Silver Wolf, Dark Moon
Ch.7.
..:Everybody's Fool:..
. . .Somehow now, you're everybody's fool. . .
---Ed sat quietly on the cool, stone shore, staring off into the fog-traced ocean, eyes devoid of life as his finger slowly traced over a crack in the cement-blank, lifeless.
---"Roy..." he whispered, eyes darkening-he hung his feet over the cement wall that towered over the small strip of beach before him. He'd been seeing things lately, hearing things...imagining things that weren't truly there. He'd been going out of his mind, constantly thinking about Roy.
---"Brother..." came the familiar, resounding voice of Alphonse. He turned, looking emptily up at his brother-seeing the concern and confusion in those soul-lit eyes.
---"Hey, Al..." he replied softly, smiling fakily, trying to forge it to ward off his brother's concern, "What's up? Were you worried about me or something?" Ed stood, loose hair blowing in the bitter wind, playing across his cheeks and causing him to loose his balance-thudding on top of his brother and getting off faster than he himself could blink.
---"S-sorry, Al..." he rubbed the back of his head, feeling the bump in his hair where his ponytail had once been, where Roy's hand had touched when they had..."I'm so clumsy...I can't do anything right...sorry, Al."
---"Quit lying to me, Brother." Al ordered angrily, then in a low voice hissed bitterly, "I saw the letter."
---Ed's eyes immediately widened,"Wh-What letter?" he asked innocently, blinking in feigned curiosity.
---"The one addressed to Roy." Ed froze-Feeling chills run up and down his spine simply hearing that man's name sent shivers up and down his spine, wishing he were here to hold..."Tell me, Brother." Al cut off his thoughts and he looked at his brother, "Do you...Do you truly..." If Al could cry, Ed could tell he'd be close to tears.
---He lowered his eyes to the ground and he whispered honestly, "I...I do...and...I-I'm sorry...If I disgust you or anything, but..." he turned his head back towards the sea, "...I can't help the way I feel."
---"It doesn't disgust me, Ed." Al said, and Ed could feel his big hand move to his shoulder, "It's just...I always thought...y'know...you and Winry..."
---"What?" Ed chuckled curiously, "You thought...Me and Winry!" he burst out laughing, "Oh! That's a good one...how many times do I have to tell you? We're just friends!" Ed looked up at Al's serious face and blinked in honest curiosity, and secret disgust at the thought of being with...that, "You...seriously thought...me and...WINRY!"
Eww...
---Al nodded slowly and Ed blinked again, eye twitching at the additional thought of being with that for the REST of his LIFE, just thinking about it made him shudder.
---"I'm sorry, Al, but...I...I love Roy." Ed smiled softly as the sun peaked out from behind the dark clouds above, "Oh? Heh...I'm glad the sun's finally starting to come out." he said, turning his gaze upward so his golden eyes reflected the soft light coming from the heavy dark clouds.
---"Well then, we've got to get you together!" Al cheered-determination gleaming in his eyes.
---Ed turned to his brother, blinking, "Uh...say what now?" his eyes were wide, head tilted to the sidecuriously at his brother's sudden switch in moods.
---"I said, 'Well then, we've got to get--"
---"No! I heard what you said, but..." he scratched the back of his head, brow ruffled,"You're not serious are you!"
---"Uh...Why wouldn't I be serious?" Al asked absently, "Why would I joke about something like this?"
---"B-Because...Because I'm..."Ed's cheeks darkened in a blush and his hair stood on end for a moment as he realized exactly 'what-he-was...' and it had always been a type of word he'd tried to avoid,"B...Because I'm...G-G-G-G...Gay." when the word finally escaped his mouth his face went blank. o.o
---"So? It's not your fault you fell in love with a man." Al said reassuringly, patting Ed's head lightly, "You shouldn't be so down about it." he chuckled.
---Ed looked up and blinked, then smiled and put both his hands on Al's big hand and pulled it off of his head,"I guess you're right..." he smiled, "Thanks, Al."
---"Oh, yeah..." Al started, scratching his head as he looked suspiciously at Ed, "What exactly did you mean by 'All that we've been through together?'" he asked, very suspicious.
