Zoë (kairiku) wrote in ironman7, @ 2007-08-24 05:55:00 |
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Entry tags: | fullmetal alchemist, kairiku, week 1: prompt 3 |
Fullmetal Alchemist (Hei/Ed) [week 1 - prompt #3]
Title: Winter Nights
Author: kairiku
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Non-explicit sex, series spoilers, implied incest.
Word Count: 301
Summary: It's cold on the floor, damn it.
Author's Notes: This totally turned out nothing like I wanted it to. DX
When Ed first moves in with Alfons, the atmosphere is tense, to say the least. Outside Oberth's lab, they really don't speak much, don't have much in common; dinner (a fend-for-yourself affair, most days. Edward discovered after the first few days that he's not that bad cook after all) is usually eaten in complete silence (to be honest, that might have something to do with the fact that Alfons constantly brings his research to the dinner table.).
Still, it's not so bad. Alfons has some truly groundbreaking theories, after all.
It won't be long, Al, Ed mentally promises. I'll see you soon.
--
Scratch that.
He'll be lucky if he sees Al before he dies of old age.
Heiderich's work has glimmers of genius, yes, but they're so well mixed with the theories of other, less talented individuals that it will be a miracle if they ever create a rocket that so much as leaves the ground.
Days pass; days turn to weeks. Weeks turn to months.
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The apartment they share is tiny, so they share the only bedroom. It's not quite so awkward after the first month or two, but it's still pretty bad.
There's just the one bed, so they take turns; one sleeps in the bed, the other on the floor in a makeshift sleeping bag.
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It's cold on the floor, damn it.
They both agree on this point.
It's not long into winter before they've said to hell with propriety and societal mores and started sharing the bed. And it's not long after that that they make the jump to sleeping together.
They both claim that it's just because they're lonely, and they never mention it in public, obviously, but...
...Sometimes, at night, Ed whispers "Al" instead of "Alfons" - what he prefers to be called - and Alfons knows, somehow, that it's not him Ed is calling out to.