Cry
I don't own Roy, Ed, or Al...lucky for them too. There might be a second part to this in the works, but no promises, and I'm warning you...I'm a tease.
It had been a long time since Roy had really cried. When he'd woken up in the hospital he'd been in terrible pain, but he'd taken it. Only later when he found out that his lover, Edward Elric, had disappeared beyond the Gate had the war with tears begun. He'd tried to stay strong in front of his friends when they'd come to visit him, but finally, he thought it was sometime while Havoc was there, he'd broken down. The next few days passed in a blur of sedation an tears during which he was never fully sure what was going on. Doctors came in and out running tests and sticking needles in him, and occasionally he thought he heard Riza somewhere nearby. Whenever he felt fairly sure she was really there he asked for Ed. Riza (or someone he imagined to be Riza) would patiently explain that the younger man was gone and probably wouldn't be coming back any time soon. Then Roy would sob until the drugs knocked him out again. He guessed it was about a week after his battle with Pride that the doctors decided to stop drugging him. He laid in bed for a long time staring at the ceiling and trying to block Ed out of his mind. The way the other had smiled and laughed, how they had teased each other, and the way it had felt when Ed made love to him. He refused to eat or see anyone and those who were close to him started to fear he would die. Finally a visitor arrived unannounced. He refused to be deterred by any of the hospital staff and barged into Roy's room while the older man was in the middle of one of his worse spells.
"Mustang-sama?" he voice was somewhat familiar, but different somehow. Still, Roy knew only one person who could sound so sweet and worried.
"Al?" he sat up a little and was shocked to see a blond ten year old standing beside his bed.
"Your…your body…"
"Yeah, brother got it back for me…" Al looked at the ground, refusing to meet Roy's eyes.
"I'm going to bring him back" he said finally "I promise. If I'd known this would happen I would have never agreed to search for the Stone. Brother can be so reckless sometimes…I know he didn't mean to hurt you like this. Even when he was a thousand miles from you he always said how much he loved you."
Roy forced a small smile at Al. The boy smiled back, tears pooling in his bright eyes. Roy opened his arms and Al fell gratefully into the embrace. And for the first time he could remember Roy didn't cry alone.
