Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal alchemist but I do own my own characters in there.

Summary: This is like a prequel to the sequel the other son. Parker is a sixteen year old that is afraid to become close to anyone whilst fighting everything his brother tries to achieve. His brother has seemed lost since the death of there pops and recently has done the worst that anyone could possibly imagaine. After summoning the Jin into their world, it seems that it's the last draw on those forces that are trying to take him down. Parker though tries to reach his older brother so that he could find the good that hasn't been taken away. How could he do that though whilst trying desperately not to fall in love with the mysterious Jordyn Pasteel and throw his dead beat father off his back?

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Chapter One

The enemy of my enemy is my friend Parker thought savagely as he neared the building. The sixteen year old never once thought he would be this close to all of this again. Closing his eyes, he reminded himself of the last time he had a confrontation with his brother. It ended with him getting kicked in the face and then a bunch of apologies. He would laugh right now if it wouldn't have given his position away. Hearing something in the trees near the woods, he jumped into the trench, hoping that it wasn't those creatures that could detect by smell. He hated those things and always had.

Keeping his mouth sealed, he waited until the noise died down before he lifted his head up and let out a startled yelp when he bumped heads with the brother he had been trying to sneak up on.

"What's your Got damned problem Parker? Are you trying to try my patience or does it comes naturally to you?" Parker quickly stood up and hastily dusted himself off. This was it and there was no easy way to say this but now.

"I'm trying to stop you."

Spencer laughed as though it was a very bad joke.

"Yeah right. You stop me, the ruler of all Amestris and the one the people love? I never knew you would be that way. They love me and it's not only about who has the highest amount of power anymore. I'm not Fuhrer and I'm not some stupid parliament either Parks. I am a ruler that gets rid of threats and does well with them in mind. Don't you want that or at least you did. Poor little Parker couldn't get over the fact that poppy died just before he was eight years old. Just think brother, we could have helped him if we had this all along. Did you not help in the beginning to make this possible?"

"Spencer grow up. Seriously, I did not come here to have a debate on politics, even though if I did I'd tell you it was mean what you did to those Ishbalans! I didn't come to chat about pops and how his death could have been prevented. You weren't there and you don't know what happened-"

"It's not like you're going to tell me Parker Kaiden Elric! You won't tell me a single thing of what happened that day! The only thing I have to go by is the fact that you were in so much shock that you wouldn't talk for weeks afterwards. You went into vicious panic attacks whenever someone even went near you and now you're telling me that I don't know what happened like it's my fault! I lost someone too that day you know? I'm not going to go there again! Where are the almighty alchemists with their wonderful notions of equivalent exchange when people kept opening the gate and got granted the forbidden power? Why do people not see how great you and I could be when we rule everything? No more deaths and no more pointless good byes that is what! Sooner or later you are going to have to choose Parker Kaiden and I hope by then you are more reliable by then-"

Parker had resumed digging in the dirt and cursing his luck. He got a confrontation alright although he didn't want to listen to him drone on and on about a Utopia where people no longer suffered. It made him sick to think about it when all he really wanted was his brother back. He knew it was impossible though and sighed, turning to the eighteen year old in turn.

"Utopia is impossible Spence because even then there's people unwilling to conform. Besides how could you think of doing something that pops was so up against. Don't you want to follow through on pop's dying request…?"

Spencer glared as Parker looked away, not meeting his eyes. Parker was always the emotional one but that changed in the years. First off, they lost a younger sister to one of the vampires. Then there were various people willing to kidnap them. Spencer had never really experienced that though and knowing that with Parker, it was different, it wasn't odd to have to save his ass at least once a month. It changed though when their pops died. There was nothing Parker could do either and it had ate him up inside for a while that he went temporarily insane. He loved his brother, oh God, he loved him more than anything in the world and would do anything to protect him but he wouldn't tolerate insolence either.

"The request was to keep you safe Parker and I intend to do that whether you listen to what I've said or if I have to conform you kicking and screaming."

Parker stood up again glaring at him.

"You really think I'm still in the kicking and screaming stage? First off you can bite me because I don't need you to make the world your own personal playground to keep me safe. Second off, who are you kidding? Dave Rochester could have killed me last week and you would have only known about it when you began to wonder why your pesky little brother who doesn't play nicely suddenly seemed to have stopped!"

"You do test my patience dear brother." Without another word, he lifted his hands and Parker went flying down to the other side of the field, landing harshly on the soft grass. "Now I think the haunt is on. AGAIN!"

Parker just picked himself up and began to run away. Why the hell did their parents ever let Spencer read horror was beyond him.

He just didn't want to be the cliché victim.

"WHAT THE HELL KAIDEN! DO YOU JUST LIVE TO BE CHASED DOWN BY EVERY KNOWN JIN IN SIGHT OR ARE YOU JUST REALLY STUPID!"

