Left Behind Ch. 22- Masks; Theme #67- Childhood friend
Title: Masks
Arc: Left Behind Arc Ch. 22
Author: animethief92
Disclaimer: I don't own GW or FMA
Theme: #67- Childhood friend
Fandom: Gundam Wing/Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing: Duo Maxwell/Edward Elric
Rating: PG-13
Roy and Riza finally reached the Elrics who were trying to find Envy and Gluttony still. Then knew it was hopeless to try and follow through the forest area, but they felt obligated to still try; especially Ed. In a way, he felt this was all his fault for not questioning Duo and not warning him about the homunculi.
“Edward, stop or you’ll wear yourself out!” Roy ordered and tried to stop him, but a firm punch greeted his jaw.
“Leave me the fuck alone! This is all my fault for what happened, and you know it!” Ed couldn’t hold back some of the tears he held back even when his automail was getting changed.
Alphonse felt guilty, but he knew it would never even compare to Ed’s since they were now lovers. But he didn’t feel right just allowing his brother to take all the blame on himself. “Brother, it wasn’t just your fault… It was mine as well because I’m the one who left him alone in the first place.”
The blonde didn’t reply, but only gazed off into the distance and tried to scope out any movements even though he knew it was hopeless. Another thing that Edward felt responsible for, along with the heavy burden of finding the Philosopher’s Stone; although all of that had been put aside ever since Duo had come. In a way it was like a break for the brothers and they had enjoyed it until the homunculi had to remind them of the fact it wouldn’t always be that way.
“I guess it’s now time to get off our lazy asses and begin working again. We’ve had a long enough break that was interrupted by them again…” Edward sighed and stopped searching knowing it would be useless considering it would take him a long time just to get out of there and by then there wouldn’t be a trace of the homunculi left.
“Let’s try looking in town, maybe we’ll be able to stop them before they get too far.” Al suggested and Ed grinned as if he had planned it all along.
“There was also a certain someone I was thinking might be able to help us.” His golden eyes landed on Roy and awaited his answer.
“I’ll get some men to look out for any suspicious characters and make sure they check all means of transportation for someone who looks like Duo.” Roy rolled his eyes but for some reason felt guilty for that happening to Duo in the first place.
**
Duo’s head was aching and he could hardly stand to look out the window into the sunlit sky. The whole thing was giving him a headache and the first thing he saw when he woke was a young man in skin-tight clothes with long green hair. For some reason, Duo found him very familiar.
“So our Sleeping Beauty has awoken! How do you feel princess?” The man had a very small-build, but that didn’t make him falter in his confidence.
“You talk pretty cocky for someone who looks like a little prissy princess.” Duo noticed the guy stifled his anger, but knew he wasn’t very good at doing it.
“You’re pretty smug for being a hostage!” Envy stood up and forced Duo to look directly into his eyes. “You’re eyes are an unusual color, but very beautiful in a strange way at the same time…”
“Are you trying to seduce me or something? And who are you anyways?”
“My name is Envy, and why the hell would I try to seduce you?” Envy let go and sat down across from the brunette. “I’m curious to know, are you human?”
Duo seemed surprised at the question and nodded slowly. This guy was so strange but Duo couldn’t help but feel as if he understood Envy. It wasn’t as if they were completely different, and even though he hadn’t even spoken to his kidnapper; there was something that made him want to get to know him.
“Why do you put up that mask? What is it you have to hide?” Duo asked and struggled slightly against the restraints he had finally noticed.
“Stop being so hypocritical, I’ve seen you wear a mask as well. And don’t pretend like you haven’t.”
“I don’t lie and I won’t say I haven’t put on masks before to make sure people don’t worry about me. I hate it when people worry over me and then get their heads blown off. But what about you?” Duo heard someone moving around outside the room and realized that they were in a still public area, but in some sort of backroom to a shop.
Envy almost spat in his face but felt an unusually strong resistance to. Instead he just turned and walked toward the door, but before leaving he purposefully changed his form in front of Duo.
“Just so you know, I don’t wear masks… I become them.”
**
Winry stepped off the train just as eager to see Ed as she was the first time when the incident with Barry the Chopper happened. This time she had promised not to get herself kidnapped and get threatened to get chopped up by a psycho and getting Ed hurt in the process.
She was impatient with walking the normal pace everyone else was walking and was weaving in and out of people to get to Central Headquarters faster. It wasn’t doing much, but she was honestly too excited to care.
Winry couldn’t stand to sit down for another twenty minutes or so for a ride to Headquarters, so she decided to just walk there and hopefully she would be willing to sit down again to talk with her two childhood friends.
