Disclaimer: I in no way owns FMA, and if I did, I would toss Edward and Envy together and they shall have a heart to heart conversation before breaking down and hug. You don't see that happening, did you?

Dragging Envy's body upon himself, Edward pulled out his cell phone as he dialed the very first number in his recent contacts.

"Hello…? Dude, what the hell, it's three in the morning for god sake-"

"Havoc, I need you to give us a lift."

"A lift…? W-wait, B-boss?!" Edward smirked when he heard the sound of the sheets being flipped open, and followed by footsteps, "W-where are you?" Edward told him the address of the club, and lifted Envy out of it. He let Envy's body lean against the wall while waiting for Havoc, and a few minutes later, Havoc arrived with his car.

Helping Edward to get Envy into the backseat, Edward noticed the tiredness that Havoc was showing, and sighed. He wouldn't want to have any accident caused by the sleepiness of Havoc. Before Havoc could react, Edward had settled himself onto the driver's seat.

"Boss-"

"Get on the car, or would you like to stay?" Havoc sat into the car without a sound. Pleased with his reaction, Edward started driving away the car back to Envy's place. Havoc and Envy were both asleep on the way, and the snoring of Havoc only stopped when he felt a harsh stop of the car. Havoc woke up, and blinked to register his surrounding. When he saw Edward dragging Envy down the car, he scrambled down of his car and helped Edward to drag the drunken model into the house.

"Boss, I never knew that you know how to drive." Havoc said, asking out his confusion as well, and Edward shrugged in reply, "-I don't have a license."

Havoc stunned, and stared at the blond for a moment, until Edward turned and frown at him, he quickly start picking up his steps to get Envy to move forward.

"Your driving skills are good! I couldn't even feel anything when I was asleep till we reach! You're good enough to apply for one…" Havoc grinned in encouragement, and Edward laughed with uneasiness. He wouldn't say that again when he got the speeding fine, and with a body of soreness with suspicious bruises the next day…

Edward reached his hand into Envy's pocket under the watchful eye of Havoc, ignoring the suggestive look on his face, he pull out the key from his pocket, and pushed Envy onto Havoc to unlock the door. While unlocking the door, Havoc was trying to stable Envy to prevent him from falling down, and Edward stunned when he felt a tug while pushing the door open.

The smell of gas filled the whole house.

Edward turned, dragging the both along as he shouted.

"Run!"

As Edward and Havoc settled into the car quickly, a clear metallic sound that hit's the ground was heard, as the grenade rolled across the ground innocently with its safety key pull apart.

Havoc stepped onto the accelerator hard, and soon a hard sound of explosion erupted from what was Envy's apartment. The fire that rose into the air was still burning; bits and pieces of the house shot up and landed around the near-by grass patch. The ground seemed to shock, and Envy woke up in shock from his sleep. He sat up from his seat, trying to register what happened when he saw the fire.

"…What the hell? Where are we?" Envy asked, staring into the blond's eyes. Edward blinked, and said in a sympathetic voice, "-In front of your house?" Envy just stared at him.

He turned to look at the fire, and back at Edward, with a finger pointing towards the scene. Envy almost fainted when the blond nodded.

This was not his day.

The first thing they did after leaving the scene was contacting Sloth. Edward waited patiently as the phone rang, knowing that getting up in the middle of the night would be hard even on a tough manager like Sloth. When she picked up, sounding rather sleepy, he was glad that she was quick to absorb the information and had even calmly instructed them to go over Sinfonia first.

"I will come as soon as possible Edward, please keep my brother safe in the meanwhile."

"Of course Sloth; that's what I'm here for."

The second thing Edward did was; contacting the rest of his team and sending them to the scene after the fire truck had left. They reached Sinfonia and went into Envy's personal room to settle down for the moment, and Edward pull out his phone to do the third thing.

He waited till the line was picked up, and a drowsy voice informed him that Roy Mustang is currently still asleep and half awake.

