Some nonsense @mildly-nerdy challenged me to write today. Written in fifteen minutes over my lunch break. To say this has been edited would be an overstatement. Enjoy the silliness.
Al peeks around the corner, trying to pull all that sweet innocent brother crap, but it doesn’t fool Ed for a second.
Ed picks up his coat—his favorite coat, the only physical possession he’s ever really loved—and holds it up to Al’s face. “What is this?”
Al’s lip does that thing where it twitches up and down real fast before he can smother it. Al hasn’t been very good about keeping his facial expressions in check since getting his body back, and it makes him a terrible liar. “Looks like your coat, Brother.”
“You see,” Ed begins with false calm in his voice and real murder in his eyes, “that’s what I thought too, until I noticed that it’s now gray instead of red and it’s now a waistcoat instead of a coat?! What did you do?!” Is he yelling? It feels like he’s yelling.
Al fights back his smile again. Ed is considering helping it off of his face with a well placed fist. “Winry and I talked it over and we decided we didn’t want you to go to dinner with us dressed like a gothic gremlin.”
“Gothic gremlin?” Ed hisses. “I’ll show you a gothic gremlin if you don’t fix this right now.” If Ed had his alchemy, he’d be doing more than fixing his clothes right now.
Al remains unswayed and way too pleased with himself. “Not until after dinner.”
Ed makes a noise like a frog caught in a blender. “You know what? Fine,” he growls, stalking to his closet. “You guys hate the coat? Then I hope you enjoy my leather pants and my black short coat and—“
Ed opens his wardrobe and stops.
His clothes . . . all of his wonderful, leather, black and red clothes have been replaced with neutrals and button downs and things that were very much the likes of Mustang and very much not Ed.
Ed slowly turns to his little brother.
Alphonse shifts ever so slightly toward the door. “It was for your own good . . .”
“And for Winry. Don’t you want to make Winry happy, Brother?”
“Anyway, I’m going to go finish getting ready.”