Here's the a story! I'm hoping I can have it done in under 10 chapter, but who knows how that will go.
I was waiting to post this here and AO3 until I had an idea of where I was going with it, and had more than the first chapter written. I have chapter 2 done and posted on tumblr (majormetalandcolonelsparky or stillnotginger10 tagged / texting-fic) but I'm going to wait a couple of days to post chapter 2 here so that I have time to work on chapter 3, and hopefully make posting a little more evenly paced.
This site is messing with my formatting a bit, so emoticons may be different here than on AO3 and tumblr, and I had to add the lines in between sections instead of just space. Let me know if it messed anything up and I missed it. Hopefully it's all still good and readable though.
Ed is bold
Roy is italics
Al is normal
Saturday PM
(3:22) Shit. Broke my arm again. Winry is going to KILL me OTL
(3:24) Again? Do you break your arm often?
(3:25) You're right! Once a year isn't THAT bad
(3:26) Maybe this time I'LL get mad when she hits me with her wrench
(3:28) Should I be concerned? Maybe you should call the police, not a stranger, if you're being abused.
(3:29) Abused?
(3:30) Did you just call your older brother a stranger?
(3:32) I don't have a brother. Plenty of sisters though.
(3:35) …Al?
(3:36) No. Wrong number.
(3:37) WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT BEFORE ASSHOLE?
(3:38) FUCK
(3:39) Do you swear this much with everyone who isn't your brother?
(3:40) NO. JUST BASTARDS LIKE YOU
(3:41) I'm honored.
Monday AM
(9:01) How's the arm?
(9:05) Who is this?
(9:06) Fuck. Leave me alone creep. Bastard
(9:07) Such hostility. I'm only showing concern.
(9:08) It is the middle of the night (
(9:10) It's 9AM?
(9:10) What?
(9:11) Are you in a different time zone? Sorry, I didn't think.
(9:13) SHIT IT'S 9AM G2G FUCKING LATE
(9:11) WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP!?
(9:12) I tried! You threw a book at me!
(9:12) Throw one back next time! I'm so late for O-chem
(9:13) What the fuck Al!?
(9:14) I'm saving you a seat and told the prof your car wouldn't start.
(9:16) You're the best little brother
Monday PM
(12:58) My arm is fine btw
(1:00) Hello again. I wasn't sure I'd be hearing from you.
(1:02) Yeah well, figured I owed you for the wake up text
(1:02) Saved my ass
(1:03) So yeah. My arm is fine. Winry fixed it
(1:04) Good to know.
(1:05) How did you break it anyway?
(1:07) Was walking by Engineering and one of the undergrad's launched a rocket into it (
(1:08) Fucking idiots. Who tests a design that's so obviously crap?
(1:10) Clearly they're not as smart as you.
(1:11) Obviously
(1:12) So are you a grad student then?
(1:13) Huh?
(1:14) You said undergrads as if you weren't one.
(1:15) Oh right. Yeah, getting my masters
(1:16) I'm not saying where though! You're still a creepy bastard
(1:18) Alright, alright.
(1:19) I suppose I'm not getting your name then?
(1:20) No way in hell
(1:21) A nickname?
(1: 23) …
(1:25) Fullmetal
(1:26) Fullmetal? Interesting nickname.
(1:27) It's just something some people call me. Don't ask.
(1:29) You got a name?
(1:31) Call me Flame.
(1:32) Flame…? õ_ó
(1:34) What exactly is that symbol supposed to be?
(1:35) A raised eyebrow. What the fucks it look like?
(1:36) You do better then
(1:37) ',:-)
(1:39) …that looks creepy as shit
(1:40) Does not.
(1:41) Fucking proof you're a creepy bastard
(1:42) :(
(1:43) Sooooo Flame? Why?
(1:44) You hot or something? haha
(1:45) Very ',:-) ,':-)
(1:46) …
(1:46) Did you just wiggle your fucking eyebrows at me?
(1:47) You liked it.
(1:48) Omg you're a creepy perverted bastard
(1:49) This is why they have seminars and shit about stranger danger
(1:50) Or maybe it was drinking. Idk I didn't go
(1:51) Oh good. Then I can prey on you all I want
(1:53) …the fuck?
(1:54) Joking. Joking. Though I feel the need to point out that you called me handsome first.
(1:55) I did not!
(1:55) Shut up!
(1:56) Aw are you blushing?
(1:57) Shut the fuck up!
(1:51) Who are you texting?
(1:51) You?
(1:52) No. Before that. Ling says you're paying more attention to your phone than your food.
(1:53) Wtf? Ling's not even here.
(1:53) Yes, he is.
(1:54) Lies. I don't see him.
(1:55) Does anyone ever see Ling?
(1:56) Damn ninja
(1:57) So you're not texting me, or you weren't a few minutes ago
(1:58) You're not texting Winry. I checked.
