Warnings
S-ai RoyEd
Past Royai
Cursing
AU
Slight spoilers (WRATH! (Glomp))
Disclaimer: I do not own FMA, which is good, because then I would have probably made Al the cutest thing on this planet, and we do NOT want a cute looking piece of armor staring at us all the time.

Mistake's Growth

Chapter Six
Peircing Needles.

"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."
-Charles William Stubbs

Laughter carried around the small halls of the school. It was a day off, and yet two teens were around, spraying things all over the school, toilet paper wrapped around the door as they walked out of the halls. They were both excited and happy, knowing that they were going to get away with the prank when they were both greeted by a very sour looking face.

"You boy's are such jerks!" The girl huffed, stomping her feet angrily and one of the boy's just grinned at her while the other took her hand.

"Calm down, you know we had to get that out, otherwise we would just do it to our new home town." The blonde girl frowned slightly but then she nodded in an understanding movement, "Okay?"

"Okay fine, but Roy Mustang, if you dare to hang that much toilet paper again, I'm going to have to kill you for wasting it." Roy laughed, looking back at his friend, who was also laughing at the prospect. The three walked together, slowly though, taking their time to survey the town. "Do you think it'll be okay?"

"Hm?"

"Would your parents accept me?" Roy gave a grin,

"I'm sure they will! Even if they don't, I'm sure Master will help me out."

"Crazy Kai? Oh, I'm sure he would help." Roy didn't even bat an eye as Riza rolled her eye skeptically at the other teen. Roy just held her a second and Riza calmed down,

"Don't worry, it'll all work out."

Hm, how strange, was the first thought from Riza Hawkeye's ears. Riza sat up from her couch (Winry and her had come to an understanding that they would switch every night) and stared blankly in the little corner that Black Hayate slept. Riza hadn't owned many dogs in her life, her father had hated dogs. In fact she had only two pups before Black Hayate, and unfortunately they both passed away because of the Ishbal War. Black Hayate seemed to sense that she was awake, and slight distressed so in a sad, yet excited motion, he walked up to his owner, letting himself be pet on his head.

"Riza?" Came a hesitant whisper and Riza looked up from her petting and saw Winry, her hair completely glowing in the small moonlight that came from the window, her blue eyes seemed hesitant and she held a pillow in front of her, showing her insecurity. Riza simply nodded, as the girl clung to the pillow and drifted on the couch that Riza had made room for her. It was a few moments of silence before Winry asked with a lot of hesitance, "Do you have any family?" Riza sighed and shook her head slightly,

"I had an uncle but he died of old age when I was sixteen. My father died during the Ishbal war." Winry nodded, still cuddling up to the pillow with a frown to herself. "What are you worried about?" Knowing that it could take a girl to admit there was something bothering them unless someone asked. Winry hesitated slightly but took a breath and stared up to Riza with sincere eyes,

"I want to know if I'll actually be a good aunt. I mean...I'm not a good friend, I'm always just left back at home, worrying about Ed and Al, and now that there's a baby...I'm just worried if I can be a good aunt if I can't even be a good friend." Winry sniffed, as though she wanted to burst into tears and Riza felt very sympathetic towards the girl. Riza didn't know how she was going to answer that, but she managed,

"Nobody knows what the future can bring, it all depends on how you would handle the situation." Riza paused for good effect then she gave the girl a smile, "And don't say you are a bad friend, Edward and Alphonse appreciate the fact that you're there to be able to worry about them, the fact that they have somewhere to go to if they need to, makes you a very great friend. Even now, you're here, and that's a good sign." Winry stared at Riza, trying to sense if the woman was just coding her or telling the truth, but to Winry it was impossible to truly be able to tell. Winry gave a grin still and Riza smiled back, both of them feeling better from what the previous moments had brought.

"Why were you awake?" Winry asked slightly abruptly, looking very curious. Riza blinked at the question and just gave a slight 'hmmm'.

"Was I awake?" Riza gave an inconspicuous wink at the blonde and Winry just shook her head laughing slightly,

"I didn't think you'd be that kind of person."

"Ah," Riza gave a slight sigh, shaking her head only momentarily, "A bad habit that rubbed off from spending all those years with those two boys." Riza sighed and shook her head again, as though something was bothering her, "Both of them were so troublesome." Winry was aside herself from little giggles and she hugged her pillow, as she continued her giggles, of which in Riza soon joined her in.

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Edward squirmed in the bed, a frown was still upon his face as he rustled around in the sheets. His blonde hair was a mess and his eyes were wide-awake as he found that he couldn't fall asleep. Edward scoffed to himself and stood up from the bed, giving a deep frown to the darkness. Edward knew why he couldn't sleep either, but he was afraid of the reason.

"There is something wrong with me." Edward whispered in the air, trying to go over the evil facts once again. All day he had either been sleeping, studying the Xingan language and trying to conduct all kinds of different alchemy (he actually burned one of Roy's shirt by accident because of the experiment, but luckily Roy didn't seem to notice) all to avoid the thing he was thinking right now.

Why in the world would there be something wrong with him? Okay, yeah, he was going to have a bonafide baby in six to five months, but Edward was not afraid of that until the time would come. No, there was something else that was burning his mind and something demanded him to find the answer to the question. But of course Edward had to try and find the question first. Edward stood up, grumbling to himself wanting to stretch out a little. Edward frowned again, more then frustrated thinking of the possible people he could go to for a good revaluation? Hawkeye and Izumi would probably know what was wrong with him. Edward then nodded to himself, he would go to the two in the morning and talk to the two, after all, and they were experts on emotions (even if they didn't show them often).

Why not ask Roy? Edward's thoughts echoed for a moment and he shook his head quickly. No way, something did not want Edward to ask Roy about the strange emotions churning in his head and stomach. Especially since the man caused these kind of strange physical actions. It would be a stupid idea to ask the man...even if he was also male and would probably know more about what was going on. Edward then jumped slightly, what if this was actually the baby's fault? Yes! That made sense! Right? No? Maybe? Edward growled loudly and fumbled around with his hair, making it far more messier,

"GAH!" Edward yelled and was surprised he didn't wake alert anybody to come into the room. "This is beginning to piss me off!" Edward shouted to himself, jumping back into the bed and trying to fall asleep, struggling to comprehend what could have possibly been wrong with him.

