{get off my lawn, you damn kids}

[professor-elric.livejournal.com]

This is like the family reunion or the military ball you never wanted to come to and yet you were required to do so.

[sighs wearily]

Figures I'd have enough karma to end up in a hell like this.

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[bitter-wrath.livejournal.com]

It isn't so bad here.

[professor-elric.livejournal.com]

That remains to be seen, actually.

...

Wrath? I thought...I thought Al -

[bitter-wrath.livejournal.com]

*Eyes widened, wandering closer to study him.*

You...know what happened...

*He whispered.*

[professor-elric.livejournal.com]

[smiles wryly]

Of course I do. Al told me.

I'm glad you're okay here, though.

[bitter-wrath.livejournal.com]

I'm okay here. I have Edward! And...sometimes mommy...

*He added with a small smile before turning his attention more closely on this Edward. His features...older, more defined but...*

You...

[professor-elric.livejournal.com]

Any younger version of me can be really a brat sometimes but I'm glad that one is taking care of you, y'know?

[quirks a smile] I thought about what happened to you, sometimes, and it definitely wasn't your fault.

[bitter-wrath.livejournal.com]

*Another Edward! Wrath was amazed that after so much...he was fond of Edward's. Well, some of them, anyway.*

I wish he was my brother. He's all I have where I live. Besides Greed.

*He added the last part as an afterthought. It was Edward he staid with, after all.*

... *His eyes softened a little at Edward's words. Just for a moment, but it was there.*

You think so...?

[professor-elric.livejournal.com]

Well...maybe in some world he is, isn't he?

[pauses for a moment, before ruffling his hair]

Yeah. 's not like you chose what you are. I've realized that, and...well, if it matters for any of my younger selves, 'm sorry for being such an ass.

[bitter-wrath.livejournal.com]

He can be mine in my world.

*He said after a moment, ducking his head with a light laugh as the other ruffled his hair. As Ed spoke again he paid attention, listening.*

You had reasons and you were unhappy...I didn't make it any better sometimes. *Something neither of them could have helped, perhaps. But the apology helped chase away the last of that uncertainty.*

[can-i-keep-it.livejournal.com]

This is more likely to be the gate than hell....

[professor-elric.livejournal.com]

What? No thanks, I'd take this place over that any day.

[can-i-keep-it.livejournal.com]

......

I think this is, still. There's no way to leave this place. Nothing seems to age here. Outside, it's apparently only a void.

It's too simmilar a description for mt comfort.

[professor-elric.livejournal.com]

You...still have memories of the Gate?

[can-i-keep-it.livejournal.com]

Well... I....

*small voice, doesn't want millitary people overhearing, but he's certainly not in the blue uniform* I was trapped there for five years... I obviously never left... and when I came out.... I was the same age as when I entered and remembered nothing.

[fullmetalmatrix.livejournal.com]

I've seen worse. This isn't so bad I suppose.

[professor-elric.livejournal.com]

...what kind of 'worse' are we talking about here?

[fullmetalmatrix.livejournal.com]

It's sorta hard to explain.

*Sighs*

A wasteland where machine-made, android-like humans run wild, trying to enslave the remaining portion of the entire human civilization in order to create a perfect world for themselves. On the outside this so called world looks peaceful, but to the more perceptive and tuned in, they know that peace is an illusion and can see what lay underneath it's surface. The truth. The darkness.

[gotothestars.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly not all that fond of it, myself...

[envy-is-green.livejournal.com]

*good thing some very big teeth stopped about fifteen feet away, unable to nab him. Envy glares at him with those big eyes, trying to strain his neck to get closer*

I bet it is, you bastard...a family reunion that you can't escape from. No running away this time.

_{Shit. Thought I'd killed you.}

[professor-elric.livejournal.com]

Whoa.

What the hell. Envy? And I thought that crazy Eckhart sacrificed you or something.

...well, hasn't the whole reopening the Gate thing told you otherwise?

[envy-is-green.livejournal.com]

And yet, here I am.

I've eaten you before, I'll-- *pause, and leans forward, sniffing him over* Pipsqueak. Thought I was seeing a ghost for a minute.

*mocking tone* You've certainly aged well.

[professor-elric.livejournal.com]

[rolls his eyes]

I am not my father, Envy. And the insult about my height - [kicks him in the snout] isn't appreciated.

Oh, shut up, 'm not that old.

[envy-is-green.livejournal.com]

*Some hiss as he gets kicked, showing teeth again* You'll always be a pipsqueak, pipsqueak.

Sure you're not. Getting tired more easily? Having a hard time lugging around that automail? Do your hands shake, and your joints grind against one another? What a sad fate for the Fullmetal Alchemist. It's not battle that kills him, but boring old age...

*something that looks like a grin* And me? I have eternal life. Never aging. I'll outlive you and your entire bloodline. In the end...it's me who'll win. Pipsqueak.

[professor-elric.livejournal.com]

[frowns] I've had too much excitement in my teens, thanks.

And I can die, and rest, unlike you who's doomed wandering forever - in dragon form - full of hate and all that shit. You think that's winning? Well, you're wrong.

And for your information I have a lot of years ahead of me, I look older than I really am. Bastard has good genes, apparently.

[envy-is-green.livejournal.com]

You're going to lie about your age to me? You must think I'm stupid. I can smell certain changes in an aged body, idiot.

What makes you think I'm stuck like this? This is Central, isn't it? Besides...hate is all I have to go on. It's all I've ever had. Hatred for you and that bastard's descendants, and I'll hold onto it forever if I have to.

*leaning in closer, practically grinning* You have children back home? Grandchildren? I'll hunt them down, one by one....

[edward-niisan.livejournal.com]

Huh? ...Father?
*frowns and watches him closely, trying to place Edward's face*

[professor-elric.livejournal.com]

Unless you're from 1950, no, I'm not your father.

[edward-niisan.livejournal.com]

*sweat drops*

...Well, I could be your father then. I am from 1907.

What's your name?