Hi all. This is a new Fic I've been working on. Hope you enjoy :D
Disclaimer: I don't own FMA. Aren't you glad I don't?
Quick Summary: Roy's two younger twin siblings re-enter his life suddenly. The eldest, by 12.5 minutes, is Leo a slighty dumb boy who always gets into trouble. The other is Rosalie, the younger one. She's the smart and independant one.
Chapter One – Hello, Good Bye
Rosalie looked down at her older brother as he did his boots up. He had donned the blue military uniform, which she had to admit looked good on him, with some uneasiness a few hours before. He was concentrating hard on his boots. The longer he took doing this it would mean it'd be less time for her to ask questions. Rosalie was a pretty intelligent for a girl of her age. She had been born a good ten years after he was but that was no excuse for her. Her twin, Leo, was a different matter. While Leo was proud of his brother for enlisting in the military, Rosalie was apprehensive about the whole thing.
"What?" her elder brother growled suddenly, fed up of feeling her staring at his back.
"Come back," she said simply, "Don't die."
"Why does everyone assume I'm going to die?" he asked getting to his feet quickly.
"You said it yourself," Rosalie snapped, "You never know when you will die in a ditch."
"Oh sure," her brother said with a smirk, "Jinx me before I even start."
"Brother," she said with a sigh. Her brother turned to put his hands on her shoulders. He was giving her a sincere smile.
"I promise," he said, "I'll be back before you know it. When I come home you'll be so fed up of me in a short space of time you'd be wishing I was gone again."
"I would never want you to go," Rosalie said, a stray tear trickling down her cheek. Her brother wiped it away with his finger.
"Lee," he said soothingly, "I'm sorry I have to go but it's something I need to."
"Are you going to Master Hawkeye's?" she asked abruptly.
"Yeah," he answered after a pause. Rosalie nodded.
"I don't see why you don't just go marry his daughter and stay away from this whole thing," she said with a crafty smile. Her brother chuckled.
"You won't give up on that will you?" he asked.
"No," Rosalie smirked, "Ever since I heard you call her name in your sleep I've realised you're in love with her."
"Well when I get back you can harass me over it as much as you want," he said. Rosalie nodded.
"I'll hold you to that," she smiled back.
"Hold him to what?" came the voice of Rosalie's older twin. Leo frowned as he saw Rosalie talking to their brother. She'd been trying to get him to quit the military since he returned home from training. She didn't seem to understand the honour of being in the military, but then again she was a girl, what would she understand?
"Don't give your sister too much grief, Leo," their brother said, ruffling his hair for what seemed the last time. Leo beamed up at his heroic brother. Rosalie went back to frowning.
"Yes, sir," Leo said with a snappy salute.
"Wrong hand, genius," Rosalie muttered. Leo paused, realising she was right. He blushed while their brother laughed at them both.
"Look after each other until I get back," he said, "And that means don't kill each other."
"OK," they both replied in an upset way. They had really been looking forward to fighting each other without their brother telling them off. He knew what they were like.
"Bye Leo, bye Lee," he said as he started walking down the garden path.
"Bye, brother!" Leo shouted.
"Keep yourself safe!" Rosalie chorused, "And don't do anything stupid!"
"Roger!" came his reply.
The twins stood on the doorstep until he was out of view and even when he had disappeared they remained glued to the spot. After a while Rosalie turned to go back into the house. Leo followed her not soon after.
"So what do we do now?" he asked as he watched his sister busy herself in a book. She glanced at him.
"Now, dear moron," she said with an air of sophistication, "We wait for him to return."
"When will that be?" Leo asked. Rosalie shrugged.
"As long as it takes," she replied after a while.
---X---
Six Years Later
Rosalie was sweeping the back step while her foster mother was out at work. She leant on the brush with glum satisfaction at her work. The twelve year old girl was miserable beyond belief. She'd learnt every bit of alchemy she could lay her hands on and now she was being scolded for practicing. It wasn't her fault she had the incredible knack to blow up everything she touched. She sighed deeply. Damn them. Damn them all. She stopped. Somewhere in the distance she could hear laughing. What a time to be laughing she thought throwing her brush on the floor in annoyance. It had been a year since the end of Ishbal and still not a word from her brother. It was no laughing matter. She stormed tot he end of the garden path ready to glare at the people who were laughing.
She stopped as she saw the two criminals come into view. Her frown dissolved into a warm smile as she saw the haughty form of her brother with his arm round a blonde haired woman. He was laughing as he told a story to her while she was merely smiling at him, obviously not finding the story that funny.
"OI ROY!" Rosalie yelled at the top of her lungs. Her brother stopped dead in his tracks looking at her like he'd seen a ghost. "I THOUGHT I YOU SAID I COULD HARASS YOU AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE OVER HER BUT I CAN'T IF YOU'VE ALREADY MARRIED HER, DAMN IT!"
"WHO SAYS I'VE MARRIED HER?" Roy yelled back. Rosalie laughed loudly as Roy went an odd red colour as the woman beside him laughed at the two.
"Welcome home, Roy," Rosalie said, "It's took you long enough!"
"What are you shouting at?" asked Leo, popping his head out the kitchen door. He ran over to Rosalie at the end of the garden path. "ROY! You're home!"
"Well done genius," Rosalie moaned.
"Hey, who's the girl?" Leo asked as his brother and companion came closer.
"This is Riza Hawkeye," Roy introduced. Leo narrowed his eyes at the woman not completely convinced who she was.
"Is she your girlfriend?" Leo asked.
"I hope she is cos I would miss out on a whole lot of bothering if they were married," Rosalie said.
"And you envy me for having siblings," Roy said to Riza. Riza sighed as the three of them started to fight over who she was. This was going to be a long holiday...
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RSx
