The Right Thing | By : fireun Category: Fullmetal Alchemist > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 4065 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Dinner was a fascinating display of awkward courtship, complete with each trying desperately not to be caught looking at the other, while trying just as desperately to enjoy the view.
It led to rather awkward attempts at conversation.
Every bit of contact, every arm that brushed another while reaching for salt or fingers that managed to touch while passing the bread, sent bursts of excited, embarrassed sensation through each of them. Each foot that nudged against the other was a reminder of how close they were. It was a tension that had evolved from their usual spats, matured into something more poignant, more refined.
Ed ate with a single minded determination not to pay attention to his partner, while Roy ingested some fine brandy in an attempt to settle nerves that had not gotten this worked up since a hellish night spent out in a cold desert having his heart broken, in a frighteningly non-metaphorical sense.
“…’s wrong?”
“Hm?” Roy looked up from the gently swirling contents of his glass to meet (for the first time that dinner) Ed’s eyes.
“I said, ‘what’s wrong?’”
“Nothing. Why?”
“You have been looking down into that glass for the better part of ten minutes. Hell, I even kicked you a few times and you didn’t even look up.”
Sore, burned hands pulling desperately on a rough uniform, pleading…pale eyes staring at him from behind cracked rectangular lenses, pitying…rejecting…
“Hey. I’m sorry…” Ed sounded so contrite…
Roy blinked, and was surprised to feel a stray bit of moisture wandering its way down his face. “It’s nothing.”
“I shouldn’t have pried. I am sorry. Hell, I shouldn’t have forced you into coming out. Didn’t know you were so against the idea…” Ed was babbling desperate to cover his own dismay with words.
“Not your fault. Nothing to do with you, actually. Just remembering something I think I was avoiding. After a fashion…”
“Well…while you were woolgathering I paid for dinner. Unless you want some coffee I was thinking we could leave.”
Roy downed the last of the brandy, remembering he actually didn’t like the stuff with a grimace. “Who said you were paying?”
“I did. I invited you out. It’s only fair.” All tentative awkwardness vanished as Ed’s face hardened. “Don’t even try and argue about that with me, dammit.”
Roy held out a hand in entreaty. “I wouldn’t dare. Though, since you took care of dinner, I insist you come to my apartment for a bit.”
The awkwardness returned in force as both of them stared, each equally intent on what spending time at Roy’s would entail. A faint blush rose in Ed’s cheeks, but his lips pursed in a determined line as he nodded once, agreeing.
“Excellent.” Roy murmured, standing with a stretch. “After you.”
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