---"Uhh...Um...Uh...Y'know..."Ed immediatly panicked, eyes wide in dread, "He...uh...He's always been my commanding officer!" he blurted out an excuse, still shaken up, praying that Al wouldn't push for more answers.
---"Hmm...Why don't I believe you?" Al said suspiciously, leaning closer to his brother-meeting eyes with him, "Are you lying?"
---"N-NO! No, Of course not!" Ed flailed his arms, "What reason would I have to lie!"
---"...I suppose so..."Al sighed, then turned back towards the dark, stone militant building of this cold ile, "I'm going inside to pack."
---"What?" Ed grabbed Al's arm, "Where are you going!"
Going Under
---Al looked down at his brother, giving him a dull look, seeing the glimmer of desperation in his brother's eyes.
---"Not where I'm going where we're going." Al said in certainty, "We've got to get you two back together."
---Ed grew incredibly quiet and his hands slipped off of his brother's arm, "No...we can't I can't...I can't see him anymore."
---"Why do you always do that, brother!" Al snapped angrily, gripping his brother's shoulder, feeling him flinch in pain as he increased the hold on his shoulder, "You stop yourself everytime you want to get close to someone! Do you know how much that hurts the ones that want to get close to you! Do you have any idea how Winry, or I, or Teacher-or even Mom and Dad felt?"
---That hit a nerve. Ed's eyes were wide, and seemed to be echoing with darkness, and the pain of realization was evidently soaking in--or so Al thought.
---"Do you get it now, brother!" Al pulled his hand away, clenched into a fist in frustration, "It hurts people when you push them away..." Al sighed, tilting his head towards the dark sky, "People care about you, Ed...and if you really don't want to hurt people...just...stop forcing them away."
---Ed fell to his knees, crumbling in front of his brother, eyes wide as his gaze seemed to look beyond Al-towrds the door that lead into the walled-in city, facing the stone beach from the back of the Military Office, "No...why...why is..." Ed whispered.
---"What is it, brother?" Al bent and shook his frozen brother-who continued to keep his gaze focused behind Al, even as tears began to fill his eyes and drift over his pale cheeks.
---Al turned and his eyes widened as if he were surprised, as well, "What are..."
---"Fullmetal..." cut him off from the cool voice, hauntingly familiar to the Colonel. Colonel Roy Mustang. "Fullmetal..." he panted again, his body was bent a bitas sweat came over his brow and on his cheeks-he was in his full military uniform, glaring at Edward from behind his dark bangs and the tip of his hat, "How dare you run away like that..." his breath began slowing and regulating itself as he wiped his mouth of the slight sweat upon it, "You coward."
---"Roy..." Ed whispered, never moving his eyes from Roy's straightening figure, watching him longingly as he stood tall, unable to speak anything more than that name, and even remained morionless as his brother stood and faced Roy.
---It was when his brother walked past Roy and into the military office, leaving them alone, that he came back to reality and blinked, sending the last of the tears to his cheeks, "Roy...What...what did you come here for? Did I forget something?" he asked, feigning another smile as he slumped to the ground.
---"Yeah." Roy snapped, stepping closer to Edward, walking quickly as if in a fury, but stopped when he stood directly in front of Ed, then said firmly,
"Me."
A/N: Yeah...to those of you who hate my fast-ish pace...forgive me..but this isn't angst. It's action.u.u so nyeah to you. Hope you like it...and don't try to fix me! I'm not broken!
And, as always, luff to meh reviewers...
dance-of-insanity- there! First mentioned! How do ya like them apples!
Blackfire-Dog-But Hawkeye's a bomb-diggity character! How canpeople be so mean to her! n.n continue the R&R BFD!
VampSlayer04-I know Imade some some spelling errors oh, and guess what, you will too in your life-we're all fuckin human-I was sort of in a hurry, and didn't have word, I was using the crappy text thing, and most mistakes I make are accidents cuz I bump the wrong key-and if it bugs you that much-don't read it, and be left in a crippling suspense(jk, keep R&R)
Um...I REAALLY have to go right now! I'm sorry, but we're all going to Denny's! n-n' So, thanks to the rest of you, too-I promise to mention you in the next chap...Ja Ne!
Silver Wolf, Dark Moon
Ch.8
..:Now I'm Here:..
AKi