Okay Chapter three if finally up! I huge thank you to everyone who reviewed I really appreciate it! I hope you enjoy this chapter!

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Chapter 3- Awakening and Confessions

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The next morning, Ed yawned widely as the sun pierced through his eyelids rousing him from sleep. He attempted to stretch out in his normal feline like habits but found that he couldn't, confused he opened his eyes and found out that he was staring into the chest of someone else…a MALE someone else. Blinking once, twice, and then a third time he looked up at the stranger's face and realized who that chest belonged too.

'That bastard said he wouldn't touch me!' his mind screamed half of him pissed the other man and the other half was in panic 'How dare he sneak into my room!' he then blinked looked around said room and remembered that it was he that had snuck into Roy's room and not the other way around. The blonde alchemist mentally groaned; how could he have ever thought that sleeping next to Roy to feel comfort from his nightmares was a good idea?

Suddenly, Roy made a small noise in his sleep and Ed spazzed out in surprise "Ayah!" he yelled, pulling Roy's arms from around him and pushed himself away from the other. Unfortunately he was so focused on scrambling away backwards from the Colonel that he didn't notice the edge of the bed and inevitably he fell off it, almost landing on his head but at a much more awkward and painful angle. "Ow, that hurts" he groaned holding his head and good shoulder as he winced in pain.

Roy was jerked awake at Ed's sudden yelp, but at first the flame alchemist groaned and covered his face with the covers of the bed deciding to ignore it, but upon hearing a dull thump and an 'Ow', the dark haired alchemist moved the blankets from his head and sat up, blinking groggily and looked around his room sleepily; at first he didn't see anything out of place, then he peered over the edge of the bed where the groaning was coming from and stared at Ed wearily. "Fullmetal? What are you doing?" Roy asked half annoyed at being woken up so early and half amused at seeing Ed collapsed at the side of his bed.

It was then that he remembered what had happened last night and smiled deciding to tease the blonde. "Do you always sneak into people beds at night when they invite you over, or is it just me?" The dark haired alchemist asked with a smirk on his face. Ed glared up at Roy, his head and shoulder forgotten as he scowled at his superior officer "Shut up bastard!" he yelled, the faintest traces of a blush on his face, while inwardly Edward was cursing himself repeatedly; this had to have been one of the stupidest things he had ever done.

He stood and levelled a glare at Roy "Do you always break your promises when opportunity knocks?" he shot back before a yawn ripped his face in half, ruining the glare he was trying to hold, and out of habit he stretched lazily as he always did when he woke up in the morning, while unknowingly giving Roy a very nice view of his flat stomach as his shirt rose with his outstretched arms

Roy smirked and eyed the view of Ed's skin out of the corner of his eye, then laughed "I didn't break my promise I stayed away from you, you were the one who came here, if I mistook you for a pillow I do apologize, but you can't blame me...you are small enough to be interpreted as one, either way I didn't break my promise, you did"

Ed growled annoyed at the small comment and threw one of the pillows at Roy in retaliation "I am not small enough to be a pillow!" he exclaimed "And come on don't give me that crap; you'd have to be really stupid to mistake a body full of metal for a pillow" he yelled, his hair was tousled and really messy but he could care less right now. "This is your fault so don't try and blame me!" he said "besides I lay way over there" he pointed to the end of the bed "far away from your arms! And I was not cuddled up to you, so this is your fault".

The dark haired alchemist just rolled his eyes and yawned, there was no way he was going to tell the teen that he'd been awake when Ed had walked into his room so he just brushed it off and sighed "Whatever Fullmetal, I was asleep at the time, and no one really knows how we ended up hugging so let's just leave it at it was a mistake on both our parts shall we?" Roy yawned again and headed to the bath room but before he did, he quickly kissed Ed on the forehead "And for your, information, you were a good pillow" Then Roy ran out the room and locked the bathroom door before Ed had a chance to attack him.

Argh!" Ed yelled kicking the wall with his good foot in irritation, before screaming in pain and hoping around "That hurt!" he yelped at the pain lacing up his foot, mentally he added his foot to the list of things to blame on Roy Mustang. Grumbling, he stormed down the stairs to get a glass of water and massage his sore muscles, he would never admit it, but he had never slept as soundly as he had last night. He blushed at his thoughts then and shook his head to clear his head "Stupid bastard" he grumbled softly whilst sitting at the kitchen table.

