A/N: Each chapter will be a song title, the song I think fits the overall mood of the chapter, also within the chapter I may add a random song or two.
Warning! This is a yaoi fic so there will be male on male action. Also there will be Mpreg in this fc. Yes that's right one of our favorite alchemists will end up pregnant. Don't worry they won't be alone to raise the little baby.
Warning part 2! There will be spoilers as the story is set after the ending of the show and the sequel movie Conqueror of Shamballa.
Pairing: Roy Mustang X Ed Elric
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I do not in any way own FMA.
Chapter Two: I'm Still Here – The Goo Goo Dolls
"General." Riza's voice was a little gentler than her normal clipped one, but it was enough to startle Roy awake.
"What is it Lieutenant?" Mustang said groggily.
"I know this day is hard for you, but there is work to do, sir."
"I know. I just . . . shut the door there is something I need to talk to you about." The male sighed looking down at the ever so elusive empty desk in front of him.
Hawkeye did as she was told and moved to sit on one of the small couches in Roy's office. "What is it?"
"Him. It's always him . . . but this time it's this," Roy said pulling out the small ring box and dropping it on the desk without much care, "and him." Roy dropped his head into his hands, tears welling in his eyes.
Riza stood and walked to look at the box. She was a little stunned to find that Roy had been confident enough to propose to Ed. She knew he had been in love with the boy, but not that he was going to go this far. "You really loved him didn't you Roy?" she spoke his name as no more than a whisper.
"He was the second person I ever cared this much about. . ." Roy wiped his eyes again as his voice cracked with sorrow.
"Second?" the lieutenant asked looking at her superior with concern in her eyes.
"You, Lieutenant. You knew that a long time ago." Roy deadpanned.
Ed sighed putting away his clean clothes and looking at the photo of himself and Roy. 'I have to find a way to either get back to him or to get over him.' He mentally cursed himself for thinking about Roy and the time they had shared.
"Brother?" Al's quiet voice asked peeking from behind the door.
"Ya?" the older blond turned to look at his little brother, who wasn't so little anymore. Alphonse was seventeen, tall, strong and a very handsome man now. Both Elrics had grown up a lot during their adventurous searching, but the difference was more evident with Al because of him not having his body.
"Um, there's someone I would like you to meet" Al said slightly nervously.
(Song Change: Hometown Girl – Josh Turner)
"Um ok?" Ed said walking toward the door to step out with Al.
"Just promise me you'll keep your temper under control ok?"
"Ya sure, but why do I need to?"
Alphonse opened the door and stepped aside letting the elder Elric see a young girl with medium brown hair, gentle green eyes and a pale complexion. She was the spitting image of their mom except she had straight hair instead of soft curls.
"Hello, you must be Edward. Alphonse has told me so much about you. My name is Charlotte; although many of my friends call me Charlie." She smiled and stood to shake Ed's hand.
Ed nodded and shook the girl's hand, "Nice to meet you, Charlie."
Alphonse stood off to the side watching the interaction, fearful of what Ed might say.
"Al, can I talk to you a minute in my room please?" Ed said looking over to the younger yet slightly taller blonde.
"Uhh, ya sure. Ok" Alphonse said before turning to Charlie, "We'll be right back."
Ed turned and walked back to his bedroom door with Al in tow. Once the door was shut the younger Elric looked at his brother expecting anger and irritation, but instead got curiosity and worry.
"Al, who is that?"
"Um . . . well you see . . . she's kinda . . . umm . . . uhh . . . she's my girlfriend, I guess." Alphonse sputtered.
"Your GIRLFRIEND?!" Ed said, minding the volume of his voice by whisper yelling the second word, "She looks just like mom!"
"I know . . . but she's not . . . she's just a girl. And I really like her! I am thinking about asking her to marry me! That's why I wanted you to meet her. I wanted your blessing before I go to her parents."
Ed stood there in stunned silence looking at his little brother.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get angry."
A knock at the door stopped Ed from replying, "Ya?"
The door opened to a flushed and sweaty Maes Hughes, "Ed! We need your help. There's a bunch of crazy stuff happening in the fields outside of town! Stuff like what happened a year ago with the Thule." Maes huffed shifted, leaning against the doorframe. "Come on I'll drive you there; because lord knows you two can't drive correctly."
Ed and Al ran from the road where the car had stopped to the middle of the field wear a giant stone doorway was emerging from black and purple smoky swirls. There was little question as to what was happening as they got closer, an alchemist was trying to open the gateway of truth. The only question was how an alchemist was doing it here. There was no alchemy here.
"Brother, we have to find out who is doing this and how! They could hurt a lot of people!"
"General, we have a situation out in eastern territories." A young brunette said walking up to Mustang's desk.
"What's happening?" Roy grumbled, irritated at the fact that there was giant stack of papers on his desk. 'I'm never going to get through all this shit.'
"We aren't sure, but the Furor wants you to send you and your men to scope it out and take care of it if needed. Your travel arrangements have been made as well as accommodations have been secured."
"Fine, when do we need to leave?" the general looked up at his subordinate.
"Tomorrow at three in the afternoon on a private train."
"Fine. Have the other men been informed?"
"Yes sir, they have."
