It was puking snow when the next date occurred. Ed tried to wade through all the snow in order to reach the meeting place, but his arm and leg continuously caused him to sink, and he was too small to gets shot

He pulled himself up on a windowsill that was open in order for the restaurant owner to be able to let people into his restaurant without having to shovel the area in front of the door every five seconds. He waited in the restaurant for over an hour before realizing that his date had stood him up. He sighed, realizing that it would be impossible for her to get here, especially when the restaurant was only a block away from headquarters and the woman lived all the way on the other side of East City.

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Ed came back from his next date with yet another head injury and a rather… unique fear of hairnets. And of course, since hairnets are only bought by old ladies who buy nothing else except for dog food, this fear would have been left unnoticed if it hadn't been for the fact that Roy lost a bet. Ed woke up in the hospital with several restraints holding him down. Roy was sitting beside him, reading a book he had stolen from Kakashi. When he noticed that Ed was awake, he snapped the book shut and threw it to Kakashi, who disappeared with his uber-awesome ninja skills before Ed could figure out what the book was about.

Roy quickly dusted himself off and tried to look all official and stuff, but it didn't work very well. "Erm… well, Fullmetal, it seems you've obtained a rather rare phobia. Care to explain how?"

Ed shuddered as he remembered the hairnet incident. "Please… no more hairnets… I can't take it… NO! NOT THE HAMSTERS!"

Roy was all WTF at this, but he didn't comment. He simply patted Ed on the head and gave him a lollipop. Sadly, the candy fell out of Ed's mouth and since Ed was restrained, he couldn't exactly get it. Roy left and was hit by a train that randomly came through the hallway because he hadn't helped Ed retrieve the lollipop.

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Roy and Ed spent several days in the same hospital room, each recovering from their various injuries. When the time came for them to leave, Ed was appalled to hear that he had another date that very evening. He sat in his hotel room and thought it over for a very long time before getting an idea.

"Al, you go."

"What? You can't do that, brother…"

"I'll let you keep a kitty."

"OMFMTYAYSKITTIESILIKEKITTIESI'LLDOITBROTHERTHANKYOU!!!!!"

Ed smiled and fell asleep as Al got ready for his first date.

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Al came back in a very good mood that night. Ed stared at him for a while before asking what he was so happy about.

"Oh, brother, it was wonderful! She was so nice, and she was sad you couldn't make it, but she understood and said she'd like to meet you sometime, not as a date, but as just like a get-together or something and she's pretty and she's not psycho and she loves kitties too and thank you brother I'm so happy now!"

"You're welcome, Al." Ed paused. "Wait, it was good?"

"Yep."

"So, if I had gone, I wouldn't have been subjected to more…" Ed trailed off. He didn't want to remember.

"Yep." All of a sudden, Al pulled off his chest piece and pulled out a kitten. "So brother this is the kitty I want to keep he's really sweet and I named him Edward because he's got all your good qualities and he's quiet and I love him and please don't go back on your promise because then Edward will cry and I don't want to see him sad please?"

Ed just grunted. He was too upset about the fact that the one date he'd skipped would have been a good one to care that he'd also gotten a random fear of kitties from the hairnet incident. But his fear of kitties would only come out if the kitty were wearing a hairnet, so it wasn't really a fear of kitties, except for the fact that the fear would be much worse than just a normal hairnet sighting.

Then Ed got sick of the rambling and escaped from my closet and yelled at me to stop writing run-ons and so this is where I'm ending it for today.