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“I’ll take however long I’ll take, and you will sit and listen the entire time.” Ed faltered a bit at his sharp tone, shoulders dropping into a scolded hunch. “...listen, if this is about that explosion, I fixed everything-” “You’re not in trouble,” he cut in again. A confused little wrinkle appeared between those drawn brows. “So, why’re you yelling at me?” Roy had to exert real effort to stop himself from rolling his eyes, to not break the stern eye contact. “I’m not yelling at you, Fullmetal. If I was yelling, you’d know it.” The kid just sat for a moment, staring at him. An equation he couldn’t solve, because there were too many unknowns. Variables that knotted Roy’s gut, that made him sick to his stomach every time his mind drifted from the numbing distraction of the paperwork and lingered for a second too long. - A necessary conversation is had.

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