Im so sorry!!!! My computer got taken away and I would update in school if it werent for the fact that fanfiction is blocked on the school survers. Plus it would have to be an extremely short chapter cuz id have to do it on my lunch break, which would be only 20 min and i dont exactly write these things ot before hand so I have to come up with all this stuff on the fly. Thank you, xxforest-dragonxx, shawpaw12, 009, spr, valeri-bottalli, and Earthian-Angel for reviewing on my story. Its good to know that some people like it. XDDD it made me very very happy. My family thought i was insane cuz i was jumping around all happy like....or maybe it was the half pack of rock candy i downed.. yummmm.. *sweatdrops* Everyone I decided imma part my hair to the other side from now on. They laughed at me T_T Well anyways, on to the next chapter after the normal disclaimers.
*Disclaimer* I do not own fma, or fmab. or any of the manga storylines or anything. I only own this storyline, and if it were up to me, the manga and anime would entitle Ed and Roy getting together. But thats a whole other story....
Ed woke up feeling extremely warm. "where am I and how did I get here?" He thought. He opened his eyes and stared up at a pure white ceiling. "Is this heaven? Then how the hell did I get here, I'm atheist..." Wait, it would have to be a pretty crappy heaven if it was one at that. There was a yellow stain on the ceiling. "Nice touch" he thought then snorted.
"How are you feeling?" A voice asked, and Roy leaned over into his field of vision. His little warm bubble popped as he remembered what he asked the older man to do for him. He held him bridal style, for christ's sake! And if that weren't bad enough, he held his hand as he fell asleep! What would he think of him now? "He probably thinks of me as nithing more than a kid." He thought miserably.
"I'm fine now. Thank you for all that you've done for me till now. Shouldn't you be in the office?" He said, falling into a mask. "I'll be damned if he finds out about my crush and teases me about it." He thought with determination.
Roy looked at him, bags under his eyes standing out on his exoticly pale face. "Did he stay here the whole tie I was in here.? Hang on how long WAS I in here for anyways? He thought, voicing the last part outloud.
The Colonel looked away. "You've been in here for a week. The last time you woke up was 3 days ago. I had better go get the doctor now," he said, getting up out of his seat he was leaning in. He walked towards the door and Ed heard the door open then close.
Edward sighed. It was getting harder and harder to hide his feelings if Roy was being so considerate. "he had better stop it soon or I might start to take it as something else and get my hopes up" He thought miserably.
Propping himself up on his elbow, he looked around. The room was a pretty big room, considering it was a hospital room. "Probably has something to do with being a major." He thought vaguely. He looked on the table beside his bed and almost slipped on his one elbow. It was Covered in candy and get well soon cards and... food recipes?
"Those are all gifts from friends and people you helped out along the years. There's way more in the bags next to the table" someone said from the doorway, answering the unasked question on his mind. Ed turned his head and looked at Hawkeye, standing there next to Mustang. "They look pretty cozy together" He thought sadly.
"Where's Winry? I thought she would be here by now?" Ed asked, noticing that Roys eyes kept flickering back to the splintered nub of automail still connected to his shoulder.
"She's in her hotel room, she had been here all night and on doctors orders she couldn't do the operation until you were awake because there then would be no certainty that you would awaken because of the fevers that accompany it." Riza stated, then she walked over to the side of his bed and put her hand over his flesh hand. He winced, and she drew away.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wince its just I, well hell, I don't really know myself...." He said at top speed, trailing off at the end.
"It's alright, I should have known better than to touch you. I just wanted to ask how you were and well hman touches seem to have been the best way to ask that. I'm sorry for not being considerate." She said, a trace of sadness in her voice.
So how come you haven't dragged the colonel away to work yet? It seems that with all the time away, he would be extremely behind on work." Edward asked, changing the subject quickly because he didn't know what the hell just happened, but it looked like Riza of all epople was about to cry.
Riza blinked. She then smiled warmly and said, "Well. I tried, but the damn man was adament. So I compromised in the first five days by bringing the work here. Then your attending physician yelled at him saying that the hospital was not his office. So he was forced to bring all the paperwork back to the office himself because I was giving a report and he couldn't get in touch with anytone at the office."
"Well I'll be damned, but I think Hawkeye planned all that..." Ed thought, mentally making a note to himself to never piss her off. Or anyone in his office for that matter because by the sounds of it, it seemed like they were all in on it.
Roy cleared his throat, then stepped forward. "Fullmetal, you have been dismissed from the line of duty until you see fit. If you don't want to go back into the military, then you don't have to, because you have been honorally discharged from it for...medical reasons." He looked away then, not wanting to meet Ed's eyes.
Ed paled. He didn't want to be reminded of what had happened. He looked away, his throat feeling very dry and his tongue feeling like sandpaper. He closed his eyes then opened them again. A small "meow' was sounding from one of the baskets set beside his table. He sat up, looking at the basket.
