.Short Stories.
Date
Edward was bored, with no money, and no food. Ok, he had money, he just didn't want to spend it all on that nice big fancy restaurant he wanted to go to. Here was the plan; he would go into the office, as usual, with his report, and say something along the lines of 'you all look bored, shall we play a game?' None his friends had ever played cards with him, so none of them will have known of his brilliant 'luck', which Al insisted was actually cheating. So, here he was, outside the office. He opened the door, everything seemed normal, everyone looked bored and…well…bored. He strode to the desk in his usual manner and slammed the paper work down onto the table. The bastard who called himself 'the almighty FLAME ALCHEMIST' was, as usual, sat scribbling things and playing with his pencil. He looked up at Ed for a moment, and then took the report.
"This it?" Roy started reading it. "Right, very vague, especially from what I heard happened. You know, you aught to be more observant when you go to places." Yes everything was, unfortunately, as usual.
"ANYWAY! I'm kind of bored right now, so, I was wondering if anyone wanted to play a game." It was a statement. Not a question. Havoc agreed, as did Breda and Riza. Ed grinned and turned to Mustang, who reluctantly agreed. Ed nodded and dumped some cards on the table, shuffling them up and pulling a chair up to Mustang's desk. The other three who agreed to play came round and looked at the mess.
"We're not going to play go fish, are we?" Havoc asked. Ed twitched.
"NO! We're not playing go fish! It's a random game, Al and I play it. A set number of cards keep you in the game, and you have to get one of these cards each time, or you'll be out. First person out has to take the last person out on a date." Roy looked at the blonde boy curiously.
"So why do you and Al play it?" These people were stupid in Ed's eyes.
"With us, the person who is being taken on the date gets to chose where to go. We can never decide other wise," Ah, brotherly love! "Numbers 2, 7, and picture cards keep you in. you pick seven cards each go, if two people go out on the first round, they get to stay in. Understand?" He got four nods. Well, three, but that was because Mustang wanted to be awkward. Each of the five picked out seven cards. They all laid them down flat. No one was out.
They repeated this three times, as at one point neither Riza nor Breda got any of the numbered cards. On the third time round, they laid them flat and The Flame Alchemist sighed in defeat.
"I'm out," They looked at the seven cards. Not one was right. Ed's grin widened slightly. Getting a free date was brilliant, getting a free date with the hottest guy in the room was even better. Even if he was an annoying, teasing, annoying, mean bastard. Ed shuffled the set cards in front of him. Two more times round, and Breda was out. After a few more goes, Ed was the last person in, with a nice big grin to support. Roy sighed again and stood, walking round and pulling the short boy out the room, with a few protests. "Well, we're off, bye!" Ed looked at him suspiciously.
"You seemed in a hurry." He pointed out. Something was wrong about this situation.
"I'd do anything to get out of paperwork. Even if it means paying for someone's food." Ed tucked his hands behind his back.
"And movies! I want to go to the movies too," A sweat-drop trailed down Roy's head. He should've known. "The restaurant I want to go to is really nice! You know the new Chinese one?" Roy could see this was going to cost him. A lot.
"You seem to have a plan organized. You didn't cheat did you?" Ed ignored the question and ran ahead.
"Come on! Stop being slow, old man!" This was going to be one hell of a day.
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Ed happily stood outside of the theater, humming away. Roy was beside him, looking at the advert for the movie he wanted to see. He wasn't impressed. Well, he was glad they weren't going to see some childish movie, but this wasn't all that much better.
"You're joking."
"Nope."
"You want me to actually pay to go see that?"
"Yup."
"Please tell me this is one of your sick jokes."
"Nope."
Roy sighed. This was getting him nowhere. "But Pride and Prejudice? Come on Ed, aren't you the Full Metal Alchemist? The boy who's seen what even Adults can't see? The adventurous Alchemist? I can think of millions of titles for you, and none would make you think someone like you would go see something like that." Edward stuffed his hands into his pockets.
"I don't care. All the more reason to prove them wrong."
"You go buy tickets," Rd mumbled something under his breath. "What?"
"It's a 15." Roy stared at the boy for a few moments.
