"Some Other Beginning" (Fullmetal Alchemist, Roy/Al, WIP, 1/?)

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Title: Some Other Beginning
Author: m.jules
Rating: Hard R for the whole thing
Summary: "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Alphonse Elric helps Roy Mustang face life after more tragedy than one man should endure and finds something for himself in the process.
Pairing: mainly Roy/Al, with hints of and references to others. (Including, but not limited to, Ed/Winry, Al/Paninya, Gracia/Maes/Roy/Riza, and Al/Elicia.)
Disclaimer: Arakawa would KILL me. I bow low in supplication.
Warnings: Slash, het, multiples, sex, violence, character death... did I miss anything?
Author's Notes: This was meant to be "The Story That Proves In-Character Roy/Al Is Possible." Don't know if it worked. For my 7stages claim, prompt "New every morning."

Thank you, thank you, thank you to cornerofmadness and evil_little_dog who have beta'd every chapter without complaint even though this isn't their pairing. To dr_firedog for enduring me chattering about it, and to all my fellow Roy/Al 'shippers whose excitement about the possibility of this story kept me writing on it.

This is manga-verse, with every chapter yet released and scanlated as fair game for spoilers and many liberties taken as far as speculation about the future. If you want to know how Al got his body back, Yet Gentle and The Frost of Awakening can be considered my default answer to that question for now at least.

I will be posting one chapter every week, and we'll try for Mondays since that's when I'm starting it. Sound cool?

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( CHAPTER ONE: Entanglements )