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Title: Come What May
Series: Part one of Our Sinner's Redemption
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Darius/Edward Elric/Heinkel, pre-Edward Elric/Roy Mustang
Warnings: Ed's potty mouth, spoilers for FMA:B ending, canon-typical violence, pile 'o OCs, survivor's guilt, angst, original character death, slow build (btwn Ed & Roy), referenced underage relationships, off-screen violence against women
Summary: After the Promised Day, with his alchemy still intact thanks to Hohenheim's sacrifice, Ed finds himself and his chimera team getting dragged into the shadowy world of military secrets in an attempt to keep Bradley's legacy from causing a civil war.

A/N: I had a lot of trouble with the end of last chapter and the whole arrest and everything, honestly. Because I've known for chapters who was involved – kudos, btw, to everyone who guessed Evan – and how Ed was going to find out and all of that, but I never quite sorted the actual act of handling this giant clusterfuck. Whoops? I hope it's not nearly as cringe-worthy as I felt it was while writing the damn thing.

( Chapter Twenty )

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Title: Come What May
Series: Part one of Our Sinner's Redemption
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Darius/Edward Elric/Heinkel, pre-Edward Elric/Roy Mustang
Warnings: Ed's potty mouth, spoilers for FMA:B ending, canon-typical violence, pile 'o OCs, survivor's guilt, angst, original character death, slow build (btwn Ed & Roy), referenced underage relationships, off-screen violence against women
Summary: After the Promised Day, with his alchemy still intact thanks to Hohenheim's sacrifice, Ed finds himself and his chimera team getting dragged into the shadowy world of military secrets in an attempt to keep Bradley's legacy from causing a civil war.

A/N: Those of you who read From the Worst of Times may remember the Blooming Alchemist to be an Ed fan, but he's gone through some edits since that fic, so he no longer is. (That's now Quicksilver. XD) Same name – real and State Alchemist title – same specialisation, different personality.

Also, I have...no idea where this chapter went. I did not plan the madness at the end.

( Chapter Eighteen )

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Title: Come What May
Series: Part one of Our Sinner's Redemption
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Darius/Edward Elric/Heinkel, pre-Edward Elric/Roy Mustang
Warnings: Ed's potty mouth, spoilers for FMA:B ending, canon-typical violence, pile 'o OCs, survivor's guilt, angst, original character death, slow build (btwn Ed & Roy), referenced underage relationships, off-screen violence against women
Summary: After the Promised Day, with his alchemy still intact thanks to Hohenheim's sacrifice, Ed finds himself and his chimera team getting dragged into the shadowy world of military secrets in an attempt to keep Bradley's legacy from causing a civil war.

A/N: There is a side-story for this chapter, from Roy's PoV, which can be found, as always, on Archive of Our Own or LiveJournal. It's in the last scene, so best to read this entire chapter before going looking for it.

I love how well you lot know Ed. XD
While I was working on the guide for Ed's squad, I did one for my original State Alchemists. It includes a couple that showed up in From the Worst of Times, but not in this series (so far), and one from Dreaming in Red and Gold, who will appear in chapter 19 (I think?), so it's something of a pass-around guide. ^.^; It is, however, also full of spoilers for the characters' backstories, some of which you'll find out in the next couple of chapters, some of which you won't find out in this fic, so if you're a person who doesn't like being spoiled, best not to look at the guide. (Sorry. There wasn't really a good way to do a spoiler-free guide for them.)

( Chapter Seventeen )

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Title: Come What May
Series: Part one of Our Sinner's Redemption
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Darius/Edward Elric/Heinkel, pre-Edward Elric/Roy Mustang
Warnings: Ed's potty mouth, spoilers for FMA:B ending, canon-typical violence, pile 'o OCs, survivor's guilt, angst, original character death, slow build (btwn Ed & Roy), referenced underage relationships, off-screen violence against women
Summary: After the Promised Day, with his alchemy still intact thanks to Hohenheim's sacrifice, Ed finds himself and his chimera team getting dragged into the shadowy world of military secrets in an attempt to keep Bradley's legacy from causing a civil war.

A/N: There is a side-story for this chapter, which can be found, as always, on Archive of Our Own or LiveJournal. It's Darius/Ed/Heinkel smut, so if that's not your cup of tea, go ahead and skip it.
As a reminder, you may wish to read the whole chapter first, to avoid any confusion. (It's following the first scene, so you can just skip off to read it right after that, if you want, tbh...)

( Chapter Sixteen )

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Title: Come What May
Series: Part one of Our Sinner's Redemption
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Darius/Edward Elric/Heinkel, pre-Edward Elric/Roy Mustang
Warnings: Ed's potty mouth, spoilers for FMA:B ending, canon-typical violence, pile 'o OCs, survivor's guilt, angst, original character death, slow build (btwn Ed & Roy), referenced underage relationships, off-screen violence against women
Summary: After the Promised Day, with his alchemy still intact thanks to Hohenheim's sacrifice, Ed finds himself and his chimera team getting dragged into the shadowy world of military secrets in an attempt to keep Bradley's legacy from causing a civil war.

