Ed's eyebrows drew together. That voice won't shut up...it won't let me sleep... He turned his head slightly. Maybe it wants me to get up...but I don't want to listen to it. He tilted his head the other way, his eye-lids twitching somewhat. He was having a mental battle to if he should try to get up or not. If I get up I know I'm going to remember something really bad I just know it... He drew in and out his eyebrows, But if I don't the voice won't leave me alone...what if it's someone like Al...what if it's Al worried about me...I can't tell who it is...but if it's Al I have to get up...even though I don't want to. After the good five minutes of mental arguing, he used some of his energy to open his eyes. They slowly opened, even though the picture he saw was blurred. After a good minute or two of focusing he finally got a somewhat clear picture. He blinked a few times, his eyes observed the room. He was in the hospital. Then it hit him, he had remembered what had happened. He shivered a little, then looked to his side, to see none other then Roy. Why is he here? Is he here to yell at me? Or is it because he's worried? Ed was tired even though he just got up, he found his voice and said a soft,"Hey."

Roy jumped in his seat. He stared straight at Edward, not expecting him to wake up so suddenly.

"Edward..." He said softly, almost affectionately. "Erm.. I mean Full Metal." He puffed out his chest, making sure he seemed less distraught.

"Good that you're up. How are you feeling?" That was a stupid question. Roy was sure Ed felt like crap. He looked like crap, but his golden eyes still gave off that shine that made his heart jump a little.

Ed thought about it for a minute before answering Roy's question. He wanted a smart-ass reply,"Like I was stabbed with a spear," He said weakly, smiling to himself a little, "Why are you here?" He added, he was too tired to sit-up or fight with Roy at this point, so he figured he might as well sit...well lay through whatever he had to say. Ed cringed a little in pain, Huh...so this is what it feels like to get stabbed with the spears I make. I'll make a note to make them less pointy...and life threatening.

Roy leaned forward again. " I'm here because..." He wanted to say something like he was there because Al had to talk to Riza and he was only there to watch over him. That wasn't what came out of his mouth though. This time he let it slide. He knew that Riza would be mad at him if he didn't say anything within the time he visited Ed.

"I'm here, because you're here, Edward." He said with a soft tone. "Do you know how sick I was to my stomach to see you bleeding to death back there I was worried. I am worried." His gaze shifted, a light pink shade evident on his cheeks.

Ed stared at him for a long, long time. It took him a minute to take in what he had said. Once he took it in he looked at Roy, staring into his dark eyes,"You...were worried?" He asked, a little surprised, but didn't have the energy to show any huge reaction. Does that mean he cares? I mean like, really cares? But...he always hangs out with all those women...I thought for sure...what if he's just lying? No...Roy wouldn't lie right now, he wouldn't lie about something really serious like this...I hope... He decided he had to explain to Roy something,"I'm sorry. I went after him under selfish reasons..." He said weakly.

Roy inwardly slapped himself. Edward showed no reaction to what he said, maybe a slight widening of the eyes, but nothing more.

"Damn straight you were selfish!" He blurted out. After all, he was the superior, and he had to punish Edward somehow.

"Next time I tell you to have backup, I mean it. I don't want you to get killed." Roy reached forward and grabbed one of Ed's pale hands, wires poking from his skin. "You hear me?" He said, staring deep into Ed's golden eyes.

Ed gave him an annoyed yet spacey gaze,"If I could get up right now, I'd leave," He said softly, he cringed in pain for a moment then replied, "I did it because ever since the stupid man began wandering Central you stopped smiling...I wanted to see that stupid damn smirk of yours okay?" He said wanting to raise his voice a little but failing. He looked away blushing,"That's all I wanted. But I miscalculated. No one is perfect."

Roy was taken back. "You like my smirk?" He cocked an eyebrow. "You are an odd kid." Roy stood up from the chair, let out a small laugh, and shook his head.

"Well I have to punish you some way for being stupid and going out on your own." Thoughts ran through his head. "I'll be back." He said, quickly leaving the room to think things over with Riza and Alphonse.

Ed frowned and muttered to himself,"Isn't being stuck in this hospital enough?" He muttered weakly. After Roy had left he decided that he was still tired. Too tired to do much. So he decided that just a short rest wouldn't be too bad, it's not like the hospital wanted him up anyways.

|.|"I see..." Hawkeye looked up at the window that belonged to Ed's room. "Did anyone tell you what actually happened last night?" she asked, trying to by time for Roy to finally blab his feelings.

Al thought about it for a moment. He really didn't know what had happened. No one really told him what was going on. And he couldn't have asked Ed because he was still unconscious when he left his room."Actually no I don't know what happened to Brother...Do you?" He said hoping she did.

So Armstrong or whoever had called hadn't done what they were supposed to.

