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scriveynerTitle: routines
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
AU: Reverse'verse
Characters/Pairing: Ed/Rian
Rating: T
Length: 355
Summary:
The two of them squeezing into Edward’s tiny bathroom didn’t always work out. Edward had taken to shaving in the shower, which worked wonderfully except that he usually showered before bed because showing up in the office with water dripping from the end of your ponytail was exceptionally bad form. And while shaving in the shower was a smart plan, by seven am he had the start of a shadow along his jaw – so many years he spent cursing the fact he couldn’t grow facial hair to save his life and now what he wouldn’t give to be able to go BACK to that time.
Of course, operating around Rian – who always, always commandeered the sink, which wasn’t fair because Edward needed to lean against the fixture as it provided him a great deal of support in staying upright – was always interesting. Rian was much more of a morning person than Edward would ever be. He might be sleepy, or muzzy, but he functioned, an incredibly important task that Edward had never quite fully mastered. Roy was like that too – they used to have to lean against each other the bathroom, barely awake as they struggled through their morning routine.
(Although, Edward had never truly sussed out if it was because Roy wasn’t a morning person, or if it was because Roy always kept him up far later than need be. That was a happy memory, though, and Edward kept it filed carefully away for safekeeping.)
Edward would stare, half-awake, as Rian would bustle around the bathroom and vanish, to make breakfast (maybe) and coffee (YES) because Edward was going to brace his arms against the sink and maybe rest his eyes for a few more minutes, at least until the sink starts to overflow because Rian anticipated this and shoved a towel into the drain.
Their morning routine was weird, and awkward, and somehow, magically – it worked.
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
AU: Reverse'verse
Characters/Pairing: Ed/Rian
Rating: T
Length: 355
Summary:
The two of them squeezing into Edward’s tiny bathroom didn’t always work out. Edward had taken to shaving in the shower, which worked wonderfully except that he usually showered before bed because showing up in the office with water dripping from the end of your ponytail was exceptionally bad form. And while shaving in the shower was a smart plan, by seven am he had the start of a shadow along his jaw – so many years he spent cursing the fact he couldn’t grow facial hair to save his life and now what he wouldn’t give to be able to go BACK to that time.
Of course, operating around Rian – who always, always commandeered the sink, which wasn’t fair because Edward needed to lean against the fixture as it provided him a great deal of support in staying upright – was always interesting. Rian was much more of a morning person than Edward would ever be. He might be sleepy, or muzzy, but he functioned, an incredibly important task that Edward had never quite fully mastered. Roy was like that too – they used to have to lean against each other the bathroom, barely awake as they struggled through their morning routine.
(Although, Edward had never truly sussed out if it was because Roy wasn’t a morning person, or if it was because Roy always kept him up far later than need be. That was a happy memory, though, and Edward kept it filed carefully away for safekeeping.)
Edward would stare, half-awake, as Rian would bustle around the bathroom and vanish, to make breakfast (maybe) and coffee (YES) because Edward was going to brace his arms against the sink and maybe rest his eyes for a few more minutes, at least until the sink starts to overflow because Rian anticipated this and shoved a towel into the drain.
Their morning routine was weird, and awkward, and somehow, magically – it worked.
