Here we go!! Some more actual plot rather than random stuff!
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"See you later, Granny!" Al waved as Ed marched ahead. Roy waved politely as well and then followed his little FullMetal to the train station. As soon as they boarded, Ed brought out his own little notebook and started reading something in it. Al sat back and looked out the window, and Roy leaned forward, trying to see what Ed had written. A faint growl warned him of being nosy, but Roy was still feeling playful from yesterday and reached over to pluck the little brown book from Ed's hands. Ed lunged forward at Roy, who held the book above his head and out of reach.
"You have terrible handwriting, Edward." Roy commented as Ed tried to climb on top of him to reach his notebook.
"Hmmph! At least no one can read my notes. Yours are way too easy."
Roy looked up, surprised. Ed looked down, horrified. 'I didn't just say that.' Ed went running for the bathroom. Once it was locked, Roy didn't want to burn the door down trying to get to Ed because there were so many people on the train.
"I can't believe he would go digging through my personal belongings!" Roy grumbled as he sat back down. Al snickered.
"What is it?" Roy asked. Al snickered again.
"Alphonse?"
"(snicker snicker) I-...Can't-believe-you-both-think-he's-the-only-one!" Al zoomed down the aisle, clapped the door open, swiveled and locked it.
"Ahahahaha. I'm sure glad I'm not flammable right now." Al told his surprised brother. After getting a pretty good laugh out of the situation, they both fell asleep, or at least Al drifted off into la-la land and Ed fell asleep leaning on him.
They slept for the next two hours, much to the irritation of not only Roy Mustang, but also some very urgent passengers who wanted to use the bathroom.
Roy banged on the door.
"We're in Central. Get out of there right now or so help m-" The door cracked open and gold eyes peeked out and up. Roy gave the door a shove, sending both Ed and Al onto their backsides.
"Move it." Roy pointed toward the door. Ed and Al barely covered their secret grins at each other as they marched in front of Roy out the door.
Roy was calling a taxi, a luxury Ed sniffed at, when he heard Ed yelp to Al.
"Where's my book! And my coat!"
"What? Oh brother." (A/N: Is that a pun:) )
"Your book was lying on your jacket and trunk when-WAIT!"
Ed went dashing off back toward the station. Al and Roy followed in time to see Ed jump off the platform and crash through a small window in one of the cars.
"ED!" Both Roy and Al took off after the rapidly accelerating train.
"Stop the train!" Roy yelled as he started to fall behind. He estimated the locomotive to be going about 30 mph when he saw Ed's head pop back out of the window.
"NO! DON'T YOU DARE JUMP, EDWARD!" Roy had no idea whether Ed could hear him or not. Carefully moving sideways, Ed started to pull the rest of his body out the window. Al could go forever, but his top speed was only about 18 mph and the train was still speeding up. As Ed pulled his legs around so that he was barely sitting in the little window, Roy saw someone wrap their arms around Ed's waist. As the top half of the blond alchemist was maneuvered back through the window, a familiar head popped out.
"2nd Lt. Breda?" Roy gasped. Breda waved Roy back as Ed's legs and boots disappeared back through the window. A moment later, Jean Havoc stuck his head out the window to wave him back. Roy stopped running and put his hands on his knees, catching his breath. Al came back to stand in front of Roy.
"They said to take the next train to East Central. They'll meet us at the sushi place by the station."
Roy nodded. "OK then." he panted.
Half an hour later they were headed East. When questioned about having read Roy's notes, Al laughed and retreated to the bathroom.
Ed glared at Havoc and Breda for the twentieth time in the last fifteen minutes. Havoc was getting tired of it.
"Cut it out already, Ed. Jumping out of a train is not only incredibly stupid, but also dangerous."
"I would have been fine. And you didn't have to wrench my arm out of the socket." he growled.
"Which one was it?"
"My real one." Ed was seriously pissed.
"Sorry about that, but even the Colonel was telling you not to jump! You'll be sorry if he decides to court-martial you on that one."
Ed suddenly realized something. It didn't seem...like Roy had told them about the charade.
"He wouldn't." Ed grinned confidently. Breda smacked him upside the head. Ed refused to look at either of them for the rest of the train ride.
He tried to ignore them and stay on the train when they pulled into East Central, but Jean and Breda each grabbed an arm and pulled him out into the station.
Roy stumbled into Moriko's Sushi Palace looking around frantically for his subordinates and his golden-eyed charge.
Jean and Breda were easily spotted when they stood suddenly and saluted. Roy made his way to the bar where a little chestnut haired girl was giggling proudly up at Jean, Al following behind the colonel. As Roy came closer, he saw Ed behind Breda, slumped over the bar sipping at a fruit drink. Breda followed Roy's gaze and turned to smack Ed over the head and pulled him up facing Roy. After a few angry words that Roy couldn't hear, Ed dejectedly saluted before cringing at another slap on the back of the head.