"Full-Metal, I would appreciate if you could find a better time than this to disturb your superior's rest…" Edward didn't give him the chance to finish his sentence as he interrupted, "-Mustang, Envy's apartment got bombed. I need a warrant to keep the mouth of the police shut before my team could work." the line over was silent for a moment, before he heard the rustle of the sheets and Roy's replied, "I will get it done now. I suppose you would need to discuss over this matter afterwards?"

"Yeah"

"Alright, I will go over to Sinfonia later in the afternoon," with that, he cut off the line. Keeping his phone back, he went back to stare at the exhausted two in front of him. Havoc offered to join the team on the search, and Edward nodded in approval. Hence, only he and Envy were in the room. Envy stood up and settled on the spot beside Edward. There was a tense awkwardness, as neither have the strength to sort out this morning's event. Edward stood up from his seat.

"-I will be right back. You better take the time to rest, Envy, this would be a tiring day." Edward said as he glanced at the apparently frowning teen on the couch. Envy nodded, surprisingly obedient to Edward's instruction. Edward can't help but soften upon his reaction, and reached a hand out to pat the sin on his shoulder. He left swiftly afterwards, leaving Envy to dwell over the short, physical contact that they shared.

Envy groaned silently as he watches the blond exit out of the room, and lay down on the couch with a frown. He would be lying if he said that he hadn't been freaked out on the inside. Hell yeah, Envy does not freaks out. He just need time to settle his racing heart, and maybe rest to smooth his raging headache…

"…Ouch!" he almost jumped from his position when he lay down; wincing at pain he felt when the back of his head was in contact with the couch. A hand went over to touch the obvious bump, and gritting his teeth in pain, Envy wondered when exactly he had it from.

Outside the room, Edward gave out a sneeze. Rubbing his nose, he wondered if he had caught flu.

An hour later, everyone had gathered within the room.

The attendants were: Edward and Envy (victims of the incident), Sloth (family of victim), Roy (unlucky superior A slash person in charge A), Pride (family of victim slash unlucky superior B slash person in charge B slash the one paying the money).

Topic: First and the most important of all; where are they (the victims) going to live from now on?

"-Rebuilding or buying another apartment isn't a problem, but the problem lies with the time," said Sloth, while Pride nodded in agreement.

"-He can move into one of your house?" suggested Edward, while Envy shot him a glare, grabbing onto his arm as he lean by the blond's ear, and asked, "Just what do you mean be 'he'?" Envy tightened the hold on his arm as he declared to the rest, "-There is no way I'm going without my bodyguard!"

"-I have to agree, it is too risky to separate these two." Edward glared at Roy instantly, catching the slight smirk on his face before he puts it down and said, "-Now the criminals had managed to get into the house even under Edward's security, it is best to have them together just in case." Roy said, sealing off the possibility of Edward leaving Envy. Edward growled in irritation, while Envy brightened up with a smile.

"Lust would be moving back in a few days, my place wouldn't have enough space for two more anyway." said Sloth as she shook her head. Pride added on, "-My wife and my son Selim wouldn't mind, but it is not really convenient since my place is so far…"

"Yeah, it would take hours in the morning to reach Sinfonia." Envy commented, while he thought how annoying it would be if he was living with a child who is just as bad as Wrath, and shuddered on the thought. Edward stared at his strange reaction for a moment, before turning back when Roy Mustang started to talk again.

"-I have an idea, Envy can stay at somewhere which would only take a good ten minutes to reach the company, and high security system, plus Edward would be there with him." Roy said as he smirked, turning his eyes onto Edward, and just as he expected, the blond turned pale instantly from shock. Following the direction Roy was looking, everyone had their focus on Edward.

"-I object!"

"Full Metal, do you have better suggestion?" Roy asked. Edward shut up instantly, and lowered down his head as his cheeks flushed from irritation. He softly mumbled his answer which is hardly audible, but his actions were enough to tell that he doesn't have any suggestions at all.

