Ace: I meant to say this last chapter, but the next several chapters are brought to you through the magic of WiFi. Go WiFi!

Kayla: Yay WiFi!

Lela: Let's just get around to reviews, now shall we?

Sonya: DarkVampirePrincess8 again? Wow, you sure are persistant! And again, I can't use any of my powers yet because they couldn't unlock my angel powers.

Ace: Not for too much longer though. *evil smile*

Greed: GAH! Why does no one notice the only one who started the kissing other than these three little chimeras is the homicidal cross-dressing palm tree?

Envy: HEY! *tackles Greed* WHO ARE YOU CALLING A USELESS PLANT THAT CAN'T HOLD UP ANY MAN-CLOTHES BECAUSE HE HAS NOTHING UNDERNEATH THEM?

Lela: Ah, you can really see why the anime says that Envy and Ed are related.

Ed: I'm related to that thing? *faints in horror*

Kayla: Darn, now I'm not gonna get to rape him.

Sonya: ANYWAY, you're welcome for the quick timeline and thanks to you, we ran out of frosting for ourselves, but we found the boob guy and stole back some whipped cream using Ace's rabid weasel minions.

Kayla: And now, Furorensu-Chan, for your surprise, skip down to my section and read the first sentense of the fifth paragraph.

Envy: I totally know how to find you, ungrateful whelp. I HAVE WAYS OF FINDING YOU SO HIDEOUS THAT IT WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO SCREAM IN AGONY!

Lela: I don't know, Furorensu-Chan, I think Envy's pretty serious abou this...

Kayla: Oooh, you made a special flag for me! I have to use it! *tackles Ed and begins nipping at neck*

Ace: Okay, before any of us lose what's left of our innocence, somebody do the disclaimer.

Greed: Ace5980 does not own FullMetal Alchemist.

Envy: Enjoy.

18: The Complications of Love

Sonya could feel the hesitation in Greed from her sudden kiss, and while it didn't infuriate her, she didn't like it. She swapped his mouth for nipping at his jaw line, well aware all the seduction techniques she knew she'd learned from observing the sin doing the same thing to unsuspecting females. "You're over-thinking this, Greed," she purred.

"Sonya, you are 14. I am over 200 years old. This isn't right." He pushed her back to arms-length, knowing the more space he put between them, the less likely he would give into her faulty logic.

She rolled her eyes. "Please. I'm every inch as immortal as you are, so the fact that you are a good 200 plus years my senior doesn't really matter."

"You're still in the body of a fourteen-year-old-"

"Not true. Ever since I came back as an angel, I've been fully mature."

Dammit, he was really starting to run out of negative arguments. "Don't you think you'd be cast from Heaven for being with a homunculus, a sin?"

She leaned in close to him, her breath fanning across his face with every syllable she uttered. "Avenging angel or not, I seriously doubt they'd permit me into Heaven anyway. Killers don't really make good saints. Besides," she murmured, pulling away teasingly and plopping down on the bed behind her, "a fallen angel cast out of Heaven is much more my MO, don't you agree?"

Shit, he thought, she turned into a right little succubus. "You may be right about killers and saints, but ending someone's life is only one sinful act. There are many more out there." At this point, he was standing before her with his classic smirk on his face as he leaned towards her.

"Then teach me."

The instant Envy's mouth came into contact with hers, Lela's brain short-circuited; it had been nine years since she'd had to do this kind of thing. Luckily, her body remembered what to do well enough to move her lips with his and to part them when his tongue sought entrance. However, when he pushed her down so that her back was on the bed, her brain came back in touch with reality, sort of. In a spike of fear, her claws shot out, pricking his neck. She'd been in that position far too many times during the course of her childhood to simply accept it now and not freak out, even if it was only Envy. Then she remembered it was Envy atop her, not her father, he was dead, and pulled her claws back in. Ears drooping, she pulled away from his mouth and submissively presented her cheek to him.

"It's okay, kitten. You didn't mean it." Envy could see the shock in her green eyes, knowing she had been reacting on a subconscious level when she'd unsheathed her claws on him. It was an unintended accident, and there was no way he'd punish her for that.

She started trembling. "But Master, I hurt you. I should be punished for that, not rewarded."

"I am not going to punish you for an instinct bred into by that asshat you called a shitty excuse for a father, kitten," he growled, purple eyes narrowing at the thought of what her parents had done to her because she'd chosen to protect her younger siblings. If they hadn't already been dead, he would've hunted them down and slowly, painfully killed them for hurting his little kitten. Hesitantly, she turned back to look at him with her large emerald pools. He reached out and began caressing her velvety ears. "Good girl," he murmured quietly, kissing her forehead and smiling gently when she jumped and tensed at the unexpected action. "It's okay, Lela. I won't let anyone hurt you ever again, I promise."

To Kayla's surprise, Ed didn't push her away from him in disgust and scold her for doing something so rash. Instead, he instantly responded, kissing back and wrapping his arms around her to hold her even closer. He pressed her against the wall, using it to bring her closer to him, and she let out a little whine of approval. Then it all went wrong.

"Brother?"

"Ed? What are you doing?"

"And you say I have no shame, Fullmetal."

The young alchemist froze guiltily, knowing he had to protect Kayla from Roy. It would be rather difficult to explain to Al and Winry why he was kissing Kayla but even harder to explain to Roy why he kissing a chimera he had absolutely no intention of letting the Military have. Quickly, he ran his golden eyes over the wolf girl, seeing that the hood of his coat had fallen from her ears, and swiftly jerked it back over them. "I'm fifteen, Colonel," he hedged, turning around to deal with the one who didn't know first, "It's perfectly normal for me to be kissing girls."

"Girls or girl chimeras, Fullmetal? After all, I don't think most girls have tails sticking out of their butts."

"Pervert," Ed muttered, looking back to see that Kayla's feathery silver tail was indeed visibly poking out from underneath his coat. "Why were you even looking back there in the first place? She's only fifteen, and you're what, 26? 27?"

Roy smirked evilly, letting the jab at his age slide. "Still, you were the one kissing her. I doubt they'd look down on treason in a State Alchemist all too kindly."

Kayla spoke up then. "Please sir, don't report Edward. It would do you no good to turn us in, not when I'd only escape again and take him with me."

"You are being quite loyal to Edward considering the fact he is an alchemist."

"How could I not? Loyalty to my pack has been imprinted in my DNA, but aren't even you humans fiercely loyal to your mates as well?"

Ed's head snapped around at her completely casual implication of the pair being mates (no doubt remembering the neck bite, wink wink), and Roy's eyebrows rose at that. "Sounds to me like the pair of you have some serious explaining to do."

"No shit, Sherlock," Winry declared, holding a wrench up, which made Kayla bristle at the threat to Ed as they slipped into the hospital room to explain everything.

Ace: HAHA! You just got one chapter closer to the coming end of this story! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Roy: Great, I get to be down here because I made a guest appearance. Then someone (cough, Furorensu-Chan, hack) will come and steal me away and lock me inside a closet.

Kayla: Yeah, Ace, why did you get him involved?

Ed: That's my question too.

Ace: Because he had to meet Kayla before the end of the story so that he could be involved with the sequel!

Lela: Oh.

Envy: TIME TO BEGIN MY EVIL PLAN! *runs off*

Greed: Oh God. I know Envy, and he's bound to make us all suffer with his dumb-ass plan.

Sonya: Which is why we'll just offer up whipped cream from the boob guy's house and end it. Bye bye!