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Chapter 4: Shedding Some Light

Edward ran up the door and knocked quickly. He glanced his shoulder and sighed as he spotted Gage bouncing around in the back seat of the car. He had to practically tie Gage to the seat to get him to calm down. "You just met the boy two days ago for God's sake." He muttered as he waited for Derrik's mother to open the door.

"Yet, Winry lets some possible creep-o kid hang out with our son and take him out on play dates? What is she th-" He cut himself off os a pretty blonde opened the door. "Hello." She smiled. "You must be Gage's father.." She trailed off. "Edward." He said, glancing at her curiously as she stiffened.

I knew I knew Winry… Riza stared at Edward in horror. Suddenly it all came back to her. The day she had gone with Roy to find the sons of Hohenhiem in Resembol… The little blonde girl, Winry, had told her how she hated the Military. Oh no… Riza blinked, trying to regain her composure even though it was too late. Edward was already staring at her in confusion.

"I didn't get your name. Miss…?" "R-Riza.." She choked. How cruel the world was. Off all the ways for someone to find her, it had to be through her son's play date! Edward chuckled in disbelief and rested his hand on the doorframe. "Riza, eh?" He smiled bitterly. "Let me guess, Riza Hawkeye?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. Riza bit her lip and looked at him in dismay. "Yeah… That's me." She whispered.

Edward sighed and suddenly kicked the doorframe. "Dammit!" He shouted. "Excuse me?" Riza looked at him reproachfully. "You have no idea what the last four years has been like!" Edward growled, narrowing his eyes at her angrily. "For you?!" Riza asked bitterly.

"Yes for me!" Edward sighed. "The colonel has been in a hole and has refused to come out. You know how impossible it is to work with someone like that?" Riza rolled her eyes. "It's been terrible for you I'm sure. You know, trying to hind from an entire military for four years hasn't exactly been a cake walk either!" Riza looked over her shoulder as Derrik jumped down the stairs eagerly.

Ed glared at her darkly and she returned it until Derrik got to her side and she leaned down to smile at him. Luckily, it had just started to rain outside. "You know Derrik, it's raining out now. I don't think the fair will be open." Derrik groaned. "Really?" He asked sadly, looking outside to see if she was lying.

While she spoke to her son, Riza was still painfully aware of Edward staring down at her. "So why don't you just go back upstairs? I'll sort out another day with Gage's dad and you can get together with him soon." Riza said, nearly pushing Derrik away from the scene. Although he was reluctant, he turned and walked upstairs sadly.

Riza could barley contain the urge to pull out her gun and threaten him with it somehow, though she knew that would only work on Roy. Roy… She narrowed her eyes. "You're not going to tell Roy." She said through clenched teeth. "And who said that?" Edward asked bitterly. "I did." Riza clenched her fists. "Do you really think it'll help anything if you tell him? Make him think that I simply abandoned him? Do you want to hurt him more?!" She asked. Edward didn't look convinced. "But that's what you did. What, did you get tired of the military? Sick of seeing him everyday? He gets on my nerves too, but I don't frame my own murder then run off for four years and have a kid!" Edward spat accusingly.

"That's not how it happened!" Riza shouted, her eyes blazing with fury. "You really think I got tired of him? That I just up and left? Then got pregnant!?" She got in his face and grabbed the collar of his jacket roughly. "Yeah, that's how I see it." Ed stated plainly. After a moment, his eyes widened. "Derrik is…." He swallowed. "Derrik is Mustang's… Isn't he." It wasn't a question, and Riza knew she didn't need to respond. She let go of his shirt and pushed him away.

"Hawkeye…." Edward watched her turn away and look up the staircase. Riza sighed. "Roy isn't going to find out about this, right?" Edward bit his lip before shrugging. "Not from me." He promised. Riza turned to look at him solemnly. "Thank you." She muttered, walking over to the couch to plop down. She closed her eyes and rested her head on the back cushion as Edward walked over. "Hawkeye, I'm sorry. I didn't kn-" She lifted her hand and waved him away.

"It's alright, Edward. No one was supposed to know. That was the point…" She looked at him briefly. "It Roy that bad off?" She asked hesitantly. Ed shrugged. "He's bad enough. You know, he's been slacking off and obviously not getting enough sleep. Other then that? He's a bit more bitter. Not that he wasn't bitter in the first place though." Ed snorted. Riza shot him a glare.

"Please, don't insult the father of my child when I'm sitting right here in an obviously unstable mental state." Riza said. Edward rolled his eyes. "Yeah, okay. Sorry about that." After a long silent moment, Edward got to his feet. "Well, I guess I'll see you at some point. Riza…" He shuddered. The lieutenant he had once feared was now a simple house-bound mom that he had to refer to as Riza? It was diffidently strange.

Riza glared at him and he jumped. "You haven't changed at all." He muttered as he walked to the door slowly. He thought he heard the click of the safety on her gun and bolted out the door. Riza chuckled as locked the door behind him. As she stared around the empty living room, she sighed.

Could she really trust he wouldn't tell Roy…? She prayed she could.

Baboom. That was it. Intense? Eh, not so much. Fail? Yeah. I'm really tired right now and it's 2:30 in the morning. I probably should have been asleep hours ago, but I don't have school all week due to a loss in the family. So… Yeah.

This chapter didn't go at all how I was intending it to go so… Blah. Do you guys like it? If not, I'm probably gonna end up going through and re-writing it.

Next chapter has some fairly entertain stuff that goes on ;D And no, Ed doesn't tell Roy about Riza. But since every chapter, someone manages to ask a question I was planning on answering in the next chapter, lets see what I get asked this time.