"He was attacked by the serial killer," Riza said. She decided it was for the best if she left out the other details... She didn't want Alphonse worrying more than he was already. "When the colonel and I arrived, they were still fighting."

Al was completely and utterly dumbstruck. He had no idea that Ed had gotten attacked by a serial killer. And Lt. Hawkeye wasn't giving him very much detail. That much he picked up on."W...what happened exactly? I know you don't want to tell me but, I really want to know. So could you please tell me at least what you saw?"

Roy walked down the halls, looking for Hawkeye and Al. He needed their advice on what to punish Ed with because he wasn't so sure himself. His dark eyes traveled the hall until he finally saw the large suit of armor and his lieutenant. He over heard what they were talking about and gave Riza the eye. Almost as if he were telling her to keep the rapist/molester part out of her reply. He didn't want Al worrying, plus nothing really happened to Ed in that way for as far as Roy could tell.

"It's for the best that you don't know all the details, Alphonse," Riza admitted. "If Edward would like to tell you, he will." And she left it at that.

Al understood that he wasn't going to get anything else out of here so he just dropped it and didn't ask anymore about it. "Okay I understand." He said thinking over the little bit of information he did recieve. Wow Brother really did get himself into something big.

Roy walked up to the two, sighing greatly.

"Edward has woken up." He also gave a small glare towards Riza. Sure her pushing him to open up to Ed helped a bit, but not much.

"I have to talk to you both about how were going to punish him." Roy didn't like saying that Ed needed punishment. Hadn't he been through enough? "Nothing too serious. Just something."

"I'm sure the Furher would agree that Ed's been through enough as it is," Riza agreed. "Besides, being stuck in bed until he recovers will be punishment enough." Especially, she added mentally, if you told him the truth.

Roy sighed heavily. "I guess Ill have to have a talk with Bradley about all of this." Roy turned to Al. "Anything to add?" He asked the suit of armor. He had to get back to Ed sometime soon. He didn't want to keep the boy waiting. He hadn't exactly gushed everything he felt out to Ed. He only let a little out, and in response Ed let out a little too. Things were moving forward, but Roy shuddered a little. I feel like a pedophile.

Al shook his head,"Nothing in particular...just tell me any new information so that way I don't get confused." He said, and noticed Roy's inpatient face. He would have smiled to himself if he could.

Roy nodded at both Alphonse and Riza.

"I'm going back to the room if there is nothing else that needs to be discussed. Roy walked back to Ed's room at a quick pace. He feared that the boy would slip back into a coma-like state. When he got to the door, he waited a while, took a deep breath, and walked inside, hoping to see golden eyes staring right at him.

Unfortunately for Roy, Ed had decided he had been tired and went to sleep almost immediately after he had first left. What could he say? Not only did he like to sleep, he was really tired, judging by the bags under his eyes. Give me credit...I'm behaving...IN A HOSPITAL. He thought in his sleep.

Roy sighed heavily, once inside the room. Ed was fast asleep, his machines still beeping around him. Roy walked up to the side of Ed's bed and sat down in the chair he had pulled up close to the bed also.

"I'm going to make sure you never get hurt again." Roy said, almost possessively, but in a good way. He stroked some of Ed's hair to the side of his face, so it didn't cover his closed eyes.

"Sleep tight, and don't die on me." Roy said, standing up from the chair, walking over to the window, and closing the curtains. He left the room once more, seeing that he couldn't do much more.

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Ed stayed in that coma-like state for a week. The doctors had predicted he would stay like that for at least a month, but he was wrong. Ed had woken up and was complaining how no one was there to sign him out. Hawkeye or Mustang had to because they were the ones to admitted him there.

"I bet he's in his living room laughing about how I'm stuck here until he decides to sign me out himself!" He grumbled to himself annoyed, but truthfully he was kind of anxious to see him. He hadn't seen him in what felt like forever to him.

Ed's thoughts, meanwhile, were far from correct. Roy was actually at his desk, scribbling signatures furiously as he always did when he left things to the last minute. Riza understood, though, as she set a cup of coffee down on his desk. The colonel had been worrying about Edward, and she took that as a legitimate excuse to let the paperwork slide."I got a call from the hospital," she said, knowing full well that would get Roy's attention. When his head had shot up, she added, "Edward's woken up. It seems he's being a pain in all the doctors' asses."

Roy shook his head and laughed lightly.

"I guess that means he's well enough to be out of there. Shall we go?" Roy asked Riza, while standing up from his desk and grabbing his coat that was over his chair.

"I never got a chance to talk to Bradley. It looks like Ed goes without punishment." The colonel paced pass Riza. He was in an unnaturally good mood.

Riza drove Roy to the hospital.

"I'll wait by the car, sir," she said, knowing he'd want some alone time with Edward. He always did.