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Morning came and Alphonse watched as his brother stomped out way before Roy Mustang decided to go to work. Alphonse hummed, staying inside the house and not following his brother because he was curious to talk to the female first lieutenant about her past experiences because he was genuinely curious. Roy seemed a little worried when Edward had disappeared from his sight, but did nothing to show the worry except a strange tone that Alphonse had only heard two days before because Edward had stabbed himself by accident. Alphonse hummed to himself as Roy asked why he wasn't with his older brother, and the boy didn't give the colonel the pleasure of an answer and just simply followed him when Roy decided he'd go to work later, deciding that finding Edward was more important.

Alphonse was a little gitty inside, watching the colonel look around carefully and he would even stop and ask people if they saw his 'wife', a short girl with an automail arm showing. People would look confused or point him in a direction and the colonel would go with that, strangely they ended up right in front of the Central Library.

"I guess niisan has gotten bored with deciphering Xingan books." Alphonse took a guess, laughing to himself and Roy chuckled as well as Alphonse saw much relief on the man's face. Only the colonel was allowed in as it seemed so Alphonse stood outside, thinking a little more about the situation. All the meanwhile inside Roy searched around the rows of rebuilt ashes of library books, looking for even a glimpse of metal or blonde hair.

"Edward!" Roy shouted in his whispered tone, giving a strict glare around the entire library, yet still failing to find him. It was probably Roy's fault, he had rarely gone to this library when it was rebuilt and Edward must have gone at least a million times and over, so the boy would obviously know about the layout, as well as little hiding spots so no one could bother him. Edward had heard the dark-haired man but simply refused to come out from a little hidden spot underneath the staircase. It wasn't hard reading there except at night because the window right by could not reflect and give him light, but it was morning so Edward didn't have to worry about that. Edward went back to his book studying, more specifically a book that Scieszka had recommended him for his 'troubling youth'. Feh, Scieszka did not at all look that much older then him, so why was she commenting about it? However this book was a lot of help, Edward thought to himself, it had all of his symptoms. Even if it was written in a boring psychiatrist way, Edward could live with that to find his answers.

"Ed? You can come out now, he's gone." Edward looked up to a leaning Scieszka and Edward just nodded dully, moving out of the cramped space and gave the girl a bright grin. He was glad he went to library first instead of asking advice because before it seems that asking advice could get him in some trouble.

"Hey thanks for the recommendation Scieszka," Edward told the brown mousy woman, "This is got all my symptoms down to the last," he took a moment to read a line from the book, "butterflies in stomach." Scieszka gave a hesitant smile back, knowing that Edward hadn't read what all of these were the cause of. Scieszka could only think about who the lucky girl (or boy, Scieszka was a naughty reader sometimes) was. All she knew was that she did not want to be around when Edward had finally read the end of the passage because she knew that anybody coming into realization of first falling in love...well it was never pretty. Scieszka gave a smile and a nod, before running off, which earned confused looks from the older Elric but the boy just shrugged and continued his reading. Moments later, a scream erupted all around Central, a scream so loud and agonized, it made Scieszka glad for being smart enough not to stick around. After the loud erupting scream, Edward put the book down and stared palely around his surroundings. People were staring at him as though he was crazy or hurt and Edward could only agree with them.

He was crazy. No. He HAD to be crazy, that was the only rational explanation. These books...they were lying to him! Edward had never had time to question his sexual preference, actually he thought of himself being beyond the mediocre physical attraction between human beings. He was also proud to admit he never used his hand for anything except to write, handle miscellaneous objects around the world, and alchemy. So Edward never really thought much of the prospect called love, especially when the person he was falling love was with...

"Hagane no." Him. Edward turned to try to glare at the dark-haired man but it failed as though the sudden epiphany of the butterflies and what they were about suddenly made them reproduce to large numbers. Edward choked. Edward cursed himself inside of his head as the raven-haired of a man gave a slight relieved look but seemed to try and stay firm. Edward blushed and watched as Roy's hands came around his own. Edward immediately slapped it away, hissing as though Roy's hands were made of lava, but oh, oh they weren't. Why, why? Calm down stupid butterflies! Edward tried, oh how he tried, he stood up but then he struggled his own pants and fell on the man of high status and they ended up both tripping. As a classic maneuver, Roy let himself be tripped so he could be a cushy human beanbag for the falling alchemist. As they lay there in silence, Roy gave a slight sigh. "Hagane no, you have to get up first."

"I KNOW THAT ASSHOLE!" Edward screeched at him, making library attendants turn to them. Edward breathed, becoming angry and he stood up from that strange comfortable feeling. This is wrong, this was so wrong. Edward bit his lip (something he rarely ever did) and ran. He ran from the colonel, and let the man chase him.

"Niisan?"

"We're going home Al!" Edward shouted back, expecting his brother to follow. Because if he didn't. Edward didn't know what he would do, and Roy was still chasing him. Why was that man so persistent? Why did Edward want him to continue chasing him. Edward wanted to feel like this was the baby's fault, but all the while it was really all the new hormones he was receiving. These were feelings that were always there, that was dead in his mind and were only brought to life with the energy of estrogen and the fact a baby was going to be coming. Edward felt like crying again, he had felt like crying a lot lately and only because some stuff in his mind would come all jumbled up and make him cry. This uncomfortable feeling made him want to cry, when he had reached Roy's abode, he shut it fiercely, putting all of his strength into holding the door against the worried older male. "GO AWAY!"

"Hagane no! What the hell is wrong with you?"