A/N: The research for this chapter was the sort that makes one proud to be a writer, because there's little that's more fulfilling than knowing you're probably making someone at the NSA very nervous.

As promised, I put together a guide for the OCs, which you can find on Google Drive. Let me know if anyone has trouble viewing it and I'll throw a copy up on LiveJournal.
I will be going back and adding this link to the beginning of chapter 10. If there's somewhere else you'd like to see it, leave me a comment.

( Chapter Fourteen )

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Title: Come What May
Series: Part one of Our Sinner's Redemption
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Darius/Edward Elric/Heinkel, pre-Edward Elric/Roy Mustang
Warnings: Ed's potty mouth, spoilers for FMA:B ending, canon-typical violence, pile 'o OCs, survivor's guilt, angst, original character death, slow build (btwn Ed & Roy), referenced underage relationships, off-screen violence against women
Summary: After the Promised Day, with his alchemy still intact thanks to Hohenheim's sacrifice, Ed finds himself and his chimera team getting dragged into the shadowy world of military secrets in an attempt to keep Bradley's legacy from causing a civil war.

A/N: Our mystery father and son duo return for their second and final (from the son's PoV) scene at the end of this chapter. Anyone wanna make any guesses who the son is? XD (Admittedly, after a read-through, I'm not 100% certain there's enough about the four possibilities for you lot to actually figure it out. *shifty*) It'll be a fair-few chapters before you find out for sure.

Related, I didn't expect the first of these to sound like the son was going to betray Ed, but some of the reviewers sounded like they took it that way? Whoops~

( Chapter Twelve )

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Title: Come What May
Series: Part one of Our Sinner's Redemption
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Darius/Edward Elric/Heinkel, pre-Edward Elric/Roy Mustang
Warnings: Ed's potty mouth, spoilers for FMA:B ending, canon-typical violence, pile 'o OCs, survivor's guilt, angst, original character death, slow build (btwn Ed & Roy), referenced underage relationships, off-screen violence against women
Summary: After the Promised Day, with his alchemy still intact thanks to Hohenheim's sacrifice, Ed finds himself and his chimera team getting dragged into the shadowy world of military secrets in an attempt to keep Bradley's legacy from causing a civil war.

A/N: This chapter has off-screen sexual relations between Ed and the chimeras. If you're feeling squicked... First off, how the hell'd you make it this far? Second off, it's off-screen, you'll live.

(You know, it sort of just occurred to me, but this world doesn't share our history, and being military-centric is not the same as being homophobic, despite how often in our world the two have been related. Which means I can make the Amestris military cool with homosexual relationships. XD)

There is another panic attack in this chapter, and Ed talks a bit about the very first one he had.

Unrelated: There's a scene in this chapter from an unknown PoV, which wrote itself and fit into the plot far too well to turn it into a side-story. You'll see. (Or maybe you won't. I dunno. XP)

There are two side-stories for this chapter, which can be found, as always, on Archive of Our Own or here on LiveJournal. One is Darius/Ed/Heinkel smut, but the other is a scene from Roy's PoV. (They are labelled to differentiate.) As a reminder, you may wish to read the whole chapter first, to avoid any confusion.

LAST! I've put together a guide for Ed's squad, which you can find here on Google Docs.

( Chapter Ten )

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Title: Come What May
Series: Part one of Our Sinner's Redemption
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Darius/Edward Elric/Heinkel, pre-Edward Elric/Roy Mustang
Warnings: Ed's potty mouth, spoilers for FMA:B ending, canon-typical violence, pile 'o OCs, survivor's guilt, angst, original character death, slow build (btwn Ed & Roy), referenced underage relationships, off-screen violence against women
Summary: After the Promised Day, with his alchemy still intact thanks to Hohenheim's sacrifice, Ed finds himself and his chimera team getting dragged into the shadowy world of military secrets in an attempt to keep Bradley's legacy from causing a civil war.

A/N: Just as a note, trying to actually figure out how large Amestris is (aka, how long it would take to drive anywhere) is pretty much a guaranteed formula to bring me, at least, to tears. So, you know, I'm fudging this shit the whole way and don't fucking judge me. (Don't even get me started on figuring out max car speeds and, holy shit, train lines are just nightmares. Everything is bullshit.)

( Chapter Eight )

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Title: Come What May
Series: Part one of Our Sinner's Redemption
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Darius/Edward Elric/Heinkel, pre-Edward Elric/Roy Mustang
Warnings: Ed's potty mouth, spoilers for FMA:B ending, canon-typical violence, pile 'o OCs, survivor's guilt, angst, original character death, slow build (btwn Ed & Roy), referenced underage relationships, off-screen violence against women
Summary: After the Promised Day, with his alchemy still intact thanks to Hohenheim's sacrifice, Ed finds himself and his chimera team getting dragged into the shadowy world of military secrets in an attempt to keep Bradley's legacy from causing a civil war.

A/N: There is a side-story for this chapter, which can be found, as always, on Archive of Our Own or LiveJournal. As a reminder, you may wish to read the whole chapter first, to avoid any confusion.

( Chapter Seven )

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