9. Fire Wound

The blonde had been patched up and released within a few hours; it had only taken so long because the hospital had had to verify he really was who he said he was and that he could pay for treatment. It really wasn't the bad of a burn -- it probably wouldn't even scar, the doctors had said -- and it had been Ed's own mistake anyway. Still, he wasn't really that surprised that Roy had been unable to follow the boy back to get the wound dressed.

He didn't blame him at all, nor when the man avoided looking at and touching that spot for the next few weeks.