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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, 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, and to everybody who comments. Y 'all make my week.

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

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( CHAPTER 11: Vague Tensions )

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."

Much love to my ever-patient betas, who put up with the strangest stuff out of me and STILL haven't turned me over to the nuthouse, and to everyone who comments every week... you're all very patient as well and I deeply appreciate you!

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.

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

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( CHAPTER NINE: Wait For You )

Title: Skirt-Chaser
Author: m.jules
Rating: PG
Pairing: Roy/Al
Disclaimer: Nothng about this is mine. I'm not even sure I want to admit I wrote it.
Warning: psuedo-shota, cross-dressing, crack
A/N: Oh, my God. Somebody take the crack pipe away from me, I have inhaled one too many times. This is anime-verse AU and was written for my 10_cliche_fics claim, "Prove It," in which one character attempts to prove his love/loyalty/devotion to another. It came out kind of twisted. It's also unbeta'd because I could not, in good conscience, submit my betas to this. (And I can't believe I just retired my "Not a provocative icon" Al icon. It would be so perfect for this.)

If you wanna talk to me, I'll be the one in the corner in dark sunglasses and a coat turned up over her face so no one will recognize her...

For jade_pen, who encouraged the idea when I would've just shot it dead. This is your fault, buddy; you get blamed for it.

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( Skirt-Chaser )
( OMAKE! )

Title: Dating Al
Author: m.jules
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Romance is its own kink.
Disclaimer: These aren't mine and I'm not making a profit.
Author's Notes: Multi-tasking, what? This was written as an authorized follow-up to velvet_mace's much-smuttier Halloween, based on Roy's promise at the end that he and Al would "just go out to dinner like normal men, and dispense with all the props for once. Forget the kinks and just make love for a change." I also used it for my 7stages Roy/Al claim, theme "One last dinner".

Dedicated especially to rainy_elysian who wanted Roy/Al fluff badly enough that she just might forgive me for this, and to ill_ame whom I hope won't look too closely at it since it is A) unforgivably fluffy and B) unbeta'd. *cringe*

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( Dating Al )

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."

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

As always, thanks to my marvelous betas (who are so very patient with this) and to everyone reading. For the latter, hey, guess what! We're finally getting to the fun stuff. ...Sort of.

( Rambling Author's Notes )

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( CHAPTER FIVE: Early Morning Roses )

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."

Much love to the usual suspects for the beta.

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

A/N Part Two: I'm posting this a few hours early for those of us in the Eastern Time Zone, but it's Christmas, after all. So Merry Christmas and all the wonderful wishes that go with it, whether you celebrate or not (because I can wish you good things no matter what you celebrate!). A special note for some of you who might appreciate it: The chapter title is a nod to the Delgado's "Woke From Dreaming."

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( CHAPTER THREE: Woke From Dreaming )

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 )

Title: Justification
Author: m.jules
Rating: PG?
Word Count: 204
Pairing: Roy/Al
Disclaimer: These characters are not mine and I’m not making one red cent.
Author’s Notes: This was written especially for chiharu_octavia because she drew me fluffy Roy/Al art at my request! Yay! Thank you so much. :)

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( Justification )

Title: They Fought From Heaven
Author: m.jules
Rating: PG-13?
Timeline: Speculative future of the manga -- can be read as branching off from "Yet Gentle."
Pairing: Roy/Al
Disclaimer: No profit, no lawsuit.
Notes: The title comes from Judges 5:20, They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. Thanks again to cornerofmadness and evil_little_dog for multi-colored edits and encouragements.

This is for my Roy/Al claim at 7stages: Theme: "The ballroom at midnight"

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( They Fought From Heaven )