Jean Havoc fixed his black shades and straitened out his stander issue black suit and black tie. He was one of the few agents who really had no alchemical ability what so ever. No he was accepted into the agency for his expertise in short and long range it was his loyalty to his long time friend Mustang that ended up convincing him to join. Roy's Best friend Maes Hughes an Ex police man joined soon after. Maes and Havoc had vowed to stay in this place for so long as Roy stayed and pledged to help in whatever way they could to ensure Roy reached his goals.. so now here Havoc was smoking his cigarette and watching a snotty brat sit under a tree at a local children's park.
Havoc took another drag of his smokes as he continued to spy on the small dark haired boy that was known as Selim...so far This kid was considered to be rather boring. All the kid seemed to do was belittle others and read. finally he saw that the kid was leaving and crushed his cigarette under the heal of his boot. "Well, here goes nothing, lets see what he is up to now." Havoc sighed.
Edward smiled as he folded his hands in Alphonse's. Together they walked through the museum. It was the day they had planned to do the job. As always they liked to get a good idea of their surroundings and any possible cameras or alarms. Also there was nothing more calming than a museum. Both Edward and Alphonse have always loved to go to them since they were kids. It was always so peaceful. Historical and national art museums were always Edward's favourite place right next to the library.
Ever since Ed could remember Alphonse had always been sure to bring him to one whenever their mother was home from on one of her...'jobs'. Their mother for the most part ignored them and left them to themselves so that she could help out her friends with corrupt goings-on. Their mother was a monster you see. A beautiful but sadistic woman who enjoyed nothing more than killing and corrupting man kind. She went by a number of aliases but her true name was Sloth. One of the rare Seven deadly sins. Curiously enough though despite her origin she been able to conceive not one but two children with a former lover of hers. She probably would've had more kids were it not for the fact that she soon enough had decided that after Ed and Al were both born less than a year apart that having a relationship was too hard... so she killed him.
She was cruel to the two boys and if it wasn't for the Sin Barren, the two wouldn't have survived to live through infancy. She had taken care of them up till the day Ed turned 10..after which she had disappeared only to have her body turn up in the sewers two days later. After which their mother became increasingly more violent with them to the point of beating them almost daily. She even went as far as to ridicule Edward and Alphonse and put them in... compromising situations. They would even be sent to try and help with jobs making them do cruel things that neither were comfortable with.
Finally one day Alphonse could stand it no more. He watched Ed cower in a corner nearby as Sloth used her liquid hand to suffocate him while her other, solid, hand violently shook him. All the while belittling him and yelling at him for attempting to disobey her. Only hours earlier he had been sent to please another Sin named Envy but when Alphonse had caught whiff of what she was planning he was furious. No one could touch His brother like that no one. He had lied to Ed about what was all going on and told him that their mum had changed locations. The blissfully oblivious Ed had left to the other location unaware that he had just avoided being deflowered. Now two hours later Edward was being punished for Alphonse's Lie and it was killing him.
"You worthless little bitch. Can't you listen?" She demanded not expecting an answer. for He was not able to one. He spent the whole time just concentrating on reading. He turned his pained gold eyes up and glared defiantly at her. "Don't act like you have balls Ed. You know you are really more of a girl than a boy pretty much the only think you lack is breasts." She scoffed as she kicked him in the stomach causing him to keel over and vomit. Alphonse's dark-gold eyebrows furrowed furiously and without thinking twice he barrelled into her knocking her over just as she was about to land Ed with another kick. Edward was finally released from her suffocating clutches and fell unconscious in a crumpled heap.
Sloth was surprised at first to see Alphonse attacking her but than smiled cruelly. "Dear, you wouldn't hurt your own mother would you?" SHe asked as she licked her lips.
Alphonse stared apathetically at her for a moment before he clapped his hands together. "I have no mother." He said simply before he placed his hands on the woman causing her to turn body to turn to it's liquid form and than slowly evaporate.
"Noooo!" Sloth screamed in agony. Writhing in agony waves of gas boiling off her diminishing form her screams becoming more frantic until at last they stopped. Her still solid eyes turned to Alphonse almost pleadingly.
"No one touches Edward but me." Alphonse said calmly as he turned and went to pick up his brother who was still out like a light. Ed's breathing was ragged but other than that his face was blank. Alphonse carefully carried his brother away from that accursed place. He found an alleyway where he hid easily in the shadows, it was after all talent of theirs. They could hide nearly anywhere so long as there was a shadow nearby. He sat there and held his brother safely close to him and played with his long golden hair. He would protect Edward with all he had and more from this day forward. Together they would live in peace doing whatever they wanted together. No more would they associate themselves with any of the sins. they weren't worth either Ed's or his time.
He was awoken from his musings by Edward's mumblings. Edward soon opened his eyes and looked around frantically. "Where..is she...?" He asked nervously.
"She's gone, she won't be bothering us anymore." Alphonse said softly as he pulled his shaking brother close. Edward sobbed softly as he clutched Alphonse close. "I thought I was going to die Al." He wailed.
"No one will harm you Brother, not while I am around." Alphonse said firmly.
"Promise?" Edward asked softly as he cuddled in closer to Al.