(1:58) Stalker
(1:59) You're clearly not texting Ling. Rose's phone is broken. You never text Russell.
(2:00) Because he's an ass
(2:01) So who are you texting?
(2:02) I have more friends than that
(2:03) Uh huh. Sure. So who are you texting?
(2:05) No one. It was a wrong number. New phone, remember?
(2:06) I wrote the wrong number when trying to text you Saturday
(2:07) You've been texting some stranger since Saturday!?
(2:08) Not continuously
(2:09) Shut up
(2:10) Interesting. Him? Her? Name?
(2:11) You're not going to get on the news for being kidnapped by some wrong number stranger, right?
(2:12) omg
(2:13) I'm done talking to you
(2:12) So why Flame?
(2:13) It's just a nickname from work.
(2:13) What? Did you burn down the break room or something?
(2:14) Haha something like that.
(2:14) A creep and a pyromaniac? Maybe Al was right
(2:15) About?
(2:16) You trying to kidnap me
(2:17) You don't plan on it, do ya?
(2:18) Damn. You got me. Been planning it since Saturday.
(2:19) Now I'll never get the ransom money.
(2:20) Haha we're broke college students. Kidnapping me wouldn't do you shit anyway
(2:21) Besides I'd kick your ass if you tried
(2:22) You think you could?
(2:23) I know I could
(2:24) Arrogant brat.
(2:25) Creepy bastard
Tuesday AM
(10:17) Entertain me ;)
(10:18) No
(10:18) Go away
(10:19) Don't be like that. I know you missed me.
(10:20) No. Go away
(10:21) Words can hurt, Fullmetal :'-(
(10:22) Tough. I'm on my way to teach a class. Can't talk.
(10:23) Oh, you teach?
(10:24) Yeah. I teach, they pay some of my tuition. That's the deal
(10:25) Srsly g2g
(10:26) Ttyl?
(10:27) Prbly. Be in lab all night
(10:27) Could use the company
(10:28) It's a date.
Tuesday PM
(9:30) Are you at the lab?
(9:34) Where else would I be? I practically live here
(9:34) Where are you? Somewhere fun?
(9:35) I'm at home, having a nightcap before bed.
(9:36) Sounds more fun than babysitting experiments here
(9:37) It probably is. It's a good nightcap.
(9:38) Sorry about earlier. I hope I didn't make you late.
(9:39) No, no. It was fine. Made it just in time
(9:41) Good. Hate to think I'd gotten you in trouble just because I was bored at work.
(9:43) Where do you work anyway?
(9:44) I'm in the army. A Colonel. So they just stick me in an office all day.
(9:45) Where you slack off
(9:46) Fullmetal! I am offended!
(9:47) You can't act offended when I'm the person you text when you want to slack off -_-
(9:48) Still offended!
(9:44) How old are Colonels in the army?
(9:46) Good evening to you too, brother. Having a nice night?
(9:48) It's fan-freaking-tastic, Al. The lab is alive with the sound of music
(9:50) Are we quoting musicals now?
(9:50) How long have you been there?
(9:51) Too long. I'm going insane
(9:51) But seriously. Colonels. How old?
(9:52) Idk. I don't regularly question military officers about their age.
(9:53) Ughhhh why not?
(9:53) Why the sudden interest?
(9:54) ...
(9:55) Brother?
(9:56) Flame's a Colonel
(9:56) Who?
(9:57) Wrong number guy
(9:57) Or girl. Idk
(9:58) We really are going to be on the news OTL
(9:59) Why do I talk to you?
(9:59) Why do you talk to strangers?
(10:00) GOODNIGHT ALPHONSE
(9:54) Still offended?
(9:55) You insulted my character. I'll die offended.
(9:56) Can you be offended and talk at the same time? Because the lab is boring
(9:57) Sigh u_u my suffering means nothing to you.
(9:58) Pretty much
(9:58) Brat.
(9:59) What are you doing in the lab anyway?
(10:00) Right now? Watching the 3D printer make a part I need
(10:00) I meant what are you studying.
(10:01) Is your nightcap so boring that you want to hear about science?
(10:02) I like science.
(10:02) Really?
(10:03) Why is that so surprising?
(10:04) Idk most people get bored when I talk about my work
(10:05) And soldiers seem less brain more brawn
(10:06) I'm offended again.
(10:07) You get offended a lot, huh?
(10:08) No. You're just offensive.
(10:08) Hey!
(10:09) Do you deny it? ',:-l
(10:10) Oh no. The creepy eyebrow is back
(10:11) ',:-)
(10:11) ,':-)
(10:11) ',:-)
(10:12) Stop! Stop. I'm getting weird looks for laughing at a computer
(10:13) You do realize that just makes me want to continue, don't you?
