A.N.: Seems that I lost my beta reader again – sighs – please forgive my grammar and other stuff. Last chapter Roy and Ed were finally together, but Ed never was taught how to deal a relationship with someone so older than him, from this chapter this will be the principal subject. Special thanks to GreedyxEd who gave me an amusing plot bunny for this chapter ;)

Warnings: Language.

Rate: PG-13.

Act one: "Relationship"

Ed's walked through the turbulent corridors from Central Headquarters for years, but this time was kind of different.

"He's the Flame Alchemist's newest date…" the receptionists whispered.

The looks on their faces and mutterings everywhere he'd went made him want to puke. He'd always aware of people, but these people were disgusting.

Better finish this as soon as possible and go back to the hotel – he thought, while was heading to the bastard's office.

He opened the door and poked his head inside. The entire crew was there, receiving instructions from the Colonel. The blonde thought that was better to come back other time. Havoc who was the closest one to the door noticed his presence and dragged in the unwilling short blonde.

"Hey Boss, won't say hello to your friends?" the taller blonde locked his right arm around Ed's neck.

"Cut off smoke head! Let me go!" Ed snarled and struggled against the iron grip.

"Calm down boss…we're only happy for you two. The chief told us." Havoc freed the shorter blonde and grinned. Ed looked around and saw the dumb expressions of his friends.

Lt. Hawkeye rolled her eyes. Fuery was so red like a tomato. Fallman looked away and Breda in some moment ran to the bathroom saying something like "I hate yaoi."

The bastard's face culminate the top of the mess, he simply showed his trademark smirk. Extremely embarrassed the short blonde left the office as fast as he could. He'd stopped in the back crowd to catch his breath.

"Bastard! Son of a bitch! How did you dare to make me feel like this shit?" he'd muttered and sat under a big tree to rest. He'd wanted the bastard so hard, but he'd never thought what would happen if other people find out their little affair.

"Ed." A low baritone voice startled him and he turned his head. Yeah, he was sure… that voice… the bastard's voice.

Roy was standing next a nearby tree with a smirk on his lips.

"What are you doing here asshole?" the small blonde yelled.

"Why did you run like that?" The black haired man approached cautiously. Even that they became lovers just a week he'd known for years the blonde's short temper.

"Because you're a jerk… everybody is staring at me while I'm in Central." The blonde snarled.

"I can't stop the people to wonder about one's life… but do you feel ashamed of me?" Roy crossed his arms.

"No…" Ed replied mockingly.

"Neither I. People have short memory… soon they will forget the gossips." Roy sat at the blonde's side.

"Short?" Ed snarled.

"Okay…you know that I didn't mean it Ed. Listen," Roy sighed "We're risking too many things staying together. Some girls spotted us in that carnival…"

"…and?" Ed felt his irritation be placed by fear. He couldn't lose his boyfriend or his military access to information.

"Hakuro came to see me today asking if that was true." Roy looked at Ed's eyes "I lied… I said that you're like a son for me."

"Fuck you! I'm not a kid to be hanging around!" Ed ranted and stood.

"Ed!" Roy grabbed Ed's flesh hand. The blonde stopped but didn't look at the colonel.

"Let me go."

"You said that was going to do anything for this relationship didn't you? I told a lie to that bastard…and felt like shit." The taller man pulled the blonde closer "I love you don't forget."

"For real? If you're just playing with my feelings I promise that you'll never have kids and--"

Roy pulled the blonde and sealed his lips with a passionate kiss.

"Do you need more evidences?"

The black-haired man cupped the blonde's cheek. Ed blushed.

"No."

"We might have patience… see you tonight, seven o'clock in your place?"

The teen smiled embarrassed.

"Yeah, see you tonight."

Act two: "Imagination"

A blond teenager was examining some books in a book seller. The 'alchemy corner' wasn't very attractive that Saturday morning, no releases since the last month. Bored, the blonde just passed by the other sections to see if he could find something interesting to read. Al went out of the town, visiting Risembool because granny caught a cold. Roy was so busy that week that they barely talked to each other.

His eyes suddenly spotted a hidden section, smaller than the others. Ed looked at the section's name: 'Adult books'. He saw some books with 'suggestive titles' in the covers and smaller pocket books with women and men in very 'compromising positions'.

