Groundwork
Havoc woke up to the continuous tink-tink of cheap metal against high-quality steel. He growled sleepily and turned over, dragging the blankets up over his head in a cocoon. Something slid around his neck and the tink-tink resumed.
"Nnnyergh... g'way, is still night..."
"You're just like a big, grumpy teddy bear," Ed's voice teased from on high. "Thanks for reminding me why I like you so much." The madding tink-tink continued.
Oh, fuck. "Dear God in Heaven, you mean that it wasn't a bad dream!" He tried to scramble somewhere other than where he was at that moment, but a quick haul from Ed firmly stopped that.
"Will you calm down? You act like you were a virgin," Ed nearly-snapped, pulling harder on the chain Havoc wore around his neck.
Havoc subsided at that, rubbing his throat. "Will you please let go of me?"
"No. You may be Roy's plaything, but you belong to me now, Jean." In a slightly mocking voice, Ed began to read his dogtags. "Jean Havoc, Captain, 3rd Infantry Division, number 40532. Jean Havoc, number 40532, sniper." The young man rubbed the two tags together between his automail fingers. "A sniper? I never would have guessed..." Ed pulled him closer with the chain and lightly bit the curve of his neck and shoulder.
"...I'm going to die of shame and a certain General who has an affinity with charcoal... sleeping with a man fourteen years my junior! What was I –"
"Calm down," Ed said again, gently. "It's not your fault. I always get what I want, no matter what I have to do. I'm stubborn like that. And if that idiot General thinks it's your fault, I'll convince him otherwise..."
"Damn."
"You know, one could almost assume that you're ashamed."
"Of course I am! I don't know what's going on anymore... you and Mustang are fighting with each other over me, and I don't..." he choked on his words.
"You're worth fighting for. I like you a lot, Jean."
"Please, if you're going to get friendship and sex screwed up, don't do it on my account."
"You think this is only about sex?"
"Well, you haven't really disabused me of that idea..."
