This chapter is not my best, but, if any of you read the AN last chappy, my confidence has fallen and I'm not very much encouraged to write more of this after that pathetic lemon! I hope you can forgive this lowly writer.

Disclaimer: I would hope by now, you would all know that only Tenten and Kristy are mine. Don't have to rub it in my face FFN!

Pride woke up that morning with a yawn. He snuggled into the pillow of his bed, but then he noticed a weight on his waist. On his bare waist. He looked behind him to see a slumbering, not to mention naked, Envy laying with and arm resting on Pride, who was naked as well. The younger homunculus blushed and started to get up. He was there for a while now, and that was certainly not his first time in bed with Envy, but he still felt very self-conscious every time the two went at it.

For some reason, it felt like he was doing something wrong.

He didn't know what it was, but as good and as exhilarating being with Envy was, something was really bugging Pride. The male from a few days ago that he met seemed familiar, and fighting with him felt wrong. Pride voiced his troubles with Lust the other day, who told him that Alphonse used a drug usually lethal to homunculi, but merely produces hallucinations when inhaled by a human. She managed to tell him that he was experiencing hallucinations from the drug because he wasn't exposed to it for long before Envy dragged him away. The explanation was logical, but Pride still felt empty.

Well, if there was one thing that Pride found out about himself during the short time he was there, it was that the best thing to do to clear his mind was to take a walk. That's exactly what he did, and he stayed out there for the remainder of the day, making sure to check back in every five hours. He was currently at the river, which called to him most of the morning and he finally decided to answer it around the evening. Pride didn't know what it was, but he felt a lot of strange feelings around water. If it rained, he was sad, if he was near a large body of water, he felt relaxed, yet fearful about someone's safety, and mostly when he ran near a river, he felt a surge of happiness, along with some kind of ache where his heart was supposed to be.

"What is wrong with me?" Pride thought as he stood a good distance away from Anima. He didn't notice the footsteps behind him, nor did he notice the shadow approaching him. What he definitely noticed was a hand on his shoulder, which caused him to whirl around and grab the hand painfully tight.

"Ow! Hey, can you let me go, I didn't mean to startle you!" Pride blinked in surprise at the man behind him. He looked oddly familiar, with dark, black hair, and coal-black eyes, one eye covered by an eye-patch (Pride could only assume that the other eye was black, if there was even an eye there. Damn, that's a creepy thought!). Pride cautiously let the man's hand go, still wary around him. The entire day he was out, he was taken by three perverts to some alley to be raped, mugged, or both, only for Pride to beat the crap out of the men. He was confident that he could take this man, even if he did seem a bit more skilled than the other idiots.

"Who are you?" Pride asked with his guard up. The man inspected his hand for a moment and answered after he was satisfied that the wrist wasn't broken.

"Please, forgive me for scaring you. My name is Roy, I had gone for a walk and noticed you standing here and looking a little depressed. I only wanted to see if you were all right." He explained. Pride accepted this answer, but kept his guard up, just in case.

"Thank you, but I'm fine. I was just thinking and I guess I zoned out for a moment." Pride told him, cheerful despite being very careful. He smiled and then noticed that Roy was giving him a speculating look. "Do I have something on my face?" The elder man looked at him before laughing a little.

"No, no, I'm sorry. It's just that…you look very much like a young man that I knew for many years. I almost thought you were him, but that's impossible." He said rubbing the back of his head. Pride sighed and looked down, he was probably referring to his old self, the man he was before he was unlawfully executed and brought back as a homunculus. Yet…something caught the boy's attention.

"For many years?" He repeated. "Who was he? A friend of yours?" Pride tried to keep the questions from being too suspicious, but he was failing miserably. Roy didn't seem to notice it, though.

"I suppose we could have been called that. Our relationship mostly involved him yelling at me for making him do pointless things and me insulting his height. Not exactly friendship, but not enemies either. Are you familiar with the name, Edward Elric?" Pride bit back a harsh comment about the execution. This man most likely knew more about Edward's past that Envy did. Envy said that they knew Edward for a few years, but this guy knew him for many years. If anything, maybe he could explain why Alphonse would betray his brother. Pride knew sibling rivalries could get hazardous at times, but selling your own sibling out seemed to be crossing the line and taking five leaps past it.

"I've heard of his name, and of his death." A small, but sad smile worked its way across Roy's face. It seemed surprising that the homunculi would tell Pride about it, but this would make things a little bit easier.

"Yes, it was the topic of many conversations for months. It was painful for everyone to see him go, especially his younger brother." Pride almost shouted out that Alphonse was a liar and a traitor, but, lucky for him, Roy continued. "I should say it was especially hard for him. After all, he watched his brother die in front of his own eyes, and he still blames himself for the incident.

"He should!" Pride shouted suddenly. Roy turned to him, shock written all over his face. "It was his fault Edward died! Him and the stupid military! They're so full of themselves, they don't care about anybody but themselves! They don't want to protect the country, they want to control it, and as long as they kill innocent people, they'll be ruling heartless bastards like themselves!" Pride was panting at the outburst and Roy looked at him, shocked for a moment, before he was confused.

"Excuse me for asking, but how did he die?" He asked, realizing that Pride must have been fed the wrong information.

"He was executed for treason, wasn't he?" There was a silence, a very awkward silence, before Roy covered his eyes and a small chuckle escaped his lips. Pride couldn't help but glare at the elder man. What the hell was so funny about someone's death.

"I'm sorry to say, but whoever told you that was lying. Edward died while protecting his brother from a chimera attack. A man, we never got his real name, but he was creating human-chimera's. All of them died except one, who decided to seek revenge on any and all alchemists. Edward was one and so was his brother, so the chimera attack them and tried to kill Al, but his brother pushed him out of the way and died in the process. Edward may have been a bit…rebellious, but nothing that would truly brand him a traitor." Pride's eyes widened. His other self, his living self had died protecting his brother, not because of him? But what about what Envy told him? He trusted Envy with everything that he had, so even the thought of Envy lying to him…

"But what reason has he ever given you to believe him?" A voice said in his head. "Think about it, ever since you got here, it's been sex, sex, sex. Sex in the morning, sex in the afternoon, and well into the night. Face it, he's been lying to you! Lying to your face, making it so you trust him and then he fucks you senseless. You're nothing but a sex toy! Remember the conversation you overheard, the one you didn't understand? 'How's Envy and his little toy?' You remember that? It was you they were talking about!" Pride fell to his knees, his hand covering his mouth as tears began to flow from his eyes. So it was all a lie? Everything they told him was fake, the fun times they told him that they shared, was that all fake too? And his brother…Al…

"Where's Al?" Pride shouted jumping up to his feet. Roy looked taken aback for a second before his eyes softened slightly.

"He should still be in town now…you are Ed, aren't you?" He asked the homunculus. Pride looked down for a moment before shaking his head.

"No, Ed is dead (haha! That rhymed!). I'm a homunculus who was created by a woman who loved him enough to sacrifice her life. I'm Pride, that's all I am." He said solemnly. Roy nodded and smiled.

"Well, Pride, follow me then. I'm sure Al would be very happy to meet you on better terms." He told him and led the blond back into the city.

Confidence lost...brain...disentergrating...-authoress dies-