I never noticed this section before – he thought. He grabbed one of the pocket books and looked at its cover. A virile black-haired man was holding his partner – a ravishing blonde woman – against the wall. Their faces' expressions were purely of lust and desire.

The teenager felt the blood rush to his cheeks by the thought that could be Roy and him instead of the actors. His lower regions reacted at that thought and he decided that was better get away of that section before any attempt against the morality can happen in that place. He placed the book back and was about to leave when a man joined in. He stopped just in the entrance, examining books. Ed looked at him by the corner of his eyes. Blonde hair, tall, shitty face…no doubt that man was the Lt. Havoc.

Today Ed wasn't using his usual red coat and leather pants; Jean didn't recognize him – not yet. Shit! If he figures out that I'm here... fuck! Caught looking at porn! No way! – the short blonde thought. Ed was grateful that he had to send his clothes to laundry and was using a jacket, plain red T-shirt, dark blue jeans and tennis. He released his hair from the high ponytail letting his hair down and left his automail hand out of sight. Now he had a chance, he could pass by the asshole without being noticed. He just had to wait until the moment the guy gets so distracted to notice him leaving.

Jean looked by the corner of his eyes at the small blonde who was in the same section with him. He cursed his lazy ass for forgetting his contact lens at home, he can't see right without them. The other person by the long blonde hair probably was a young girl, looking at porn. Looking at porn! Great Jean, you found out your big chance… a young and naughty girl – Havoc thought and tried to see more. When he left his house today - his day off - to buy porn he would never imagine that he will find out the girl of his dreams. He haven't gotten many girls – okay, any girl in months. Perhaps over a year? He can't recall. Jean noticed that the girl was very shy, hiding the face behind her hair. Sometimes he could see the faint bright of her eyes, glancing at him through the golden hair. She was looking at him too! Jean felt his heart racing. It was so wrong, but so deliciously exciting. She was what? Sixteen? Seventeen? He can't figure out. His boss was dating Edward who was fourteen years younger, if she was the girl of his dreams, age doesn't matter. He walked ahead, closer. If she liked him, he would know.

"It's a pretty Saturday, don't you think?"

He grabbed randomly a book and opened it. She remained quiet and didn't look up.

"Sorry, Am I scaring you? I normally don't do this but I couldn't resist to your beauty."

WTF? – Ed heard that shit and had to refrain himself from laughing. The asshole mistaken him by a girl, and was actually flirting. He remained still, thinking in a way to get out. Just standing there was really weird, so he grabbed another book and started to browse it.

Jean noticed that she decided to stay and got a book. He'd know that book, it was his favorite. Clever girl – he told himself. Maybe it was a signal? Could she be interested?

"My name is Jean, and yours? By the way, you have a gorgeous hair."

Damnit! He's asking my name – the shorten blonde fidgeted. Now he'd figured out why the man didn't have girlfriend. He sucked at flirts. He shall get out of that place now or the dumbass can recognize him. Ed replaced the book back and quickly as he could he headed to the exit.

"W-wait, I'm sorry…"

Jean called the girl out and griped her wrist… a metal wrist? The man felt the cold feeling from the metal and stared at the short blonde's hand.

"Automail?"

Shit, shit, shit, shit... – Ed didn't dare to look at Havoc.

"Havoc? Edward?"

Someone called them. The worst, they know whose person that voice belongs. Jean stared blankly at his commanding officer. Ed pulled his arm and glanced up at Roy.

"What the hell is going on?"

The black-haired man crossed his arms and waited for a response. Edward just smirked deviously and answered.

"Just went out for shopping and you?"

Ed approached his lover and kissed him lightly on his lips.

"I'm here to take you out for lunch but you don't give me a answer-"

The short blonde hanged on his lover arm and was already dragging him out when Roy looked at his subordinate who stayed in the shop and seemed so pale.

"Jean?"

Havoc fainted. The black-haired man looked at the devilish smaller blonde.

"What have you done to him?"

Roy went back and carried his subordinate out of the shop. The other costumers were commenting and looking at them.

"The asshole thought that I was a girl and was flirting with me."

Ed laughed amused. Strangely he didn't feel pissed with that.

"Oh, nice. Did you let him flirt with you? Ed!"

The teenager glanced at his lover and smirked.

"What? Are you jealous?"

"Yes, I am. You're mine and only."

