2. Confession
"I killed them… They were innocents and I killed them…"
Ed stared at his lap, sitting on the edge of the bed, trying to wrap his mind around the thought that his lover, his commanding officer, one of the very few people he'd ever allowed himself to trust, had killed his childhood friend's parents on a questionable order.
It was the silence more than anything that awakened the alarms in his head, and Ed turned back around to see the very expression on Roy's face that people were constantly trying to chase from his own. And he realized, this wasn't about him, and Roy spent the rest of the night cradles in the blonde's arms.