Bad Idea
A/N: This chapter is when Ali goes back to the hotel room she's staying in with the Elric brothers. Warning: usage of "bad" language in this (and almost every) chapter. I have a potty mouth and so do the characters in my fics. If you don't like it, get the fuck over it. Just kidding, but I'm not changing it, so…yeah. Anyway, school has started and I probably won't be able to update for a while or at least until the weekends. Please R&R even if the review is only like one word or an emoticon or something. I would really appreciate your honest reactions, but please keep it remotely nice (meaning no flames).
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Chapter 3: An Interesting Convo (not really)
"Hi." Ali said casually as she walked in the hotel room and closed the door behind her.
"Hi? You leave pissed off at us, don't come back, causing us to worry, then show up the next morning and all you have to say to us is hi?" Ed fumed.
"Brother, calm down. She's here now, so everything's okay." Al said, trying to calm his hot-headed brother.
"Calm down? I almost got a search party to look for her! How the fuck am I supposed to calm down?" Ed yelled louder.
"Wow Ed, I didn't know you cared so much." Ali teased with a small chuckle as she sat on the bed and kicked off her shoes.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Ed was now getting really bright red, and Ali wasn't convinced that it was entirely because his anger.
"Is that a blush I see?" She continued to tease him.
"Why would I be blushing? And you didn't answer my question!" he turned a deeper shade of red. That was without a doubt a blush.
"Aww Ed's blushing." She laughed, pointing at him.
"Am not. Stop laughing like an idiot." Ed grumbled as he sat down next to Ali.
She quickly wrapped her arms around him, giving him a big hug, and kissed his cheek.
"Thanks Ed." She then turned to look at al. "you too Al."
"For what?" Ed asked still brighter red than a perfectly ripe tomato.
"For being good friends and caring. You guys are really great. Sometimes I almost wish the search would never end." She started cheerfully, then sounded sadder and sadder with the last few words. "But then I remember all my friends and family back home and…" Ed and Al thought she was going to cry. "…and I remember why I'm working with you."
Ed wrapped his arm around her shoulders, slightly pulling her towards him.
"It's okay, we'll find a way to take you back." He said gently.
"The only problem with that is that I'll miss everyone here. I guess this' the perfect example of a no-win situation." She laughed slightly at the last sentence.
"Yeah…" Ed said, rather gloomily.
"Haha you guys sure do make a cute couple." Al giggled from the corner of the room.
"Al, do you realize how wrong that is? I'm fuckin nineteen and he's fifteen. I'm not a pedo! And I don't like short guys, no offense Ed." Ali said.
"Hey! Wait, what?" Ed said, realizing what she said.
"Nothing." She answered quickly.
Both of the Elrics looked at her for a few minutes.
"So…. Any chance I can take a nap before we start working?" she said, quickly changing the subject.
"A nap? What did you even do last night?" Ed asked innocently.
"Apparently I kicked some drunk pervert's ass at the bar." Ali said with a shrug.
"Nice. Who was it?" Ed asked.
"Oh you're gunna love this. It was none other than the king of perverts." She said with a grin.
"Mustang?" Ed yelled, laughing.
Ali nodded.
"I always knew he'd get his ass kicked. I was hoping I'd be the one to do it, but this is way better!" Ed yelled between laughs.
"Poor Colonel. You didn't hurt him too bad, did you?" Al asked.
"Let's just say you won't be able to notice him for a few days." Ali laughed.
Ed was laughing so hard he was crying.
"And the best part is that I got so hammered last night that I woke up this morning in his bed." She said, laughing.
Ed immediately stopped laughing.
"You what?" He almost yelled.
She laughed harder at Ed's facial expression.
"It's not like that. I knocked out when he went to get coffee, so he carried me to his room because the couch was uncomfortable. Well, that's what he told me this morning." She explained.
"I highly doubt that's what happened." Ed muttered.
"It is. I remember falling asleep on a couch last night, and you of all people should know that if someone touches me when I'm asleep there's a 99.… wait, what was I saying? Oh, yeah. There's almost a hundred percent chance that they'll get hurt." Ali said.
"Yeah, you hit me hard when I was trying to wake you up. Hell, you hit me when Al tried to wake you up and I was right next to him."
"Yeah. You should be used to it by now as much as Winry hits you with tools." Ali said, laughing.
"I'd rather be hit by a hammer than your fist, or your foot, or you in general." Ed said.
"I could hit you with a hammer." Ali said, smiling.
"No!" Ed said, scooting away from her a little.
"I was kidding. I'd never hit you with a hammer. Well, not intentionally." She said.
Ed scooted away a little more.
"Remind me never to be around you when you have a hammer."
"That's just common sense. If you don't know that then you're more of an idiot than I thought."
"I did know that." He said. "Hey wait a minute, I'm not an idiot!" Ed yelled.
"No, but you are slow." Ali said with a laugh.
"Am not!"
"And you're childish." She said, smiling.
"Am not." Ed said, then stuck his tongue out at her.
"You know, doing that only proves my point more." Ali said matter-of-factly.
"You sound like him." Ed mumbled.
"I heard that. And to whom are you referring?"
"I'm referring to a certain colonel that went to work with two black eyes and a fat lip and, knowing you, a higher pitched voice."
"Haha he probably does have a higher pitched voice." She laughed. "And I'm not sounding like him. You've known me long enough to know that."
"Yeah, but still…" Ed pouted.
Ali rolled her eyes. "Anyway, are we going to work or not?"
"I have to go to HQ for my new 'assignment' from colonel shit face." Ed said, annoyed.
"Okay, I guess I'll just hang out around town until you're done."
"Okay. Come on Al, let's go." Ed said, turning to his brother.
He got up and they both walked to the door.
"Bye. See ya later." They said in unison.
"Bye." Ali said, waving.
After they left, Ali got up and took a shower before going to walk around town.