Infatuation (Mustang x Hughes) 55Themes #11- Infatuation- Chapter 4
Author: SeaweedOtter
Title: Infatuation (New Beginnings- Chapter 4)
Theme & #: #11- Infatuation
Genres: Romance (?)
Warnings: None, just a Roy/Maes academy fic!
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing: Roy Mustang x Maes Hughes (eventual pairing)
Rating: PG
Summary: Maes wondered, was this more than friendship?
Author's note: The 55 fics are a story arc, starting at the academy. Also, #1 and #2 before aren't a part of the story, they were written before.
Read all of the stories HERE!!
The first semester drug on for both of the roommates. Roy was starting to hit his stride when it came to girls. It seemed to Maes that he had a different girl coming home with him every weekend, and sometimes during the week as well. But as far as he could tell, the alchemist was still doing well in his work.
How did he do it, he wondered?
Maes was a bright boy, near the top of his class, which made it easy for him to get into the academy. He found that his classes, so far. were really not that tough, and his grades were fine, but he had been rather distracted the entire first semester.
And what was distracting him was what upset him the most.
His roommate, Roy.
By no means was Maes a novice when it came to love. He had had a few lovers back East as he matured into manhood, both male and female. Of course, he had to be very careful with the two male lovers that he had. He knew it was considered wrong by most people's standards to love a person of the same sex as your own. But they had each taught him something that he had found very valuable as he became a young man.
His first lover had not only taught him that it was okay to love who you love- be it a man or a woman, but he also taught Maes about intimacy, how to please someone, and get pleasure from them. That was a skill that his second loved honed to a fine art. Maes, as with most things, was a pretty quick learner, which proved to be a quite valuable skill.
Of course, all of that meant nothing if the person that you liked didn't like you back, and Maes had no idea at all how Roy felt about him.
They were good friends, sure. It hadn't taken long for Maes' outgoing and humorous nature to break the rather thick, serious outer shell that Roy usually wore on his skin. Being around him every day, Maes saw the nice, caring man that was inside that outer layer of aloofness and standoffness that he showed everyone else.
But the alchemist had never shown any inclinations of interest in anyone other that the bevy of girls that he seemed to bring home. It seemed in that case, Roy had him beat pretty well. He had only been a few girls, and even though he had been able to go 'all the way' with one of them, it just didn't feel as nice as when he had been with his male lovers.
There was always the chance, that like Maes, he was just afraid to say anything because of the stigma that was attached to having a same-sex lover. He had seen the violence it could cause first hand, when one of his lovers and the other man were almost beaten to death as they were seen holding hands. Maes guessed that it was fate that he had been cheating on him with that other person, or else it would have been him who had been almost killed.
Still, that had been enough for him to swear off men.
At least, until Roy came into the picture.
He would never admit it to Roy, but when he had walked into the room, Maes was immediately smitten with how handsome the almost foreign looking man was. He avoided eye contact as much as he could that first day because he was deathly afraid that if he looked for too long at the alchemist his body would betray him and show his true feelings.
Maes had already been at the end of a snap of the man's fingers once, and it only cost him a little hair from his eyebrows and forehead. If Roy wasn't interested, and he admitted his feelings, he shivered to think what a full blast of that alchemy would do.
So he continued to say nothing as the end of their first semester started to loom in front of them. Maes knew that he really had to buckle down and start studying, but this distraction was driving him crazy, and living with him, there was nothing he could do about it.
As they had started to get closer as friends, they grew more comfortable with each other. It got to the point where Roy was fine with wearing nothing more than a towel low around those thin hips of his when he was going to take a shower.
Maes would always find some way or another to distract himself and not look, reading a book or looking out the window at some bird that may or may not have been flying by right at that time. He would always have to cross his legs, or make sure that he was sitting at the table, because it never failed that even just a quick look at that lean, sinuous body made Maes start to feel rather.. uncomfortable.
He kept telling himself 'How will you know unless you ask him? Just bring it up in some conversation, all casual like, and if he doesn't respond positively, then you can just say that you were joking around. He will drop it, and then you will know for sure.' But that was much easier said than done, he knew.
Maes sighed and took off his glasses, rubbing his eyes before putting them back on and pressing the glasses back up his nose. He had been starting at the same page of his book on the Amestris Government for over half an hour now. He glanced over to Roy, who had already turned in for the night. He must had been tired after his latest date, Maes guessed. He had been sweaty and his neck had red marks on it when he had walked in.
"Okay, that's it. I'm talking to him before the semester ends." He said, determination in his voice.
"Hmm... wha?" a sleepy Roy answered from his bed, rolling over to face Maes. His eyes were partially open, but he didn't look like he was actually awake.
His cheeks flushed in embarrassment. "Nothing. Go back to sleep, Roy." That was all the alchemist needed to hear. He rolled back over to the other side, his eyes closing immediately.
