AN: HAPPY NEW YEAR PEEPS! :D
Disclaimer: I don't own FMA… sad for me lol
Title: Broken
Pairing: Roy x Fem!Ed, AlxWinry
Summary: Two years after the Promise Day, Roy is the Brigadier General and Al is living with Winry and their kids in Risembol. Ed was missing after that, no one has seen her despite having looked everywhere. An envelope shows up one day and changes everything.
Info: Ed is a girl in this story name Eden; she cannot use alchemy anymore and only has an automail leg.
Chapter 4: Exchange
The next morning, the team found themselves awake rather early in the morning to go out and find the field that was mentioned in the letter they had received. Roy had the picture and letter tucked into the inside pocket of his coat. He wanted to get there early to make sure that they would be there before the baker made his way to the field. However, some things never go as planned. When they reached the field as the sun began to rise above the horizon, they found that the baker was standing in the middle of the field with Eden sitting in the grass next to him.
"I'm so glad that you could join us, General," the man yelled as the team moved forward and stopped a few yards in front of him and the girl. "I have brought the young girl with me and I will give her back with just that one condition in the letter. Are you able to comply?"
"What have you done to her?" Mustang yelled, his eyes moving from the man to Eden then back again.
Laughing, the man shook his head. "That's not an answer to my question but perhaps we should start with the simple things. My name is Illun Syst." He bowed toward the group. "I'm glad that you came out to see me. I wanted to make sure that my experiment was going to work and with so many girls failing to rise to the occasion I was worried that I would never find the right now."
"What are you talking about?" Havoc yelled this time, moving a bit forward.
"Oh you'll find out soon enough, Jean Havoc," Illun sneered. "I have been working for a long time trying out a simple way to make my experiment work but it seems that it would only work one way. Too bad for me, I'm not normally a patient man but I can wait. Please, come collect your young lady." The man gestured to Eden who was staring at the grass beneath her.
Roy slowly made his way toward the pair, careful to keep his eyes on the man standing over Eden. When he knelt down by Eden, he reached out and touched her shoulder only to feel her wince and move away slightly. He glared up at the man standing before removing his jacket and laying it on Eden's shoulders to try to cove her up some. Picking her up bridal style, she was very weak and had no energy to fight back; he stood and took a few steps back from the man. Rage was rising in him and he wanted to burn the man but he remembered the threat against Al and Winry and thought better of it, for now anyway.
"I'll be back, Brigadier General Roy Mustang," Illun stated as he began backing away from them. "You'll be safe for a while but I will be watching to make sure that my little experiment ends in completion."
Roy and the team watched as the man disappeared into the forest before turning their attention onto Eden.
"Sir, we need to get her to the hospital," Hawkeye said, resting her hand onto Roy's shoulder.
Eden slowly opened her eyes, confused. She wasn't woken up by the sound of a metal door opening or the feel or a man's rough touch. Above her, she saw a plain white ceiling and when she turned her head she saw a few different machines that were beeping. A white curtain circled the bed that she was on and a tube was running from her left arm. When she tried to push herself up, she found that her arms were too weak to do so and fell back onto the bed.
Outside the curtain, she heard voices, voices that she recognized but believed that it was only a dream. It could be only a dream; she never believed that she would ever leave that small room where she had kept. Squeezing her eyes shut, she listened as the voices neared and the sound of a door opening penetrated the room.
"Please, sir, take a seat and I will check on her," a young woman's voice sounded just before the curtain was pulled back. She was greeted by a look from the golden eyes. "Oh, goodness, I am so glad that you are awake, miss." She smiled. "How do you feel?"
Ed opened her mouth to speak but when she spotted Roy sitting in quietly in the seat behind the nurse, she stopped. She couldn't believe that he was there. He was a dream and nothing more. She turned her head away from them and stared away from them.
Sighing, the nurse turned toward Roy and nodded. "She will be weak at first and may not respond too well since she was in such a horrible state for a long time."
"Thank you, Anya," Roy said, pushing himself up to stand. "I'll see if I can get anything from her."
The nurse left and closed the door behind her.
"Eden," his voice was soft. "It's been a long time."
Nothing.
"Please, Eden," he pressed. "Tell me what happened. You've been asleep for nearly a week."
Turning her head, she looked toward the dark haired man, the man that had haunted her dreams for so long at the beginning. Staring at him, she felt safe but she shook her head. She didn't want to talk about it. The way the man had touched her, the way he ripped her leg from her body and chained her against the wall. She could still feel the touches of the man on her arms, her legs and other areas she didn't want to mention. Tears escaped from her eyes as she shook her head. The memories flooded her mind as she laid there. She was completely safe her and away from the man's touch and yet she was still fearful.
'Eden, you have such a lovely body. It's so perfect without this automail leg, perhaps you'll be the perfect host for this experiment,' Illun laughed. 'First, however, I will break you. I will show you that you are alone in the world and that no one cares for you. Your precious brother and colonel won't save you. You're dead.'
"No…" She whispered, bringing one hand up to cover her eyes. The memories were too much for her.
"Eden," Roy whispered, pulling the chair up to the bed and sitting down. He reached for her hand but felt her pull away when he got near her. "You're safe here with me. I won't let anything else bad happened to you."
Ed peeked through her fingers at the dark haired man next to her. She opened her mouth to say something but a pain in her stomach surprised her. Reaching down she grabbed her stomach and whined.
There was a loud beeping noise and then Roy was standing again, this time away from the bed. The nurse had entered the room with the doctor in tow.
"Miss Elric, please try to relax," she heard the doctor say as her eyes closed. "You need to relax, miss, you're going to hurt the baby."
"Baby?" Ed repeated what the doctor stated before falling into an unconscious state.
AN: There ya go. Another chapter down and Eden's safe for now. Please let me know what you think. :D