"GO AWAY! GO TO WORK DAMMIT! GO AWAY!" Edward shouted, his voice completely broken as he knew he started to cry. Sobs escaped his lips and his heart pounded as though it was broken, as though it had already taken rejection. Edward tried to heave his tears away but they kept coming at a rapid pace and the man on the other side of the door was trying even harder to open the door. Concern written on his face as he thought of the worse as Edward shouted out again, "GO AWAY!"

"Niisan." Alphonse's armor echoed and broke the jumble of words crossing Edward's mind. Edward looked up and opened the door slowly, seeing no colonel, just his concerned younger brother. "Niisan." Alphonse's tone made Edward flinch slightly, the tone of a worried one who was just glad to get rid of the worry. Edward found himself bawling in front of his brother, found himself hugging the cold metal even if they both really couldn't feel the warmth of skin. Alphonse just knew his brother had actually wanted something he hadn't in a long time, a hug. Alphonse wrapped his metal arms around his older brother and Edward sobbed, staining the front.

"What am I going to do Al? I can't! I can't! I don't want to! I'm not supposed to be..." Edward stopped as though he thought he was talking but it was all in his mind. Alphonse heaved a sigh in the back of his mind, well Edward had tried to be scientific about it, but that failed extremely it seemed. Alphonse guided his brother to the couch after shutting the door and found Edward closed to himself.

"Niisan...there's nothing wrong with falling in love." Alphonse tried to coax him, comfort the panicky boy to try and realize the truth. Edward looked up to him with one of the most miserable faces that Alphonse was sure if he had his body, he would be bawling with his brother.

"But I can't...I can't...not with him." Edward looked so terrified of the idea, but Alphonse did nothing except stare, listening intently to his brother's words. "I can't. We're forever supposed to curse at each other, make fun of each other...I can't do that if I'm in love with the bastard! I can't be!" Edward cried again, holding his head this time and Alphonse took that as a sign of a splitting headache. Alphonse knew the feeling because of times when he would over think things and he would have a harmful headache, of course he could not down aspirin like he had just given his brother, but he lived with it. Edward calmed down a little after drinking water with the two little pills. However this time he was lost in thought.

"Niisan, it's okay." Edward gave a loud sigh,

"No...it really isn't. I mean..." Edward hesitated to try and give his answer to this response, as though as he didn't know how to say it correctly, "I just know that...I won't be loved back." Edward stiffened as those words came from his mouth, what had happened to the past self that would just deny everything like that? What had happened so that this would change so much? Edward groaned, holding the temple of his head and stared over at Alphonse, "Now it's going to be harder living with the man. And I don't want to be in love!" Edward also wanted to scream, what right do I have to fall in love, but he knew that would just be a foolish thing to say. Alphonse remained silent for a few minutes as Edward started to recover and re-gather himself up.

"Niisan, do you want me to leave you alone for awhile?" Edward blinked as Alphonse spoke, looking confused at the full plate of armor,

"Why would I want that?"

"To brood on it, so you can shout out to the walls without me answering questions. I know you wouldn't like the answers niisan." Alphonse let his voice echo, making Edward give another confused look. However Edward took his and then nodded slowly and Alphonse found himself bidding a 'see ya later niisan' to his older brother. Alphonse needed to know what happened now and he needed to help his brother. Alphonse hated to see his brother like that, and how much more badly would it be when the baby was born? Thoughts of whose child that was would probably forever cross Edward's head, even if he got over Roy's butterflies, this was still Edward's first time falling in love. Edward would never truly forget and he would be afraid of getting into a relationship with another human being. Alphonse groaned to himself, rushing through the crowds with many 'excuse me' and he reached Central. However when he immediately got into the office, Alphonse knew something was off, everyone was there, and they were standing straight, as though waiting to be commanded.

"Ah, Alphonse Elric, how good to see you." Alphonse wanted to blink, but he stared over at the fuhrer, who was giving him his usual closed-eyed smile.

"It's good to see you too sir." Alphonse replied politely, but made no clear movement in his armor (as he started to pretend as though his body really was in it).

"Now Alphonse, I want you to meet my secretary, she's going to be the one taking over Edward's check-ups from now on." Alphonse looked over at her and gave a polite bow,

"It's nice to meet you." The secretary also bowed slightly, "I'm Alphonse Elric."

"I am Juliet Douglas, it is nice to meet you to Mr. Elric." The brunette bowed and Alphonse had the odd thought of her looking familiar cross his mind once, but it left as soon as it came.

"Will that be all sir?" Riza Hawkeye dared to question, spotting that Roy Mustang was in no mood to deal with the man whose status he was after. The man simply nodded and left the room with his secretary, after a moment of waiting for the fuhrer's stomping footsteps to go further away, everyone calmed down and went back to their own work. Alphonse immediately sat in front of Riza, who was rereading through a permission slip that Roy was supposed to have signed.

"Riza..." Alphonse tried not to hint the urgency he knew creeped out from his voice and the woman looked up with a slight frown.

"What's wrong?" Alphonse looked one way then another, knowing that this secret had to be kept between him and the woman, so he tried his hardest to whisper,

"My brother just found out what was wrong with him." Riza threw a great sigh, a sigh that Alphonse never thought he would hear coming from the woman. Riza then leaned against her hand, a frown on her face again as her eyes wandered to the closed office door of Roy Mustang.

"And I take it that the colonel doesn't know." Riza replied quite dully, looking at the door and only remembering the man stomped in not out of anger but worry in the morning. Alphonse nodded his helmet and tried to convey his stressed mind out to the woman.

"What can I do?" Alphonse asked, his other intention flying out of the window of his mind as he wanted to calm down his brother first rather then finding out more of the past. Riza folded her hands quietly and turned her chair away to think as Alphonse sat down, waiting for an answer from the blonde woman.

"Your teacher's supposed to be in town, right?" Riza's question hung in the air and Alphonse took a moment to convey a blink,

"Yes..." Alphonse hesitantly answered, not quite sure of where this could be going.