(10:14) Ughh
(10:10) Just ask him how old he is.
(10:11) GOODNIGHT ALPHONSE
(10:16) Sooooo? What's your major?
(10:17) That's pretty much the college equivalent to asking about the weather
(10:18) But fine!
(10:18) Biomechanical Engineering
(10:19) Wow
(10:19) What are you planning to do with that degree?
(10:21) Winry and I are working on a new type of prosthetic limb
(10:22) We'll really be able to get funding and make progress once we graduate
(10:23) But we've got a lot done already
(10:24) Is this the same Winry that fixed your arm?
(10:25) Uh
(10:25) Yeah
(10:26) Hmm
(10:27) Have the two of you ever considered working with the military?
(10:28) We have a lot of funding available if you can convince the powers that be to take an interest.
(10:29) Hahahahahahahahaha
(10:29) No way in hell
(10:30) We're staying civilian
(10:31) Oh well, worth a shot.
(10:32) If you change your mind though, a recommendation from me would go a long way.
(10:33) Oh yeah? You a big shot?
(10:34) I like to think so.
(10:35) Even though you set fire to the break room?
(10:36) Haha even so.
(10:37) Though I may get in trouble with my Lieutenant if I'm late because I stayed up all night texting you.
(10:38) So I'm afraid I have to go to bed. I shall talk to you tomorrow though.
(10:39) Fine! Leave me to a night alone in the lab :(
(10:40) Haha goodnight bastard
(10:41) Goodnight, Fullmetal.
Wednesday AM
(2:56) Are you still in the lab?
(2:58) I thought you were going to bed
(3:00) Having trouble sleeping. Still need company?
(3:01) I'm still not making any huge breakthroughs, so why not?
(3:02) Everything okay?
(3:04) Yeah. Fine.
(3:05) Alright…
(3:06) Tell me a bedtime story?
(3:07) HAHAHAHAHA
(3:07) Once upon a time…Fuck off!
(3:08) Must admit: I've heard better.
(3:09) Fuck
(3:09) Off
(3:12) So has nothing interesting happened at the lab?
(3:13) Nope. Forget the lab
(3:13) Tell me about what YOU do. I still don't anything about your job
(3:14) What do soldiers do?
(3:16) I really don't want to talk about that right now.
(3:17) Or think about it.
(3:17) Sorry
(3:18) No. That's fine
(3:19) Something to do with why you can't sleep?
(3:20) Shit. Sorry. Nvm don't answer that
(3:22) Sorry
(3:26) Once upon a time there was a brilliant wizard…
(3:27) Oh. Am I getting my story?
(3:28) Not if you keep talking
(3:29) *zips lips*
(3:30) Right. Where was I before I was so RUDELY INTERRUPTED?
(3:31) Once upon a time there was a brilliant wizard
(3:32) Who was the best at potions. He could make a potion for everything
(3:33) And the whole town loved him
(3:34) And he was badass as hell
(3:34) So the town also feared him
(3:35) And he was the tallest man in any land
(3:35) A whole head taller than the king
(3:36) Two heads taller than his brother Al
(3:37) He sounds very tall.
(3:38) His tallness is very important to the story
(3:39) Of course.
(3:40) The brilliant, badass, extremely tall wizard's name was Fullmetal
(3:41) *gasp* I did not see that one coming.
(3:42) Weren't you shutting up?
(3:42) *zips lips*
(3:43) Better
(3:43) One day a horrible, ugly ogre attacked the town
(3:44) So Fullmetal joined together with his brother, Sir Alphonse
(3:44) Who was much shorter than Fullmetal
(3:45) …
(3:45) Right
(3:46) The brothers joined together to fight the horrible, ugly ogre
(3:47) The ogre's name was Russell
(3:48) Russell? How is that an ogre's name?
(3:49) …
(3:50) The ogre's name was Flame
(3:51) I like Russell better.
(3:52) Too bad. Flame is a much better name for an ogre
(3:52) A horrible, ugly ogre that the townspeople ran crying from
(3:53) I'm not sure I deserve this.
(3:54) The brothers moved to attack the ogre
(3:55) The poor probably handsome, ogre.
(3:56) But then the not handsome at all ogre tripped
(3:57) And fell over in an embarrassing display of its own stupidity
(3:58) And then rose from the ground more handsome than ever?
(3:59) It was dead. Killed by its own lack of coordination
(4:00) The poor ogre. It didn't deserve to go that way.
(4:01) The townspeople cheered
(4:02) And threw a party for the brothers, but especially for their beloved, tall wizard
(4:03) And everyone lived happily every after. Except the ogre. Who died ugly
(4:04) What a marvelous story.
(4:05) I thought so :)
(4:06) With those kind words in mind, I think I can manage to sleep now.
(4:07) Night bastard
(4:08) Thank you, Fullmetal.