"Damn well better be--I bought 'em two days ago and I'm not keeling over yet. Got any dry ones on you?"
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | Jean Havoc | Maes Hughes | drama | 354th FG HQ
When they are alone in the passenger car, the silence is both natural and oppressive.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | Elric Kyoudai
Ed's arms swept out, taking in the street and the buildings, the grass and the trees and the sky -- "the world and our own minds to understand it! That's all!" Isn't that enough?
rated:M-L | GEN | Shambhala | post-series | SP: movie | Best Overall Story | 2006 Action-Adventure | Green Lion Winner | Alfons Heiderich | Edward Elric | drama
I had asked him, thinking she would say yes, that everything would be okay, that no one would tell my brother no because I know I never could.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal |
It was so strange, the way Alphonse's suddenly reduced size could make Edward look suddenly so much bigger.
Five minutes before the day officially ended, Havoc retrieved the car, and saluted as Mustang came down the steps and opened his own door.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Jean Havoc
Impress, they had told him. Make us see why we should choose you as one of our own.
rated:G | GEN | Mangaverse | pre-series | Roy Mustang | drama | introspective
Ed woke up slowly, and wished he hadn't.
rated:M-L-S-V | GEN | Fullmetal | action | drama | noncon | tentacles | torture
Fullmetal smiled a long, slow smile, the sort that promised evil things were in the near future, and put his boots up on Roy's desk.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | Edward Elric | Roy Mustang | humor
According to Hughes, Major Mustang was close to promotion and as his subordinate, it was her prerogative to try and help him to reach the next rung of the ladder.
rated:K | GEN | Mangaverse | pre-series | Riza Hawkeye | Roy Mustang | Riza/Roy | drama | introspective
Etiquette doesn't quite cover situations like this one.
"Now, Earth-type world, yes? Spoken language identified as late pre-Galactic English."
rated:M-L | GEN | Alt Universe | TWT | First Place (popular); Second Place (juried) | Green Lion Winner | Alfons Heiderich | Edward Elric | crack | drama | fusion | introspective | 2009 Brave New Worlds, Original
But last night I dreamed of Teacher, standing in a brightness like sunlit mist, holding out her arms to me, smiling gently.
rated:G | GEN | Shambhala | Alphonse Elric | Wrath
Al makes a worried little noise, and Ed raises his head a little. He's been found out, he thinks, and knows he should feel something.
rated:G | GEN | Alphonse Elric | angst | drama
Besides, no one ever said that tumultuous times had to begin with a fanfare.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | TWT | drama | 354th FG HQ | politics
"It's getting worse," his brother said as he came in the door.
rated:G | GEN | dark
He was just contemplating a launch, kick and a dash for the window when Armstrong's hands closed in his hair.
The audience fades away; the chatters dies, their twin breaths are the soft herald of thunder to come.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | DF: ep 01 | sidestory: The Path Not Taken | Edward Elric | Maes Hughes | humor
It was just as his body heat was beginning to bring the sheets up to a reasonable temperature that the noise caught his ears- an ugly scraping sound, unnatural and harsh in the silence of early morning hours.
rated:K-L | GEN | Fullmetal | post-series | Alphonse Elric | Edward Elric | dark | drama
That day, Ed had pulled his hair out of a braid and tied it up into a neat ponytail.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | post-series | Edward Elric | drama | introspective
Of course, when she was their age she could hardly recite her multiplication tables, much less draw complex alchemical glyphs.
rated:G | GEN | dark | drama | introspective
Ed's birthday had passed a little over a month ago, while they were still with Sensei.
Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye stands behind Colonel Roy Mustang, laughing silently about her silly dreams, her hand never straying far from the gun by her side.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Riza Hawkeye | introspective
They are his signposts and self-inscriptions, cordoning off the book as his own, as something he possesses.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | Roy Mustang | drama
"You report here every Monday at eight o'clock in the morning, on the dot, and call me every other day. You fail to report or call, and your ass is grass."
"And search for free porn." Havoc pointed out.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Alphonse Elric | Edward Elric | Maes Hughes | drama | humor | 354th FG HQ
Ah. Fans. He preens slightly into his coat, sits up just a little taller on his haunches. Fans he knows how to deal with.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Alphonse Elric | Edward Elric | fluff | humor
But at least there was softness beneath the fear, and the eyes apologized to her for her pain, even when the lips did not.
rated:M-L-V | GEN | Fullmetal | pre-series | Believable Sue/Crossover Contest | Offsite Award | drama
Ed liked him this way -- so why did it make him so furious to have to deal with Al caring one way or another about him?
Al thought of Martel, of Nina. He didn't want to be a chimera.
rated:M-L | GEN | Mangaverse | angst | dark | genderswitch | noncon
Who was waiting for him? He tried to remember, but his mind wasn't working quite right at the moment.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | DF: ep 30 | Alphonse Elric | angst | drama | 2004 First Kiss, Gen
He didn't know why they would do this to him, why they would stare with sad eyes and sad lips, with mouths turned down for the frowns that came.
What price for a human soul? Even a body and a leg had left a debt that could cleave the world in two.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Alphonse Elric | introspective
Winry was ten when her grandmother commented that she already needed training bras.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | pre-series | Winry Rockbell | humor
"Honestly, Fullmetal, I'm beginning to think that you're more trouble than you're worth."
rated:K | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | Alphonse Elric | Edward Elric | Roy Mustang | angst | drama
"But he's just a kid... he's too short to be a criminal..."
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | crossover | humor | Elric Kyoudai
He lifted his eyes to Ed's, returned Ed's even, blank gaze. "Brothers," he said. "That's what we are."
He hadn't asked Hughes to follow him to this place.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | pre-series | Maes Hughes | Roy Mustang | drama | alcohol | 2006 New Pairing
Hohenheim had been familiar with death, but his own still took him by surprise.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Van Hohenheim | drama
Nurses in white smocks bustle about a tiny nurses's station, and he is intercepted by one of the younger ones, a new girl he doesn't recognize.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | post-series | angst | Elric Kyoudai
Car broke down again, couple kilometers out of the city, so they had to walk for a while, until Alfons couldn't speak for the coughing.
rated:G | GEN | Shambhala | post-series | SP: movie | Alfons Heiderich | Edward Elric | angst | introspective
...the two men drank Roy's good whiskey, clinked glasses and Maes exclaimed that It was about damn time.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | SP: ep 25 | Maes Hughes | Roy Mustang | angst | drama | introspective
Breathing. Fuck, he did it every day of his life, why was it so hard all of a sudden?
Yes, something was amiss, and Roy Mustang was going to find out what.
rated:G | GEN | Mangaverse | post-series | DF: ch 107 | Alphonse Elric | Edward Elric | Jean Havoc | Kain Fuery | Roy Mustang | humor
"This one's for you, Al." Edward swore, raised the glass to his lips, and braced for the impact.
rated:G | GEN | Mangaverse | mid-series | angst | fluff | Elric Kyoudai
"I was your mother once," Dante told him with an air of great drunken magnanimity one evening.
Death could come to Roy on his time. Appointment first. Lunch, maybe.
rated:K-V | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | Roy Mustang | Scar | angst | dark | drama | introspective
If armor could narrow its eyes, Ed knew Al would have been doing so.