"Alright, now that things are settled," Roy stated as he put up a bright smile that could charm almost everyone, almost for the grumpy bodyguard. "-Mister Envy would be living within Elrics' apartment for the moment."

Edward buried his face into his hands, knowing that his personal space is going to be invaded by some guy who would harass him everyday with every chance he gets. Not only would he be harassed, but his clean and tidy house would most likely turn into some animals den by Envy's messiness.

Envy on the other side, took a few moment to process the message, and a few more seconds before the muscles on his face moved to form a big grin. His eyes focused on the blond sitting by his side, narrowing dangerously, till Edward was starting to get uncomfortable under his watch.

Sloth was the first who stood up, and requested, "-We should set off now, we have to see what Envy would need for moving in. Would you lead the way please, Edward?" Edward nodded in response as he stood up from his seat, while Envy follows, the three of them leaving the room, leaving Pride and Roy in the room.

"-I can't wait to reach your place, O'chibi-san~" sighed Envy as he flashed the blond a suggestive smirk, "Just imagine what we could do at your place."

"Right," groaned Edward, rolling his eyes. Sloth had left earlier to get basic necessities for Envy. She's probably going to make a few calls to postpone some of Envy's schedule, and making sure that the media doesn't knows that it was Envys place that was blown up.

"Aw come one, if anyone whos should be sullen; it should be me! Ed, it's my place that was blown up you know?" Envy stressed on, while wrapping an arm around the blond's shoulder.

"Knock it off-" Edward told him off as he attempted to shrug off the offending arm. But he froze as Envy lean beside his ear, and purred licentiously.

"All the things I could do to you."

Heat flared up from the spot that Envy's lips had contacted. Edward widened his eyes and flushed furiously, aware of the pleasant shiver skipping down his spine. His abdomen had a warm weight forming, and he shuddered as the hand on his shoulder slowly trailed down to his waist. Envy buried his face into the soft blond locks, letting out a satisfied sigh as his lips trailed down and caressed the skin on Edward's neck. He tightened his hold on the blond, not forceful but stubborn in force, a smirk played on his lips when he felt the involuntary shudder. His other arm moved, wanting to lock the blond into an embrace before he move on-

"Edward-san, I have the test results!"

Envy was immediately pushed away in split seconds. Edward shot him a warning glare, though its effect had been dampened by his embarrassed flush, before turning to the source of commotion.

"Havoc, I thought our men havent finished tidying up the bomb scene?"

"No sir, I mean, thanks for the flattery but there is no way we could manage to round up this morning's incident." Havoc shot him a disbelief look, before adding on nervously.

"No offence to you boss; the lab's pretty busy, but I have the results of the bomb from the studio incident." Edward perked up immediately.

"That's good, alright let's get there immediately."

"Right away Sir, Fuery is just in the Van parked in the basement…"

"Woah wait, before the both of you goes," Envy grabbed onto Edward's arm immediately. "Where am I going?"

"You're coming along, obviously," replied Edward in contempt.

"…Seriously?

Meanwhile, the men in the office were having a minor discussion. Pride was settled onto his own office chair, while Roy was positioned at the other side of the table in a cozy leather seat too.

"With all due respect, Mustang; Amestris reputation had once convinced me that you can do better… Too many things had happened ever since; they have became frequent once your men had stepped in," Pride started off, eyes narrowed briefly as displeasure traced his words.

"With all due respect too, Sir," drawled Roy casually. "Amestris area of expertise lies within the best interest of our client. Our intelligence crews were simply part of the package. But perhaps, we should have contacted and brought in the police expertise if I had known of your lack of faith in our men… Not that I'm over-confident, but our men's forces isn't anything those cops could match up against." Roy smirked, crossing his leg as he eyed the challenging eyes calmly in retort. If possible, the air in the office seemed to turn tense.

