You know, I was going to save posting this for tomorrow and go to sleep (or write drabbles for another hour, heh) but then I was aimlessly poking around and found something that absolutely made my day (er, night). I didn't realise it before, but Heavensdarkestshadow and Sparky the Invisible Pyro added me to their favorites lists. -hugs- Thank you all! I feel so giddy right now, lol...so, I'm posting this and one more drabble tonight.
I don't think I said this before, but if you find any typos or inconsistencies or general flaws in my writing please tell me so I can fix it, kay?
Fragment of a Second
Dedicated to Heavensdarkestshadow and Sparky the Invisible Pyro, because they are so cool.
This a continuation of Promise, so the same warnings apply, mostly having to do with the end of the anime spoilers and shounen ai, lol.
To his credit, Roy Mustang hardly batted an eye when one very soaked and bloody Edward Elric appeared on his doorstep, in the pouring rain, after going missing for three years, with the unmoving body of his younger brother over his shoulder.
The surprise and shock didn't even register until he had ushered them both in, gotten Alphonse settled in the guest room and seen Edward take off his coat, revealing two pale, flesh limbs. Even then, he had kept his composure, letting Ed tell him what had happened, not interrupting or uttering a sound until the end, when he offered the younger alchemist a room for the night.
He didn't even falter when he walked into the other guest room with a change of clothes, to find Edward sitting on the bed, clad only in his boxers. Nor when he felt the other man staring at him intently as he set the spare articles of clothing at the foot of the bed.
The single, solitary time that Roy Mustang, just might have let his mask slip, in one, miniscule fragment of a second – betrayed by an imperceptible widening of his dark eyes – was when Edward smiled coyly at him from the bed and asked, if he would braid his hair for him.
It was good to know, Roy pondered as he felt Edward's long, silky hair slip unresistingly through his fingers, that Ed really hadn't changed that much at all.
…Although he was considerably taller now.
--Owari--