Coming around

Disclaimer: ;_; pour salt on the wound why don’t you! They’re. Not. Mine. Happy? *cries*
Rating: R? NC-17?
Pairing: Roy x Ed
A/N: This is not my fault… Nothing is my fault! Blame Lutz! *runs away laughing madly* Oh and I dunno exactly when this ficcy takes place… Decide yourself but I’m more inclined to follow the manga(lutz: Because Envy is more kawaii in the manga!! ><) than the anime so…

Coming Around
(or the character study that steadily progressed to couch-smut)

It was easy to tell when the Fullmetal Alchemist was in the building. He could hear his staff welcoming the short national alchemist and his brother. And it was not hard to recognize the sound of Alphonse’s footsteps.

Roy knew from experience that Fullmetal would take his time before reluctantly wandering over to his office. The boy tried everything when it came to annoying the colonel… often with poor results since the colonel found his attempts to be more amusing than annoying. But as long as he didn’t cause any serious harm Roy saw no reason to tell the boy to stop it. So while he waited for Fullmetal to report to him, he might as well finish some paperwork. That’d at least make Hawkeye happy.

It actually took less time than he’d expected to hear the familiar heavy knocking on the door. Another one of Fullmetal’s weird habits; to knock using his metal arm, Roy thought.

“Come in, Fullmetal.” Roy said without lifting his head.

The door opened and in came the Elric brothers. Edward plopped down on the couch immediately while Alphonse took the time to close the door carefully behind him. Roy raised his gaze from the papers and looked at the brothers in silence. It was easy to see why most people thought that Al was the older brother when they first saw the siblings. Fullmetal was short tempered and seemingly irresponsible while Alphonse was calm and mature. Oh, and there was the obvious size difference.

“I might be wrong but isn’t it rather pointless for us to make these reports to you, colonel?” Edward asked sounding irritated.

“And what makes you think that, Fullmetal?” Roy asked rising one eyebrow, as if he was mildly curious.

“You’ve already heard everything we’ve done anyway so you might as well spare me the pain of seeing your smug face.” Edward complained, going into a full sprawl mode on the couch.

“Brother!” Alphonse said, sounding disapproving.

“Oh you know it’s true, Al.” Ed said, opening one golden eye to look at the empty armor that currently housed his brother’s soul. “He just like’s to keep us in a short leash.”

“You more than Al really, Fullmetal.” Roy said, seeing it necessary to remind the brothers that he was in fact, still in the room. “And I would advice you to not speak so rudely of your superior officer.”

“I apologize for my brother’s behavior, colonel.” Alphonse said bowing.

“Well it is understandable since you’ve still come no closer to finding the philosopher’s stone. Though, I would be grateful if you could keep the destruction and mayhem in check during future trips.” Roy said smirking slightly when he saw Edward’s annoyed expression.

“See? I told you he already knew it all Al,” Edward said to his brother. “but don’t try to tell me that it didn’t go like you planned, colonel.” he added throwing a baleful look in the direction of the smirking colonel.

“You shouldn’t really blame your predictability on me, Fullmetal. I believe you’re here to give me a report.” Roy said.

He could tell that Edward was dying to wipe the smirk off his face but he also knew that the boy wouldn’t do anything like that. One reason was because no matter how rude he was to his superiors (well it didn’t really deserve the plural form since the only one Ed seemed to like biting was the colonel), and the other reason was Alphonse.

And that is where you could see that Ed really was the older one of the siblings. He would do anything to protect his brother, and in Edward’s case it really did mean anything. It had only started with the losing of his right hand, who knows how far he’d be prepared to go to protect his brother. Right now, the search for the philosopher’s stone was taking almost all of his time driving him on relentlessly. In a way it was both a good and a bad thing that he had that goal. If he didn’t have it, Edward would’ve broken long ago, weighed down by the guilt. On the other hand, it’d still be dangerous if he ever achieved that dream of his.

“Here…” Fullmetal rose from the couch and gave a stack of papers to the colonel. “You won’t need us anytime soon, right?”

And this was the difficult part. Roy had decided some time ago that he really needed to talk to the boy about… everything. Since Roy was one of the few people who knew exactly what the brothers had done, he’d kept his eye on them after that. And seeing as Edward was getting into more and more dangerous situations… as reluctant as he was to admit it, he didn’t want to see Fullmetal get hurt. And with the way the boy was going now it’d be a race which would break first, his body or mind.