Havoc wake up in time to see the couple kissing. He fainted again.

"Damnit! C'mon Havoc!"

Roy yelled and tried to wake up the man, with no use.

"What are we goin' to do with him? I'm starved."

The short blonde complained and Roy knew, a hungry Edward Elric was worse than an infuriated bear. So he did the most reasonable solution, put the man on a taxi and sent him to his home. When he came back to his lover, Ed wasn't on a good mood.

"I'm hungry you know."

The blonde frowned and crossed his arms.

"Huh, Let's go the Luigi's… today they're serving a lasagna."

Roy noticed that the promising lunch lighted Ed's mood. But he was still very curious about your lover and his subordinate's weird encounter.

"Huh, Ed…?"

Ed glanced up and raised an eyebrow in askance.

"What?"

"Why did you let him flirt with you?"

The short alchemist seemed to ponder the question and finally he answered.

"I'm leaving that to your imagination Mustang… or you can get the information by frying Havoc's ass at Monday."

Grinning, Ed left his lover with a confused expression on his face. Roy followed the small blonde dutifully, wondering how he could blackmail Havoc for that...

Act three: "Pride, rock and fries"

Central city has meant just two things to the Elric brothers. For the youngest, a time to settle down and go check out new books in the library. Therefore, Edward had the same reason for books, but instead of settling down the blonde had only one thing in mind: his new and first lover Roy Mustang. Between his trips and Roy's responsibilities as Colonel, Edward thought that they grew close on their relationship. They completed their first two months and despites the blonde's tantrums, Roy seemed to be a dedicated boyfriend. He had constantly called the blonde from everywhere Ed was, just to hear his voice. He had given any sort of gifts, flowers and chocolates. The short alchemist felt his man pride a little bit hurt. He loved to be treated, but not in that girly way. Thinking in that, he decided to show to Mustang that he was a man in this relationship. From the hotel, he called his lover and asked him to go out in a date.

Back to his hotel room, Ed looked at his economies and there wasn't much money left, but it wasn't a big deal. There were a lot of cheap places that he'd went and well, at least the food was good. Roy would understand that he had to take care of himself and his brother with a payment for a Major – which wasn't that much. Majorly his salary was consumed by the hotels and train tickets.

He took a bath and decided to go out without his leather pants and red coat. A white shirt and linen black pants would be nice, he even left his hair down which Roy loves so much. Alphonse will spend the night playing poker with the office's guys. The blonde left the hotel and headed to the black-haired man apartment.

Roy's PV

Roy thought that Ed's idea was rather amusing. He never was asked to go out before by another male, so this would be interesting. He was a little bit curious too; he wondered what Ed has prepared for their date. He'd known that the blonde cannot afford a fancy place, perhaps some small restaurant – any date with Edward Elric meant that food is involved. They had great moments until now, to meet each other and growing inside of the relationship. The black-haired man was more experienced than Edward, so he has known that patience was the secret to keep the blonde. Roy decided to use his dark blue shirt and dark pants, which Ed haven't seen before. When he finished combing his hair, soft knocks annunciated Ed's arrival.

"H-hi…"

The blonde greeted him shyly. He seemed nervous, but Roy calmly pulled the blonde to his arms and kissed him. He felt Ed's tense muscles relaxing on his arms.

"Hi to you too."

The black haired man smiled and waited for the blonde do the next step.

"Huh… shall we go then?"

Ed blushed and offered his arm for Roy who held it fondly.

"Where are we going?"

The older man asked amused. Ed was doing exactly what he have been doing during their dates, probably the little brat was showing to him that he can be the seme of this relationship.

"I was thinking in have some food and cinema."

Ed grinned embarrassed. Roy thought it so adorable. In the streets they had to walk separated, but during twenty minutes they started to talk about their week and work, Roy's apartment wasn't very far from the commercial district. Suddenly the conversation ended abruptly in front of a small fast-food restaurant.

"Do you mind having burger and fries this night?"

The blonde asked hopefully. Roy took a look inside by the glassy window, it was really small and by the dust covering the pickles recipients, incrusted fat in the said window, and a lot of threats that he found out in a single glance it was some terrible place.

"I don't but-"

The blonde didn't let him finish and carried the man with him. There were only three tables and the counter, so Ed leaded the man to the chairs and table placed in the opposite corner, out of sight.

