A New chapter and this time it actually has Envy and Alphonse instead of them just being mentioned. Also, I take it no one was really pleased with the last chapter due to only one review. Was it because it was just a part from the manga? I apologize if it bored anyone.

Disclaimer- I, obviously, do not own Envy, Alphonse or any of the characters in Fullmetal Alchemist.

Please enjoy.

Envy stared at Alphonse who was sitting, well floating in a sitting position, in front of him. The souls inside of the philosophers stone passed them, avoiding the two beings that seemed to reign control inside of the stone.

They were no longer inside of the cave, well their, yes they had come to consider it both of theirs,body was still in that cave, but their minds had come to confrontation inside of the stone.

Alphonse was in his human form and Envy was in that same form they had met in when Alphonse was infused with the Philosophers stone. Right now, they were having a sort of glaring match.

Envy had calmed down enough from his breakdown to remember that the voices he heard were the tormented agony of the beings in the stone. It still freaked him out as he wasn't able to shut them out entirely, but he would endure. He was actually grateful for Al's comforting words and presence. He wasn't going to admit it outloud, but he was sure Alphonse knew he was thankful for him being there.

Finally, Alphonse broke the silence between them; "Envy, what are you going to do now?" He asked, "You know that Father killed you, you can't still want to work for him."

Envy closed his eyes a little, "Kid," He said, "I just don't know, it's all still confusing." He didn't know what he should do, when he thought of the other homunculi he was filled with a rage, hatred and disgust he didn't know he could feel towards the others of his kind. He thought that feeling was only towards the humans, but his hatred to the humans was starting to turn into something else.

Sympathy.

Sympathy towards all the hardships they had to face. Sympathy towards how short and fragile their lives were, how much pain they had to go through. To all the problems the homunculi had caused them, like the Isvhalan War, the destruction of Xerses.

But he also felt amazment towards them, towards how much endurance they had. It was quite amazing how they could endure such hard feats and come back later with smiles and laughter.

...He was going to blame Alphonse for these feelings, the kid was a bad influence on him! Despite the fact that the feelings were very small- he still thought of humans as tiny insects, he did feel amazed and sympathetic towards their lame lives.

"They killed you, and will do it again, Envy," Alphonse argued, boy was the kid determined to rip down the one thing Envy had faith in. Envy couldn't help but laugh at his ruthless pursuit.

Envy let out a sigh, "I know, Kid," He muttered and looked at Alphonse, "I can't go back there, not after knowing how easily Father threw me away the first time. I have more pride in my own existance then that. But what can I do?" He asked.

It was supposed to be rhetorical, but Alphonse didn't seem to give a rats ass about whether or not it was.

"Envy! Don't throw your hands up in the air and yell 'what can I do'!" Alphonse scolded, "You can't just give up! You have a chance to be free from Fathers grip and to do what you want now! You have a chance to make your own decisions and not have to worry about pissing him off! Are you just going to walk away from that chance?"

Envy looked at Alphonse as he spoke. The kid was right, he had a door to freedom right in front of him, metephorically speaking that is. He was Envy the Jealous, why should he just sit in a corner and cower in fear just because he remembers that his Father killed him despite his loyalty to him?

"Envy!" Alphonse continued, "Are you a homunculus or not? Have you pride in your own existence?!" He demanded.

Envy felt a smirk form, "Of course I am, and I do!" He said and a unsaid agreement passed between the homunculus and human. Envy then burst out laughing, "You know, Kid, I think you can make a pretty good carreer out of being one of those motivational speakers," He teased.

"Hey! I don't want to be a motivational speaker! What makes you think I'll be a good one?" Alphonse laughed back.

Envy gave a thoughtful pause, "Well, you just convinced a homunculus to leave his Father whom he'd been loyal to for around 175 years. That's a pretty impressive feat," he explained.

Al just laughed and rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment, "Heheh," He said awkwardly.

The homunculus grinned, "Your embarrased now?" He teased.

his grin was well returned, "Well it's not every day a human gets complimented by the Big Bad Envy," He joked back.

Envy was thoughtful before laughing, "'Big Bad Envy', I like that," He said.

"Oh great," Al said in mock horror.

As the two joked around, Envy noticed how easy it was to just talk to and joke with Alphonse. Soon their joking moved to talking about things they liked- apart from torture and killing on Envys part. Everyone who knew Envy knew that those two things were his favorite hobby.

Envy learned that Al used to hide cats in his armor, before he regained his body using two of the fake philosophers stones, it took both of them just to get his body back, then they broke. He explaind that his friendship with Winy was something they had all their life due to being neighbors and his parents were friends with hers.

Envy told Al about how he really liked parfaits, preferrably Chocolate parfaits. When Alphonse showed his amazement at the fact that Envy actually ate food, he learned that they may not need it but he still liked the taste.

After what felt like forever, at the same time seconds, talking with Alphonse, Envy allowed his mind to take over the body again.

Standing up and stretching the now sore muscles-how long had he left their body lying limp in this cave while Al and him talked? The storm had died down so it must have been a while. There was no way of telling time in the stone so Envy didn't even know what day it was either.

Stretching some more and poping his back and neck, Envy began walking out of the cave. He knew where he was, he was suprised he ran the distance so quickly-after all, a human would have taken a couple of days to get here. Grinning, he got his bearings on directions and started walking in a sort of east-south angle.

"Envy, where are we going?" Alphonse asked.

Envy grinned, "Just a town I know where I can talk to my 'Big Brother' Pride. You know, give them my resignation paper, tell them to fuck off because I quit. That sort of thing," He said cheerfully as he walked.

He could have swore he was feeling Alphonse smile and had to put on his sadistic grin. "Don't get too relaxed there, Al, I'm still the 'Big Bad Envy'," He warned and started cracking up, "I'm just going solo now. I'm still a killer and tormentor, just not Fathers Killer and Tormentor. Hell if I feel up to it, I might kill some of the people in the town we're going to."

The defeat from Alphonse was a very pleasing feeling he got in his mind. The brat needed to know he wasn't a good guy, he still hated humans. He just hated Father and his family even more right now.

The other homunculi were dead when he got his hands on them. No one pisses off Envy and gets away with it, and they did more then piss him off.

I hope you enjoyed it. Please tell me if I made any errors in spelling or what not so I can go back and fix it. Also, don't forget to tell me what you thought of this chapter. Personally, after going back and reading it over again, I fin it might have been just a little bland, but it was needed to keep the plot moving.