Title: I Thought I Knew You

Author: Ari

Warnings: Stupidity,

Disclaimer: I…Have a dream! And in this dream…all anime is mine! And unless God himself decides to bless me, for some unknown reason, my dream will never come true! BUT! I can still dream and you can't stop me!

Notes: COOKIES AND SMACKS! You'll understand later…

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Chapter 10:

Sickly Bile

"I love…chocolate." Sora mumbled quietly. Fayt snorted from his seat, and them swore as milk went up his nose. "Something funny, Fayt? Something wrong with liking chocolate?" he glared at the man across the room.

Fayt, on the other hand, shook his head. "No! No of course not! It was just…so…cliché. Of all the things to say, you pick chocolate?" he smirked again and looked back down at his cup.

"Riku…gave me the first chocolate I'd ever had…for my tenth birthday."

"Tenth?" Fayt cried. "The first time you had chocolate was when you were ten?" Fayt couldn't help the rudeness, he was completely shocked.

"We grew up together on a really small island that didn't have chocolate. Well, some boats stopped in once to pick up some supplies, and they had some chocolate with them. I really wanted some, but my Mother said no, since we didn't really have much money at the time. I was sad, but not too badly, I understood." He paused and smiled a little, getting lost in the memory. "The next day was my birthday, and Riku brought a bag to my house, it wasn't wrapped, and inside was a bar of chocolate. I think it was the best present I've ever gotten."

"I'm sorry for laughing. I didn't know." Fayt paused. "I like tea." He offered. Sora grinned and shook his head.

"That's almost as cliché as chocolate." He giggled. Fayt shrugged with a large grin.

"Yeah, I suppose so. I didn't always like tea, until I came here and Albel started pouring it down my throat. Now, it relaxes me."

Sora nodded, a content smile on his face. "Just like me and Riku. Again." He cracked open an eye to look at Fayt. "You two are way too similar to me and Riku. It's starting to creep me out."

"My story is nothing like yours." Fayt pointed out.

"Whatever you say, Fayt."

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"Excuse me." A woman's voice came over the loud speaker in the middle of physics class. "Is Fayt Leingod in class?"

Albel's head snapped up at the sound of the other man's name. Mr. Lasabard gave a response, but The Wicked One was too busy staring at Fayt, trying to figure out what the office would want with him. They hadn't spoken in three days, even after Shion and Fanta's excessive shouts of anger at them acting so childish, but Albel always ignored them. He would be childish if he damn well felt like it.

"If it doesn't take too long, come back to class alright, Fayt?" Mr. Lasabard nodded at him. Fayt nodded back, gathered his things and left the room.

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Fayt pushed open the glass door into the office, and the woman at the front desk smiled up at him. "Fayt Leingod?" she asked, holding a clipboard out for him to sign. He nodded and signed his name to get out of class. "Please, sit in that room." She pointed to a door behind her. "Your sisters already waiting in there."

"Maria?" he asked, surprised that his sister was called also. The woman nodded and took back the clipboard. Fayt pushed open the dark wood door and spotted Maria right away. It seemed that the room they were in was a waiting room, and there was a second, closed, door on the other side of the room.

Fayt smiled and took a seat next to his sister on the chair next to the closed door. "You know what this is about?" he asked. She shook her head.

"Nope. I have no idea. Hope it's not bad news though…" Fayt gave a small nod, and sat back to wait. Five minutes later, the door open and shouts filled the room.

"And I don't want to see you in here again, Ed! Rules are meant to be followed!"

A boy, maybe a year older than him, walked out of the room scowling. He clutched the door, and turned back to face whoever was yelling at him, face red, and blond hair frizzed.

"Sure thing, dear!" he yelled. "I know how much you hate seeing me anyway!"

"Edward! You know-" but Ed slammed the door and stomped off huffing and mumbling out of the room. Fayt and Maria watched him go, a little bewildered. It seemed that the boy was having a rather…personal fight with someone who was suppose to be their principle. The door reopened a moment later, and a tall man with short black hair and a blue suit nodded to them.

"The Leingod kids?" he asked coldly. Silently, they nodded and stood, quickly following him into the room. Fayt stared at the odd blue suit and white gloves with the odd star, almost cult like, design on them.

"Sir?" he asked. "Are you in the military?" the man stared at him, and Fayt thought he was going to be yelled at, until finally, the man sighed.

"I used to be but I quite a while ago. Ed doesn't seem to understand student-teacher relationships very well…it's not allowed, in case you didn't know."

"You two worked together in the military?" Maria asked. "But he looks so young…"

"He's very gifted, but that isn't important right now." He cut the conversation off. "My names Roy Mustang, principle of Elicoor ll, and I'm suppose to inform you that after this week, you'll be transferring out. Your parents contacted me about your move, and I wish the two of you had told me sooner. It was very sudden."

"We're moving?" Fayt cried. "Since when?" he turned to look at Maria, "Did you know?" he asked. Maria shook her head.

"No, I haven't heard anything like this from Mom and Dad…I wonder why they didn't tell us?"

"Well, you know now. So be sure to be ready. Next Friday, that's six days from now, you'll be transferring out. It was a pleasure teaching you, and it's sad to see you go." He stood and offered his gloved hand to each of them, and then led them to the door.

"Thank you for telling us." Maria spoke up. Roy gave a curt nod.

"No problem, and, if you don't mind, don't mention that…thing…with Ed." He smiled and shut the door before either of them could answer.

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"You're leaving! But why?"