Roy clamped a hand over his mouth to stifle his laughter as he heard the blonde teen cry out in pain; the look of shock on Ed's face before he'd run off was priceless! Quickly, Roy washed and shaved before putting on his dressing gown; today was his day off work so he could quite easily relax and do nothing all day, The dark haired alchemist went downstairs and went into the kitchen, passing the grumbling blonde sat at the table and began to make some pancakes for breakfast.

Without asking permission, and not really wanting to be in the same room as Roy at the moment, Ed snuck upstairs took the bathroom so he could clean up quickly and get dressed, but instead of pulling on his complete outfit. He settled for his boxers, pants and black tank top, before he headed back downstairs knowing he'd have to face Roy at some point and not only that but his stomach was grumbling for food.

The blonde hated to admit it, but the food Roy was cooking smelled damn good, and as he entered the kitchen his stomach growled quite audibly and he chuckled in embarrassment "ehehe" he said while rubbing the back of his neck nervously, before slipping into his previous chair and watched the dark haired man cook.

Roy smiled upon hearing Ed walk back into the kitchen and sit down and flipped the pancakes over. Roy turned to him with a smile "Could you get the orange juice out of the fridge...unless you'd like milk instead" Roy joked, knowing of the blonde's intense loathing for the stuff. Ed grumbled about the milk comment and got the orange juice out, he was far more concerned with filling his belly with food then shooting off insults at the dark haired bastard. Roy just chuckled to himself as he finished making the pancakes and put them onto two plates, he handed one to Ed and put the other on the table for himself before sitting down across from the blonde alchemist.

Edward plopped into his chair once more across from Roy and smirked "so you can do more then be a smug bastard it seems" he quipped; okay so he lied, maybe there was room for a few insults.

Roy smirked not insulted in the least and nodded "You think I had servants do my cooking and cleaning Edward?" Roy asked; it wouldn't surprise him if Ed thought that, a lot of people had done at first. "Just be quite and eat your pancakes before I do" Roy said deciding he really didn't want to hear Edwards answer because no doubt it wouldn't be good. The blonde growled at the last comment and dragged his plate even closer to himself as he started to eat, before he answered.

"I just thought one of your many lady friends and bed mates did it for you" he said with a smirk before downing his glass of orange juice. Roy visibly winced at Ed's comment; Ouch, that had actually hit a nerve in the dark haired man "Lady Friends? I haven't had a 'lady friend' as you call them, over here in over two years, in fact I haven't dated anyone in over two years either" Roy said, knowing that Ed would likely look either shocked or disbelieving.

Ed put his fork and knife atop and empty plate and to the dark haired alchemist's surprise, he merely smirked at Roy and raised an eyebrow "Must have been hard for you then, all that time, alone, with no one to keep you warm at night only your dreams to keep you going?" he said resting his chin in his hand "And lusting after a minor who was so short you couldn't see him in a crowd of midgets?" his tone was airy, and odd. The blonde teen was up to something he was going to get down to the bottom of this little charade.

Uh Oh.

Roy did NOT like Ed's tone of voice; he was up to something and Ed wanted him to know it. "Not really...It was harder for me when I had to send you out on missions" Roy said trying to act as casual as Edward, but really not feeling all that relaxed or laid back. "And for the last time I'm in love with you not lusting after you" Roy paused then smirked as he remembered a part of the blonde's comment "But your right you ARE so short I wouldn't be able to see you in a crowd of midgets"

Ed's eyebrow twitched at the comment knowing that he had walked in on that comment, but he kept himself surprisingly composed "Is there really a difference between lust and love? And how can you be so sure? Have you loved someone before, are you sure you don't love me like you would a son?" he said still in the calm and airy tone.

