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Note: This drabble is a continuation of Drabble No.12: The Headache of DEATH

Drabble the Thirteenth: Blackmail

"I'm sorry for leaving," Gracia apologized profusely as she untangled the trio, although she was plainly amused, "I didn't think you'd have woken up before I got back. Or gotten into such a situation." It had been about an hour since she'd left with Elysia to go shopping; it had been all she could do to keep from laughing when she had walked in to find them in the position they'd been in.

"Oh, it's fine, Gracia, really," Roy said as he and Maes helped Scar, whose condition had improved but not really gotten better, to his feet. Roy didn't want to mention that the 'situation' was half his fault.

"By the way, dear, who is this? Did you make a new friend?" Gracia smiled at Scar.

Maes rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "Well…I guess you could say that…"

But before anyone could reply to this vague statement, the doorbell rang. Gracia went to answer it, and the trio heard the conversation that was carried out.

"Hello, Mrs. Hughes, we came to give back your camera," came Edward Elric's voice.

Roy, Maes, and Scar froze. Roy said nervously, "Maes…please tell me you gave them your camera sometime before last night…"

"No…I don't remember ever giving them my camera," Maes was looking decidedly nervous as well, "You don't think they…?"

"We did," Ed strode into the room with a smug grin, brandishing a stack of photos. Al followed more quietly, "And now we have blackmail on all three of you! Take a look," he handed the photos to Roy.

The trio gathered around to see, their faces growing steadily more horrified as they looked at the pictures. Scar was given odd glances from the other two more than once. When they had seen all of them, Roy raised a gloved hand and snapped. FWOOSH went the pictures. For the second time in less than twenty-four hours, Scar didn't really mind the alchemy.

"Aw, dammit, Roy…" Ed gave a dramatic sigh, "C'mon, Al, we gotta go anyway."

As they walked out the door, Al whispered to Ed, "Should we tell them about the copies?"

"Naw, they'll find out soon enough," Ed smirked evilly.

The trio remained at Maes' house (the bathroom in particular) for the remainder of the day, recuperating from their hangovers. The man had to be threatened several times by both Scar and Roy before he would stop showing off both pictures of Elysia and the little girl herself. Eventually, though it was time for Scar to leave. It was a bit sad, as somewhere along the way they had somehow become almost friends. Whether it was while they had spent an hour in an awkward tangle having awkward conversation, or sometime else during the day, it had happened.

"Hey, Scar, before you go…" Maes spoke as Scar was walking out the door, "I know I wouldn't tell anyone if you were to, say…come over next Friday and play cards with us. Would you tell anyone, Roy?"

"I wouldn't tell anyone," Roy grinned.

Scar thought on this for a few moments, "No alcoholic anything?"

"No alcoholic anything," Maes and Roy repeated solemnly.

"And you wouldn't tell anyone?" Scar stressed the last word.

"Not a soul."

Scar shrugged and walked out the rest of the way, "Okay."

And so the duo of Roy and Maes became a cemented trio of Roy, Maes, and Scar. And nobody ever quite figured out how Ed was now somehow able to instantly shut up both Roy and Maes by saying 'pictures'.

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