"Dismissed." Roy growled, looking at his desk. 'Yet another thing I have to do in order to become the Furor in this waist land of a country'
The next afternoon Roy Mustang and his men boarded the train to East City. The trip was a long but mild one for them. However the proximity to Resembool was the only thing on Roy's mind the entire time. He sat in his private car wearing a pair of black pants and a printed t-shirt that he had owned since he was a teenager. He looking at the small white gold locket he normally kept under his uniform shirt, his ungloved thumb, gently stroking the front. 'Why do I miss you so much?' Roy carefully opened the locket and stared at the small black and white photo of himself and Edward, happy and smiling. It was taken two years ago before everything went bad with the homunculi and Father. The two had taken a short weekend trip to a small cabin Roy had borrowed from a friend. They spent the whole two days inside lying in bed, talking, kissing, and flirting. It was perfect. And now it was gone. Ed was gone and so were the days they shared. He had to focus on the task at hand, on figuring out what it was that was going on in the east.
"What do you have there, General?" a slightly graveled voice came from the door.
Roy looked up at the blond who owned that voice, and glancing at the ash that dusted Jean Havoc's shirt he smirked, "Already another smoke break Havoc?"
"Well, there's nothing better to do, Kane won't let me be near him when we're working. . . Never mind that, what is that? Never pegged you for a jewelry guy," Havoc pointed at the now closed locket.
Roy sighed and motioned for Jean to come in and shut the door, "It was a gift from Ed for our anniversary," he popped it open and showed Havoc the picture inside.
"Sweet, sentimental, and simple in design. Perfect for you. You know, Furry gave me this after the battle with them damned homunculi," Jean pulled back the sleeve of his plain black long sleeved shirt and showed the general the small red and brown leather bracelet tied gently around his wrist, "Never take it off either. That rust looking stain? That's my sweetie's blood that he go on it when he was sewing it together." Jean smiled awkwardly.
"Hard to believe that Kane Furry would ever be able to like someone like you in that way."
"Hey, I may be an acquired taste, but that doesn't mean that I can't get a cutiepie like him."
"That's not what I said," Mustang replied looking out the window to see the city coming into view. They would be there in only a few more minutes.
As the whole of Mustang's regiment and the general himself exited the train it was clear why they had been sent and what was going on, but it was too late in the day for them to do anything today. So off to the barracks that had been prepared for them, each to their own room but a certain blond who smelled of smoke walked to the room next to his and followed the brown haired man wearing glasses into it.
"Brother over here!" Al yelled as he ran to an unconscious man lying in the middle of a smaller array that matched the one surrounding the gateway.
Edward walked over a little slower, his stumps were aching and he couldn't tell if it was from the incoming rain or the giant stone door standing in the middle of the open field. Off to the right he saw the black haired man lying with what looked like a bowl full of blood and other things in spilled all around him as well as a smaller scale array carved into the ground. The man was wearing denim pants a black shirt with matching vest and a long black robe, a silver pocket watch was tucked into the pocket of his vest.
Alphonse knelt down and looked at the man, he looked familiar but not enough that either Elric knew him. Ed walked over and knelt beside his brother and very carefully pulled the pocket watch from the man's pocket. When the brothers saw the watch they both stood and backed away quickly.
"What's wrong?" Maes asked walking over from the car.
"That watch. . ." Ed carefully reached into his own pants pocket and removed his Amestrian state alchemist pocket watch.
"Umm, how come you have the same watch as that guy, Ed?"
"Because this man isn't form here, just like me and Al. He is a member of the Amestrian military and he was a state alchemist; just like me." Edward moved to study the man's face.
"So you know this guy?" Hughes asked.
"No. I may have met him before, but not all alchemists know each other. We were sent to do our researches on our own." Ed responded as he looked back up at the gate. "My question I show in the hell did he manage to summon the gate?"
"It looks like he used his own blood as a catalyst for the alchemy. But I don't see how he could have summoned the gate of truth with just a little bit of blood." Alphonse walked toward the gate.
"He changed the circle. It's only meant to summon and to keep the gate here. He must have used his blood and the watch to amplify what little alchemic power he had left." Edward followed his brother, but stopped short of the gate, just out of reach of what was inside.
"Brother, if the gate is here, then . . . does that mean that there is one in Amestris too?"
"Maybe. But I'm not getting close enough to it to find out."
"General, get down!" Riza yelled as she pushed Mustang to the ground.
"Damnit. Who the hell are they protecting?" the raven cursed.
More shots rang out and then a loud thundering boom came. All of this followed by the buzz of alchemy. Then all of the sudden everything stopped. It was all still; the air, the noise, the vibrating feeling of power, all of it was still. It made Roy uneasy. He stood slowly to look at where the commotion had been coming from and when he saw it he froze.
"Is that what I think it is General?"
The raven haired man didn't answer he just ran. As fast as he could toward the massive freestanding door in the middle of a small eastern town on the edge of Amestris.
'This is it. This is my chance to get him back. To bring him back to me. Or to loose myself forever in the emptiness of the gate. . . . NO! I WILL GET TO HIM. I HAVE TO!' Roy slowed to a stop before he carefully placed his left hand on the wood of the door. "Let me in. Let me go to him," He whispered to himself as the door slowly started to open.