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R.I.P. 2 My Youth // The Neighbourhood

Roy has a bit of a crush on the alchemist down the street. He's too old for Roy by at least 10 years. He's the rudest person Roy's ever met. He's a man, and Roy knows what to expect from men, knows what his sisters have gone through and what they would warn him of.

He knows, but he goes into Master Elric's shop whenever he can. He looks through the supplies in glass jars, the heavy books on the shelves, the gargoyle statues in every nook. He buys the cheepest nicknack he finds and leaves.

Years later, Ed is walking and reading. His foot slips while his mind is occupied. Before he can catch himself, a man in a military uniform is there with a hand at the small of his back. Ed doesn't recognize him (faces aren't his strong suit). He doesn't realize the man smiling that sharp smile at him is the nosey brat from red alley.

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Al looked out to the sky, watching a pair of birds drift around each other, following each other.

"I don't think the Colonel would cry turning someone down. I think he would have to care a great deal about the person he let see him cry."

Ed scuffed his foot against the dusty floor of the platform. What he had Seen in the vision had certainly been different from the arrogant man, the elegant, controlled man Ed knew in the present. It was hard not to suspect some sort of manipulation from him, but it had seemed so genuine.

Ed remembered the taste of Mustang's tears. He remembered the man's uncaring voice on the phone that morning.

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From the Seer universe:

Ed feels the tension on his scalp as Mustang grips the man’s hair and the feeling of it runs down his spine. Mustang’s voice is rough and deep and— Ed loses his grip on the vision, It’s absorbed back into the eternity of possibilities. 

Ed was left laying there on the roof, different futures sliding past his mind, barely leaving an awareness of them. He was breathing heavily. His body reacted.

Ed sat up, left hand balled up in the fabric of his shirt, staring at nothing. That had been…intense.

The nightmares had been happening for a while, getting more intense since he'd moved to central, more clear. They weren't Ed's nightmares, not the cellar on that dark night, or Mom laying still in her bed, or terrible, shapeless aloneness. They were nightmares of drowning, of watching his own hands do horrible things, of quiet, lifeless ash. The nightmares came from somewhere, from someone. He was sure they weren't from his mind in any way.

It wasn't until Ed met the man the nightmares came from that they both realized they could share dreams as well. Strangely echoing dreams of their own faces across the room. Desire multiplied by two experiences. Traitorous futures. Pulling something back from God.

They could share dreams. And neither Ed nor Roy are people who can see a dream and do nothing.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edward Elric/Roy Mustang Characters: Edward Elric, Roy Mustang Additional Tags: Post-Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa, Established Relationship, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Magnets and automail, Roy is a Dork, Ed is well Ed, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, RoyEd Week 2023 Summary:

Magnets, automail and silent apologies.

Podfic of Magnetic Alphabet by narcisoalui

RoyEd Week 2023 - Day 7: Free Day