To Have Children

By Bashfulglowfly

Chapter One

Central 1924

"I want to have children."

Roy Elric-Mustang blinked. It was rather early in the morning but he was fairly certain he was awake…and hadn't become stupid during the night. But he needed to make sure that his husband said what he thought he said. "What?"

"I want to have children."

Roy rose up on one elbow and looked down at Ed's golden body. He picked up the sheet and looked underneath at Ed's torso.

"What the fuck?" Ed snatched the sheet back down. "What th' hell's that about?" Ed's language had improved while he'd been on the Other Side with Liesl but on occasion he backslid.

"I just wanted to make sure you hadn't changed on me." Said Roy dryly.

Ed hit him with a pillow. "In the last five minutes? Freak!"

Roy grabbed the pillow from Ed and placed it beneath his head as he lay back down. "So what brought this on? Sam?" Sam was the young son of Al and Winry. They'd left three days ago to return to Resembool. Ed had spent much of the visit playing with the boy.

"Partially. He's a cute darn kid." It was Ed's turn to lean on one elbow. He began to trace patterns on Roy's chest. "We've been married a year now. You're a Lt. General. The Military has been surprisingly accepting of our marriage but I've heard whispers."

"That our marriage is just a ploy on my part?"

Ed rested his head on Roy's chest, wrapping both arms around him. "Yeah."

Roy stroked Ed's hair. "So, having children would mean we have a real and stable marriage?" Ed nodded. "So, how do you propose we HAVE children. Physically it's impossible…unless you plan on turning into a woman."

Ed glared up at him. "Ha ha ha. And what's wrong with you being the woman?"

"I'm taller." Roy grunted as Ed punched him in the ribs. "Or are you proposing a surrogate of some sort. It would mean that one of us would have to sleep with a woman."

"I thought about it and the only two women we could possible ask are Liesl or Riza."

Roy pursed his lips in thought. "Quite frankly, I don't want to get shot. And I don't think Jean would be too thrilled with the idea of you sleeping with his wife…even if she was your wife first."

"Why would I have to be the one to sleep with Liesl?"

"Dummy, we've told everyone that she's my sister." When Ed and Liesl came from the Other Side, to hide the fact that Liesl wasn't from this world, Roy had all of the necessary documents forged and spread the word that Liesl was his half-sister. The story was that Roy's father had met Liesl's mother while on assignment and left before her mother could tell him about the baby. The other part of the story was that Ed found her while on a mystery assignment that forced him to fake his death. The story was complicated and more than a bit fragile but so far it had held.

"Oh yeah. I thought about getting shot, too. Forgot about Liesl being your sister and all but, yeah, I know Jean wouldn't like it."

"So what did you come up with?"

"Adoption."

Roy mused that over for a moment. "Adoption. It could work. Although I've heard it's difficult as hell to adopt. And babies are hard to get."

Ed sat up and grinned. "Don't necessarily want babies…older kids need to be adopted too. And it will be a lot easier if we adopt from a Military orphanage!"

Roy raised an eyebrow. Ed had given it some thought. Children in the Amestrian Military orphanages were easier to adopt especially if one was currently or had been a soldier. "That might work. Especially in our favor. We'll have to get a bigger house first." He looked at Ed. "We'll have decide how many we're going to have but at least one of our children MUST be…"