Fic: No Small Injury, Chapter Eight of Nine

Title:No Small Injury, Chapter Eight: Some Things Never Change
Setting: Fullmetal Alchemist, mangaverse, post-series, yet plotted out way last year, so potential spoilers only up to around Ch 100. Hence: contains NO 108 spoilers, and potentially AU.
Characters: Roy/Ed (UST and subtext), Havoc/Rebecca, Al, Hawkeye, ensemble.
Warnings: R for sweary mouths and a bit of violence. WRITTEN BEFORE 108, DOES NOT CONTAIN 108 SPOILERS
Word count: 9768
Summary: two years on from the Promised Day. As Mustang's faction struggles for power with Hakuro's, the Amestrian Army is one gunshot away from a civil war. Now someone may have fired that shot.
Notes: Illustrated fic is illustrated (by me). enemytosleep betaed both fic and illos wonderfully. The kinetics of the Ed illo and the monster design particularly benefited from her advice this issue.
More notes: this fic is now nine chapters long. The final chapter is finished and about to go to beta, and will be going up asap with super bonus omake fun. A sequel is in the works.
A NOTE ON SPOILERS: Just to be on the safe side, if your comment contains 108 spoilers, could you post it behind spoiler text like so, only replacing [] with <>: [font color="ffffff"] spoilerness goes here [/font]

Previous chapters:
Chapter One: the Way to a Man's Heart
Chapter Two: What Would Maes Hughes Do?
Chapter Three: Too Much Information
Chapter Four: Sleeping Dogs
Chapter Five: The Buddy System
Chapter Six: Spare the Excuses
Chapter Seven: Go Time

( Previously in No Small Injury... )

( Chapter Eight: Some Things Never Change )