“Alphonse is free to go but I need you to stay here for awhile, Fullmetal.” Roy said casually turning his eyes to the papers waiting for the explosion.

…

And then he waited some more.

“If you’ll excuse me then,” Roy heard Alphonse say and then he heard the door open and close as the younger of the two alchemist brothers exited the room.

He raised his eyes from the papers again to look at the remaining Elric. Edward’s expression mirrored both annoyance and suspicion but he wasn’t about to do or say anything before he heard whatever the colonel wanted to say to him.

“What do you want to say to me, colonel?” the unsaid ‘and why Al can’t be here when you say it’ could be read in his expressive golden eyes.

“I wanted to ask you something, Fullmetal… How is the search for the philosopher’s stone going?”

“And you couldn’t ask that when Al was here, colonel? You know as well as I do that we’ve not found anything yet but rumors.” Edward answered getting more irritated.

“I know that, Fullmetal. In the three years you’ve spent looking for it you haven’t found it or a way to transmute it. In fact all you seem to find is trouble.” Roy said evenly.

“Are you saying that I cause nothing but trouble?!”

Roy shook his head. “I did not mean that and you should know it, Fullmetal. What I meant was that during this year you’ve been in more life threatening situations than I care to think of. And while you don’t seem to care about your injuries, I won’t have one of my subordinates get himself killed just because he doesn’t value his own life.”

“I can take care of myself.” Ed protested.

“No you can’t, Fullmetal. You are obsessed. You’re not interested in anything else besides alchemy and the philosopher’s stone. Even your relationships with other people are affected by them. All of your friends are either in the military or related to alchemy somehow.” Roy said watching the younger alchemist seethe in rage.

“That is not true! What about Winry? She has nothing to do with alchemy or the military.” he finally said.

“True, but you only call her if something is wrong with your auto-mail. And although I have to say that that happens more often now since you take such a pleasure in abusing it, it is still not a good thing.”

“As if you were an expert on relationships,” Ed scoffed. “I doubt anyone thinks very highly of your ‘dates’, colonel.”

Roy furrowed his brows. He hasn’t expected Fullmetal to retort. And as much as he hated to admit it to even himself… the boy was right. Not that he had been on one of those meaningless dates recently. He had too much things to do and not enough time to do them in. And quite a large bit of that time went to looking after one certain auto-mail equipped boy. And that in itself was worrying…

“If you’ve said all you wanted to say may I leave, colonel?” Edward asked rising from the couch.

“Just one thing, Fullmetal… Think about what I said to you.” Roy said.

Ed was already at the door when he casually added: “Oh, and you’re to stay in the East City for two weeks. Consider it a vacation of sorts.”

Ed’s back went rigid. “Yes, colonel.”

“And if I were you I wouldn’t try to sneak out. It’d be best for Alphonse too.”

The door slammed closed after a very furious Edward Elric.


***


“…and then he said I don’t know how to handle relationships! Me! As if he was any better at it than me! That idiotic smug bastard of a colonel…. If he wasn’t my superior and if he didn’t threaten me all the time I’d punch his lights out. And we’re forced to stay in East City for the next two weeks! And he’s sure to have someone making sure that we won’t go anywhere… And he dared to say that I can’t take care of myself! Aaaaargh!”

Alphonse Elric sat on the bed watching his brother as he walked around the small room using hand gestures to illustrate his long spiel. From what he understood of his brother’s speech the colonel had told Ed to stay put and relax and try not to get himself killed for a change. He didn’t like how the colonel got Ed to stay put, but the idea itself wasn’t bad. He worried for his brother and it was nice to know that the man who had the most say in their lives cared for his brother too.

“… and that’s why I think it’d be perfectly right to transmute all of his uniforms into pink fluffy dresses. Al? Are you listening to me?”

“I think he’s right.” Alphonse said calmly.

“Whaaaat?! Right? That bastard? How can you say something like that! We’re talking about two weeks here!” Ed said.

“It’s not like we’ve got any leads at the moment anyway so we might as well spend the time in the library searching for more clues.” Al answered.

