Why? Well… because a Parental Roy Mustang is my ultimate weakness. So I figured… why not?

I also have a weakness for missing scenes. Yay!

Anyhoo SPOILERS! CEASE NOW IF YOU HAVE NOT FINISHED BROTHERHOOD! If you proceed… well… that's not my problem.

My second FMA fic. Be nice! I'm extremely flammable!

Disclaimer: Notice this is fan fiction. AKA Do. Not. Own. It belongs to the cow with the glasses. XD

I really gotta come up with my own stuff…..

Roy watched as Ed helped Al get ready to leave the hospital. He had come to take the boys to a hotel to stay for they night. They would be on their way to Resembool tomorrow.

It had been six months since Al had gotten his body back. The boy had gained some weight and was looking much healthier, though still pale and very fragile looking. Roy noticed a cane by the bedside. So he still had trouble walking.

He looked at Ed. Even though he was wearing a jacket, Roy noticed that his right arm didn't fill the sleeve as much as the left. So Edward hadn't built up his arm.

Probably more worried about his brother, he thought to himself, smiling almost invisibly. Still the same old Ed.

"Ready to go?" he asked.

Ed looked up and smiled. "Yep." He offered a hand to Al, who strained against his cane, pushing himself up on muscles weakened from years of disuse. Ed kept a hand on him, steadying him.

"Take as much time as you need, Alphonse," said Roy, worriedly.

Al just looked up and smiled. "I'm fine."

Roy had never realized how long he had waited for this moment until he got his sight back and saw the boys with his own eyes. To see Ed with an actual arm was one thing, to see Alphonse as human… as a living, breathing, eating, sleeping human was truly a sight to behold. With sadness, Roy realized that he had never seen the boy before his soul had been bonded to the armor. He had always been so different from Ed, so kind and gentle. Not that Ed wasn't when he wanted to be, but Al….

Now that he had his body back, though, that kindness and gentleness showed through as easily as the sun through a curtainless window.

It seemed like the boys at times were polar opposites. One a loose cannon, ready to bite someone's head off at a mere syllable, both verbally and literally. The other a gentle iron giant, with a voice and disposition to melt the hardest of hearts. Yet, they each had the same passion: to protect and love those they cared about. That passion had brought them to this moment, to Edward leading his flesh and blood little brother out of the hospital and into his life as a living and breathing human being.

And Roy had had the privilege… the honor… to oversee the journey to this moment. He felt like a proud father seeing his sons graduate from school. That's the closest he could come up with to what he was feeling, but the feeling was much grander than that.

How much had these boys suffered since that faithful night all those years ago? How much death had they seen? How many monsters had the come across?

How many times had they almost died?

Yet here they were, happier than Roy had ever seen them. As if all those nightmarish years that had made them grow up too fast had never happened.

"Colonel?"

Roy was brought out of his musings with the two boys looking at him expectantly.

Roy just smiled, a lump in his throat, and walked briskly towards them.

The Elric brothers then stood there wide-eyed as Colonel Roy Mustang, Flame Alchemist and their commanding officer, the morally bankrupt colonel with a god complex, embraced them.

Roy squeezed his eyes shut, holding back the tears burning his eyes, reveling in the feel of warm human limbs hugging him back, limbs that had once been full metal.

WOWZA! That turned…. Well… that turned out…

BEAUTIFUL!

Man, I've used some phrases, descriptions, and similes that I have NEVER used before! O.O *gawks at own talent* I need to write more.

And there goes my ego…. Lol

And I just re-read it… and that ending requires a box of tissues… *places one*

If you would like any more potential parental missing moments… request them! XD Me like missing moments… especially parental ones… after all these boys have been through, who doesn't?

AND YES I MADE UP A WORD! Shakespeare did it! So why can't I? Curtainless… take that MS Word!

And no…. I have not read the manga… so if anything is wrong, I blame the vagueness of the ending of the anime.