"Have Ed talk to her, if that doesn't work out then I'll talk to him myself." Riza said with a tone of finality, going back to her work. Alphonse racked his mind over that decision for a moment and felt that it was a bad idea. Put one hysterical woman teacher with one hysterical lovesick boy, it sure proved that it would not be a good combination. So in retrospect, Alphonse was glad that he had asked this question.

"Are you sure that's wise?" Riza nodded and banished Alphonse out of the office with a shooing hand, which Alphonse took said offer and walked out to the city to find his teacher. Riza gave a loud sigh and turned in her seat, unsettled as she looked over to the closed office door. She had actually been inwardly hoping that Edward would never find out about this attraction to his older superior, but that hope was very little. Riza gave another sigh, there was only two things here, and Riza inwardly decided, it was time to bring in the heavy guns.

"Second lieutenant." Havoc seemed to jump from his spot, looking over at Riza, very paranoid as should any normal man be. "Get me Hughes as soon as possible, he and I need to discuss some important issues that involves our ambitious colonel." Havoc seemed to blink at this, flickering his toothpick in his tongue and just nodded simply. Havoc left the room and Riza folded her arms, this was going to take some work.

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"Humph, what is that hag up to?" Envy grunted, punching at the wall in the alley and alerting the few poor men and children that were in the alleyways. Envy gave an easy and short glare at all of them and they immediately ran away from his rampage. Envy was pissed, and he was rightly pissed. "That damn runt," Envy hissed, stopping momentarily as he saw broad daylight and morphed into one of the hobos he had just saw earlier. Envy traveled the streets, just giving a glare to anyone who shot a disgusted stare to Envy's new costume.

"Oh but honey, I don't think the baby's going to be a boy." Envy glared over at a couple, both very plain looking while the woman was obviously pregnant with a wide stomach that made Envy cringe in disgust.

"What makes you think that?" The man replied cheerfully, laughter drifting from his voice and Envy felt very much as though he should rip out the man's vocal cords.

"Well you're the only boy in your whole family." The woman cheerfully replied, both of them drifting away from the shop they were right in front of, the windows broadcasting cribs in many different colors. Envy stared blankly at the still window and found himself growing angry, so angry that he wasn't surprised when he managed to punch the window hard enough to break the glass.

"You there sir!" Apparently the proprietor was alerted about this atrocity and was about to start to put a stop to it, but Envy gave him a glare of death as his hand slowly started to heal on itself. The man stiffened and knew he could be in for his life and ran off, probably to call some military guards. Envy growled and wandered off to try and prevent a confrontation, knowing very well he would end up in front of his 'brother' and a stern lecture about not wandering from the 'clan'. Envy was just pissed, especially the news he had heard earlier. The little Fullmetal brat was in love? Why was it that, that boy got everything that Envy had ever desired in his previous human life? A caring mom, talent, brains, family, and now the ability to fall in love? Envy felt himself growl again, morphing into a young child who obviously was looking for her mother when officers passed by.

"This is really starting to piss me off!" Envy shouted out to himself but caught strange looks from the crowds of Central, but he continued, not caring to act like a weak little girl he was 'dressed' up as. Envy continued to feel anger go up and down through his body, what Envy really wanted to do was just destroy the shrimp, but really, Envy had more refined abilities to do something like that. Envy then gave a loud sigh, moving back into an alley and frowning as perverts stared at his 'body'. Envy then transformed back into his homunculus self and proceeded to let out a little frustration on the bastards who dared stare at him.

How dare he? How DARE HE! HOW DARE HE!

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"What did I do to deserve this?" Edward asked the wall, a groan piercing through his tone. After a few hours of crying and moaning and blaming himself, Edward decided to dry up and try to rationally think this whole thing out. Of course that eventually came back into a whole circle of him blaming himself, after all, Edward Elric was indeed, still a teenager. However, Edward received an answer, and Edward knew by now that indeed, he had officially came to the terms of being a teenager. Manic depressive voices, go Edward.

"You're right, what have you done to deserve all of this?" Edward sighed at the voice, rubbing his automail arm uncomfortably as it started to sting. "Oh don't pretend it hurts you baby. Think how much it hurts your little brother." Edward winced slightly at the tone of voice and stopped rubbing immediately, looking away from the wall as though it really had a face.

"Why am I talking to myself?" Edward finally said to himself out loud, looking confused for a few moments as a random burst of energy came to his mind to snap out of this stupid depression or something would happen. Edward combed his hair back slightly with his human hand and gave a disgruntled glare to the wall, standing up to get something from the refrigerator. When Edward had got out an apple, he nearly jumped as a figment of his imagination appeared right in front of him. Oh this was just peachy, Edward thought, staring at the figment. Himself...in hot pants...oh this brought such lovely images. Edward shuddered slightly then couldn't help but raise his eyebrow as he noticed little horns and dark wings coming from the figment. "Let me guess," Edward dryly said, glaring at...the demon Ed, "An angel's supposed to come soon."

"You my friend, are beyond redemption." Edward gave a glare to the voice, wandering why his imagination had suddenly decided to make strange things for him to talk to 'in person'.

"Shut up." Edward hissed, taking a bite from his apple and pretending that he was not crazy, that this was all an illusion created because his body could not take the mass of new hormones he was receiving. The demon just seemed to watch as Edward paced around the kitchen, Edward really didn't know what to do. Edward wanted to know what it was like to be bored again, just so he wouldn't feel so busy doing absolutely nothing.

"You know, you're going to get faaaaat." The demon seemed to taunt, laughing as Edward bit harsher into the apple's core from the demonic side. Edward wondered how he could imagine such images of his face and that body without actually ever really seeing it in reality. Hell, even this demon conscious was taller then him! That irritated the Elric more then being confronted about his seeming point of no redemption.

"I said shut up." Edward threw the apple at the apparition, as though expecting it would do something, but the apple passed through and made the image waiver a bit, but did nothing as the demon looked as the apple landed on the ground after leaving a juicy residue on the kitchen wall.

"Such lousy aim."