Ed opened and closed his mouth a few times but couldn’t really say anything to that. He might be short tempered but he wasn’t stupid. And the truth was that the ‘vacation’ wasn’t really the thing that annoyed him the most. It was the fact that the colonel had spoken the truth about his lack of decent people skills.

“You two are really more alike than you think, brother.” Al said jerking Ed away from his thoughts.

“We’re totally different! And that’s final.” Ed protested dropping to lie on his bed and turning his back to Alphonse.

“Now that’s childish, brother.”


***

It was later that night and Ed was sitting on his bed looking out of the window. Al had gone walking outside and would be back soon. Ed’s problem was that he couldn’t forget what the colonel and his brother had said. It annoyed him to admit that both of them were right.

Finally he couldn’t stand it anymore and stood up and grabbed his coat and pulled it on. It didn’t take him long to reach the familiar door where he could see the slight dents in the wooden surface caused by his auto-mail arm. He stood in front of the door for a good ten minutes without knocking. He was having a mental war with himself but finally he sighed and knocked on the door, with his human arm.

“Come in,” the voice was muffled by the door.

Ed opened the door and stepped in the room casually kicking the door closed behind him.

“And is this any time to be working?” he asked mockingly.

If Roy was surprised to see him there at that time he hid it well.

“Some of us have to do real work, Fullmetal. Now did you have something important to say or did you come by just to disturb me?”

Ed’s expression wavered a little but he wasn’t about to storm out of the room yet.

“Well you’re the one who told me to think about what you said.”

Roy kept his facial expressions in check but he noticed the slight change in Edward’s behavior. He turned his full attention to the boy who still stood near the door as if not really sure if he was welcome or not. It was rare to see Ed look uncertain like that.

“And what did you think?” Roy asked.

Ed was dressed in his red coat as usual but he only had his tank top on and not the over shirt. His hair wasn’t in its usual braid but instead it was held in a low ponytail. The golden eyes were fixed on his auto-mail hand. It was… strange… to see Fullmetal- Edward Elric like this.

“That’s just it! I don’t know what I’m supposed to think about it. And Al said we’re more alike than I think and now I’ve spent most of the day thinking… thinking of you of all the people. Do you know how annoying that is? I mean I didn’t even like you!” Ed suddenly said walking to the couch and sat down on his usual spot.

“Didn’t like me?” Roy asked starting to feel amused.

Ed cast a murderous glare in his direction. “I wasn’t finished.”

“So anyway, I thought about you and realized that there was actually a bit of me that thought that you weren’t really that bad. And that part was actually happy that you cared for me even a little,” Ed continued frowning. “even though I can take care of myself whatever you or Al say.”

It was then that Roy decided that paperwork could be finished later. This was too good a chance to pass up. It wasn’t every day that Edward Elric of all people admitted that he actually liked his superior.

Seeing the smug smile on Roy’s face Ed glared. “But most of me still thinks that you’re an insufferable bastard and a control freak.”

“Is that so, Edward?” Roy asked delighted to see that Ed was surprised to hear the colonel to use his real name instead of his alchemist name.

“You’re really weird,” Ed said not feeling the slight redness that colored his cheeks.

Roy didn’t miss the blush however slight it was.

“So you feel glad that I care for your safety? Does that mean that you care for me too?” he asked walking to the couch and leaning closer to the boy.

“Don’t come so close! I take back everything I’ve said!” Ed said trying to back away.

Roy blocked his escape rout with his hands and leaned even closer to the boy.

“Well..?” he asked.

“Yes yes… Fine! So I care about you… Big deal!” Ed spit out, looking anywhere but at the colonel.

The blush on his cheeks was far more noticeable now.

“So you don’t actually mind being this close to me, Edward? I have to wonder how much do you care for me,” he said cupping Edward’s cheek.

That got a reaction. He was roughly showed away from the boy and a furious Ed jumped up and stormed to the door.

“You have no right to do that to me! I admit I like you and even care for you as you put it but you’ve got your bad points too. And I’m not going to just sit here and let you make fun of my feelings. Goodbye!” with those words Ed was out of the room.


***


“He actually likes me?” Roy said slowly to himself.

He went through the recently happened things in his mind. What he’d said and done…

“Oh damn…” he didn’t run but he certainly walked fast to the door and opened it.

