Lumina- Okay, I finally broke down and wrote a second chapter for you guys. Hope you're happy! Things have been hectic around here, what with planning for Thanksgiving and having the whole family over. It just all has to be at our house! It's shorter, but you guys have waited a while and I think you'll be pretty happy with it anyway.

Disclaimer- I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist or the characters involved in it. However, I wish I did.

Chapter 2- Unwanted Reassurance

That first night at the mansion had been absolute hell for the newest edition to the seven sins. To begin with, poor Pride didn't know his way around, and Envy wasn't too much of a help. Second of all, Greed wasn't nearly as kind to the chibi as everyone else was being, so Envy ended up bothering Pride about being a baby. It was true that the youngest sin wasn't nearly as talkative as his alchemist counterpart, but he still wanted to feel like he had a place here with the other sins. So he did the unthinkable.

Pride pissed off Greed so bad he got dragged back to his room with a bloody nose and what felt like a broken arm, only to have Envy tell him he was an idiot for confronting Greed. Well damn, who'd been calling who a baby?

Then the poor half-alchemist got the displeasure of having to fall asleep in this demented place. So far, he'd tried to imagine what life used to be like, back before he was a homunculus, but that only brought out the Ed in him, so he had to back off. How the hell did Envy manage around here? Pride pounded a fist on the bed, merely trying to defuse some of his own anger, when he thought he saw movement out of the corner of his eye.

"Chibi, are you having trouble sleeping?" At first, Pride ignored Envy. He'd made it clear earlier that night he disliked being called chibi, and it was Envy's problem if he'd forgotten this. But it was also Pride's. "Well?" The blond was a bit reluctant to speak. Even if Envy had shown him some kindness, it hadn't abolished all of his fear.

"A little..." Was all Pride could squeak before his older brother was at his side, standing over the bed and looking down upon the chibi. He half-flinched when Envy stretched an arm out towards him, and yet when it got close enough, he couldn't help but allow the elder sin to pat him on the head like a dog. This was okay, but the next step Envy took seemed a little drastic.

He laid down next to the younger sin, pulled the covers over himself as well, and wrapped his arms around Pride, reguardless of how it startled the blond. "It's okay," Envy cooed in a calming manner. Pride hadn't even been aware Envy could do "calming." "Everybody has a little trouble falling asleep on their first night in the mansion." Pride was beginning to feel a little better as each second passed the two by. "Consider yourself lucky. I've never done this for anyone else." The younger sin was, in fact, beginning to think of himself as lucky, and would have snuggled closer as Envy pulled him into even more of an embrace, only there was someone who was highly dissaproving of this. And this person who still controlled half of the body caused Pride to jerk away.

"Get off me you fucking pervert!" The words would have shocked Envy, but only if he wouldn't have known what was going on at the time. "Just stay the fuck off of me!" Pride hissed and spat at the same time.

"Come now, Ed." Pride flinched. The Ed still trapped inside of him managed to shake his head in discomfort, but Envy wasn't so convinced the alchemist wanted to back away from him. He wasn't stupid. He realized Ed needed some sort of comfort at the moment, and he realized a crucial component for calming Edward Elric down. "I can be anyone you like." Ed shook his head again, this time more violently than the last. "And I mean anyone."

A flash of glowing light and the transformation of the person before him was all it took before Ed began to reconsider his answer.

What appeared to be his younger brother, Alphonse Elric, sat in front of him, a recognizable smile on his face as he reached out to Ed, bronze eyes studying the alchemist, unblinking and beautiful. This time Ed was not so reluctant to lay back down next to Envy, though it did take a great deal of imagination to believe that this was his real younger brother laying next to him. This time it was not Pride, but Ed who snuggled closer to the person laying next to him. "And I thought you didn't like me..." Was what the bronze-eyed boy whispered after about ten minutes of laying in silence. Ed was, at this point, half asleep.

"Of course I like you, Al... Night." Envy sighed as he pulled Ed closer in even more of an attempt to comfort him. It wasn't long before that feeling of kindness ran out and Envy returned to his original form, but this was only because he believed Ed needed to learn to show him some respect. After all, he hadn't had to have gone through the trouble of taking Al's form to begin with.

Lumina- Like I said, relatively short, but hey... I have to work on my other story as well. I was listening to the song Closer by Nine Inch Nails when I wrote this, so it's suprising it didn't turn out worse.