50 Sentences #1

Disclaimer: I do not own RoyEd- or, um, I mean, FMA

Rating: T

Warning: some innuendos!

Author Note (as opposed to summary): I've always kind of wanted to do one of these and I'm just lying here, looking at the ceiling half asleep when I finally go "yeah, ok" and look it up. :) If you like, tell me and I'll think about doing more!

1 Wheelchair –

Ed realized that the sickest feeling he had ever had was not when he was in his Automail recovery, but when he was forced to sit before a disappointed Mustang in that damned wheelchair because his Automail had put him in the hospital all over again.

2 Racket –

The racket was too much; Roy knew that the voices of those he had killed during Ishval would always follow him, but instead it was the sound of his subordinate's cries of help that had him curled up in the fetal position, and he honestly wasn't sure which side he wanted more.

3 Pore –

Mustang had always known a lot about Full Metal, but during Edward's recovery, he realized there was a lot more to him than Full Metal's poring over every book he could get his hands on.

4 Fan –

Edward knew that Mustang had tons and tons of fans that he should be attending to while the morphine began to nibble at the edges of his consciousness and he started to get drowsy enough to lay back, but he couldn't bring himself to care as the older man laid him back and kissed his forehead when he thought that Ed wouldn't remember.

5 Cower –

Edward didn't cower—it just wasn't within his nature—but as the door slammed like a gunshot and the younger man cowered from it, he realized the true extent, beyond just the physical, of his pain.

6 Lack –

Before, Edward would have held back his tears as they were a sign of a man's lack of strength, but now he knew they were the sign of their strength as he gave in and cried in Mustang's office in front of the only man not on lunch break.

7 Cocoon –

Edward had always been the one to reach out and hold someone else when they cried, so Roy felt as if he was honoured as Edward turned his face into his shoulder and let him cocoon him in his own arms.

8 Heaven –

For the first time since he was rescued, Edward felt as if he was finally wanted and he realized that was all the heaven he wanted or needed.

9 Hotel –

Roy's house was no hotel, but he felt as if Edward would appreciate it if he offered up the guest room he'd gotten furnished before Maes had gotten married.

10 Talent –

Roy had always been told that Edward was a prodigy with everything he did from Alchemy to reading to talking, but when he came home from work on the other man's day off and saw him on the couch finishing a book, only to turn back to the first page he realized this was not the "talent" everyone believed it to be.

11 See –

As Ed stared at Mustang's profile one night, studying the shape of it all, he silently wondered what it had been like unable to see out of his left eye until Marcoh came back to Central and used the last of his Stone to bring back his vision.

12 Claw –

Roy had always cried after he clawed his way to the surface during his nightmares, and this time was no different, even if Edward was there to hold him this time and tell him it was the past and the present mattered now.

13 Century –

Roy wondered, silently, how long it was he had actually started to have more than just platonic feelings for the young man in his home because it sure felt like centuries as he draped a blanket over his shoulders where he had fallen asleep on the couch again.

14 Limbo –

Ed knew that outwardly, he looked just fine—as if he hadn't gone through what he went through—but inwardly, he wasn't sure if he was in the right place anymore but more than anything else he was positive that Roy knew his feelings better than even himself.

15 Teach –

Teacher had been wrong, Roy realized, because there was no way that he would feel this way about his subordinate; lust was one thing, but he couldn't be in love with Edward of all people.

16 Glamour—

Edward didn't need the glamour of a State Alchemists' title to get people's attention—all he had to do was walk in the door, and sometimes that was what he hated about himself the most.

17 Hive –

Sometimes, you feel at your loneliest in the middle of a hive—Ed had always known that, but as Roy wrapped his arms around him he felt safe and welcome and at his happiest for the first time in years.

18 Hangover –

"If you desire the girl, Full Metal, then go for her," Mustang had said the night before, and, granted, it may just be the hangover agreeing with his words, he still walked up to the man and yanked him down to press their lips together.

19 Vanilla –

After learning why Edward hates milk, Roy was surprised that his favorite ice cream was vanilla because it "is sweet".

20 Lie –

Edward knew that Roy had to be lying to himself twice as much as he did to others to keep up his mask, but he sure did have one hell of a time ripping apart those lies for the small kernel of truth in it.

21 Princess –

"Well," Roy held back his snicker as he pressed the bloodied rag to Havoc's temple, "If you didn't want him to kill you, why did you call him 'Princess'?"

22 Symbol –

Symbols were everywhere, Roy knew, but until now he had never seen the symbol Edward was for him.

23 Quarrel –

Edward knew this was no "lover's quarrel" when he felt the tears start as he stomped out of the house and away from Roy.

24 Front –

Edward was right, Roy realized only after he opened the front door to find the entire street desolate; his true front was the one he held in front of himself to keep himself from falling in love.

