another short little ed and hohenheim snippet. they have been getting along rather well lately...i think hoho killed the angst!bunnies or something... -fireun
Hohenheim opened the door, hung his coat, turned to greet Edward, and stopped dead.
Of all the things he had expected to encounter, Edward settled at the kitchen table, talking quietly to a young man who was pouring over a veritable mountain of texts had not even crossed his mind. Edward just wasn't much of a social creature.
But Hohenheim had to concede that seeing him smiling crookedly as the youth beside him tried to work out a particularly complicated bit of arithmetic, was somewhat…endearing.
Edward glanced up at him with a glare that very clearly stated 'say anything and you are so very dead' before flicking his attention back to the studious young man. Hohenheim decided that he might as well settle as unobtrusively as possible in his usual chair and relax with the paper. At least until the unexpected visitor left and he could figure out just what his errant son was up to.
"Alright, that should be enough for today, Erik." Ed declared, stretching, wincing a bit as stiff muscles groaned to life and joints popped in protest of the movement.
The young man, Erik, gathered his booked, handed Edward a handful of marks, and left with a polite nod of the head in Hohenheim's direction.
The sound of the door closing hadn't completely faded before Ed and Hohenheim both attempted to speak at the same time.
"What, pray tell, was that all about?"
"I took up tutoring."
Hohenheim blinked at a defensive looking Edward. "You what?"
"Took up tutoring." He glared at his father, ready for a fight. "Someone has to work for a living around here."
Hohenheim threw Edward completely off his track my flashing a wide smile. "You make an excellent teacher." The smile broke into a full, belly-shaking laugh as Edward flushed slightly at the unexpected compliment.
"I 'm going for a walk." He huffed, shoving his chair across the floor as he stood, irritated at his own embarrassment.
"Have fun." Hohenheim called, chuckling as Edward slammed the door shut behind him, a proud little smile on his face as he watched his son stomp off.