Where could Edward have gone? To his room? That’d mean he’d have to deal with Alphonse too… Damn it was all going so wrong now. He hadn’t really thought things through and then he’d teased Edward who had just admitted that he liked a man he had all but hated earlier.

“You old people should try not to strain yourselves.”

Roy had almost walked past Edward who was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. Roy turned to look at the boy but he wouldn’t look at Roy.

“I do not like being played with. When it comes to the missions and stuff I tolerate it because I know I’m predictable and you’d be stupid not to use me when you can. But when it comes to something like this…” Ed said.

“I’m so-“

He was taken by surprise yet again when Ed suddenly moved forward and pressed one finger against his lips.

“Don’t say it out loud… it’s frighteningly out of character.”

They stood in the hallway in uncomfortable silence for awhile looking for something to say.

“Well I guess I’ve said what needed to be said…” Ed started and turned to walk away.

He was stopped when a hand landed on his shoulder and turned him around. It was Ed’s time to be surprised when Roy’s lips landed on his. They were dry and a little chipped, Ed’s mind told him helpfully, but tongue on the other hand was something else. He lost track of time and when the kiss ended he was breathless.

“Who said you could do that?” he asked punching Roy lightly with his flesh arm.

“Well you weren’t exactly resisting it either, Fullmetal.” Roy said before going for another taste.

Roy could tell that either Ed had very little experience or none when he kissed the boy. Before he noticed it he had the boy practically pinned against the wall and the kiss had turned into two and then three.

“Somehow I think that we should relocate to a better place for this,” Roy said looking down ad Ed.


***


Five minutes later they were in Roy’s office again since it was the nearest room with a lock and reasonably comfortable couches. Ed was now lying on said couch on his back. His hair tie had disappeared some time ago and was probably located somewhere near his discarded coat and boots. Or then again it could be where Roy’s jacket had been thrown.

“You do know what you’re doing, right?” Ed asked the man straddling him.

“Do you doubt me?” Roy asked.

“Well I’ve never heard any rumors of you with another man so…” Ed answered.

After yet another kiss and one lost article of clothing later, Roy finally answered Ed’s question: “I know what I’m doing, Fullmetal.”

“Good because if I get hurt I’ll make sure you’ll be hurting tomorrow too.” Ed threatened half heartedly.

Roy raised one eyebrow amused, but decided that he had better things to do than start a verbal war with the other national alchemist… like getting the rest of the clothes off of him. He tugged on the tank top and Ed helped him to remove it. One obstacle down two more to go…

Ed let out a small sigh when he lowered his head to his chest and licked one nipple. He silently vowed to himself that he’d get Ed to scream his name at least once during the night. While his mouth was occupied with Ed’s chest, his hand slid down the front of the boy’s pants and under his boxers. This time the noise Ed made was considerably closer to moan.

“M-more!” he choked out.

Roy grinned and continued stroking the boy’s erection slowly. Truth was that he couldn’t wait to get inside Ed, but he wanted to tease the boy a little before having his way with him.

“You’re impatient, Edward. Some things just take time,” he whispered letting his breath brush against Ed’s ear.

Ed shuddered feeling the light air brush over his ear but managed a glare.

“Well I understand I must- ah! –give more time to you considering that you’re so old –nngh” Ed panted trying to thrust against the hand still stroking him.

He yelped when his pants and boxers were yanked off of his legs and blushed when he saw that Roy was raking his eyes over him. Then his eyes glazed over when Roy bent his head down and took his member in his mouth. His hips tried to jerk upward but were held down by strong hands. Ed had to bite his lip to keep himself from making embarrassing noises and demanding more.

Roy kept on sucking and licking the hard length in his mouth until Ed was hovering at the edge of release. Then he pulled away and was pleased to hear Ed make a disappointed noise despite his efforts to stay as quiet as possible. Time to move to the next step except…

“What now?” Ed asked when Roy suddenly got up and went to his desk.

“We need something… So it won’t hurt.” Roy said going through his desk drawers.

He was sure he had some hand cream in here somewhere that he could use. He didn’t want to take any chances this time. Even if Ed had been playful when he’d threatened to hurt him he didn’t particularly want to hurt the boy. For one thing it’d be hard to get Ed to agree to another go if the first time didn’t go well.

“Ah found it!” he said triumphantly going back to the couch with his trophy.

“About time.” he heard Ed mutter quietly.

