Life to Its Fullest Chapter 2

Ed lay on the hospital bed, and Roy Mustang could still see the tears on his cheeks from crying in his sleep. Hughes was there too, sitting next to Ed's side. Ed himself was covered heavily in bandaged, and an IV was in his left arm, along with a bag of blood that was also hooked up to him. He was pale and sweaty, his breathing shallow. He almost looked like he was on the brink of death, if not for the fact that he only had lost a major amount of blood. The doctors had said that he would be alright after a while, but then they had other people to attend to, and there wasn't really anything that they could do for him.

'He could just die in his sleep.' One of the female doctors had said. 'We aren't able to do anything for him, so we'll let one of your men watch over him for a while until we can say whether or not he'll live.'

To Mustang that sounded like the most pathetic explanation for leaving a child alone, especially one that could die. He stood in the doorway, watching Ed as he slept fitfully. Maes signaled to him to go outside with him for a while. Roy nodded silently, not wanting to wake Ed up from his sleep. Once outside of his room, Hughes shut the door a little too firmly for Roy's liking.

"So what is it that you wanted to talk about?" Maes asked in a low voice.

"It bothers me how the doctors and nurses just left Ed alone like that, like they didn't even care if he was to die and they wouldn't be there. Something's definitely going on here."

Maes nodded. He had had his suspicions but wasn't sure that the others would notice. Apparently Roy had, something he knew that his friend would have said something about if it was a major concern.

"Maybe they found out that Ed did human transmutation, which could have sowed some animosity. Maybe the doctors were ordered to not give him any special attention unless if they wanted to be reported for being with a criminal." Roy said.

"But if that was the case, wouldn't they still have someone care for him since they would have put him on a death row anyways."

"I'll have to look into this back at HQ. They might have someone who-'

"I'll check it out."

Roy looked at Maes, surprised. "Why would you want to do that? You know what might happen if you are caught snooping around for information that might be covered up."

"Exactly. You need to get to the top someday, and how are you going to get there if you aren't trusted by other military personnel?"

Roy looked at Maes in the eyes, scared for what might happen. "Maes…"

"I'll start snooping around then. See ya!" He walked off with a smile and a happy gait. Roy couldn't help but smirk.

I'm on a desolated field.

There's a hangar to my left.

It's burning with fire and smoke is shrouding it.

I know that Alphonse is in there.

I run towards it.

"Al!" I scream.

He comes rushing out of the building.

His armor is red hot with fire.

I hug him tightly as my skin begins to burn off.

"Alphonse!" Edward Elric yelled as he sat abruptly up in his bed. Sharp pain greeted him in his stomach as he strained to stay up.

Colonel Mustang eyed him from the chair opposite from Ed's bed.

Edward noticed him and immediately asked him, "Where's Al!"

Then, everything came back in a rush.

"Come this way sir, your brother is right around the corner…"

"You didn't expect that we'd ever let this go, now would you?"

"Tell me, how do you create a philosopher's stone?"

"You know, the mistress there is about to kill him. He's no use to us anymore."

"We need the stone anyways."

"As long as he's alive we won't be able to get it."

Ed heard the sharp sound of steel piercing through steel.

Ed covered his ears. The sound kept on replaying in his mind. Over and over the ear piercing and alarming sound replayed. That one moment that he couldn't be there for his brother…

Alphonse's screams tore through his ears.

Those screams of agony as the seal was broken.

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A/N

I have returned from the dead! *gasps like a fish*

Oh and this was already half finished when I found it…

DON'T KILL Me!

I'll update again soon just wanted to make a cliffy here. *grins evilly*

Sorry but it seemed like the perfect time to make you guys wait in suspense!

Oh and I redid the last part it was with Roy and Ed crying together so I edited it out cause it was totally OOCness… dunno how the heck that got in there….

And this contains Parental!Roy ! Not RoyEd, got it?

(Although the first version that I just redid seems to have been RoyEd… Aye carumba….)

Anywho, please review and tell me what I should do or just any comments or tips on writng.

Thanks!