Okay, here is the next chapter, thanks to all my lovely reviewers .
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Too Green
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"Edward, what do you think you're doing?" Roy asked Ed, who was very slowly and sneakily attempting to remove the fuzzy green hat from his head.
"Come ON… Not you too!"
Roy was enjoying this.
"Absolutely not. You heard what Winry said: 'Roy, whatever you do, make—"
" '—Make sure he keeps on the hat I made him or he'll catch a cold'. Yeah, yeah, I know! But since when have you cared about me getting sick or not? Come on, at least let me cut off the yellow thing!" whined Edward, glaring at the golden bobble that was flouncing around on the end of his cap.
"And ruin a wonderful gift? I think not," Roy smirked.
Edward glared, "Bastard,"
Roy chuckled as they continued to walk down the street: one tall dark and handsome man, and a short golden haired kid—Ahem, I mean, teenager.
"Where is this place anyways?" asked Edward, returning to his secretive attempts of sliding off the hat.
"Winry said it was right across the street from the Grocery," said Roy.
"Urg, that's all the way across town!" moaned Edward, "why didn't we take the car!"
"Winry said she wanted you to have as much chance as possible to show off your new hat," said Roy calmly.
Edward stiffened and began muttering things under his breath that Roy was glad he didn't have to hear.
"Come on, Edward, its not that bad," said Roy, knowing full-well that for the FullMetal Alchemist you couldn't get much worse.
"Shut up you bastard, you're going along with it," spat Edward. The mix between a scowl and a pout that adorned Edward's face was unbelievably cute. Roy laughed. He couldn't help himself. He slipped his arm around Edward's back, pulling the boy to him as they trudged on.
Edward however, shrugged him off.
"Lay off, bastard," he said angrily.
"Not still mad are you?" he teased. He found that no matter how determined the young alchemist seemed, he could never resist Roy.
"Better believe it!" said Edward forcefully.
"Really?" asked Roy, lazily reaching over and fingering a strand of Edward's loosely tied hair. Edward gave a little shuddery sigh as Roy moved his hand and stroked little circles on the back of his neck. He breathed in deeply, closing his eyes for a moment, whether from the touch or the cold. Edward chose the latter as his excuse. He mumbled something like,
"Your hand is freezing, you bastard," but didn't object when Roy replaced his arm around his waist, and in fact, leaned into the Colonel's side.
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"So which one do you want?" asked Roy, gesturing to all the Christmas tree's in the lot.
Edward shrugged. He was still snuggled against Roy's chest. "I don't know,"
"Well, Winry said to get one that wasn't too beat up," commented Roy.
Edward was getting pretty tired of this whole 'What Winry Said' thing. He just scowled.
"Well," said Roy, attempting to detach himself from Edward and failing. He instead just dragged the boy along. "How about this one?" he asked, gesturing (with the arm that wasn't locked around Edward's waist) to a shortish, blue/green tree, standing a little to their left.
"Hmm, too tall," said Edward glaring at it. It stood just above his head.
Roy sighed.
"Then how about this one?" asked Roy, pointing to a slightly shorter tree.
"Too ratty,"
Roy stared around at all the trees. The selection was rather limited since it was all ready the 24th, Christmas Eve if you will.
"This one, then?"
"Too… green," answered Edward after a moment.
Roy groaned. "Edward, Christmas tree's are supposed to be green unless I'm mistaken. Now will you please just pick a tree?"
"I don't like green though," argued Edward, sparing a hateful glance at his hat, "can't we get another color?"
Roy didn't bother answering this. Instead, he pointed to the first tree and said to the cashier, "We'd like this one please,"
"Hey! Not the tall one!" shouted Edward.
"It's not tall at all, Edward, it only seems that way from your… limited… perspective," he said blandly.
Edward jerked his arm away from the Colonel, once again seething. He was just about to make an awfully loud retort when,
"Nii-san?" came a voice from behind him.
He jerked around to see Alphonse standing in a snow drift, and carrying an armload of bundles.
"Oh, hey Al," said Edward, happy to see his brother in the midst of such insanity.
"What are you d—Oh, hello Colonel Mustang!" said Alphonse, noticing Roy finally.
"Hello, Alphonse," said Roy, thankful to Al for saving him a rant. "What brings you here?" he enquired, hoping to keep off Edward for as long as possible.
"Oh, just some last minute Christmas shopping. I couldn't exactly get Winry's presents while she was with me. What about you two?" he asked, then added hesitantly, "Is that a new hat, brother?"
Edward's face darkened, and he glared menacingly at Alphonse.
"Let's just say your girlfriend, Miss Rockbell, paid him a visit," said Roy, when Edward failed to respond.
"She actually did it?" asked Alphonse, sounding surprised, "I told her it wasn't a good idea…" he muttered.
Edward stared at him in shock. "You're telling me you KNEW about this?" he demanded incredulously.
"Uhh, well… I mean…" said Alphonse.
"Edward, come on, we should get back," interrupted Roy. Alphonse threw the Colonel a grateful look.
"It's a conspiracy… your all against me… shouda listened to the Russians…" Edward muttered under his breath, allowing Roy to drag him by the elbow away from Al.
It was times like these that Roy questioned his chibi lover's sanity.
Saying a farewell to Alphonse, and dropping $20 on the cashier's table, Roy grabbed the tree and Edward and dragged them away.
Edward, however, was still seething.
They were nearly past the lot of Christmas tree's when a small girl in a pink coat pointed at Edward and said excitedly, "Hey momma! Momma look! Its Santa's Elf!" She cried happily as they walked past.
"What the—" started Edward, whipping around.
Roy tried to make Edward keep walking, but failed.
"Momma, its talking to me!" squealed the girl excitedly. The woman looked apologetically up at Roy.
"I'm sorry about my daughter, sir," she said, clasping a hand over the girl's mouth as she was about to further indulge in her belief of Edward's elf heritage, " if its any consolation to your son, he doesn't look like a Christmas elf one bit,"
"His WHAT—!" screamed Edward.
The woman looked taken aback. Roy could no longer stand this. He bent over and picked the boy up. He tucked the struggling Edward under his arm, and stalked off, dragging the tree in the snow behind him.
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So yeah. Uhh… Yay? I don't know. Next Chapter will be up soon I guess. Anyways…
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