Pills and Buttons

Sin

"Is wanting someone dead a sin?" May asked, cracking her knuckles as Riza explained everything up to this point. "Or is that just wrath?"

"Just wrath." Fia said, sighing. "Mustang has the decency to leave a note, but being here himself would have been better." Her British voice was soft, relaxed to keep everyone calm. "He didn't want us to worry." They sat in silence, comforting each other by being there. The two kids were being entertained by the dogs, Bella being very careful and protective of the baby.

Ed and Al were upstairs, the long haired blonde crying into his brother's shoulder. He had explained the kisses, the questions... his fears. "What if he's dead, Al? What if I'll never get to say I'm sorry?"

"The Colonel doesn't give up easily, brother." Alphonse squeezes Edward into another tight hug. He rubbed slow circles on the older one's back, just now realizing how broken the 19 year old sibling of his was. "He'll be okay, if he cooperates." He held Ed close, feeling him pull back slowly.

"He wouldn't be gone," Fullmetal sniffled, rubbing at his tears, "if I hadn't asked such a stupid question." His face was bright red, nose similar to Rudolph or a cherry. "W-will he f-f-forgive me?" He hiccupped, feeling like he would be sick.

"Oh, Brother. Of course he will." Alphonse smiles for him. "He may be made of fire but his heart isn't coal." Ed nods numbly, feeling for a pillow to clutch. He found one but he also found something soft. He grasped it, holding it out. He could only tell that it was black and a blob of something. "Is that a plush gun?" Al laughs as he asks, getting Ed to smile.

"I guess it is." It was about as big as his face, and vaguely curved like a gun. "Riza?" He looks at his brother.

"Maybe Fia?" Al replies to the question with a question. "Either way, I'm gonna take you downstairs. Maybe we can get together a search party."

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"What do you want, Envy?" Mustang snaps, struggling against the rope bonds binding him to a cold steel chair. The walls around him were solid brick, all in grey tones thanks to that injection Event had stuck him with. "Why me?" The pineapple head shrugged, slicing a piece off an apple with a Parry knife. "Are you going to stand there and slouch provocatively for an hour or are you gonna tell me why I'm here?"

"I like slouching." Envy shrugged again, chewing the piece of fruit while Roy groaned in frustration. "Just so you know, when Greed gets here he will not go easy on you."

"Pfht." He snorts. "And I should be lead to assume you'll go easy on me?"

"Yes actually, you should be." Envy ate his last piece of apple, tossing the bare core off in a corner. "Now, answer me this." He pulled a string, lights burning bright overhead. "Where is he?"

"He being who? There are many people you could mean." Mustang said in a snarky voice. "There's Falman, Havoc, Breda,  Scar, Hohemhein, A --." Envy punched him square in the jaw, his teeth biting into his lip. Roy's lip was bleeding when he looked at Envy again.

"Meyer. Where is he?" Envy growls, pulling Roy's head back so the light blinded him. "Or do I have to start cutting?"

"Hey, I'm not handling the case. Second lieutenant Ross is. Therefore, how would I possibly know where he is?"

"Take a guess." The cool knife blade pressed against Roy's sweaty cheek.

"Hmm... there's the prison, confinement, morgue, any of the three mental asylums or he's still missing. Really, I wasn't even informed in the man was in custody." He flashed Envy a smile. "Try those and tell me where he is. I'd like to meet the bastard you want dead." Envy slit his collarbone, not to the bone or to bleed. It was just enough to hurt. He shut the light down, leaving Roy blinded again as his eye was struck with a set of knuckles. Immediately, swelling began to shut the lid.

"Think harder." Envy snarled. "Where would a high threat be kept?"

"Solitary confinement. Unless he's dead." Mustang has a death wish, the watching eye of Wrath knew that. "Then he's six feet under like Maes. He killed Hughes with Luna's own hands." Ed had explained what happened and how he had pulled Maes into Luna's line of knife fire.

"I don't care. Tell me where Ross is." He felt his collar being pulled on but the lights had given him a headache. He was growing tired. Envy's apple breath was in his face. "Where is she?!"

"Gone." He laughed, high off the pain and endorphins. "Never seen her since the day she went looking for him."

"Him who?" Now it was Envy's turn to ask for a specific male. But Mustang was out like a lightbulb that had burned too long. "Damn you, I will know this Horse boy." He let Roy sag in the chair. "And i will finish what Meyer started. Or him."

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Okay, so I came up with some crack for when Envy turned on the lights and I didn't like where it would have went so I'll add it down here...

"Yes actually, you should be." Envy ate his last piece of apple, tossing the bare core off in a corner. "Now, answer me this." He pulled a string, lights burning bright overhead. The lightbulbs flickered before burning out. "Goddamnit Wrath! I told you to change the lightbulbs!"

*Whispers* I am so sorry