CSI: Amestris holding place

[cryogenia]

Since the kinkmeme proved a very fertile writing environment (and er, this computer remains highly unstable), I thought I might try something new :) Ch 2 will be posted in installments as comments to this post, if anyone is interested in seeing the raw sewage product, feel free to pushpin along XD

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[cryogenia]

The phone rang entirely too early the next morning, jolting Roy's body into action before his mind was ready. He slapped blindly in the direction of the filing cabinet that doubled as his nightstand and the resulting crack both jerked him the rest of the way awake and sent the phone flying off the hook.

"Greed were right," Hughes's tinny voice echoed up from the receiver dangling down next to the bed. "What was left of our mystery meat special was doped so hard it's a miracle he didn't OD first. We're talking chemical soup. Just about everything you've ever heard of, this poor guy was on it."

"'Guy'," Roy said muzzily as he reached for the receiver with his non-throbbing hand. "They ID'd it then?"

"Unfortunately no. Definitely a John Doe though. Genitalia was intact beneath the excised tattoo."

Roy rubbed at his face, trying to piece together anything other than how bright it was. His apartment faced the south side of the building, and no matter what kind of curtains he experimented with, somehow the sun always seemed to find a

[sara_rojo]

"Cannibalism's not a kink. At least, dear God, I hope it's not."

Silly Hughes. If it exists, someone's getting off on itXD

This fic is awesome, amusing and morbid and dark. I like the whole homunculus=drug family mafia or somethingXD. glad it was Sloth who bit it, he's the least interesting. I wonder, if Roy is half-xingian here, does that mean Izumi is too? (since, you know, they look alike)
The detail and world building here was impressive. Roy is coming across as very multilayered too, and I can't feel sorry enough for Ed. How come he ended up like that? But god, he's also hot

Greed is AWESOME, I know we'll be seeing more of him, he's probably a renegade of our bad guys. It can't come soon enough, his next appearance. And Lyra! Good mix of verses ;-)
Now I wonder if you'll have the first anime homunculus appear too...specially first anime!Sloth aka Mommy Elric (and crazy Kid Wrath); it would certainly make things even more interestingXD

(okay I have returned! :D)

[cryogenia]

It helped his headache slightly to imagine Hughes' face in the resulting, mutually disgusted silence.

"...okay, sex killer's not out," Hughes admitted a few seconds later. "What about the tattoo, though? That still screams 'gang' to me."

"Or something else organized." Roy slid off the edge of the bed carefully, testing to see if his legs would hold him, then bent down to open the top drawer of his filing-night stand. He pulled out a thick dossier labeled in Xingian, his private stack of information related to the eastern families.

"Our little friend tells me there's a new player in town. Prince of the Yao clan, has that same snake tattooed on his hand. You got anything on him? Something we could make a positive ident with?"

"I'll check," Hughes said. "We don't have a clear picture of ethnicity yet - that's how bad that mess really is - but if it's the hand, I don't think he's likely to be our DB. Coroner's office says the tattoo was carved out of the guy's back. Right shoulderblade, if you can believe it. Mr. Doe had Armstrong-

[mikkeneko]

I am intrigued by your plans and will be subscribing to your newsletter have pushpinned this thread!

[dormantdrake]

[militsa]

Wonderful detail and I like the gritty/realist dialogue. Nice! The plot is genuinely intriguing too. I wish this could be a movie XD.

[zakai_]

Just stopping by to say I'm really looking forward to more whenever you get it out :)