Ed looked up at the little baby girl in Roy's arms. A mostly balder head-showing she was a newborn child- and only a few small strands of blondish gold hair revealed it's color. Bright blue eyes the looked like glass and she a doll. He couldn't remember the girl, though he couldn't remember much these days. Roy only being a new memory, though he felt as if he should know who the girl was. "Who's she?" Ed asked as Roy handed the girl to be placed in his arms.
"She's your daughter." Roy responded as he sat on the edge of the bed, legs draping over the side. When Ed's accident had led to his memories forgotten, Roy had taken care of the job to either bring the back or retell Edward's life.
"But were both male." Ed responded as the girl giggled in his arms.
"Yeah, we didn't expect that to happen. Apparently after you went to the gate so many times it had a side affect." He smiled softly and Ed looked down at the newborn. "They say her eyes will change to an almost black like mine. But her hair will stay the color it is."
"Why are you helping me?" Ed asked suddenly. Though keeping a smile on his face for the little baby. "I mean I don't remember anything about you and apparently I even forgot my own child."
"Because I love you." Ed's eyes widened and he looked up to a smirking Roy. "Even if you don't remember your past we'll make new memories and I'll have you fall in love all over again if I have to."
Ed smiled as he looked at the little girl in his arms again. "I think part of me already did." Roy was inwardly surprised by Ed's words, yet gave a calm facade and he kept his glance on Ed's actions and reactions with the girl. "She's beautiful."
"Much like you." Ed's face flushed at that, yet he let the girl grab onto hs finger and curl her hand around it. "Well the doctor can't find anything physically wrong with you so we can go home."
"Home?"
"You'll be fine, don't worry. There's an extra room if you feel more comfortable that way." Roy responded, hearing the hollow-ness in Ed's voice as he said the word.
"Thank." He got a soft smile in return and he genuinely thought he could trust this man.
Maybe his inner conscience was screaming at him to give in and let his mind wader into his. Yet some fragment of him was unsure if he really wanted to know himself. From what he heard so far he wasn't quite sure this Edward led a happy life. Quite the opposite actually. Though he chose a medium and slowly let the man tell him everything. Never too much, only small fragments as to not overload him. Something he was quite thankful for.
Ed passed over the little girl, though almost stopped as the girl latched onto him. Roy managed to get a hold of her and she put a frown on, unhappy that she couldn't be held by Edward and hold onto his finger. "What's her name?"
A grim thought crossed through Roy and Ed with no clue as to how recognized it. As if he had worn it himself so many years ago, though no memory as to why came with it. Roy looked at the girl, still a slight frown on his face and he sighed. "Alice. You named her after your brother."
"I have a brother?" Ed asked, that was one thing Mustang had yet to tell him. From how much it seemed he got himself into there was quite a bit still to tell.
"Had." Roy responded back, saddened as if he were Roy's family and not Ed's.
"Oh."
"They died shortly after we found out you were pregnant." Roy said causing slight confusion to cross the smaller alchemists face. Probably faulted to the use of the word they in there. "Both your brother Alphonse and his wife Winry were killed in a break-in while in Risembool. Winry's grandmother also died in the break in."
"Did you ever get the guys who killed them?"
"Al killed them, though stopping his own life he managed to make sure the other's weren't about to live. From what I hear they killed Winry in front of him and after she was gone he made sure they couldn't leave. From what I hear his last words were an apology to you for not being able to keep himself alive."
"We must have been close." Ed presumed as he listened to the story, absorbing in the thoughts of his own life as he always did when Roy spoke of it.
"You two were close. Probably the closest family I've ever seen." Roy sighed as he had finished going through Al's life had been detailed, now time for him to speak of his own. "At first I envied you two. I never spoke to my family, even my brother. He died before I even got the chance to get to know him.
A soft touch of sorrow filled the two of them and Roy could tell Ed felt sorry for him. Though he shouldn't be. When in reality Ed had lost much more in his life then Roy had ever. Though their pain almost paralleled. Probably why they had fallen in love originally. "I'm sorry," Edward apologized, though Roy couldn't tell which he was apologizing for. His family situation or that he couldn't remember it. Did it even matter?
No it didn't. "Don't be, it's not your fault. Non of this is." Roy responded back. "Come on let's go."
Ed swung his legs over the bed, wobbling as he tried to stand up straight. Roy held out his arm for Ed to grab, and he did. He managed to support himself and he released the Roy's arm and began walking. He used the wall for further support, obvious that a few weeks on his bed only had a slight affect on his body.
The two managed their way through the hospital and signed out. A black car awaited him at the entrance. Havoc opened the door for Roy as he placed the girl in an adjusted the baby seat. Ed looked at Havoc puzzled.
"Who are you?" Ed asked the man who opened the door for him.
"Name's Havoc, boss." The blonde man looked down at Edward, slightly puzzled.. Thinking Roy must have been right about Ed's memory, he'd have to warn the rest of the office about that before and if they planned to visit Edward. .
"By the use of the word boss, I take it I'm supposed to know you." Ed stated, slight sarcasm hinted in his voice.
Havoc gave a light smile in return. "Not at all boss. I'm nothing special compared to Roy or little Alice."
"That's not what I meant, Havoc." Ed stated as he got into the car.
Havoc bent down a little, the smile still on his face. "I knew that, and I know what you meant. And by your meanings yes I am apart of your past, though if Roy's rebuilding his memories from scratch I can come in later." The man closed the door and got in front. He placed a cigarette in his mouth before starting up the engine.
Roy had heard the conversation and in reality it saddened him. This whole situation did, yet he stuck a smile almost permanently to his facade. Not just for his team, or his daughter, but for Edward. The boy needed someone to smile with, he didn't even want to think what goes through Ed's head every time he was told about himself.
And that is the chapter's end. More here for the fact that I want to see what kind of response this gets. The chapters are meant to be longer from here out but for now this is what you get. I pan to keep schedule on all other updates, and I'm sorry for throwing another story out there when I should really be working on the other's. Be warned if you thought this was sad it gets a lot worse. Hope you like.
