A/N: I'm gonna get this off my chest right away, I don't like this chapter. xD The original RP had alot of OOC-ness and humor in it. And I hadn't seen the whole series and I had a poor grasp of the characters. I tried to edit it majorly but it didn't come out quite how I wanted. I'm sorry. Also, the RP will pretty much just have everyone calling Mustang 'Colonel' .. cause I'm used to it. xD I apologize for this chapter and also how long y'all had to wait.

Something About You

Part seven

Roy knocked on the door again, shaking his head.

"Who is it?" Ed's voice finally called through the door.

"Your favorite military commander."

Al's eyes widened and after pulling on his pants, he quickly transmuted his broken teacup.

"Hang on a minute!" Ed yelled, and began grumbling to himself as he rushed to remove the stained tablecloth. Al quickly buttoned up his shirt and helped him, tossing it aside in a closet for the moment.

The blonde finally flipped open the door. "Uh, hey there Mustang. What's up?"

"... do you leave all your visitors at the door for so long?"

"No, just you."

Al came up to the door and hit his brother in the arm. "Sorry about him Colonel Mustang. You can come right in."

"Why thanks, Al. At least one of you Elric brothers is still polite." Roy commented as he entered the house.

"I can be polite when I want. I just don't want to."

"Enough of that, Edward. Really." Al said softly before turning to Roy again. "Would you like some tea? The water's still in the kettle so it shouldn't be cold..."

"I suppose so, why not?"

"Just a moment." The strawberry blonde said cheerfully, heading into the kitchen.

Ed took a seat at the table, motioning for Roy to do so as well. "What brings you to our part of the neighborhood, Mustang?"

"Well, I didn't get to see you and Al much when you were at Central recently, and I happened to be in the area. Also, I heard you needed some repairs so I wanted to see how you two were getting along."

"Oh really?" Ed tried hard not to frown, wondering if he had talked to Winry.

"Here's your tea, Sir." Al returned and set a cup in front of Roy. "Do you want anything, Brother?"

"No, that's alright Al, you can sit down."

Roy took a sip of his warm tea. "Ah, this is good. Anyway, what were you doing to your automail?"

"Um, I don't know. I guess Al and I were um .. training too hard or something. You know, I want to keep in shape."

"Yeah, sometimes I think he pushes himself too far." Al almost smirked.

"Hm. Well I happened to see Winry earlier. I couldn't get much out of her, actually. She kept laughing to herself when she talked about having to repair your automail. I couldn't understand it … are you feeling alright, Ed?"

The blonde's face had turned a slight shade of pink. "I'm fine."

"Are you sure, Brother?"

The conversation was interrupted suddenly when the door flew open and Winry came in.

"Ed, Ed! Roy Mustang is-" She ran into the dining room and saw Roy. "-already here! Hi!"

"Great timing, Winry." Ed sighed.

The flame alchemist frowned. "Yes, I'm already here. Why would you feel the need to warn him before I came?"

"Um, no reason! I just wanted him to...clean up his house before you got here?"

"Brother, what is this exactly about?" Al was starting to get an idea of what Winry was laughing about earlier.

"Elric, give me an explanation. One of you. Or you, Winry." Roy started to look exasperated.

Both Al and Winry simply looked towards the blonde. "Edward?"

Ed looked at Al helplessly before looking away and mumbling. "Winry guessed, Al, it's not my fault. And I didn't expect him to show up."

"She .. guessed?" Al slowly stated, the pieces falling into place. "How many clues did you give her before that happened?"

"I didn't give her any clues!" Ed burst out, defensively. "Except ... well I said "It was fine before Al and I-" AND THAT'S IT. Really! The whole thing was a total accident."

"Brother, still, why?" Al blushed.

"I didn't mean to! I mean, I know it was stupid, but it's not like I just went around telling everyone, oh guess what my brother and I did last night!"

"B-Brother! Seriously!" Al stuttered, totally flabbergasted. "You-I-you just said it in front of your former boss!"

"Oh please Al, like he hasn't figured it out by now! He's not that stupid. And Winry already knows, so .."

"I know that! I just don't think it's polite to put it that way."

Ed finally pushed his chair back and stood up. "I'm sorry I'm so impolite, Alphonse." He stalked out of the room and up the stairs.

Roy watched the blonde go the steps, currently too stunned for words.

Al looked after his brother and sighed, rubbing his arms as if trying to comfort himself. "I really don't know if I'm the person he wants to talk to right now..."

"I'm ... definitely not talking to him. I'm still ..." Roy shook his head, mumbling.

Al bit his lip. "You're not going to tell anyone, are you Colonel?"

"Actually, I don't think I ever want to discuss this with anyone again, Al."

"Um..." Winry finally spoke up. "I'll go talk to Ed. This is my fault, anyway."

"It's not, Winry. It's Brother and his big mouth .."

