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scriveyner) wrote2014-03-29 08:48 am
scriveyner) wrote2014-03-29 08:48 am
Fullmetal Alchemist (Reverse'verse) - The Roaring Quiet [EdRian]
Title: the roaring quiet
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
AU: Reverse'verse
Characters/Pairing: Ed/Rian
Rating: T
Length: 316
Summary: It was unsettling to come home to a dark apartment now, even though Edward knew to expect it.
It was unsettling to come home to a dark apartment now, even though Edward knew to expect it. He waved off Jean, who sat in the idling car curbside, before letting himself in. He knew that Jean would wait until a light came on despite being waved off - he was a good friend - so Edward slapped the first light on and listened to the old military car backfire as it puttered off.
Then he leaned against the inside of the door and sighed deeply.
His flat wasn’t very big - but it seemed immense suddenly, the darkness yawing past the very edge of the small lamp’s light. Edward dropped his keys on top of two day’s worth of mail, the plate he kept them on hidden somewhere underneath.
He knew that there would be no one home to greet him and still it unsettled him. He was used to the light in the kitchen being on, the smell of something cooking - or burning, as the case may be - noise, clatter, LIFE - but now there was silence.
It would look unusual if a State Alchemist hung around his garrison all the time. Edward told himself that, gave Rian the assignment with a grin, told him to enjoy the sun in the south and didn’t see him off at the station because it would be too suspicious. Neuhaus was watching him, Neuhaus suspected SOMETHING - though whether that was the fact that his protege was living with him or something else entirely - but all the same it was important that they kept up appearances.
And appearances were that they were coworkers, and nothing more.
How had Roy handled it, seeing him run off into the distance for months on end? He certainly wasn’t dealing with it well.
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
AU: Reverse'verse
Characters/Pairing: Ed/Rian
Rating: T
Length: 316
Summary: It was unsettling to come home to a dark apartment now, even though Edward knew to expect it.
It was unsettling to come home to a dark apartment now, even though Edward knew to expect it. He waved off Jean, who sat in the idling car curbside, before letting himself in. He knew that Jean would wait until a light came on despite being waved off - he was a good friend - so Edward slapped the first light on and listened to the old military car backfire as it puttered off.
Then he leaned against the inside of the door and sighed deeply.
His flat wasn’t very big - but it seemed immense suddenly, the darkness yawing past the very edge of the small lamp’s light. Edward dropped his keys on top of two day’s worth of mail, the plate he kept them on hidden somewhere underneath.
He knew that there would be no one home to greet him and still it unsettled him. He was used to the light in the kitchen being on, the smell of something cooking - or burning, as the case may be - noise, clatter, LIFE - but now there was silence.
It would look unusual if a State Alchemist hung around his garrison all the time. Edward told himself that, gave Rian the assignment with a grin, told him to enjoy the sun in the south and didn’t see him off at the station because it would be too suspicious. Neuhaus was watching him, Neuhaus suspected SOMETHING - though whether that was the fact that his protege was living with him or something else entirely - but all the same it was important that they kept up appearances.
And appearances were that they were coworkers, and nothing more.
How had Roy handled it, seeing him run off into the distance for months on end? He certainly wasn’t dealing with it well.