Arc: Left Behind Arc Ch. 22
Author: animethief92
Disclaimer: I don't own GW or FMA
Theme: #67- Childhood friend
Fandom: Gundam Wing/Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing: Duo Maxwell/Edward Elric
Rating: PG-13
Roy and Riza finally reached the Elrics who were trying to find Envy and Gluttony still. Then knew it was hopeless to try and follow through the forest area, but they felt obligated to still try; especially Ed. In a way, he felt this was all his fault for not questioning Duo and not warning him about the homunculi.
“Edward, stop or you’ll wear yourself out!” Roy ordered and tried to stop him, but a firm punch greeted his jaw.
“Leave me the fuck alone! This is all my fault for what happened, and you know it!” Ed couldn’t hold back some of the tears he held back even when his automail was getting changed.
Alphonse felt guilty, but he knew it would never even compare to Ed’s since they were now lovers. But he didn’t feel right just allowing his brother to take all the blame on himself. “Brother, it wasn’t just your fault… It was mine as well because I’m the one who left him alone in the first place.”
The blonde didn’t reply, but only gazed off into the distance and tried to scope out any movements even though he knew it was hopeless. Another thing that Edward felt responsible for, along with the heavy burden of finding the Philosopher’s Stone; although all of that had been put aside ever since Duo had come. In a way it was like a break for the brothers and they had enjoyed it until the homunculi had to remind them of the fact it wouldn’t always be that way.
“I guess it’s now time to get off our lazy asses and begin working again. We’ve had a long enough break that was interrupted by them again…” Edward sighed and stopped searching knowing it would be useless considering it would take him a long time just to get out of there and by then there wouldn’t be a trace of the homunculi left.
“Let’s try looking in town, maybe we’ll be able to stop them before they get too far.” Al suggested and Ed grinned as if he had planned it all along.
“There was also a certain someone I was thinking might be able to help us.” His golden eyes landed on Roy and awaited his answer.
“I’ll get some men to look out for any suspicious characters and make sure they check all means of transportation for someone who looks like Duo.” Roy rolled his eyes but for some reason felt guilty for that happening to Duo in the first place.
**
Duo’s head was aching and he could hardly stand to look out the window into the sunlit sky. The whole thing was giving him a headache and the first thing he saw when he woke was a young man in skin-tight clothes with long green hair. For some reason, Duo found him very familiar.
“So our Sleeping Beauty has awoken! How do you feel princess?” The man had a very small-build, but that didn’t make him falter in his confidence.
“You talk pretty cocky for someone who looks like a little prissy princess.” Duo noticed the guy stifled his anger, but knew he wasn’t very good at doing it.
“You’re pretty smug for being a hostage!” Envy stood up and forced Duo to look directly into his eyes. “You’re eyes are an unusual color, but very beautiful in a strange way at the same time…”
“Are you trying to seduce me or something? And who are you anyways?”
“My name is Envy, and why the hell would I try to seduce you?” Envy let go and sat down across from the brunette. “I’m curious to know, are you human?”
Duo seemed surprised at the question and nodded slowly. This guy was so strange but Duo couldn’t help but feel as if he understood Envy. It wasn’t as if they were completely different, and even though he hadn’t even spoken to his kidnapper; there was something that made him want to get to know him.
“Why do you put up that mask? What is it you have to hide?” Duo asked and struggled slightly against the restraints he had finally noticed.
“Stop being so hypocritical, I’ve seen you wear a mask as well. And don’t pretend like you haven’t.”
“I don’t lie and I won’t say I haven’t put on masks before to make sure people don’t worry about me. I hate it when people worry over me and then get their heads blown off. But what about you?” Duo heard someone moving around outside the room and realized that they were in a still public area, but in some sort of backroom to a shop.
Envy almost spat in his face but felt an unusually strong resistance to. Instead he just turned and walked toward the door, but before leaving he purposefully changed his form in front of Duo.
“Just so you know, I don’t wear masks… I become them.”
**
Winry stepped off the train just as eager to see Ed as she was the first time when the incident with Barry the Chopper happened. This time she had promised not to get herself kidnapped and get threatened to get chopped up by a psycho and getting Ed hurt in the process.
She was impatient with walking the normal pace everyone else was walking and was weaving in and out of people to get to Central Headquarters faster. It wasn’t doing much, but she was honestly too excited to care.
Winry couldn’t stand to sit down for another twenty minutes or so for a ride to Headquarters, so she decided to just walk there and hopefully she would be willing to sit down again to talk with her two childhood friends.