18: The Bitter Fruits of Labor

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Five days pass and Sheska calls them to say that the copies were ready, which was good since Edward and (Y/n) started to get restless, even Alphonse was starting to get a tad impatient. Which left Ross, Brosh, and Gracia having to distract them with other activities since Milo went back to the orphanage telling them to pick him up when the copies were done.

They drive them to Sheska's home and make a pit stop to pick up Milo back at the orphanage, but he had to stay back because the owners had to go gather paperwork for their taxes out of town.

Milo wanted to go with them but he knew there was no way and had to, but he relaxed himself by saying the days have been slow and nothing bad will happen.

Once they arrive at Sheska's house the three of them jaw drop at the amount of paper," I'm sorry it took so long, there were tons of documents." Sheska gestures to the pile, and they all look at each other shocked still, " Wo-w, she really did it." Alphonse notes, Edward nods and rubs his eyes looking at the pile again, "There are incredible people in this world Al."

(Y/n) walks up and looks at the papers, " No wonder he couldn't run away with his- Culinary research!?" Everyone does a double take and Edward runs up beside her, pulling her shoulder so he can see the paper, " HUH?!" Brosh goes to Sheska pointing at a stack of papers.

" Are you sure these are Marcoh's important research files?" Sheska looks taken aback by the energy in the room and waves her hands around while shaking her head, " I only copied them how I- I remembered!" The three of them huddle around and read the stack of papers (Y/n) was holding.

Ross squints as she reads the "1000 Flavors for Today's Menu" Brosh sighs and rubs his face, " So this is something completely different than what you were looking for, was this a waste of time?" He asks the three of them who were still huddling, Alphonse looks up from the huddle to see Sheska.

" Uhm, you're confident that this copy of his research is perfect?" Sheska mumbles a quick yes and they all officially break off from the huddle, " In that case, thanks Sheska you're the greatest." Edward smirks, everyone looks at the three of them confused and Edward looks at (Y/n) and Alphonse, "Alright! Let's take these to the library.''

The two of them nod and Edward pulls out his notebook and writes something in it, " Here, this is my registration code and watch-" (Y/n) jumps in front of him and holds out her pocket watch and code with an overly cheery smile, "Take my registration code!" Ross looks at them confused as Edward and (Y/n) fight over who's going to pay Sheska for her service.

" Take mine!"

" No no, please take mine!"

" Take mine I implore you!"

" He doesn't even know what implore
means, take mine!"

Edward snaps his head toward her and puts her in a headlock and knuckles her head, "Asshole! Everyone knows what impore means!" (Y/n) fights in Edward's grip, " I was being sarcastic!" Alphonse sighs and grabs the two of them by their collars pulling them away from each other, "Just use your joint account! It's why we made the thing anyways! "

The two of them oh and start writing the information to their joint account and hand it to Ross, " Thank you?" With that Ross turns and talks with Sheska while the rest of them leave with Brosh to the library.

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At the library they all orderly set the documents on the desk, they were in one of the study rooms the library provided for them, "I'm sorry but, how will these culinary documents help?" Edward looks over to Brosh and taps the cover page for one of the packets.

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