"What are you doing, Lt.?" Roy asked anxiously as Ed slumped back into his seat.
"He didn't even stand up and he completely forgot to salute." Breda defended himself.
"Hey, Ed." Roy stood next to the boy who looked up with a resigned air.
"C'mon. Ready for another train ride?" Roy grinned. Ed just nodded, pulling out some coins to set on the bar and standing up.
"So, here to visit your girlfriend, eh Havoc?" Roy grinned and Jean blushed.
"Yeah. Me and Breda wanted a break from the big city." he grinned sheepishly
"Well have fun." Roy winked at the girl, Ed looking up and observing closely, and Jean popping blood vessels out all over his forehead.
"And Breda. I'd like to remind you that military rank doesn't depend on age."
Breda got the hint. "Yessir. Sorry, Sir." He added to Ed, who didn't react. Roy could tell Ed wasn't happy and he wanted to hurry and get back to Central.
"We'll see you guys later." he waved. They both saluted and Jean's girlfriend giggled again.
Roy patted the space next to himself on the bench in the station as they waited for the train to arrive, inviting Ed to sit.
"Is something bothering you?" Roy asked.
"Nn...Not really."
"Are you sure? You didn't look too happy when I found you and you still look that way."
"It's no big deal, OK? I just don't like having to hang around those guys when-..."
Roy raised his eyebrows.
"When you're not around."
"Are they mean to you? I mean, does Breda smack you all the time?"
"Usually he doesn't get the chance."
"What else do they do? What does Havoc do?"
"They don't really do anything. It's just...I can tell they don't like me. Breda thinks I'm a boneheaded kid and Havoc thinks I couldn't be more disrespectful."
Roy chewed on that until it was time to board. As they settled in, he asked "Do they ever bother you when you come into the office?"
Ed nodded.
"I"m sorry. You know, you could just pull rank on them."
"No. That's a military trick." Ed blanched. Roy sighed.
"Knowing you, I would've thought at least one of them would've earned himself a black eye."
"I did that once." Ed said blankly.
"What happened? I don't remember it." Roy was confused.
"I came out of your office once and Breda smacked me and told me off for screaming at you so I punched him. Havoc got my arms and threw me out of HQ and told me not to come back until I learned some manners. I guess it was dumb to think I could just shake it off and forget about it. I know they didn't."
"Wait wait wait, the year when Breda got so drunk he 'broke his nose on a toilet seat while he was throwing up' ?"
"Probably."
"Why didn't you punch him again? I mean when they started getting on your case later?"
Ed looked guilty, shifting his eyes up to Roy's.
"I-I knew I would get in trouble..."
"Were you worried about me being angry?" That just didn't quite seem right. It had been last year that Breda's nose had been broken, and that was near the beginning of Roy's discovery that even the most subtle short comments could induce rage.
"Y-...No. It's just that, even thought I shouldn't be, sometimes I get scared of guys like Havoc."
"What do you mean? He's not really a bully that I know of-"
"No, no." Ed blushed. "He's got arms like tree trunks. He carried me by just my arms all the way down the hallway, no problem. And the one time he did smack me, I didn't forget it."
"When did he slap you!"
"Remember that time I was late and you were pacing the halls and you tripped over your own feet?"
"Yes." Roy wasn't fond of the memory.
"Havoc caught me untying the floss from the bottom of the drinking fountain...and anyways, I would've only been half as late except that he pulled me into the bathroom and smacked me upside the head twice and yelled at me."
"I didn't trip over my own feet?"
Ed shook his head.
"You have no idea how happy I am to hear that the cause of my face-plant in front of half the East HQ staff was not actually, directly, my fault."
Ed couldn't help but grin at the theatrical relief in Roy's voice.
"I'll talk to them next week, OK?"
Ed nodded.
"How do they treat you, Alphonse?"
Ed could hear Al cracking a grin. "Oh, you know. You give love you get love."
"HEY!" Ed interpreted this as a testament to his miserly ways when it came to affection.
"He's right you know." Roy grinned and wrapped an arm around Ed.
"You're going to make this touching-thing a public thing, aren't you?"
"Touching-thing? How disdainful." Roy grinned even wider.
Ed let the motion of the train put him to sleep and he eventually curled up with his head on Roy's lap.
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Alright! That was a pretty painless (to write) chapter!! Hope you liked it! And yes, Havoc and Breda will be temporarily playing "bad guys". But I'm sure they'll come around.
Hopefully I'll have the next chapter soon, but no guarantees.
R&R please! Constructive criticism always appreciated.