1Sentence: RoyEd

By: TG

Author's Note: Honestly, I don't think these are very good. A lot of stuff's been happening in my life and it's got me down, plus I just found out I've been battling bronchitis for the past three months. So please take pity on me. I really do feel crappy, but I felt the need to keep up appearances, at least.

Warnings: Some sentences rated M. Some sentences are ridiculously cliché and obvious.

Disclaimer: Don't own FMA.

1. Air – The air was ripe with alchemy, and Roy began to panic as he ran down the hill as fast as he could –the blue light had come from Von Hohenheim's house; little did he know that he would soon become entwined within the lives of the Elric brothers.

2. Apples – Ed grinned and picked another apple from the orchard tree, climbing back down the ladder to deposit it in the bucket; down the row of trees was Roy, doing the same thing –he caught Roy's gaze and smiled; this had been a great date idea.

3. Beginning – He felt smaller fingers twine themselves in his, and he smiled, looking straight ahead, and squeezed them; his chest tightened a little when he felt Ed squeeze back.

4. Bugs – Ed watched a beetle crawl across the grass and he remembered the time on Yock Island when he realized that he was tiny, insignificant to the workings of the world; 'Hm, maybe so,' he thought, 'but at least I mean something to Roy.'

5. Coffee – Roy knew he was in love when he got to the kitchen one morning and found coffee already brewing in the coffee pot and eggs and bacon popping on the fryer, and Ed, standing there in nothing but an apron, overseeing it all.

6. Dark – Roy's eyes captivated him –so dark they were black, but with gorgeous flecks of blue if he looked close enough; they were beautiful, and he was so incredibly sad when he returned from Earth to realize that one of them had been destroyed.

7. Despair – Depression was something Ed could easily fall into, but he had Al and Roy to keep him afloat.

8. Doors – Every so often, Ed dreams of huge, black doors and of black, grabby hands reaching out to pull him away of everything he loves.

9. Drink – Ed might be old enough to legally drink liquor, but that doesn't mean he enjoys it; honestly, how can Roy stand the stuff?

10. Duty – It was something Roy was bound to, and in that moment, as he stared at his lover's prone body in the hospital bed, he had never hated himself more for it.

11. Earth – Ed knows how close he came to losing Roy forever during those years he was stuck on Earth with only Alfonse and his father for company.

12. End – Ed closed his eyes as the grabby hands of the Gate pulled him; this was the end, he had planned it this way, he was never meant to survive getting Al's body back –but that didn't mean he didn't regret it.

13. Fall – Roy couldn't describe how relieved he felt the day Ed said he loved him; Roy had fallen for him long ago.

14. Fire – Fire destroys, but it also restores; he had known this when he burned his house to the ground, he just hadn't expected Roy to be the one to restore him.

15. Flexible – Roy's eyes rolled back into his head; he had known that Ed had to be flexible from his training, but to have it actually demonstrated in bed was a completely different matter.

16. Flying – The closest Roy had ever felt to flying was when Ed kissed him.

17. Food – Roy had to buy groceries for three every week, not because Al was also staying with him, but because Ed, his only houseguest, could eat an army out in one meal.

18. Foot – The automail was cold, especially in winter, but Roy could never find it in himself to complain when Ed hooked his foot around Roy's ankle to tangle their bare legs together in his sleep.

19. Grave – Roy buried his heart the day he volunteered for the snowy little outpost in the North; Ed wasn't coming back, so what was the point of having something that could hurt so very much?

20. Green – Ed could officially say, having been to both worlds, that the grass was NOT greener on the other side.

21. Head – Roy sees the damage Ed can take and wonders, sometimes, if his head isn't made of metal, too.

22. Hollow – Ed never knew that rejection was supposed to make one feel so empty inside.

23. Honor – Roy had lost his rank, he had lost his love, and he had lost his pride; he had nothing left now but duty and honor, and he will protect those with his life.

24. Hope – Riza came by the frozen cabin the most often of all of his former subordinates, but even she couldn't stand his silence and quiet self-loathing much longer, and gave up hope.

