Kansaki Sou - give into it [KenshinEd]

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Title: give into it
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist, Rurouni Kenshin
AU: Muse'verse
Characters/Pairing: Kenshin/Ed
Rating: T
Length: 315
Summary: Edward's automail arm was both heavy and cool.



Edward’s automail arm was both heavy and cool. He had slung it over Kenshin’s chest, as a measure of protection. He knew Kenshin was awake, he could tell by his breathing and by the rapid staccato beat of his heart but he did not want to lift his head.

He was HOME.

The room was not his - the room that he and Al had shared years ago, whenever they visited the Rockbells, that had long since been re-purposed. At first he thought it was Al’s room, but then he realized, meeting his brother coming out of Winry’s room one night, why there was only one bedroom in use.

It was weird, and not in a necessarily good way. He caught the looks that Al thought he was oblivious to. Roy first, and then Winry too - cautionary words, how they had come to find Al in that city underground, how he had no memories of his time in the armor, how he had no memories of Ed past that horrible point that their lives skewed out of control.

It clawed at his gut. Everything they had experienced, everything they had learned - the good with the bad, all of it gone? His brother was a stranger to him now - and he was a stranger to Alphonse. Here they were meeting as adults, and now they, and their lives were totally different.

Not for the first time he was grateful to the fact that Kenshin had followed him through hell to be here. Everything was different now, weird in a way that wasn’t good or bad - and he wasn’t quite sure he still fit in.

Maybe he shouldn’t have come back. Maybe he should have stayed and been content. But no matter what, despite everything, this was home.