Shadow: Yay!!!! It's me again!

Roy: Don't forget me The Flame Alchemist and the most handsome man in Fullmetal Alchemist!

Shadow: And the most egotistical too...

Roy: T-T...I hate you

Shadow: Yay my mission is complete! 'dance dance dance'

Alright I want to thank JuniperScaymoore and Lilies of Shadow for being my very first two reviewers.

Disclaimer: If I owned Fullmetal Alchemist do you really think I would be doing this? Besides if I did Roy would have a kid.

Past Expressions

Ow my head hurts. Where am I? Since when am I sorrounded by blue? Did I fall asleep outside? Oh no did I lock myself out of the house again?!! Oh no oh no oh no... Groggy eyes opened up slightly and surveyed the sorrounding area. Then Suddenly the body attached to the eyes shot up in alarm. This was not her house! Where was she?!!! The girl was surprised to see that the blue she was surrounded by was a military jacket. Then all of the previous events came flooding back to her. That's right! She thought I came to look for...and then I passed out...oops.

Ed was bored again. He and Al agreed to watch the girl for Mustang and they had been doing so for the last 3 hours. Ok so it was only 1 1/2 but he was bored to DEATH! Right now he was talking to Al about some book they had recently read. Then suddenly he saw something move out of the corner of his eyes. He turned and saw that the girl they were watching had woken up. He turned and watched her for a moment. Then he turned to Al and told him to go get the others. Al nodded and quickly left to go do what he was asked.

The girl still hadn't noticed that Ed was inside the office with her. That is until he scared the life out of her.

"Are you okay?" The girl jumped out of the couch in surprise and nearly tripped over herself. She spotted Ed and blushed bright red in embarrassment.

"Umm yeah I'm fine. I'm just a little surprised is all" she responded in complete honesty. Ed nodded in acknowledgement and looked her over. She was about his height maybe an inch shorter than him. She had long black hair that reached about mid-back, and she had a pair of obsidian eyes to match. She was wearing a red shirt with black flames printed across it, and black pants. To top it all off she was wearing a pair of black military style boots. While he was observing her and taking in her appearance, Ed failed to notice that he was staring at her.

The girl shifted uncomfortably under Ed's gaze. She coudn't help but stare back and take in his appearance. So while the two teens had a staring contest they failed to notice their visitor at the doorway.

"I hope I'm not interrupting anything now." The two teens whipped their heads towards the door to face the person who said this. Both of them had faces as red as Ed's jacket. Standing at the door was none other than Roy Mustang, and on his face was that irratable smirk.

Roy tried his hardest to keep a straight face. He loved frustrating Edward as much as he could. Seeing their guest with the same frustrated face as Ed's was just an added bonus. After finally gaining control of his face Roy began to walk towards the two teens. After him the rest of the gang slowly filled the room unaware of what just happened. The last to enter was Envy, who strutted towards Ed and rested his arm on his head accenting the fact that Envy was so much taller than Ed.

It was no longer raining buckets outside and the room began to get stuffy. The girl stood up straight and said "I'm sorry for making such a mess of things. I hope I didn't cause too much trouble."

Roy shook his head no. "Don't worry we've had worse happen to us before." Everyone turned to look at Envy, who looke quite pleased with himself. Havoc took the cigarett from his mouth and stomped on it.

"So kid" he said "What's your name?"

The girl smirked and said "Oh my name is Rayne!"

Havoc nodded and said "my name is Jean Havoc. This is Breda, Kain Fuery, and Falman." He pointed to the red haired chubby man, the short black haired man with glasses and the tall gray haired man all in turn. The he turned and pointed to Ed, Al, and Envy. "These are Edward, Alphonse, and Envy." She nodded to show she understood.

Havoc was about to introduce Roy and Riza, but Rayne stopped him. "Don't bother I already know who they are! Roy Mustang and Riza Hawkeye."

An awkward silence filled the room. After a few minutes of nothing they all decided to leave Central Headquarters and go home. Once outside the awkwardness seemed to lift and everyone was comfortable again. They started chatting about random things. Rayne and Ed got into a deep discussion about alchemy. They were all surprised to find out that Rayne was an alchemist. Envy still had one question on his mind. He was pretty sure that everyone else was wondering the same thing too. So he decided to ask, he didn't care if he was intruding into anothers business. He wanted to know damn it!

"So Rayne...how do you know the bastard?" Roy twitched at the nickname Envy gave him. Trust Edward to go and teach the homunculus that. Rayne looked at Envy and stared. Then she realized that he was talking about Roy and giggled.

"Ha ha that's an easy question to answer." She turned to him and bowed. "My name is Rayne Mustang and Roy is my father." ( I thought about ending it here, but I changed my mind.)

