Chapter 2
Soon Sami's nightmare was over when her parents came home to see Sami and Elysia wrestling with Drew while Sami and Elysia were covered in finger paints.
"Full Fire! Water Crystal!" Roy shouted in a full militarian voice. The girls stopped dead in their tracks as Drew ran into the kitchen.
"I'll get him." Ed said calmly heading into the kitchen and Drew ran right for him.
"Mommy!" Drew said happily jumping into Ed's arms and Elysia laughed.
"'Mommy' Mr. Elric?" Elysia giggled as Edward blushed.
"Yeah Drew refused to call me Papa." Ed sighed and Sami laughed.
"Sorry momma." Sami teased
"Sami Rose." Edward warned.
"Calm down Edward." Mustang said laughing.
"Wait until he gets older Mr. Elric. When he gets to the age that he understands." Elysia added.
"Back to the original matter. Why are you two covered in finger paint? Paint time gone awry?"
"Drew" Sami and Elysia said sadly.
"Explain." Roy said still using the voice that snapped the kids out of their fight with Drew.
"Alright, we put Drew down for his nap about two hours ago and we fell asleep too. When we woke up about a half hour ago we had finger paint on our faces and in our hair." Sami explained. "We were trying to put him in time out for it when you guys came in."
"Ah. Drew why did you do that?" Roy asked his son with a smirk.
"Me made dem 'erty!" Drew shouted and sent Ed into a laughing fit.
"Papa come on! This isn't funny!" Sami cried.
"Sami, don't you have to go to work today too?" Elysia asked.
"Ah crap. Trade ya." Sami begged.
"Hell no!" Elysia laughed. "It's bad enough I gotta walk home!"
"You suck." Sami sighed.
"Well, we'll take Drew now Hon, but first…"Edward started as he pulled out a camera and quickly took their picture. "A little blackmail."
"Papa! /Mr. Elric!" Sami/Elysia shouted.
"Come on Mr. Elric. It's bad enough my father takes fifty pictures or more of me a day. Please don't do the same thing as him." Elysia begged.
"Don't worry Elysia. No one will see this except for Roy and me. I'm putting this in Drew's scrapbook. Sami got lucky that we were at war otherwise I'm sure she would've had one too. We only have a mini one because it's only of her high school years." Edward replied.
"Hey I'm a senior Dad. You got one more year left." Sami said as a matter of factly.
"Yeah but you don't live in the house anymore because you wanted more space and somewhere quiet you can study outside of school and away from Drew annoying you. Besides you are of age." Roy added.
"Whew!" The girls sighed.
"You know, I feel generous. I'll spare you from your father. Go upstairs and get washed up in the bathroom." Sami added.
"You're a lifesaver Sam." Elysia cried running upstairs while Sami took the finger paints and threw them out.
"How'd you get the finger paints anyway Drew?" Roy asked knowing he was to small to get to the counter where Sami always puts them.
"'Almutation 'ircle!" Drew clapped.
"Alchemy?" Edward asked shocked. "Damn he beat both Al and me."
"That's not the point! How the hell does he know Alchemy?" Roy asked.
"We read often if there are pictures he'll try and copy them." Sami tried. "I also do some basic experiments using transmutation circles when he's supposed to be asleep dad."
"Alright then." Roy said and they left after giving Sami a hug and then a kiss on her forehead and she flopped back onto the couch and Elysia came down ten minutes later."
"Stuff comes right out. Just go put your head under the sink and it washes out easily." Elysia said.
"Sweet. Luckily I didn't have my uniform on yet. If Drew got paint on it while I was sleeping Riza would've killed me." Sami said heading to the kitchen where the sink was bigger and put her head underneath the running water and watched as the colors washed out of her hair as if the water itself was tie-dyed. "So Elysia, the big days coming closer. Have you and Haru decided on a honeymoon spot?"
"No, we might not have a honeymoon. We're too busy with work."
"That's stupid. You're getting married. I know I've never met your superior officer but he can't be that cold hearted."
"Oh trust me Sami he can be." Elysia said. "He almost had me court marshaled since I was four minutes late since Dad had to ask me a question."
"Ah-ha." Sami said. "I guess I'll take it back then." Sami laughed as she turned off the sink and used alchemy to quickly dry her hair and used a washcloth to wash the paint off her face."
"We're getting tow new students on Monday. I think they have a few classes with us." Elysia said.
"Seriously?" Sami asked, "Are they siblings?"
"No one knows. I don't think so though." Elysia added. "All the school does know is that one of them is a girl and the other is a guy."
"Huh. Maybe we should be friends with them." Sami thought. "I guess we'll find out on Monday." Sami said aloud. "Alright Elysia I got to go and get my uniform on and then head out."
"Alright then." Elysia said and she left Sami's house and she headed home while Sami went to get her uniform on."
From the house Sami headed straight to Headquarters and arrived two minutes early and Hawkeye had her help out the paperwork down in the investigations department and under her Uncle Al's section.
"Hey Sami, can you put this book back on the shelf?" Haru asked who was also asked to help Alphonse out.
"Sure." Sami said taking the book and put it on the shelf as Alphonse let out a huge sigh.
"Haru can ask you something?"
"Yeah sure Sami." Haru said following Sami into the hallway and they closed the door behind them. "What's up?"
"Did Uncle Al say anything weird?" Sami asked.
"No but he's acting weird. He hasn't said a single word all day. Not even a hello." Haru said.
"Hmm." Sami groaned placing a fist on her chin to think. "Maybe I should call Papa. Who knows he might know what's eating Uncle Al. if not he'll know how to make Uncle Al talk." Sami added heading to the phone booth and called Edward.
"Hello?" Edward answered after a few rings of the phone.
"Papa, do you know if Uncle Al's okay?" Sami asked.
"Huh? What are you talking about Sami?"
"Uncle Al won't talk at all. Not even a hello so Haru says. He only lets out long sighs." Sami explained. "He also looks depressed. Besides you're the only who can make Al talk if he's like this. Trust me I tried while I was growing up and you were fighting in the war."
"Alright. I'll come down. Just keep an eye on him. Are you in the investigation department?"
"Yeah in the document library." Sami added.
"Alright I'll be there soon." Edward replied.
"Thanks papa!" Sami said and she hung up and headed back to the office and waited for Edward to come down.