Judging from the vein that had throbbed for a second on Pride's jaw, Roy smirked internally over his victory. Roy knew that Pride couldn't bring in the police forces into such a sensitive task. Sinfonia's reputation might be crashed if the police endorsed themselves within the company. Who knows what kind of shady business had been going within the company? Not that Roy's curious; but people looked for a third force intervention for a reason.

"Well, I will just have to rely on your confidence in your men then. If your men were as good as you said they were... I supposed that I would be anticipating results very soon," said Pride with a smile. Roy nodded in acknowledgement, a courteous smile played on his lips too as he replied.

"Certainly; the day had been progressing rather quickly. Pardon me, but I'm afraid that I have to cut this meeting short."

"That's fine; I will have my assistant bring you down now."

"Thank you, I appreciate that," as Roy finishes his words, Pride's assistant had entered, and the Lady gestured Roy to follow her with a polite smile.

"Oh my, are all Sinfonia workers celebrities? I have never seen such beautiful assistants before…" Roy's trailing voice and the assistant's giggles were cut short by the closed door. The smile Pride had on his face was dropped off instantly. His eyes were harsh and held a deadly glare that was favored on the closed door. A sneer was the last sign of the man's displeasure before the heavy air dissolved, and Pride turned back to the cheerful president…

Roy Mustang waved the giggling assistant good bye with a charming smile. As the lift's doors were closed, the smile was dropped instantly. Onyx eyes gleamed in amusement as a cold smirk played on Mustang's lips.

It wasn't his style to dip into his client's background. But too much had happened, and too coincidental.

Some thing's really fishy about this company.

In Sinfonia's basement, the car park... A white van had parked at a secluded corner. Edward and Envy had stationed themselves within the van, its walls adorned with high technology that made the scene similar to a spy movie. Fuery was a dark hair, paled skin man with geeky glasses typing speed only a machine gun could match. Envy tried to stare at the flurry fingers sweeping across the keyboard, but gave up after feeling his eyes couldn't handle the speed.

"The bomb's made of three layers. We all know what they are for, but you see, they are extremely fine and hard to distinguish. When we had managed to separate the layers, this is what we have found in the layer between the second and third."

Edward narrowed his eyes as a window popped out into the screen.

"A thumb prints."

"Not just a thumb print; a clear and precise one. The person imprinted his or her own thumb purposely, just for us to see."

"He's mocking us," sneered Edward, eyes bright with ire.

"The sex of the offender aside first, Sir; we tried matching the thumb print with the police's database. We held no results. However, we still managed to get a result."

"Yeah, where's it from?"

Fuery's expression seemed to tense up as a frown grace his brows.

"Sir, the result's from our own database."

"So? We do have people on our black list. I'm not surprised if any of those scrums took up another assassination task again," Edward shrugged nonchalantly.

"…The print is from Amestris crews' database."

Edward widened his eyes, and so did Envy.

Hello, long time no see.

As you can see, the fic has been hiatus for two years. Suddenly there's an update, woo hoo.

Yes I'm still alive. I dropped the fic years ago because I was having a major writers block. I basically left it rotting on the site since I have kind of lost the interest to continue this old piece. However, I still received some reviews from people. It's very nice to see people bother to review even though the fanfic has been abandoned for years. This chapter was originally half-done. My initial plan two years ago was to rewrite the entire story. However, I suppose that I have neither the time nor motivation to do so ._.

Thankfully, I still had an overall summary of plots that I had written when I'm still planning the chapters. Bad news first; this might be the most recent update you will see. Good news is; I will try to finish up the story according to my planned plot, regardless to the amount of reviews I will get. I wont promise frequent update, but I promise that I shall try my very best to deliver more drama, and perhaps add a little lemon along the way ;)

As you can kind of see, my writing style had changed. I have claimed ownership of marshmallows and chocolates by shooting down both of my muses. Only author notes and disclaimers shall dominate both top and bottom of the chapter.

Thank you, to those who still remembers this story and had been staying through this fandom for the past years. Thank you too, new reviewers, for picking up this old story of mine :)