He stood up walked over to Mustang and leaned in close to Roy, his face a few inches away from the dark haired alchemist's "How can you be certain you are in love?" he asked "Are you sure it's just not a strong sexual attraction?" he waggled his eyebrows "Because we could end this right now and we both could be on our merry way"

Roy blinked at Ed then smiled; the blonde was being an adult about all this and demanding answers, it was strange but not unpleasant "Ah I see…" Roy was silent for a moment before he answered the blonde teenager's question. "I'm not saying this to sound superior Edward, but I'm 26 years old, I'm older than you therefore I have a bit more experience of love than you do. The difference between love and lust is that lust is easily diminished, it crumbles away easily and fades, but love…Love is an eternal thing, yet it is twisted and can be painful, but that is loves nature, for you to love and love again." Roy took a deep breath and looked at Ed.

"I know I love you because I don't love you just for your looks Ed, which is what lust, is usually based on. I love you because of who you are, I love your fiery attitude, I love it when you get annoyed when people talk about your height, I love the way in which you care about others ,but hardly ever think of yourself, I love you...for being you Ed, there is no way around it"

Roy took a deep breath and sighed then leaned back in his chair lost in his thoughts. "I remember when I first met you in Risambull (sp?) You were in a lot of pain then I knew I didn't need to see the fact you'd lost your arm and leg for that, but you still looked beautiful, like a fallen angel who had lost it's wings...I tired to think of it as lust also...but It's been 6 years Ed...Lust doesn't just stay around after 6 years..."

The blonde haired alchemist blinked at him for a moment before a dark blush covered his face "You jerk!" he exclaimed loudly "How dare you spout such nonsense, it's not right!" he yelled He was at a loss for words, so he did the thing he knew best, yell and scream and throw a fit.

He stopped after a moment and sat back in his chair sulking, that plan had failed entirely, and now it just left him confused, and that pissed him off to no end. "Argh!" he yelled clutching the sides of his head, why did things just have to go all weird on him yet again, this was all that bastards fault. He was more pissed at his own confusion though then actually at the flame alchemist

The dark haired man blinked at Ed's odd behaviour before he laughed "If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question Fullmetal" Roy said with a smile knowing whatever the blonde had been planning, it had just been totally shot down.

"Damn it, why'd you have to say things like that?" he said glaring at the other "I just wanted to up and leave and put this behind me, but no, now I have to deal with the damn knowledge that you are a sick bastard who's in love with a minor" he crossed his arms over his chest and pouted "I don't know what to do now" he mumbled. Demonic like creatures he could handle, suits of body less armour he could deal with, hell, even people making fun of his height he could more or less cope with, but stupid colonel bastards making love confessions, how the hell was he supposed to deal with that? And why did it affect him like it did?

Roy blinked and chuckled at the blonde sitting across from him "Would you rather I lied to you Ed? Remember when I with held information about Marco, about Loir and Hughes? All those times you argued with me because I lied to you, and now you're yelling at me because I was honest?" Roy stood over Ed and smirked, his face inches from his "You can't have it both ways Edward, either you want me to be a lair or you want me to be honest, but I can't be both"

The golden haired teen scowled "I'm not yelling at you for being honest" he mumbled turning away from the other and not giving him a chance to do anything funny "I'm yelling at you for, for…" why was he yelling at Mustang again? Oh yeah because it was easier to blame the other for such things "I'm yelling at you for confusing me" he said nodding to himself as if yes, this was the reason why he was throwing a fit.

The flame alchemist smirked "No your not...I think your yelling at me because your in denial" the dark haired man said with a smirk "Which is fine by me, be in denial all you want, take your time, just know this, those feelings in that heart of yours? I doubt there going to go away no matter how much you want them to" Roy said before he leant over and kissed Ed's forehead gently then headed upstairs to get dressed.

Ed cursed Mustang to hell as the raven haired male left the room "I am not in denial!" he muttered to himself, that jerk was just deluding him, why would he care for a bastard of a jerk like him, who called him names and now sexually harassed him! He headed upstairs to finish getting dressed and decided he was going to take his leave now.

Roy sighed to himself as he put on a simple black cotton shirt and a pair of black tight-fitting jeans. He heard Ed coming upstairs, but he let Ed go into his room and get his thinks 'He needs space to think' Roy thought with a sigh, as he yawned lazily, and stretched, his black shirt rising up a few inches to reveal the colonels pale taut stomach, and forgetting that he'd left the door to his bedroom partially open.

