Envy lingered around a small café in the form of a young, handsome man around Ed's age. He hadn't thought much about what to do with Duo, but now he had been able to convince Lust of how truly dangerous he could be to their plans. Once had had thoroughly told her what happened during their fight.

She had ordered him to have Gluttony eat him, but Envy had known this would be harder than she thought. It had only been one battle, but with just that he had been able to see that he was not inexperienced in any sort of combat and he had skills no ordinary human would have. Meaning he might not be completely human after all…

This could also serve his purpose in isolating Duo to make it easier to kill him off. And Envy knew exactly who to choose to make sure no one would interfere…

> > >

Roy drummed his fingers on his desk until Havoc finally got fed up and told him to stop.

"What's your problem anyway? All day you've been acting agitated and you keep snapping at the lower officers if they make to much noise by filing papers!" Havoc sighed when he saw his Colonel wasn't listening to a word he was saying.

His midnight blue eyes stared intensely out the window as if he expected something important to fall from the sky. Much to Havoc's surprise, there was suddenly a blur past the window as something fell from the roof.

Everyone seemed to see it or hear the loud crash it made; apparently it landed in a tree. Roy stood up and began running down the hall and down to the front of the building where the thing fell closest to.

> > >

Duo and Al surveyed the cafeteria to see if Ed had gotten there yet, but didn't see his red jacket anywhere. In a way, they weren't very surprised since they hadn't expected him to be on time in the first time.

"Oh wait… we shouldn't be looking for his red jacket should we…? I forgot he's wearing a uniform because of what we were doing last night-" Al cut Duo off in mid-sentence before he realized what he was saying.

"Let's just sit down and you can eat while we wait." Alphonse went to go reserve a table for them.

Most of the other men ignored the two of them except one man who purposefully grabbed for Duo's braid when he was passing by.

It was a short quick jerk that was hard enough to make Duo yelp in pain, "What the hell are you doing?"

He swiped at the man's hand, but the guy was too quick for him. His buddies began sniggering at Duo, but he just ignored them and went to Alphonse. Al tried to see if Duo was in any way affected by that, but he put on such a convincing smile he let the issue rest.

"I wonder where Brother is? He usually doesn't take so long to get dressed, but then again he never usually changes clothes either."

"Then how come his clothes are always clean?" Duo asked as he took a bite into his bread.

"He uses alchemy to make them brand new every day, but he does keep spare clothes in case he can't replace what was destroyed or lost." Al seemed to know Ed like the back of his hand, which made Duo laugh at the thought of Edward being imprinted on the metal armor.

Nobody was really bothering them until Alphonse got up to leave and find Edward; which was also the time the same man who had yanked Duo's braid brought all his buddies over to Duo's table. The man sat right next to Duo intentionally and scooted as close as possible to him until his hand would've been able to reach around Duo's waist.

The brunette kept calm until the man really did begin to advance on him. Then with a quick punch, Duo shattered the man's nose.

"You fucking bitch! You'll pay for that!" The man was about to get up when Riza Hawkeye walked in.

She noticed the man holding his nose and demanded an explanation to what happened. The man with the broken nose began first with all of his groupies backing him up.

"This fucking bastard just punched me from out of nowhere! I didn't do anything to him other than sit next to him and try to be friendly!"

Duo tried to keep his temper, but could feel it fading fast. "I can't believe you all can warp the truth so easily! That's not what happened and you started this whole thing!"

Duo pointed out the man and he tried to deny it, but when other people who witnessed it began taking Duo's side he quickly lost.

"You'll be demoted for this and you will be banned from the dorms. It is against code to do such acts to people who want no part of such. By tomorrow you will be out of here."

"Yes ma'am." The man saluted his superior as she had Duo stand up and leave with her.

> > >

Edward and Al had met up in the halls, and while they were heading to the cafeteria Al was telling Ed about all that had happened. Ed seemed particularly angry at the man who had pulled Duo's braid but Al didn't say how obvious it was.

As the entered, Alphonse looked at the last table they were sitting at and found the group of men where Duo had been sitting. "Did you see where the guy with the braid went?"

"Of course we did! That mother fucker just got me knee-deep in shit because he lied to Lt. Hawkeye and said we were doing something wrong! And then he punched me and broke my nose!"

Ed tried to see the damage Duo had done and was amazed at how accurately he had aimed and how quickly he had done it. It had only taken him and Al two minutes to get back down there.

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