"I SAID SHUT UP!" Edward yelled, stomping back into the kitchen to think of more about this whole situation. This was ridiculous, his mind was definitely in a huge jumble and why was it his heart was getting a say in his conductive attempt to rationalize the whole thought of love?

"You really are a bitch, what the hell are you saying to him?" Yup. Crazy, definitely crazy. Edward looked up and saw himself...still in hot pants but with an accomplice that was completely clothed to conserve the image, but the hair was down like a girl's and there were even little wings popping out from the back.

"Uuuugh." Edward complained, holding his head and looking back down at the floor to try and convince himself that he wasn't as crazy as it may had looked. Actually maybe there was something in that aspirin that Alphonse had gave him earlier and it was just now hitting him. Edward stood up as he heard his two mind manipulators bitching each other out and Edward managed to find the bottle and read the labels carefully. "Ah."

"Edward, Edward, whatever this little dipshit says, don't believe him."

"DIPSHIT? WHO ARE YOU CALLING DIPSHIT, YOU CLOTHED HUSSY?"

"Oh you did NOT just call me a hussy!"

"Says here that one of the side effects could be hallucinations. I guess that makes sense." Edward turned around and watched the very odd sight of a near naked demon version of himself and a completely clothed girl looking version of himself, wrestling around the entire area, passing through walls and calling each other names. "So I guess I'm not crazy."

"No, but you certainly are in love." The angel one seemed to speak, shrieking slightly as the demon one pulled harshly on his hair.

"Why don't you just shut up?" Edward asked, glaring at the hallucinations as they both stood up after realizing their real goal for being present. To torture the boy whose body they took as a disguise.

"I will not. You need to confront this thing without losing yourself."

"And we all know how well that's going." Two glares directed to the demon and said demon was not intimidated at all, just accepting that he was not at all liked.

"Look, I could care less about this 'love'" The angel seemed to roll his eyes at this part of the sentence, "thing at all. I can figure it out later. Even if I don't like it, I am a prodigy."

"Oh sure, all prodigies had such great love lives too." The demon actually had a point, the angel felt like going back to God and telling him that the devil actually had a point.

"Look, it really doesn't matter, because you know what? I don't like him at all. He's a know-it-all bastard, and I don't like those kind of people at all."

"Yeah, but you do like his looks." The demon seemed to point out, snickering slightly as Edward twitched at the demon's observation. That wasn't true, was it? Edward would admit that Roy was attractive for a male (that point was proven with the mass of females all to his beck and call), but Edward wasn't attracted to him that way, was he?

"And the truth is, you like his know-it-all attitude."

"I do not!" Edward shrieked back at the angel, then groaned feeling a little tumble in his stomach. Getting up and being followed by the two, Edward went back to the fridge and this time took out meat, which soon followed going to the cupboard for bread and Edward made a sandwich, watching the two of them reverting back into an argumentative state. It seemed that whenever Edward would tend to his baby's needs, they would leave him alone. Edward wondered if it was because if he kept his mind busy with something else, these two would eventually disappear. Edward yawned and moved to take a shower, but then an annoying voice interrupted his cloth gathering.

"You're even taking a shower for him. You know he doesn't like you not taking a shower every day." Edward shrugged the voice off however, giving a slight glare to the wall again,

"It's habit."

"You are a terrible liar Edward." This time the angel spoke and Edward added a deep frown to his glare.

"Would you both shut the hell up?" Edward questioned and paused as he heard the door open and watched as his little brother thump into the living room. Edward stared blankly as his brother stared back.

"Niisan? Are you okay?" Edward shot a glare to the apparitions, but they had somehow disappeared from his sight. Edward was surprised momentarily but accepted easily and looked back at his younger brother,

"I'm fine Al. Thanks." Edward then got his clothes and marched towards the bathroom, however before closing the door completely he looked back at his younger brother, "Al."

"Yes, niisan?"

"Could you go get a different aspirin, I don't think the brand you gave me did the trick."

"Okay." Alphonse replied back, while using his best ability to look confused as Edward started to take his shower. How strange.

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After having taken care of his brother's needs for a new brand of aspirin (though it was hard to find because the medicine had just been recently released) he started to look for his teacher. Of course this was a lot harder then it seemed because Alphonse knew that there were at least ten hotels scattered across the town and it would be rather troublesome to try and find where his teacher could have been staying at. So Alphonse started off to the closest one and mildly wondered to himself if it really was wise to have his teacher talk to Edward. Honestly, Izumi was strange when she wanted to be, and for all Alphonse knew, she could reject this kind of thing (though Alphonse really knew his teacher was not like that at all, only hated two things and forever hate those two things). So Alphonse went around town, asking for the stay of Izumi Curtis and found her at the last one all the way out and close to the train station.

"Why would you want to see that she-demon?" The man over the counter asked, his eyes wide in wonder and fright. Alphonse nearly laughed but he did nothing except ask politely for her room number. The owner gave it and prayed for God to have mercy on his soul when he came back beaten up. Alphonse laughed to himself and marched towards the number, knocking on the door.

"Who is it?" Izumi's voice was barely heard from the other side of the door, but Alphonse heard it well enough and answered back. The door opened immediately and Izumi was giving Alphonse a grin, "Alphonse, what are you doing here?"

"Um...well..." Alphonse hesitated, as would any normal kid when he wanted to start to talk about the subject. Alphonse then somehow knew he was moving uncomfortably and Izumi offered him to come inside. It seemed that Sig was out, getting materials, or so Izumi said. "Teacher...I came because I need you to talk to Ed..."

"What's wrong?" Izumi immediately questioned, looking very concerned and worried. Alphonse gave a sigh and told the truth,

"He's finally found out that...that he has an attraction to a certain person. And it might be love." Alphonse watched carefully the reaction to this and Izumi simply nodded, a look of understanding coming across her face. Alphonse was a little surprised but extremely relieved from this motion.

"So? Why did you come out all the way here?"

