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Always Be My Baby

1

A Mother's Nightmare

Riza sighed as she pulled into the driveway. She had had a long day at work and now she was going to come home to Envy and Ed fighting about something stupid, and her husband yelling something at the two of them. All she really wanted to do was go to sleep, it was late and she was exhausted. She rubbed her aching temples as she walked up the walkway and thought of the chaos that was to soon await her when she walked through the door.

But what she expected and what was were two very different things. When she walked through the door she noticed it was oddly peaceful . . . no that wasn't the word: tense. Something was wrong, she knew it. She spotted her husband in the kitchen; his head was in his hands and he was sitting at the table. His deep black hair obscured his face from view. She looked around the living room, but there was no one there. Where was Alphonse? He was normally sitting excitedly on the couch, waiting for her to come home and tell him stories of her day, no matter how boring. Even as a suit of armor, he was still an excitable little fourteen years old, but where was he? And what about Envy? He wasn't always as eager to see her, but normally he was the first person she saw. Sometimes he would be in the tree in front of the house, lost in thought. But he wasn't there and, no annoying sounds from the living room, told her he was not there either. And Ed? What about him. He was usually in the kitchen, scrounging the fridge for food or something. What was going on?

The sound of her bag hitting the wood floor of the hallway must have startled her husband, because he shot to attention, his eyes were wide and his face looked exhausted and nervous. In all of her years of being around him, she had never seen that look on his face before. He looked in her direction and his expression slowly relaxed, however, sadness began filling his features. He stood up quickly from his place at the table and walked over to her, giving her a welcome home kiss, but Riza, panicking now, pushed him away and looked him straight in the eyes.

"Roy," she said as if she was talking to one of her kids, not her husband, "What's going on? Did something happen?"

Roy sighed and squeezed the bridge of his nose. He only did that when he was worried or stressed.

"What happened?" she asked again. This time, she got a hesitant response.

"I decided to see if Ed, Al, and Envy wanted to go do something out of the house, since it had been raining pretty hard lately, and they still seemed a bit depressed because, if you don't remember, today was Hughes birthday. Alphonse jumped at that chance and Envy winningly just came along, I guess to humor Alphonse. You know he has really changed since he and Lust left Dante."

"Yes Honey, now get to the point." Riza knew there must be something really wrong. Roy never changed the subject, on anything.

Roy sighed. "Well, Ed didn't want to go, so we just said we should be back by two-ish. He seemed okay by himself so we just left. When we got back, it was extremely quiet, but I didn't think anything of it, I thought he was sleeping upstairs. I asked Envy to go and get him up and tell him dinner would be ready soon, we had brought back some food, I didn't feel like cooking. Then I suddenly remembered that I had left something at the office last night and I was going to go and get when Alphonse offered, so I let him go, since he didn't have to eat anyways.

I had just gotten everyone's food on the table when Envy came charging down the stairs screaming my name like his head had fallen off. He was running down the hallway when I stopped him. He looked extremely disoriented and it took me a minute to calm him down. When I finally did, I asked him what the fuss was about. He told me. . ."

His voice trailed off as his eyes glassed over. Riza's heart was pounding against her rib cage. Something happened to Ed, to her boy. She grabbed the front of Roy's shirt.

"Roy what! Told you what!"

Roy took her hands off his shirt and held them tightly in his own before continuing.

"He said that Ed had managed to get your extra gun from your safe in the basement . . . and was holding it to his head . . ."

Riza's heart nearly stopped. "What! Are you sure! I mean he could have been—"

"Riza, I went up and checked. He had put it on the nightstand and he was huddled in the corner. As soon as I walked in, he ran and grabbed me around the waist, the entire time yelling, "I'm sorry."

Riza's mind was reeling, "Well where are they? Is he okay what did you do? Has Alphonse come back yet?"

She buried her face in her husband's shirt as tears slid down her soft cheeks. Roy rubbed circles in her back as he answered all of her questions.

"Envy and Ed are both still in their rooms." Riza shot him a panicked expression and he added that he had removed the gun from Ed's room and it was on the kitchen counter, so she didn't worry. "He isn't hurt, but he is upset. I think it scared him that he could even think of ending his life and it freaked him out. And yes, Alphonse did come home, but I sent him back. I lied and told him he got the wrong papers and told him to go get me the right ones. He doesn't know what happened, and I don't plan on telling him. He doesn't need that."

Riza pulled away from Roy, her eyes were dry. Riza always had had the talent of being able to make it look like she was never upset. She turned to walk up the stairs.

"I have to go make sure they are okay." Roy silently obliged, and she didn't know what he did because she didn't turn around, but she could have sworn that when she had gotten to the top of the stairs, she hears almost silent sobs from the downstairs kitchen.

well,theres the first chapter! sorry its not very long . . . it looked alot longer on microsoft haha. But anyways, the other chapters will probably not be long either *nervous laugh*. comments and critiques are appriciated!