Ed crossed his arms,"For crying out loud! Can't you give me something better then this food from a box! FOR THE LAST TIME I'M NOT WALKING IN A GIANT CIRCLE!" He said talking to numerous nurses and what not. One had served him something that looked like it came from a TV tray box. Then another asked him to take a walk around the floor. He was getting annoyed beyond relief,"Leave me alone! Unless your going to tell me I can go home then don't come back!" He shouted being unreasonable like usual.

Roy nodded towards Riza and shut the car door behind him.

"I won't be long." Roy walked through the front doors of the hospital and saw a bunch of disgruntled nurses walking with different kinds of disgusting food on the trays they were carrying. He walked up to the front desk, asked the nurse sitting there for the check out papers for Ed, and filled everything out. The nurse sighed happily. Apparently Ed was one of the worst patients they had. "Thank you." Roy said to the nurse, and went off to Ed's room. He opened the door to the room, and walked inside.

Ed was yelling at another nurse in the room when Roy walked in, as soon as he saw him he stood on top of the bed and pointed an accusing finger,"COLONEL BASTARD! What took you so long! They've been feeding me dog food! DOG FOOD! They're trying to make me walk in circles all day! Freaking CIRCLES! What took you so long! I've been up for hours! HOURS!" He complained, he wouldn't be Ed if he didn't whine to Mustang.

Mustang twitched.

"It's called rehabilitation Full Metal! And I haven't been around to check you out of here because I have been filing a report on this whole fiasco." Roy sneered, stomping fully into the room, giving the nurse a glare so she would leave, and waiting until she was fully out of the room.

"Quit complaining, you're lucky to be alive." Roy held the bag he had been carrying out to Ed. "Here are some clothes. That paper thing doesn't suit you." Roy blushed, he had just now noticed how much the paper shirt/dress thing was revealing.

Ed looked at him with an annoyed face,"I look better in them then you!" He added then replied, "I would have been perfectly fine! I always am!" He said taking the bag. He took off the ugly shirt and replaced it with much better, there was a new scar that had formed on his chest. It was dark in the middle and lighter as it extended, "What's with that look? You know your kinda staring at me changing..." He said giving him a sheepish grin.

"Oh, sorry." Roy said, turning away immediately. "I will wait outside." He said, totally embarrassed that Ed had caught him looking. He started to walk towards the door.

Ed wore the grin of a child, and when he exited the hospital fully clothed with all of his things he began to circle Mustang as they walked down the hall,"Roy is a pervert! He can't get enough of me! Pervert! Pervert! Pervert!" He sang happily, enjoying the moment ever so much.

Riza shook her head as they approached the car. Nothing had changed.

"Perhaps you ought to stop that, if you don't want the Colonel to be arrested, and maybe kicked out of the military..." Pedophilia was a serious crime, and if Roy was suspected before Edward was eighteen... well, she hoped she didn't have to remind them both of it. Ed was jail bait. They had to face that fact.

Roy twitched, ready to snap his fingers and ignite everything around him.

"I am not a pedophile!" He yelled at the two, huffing in anger. He stood by the car and leaned on it. "Nothing will be said about anything." He then opened the door for Ed and then got into the car himself.

"Let's go Hawkeye." Roy ordered, closing the door of the automobile and checking in the rearview mirror to see Ed's face."I'm not some pervert..." He mumbled to himself. But no matter how many times he told himself that, he had to face the facts. He was in it for sure. Roy Mustang was a pedophilic pervert. "Just great..." He sighed.

Ed got into the car, wearing his content smirk. He was extremely pleased with what he had said/did. Not to mention already in a better mood because he was finally released. He wore a bigger smile when he looked at Mustang and whispered,"Aw Roy is just mad because I guessed right..." He then dropped the conversation and stared out the window blankly, his hair was down, because they had taken away his hair tie because he tried to fling it at a nurse.

Roy grumbled, staring straight ahead on the roadway. The car ride was silent until they made it to Ed's home. Roy got out of the car, helped Edward out also, and then spoke to Riza.

"I'm going to walk home after I'm done here, go on back without me." He then closed both of the doors and made sure Ed didn't fall over from his wounds on his way to the front door.

"You're a cruel kid, you know that." Roy said to Ed, not looking down at him, because he was embarrassed with himself.

Ed smiled,"But I wouldn't be me if I wasn't, now would I? But you know," His face had a slight blush on it and he looked in the other direction, "I never got to thank you. Although I hate to admit it, you did save my life." He stepped up onto the front door step, it made his height just about equal with Mustang's height,"So thank you..." He got really close to Roy's face, and in an act of bravery placed his lips against Roy's.

Roy kissed back, but pulled away suddenly.

"Eh-uhm... I have to get back to work." He said, turning away immediately and walking off. He had already told Riza to go off without him and that he was heading home. Oh how he wished he hadn't said that at all. Now things were even more complicated. But this was not the end, only the beginning of their very odd relationship.

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