"Promise." Alphonse said as he pulled Edward closer. " You and I will be together forever."
Edward pulled Alphonse into the food court and looked from him to a pasta stand and back again. "Let me guess you want some ramen?" Alphonse asked amused.
"Oh~ you know me so well Al." Edward said as he stared hungrily at the stand. His mouth already watering. The smells of all the foods seemed to pale in comparison the smell of the ramen stand at the far side of the food court. The warm smell of the chicken stock and the cooking vegetables drowned the pair in it's inviting way. The only other smells capable of doing such feats to the two boys were hot, sweet tea or a particularly strong black coffee.
Roy looked disinterestedly around the museum as his girlfriend clung to his arm and looked around excitedly. Normally she was so much more composed but the scenery and art were enough to bring out the inner girl inside her. "Oh, and just over there is the Mona Lisa." She said as she pointed over to where the painting hung. They both strolled over to it to admire it. Neither noticing two golden haired boys dressed in simple blue jeans and white shirts approach from behind. Both were looking around intently at everything around them.
When they finally reached the actual painting The long haired boy rudely pushed Roy aside. "Move it, old man, and let the beautiful and handsome people see it first." He said roughly. "Alphonse beautiful goes first. " The boy smirked as he himself stepped forth to glance intently up at the picture. "Yes I was right this is the original, Al." He said smugly.
Roy stared at the two curiously. They looked familiar. Had he seen them before? The taller boy was wearing blue jeans and a a white dress shirt. His golden hair was slightly darker than the shorter one who was wearing blue jeans and a white and red striped shirt. His really long hair was down and framed his rather..girly pale features.
"Let me see." Alphonse said as he politely walked past Roy and Riza to look closely at it as well. He even went so far as to touch it gently.. "Yeah, it is. Well, lets get going Ed." Alphonse said gently grabbing Ed's hand. "well have a nice day." Alphonse said politely. "Al~ I wanted to look at it some more." Edward whined.
"We are going to see it plenty later." Alphonse said patiently. Alphonse had seen Roy staring at them out of the corner of his eyes and frankly he didn't like it, there was something suspicious about him and that girl. Edward however had been to engrossed in the painting to notice much of anything. Oh well he would tell Edward about it when they were at a safer distance.
Riza looked over at Roy expectantly. "Roy? Aren't we going to follow them?" She asked roughly.
"What? Why?" Roy asked confused.
"Those two are the Elric brothers!" Riza said rolling her eyes.
"Oh shit. I knew they looked familiar." Roy cursed clapping himself for his stupidity. The two of them hurried to catch up with the two boys but to their surprise the two were already gone. Thinking that they left the two of them hurried out the door. when the door closed behind them the brothers smirked as they stepped out from around a corner and smirked.
"Your right Alphonse, that old man is after us. We'll need to keep an eye out for him" Edward said narrowly.
Alphonse smiled lustfully as he watched Edward brush his long golden hair. At the moment Ed looked more like his girl side and it was tantalizing. No one else but him and a few of the sins knew of Edward's... "special" condition. He was only about 30% man.
Many had argued what his actual gender is. Just looking at him he looked like a chest-less woman however when he spoke he sounded like a boy before puberty. He however did honestly have a member however small and he had a vagina. Yes, Edward was actually a unisex. He was according to the doctors he was about 70% woman and fully able to bear children. However despite all that, he preferred that people called him a boy..Unlike girls, boys were harder to take advantage of no one messed with a boy but it was painfully obvious however that his inner girl would take over him as much as it could,he was after all mainly a girl. He would from time to time even wear those fancy black or red dresses that he loved so much.
His condition actually made sense to Alphonse; Edward or Edwina as he was sometimes called was after all the Sin Pleasure. The fact that he was both genders only made sense. Ed was the prime example of rare exquisite and almost ethereal beauty. Alphonse on the other hand was more manly and boyish. He was Edward's protector or perhaps his champion. He hoarded his brother/sister and greedily clutched him close to his heart and side. He longed for nothing else than to be by Ed's side. He couldn't help it,he couldn't deny his nature any more than he could deny that the world turned or deny the stars.
For while Ed was Pleasure, Alphonse was Desire or Covet as he liked to think, for he made sure no one else could touch his treasure. Neither liked to refer to each other by those names. It had been a long time, since they were just the young age of four they decided to pick different names. Hence they went from being Pleasure and Desire to Edward and Alphonse. The names... just seemed to suit them. Although they never forgot their true names, the markings on their flesh would never let them forget. Alphonse subconsciously fingered his red Ouroborous on his lower right hand side. No, this birthmark was a constant reminder. He glanced up at Ed who was still absent mindedly brushing his hair and wondered what was going on in his head.
"Edo, it's almost time to go. Want me to braid your hair?" Alphonse asked softly.
Edward deftly stood up and walked over to his brother handing him the brush and a couple black ponytails. Alphonse smiled and Edward happily sat in Alphonse's lap as he allowed Alphonse to comb his fingers through the golden locks. He started to braid it with precision and care, making sure there was no stray hair, aside for Edward's side bangs. As Al braided, Edward kicked his legs and hummed softly to himself, loving every minute of the younger sibling's attention.