"Some Other Beginning" (Fullmetal Alchemist, Roy/Al, WIP, 22/45?)

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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.
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 to my betas, who - when I said, "OK, now I'm off to write the dragon's wedding," came back with, "Use that for the chapter title and I mean it." *grin* (Even though I hate weddings in fics and I think it sort of showed up here. Oops.)

And thanks to everyone reading who is being patient while RL kicks me up one side and down the other.

I am posting one chapter every Sunday/Monday. Previous chapters can be found here.

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( CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The Dragon's Wedding )