25 Focus –

Riza was going to be pissed at him, but he couldn't find enough care in himself as he finally gave up trying to focus on his work when Ed still hadn't come in, even if their fight had been three days ago.

26 Bar –

"You're an idiot," his aunt said as he stared at the bar counter in front of him and all he could say was "I know."

27 Limit –

Roy was at his limit of pain and sorrow when Edward finally walked back inside and straight up to him, only to bury his head in his chest and Roy wasn't the only one crying silently as he muttered "I love you."

28 Wife –

"I'll never be your wife, Roy," Ed declared, but when Roy said "why would I marry you?" he couldn't help but throw his head back and laugh.

29 Precious –

There were few times more precious to him than when he could just lay in bed and watch his lover sleeping soundlessly.

30 Are –

The first time they had lived together, they would always knock on the door and ask "are you decent?" or "are you awake?" before they walked in, but now they just walked straight in up to the other without a care in the world.

31 Cold –

Ed shivered for a moment, but he couldn't help but smile as he pulled his coat closer and stepped in the cab with his only thought on the person that would be able to warm him from the snow-cold temperatures.

32 Off –

Ed had almost cried when he opened the door to find a girl all over Mustang, but when Roy pushed her off and told her he was taken, that he wasn't sorry and it was time she left, he had, because the man hadn't even known he was there when it happened.

33 Cherry –

The cherry on top of the entire relationship was that neither one nor the other was more "in power" even if Ed always made Roy top.

34 Neutral –

Neither of them had ever had a neutral territory about anything and even that hadn't changed, even if they had changed their opinions on a lot of things since they had admitted their love for the other.

35 Party –

Ed was no party-goer, but he would go for Roy, he reasoned, as he watched the man stand beside him on the stage with his right hand raised and the left hand on the Amestrian Constitution, repeating after Retired Fuhrer Grumman.

36 Limb –

"I'll go out on a limb here," Roy arched his brow at him with his arms crossed to which Ed blushed, "and say that, judging by the lipstick on your face, you were jumped by a bunch of fan girls," to which Ed shook his head instead and corrected "fan boys."

37 Complete –

They didn't complete each other; they still fight with each other more than they don't, but Ed reasoned that he could still feel complete whenever they held each other or whenever their lips touched.

38 Serendipity –

Roy knew there was no such thing as luck, but it had to have been serendipity that Edward had been kidnapped and shot repeatedly, even if it was so bad, because that was what allowed him to find the love of his life.

39 Zoo –

Edward loves the zoo, but Roy had never been lucky enough to find out until Ed confessed that as a child they had been so poor because of the government that his mom had to have three jobs just to pay rent and he had taken it upon himself to grow the crops before and after school when Alphonse was stressing over homework so he wouldn't know and never got the time to be a kid.

40 Follow –

Edward was no follower, nor was Roy, but they reasoned that they could follow love down this stupid rollercoaster blindly if they were together.

41 Pal –

"We aren't 'pals'" Ed heard Roy saying, very sternly, in an almost hateful voice as he walked out of HQ and into the press conference, only to feel as if his heart was breaking until he continued with "we're lovers."

42 Desire –

"How do you desire someone the same sex as you;" Ed shrugged as he reiterated Winry's disgusted question, "it's the same exact way you desire someone the opposite sex."

43 Crib –

When Edward had gotten with Roy, he hadn't known that the man had had a little sister, but he felt horrible that she had died before he had gotten the chance to meet her yet he also felt happy that she had left his lover her daughter to care for as he rocked the crib.

44 Rubbish –

"To say that a homosexual is trash is rubbish," Edward had said to some colleges back in Britain as he sipped tea, back before he had discovered himself to be one and now all he could do was smile at the memory.

45 Bug –

Roy walked into the kitchen as Ed jumped as if startled by something on the windowsill, but when he walked over, all he saw was Edward smiling gently as he watched a small spider struggle against the zephyr blowing inside yet it was him saying "All is one and one is all" that made him smile, too.

46 Harbor –

When Ed had stood at the harbor from England to take him down to France, where he would travel through to Germany, all he could think of was how the water looked like Roy's uniform and how the sky was his hair and eyes.

47 Gorge –

Roy watched the way Ed teetered on the edge but did not walk forward, reach out nor speak as the blond looked down, as if contemplating, then turned away muttering "why you would think that was worth it is beyond me, Roy."

48 Grasp –

"I can't grasp why you would think I'm still that way after loving you," Roy returned and finally held his hand out for the younger man to take, only to pull him close and never let go.

49 Mess –

Ed appeared to have it all under control, but inwardly he had always been a mess up until Roy started to clean it up.

50 Box –

Box after box after box—Ed looked around their new place one more time as he gently bounced Reine before he let out a deep breath and muttered "I have a lot of work to do before he gets home, don't I, baby?"