"You're fifteen, aren't you," A nod. Roy handed him his wallet. "Off you go then. I'm not buying them." He walked in with the boy, and watched as he walked to the counter. There was a little conversation between the girl at the counter and the blonde boy. Neither looked impressed. Ed pointed at Roy, who was then not impressed. The girl said something else, which made Ed even madder and bark something back, in which she blushed slightly, and turned away with a snide remark. Edward stormed over to Roy, giving him the wallet back.
"You go." Roy was bewildered.
"Why can't you? You think I want to buy tickets to some romance film?" Ed growled and glared nastily at his date. "Tell me why you can't, and I'll go."
"I'm…not…old enough." Roy smirked.
"You mean you're not tall enough. You're old enough, just not tall enough." He said, dragging his speech. He received a swift auto-mail in his head. "Ok! I'll go!" And so, he walked over to the same lady, who was looking at him curiously.
"Can I…help you?" She asked, obviously not believing that the two Alchemists were out together.
"Two to Pride and Prejudice, please." She blushed and printed the tickets and such.
"Sorry, I mistook your boyfriend for a fourteen year old. It won't happen again." Roy blushed heavily.
"B-b…boyfriend?" She looked at him a smiled.
"Well yes, he did tell me, he said about how you two were out on a date, and you wanted to watch this movie. I have to say; whoever picked it knows what kind of thing to go see on a date! I'm impressed!" She gave him the tickets, and took the money he already had out. "Thank you! Have a nice time." She winked at the last part. Roy walked over to his 'boyfriend' with a fixed look in his eyes.
"Edward." Not being used to being addressed like this, it took the boy a moment to answer. Oh shit he was in trouble.
"Roy." He answered with the same tone. Roy bent down to be face to face with the young State Alchemist, who in turn, blushed a horrid colour and lent back slightly.
"So, you want this to be an official 'date' now, because that's what it sounded like when the lady was talking to me." Ed's blush hardened.
"WHAT! What did she say! She's probably jumping to conclusions! You know girls these days! Ha ha ha!" Edward rubbed the back of his neck. Roy took the boys hand and dragged him to the right movie room. "Hey! Let go!"
Zzz
Ed was feeling slightly awkward after the movie. Roy had treated it like a real date. The man's arm had been around his shoulder, and still was. They'd shared popcorn; Rot had fed the younger one popcorn. Roy almost fell asleep on Ed's shoulder, and the boy took the chance to rest his own head for a while. Ed was feeling slightly awkward. Not that he didn't mind just that he…didn't expect it.
"So, now where?" Roy purred. Ed was feeling slightly hot.
"That restaurant I was telling you about," He may have been feeling awkward, but the old bastard wasn't going to get all the fun. Ed grabbed the gloved hand in his own, and pulled his date, making him run along with him. "Come on old bastard! Stop going slowly!"
Zzz
Ed ordered a lot of food. Ed ordered a lot of expensive food. Roy did not have much money left after that. They were now on their way back to the office, where this whole mess started, hand in hand. It was sweet when you looked at it, though it could be classified as illegal. Ed had wrapped his arm around his elder's, who held the hand of the very same arm. They were very cute. As they walked the steps to the main central building, the occasional Alchemist would give them strange looks. The Flame Alchemist and The Full Metal Alchemist were holding hands after all. Some of the people, would smile or grin at them, one or two ruffled Ed's hair, maybe even one of them said 'Congratulations' to the shortest, making the boy blush in turn. It was weird; in Mustang's eyes anyway.
"Here we are." He declared, opening the door and striding in, the boy's arm still connected with his. Freeman and Riza seemed to be the only people in the room. Freeman blushed slightly, seeing the teo holding hands. Riza looked…shocked?
"Sir. You still have lots of work to do." She announced, still looking slightly bewildered. Roy was smirking slightly, obviously proud of himself, and the elder Elric brother had one of the biggest, goofiest grins she'd ever seen. Roy turned to the youngest occupant in the room and leaned down so they were eye to eye.
"I had a great time. Thanks for that." Edward nodded, gins still in place.
"Can I have one more thing?" Roy cocked his head to the side.
"What?" Ed leant down, and forward.
The other two in the room blushed and turned.
"You call that love?"
"I call that illegal."
Zzz
Kitty: last two lines taken from an Avatar
Hurray avatar-ness
I'm obsessive…
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