Title: Infatuation (New Beginnings- Chapter 4)
Theme & #: #11- Infatuation
Genres: Romance (?)
Warnings: None, just a Roy/Maes academy fic!
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing: Roy Mustang x Maes Hughes (eventual pairing)
Rating: PG
Summary: Maes wondered, was this more than friendship?
Author's note: The 55 fics are a story arc, starting at the academy. Also, #1 and #2 before aren't a part of the story, they were written before.
Read all of the stories HERE!!
The first semester drug on for both of the roommates. Roy was starting to hit his stride when it came to girls. It seemed to Maes that he had a different girl coming home with him every weekend, and sometimes during the week as well. But as far as he could tell, the alchemist was still doing well in his work.
How did he do it, he wondered?
Maes was a bright boy, near the top of his class, which made it easy for him to get into the academy. He found that his classes, so far. were really not that tough, and his grades were fine, but he had been rather distracted the entire first semester.
And what was distracting him was what upset him the most.
His roommate, Roy.
By no means was Maes a novice when it came to love. He had had a few lovers back East as he matured into manhood, both male and female. Of course, he had to be very careful with the two male lovers that he had. He knew it was considered wrong by most people's standards to love a person of the same sex as your own. But they had each taught him something that he had found very valuable as he became a young man.
His first lover had not only taught him that it was okay to love who you love- be it a man or a woman, but he also taught Maes about intimacy, how to please someone, and get pleasure from them. That was a skill that his second loved honed to a fine art. Maes, as with most things, was a pretty quick learner, which proved to be a quite valuable skill.
Of course, all of that meant nothing if the person that you liked didn't like you back, and Maes had no idea at all how Roy felt about him.
They were good friends, sure. It hadn't taken long for Maes' outgoing and humorous nature to break the rather thick, serious outer shell that Roy usually wore on his skin. Being around him every day, Maes saw the nice, caring man that was inside that outer layer of aloofness and standoffness that he showed everyone else.
But the alchemist had never shown any inclinations of interest in anyone other that the bevy of girls that he seemed to bring home. It seemed in that case, Roy had him beat pretty well. He had only been a few girls, and even though he had been able to go 'all the way' with one of them, it just didn't feel as nice as when he had been with his male lovers.
There was always the chance, that like Maes, he was just afraid to say anything because of the stigma that was attached to having a same-sex lover. He had seen the violence it could cause first hand, when one of his lovers and the other man were almost beaten to death as they were seen holding hands. Maes guessed that it was fate that he had been cheating on him with that other person, or else it would have been him who had been almost killed.
Still, that had been enough for him to swear off men.
At least, until Roy came into the picture.
He would never admit it to Roy, but when he had walked into the room, Maes was immediately smitten with how handsome the almost foreign looking man was. He avoided eye contact as much as he could that first day because he was deathly afraid that if he looked for too long at the alchemist his body would betray him and show his true feelings.
Maes had already been at the end of a snap of the man's fingers once, and it only cost him a little hair from his eyebrows and forehead. If Roy wasn't interested, and he admitted his feelings, he shivered to think what a full blast of that alchemy would do.
So he continued to say nothing as the end of their first semester started to loom in front of them. Maes knew that he really had to buckle down and start studying, but this distraction was driving him crazy, and living with him, there was nothing he could do about it.
As they had started to get closer as friends, they grew more comfortable with each other. It got to the point where Roy was fine with wearing nothing more than a towel low around those thin hips of his when he was going to take a shower.
Maes would always find some way or another to distract himself and not look, reading a book or looking out the window at some bird that may or may not have been flying by right at that time. He would always have to cross his legs, or make sure that he was sitting at the table, because it never failed that even just a quick look at that lean, sinuous body made Maes start to feel rather.. uncomfortable.
He kept telling himself 'How will you know unless you ask him? Just bring it up in some conversation, all casual like, and if he doesn't respond positively, then you can just say that you were joking around. He will drop it, and then you will know for sure.' But that was much easier said than done, he knew.
Maes sighed and took off his glasses, rubbing his eyes before putting them back on and pressing the glasses back up his nose. He had been starting at the same page of his book on the Amestris Government for over half an hour now. He glanced over to Roy, who had already turned in for the night. He must had been tired after his latest date, Maes guessed. He had been sweaty and his neck had red marks on it when he had walked in.
"Okay, that's it. I'm talking to him before the semester ends." He said, determination in his voice.
"Hmm... wha?" a sleepy Roy answered from his bed, rolling over to face Maes. His eyes were partially open, but he didn't look like he was actually awake.
His cheeks flushed in embarrassment. "Nothing. Go back to sleep, Roy." That was all the alchemist needed to hear. He rolled back over to the other side, his eyes closing immediately.