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    “People always talk about how bad the surgery is,” Ed told Hawkeye, “but you never hear people mention how much it sucks to have fifty pounds of metal hanging off your body. Bolts in your bones.”

    “What’s happening?” Mustang asked sharply, turning toward them with his clouded eyes still lingering a few feet over their heads. “Hawkeye? What’s Fullmetal doing? Is there something wrong with his automail?”

    Ed flicked the lighter again, waited a little more patiently this time, and inhaled. Then he gave Hawkeye a nod, giving in to the inevitable. The only reason Mustang hadn’t figured it out already was probably because Ed didn’t do a lot of... this sort of thing. The comfort thing. Mustang liked people to play into his expectations.

    “Edward came out to smoke opium,” Hawkeye said at last. “He says it helps with the pain from his automail.”

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    What if Akihiko Kayaba was a little less focused on a world he could control? What if he wanted a world to see what the players would do?

    So Heathcliff doesn't join the Game. Instead, he makes it a bit more realistic. Ups the competition. And your survival isn't about the Game, it's about what you're willing to do to win it.

    Kirigaya Kazuto is dead. And now that they're out of the Game, Kirito is supposed to pretend he never left.

    It's a little more difficult than he anticipated.

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    Healing is an ongoing process, Asuna thinks. She suspects that just like the constant repetitions her tutor makes her go through, the same basic stretches as she keeps building more and more complex moves into her swordsmanship, "healing" is something you never really stop doing.

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    Asuna and Kazuto wake from the death game. This is what comes after.

    (Completely ignores everything after canon stopped being useful to me, jsyk)

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    Suguha wasn't dumb. She had observed enough of Kirito in ALO to know her brother was once one of SAO's most impressive fighters, but that wasn't quite enough to prepare her for the full truth of the matter.

    In which Suguha reacts to the revelation that Kazuto beat SAO and Kazuto has a chance to begin healing. Set in Episode 25: The World Seed.

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    Seeing him here, in New York, surrounded by the deep browns and golds of Hobart and Blackwell, is so alien to me I have to repress the urge to pinch myself like a child would after a dream. It looks incorrect, him standing here. Like someone has taken a pair of scissors to my memories of him, cut him out of his rightful place on the abandoned playground, and pasted him sloppily into a corner of my life where he doesn’t belong. Has it only been a few weeks? It feels like ages longer, like it’s been a decade, like we’re different people trying to see what exactly we liked about each other so much way back when.

    But then he says it again- “Potter.”- and that feeling vanishes as quickly as it arrived.

    “You came,” I say dumbly.

    He gives a cheery smirk that I don’t believe. “Promised I would.”

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