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"An invitation?" Izumi asks out loud, sitting at the kitchen table with the letter in one hand and the meat knife she used to open it in the other, dark eyes narrowed as they scan the lines of handwriting. She reaches the bottom of the page and quirks an eyebrow, the closest thing to surprise that her face ever registers.
Sig plucks the envelope from off the table in front of her as she ponders, and examines the front. "The Elric brothers?" he asks, recognising the handwriting despite all the huge differences it has gone through over time.
Izumi nods once, sharply. "It seems that Alphonse has finally realised it would be a good idea to marry the girl he loves," she says brusquely, still examining the sheet of paper, stony-faced. "He's inviting us to the wedding. Oh, and they're having a child."
"How long has it been?"
"Not long," Izumi says, turning the letter over as if expecting to find more information on the back, despite the signature on the bottom of the page. "No . . . just a few months, I think."
Sig takes a couple of steps toward the table, then stops.
"The wedding's five months from now, on the seventeenth, dear," she says simply. "Can we go?"
He crosses the room quickly to find and flick through a large black diary on the counter, planting a finger solidly on the date when he finds it. "Yes. We're free. Is it just one day?"
"They're asking us to stay for a week."
"We can go," he says.
"I'll have to dig out my good clothes again," Izumi mutters as her husband comes to stand beside her once more. "I wonder where they've buried themselves this time. It'll be a hassle getting them clean."
"What about gifts?"
"We'll have to go shopping, I guess." And she sighs. "That means going into the city. . . What a bother," she grumbles, making to crumple up the letter before hesitating and then folding it neatly back into the envelope.
Sig takes it when she hands it to him and stands for a moment, holding it between his enormous hands. "They'll probably be expecting you to make a speech," he says.
And, at last, Izumi smiles.
Author's notes: Commissioned by Legendary Chimera, who requested Izumi and Sig. Shamelessly late, and shamelessly short. -hides her pitiful self in shame-
Who here is excited about the next chapter of FMA coming out soon? Because I am! I'm getting really impatient, though. DX
On another note, it's my birthday in exactly a month's time, and I just got 100 reviews! 8D