"Someone suggested that Ed should talk to you about this." Izumi gave a 'hmm' and moved her hands around in a contemplative nature. Izumi then nodded again,

"I suppose I could do that. I'm not quite sure what to say," Alphonse was even more shocked to hear his teacher say that, as the woman was always stable and sure of many things, "but I will try my best." Alphonse waited a moment then hesitantly whispered,

"Do you know who he's in love with?" Izumi blinked then gave a sly smile.

"Of course I do! I am your teacher, I know everything about your boy's tastes, and that includes people wise." Alphonse froze up a little and gave a long moment to stare.

"You know..."

"Yes, anyone and their blind eyes could see that Ed...has a place in his heart for that man. That man they call the Flame Alchemist." Alphonse stood still and heard only one thought echoing in his hollow head. This can't be good.

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Lyra felt like pouting, she knew the previous day Edward hadn't been at the HQ was because he had a fever, but today it seemed like he wasn't here for no reason. Lyra knew he was on maternity leave and all, but he never seemed like the type to actually take a break, even with a baby growing in his stomach. Lyra walked around the HQ, looking thoroughly bored and depressed.

"Why hello Miss!" Lyra jumped and looked over to see a handsome enough looking blonde with a toothpick that seemed to be stuck to his mouth. Lyra blinked and thought about it, this guy looked familiar...

"Hi." Lyra replied back though, even if the tone was rather dully as she could see that this man was going to hit on her. Even if she wasn't used to it, she did not take too kindly to it. Unless of course the man hitting on her was Roy Mustang...or Edward Elric (older version anyway, Lyra sometimes had a strange imagination).

"You look new around here," Havoc seemed to note, but a smile was on his face as he did, "My name's Jean Havoc, what about you?" Havoc tried very hard to pull off his hardest 'bastard colonel' impersonation, which did not make Lyra impressed at all.

"Lyra...Lyra...Dante." Eh, might as well, she didn't want to give her real last name out to anyone. Lyra folded her arms then (in her new uniform, luckily it fit just so comfortably that Lyra could see why the women of the military did not want to wear the mini-skirts) and frowned at the man.

"Lyra, that's a beautiful name." Lyra sensed truth in his voice but was not taken by it. So she just simply nodded and looked away, trying to give the little inner signs to the man to 'bugger off'. "Hey, uh, where are you going? I'll escort you." Havoc honestly asked and Lyra found it a little fond as she thought how long it had been since she had last been hit on.

"I'm going out," She actually truthfully told the other man, a smile on her face as she replied back to the blonde. Havoc took that as a clearing to go on and ask the next question.

"Well may I escort you?" Havoc asked again and gave the girl a grin back. Lyra thought about it then shrugged, a blush beginning at her cheeks as she turned away and walked away.

"Yeah, sure, why not?" Havoc became the happiest man for that little moment.

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Roy walked into his household carefully, staring around the area with a careful attitude, ready for just about anything. Roy then walked carefully into the living room and was a little surprised to see a sleeping Elric on the couch. All flopped around, not looking appropriate, especially as his shirt was overly baggy and slipping from his shoulder. Roy didn't know what had happened to the boy in the morning but he was very curious to say the least, but also didn't feel like prying into the boy's business. Roy sighed and pulled the shirt back up so that it wouldn't reveal anymore of the boy's shoulder. Edward moved a little and Roy felt himself pause as Edward's lips jutted out, his whole body rose a little and Roy found Edward's lips on his own for one long moment of time. Then it all went crashing down, Edward fell back unto the couch after such a restless motion and turned completely away as though he knew Roy was there.

"What the?" Roy asked himself out loud, but it didn't disturb the sleeping boy thankfully. Roy stood up immediately and practically tripped making his way to his bathroom. When he reached the sink he started washing his mouth, rubbing his lips coarsely and his eye twitching because of the previous experience. His lips...his lips...they shouldn't have been on him. They especially should have not been so...so soft...Roy rubbed his mouth harsher, wondering if he should wash his mouth out with soup when a knock came to the bathroom door. "What?" Roy questioned, his bottom feeling most sore.

"I need to go." Edward's voice whined on the other side of the door and knowing that leaving a pregnant someone outside of a bathroom door could bring serious repercussions, Roy opened the door and stood still for only a moment. Edward was sleepy looking, nothing completely new but his shirt was practically falling off his flesh shoulder and his hair was all bunched up to fall around his neck. Roy immediately sidestepped and walked out of the bathroom, letting the boy do his business. Roy growled for a moment, moving to the kitchen deciding that making a dinner would get rid of the soft taste on his lips. Moments later, as Roy started to try and prepare a fried food choice, Edward came to the kitchen and stared dully at the man.

"Where's Al?" Roy decided to ask, deciding that it would be a lot better if there was someone to supervise the two.

"I dunno, I sent him on an errand but he hasn't returned yet." Edward looked away, rubbing the back of his head nervously as he seemed to agree with Roy's thought process of needing supervision. Roy gave a slight grunt and Edward watched dully as he started to try and pour seasoning on the frying meat. Edward knew he wasn't a good cook, but his nose was telling him that Roy Mustang had made a mistake. "Gah!" Edward groaned, retreating back into the living room as the smell nearly killed him in the stomach. Roy blinked at the sudden out burst and peeked into the living room with a confused stare,

"What's wrong?"

"That stuff smells like shit." Roy took offense to that greatly and frowned. He knew he wasn't the best cook (especially compared to Alphonse's strange ability) but he knew this meal by heart and he always though he did it well enough.

"Does it now?" Roy stiffly replied, giving the boy a mean glare and Edward did not fail to respond back in double.

"Yeah it does, I'm not eating that!" Roy felt very much as though he should pour the meat on Edward's head but then realized that it was not Edward speaking. It was the baby, the baby did not want to eat what Roy was cooking so the baby started to effect Edward's tastes. Roy then smiled slightly, which made Edward give him an odd look and he simply just dumped the meat in the garbage, humming to himself. It was a nice thought that a baby could control over the boy so easily, it would be nice to have a baby around...