Fayt was sitting in Duo's room, along with the entire group. Shion was up and pacing, ranting to herself about Fayt's, as she put it, problem. Fanta and Ryang were sitting at the table, worried looks on their face. Duo and Heero were on the couch, neither having said a word. Duo looked to be lost in thought. Ororon stood against once of the walls, and Albel was lying on the bed, glaring at the ceiling, he hadn't said anything either, but the ceiling must have done something awful to him to get him so angry at it.

"Well, I'm leaving because I have to. My parents are moving." He said simply, a slight shrug disguising how upset he actually was. This shouldn't have affected him so much; after all, it happened all the time. His family moved almost twice a year because of his father's job.

"Where are you going?" Fanta whispered, it almost seemed like she was afraid to speak.

"The States."

"America?" Duo shouted finally. "God, I'd love to go back there! Home sweet home!" almost all eyes turn to glare at him. Albel didn't turn, he was too busy glaring at the ceiling, and Ororon was too good to glare at something like Duo.

"It's not surprising, my family moves all the time, and I'm use to it." Shion and Fanta looked close to tears.

"When are you leaving?" Shion asked. It seemed like all her plans were forgotten with the news of her friend's departure.

Fayt turned to look at Albel. "Friday."

"Five days!" Fanta screamed. "But that's not enough time! We have so much to do before you go! You can't go so soon! Tell your parents to wait and-" but Fayt wasn't listening. He was still looking at Albel, hoping to find some sort of reaction in his face. Unfortunately, it seemed The Wicked One really didn't care all that much.

Now, I know that's not true, and you know that's not true, but Albel can be pretty good at hiding emotions. So for now, Fayt will just have to think Albel doesn't care about him. After all, what's Fanfiction without angst? But wait…good old Duo…?

"Albel?" the braided man spoke up. "Aren't you going to say anything?"

"What's there to say? There isn't anything we can do about it."

Nope, not even Duo will change Albel's bastardness. But give him a cookie for trying, and Albel a smack for being stubborn. Come on everyone! I wanna see smacks and cookies in my reviews! Oh, and give Fayt a good smack too, for being blind and stubborn.

"Just leave him alone, Duo." Shion scowled. "He's just a stubborn jerk."

"Childish too." Ororon finally spoke up.

"Thank you!" Fanta yelled angrily. "Its nice to know someone agrees with me."

Fayt turned away from Albel and smiled. "It's alright, stop calling him names. I think I'll go give my teachers my notice." Fayt wandered out the door, the lock clicking behind him and none of the people in the room moving until he was gone. Each of them simply watched him.

"He was smiling-" Fanta mumbled.

"-but he seemed pretty devastated anyway." Duo finished for her. Both of them, and everyone else turned to stare once again at Albel.

"What is wrong with you?" Shion demanded. "He's leaving! You know? Goodbye? Forever! Are you stupid?" her voice was shreiky and cracking.

"Yes. I get it. What's your point? It's not like there's anything I can do." He sat up and made his way to the door, stopping just as he opened it to turn back and face them. "It's not like he'd stay if I asked him to." And he left too, going in the opposite direction Fayt had headed.

Shion glared, face turning red as she stared down the door. "BAKA!" she screamed.

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Albel wandered down the halls, no particular destination in mind. He wasn't too sure how to act or feel around everyone now. Fayt was leaving, and that sucked, but he couldn't do anything about it. He didn't want the other boy to leave, he liked him, but what could he do? For some reason, his head felt fuzzy, and he felt like throwing up, maybe he was getting sick. Should he go bug the cooks for bread? That always helped stomach acid…but then, maybe he was just hungry…

Albel shook his head angrily. Or maybe he could just stop lying to himself and admit that Fayt leaving was messing him up more than he normally was.

The Wicked One halted and sighed, leaning against a door to think things through.

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Fayt smiled as he handed the last noticed to his last teacher, but the smile only reached his lips. He was sad, no, he was depressed, and he didn't know why. He shouldn't be, this kind of thing happened all the time, he should be used to it know. When he had first come to this city and school, he knew that he'd be leaving eventually.

His friend's reactions were what he had expected. Some crazy upset, and other, silently upset. Even Cliff and Nel were a little messed up at his departure. They had hugged (Nel) and smacked him roughly on the back (Cliff) all the while saying how much they would miss him, and how they wished they'd had more time to get to know him.

Fayt just wished that…maybe…Albel had been a little more upset. Fayt decided that Albel would be the person he missed the most.

His mind began to wander back to the beginning of the year, which seemed so far away now. How he and Albel had fought, and then been forced into semi friendliness by a teacher, all leading up to a comfortable friendship that was now over before it even settled.

A bile started to rise in his throat and Fayt quickly turned his thoughts to other things; like cleaning his room.

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Okay! There's the rest of the chapter. Not much, I know! But don't worry, I'm starting chapter 11 at this very moment, don't worry; you wont have to wait long.

Thank you all so much for being patient with me. And thank you everyone for all your nice (to me) and mean/homicidal (to Greg) words to help me out. Your reviews really did make me smile and laugh. You guys are just the best; I don't know what I'd do without all my lovely reviewers.

Now, onto ending suggestions. I can…

A: Have Fayt leave, and set up for a sequel,

Or

B: Not let him leave and end it kinda…badly…or…I don't know how it'll end!

All I know, is I'm leaning towards Fayt leaving, and that's what's being planned out in my mind at the moment, but if you reviewers start gnashing teeth and claws at me, I'll work on changing it.