Drabble Rating: G
Status: 55/100
Word Count: 200
Theme: Roy/Ed #16: "Promise"
"This has gone too far." Roy had found his lover in his usual haunt of a lonely field far outside of Resembool, and the cool evening air betrayed no sounds save for each other's voices. "Something has you upset; tell me what it is."
"...you already know." The boy frowned, walking past his lover with determined strides. "Just leave me alone."
The older man grabbed Alphonse's arm, yanking him back again. "Tell me," he insisted, "I haven't spent the last few weeks with you just to get rejected now."
When Alphonse spun around to meet Roy, though, his eyes were blazing with anger, something so alien to his normally-sweet features that the older man was stunned. His voice, too, was far more vehement than Roy could remember it being. "Just leave me alone!"
"...no." Roy held the boy tightly. "What's gotten you so upset?"
It took coaxing, but in the end, the matter came to the fore. That promise that Roy had forced Alphonse to agree to, and the pain and loneliness the young man now felt because of it, was finally revealed.
So, Roy whispered a new promise into Alphonse's ear. One that made the boy smile again.