Mustang's subourdinates were in shock. Roy Mustang, the biggest womanizer on earth and the man who had only just started dating Riza was a father?!! Riza was the only one not surprised. She had met Rayne a bit after Maes died. Roy sighed in agony. He had a sneaking suspicion that his daughter had planned it the whole time. She was evil that way just like her mother, and Riza as well.

Rayne was happy. She was finally able to meet her father's co-workers. She began to think of all the things she would be able to do now that people knew that she existed. Then suddenly she got the most brilliant idea EVER!!

"How would you guys like to come to my house for dinner?" Before Roy could even think of complaining everyone agreed. Then they followed Rayne to the Mustang home. When they got there the gang was very surprised.

The Mustang home was...ordinary. It wasn't a ridiculously large mansion like everyone had always thought it was. The house didn't have decorations that gave away the flame alchemist lived there. (Flame mailbox, a line of single women waiting to get a date with him etc.) It was an ordinary two story house. It was and earthy red with white accents. Envy felt a subtle prickling feeling at the back of his neck. He brushed it off and followed everyone inside. It was probably the wind or something anyway.

Inside the house was clean and organized. It had a very warm and comfortable feel to it. It was obvious which Mustang took care of the house. The doorway opened up to the living room. It had two black sofas seperated by a matching recliner and two end tables. In front of it was a brick fireplace with a white mantle piece. On top of it were asorted pictures. The room next to it was the kitchen. Then a hallway and a flight of stairs that led to the upstairs bedrooms.

Rayne immediatly went towards the kitchen and began to prepare dinner. She refused to accept help from anyone who asked. While she was busy with the dinner preparations, Roy led the others to the living room. He took his seat on the recliner and took off his ignition gloves. He put them next to him in the end table. Havoc, Falman, Fuery, and Breda sat on the couch to his right. Riza, Ed, Al, and Envy sat on the couch to his left.

The fireplace was unlit and Envy decided to look at the pictures on the mantle. There were pictures of Rayne and Roy both seperate and together. There were pictures of Maes and his family. There were even pictures of everyone at the office. The only pictures he didn't see were ones of Rayne's mother. Envy looked around the rest of the living room and still saw no signs of Rayne's mom. That was interesting, and Envy wondered if anyone else noticed. Either way he was going to find out what happened.

The room was beginning to get a bit chilly. It was almost winter and around this time the fireplaces would be lit. Rayne came in to tell them that dinner was almost ready, and she noticed that the living room was a bit too cold. She went in the kitchen and got a pair of black gloves. She put them on and then aimed towards the fireplace. SNAP! The fireplace roared to life and surprised everyone. They all looked towards Rayne who was tugging off the gloves. Ed noticed that there was a silver transmution circle on the back of them. It was the same design that was on Roy's gloves. Figures that Roy Mustang's daughter would be a flame alchemist as well.

The gang was staring at the flames. They were not the normal red like regular fire, they were pitch black. It looked more like a fire's shadow than an actual fire. Havoc decided to see if it would burn like a normal fire. ( idiot ) He took a new cigarett and put it in the fire. It came out lit and he started to smoke it. Riza took the cigarett and tossed it out the window.

"You're going to kill yourself one day Havoc" she said with a glare. He shrunk into the couch and began to whimper in protest as tears streamed down his face.

Rayne came in practically bouncing with happiness. Her actions made everyone wonder if she was really related to Mustang. "Dinner's ready so come and get it" she yelled in excitment. For a few moments no body made a move. This quickly put Rayne in a very fowl mood. So she took matters into her own hands. "I said GO TO THE TABLE AND GET DINNER! NOW!!!" she screamed with absolute authority and a death glare at all of them. Everyone quickly ran to the table in order to escape Rayne's wrath. All except Envy who just lazily walked over, after all what did he have to worry about? He couldn't exactly die now could he?

Dinner was sausage gumbo with garlic bread. There was ceasar salad as a side. Soon idle banter was shooting across the table. Envy realized this would be the best time to ask the question that had been on his mind the whole day.

"So...where is Rayne's mom?"

Everything seemed to stop. Everyone stopped eating and all the chatting paused. Roy sighed he knew this would happen. It just couldn't be helped. So Roy slowly put down his utensils and began to speak.

FLAHBACK

Roy was tired. He had just received the news that his wife was in labor. He had to run around and find his superior and ask for the rest of the day off. Then he had to run to the hospital. Once he got there he was forced to wait in the waiting room. He had been waiting for about two hours since he got there. The nurses refused to tell him anything about his wife. In fact they just flirted with him. This was not something he needed. For the last nine months he had been on edge.