Ed was walking out of his room and froze Roy was standing across from him in his own room but stretching in a similar fashion to what he had done earlier that morning, the Colonels stomach exposed every so slightly.

The blonde growled lightly to himself and grabbed one of the pillows from the bed and throwing it at Mustang hitting him in the face "knock that off!" he yelled from his doorway. Roy blinked in surprise at a pillow suddenly being thrown at him and looked at the elder Elric brother confused as he dodged the pillow. "What did I do this time?" Mustang asked obviously baffled why Ed was pissed; he hadn't been looking at the door when he'd stretched so he hadn't seen Edward there.

You…you're trying to tempt me!" the blonde yelled accusing the other and denying that indeed the Colonel had a rather nice body, and no he did not want to pounce on the other and do things that would make a sex fanatic blush. 'What the hell is wrong with me!' he thought crossing his arms over his chest "Stop flaunting your body like that, you sick pervert!" Roy blinked at him a blank look on his place handsome face, then burst out laughing shaking his head as he sat on his bed while he tried to stop his fits of laughter. When he finally managed to stop he looked up at Ed and said "I don't know how I supposedly "Flaunted my body" while fully clothed, Edward, care to explain what's going through that twisted mind of yours?"

The blonde stormed up to Roy and glared at him "You know you were doing it!" he exclaimed digging himself deeper in the hole of mess he was already in. "You knew I was coming upstairs to change and decided to toy with me even more" he accused "I'm on to your sick games you jerk!" the dark haired alchemist shook his head, his face trying to be serious but he couldn't help the twisted, amused smirk on his face. "Honestly Edward, I didn't do anything, I didn't even know you were there, well I did, but I didn't realise I was "Flaunting" anything to you..." Then Roy's smirk darkened and the dark haired man grabbed a hold of Ed's shirt tugging him teasingly towards him. "If you want to know what REAL flaunting is...I'd be MORE than happy to show you" Roy purred in a seductive tone. He wasn't actually planning on showing Edward anything, but he wanted to see what reaction he'd get from the blonde.

The blonde alchemist's mind and heart raced at Mustang being so close, damnit why was this all affecting him in a way it shouldn't have, the stupid colonel had done something to his mind, he was sure of it, why else would stupid things such as showing a little skin while stretching affect him like it did? Ed's face went dark red at the Colonel's offer "N...no!" he exclaimed "I've seen enough of your stupid body, I don't want to see any more" he said as he managed to get his tone of voice back to normal and not stammering like a nervous school girl "I have enough nightmares as it is without your ugly mug haunting them as well thank you very much" Ed snapped while his mind went blank and his heart skipped a beat, damnit why was this all affecting him in a way it shouldn't have? Ed was starting to convince himself that the stupid Colonel had done something to his mind, he was sure of it, why else would stupid things such as showing a little skin while stretching affect him as it did?

Roy sighed and let Edward go "Fair enough...well if your going to leave to meet with your brother you can go if you like, I'm not going to stop you" Roy said "Apart from this" Roy muttered, before he pulled ed up but his jacket and kissed him gently, there was no tongue involved it was a sweet innocent kiss and very gentle; something you didn't usually associate with Roy Mustang. "Get going before Al begins to worry" 'And before I rape you instead of waiting for you' Roy mentally thought as he sat down on his bed; He was addicted to Edwards kisses he was sure of it.

Ed growled when the dark haired man kissed him, but he didn't need to be told twice, he needed to put some distance between him and the flame alchemist, and fast. He hurriedly put on his coat and books and took off through the streets. Roy sighed and shook his head 'I've done what I can, now, it's up to him to decide on what to do with his feelings' Roy thought.

Edward didn't go an see Al first, instead he went straight to King Bradley and demanded a long term mission to ANYWHERE as long as it was away from Central. The Fuhrer kindly obliged with his request and gave him mission detail, which told him he'd be leaving on a train at 2pm tomorrow. 'better go and say goodbye to Al while I have the chance Ed' thought, he also thought of telling the Colonel, but he banished from that though instantly, the dark haired alchemist was his superior officer, and as his SO he would find out where he'd gone anyway, but he'd be way too late to stop him.

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Ohh bad Ed! He's gone off for goodness know how long! Poor Roy! Ah well enjoy!