his collar. "You do realize the whole office probably heard you holler?"
Ed blinked golden eyes at his superior before the statement made connection with his brain. When it did, there was only one thing to say about it. "Shit!"
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Roy almost found himself chuckling at old memories that begged to resurface. He shook his head. No. Not now. Right now he had a task at hand.
Roy kicked open the door to the warehouse. It always had to be a warehouse, didn't it. "Edwa-- Fullmetal!" The raven-haired man called as his eyes fell on a familiar blonde head sitting in the far corner. He almost smiled with relief. Almost. "Fullmetal. Are you injured?"
"You don't care about me." The braided-blonde stated not looking up.
"Excuse me?" Roy asked cautiously.
"You don't care about me! Do you, Roy?!" He appeared to be physically unscathed, for the most part. But the tone in his voice suggestion other kinds of damage.
"Fullmetal," Roy continued ignoring the golden-eyed boy before him. "where did your assailant go?"
"Who?"
"I'll get straight to the point." Roy said roughly grabbing the other by his collar. "Where is Envy?" Golden-eyes widened for a second before instantly narrowing into a glare. Roy sighed letting loosening his grip. He obviously wasn't going to get anything out of the boy today. "Fine. Just come with me. I'll take you back to headquarters. We can talk later."
But those words fell on none but himself. Standing alone in the empty warehouse he slumped to the ground and did something he didn't know he knew how to do. Flame Alchemist, Colonel Roy Mustang, began to cry. "That's right." He choked out. "Go away. Forever…"
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A/N: ack! I was kind of hopping for a longer chapter. -shrugs- oh well. At least I wrote it, right? Anyway, Roy angsting, Al angsting, I think everyone pretty much angsting. l0l. I think I know what to do for the next chapter, so hopefully it'll come out faster. But as always, review do speed up the process! XD. There's a flashback stuck in there somewhere. I hope you realized that! Sorry…