25. Light – Roy was looking forward to Ed coming home from his automail adjustment; he was receiving the new lightweight automail today, which means that Roy can now carry him up the stairs whenever he wants to ravish him.

26. Lost – The most painful thing Ed had ever done was tell his mother's grave how he had lost his own brother's body.

27. Metal – His body was one huge ugly scar, half metal, and Ed had never hated himself more than when he had sex with Roy and enjoyed it, because someone like him didn't deserve such pleasure.

28. New – Roy forgot the addiction of a new lover; even a few minutes apart from Ed made him ache to have the small blonde in his arms again.

29. Old – Roy's eyebrow twitched, but he smoothed it out and replied, "I may be old, but at least I don't hear you complaining in bed."

30. Peace – Ed had never known a peace like the kind he felt in Roy's arms.

31. Poison – Ed's love for Roy was poison to his determination to get Al back to normal.

32. Pretty – Ed's face may be pretty, but Roy knew intimately that nothing about his body was remotely girly.

33. Rain – The rain fell in heavy curtains, soaking his hair and reminding him of loneliness and self-loathing; warmth at his side announced Ed's arrival, and Roy felt like he could breathe again now his lover was with him to remind him of how much he was truly loved.

34. Regret – So much of his life he regretted, but Ed wouldn't change a thing; if it hadn't been for what he'd done to his mother, he never would have met Roy, and he never would have fallen in love.

35. Roses – If Roy ever brings roses home for Ed, Ed will obliterate them, and then Roy will be sleeping on the couch; this is why Roy brings Ed food instead.

36. Secret – Roy will protect Ed and Al's secret until he dies.

37. Snake – If Edward hadn't known for sure that snakes don't walk, he would have though Roy Mustang a snake the first time they met.

38. Snow – Ed laughed as Roy examined a snowman!Roy that Ed had made for him –the snowman had a pompous smirk on its face and an insanely disproportioned military uniform, complete with a very short buttskirt; Roy felt he should be mildly offended, but all he could feel was amusement.

39. Solid – Ed's body is a solid presence at his side, warm and comforting, and Roy knows he can do anything –even run the country –if he gets to come back to Ed every night.

40. Spring – Roy grinned, waving at all the fawning women falling into his path; Edward growled beside him, reminding him that he had his own little (don't let him know he said little, oh god) sex kitten to satisfy, he didn't need anyone else; oh yes, spring has truly sprung, and Roy loved it.

41. Stable – "Go back to your stable, little Flame Pony," Ed sniggered behind his hand, shrieking his laughter as Roy tackled him to the ground in retaliation.

42. Strange – Ed wondered if being gay made him strange, but then realized that Alphonse, blessed little brother that he is, won't care.

43. Summer – Summer was torture for Roy; Ed was beautiful in the summer sunlight, but often found it too hot for sex.

44. Taboo – Al had seen Ed at his lowest, crumbling, desperate and bleeding his life away as he clutched at the stump of his leg; the taboo may have crushed him, but Roy told Alphonse many years later that it was the determination in those gold irises that led him to offer Ed the title of State Alchemist.

45. Ugly – Ed only trusted that Roy told the truth when he told Ed he was beautiful because Roy knew what it felt like to have scars.

46. War – Ed had been through a war, on this place called Earth, since the last time Roy had seen him; his golden eyes were full of a mixture of emotions –sadness, regret, loss –but the upturned corner of Ed's mouth as he greeted Roy for the first time in four years was like looking into the sun.

47. Water – Laughter spilled from the bathroom and bathwater splashed on the floor as Roy leaned in to kiss Ed's beautiful smile; it was nights like these that made life worth living.

48. Welcome – Roy's idea of welcoming Edward home after a mission was to fuck him into the ground; Ed wasn't complaining.

49. Winter – Al has always wrestled with the fact that, as a suit of armor, he couldn't help Ed keep his limbs warm in the winter, but now Ed has Roy to take care of him too.

50. Wood – Roy chops his firewood next to that drafty little shack in the North, and no matter how much he wishes he could forget how much he loves him, he knows that he will love Edward for the rest of his life and it will never go away.

TG © July 2010