His beautiful xinganese wife, MeyLinn, was pregnant. When he found out Roy was elated and terrified. He had no experience with children whatsoever. His best friend Maes Hughes would probably be a better father than he ever could be. Roy also had to deal with all the odd cravings his wife had. Then there were all the mood swings that she would have. Now here he was waiting for his wife to give birth to his child.

To his surprise his friend Maes burst in through the doors panting. He collapsed on the chair next to Roy exhausted.

"N-next time your wife decides to go into labor tell me BEFORE you run off!" Roy smiled at his friends attempt to make him less nervouse. It didn't work but it was a good effort. Maes brought out his camera and began to fiddle with it.

"Maes did you have to bring that thing with you?"

"Of course I did! How else am I supposed to capture this absolutly wonderfull moment?!!" He went on and on about how Roy was lucky that he had such a beautiful wife and soon child. Then he began to make lists of all the possible names that they could name the baby. "If it's a boy it could be Raymond, or Sam, or Edward and if it's a girl we could name her May, Sasha, Tamy,..." The man went on and on making Roy wonder exactly who's child was being born. His or Maes?

The doctor made his way over to Roy with a sad expression on his face. He really didn't want to have to do this, it was the one part of his job that he hated. He looked over the file in his hands. He stopped to check on the nurses, answer families'questions anything to stall for time. He didn't want to be the one to tell such awful news to the military officer that was only a few yards away.(This is before he was a state alchemist)

"Mr. Mustang?" The doctor said and watched the man jump off the chair in surprise.

"Yes doctor is MeyLinn alright? What about the baby?" So that was the woman's name MeyLinn.

"The baby is alright. She's in the nursery right now if you want to go see her," the doctor took a breath and said "but I'm afraid that your wife, MeyLinn, didn't make it."

Roy was shocked. His wife was dead? He could hear Maes inhale sharply and he felt his eyes begin to sting.

"How did it happen? Doctor please tell us she was like a sister to me!" Maes was desperate to know how the woman he had come to love as a sister was gone forever.

The doctor nodded in acknowledgement and beckoned them to follow him. He was leading them towards the nursery so that Roy could see his daugther and fill out the paperwork that needed to be done. He began to explaing to them how the unthinkable happened.

"You see while your wife was giving birth she lost a large amount of blood. More than one would normaly lose during birth. In the end she just lost too much blood and she died. She did live long enough to see the baby, and she even named her." They stopped in front of a large door labeled NURSERY. Inside there were cribs lined up wall to wall and nurses were patroling them. The doctor went over to a pink crib and lifted a restless little baby. He brought her over to Roy and put her in his hands. Roy not being able to take it anymore slowly let the tears fall down his face.

Maes lifted up the camera and took the picture of the new father. On her tiny chest there was a paper pinned to it that said 'Rayne Mustang; so that you remember that rain isn't always bad and so you never forget me.'

END FLASHBACK

The table was silent. Rayne was in shock. She knew that her mother had died giving birth to her, but she never knew that she named her. Riza was uncomfortable to say the least. She always felt bad when Roy talked about his wife. It made her feel like she was stealing another woman's husband. The rest of the table was just quiet.An ackward silence filled the air and the tension grew ten fold. Roy slowly began eating again and suddenly the tension was broken and the silence was lifted. Everyone began to tell stories of old times. Riza once again felt welcomed in the Mustang home and Rayne just smiled watching it all happen.

After dinner everyone seemed too full to get up. Unfortunatly they all had to go to work the next day so Riza, Havoc, Falman, Fuery, Breda, Edward, Alphonse, and Envy marched out of the house. The all exchanged goodbyes and went their seperate ways. The adults went towards their aparments since they all had desk jobs. Ed, Al, and Envy, who have to go out on the field most of the time, went towards the military issued dorms.

Once again Envy felt a prickling sensation at the back of his neck. This time though it was a lot stronger. He looked around for the source of the feeling and saw an unsual sight. On top of the building in front of the Mustang home was the silhouette of a person. The person was crouched down and they were watching all of them. He felt a slight tugging on his arm and looked down. He saw Ed motion towards the dorms with his head and knew that he had to go. He looked back, but the figure was already gone. He sighed and followed the shrimp and his giant armor brother to the dorms. Who was that watching them? And why did he have the feeling that he was going to be seeing a lot more of them?

Shadow: Well that's chappy two! Hurray!

Roy: you killed my wife...

Shadow: Oh get over it you got hooked up with Riza! Besides Rayne isn't complaining...

Rayne: since my mom was xing does that make me 1/2 xing or 2/3 xing?

Shadow: X that's for me to know and for you to find out!

Envy: Who was that person/shadow thingy?!

Shadow: nonya oh and if anyone can guess where I got the title of the story from I'll give them a mega cookie!

please review it makes Havoc feel loved! That and you get a muffin!