Winry half-smiled. "I'll be back with Ed in a minute." She went up the steps.

–

Ed was sitting in his room on his bed, still unsure of how he felt or what to do to fix the situation.

Winry knocked on the door as an announcement and walked in. "Hey..."

"Hi ..."

"Look I'm sorry, I didn't mean for anything chaotic like this to happen."

"Well ... it did." Ed didn't feel in a forgiving mood yet. He laid back on his bed and stared at the ceiling. "I hope everyone's happy."

The mechanic took a seat at the end of the bed. "I'm not."

"Yeah ... so now what? I didn't mean to just let everyone know about me and Al ... it was just supposed to be between me and him ... like everything else ..."

"Yeah, I know." She reached over and patted his real foot. "Al's terrified, too...it's a situation that should be best kept within yourselves, but you can still have that privacy. It's just, you now have a few shoulders...mostly mine...to come to about it if you really need to. Like now."

"I just didn't want Al mad at me, and now he is. I ... I hurt him, and I didn't mean to."

Winry shook her head. "I don't think he's really mad at you. He just didn't know how to react..."

"I still feel bad. ... I kinda feel bad for Mustang too." He cringed.

Winry tried not to chuckle a little. "Yeah, poor Mustang...but it was his fault for being curious."

"I suppose so." Ed frowned, another thought occurring to him. "Oh by the way Winry ..."

"Yes?"

"You probably should knock before you come into the house."

The mechanic's eyes widened at certain implications and she blushed before starting to cough. "Alright, yeah."

Ed rolled over onto his stomach. "So ... now what?"

"Wait, have you already disobeyed my orders to take it easy?"

The blonde grinned at her.

"Really, Ed?" She rolled her eyes.

"It was just once."

"Okay, okay, we don't need to go there." Winry laughed. "You know for someone who wanted so desperately to keep his relationship a secret, you're certainly letting a lot of information slip through."

"Now? Well you already know now so ... why not torment you a little?"

"Great. Now I get to hear about all your sexcapades. Lucky Winry Rockbell."

Ed sat up. "I'm not forcing you to sit here and listen to me."

Winry ruffled Ed's hair. "I know, I just want to make sure you're okay before we go back downstairs. Because we are going back downstairs."

"Fine, fine."

–

Al sat at the table by Roy in silence, not sure what to say.

"Hey Al ... I hate to bother you ... um ... now. But," Roy finally said, holding his teacup up. "Could you maybe get me more tea?"

Al smiled nervously. "I'm flattered you like it." He dashed off to quickly prepare him another cup.

The flame alchemist let out a deep breath. "Now about this business with your brother ... although it does explain a few things …"

Al blushed as he set down a new cup of tea. "Sir...?"

Roy coughed and sipped his tea again. "I'm not going to discuss this with anyone. I don't really feel a need to ... although it does give me quite a headache to think about ..."

"I...I apologize...but um, what exactly does it...'explain?' … You don't think we make it too obvious?"

"Oh that." He sipped his tea again. "I've known you two a long time and you both were always really attached to each other ... moreso than other brothers ..."

Al twiddled his thumbs. "Oh, I see."

"Normal people wouldn't really notice, Al." Roy laughed.

"Mmkay." The strawberry blonde looked pacified. "Er, sorry to keep you on this subject..."

"Ah ... well ... I just don't relish the thought of - well you know."

"I imagine not many people would." Al smiled sympathetically almost.

Suddenly they could both hear footsteps on the stairs. Al looked up towards the steps hopefully and then immediately switched his gaze to his thumbs.

"Hey .. everyone." Winry started to say brightly, but her voice failed in the end.

Roy looked at her blankly and Ed stood glumly by the steps, biting his lip.

"It's okay, Brother. I'm not mad." Al said quietly, breaking the awkward silence.

"Really, Al?" Ed went over to his brother and took his hand. He squeezed it gently. Al smiled up at him.

Winry tried not to smile herself and then looked over to Roy and tried even harder not to giggle. The flame alchemist covered his eyes with his hand and sighed.

The pair kissed quickly and then Al laughed, looking over to Roy. "It's safe now, Colonel."

"If you say so." Roy stated, dryly, but managed a smile. "I think I'm going to go for now though." He stood up. "Oh and Al. Great tea."

"Feel free to stop by some other time if you ever want more." Al invited.

"But not too often." Ed added in with a grin.

"I should be going too. Automail to work on." Winry started for the door with Roy before looking back. "And Ed, please try to heed my warning at least for the rest of today?"

Ed grumbled. "Okay, okay."

A/N: I hope everyone is okay with the humor aspect because it's going to continue throughout the rest of the RP. There will eventually be more romance and drama again though, we just have to build up to it. I'm really sorry. I'll try to work out some better plans over the weekend. The next chapter should be Roy, Winry, Ed & Al and drinking!