Gods

Ed threw the book away, nearly braining Jean in the process. "Damn, can't they find any original interpretations" he grumbled, more to himself than the exhausted blonde next to him.

"Maybe someone can't come up with an original idea" Havoc mumbled, yawning. "Maybe they've all been done..."

"Nonsense" Ed snapped, one part annoyance and three parts bluster. "There's always new ways of looking at things"

Jean lifted his head tiredly and gave him stare for stare. "You honestly believe that, don't you"

Ed found that question ludicrous. "Of course I do! There's no way that something as complicated as this doesn't have more than one interpretation."

Havoc's hand groped for a bit, trying to seek out the thrown book by touch. Ed seriously considered pouncing on that hand and maybe playing with it, but he scratched that. A tired and grumpy Jean fresh out of the office was not a playful Jean.

"Aegyptian Gods and Goddesses" Jean read out. "Well, there you go. Not much you can interpret about a really messed-up family like that."

Ed stared. "Come again"

"For pity's sake, Ed, don't give me that look. You know full-well yourself. One god married his sister, inherited the throne from their father, got killed by his jealous brother, dismembered, his penis got eaten by a fish, his wife glued everything back together (except the missing member) and somehow conceived a child." The taller man flung the book back. "Chapter seven in a nutshell. What on earth could you interpret about that? It's just a radically different mindset than ours."

Ed gaped. "How did you know that"

"Because, dipshit, it's in the public library. Esoteric crap like that is popular reading for professors that want to screw with our minds. I wrote a paper on Ra the sun-god." His eyes lazily drifted shut. "And how he and Isis are essentially the same... figure... in myth..." Jean drifted off into a peaceful nap.

Ed grinned ruefully down at the book. "Well, there goes me being Isis and him being Ra" he joked.

-

Sorry for taking so long! Things have started picking up in school, and I completely lost track of this. Gods is my concession drabble, more of "Hey! I'm still alive, pay attention to me" than anything else. And I apologize for the crap ending. I lost my train of thought, so I had to come up with something quick.

I'm also sorry for the horrendous punctuation for previous chapters. That wasn't me: ff(dot)net was eating my marks.