Drabble

EdxRoy

-XiaoQi

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"Roy, c'mon, please?"

"I told you Ed, no."

"Come on!"

"I said no."

"Roy!"

"Look Ed, just drop it, okay?" With that, the dark-haired Flame Alchemist Colonel Roy Mustang turned around on the couch, his back facing Edward. Registering the looks of hurt and question shadowing the young teen's face, Roy sighed. "Think about it." He got up from the couch, turned on his heel and headed into the master bedroom.

The Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric stood there, stunned. His lover was acting strangely subdued, quiet, and well, just overall pissed. Not at all like his normal loud obnoxious arrogant self, which Ed had grown so used to over time. Pulling a face, he grudgingly stalked into the second bedroom, the one where no one was normally in. (He and Roy shared one bed a bedroom most of the time, after all.) 'So the bastard probably needs some alone to think about whatever it is.' Ed thought meekly to himself, only slightly worrying. Roy should be out of his creepy mood swing after a good night's sleep, right? The elder Elric pushed that out into the other end of his mind for later pondering as he slipped under the covers and laid his head down onto the pillow.

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The next morning proved Edward wrong.

The blond ran an automail hand through his golden locks before pulling it back into an easy wearing ponytail. "Mornin."

"Good morning." There was a certain edge of icy stiffness in the tone of the Colonel's voice which quickly informed Ed that Roy was still going on about the previous night. Simply put, that made Ed somewhat pissed as well.

(9 hours of a mood swing and seemingly still going strong. He can't act like this forever, can he?)

The older man spoke in an unsharpened voice again. "Just think about it, Edward." He was already dressed, and seemed to have gotten up earlier than Ed by some while. The study room clicked shut as Ed plopped down, exasperated, into a chair by the table in the kitchen. "Something I said… something I said…" the Fullmetal muttered distractedly to himself. He could currently think up of nothing, nothing that would make Roy act the way he was. Of course, there always was the numerous amount of short jokes, horse jokes, taunting, etc, etc, but Ed couldn't see why that would upset Roy so much. They went through that process almost everyday. 'It normal for us, right? Maybe not for anyone else, but for us it is…' Something in that mind spoken phrase stirred a part back in his brain.

Normal…

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Edward was fuming again. "Roy!" he whined, annoyed by the fact that the Flame was teasing him yet again.

"You know full well that I am not a pony, Edward, though I cannot seem to deny the truest fact that you are, lacking height." Roy pulled his features into a smug all-knowing smirk as he peered at the young teen with his onyx eyes.

"Argh! Can't you act normal for once? Just once!"

"Whatever you say, Ed."

"Mmphr."

The Colonel reacted by leaning back on the couch and looking quite sullen, all traces of the smug boisterous loudness aura surrounding him gone. Just… gone.

"Roy?"

"Yes?"

"Is there… something wrong?" Ed cocked his head to one side and raised a blond eyebrow.

Again, Roy replied emotionless. "Nothing's wrong, Edward." He had leaned further back into the couch, pointedly not looking at his young lover.

"Something's wrong! It's obvious! You're acting it!" The blond teen pouted, looking disheveled and much like a grumpy five year old who had just been rejected some treat. "Roy, c'mon, please?"

And that had led up to the previous night's little chunk of conversation.

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"Oh…" The memory that had been brought up made him understand. Getting up, he turned around and headed straight for the study room that Roy had bombarded himself in.

Roy turned his head from his papers as a loud rapping sound of automail hitting the wooden door rang in his ears. Not bothering to answer or to get up and unlock the door, he sat there, ignoring the younger alchemist.

"Let me in right now, Roy! Or I'm breaking the door down!" Ed shouted, still rapping the door with a metal fist. "Let me in!"

"Edward, I could really care less if you broke the door or not."

"Fine! Then I will!" He snapped, looking at the door. "Bastard…" There was a sound of clapping hands, and a flash of neon blue light like electricity as the door crumpled under the weight of the whole doorframe downed upon it along with some extra mounds of earth. "You could have just unlocked the door for me."

"I didn't want to."

Sighing, the Fullmetal walked up to beside the chair Roy had inhabited. "I didn't mean it." He said, hanging his head slightly, and looking gloomy.

The Colonel still didn't look at Ed, but continued to bore down at his paperwork as he spoke "Mean what?" He saw sadness and regret in the boy's eyes, but decided not to let him go on so easily. "If you haven't noticed Edward, I have work." He motioned with his hands towards the stack of papers on his desk. "And if you don't have anything important to say to me, or you've just come to mutter senseless babble at me, I suggest taking your leave and go entertain yourself while I work."

Edward Elric gaped at his lover with his jaw hanging. Roy had never spoke to him so harshly before, and it was paining him to hear it. "You know perfectly well what I'm taking about."

"Maybe I do, you tell me."

"Look, I was kidding ok? I was annoyed at you because you had called me short again! I didn't really mean it. Can't you act your old normal self again?" There was tone of pleading in his voice now, as he gripped Roy's shoulder and spun the chair and Roy around to face him.

Tutting lightly, Roy placed his pen down. "Maybe you should specify 'normal' this time. Possibly for future references?"

"Normal. The way you normally act towards me! The personality that I've fallen in love with!"

"Mmm?"

Edward shuddered slightly. "I… I… I'm sorry." He whispered.

Roy pulled his face into a large smirk. "Took you long enough."

"Bastard. I just broke half of my pride saying that, Roy, so don't push it."

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Yes, yes, I know, 'WTF is this?' Well, it's a repost. I just wanted to say, my friend… the one I had the phone call with (Holy-Angel-Lucifer) and I wrote our two versions of this story… because we were both inspired. Only did she tell me after I posted this… so now I'm just saying, if you find another fanfiction like this by H.A.L., then… well, we're not copying… it's just two different versions of the same story. D

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Y'know people, the sad thing about this drabble is… I was inspired to write it after a phone call with a friend! –laughs- This is based on the real experience. I told her to be normal, so she went into this mood swing for about 20 minutes before I realized what I had done and said sorry. –is still trying to build up pride that was lost- So… here you go. I've been so dead lately. I haven't been CGing, let alone writing. But… I haven't gotten very far in Chapter 4 either. You can totally blame me for being brain-dead. Ironic, the friend over the phone happened to be the person who RPs FMA with me… and she plays Roy. –puts out carton of tomatoes and stands under umbrella- I let you throw these at me for being a lazy ass.