"By the yelling I could tell you really really REALLY missed me," Parker replied with an eye roll.

Jeremy did mean well and it wasn't like it was the first time that he saved him from a bunch of Jin who were chasing Parker in the forest as Spencer's type of sick and twisted type of fun. He just didn't want to hear them yell about how dangerous it was when he could take care of himself. He had ever since he lost the one parent that ever meant something to him. After they had died, he had basically been on his own. Correction, he thought after a pause. He had been with his uncle until the unfortunate accident with him and then at twelve he had been all alone in the world. His brother was intent on making the whole country his, his cousin had gone off somewhere after the death of her father, and somewhere beneath it all, Parker still managed to find some shred of sanity after all.

Jeremy glared at him.

"I do miss you ya shrimp but you better not make me save you again," he chided in a joking manner.

Parker flipped him a mocking salute before saying, "Of course. I'll just tell Spencer that it isn't nice to send the Jin after me, especially when my friend does not want to save me again."

This time Jeremy rolled his eyes.

"I don't mean it like that and you know it. I do value your life after all and anyone who gets up close and personal with him ends up dead."

But he wasn't just anyone and nobody had to know that. Parker frowned for a moment knowing how much bad memories were brought up just by thinking in the past. He knew that what his brother thought of as nuisance was Parker's act of trying to help him. He wasn't completely gone and beyond hope. Parker knew how to help him.

"Please don't value me too much that you give up your own," Parker warned suddenly serious.

Jeremy nodded.

"Speaking of, we have a new member with us."

Parker rolled his eyes at him this time and stood up to leave, ignoring Jeremy's shouts. He did not need to be here when they inducted another member into their little group. They already had two hundred and thirty people at headquarters alone and fifteen to thirty two people spread out at various other hideouts. Even though he warded it off so that his brother couldn't find them didn't mean that he wouldn't eventually and Parker fought long and hard just to keep them safe.

"Come on Parks, this one could help us and you like all the help you can get!"

Parker continued to ignore him until he was staring at a jagged dagger against the picture frame. Pulling it out, he turned to look at the one person that could only have had a hand in throwing it.

"Nice, you got me impressed, now what?"

She didn't seem too surprised though by his sarcasm.

"I joined up not to be in a heated argument by the want to be leader of this little organization but to help make a difference. Point is, I may not even be recognized but what I want to do is to do as much as I can and save as many as possible. Could you very well disagree with my methods?"

Glancing back down at the dagger, he seemed really deep in thought. Behind them, Jeremy hid a knowing smile and quickly etched out of the room. He never met a teenager so much like Parker in his life and this person was missing the Y chromosome for all sanity's sake! It would be interesting to see how they got along and he wasn't the first to say he wanted to see the showdown between those two minds.

"You joined for those in mind. Are you willing to die for your cause? Would you sacrifice everything you know just so that you could deliver someone to freedom at the expense of your own life?"

It was something he asked a lot of the times. He always was wondering the motives for people that went against his brother. Mostly it was because they couldn't stand the world that was becoming increasingly depressing. They didn't seem to have any hope in humanity but they wanted to see him dethroned at least. Sighing, he was pulled out of his revelry by what the other teenager clearly said.

"I guess it would depend. Would my dying to save those people be worth it? If I die to protect them, I want to make sure they are going to survive first. Then I want to make sure that they would be able to carry out the work that I've been doing and do things in my place. It's as simple as that and I'm sorry if you disagree but I won't sacrifice myself shamelessly."

Parker nodded.

"Good luck with that notion. If I were you I'd just live to fight another day and don't give up alright?"

She nodded.

"I knew that's what you would want me to say but that was my truthful answer. Any other questions before Jeremy shows me around?"

"A name would be efficient."

She just raised her eyebrow.

"Jordyn. Don't you forget that because I'm going to make certain that you won't be able to."

"I'm Parker and you'll do very much to remember that I tend to find it hard to forget a face."

She smiled and he returned it with a hint of one of his own.

This was almost no fun.

Turning around, he crossed his arms in a moment of deep thought. They didn't have many women in their group but if he remembered all the gruesome things that had happened, he really didn't want another innocent one getting hurt. There was Melly who had been raped so severely that her mind broke, Shelly who was her twin and was devastated beyond repair because of the whole sibling bond thing, and there were a lot of more violent aspects of what he was trying to stop that he had to shake his head clear unless he wanted to bash his head repeatedly against the wall.

"You're not joining, sorry." He paused seeing her look of shock and how she gaped. She tried to argue with him but he shook his head, his cold blue eyes looking at her from a curtain of dark brown hair. "I'm not going to be responsible again so if you want to join us fine, but you aren't allowed on anything more than mediocre missions and that is an order."

Even if she ended up hating him, she was not going to die on his account, even if she wouldn't see of it.

No more deaths were going to happen because of him.