All the Words Written

by The-Missing-Paige

Years after the events of Brotherhood, Edward and Roy have given into romance and are now living together. While trying to make the place a little tidier, Ed finds some letters from Roy to him that he's never seen before…and they remind him that he has some unsent letters of his own. Slow burn.

8. Chapter 8

Mustang,

The Freeze Alchemist, huh? They need to get more creative with these names. Flame, Freeze, Strong Arm…pretty boring. Fullmetal is at least a little different.

I'm glad he's been dealt with, though I wish he could have been brought in alive. I don't like the thought of having to kill someone to do my job, but I guess if you work for the military that just comes with the territory.

When me and Al were chasing him, he was saying some pretty crazy stuff. Not a whole lot made sense to me, but he mentioned Ishval several times. He sort of made it sound…you're going to think I'm crazy. But the way he talked, it was like McDougal thought he was some sort of revolutionary, shining light on the crimes of the government.

Everyone knows about Ishval, though, so it's not like he had some big secret up his sleeve, yeah? Maybe if you didn't patronize me so much I'd ask you about the war. I guess I'll just have to make do with researching in the library instead.

If the military was hiding anything about Ishval, anything to do with alchemy…you would have told me, right?

-Ed