"I'm sure we can leave a note, come on, we're going to Hughes's house." Roy commented, after changing into more comfortable wear and managing to discard the earlier matter entirely. Edward blinked widely then just nodded in agreement, though looking mildly confused and let Roy wrap a coat around him as they wrote a note where Alphonse could easily spot it and they both left to walk to the Hughes family house.

"What's with the sudden change of mind?" Edward asked as the sky started to grow darker in a beautiful sunset. Roy just shrugged slightly and gave a slight reply, looking down to the younger boy,

"Well I can't cook much else, and your appetite is changing so much. I thought that Gracia would have better luck picking out food you would like." Edward seemed shocked about this considerate decision and felt a sudden blush feel his face and glared away on a spot of the ground to try and calm the butterflies down. This was stupid and ridiculous, why was he thinking like this?

"Humph, you're probably right. Your cooking sucks." Edward commented roughly, looking away from the little twitch that the older man gave him. They continued walking down the streets, which lighted up brightly with streetlights, in a state of fumed anger. However the anger soon found a way to disappear completely and both males remained quiet for a long time. The only sound was the night prowlers and the thunks that came from the heavy footsteps from stepping on the concrete ground. Edward felt as though he needed to do something, so he stepped closer to the colonel's side, but did nothing else. Making it look like he was drifting innocently to the man, and Edward really tried hard to think on the reasons of why in the world he could be in love with such a buffoon. Roy had noticed Edward getting closer of course and found it disturbing that he wasn't minding, hell, he even took a step nearer to the boy and Roy grew uncomfortable because of the apparent gap between the two. Something was wrong, Roy didn't know what it was completely, he just knew there was something wrong. Luckily before any more uncomfortable moments, they had finally made their way to the household. Roy had graciously knocked on the door and Gracia had been the one to open it, though she looked slightly surprised.

"I probably should have called first." Roy admitted, shrugging slightly as Gracia shook her head with a slight smile.

"Oh no, that's okay. You two are always welcome."

"EDO!" Elysia yelled, jumping into the doorway and glomping on one of Edward's legs with a happy grin. "Can I feel the baby yet? You've been gone for so long! Mommy! Look! Edo's getting a tummy!" Elysia poked at the little bulge and Edward felt himself twitch slightly but accepted the child's actions, seeing as his own baby might someday very well do the same thing. Edward then paled, oh my gate, what was this baby going to do to his body?

"Heh," Gracia smiled and led her child off of Edward's legs and back into the household, inviting the other two in and they both blinked as they saw Riza and Hughes sitting down together on one of Hughes's couches, looking like they were discussing something important.

"Hello." Edward greeted, watching as Roy went stiff as though there seemed to be something up though Edward was clueless to what it could have possibly been.

"Edward, nice to see you."

"Why hello Ed! Have you come by to see my newest additions to Photo Album 16?" Hughes's voice chirped and Edward gave a disgusted stare, feeling very much he should shred the man into pieces. Apparently recognizing the look, Hughes stopped his chippy mood, just reverting to a simple smile, which drifted to the stiff raven-haired man and Hughes thought to himself that Roy had not completely managed to shrug off his words just yesterday.

"Edward and Roy have decided to join us for dinner." Gracia seemed to say, going back into the kitchen with a smile to her face. Roy stared suspiciously at his two oldest friends but sat across the two as Edward took his seat.

"Edward, I trust you are doing better." Riza commented, her chipped professional tone was complete in her voice but it also seemed she tried to convey some more form of emotion in her sentence. Edward gave a fake grin,

"Yeah, I'm a lot better." Even if the aspirin had given off some weird side effects, it had helped his headache and helped him calm down as soon as his mind's illusions disappeared. Edward though, would not recommend for anybody else on the planet, and hoped that the man who signed the form to release that medicine would soon suffer extreme pain. Unfortunately for Roy, he had been the one that had signed those issued forms (at the moment he was tired and the medicine said it worked 99.0012 times so he agreed easily). So Roy had sneezed for that moment and Hughes laughed,

"Someone's thinking badly about you Roy!" Hughes laughed cheerfully and Roy gave a sour glare to his friend.

"Hm, one can only wonder who." Riza seemed to note, looking over at Edward, who just grinned innocently while Roy rubbed his nose.

"So what's the visit for?"

"Edward doesn't like my cooking."

"Because it smells like shit, it can only taste like it too." Hughes gave a loud laugh while Riza gave a slight smirk while Roy rolled his eyes at the teen.

"So I decided that since Alphonse decided to disappear for the night, we might as well eat here."

"Only because he's a cheap bastard." Edward put in and Roy gave a slight glared huff but did not reply back to it asides from physically.

"My Ed, you seem to be quite a chatter box today."

"Only when I'm the subject." Roy grunted in displeasure and Edward paused to hear completely what that sentence implied. Nah, it implied nothing at all, it was just his imagination. Seeing as Edward did not at all reply back to his comment, Hughes was about to speak another word when someone knocked at the door. Hughes stood up and told his wife he would get it and opened it to see Alphonse.

"Ah, hello Al!" Hughes brightly greeted and the soul bound armor seemed to be slightly nervous as he looked past Hughes's shoulder, more then likely trying to find his brother. "Why don't you come in?" Hughes offered, turning so the boy could thunk inside the room. Alphonse seem to sigh with relief and Edward looked over the couch and grinned.

"Hey Al, did you get a new type of aspirin like I asked?" Alphonse seemed puzzled for a second then just simply nodded and Edward grinned brightly. Everyone gave a strange look to the teenager, while looking over at each other to see if any one could make sense of what may have happened to Edward to make his younger brother to get a new type of bottle of it.

"Yes niisan, I'm sorry it took me so long."

"S'kay, as long as you got a new kind." Edward stood up from his spot and started to talk to his brother as Hughes joined to sitting back down in his previous seat, watching the boy's and seeing that Edward was considerably happier now that his younger brother was here. It was true when they said that most children felt better being around someone even remotely close to their own age then younger or older types.