He ignored the small complaint and covered three of his fingers with the slick substance. He rubbed his fingers against Ed’s opening looking into his eyes for confirmation. The glare he got made him smile and slip one finger in to the first joint. Ed winced a little but didn’t say anything when he forced the whole finger in the tight opening.

“Edward..?” he breathed against the boy’s neck.

“I won’t break.” came the reply and to prove his word Ed moved against the finger.

Roy took this as a sign to push in another finger. Ed breath came in small pants and it took him a little longer to adjust to the intrusion. Roy distracted him from the pain by starting to stroke his erection again, and when the third finger joined the other two Ed was eagerly moving against the hand unknowingly pushing his body down on the fingers at the same time.

When Roy thought Ed was ready for him he removed his fingers and covered his own erection with the hand cream. He raised Ed’s flesh leg over his shoulder and positioned himself, but didn’t thrust in yet. It took a moment before the closed eyes opened revealing slightly glazed golden eyes.

The eyes were beginning to focus on him but snapped completely open when he felt something bigger than just fingers pushed into him. It did hurt despite the careful preparation but he wasn’t about to complain. When Roy actually started moving –slowly at first- it felt so good that complaining was the last thing on his mind.

Roy had a hard time keeping the pace slow and Ed wasn’t helping making small delightful noises. The golden eyes were on him but he doubted that Ed actually saw him. The boy’s face was flushed and beads of sweat rolled down his cheek.

“More…” Ed gasped closing his eyes.

Roy smiled and kissed Ed before clasping the boy’s hips and speeding up his thrusts. After that, it was hard to focus on anything else but the sweet feeling of Ed’s inner muscles squeezing his length. At some point he felt the shock of cold metal against his back when Ed wound his arms around him. He felt slightly triumphant when Ed let out an unintentional scream when he hit his prostrate.

“Roy!”

When he felt about to come he slipped his hand between them and wrapped it around Ed’s length and started pumping it in time with his thrusts. Ed’s already tight body became even tighter when he tensed and came. Roy continued to push into his body until he too came.

He took a few moments to get over the pleasurable feeling before pulling out of Ed’s body. He looked at the boy under him with an almost gentle expression on his face. Ed seemed tired and had covered his eyes with his human hand. The auto-mail arm was dangling off the edge of the couch. Roy felt something slick slide down his back and saw that Ed had unintentionally broken the skin with his metal arm.

“How late is it?” Ed suddenly asked trying to sit up.

Roy backed away and sat down letting Ed get up. The boy’s stomach was covered with the white of his own release and his hair was disheveled, and he still looked good.

“A bit over midnight. Why?” Roy answered starting to dress himself properly again.

Ed jumped up and fell back down again.

“Ow…” he said rubbing his rear wincing slightly.

Roy just smiled apologetically and shrugged when Ed graced him with an accusing glare. Then the boy got up slower and stayed up despite the slight trembling of his legs. Roy wondered briefly if he should say something about the semen that was making its way down Ed’s thighs, but decided against it. Instead he enjoyed watching Ed go around the room collecting his clothes and then dressing himself.

“I can’t find my hairtie.” Ed said when he was fully dressed again.

“I believe it broke.” Roy said.

“Oh well… you owe me one then.” Ed said and walked to the door.

“Why are you in such a hurry?” Roy asked walking to the boy. “Was it that bad?”

Ed blushed and turned away. “It wasn’t that bad,” he muttered embarrassedly.

“So?”

“Al will be wondering where I am,” Ed pointed out. “I don’t want to worry him.”

Oh yes, Roy had forgotten about the younger Elric brother. He had a feeling that Al wouldn’t be happy to find out what he’d done with his brother even if Ed had wanted it too. Ed wasn’t the only one with overactive protective instincts.

“So I’ll be going now colonel,” Ed said opening the door. “and don’t think this doesn’t change anything.”

Roy smiled feeling amused and watched Ed walking away. Trust Ed to say something like that. When he turned back to look at his office one thought only one thing: ‘How am I going to explain that mess on the couch to the cleaners..?’


~*~ Owari ~*~


A/N: Yes… you just saw character study turn into smut… *shakes head* I’m deeply ashamed but it really wasn’t my fault. Blame Japanese fan art, djs and Lutz… above all Lutz for whom this fic was written.