"I came here twice and the double cheeseburger was fucking good!"

Ed took a seat and waited until Roy did the same. The older man looked at that rusty chair and hoped that his fancy and expensive pants can endure such thing.

"Ed I-"

They were interrupted by a whale-sized woman, using a dirty apron with her damp artificial red-hair probably from sweat looked at them annoyed.

"Are you going to make an order, or not?"

Surprisingly her voice was so tiny despites the size of the body. Roy looked meaningfully at Ed, hoping that they could get out of that place quickly as they could. Unfortunately the blonde misjudged Roy's look and grinned.

"Yeah, I want strawberry milkshake the largest cup that you have, a double cheeseburger with extra bacon and a big portion of fries. What about you Roy?"

Roy sighed and replied.

"huh… just a cheeseburger is fine for me."

"Anything to drink big boy?"

The waitress glanced at Roy, and when Ed wasn't paying attention to her she winked.

"No, just the burger. Thanks."

The woman seemed disappointed then went to the kitchen to order. Roy was sweating cold; something was telling him that this night dinner was going to give him a stomachache. Edward was probably used to eat in places like that since he was always traveling, but he really wasn't fond to dirty places to eat. Ed glanced at him and raised an eyebrow in askance.

"Are you 'kay?"

The black-haired man slowly breathed in, for love he can sacrifice his stomach.

"I am." Roy smiled slightly "While the food doesn't come we can continue our talking… you was about to tell me your dislikes and likes."

The blonde smiled back. Roy adored that beauty in front of him. Ed with his hair down, smile and everything else was a breathtaking sight. It was the first time that he could see beauty and don't feel the immediate feeling to fuck it. Of course there was lust in him to take his boyfriend and make him cry in pleasure in his hands. But Roy was waiting for any sign of the blonde; after all he had known that Ed was still virgin. He wanted something special for the blonde's first time, and Ed was so young - he can chose to initiate his sexual life whenever he wanted to.

"Some of them you already know, I don't do milk. I hate needles, girly stuff and liars." The blonde grinned "I like to travel, food, books, dogs and music."

Roy grinned, the last one he didn't know. So Ed was a music person?

"Despites the other things that I've already known, what kind of music do you like?"

The blonde frowned slightly.

"Are you serious? No jokes this time?"

"Yes, I am. We've talked about this before. In work we need to pretend that we still hate each other, but outside we can have a normal life."

The older man cupped Ed's cheek and rubbed it slightly. The teenager blushed.

"O-okay…" the blonde babbled and looked at his feet. The jerk made him blush, but the worst part of it was that he liked the man's gesture. Ed started again.

"I like-"

Suddenly the blonde noticed a black spot moving on the floor. It came near to their table and crawled up Roy's pants. The black spot was in fact a cockroach, a very large one.

"…roach"

Ed muttered.

"Rock? Do you like rock?"

Roy couldn't hear the blonde's mutterings.

"No! Cockroach!"

The black haired man noticed that the blonde was pointing at him, and then he glanced down. A big cockroach was crawling up his left leg. Roy forgot where he was and with who he was. He screamed and stood in just one movement, jumping and trying to get rid of the offensive insect. When it finally felt from his leg, Ed crushed it with his shoe.

Humiliated and very embarrassed, Roy left the payment for the food in the corner and carried out the blonde with him. Instead of laughing the hell out, the blonde was so quiet that the black-haired man had to stop in the next blind alley to talk with him.

"Okay, you can laugh that I won't bother! Are you hearing me??"

His voice was slightly higher than that he wanted. Ed raised his head and spoke sadly.

"Sorry, I took you to that place… I screwed up everything…"

The blonde surprised him. This could be a sign that he was growing up? Roy pulled the tearing blonde to his arms and held him tight. He smiled and cupped Ed's cheek.

"No you didn't. You did everything right Ed. Just… it was an accident."

"Really?"

The blonde's sad expression bit by bit changed into a smile.

"Yeah, Perhaps we should get some delivery and eat at home. You're taking me out, so I'll go to your place. What do you think?"

"Okay, sounds good for me." Then the blonde smirked "But you'll have to give me extra food or I'll spread to the world that Roy Mustang was freaking out with a cockroach."

"You little shit…"

Roy shoved the blonde's mouth with kisses and they headed to Ed's hotel.

To be continued.