"It was a gift from Russel Tringham. He stopped by earlier today and said that he would visit with Fletcher later today." Roy said, disguising his jealously at the fact that the older Tringham boy looked at Ed like a potential lover. Then he chatsied himself. Ed can date whoever he may seem fit. Its not lik he had any say in it at all.
Ed looked at Roy, noting the different tone he had whan he said that. It seemed mildly sad ...
All previous thoughts were pushed to the back of his mind as the closed door slamed open, announcing the arrival of Winry. She wore her normal zip up belly shirt and cargo's. She waltzed to Ed's side, smile a bit too wide to be real. "They must have told her not to do anything like hitting em with a wrench, otherwise my forehead would be a blood fountain by now." He thought, thanking Roy and Riza with his eyes as he looked at them. They seemed to have gotten the message as they looked back and smiled.
"Ed, your automail is a mess!" She shrieked, making him wince at the dicibal used to say that. Ed looked at her apologetically. "I'm sorry, Winry, how long would it take to make a new arm and leg?" He asked, not wanting to stay in the hospital any longer than he had to.
Winry looked at him and grinned. "Who do you think your dealing with, Edward? I already have it finished!" She said proudly.
"Automail junkie" Ed muttered under his breath. Winry stopped halfway to getteing the automail out of her case and yelled "Alchemy FREAK!!!" Everone int he room laughed, happy that Ed was at least semi-normal.
She got the automail out of the case and turned to Riza and Roy, who both had small smiles still on their faces. "You two, hold him down for me please" She turned back to Ed, who currently had his one leg and one arm under locks by the two military friends he had. He gulped.
"Ready, Ed? Ok you two hold him tight and.." Holy fuck, it hurt. Even disconnecting the small part of metal that was still connected to his nerves was painful. But even more painful was when Winry quickly reconnected his metal prosthetic to his port. He strained against Roy and Riza holding him down.
She wiped a bit of sweat off of her forehead, then moved the blankets off his lower body, exposing his green boxers. She reminded them to hold him down, then proceeded to connect the leg to his port on his kneecap. She stood back and ran to the door.
Poking her head out the door, she yelled out "HEY, we need antibiotics, cold water, and some towels in here." Going back in, she turned to the two now white military officers.
"Does it always hurt him like that?" Roy asked, not liking how his voice quavered a bit. If the boy had to go through that much pain everytime he broke his automail, then he has a wayy higher level of respect for the now feverish blonde.
"Yea, and if its splintered like that, the nerves would have put him in excruciating pain even before I attached the arm and leg. But to this day, he hasn't screamed once, when even grown men cry out in pain from it. I know it wouldn't help, but screaming would probably make it feel a bit better..." She said, trailing off and staring hard at the blond alchemist now sleeping on the bed.
"Now wev'e gotta figure out who Ed is going to stay with while recuperating. The doctor said he might be slightly suicidal from the loss of his brother and his cause. He might even lose the will to live he said, and we can;t take that chance. Riza said, glancing at the blonde that now had 2 doctors swarming around him, trying to get the fever down.
Winry smiled and said "well, Granny and I can take him. The countryside might do him some good. The fresh air and open space"
"Would only give him more room to run away. He can stay with me. I can take a temporary leave of the military and have my work delivered to me. He wouldn't be able to run away if hes under my surveilance."
The two women looked at him. They knew that even though they fought all the time, Roy really cared about Ed.
"Well, I gues thats alright. But we have to get Ed's permission first." Winry said, disappointment clear on her face. She knew that if Ed came back to Resembol, he would have to confront the grave of Al and his mother's grave and the memories of the time they spent together. She didn't want to burden him with unessisary grief.
Hawkeye sighed. She knew about Roys more-than-a-crush on the younger alchemist, though she kept her mouth shut. She knew it would be for the best if Ed found some love, even if it was from her older, male superior.
Roy, triumph upon his face, went over to the bedside and took the kitty out of the basket. "Looks like your coming home with me now." He said to the kitty, and the kitty gave a litty meow of consent in return.
Riza and Winry looked at each other. "I guess he's a cat person" they both thought then smiled. Looks like life was going to get interesting for the two famous alchemists, Riza vaguely thought. She probably had no idea of the magnitude that statement in her mind would be true.
WHEW!!!!!!!! Another chappie done!!!YAY!!! my back is aching so badly for sitting in this chair typing for umm... lets see... 53 minutes!!! wow almost and hour... Well anyways im thinking about all the other possible yaoi pairings i could do cuz I fell that sometimes if you start on something else your ideas will flow easier. So how about it?
Should I do EdxRussel, a HarryxDraco, a IchigoxHichigo, a InuyashaxMiroku, a NarutoxSasuke, or some other pairing. You can give me any pairing and I promise you, I will know it. I am a otaku, and proud of it.