"So Roy," Hughes started off casually but Roy gave him a glare to shut up and Riza also gave a stare for Hughes to choose his words carefully, "have you thought over any more of that proposal I talked to you about?" Roy gave a death glare and Riza wondered when this little encounter happened.

"There isn't anything to be thought about, I said all that needed to be said last time we talked." Roy easily avoided the entire subject, looking up as Gracia entered the room with a small smile.

"Dinner's ready, lucky for me I was cooking stew, I always seem to have extra broth left in the big pot when it's just us." Gracia continued smiling and even the tense Roy could feel himself less stiff at the happy housewife.

"Thanks Mrs. Hughes." Edward spoke loudly, biting into a loaf of breath then taking a sip of his soup, feeling extremely happy and better now that he had a meal in his stomach and his head was all fuzzy. Everyone stared at Edward as he continued eating,

"Is Ed's stomach a blackhole?"

"I've asked myself the same question many a time." Roy grunted back, dipping his bread into the soup to taste the bitter combination.

"Hmmm, Mommy, I never asked...but who's the daddy?" Elysia suddenly spoke and both Edward and Roy choked on their bread, both coughing harshly as Gracia sighed and was about to respond when she paused at the question.

"Now that you mention it..." Gracia seemed to try and give some effort to this question and Edward twitched.

"I'm the dad, obviously!" Roy twitched, he was not going to be called 'mommy' around when the baby was born (nevermind that he would be the one taking care of the baby most often, making him what one would called a hard working mom).

"Who's the one with the bun in the oven?"

"You shut up! This is all of your fault!"

"I wouldn't have donated my sperm if I knew this would ever happen!" Roy shouted across the table, banging his hands on the table angrily as Edward had risen to argue with the other man. However as he said this, Edward stared widely at Roy, feeling something hurting in his chest cavity. Edward took a large breath and pushed his bowl away,

"I'm done...thanks for the meal..." Edward then ran, yelling inside his mind at himself as he felt tears cross his face. Goddamn hormones! This is terrible, why did those words hurt so much? Why did he care so much? This really sucked so much, Edward hated this so much. He wasn't supposed to be this weak, he wasn't supposed to be this hurt. Edward rubbed his eyes as he watched rain pour all around him and made the light around him grew darker. Edward couldn't hear much, his ears were clouded with his jumbled teen thoughts, harmed so much in his heart.

"Hagane no!"

"SHUT UP! STAY AWAY FROM ME YOU...YOU!" Edward just yelled not knowing what to call the man as he realized he wasn't angry at the man, but he was angry at himself. This was all of his fault, all of it. Edward stopped, holding his head, shaking in rage and stress. His head felt like it was splitting in two with so much pain, his heart felt like it had exploded and his limbs felt so slow and sluggish. Edward heaved a loud cry and soon found himself covered by a bigger body.

"Edward, I'm sorry." Roy admitted and Edward felt his heart pang, more tears starting to well in his golden embered eyes. Edward took a huge gulp in his throat he didn't know he was holding as he felt Roy's arms around his body, holding him still, as though he was trying to coax and soothe him to peace.

"You're lying." Edward said spitefully, trying to deny the warming feeling he was starting to feel.

"I'm not, I'm sorry. I was out of line." Roy had actually felt something he hadn't felt in a long time, a real mean urge inside his heart known as guilt. Edward bunched his fists against Roy's chest and he coughed slightly as Edward started to beat his chest.

"Why...why..." Edward sniffed, letting himself be overcome by the older man's aura, "Why is it you? Why do I care so much?" Edward started to cry, not caring that he was in the man's arms who he denied any affection towards. The man who helped him down further the tracks of salvation and hope, and yet all the same time make him fall down the deep hole of hell. "Why is it you?" Edward cried, demanding an answer but he knew that Roy could not answer, he didn't have the entire story, so how could he? But Roy kept holding him, even when he was beating on his chest with both hands. Edward stiffened harshly and fell against Roy, finally giving up and realizing he couldn't do anything against it. He couldn't do anything against the warmth he was feeling despite the cold winds of the water falling down to the ground. He couldn't fight off the butterflies as they flew all around his body, making him want to fly. And most certainly, he couldn't fight the pangs in his heart, beating up and down, convincing him that he was indeed...indeed in love. "Why does it have to be you?"

"Who knows...but would you want it to be anyone else?" Roy asked, assuming that they were talking about the earlier conversation, the fact that Edward had got his sperm out of a million little tubes in the entire militia. Edward stared up to Roy and Roy found himself staring back, Edward's eyes soaked with water and his hair was even worse, dampening across his face. Time stood still just for them and Edward found himself replying very slowly,

"No. No I wouldn't."

End Chapter

It's official, I am a crappy writer and this wasn't supposed to happen like until...next chapter. DX, but my other readers outside insisted (We want angst! We want accidental kiss! WAUGH! ((And be it far from me to deny them what little pleasures they get from reading my fanfic)). I am sorry for everyone that this was an angst chapter, but it seems that they loved the angst, so I'm like, whatever, fine. And now Edward knows he loves Roy DX, and yet it seems way to fast for me. Gosh darn it. Anyway! I want you all to know my love for you with my kirban for this fanfic: http / www . deviantart . com / deviation / 37276444 / (I know, troublesome, but only look if you want too). Sorry about this chapter being a day late over the quota I set for myself, but last time it was early, so I was like, okay, cool. Anyway!

Thanks to fullmetal'sgirl92 (Right first child...), Fluffety, Neo Diji (Hai, you're the one to cross the lines of mpregs and make Roy pregnant, that makes you uber awesome in my books. I just love your reviews, they're entertaining, make me laugh and smile, and encourage me to a point to be able to write longer chapters (though this one was not as long as the last one, and I'm sorry 'bout that). Thanks again!), virtualsheep, hyperdude, Onyxlight, Sai-ryo Aura Feana (Well Ed did, but Roy's in denial xD), PuRE'Curse, me (You were the first one to mention that, congrats xD), Raven Cactuar (Eventually, but other people can only feel in the sixth month, so have to wait about two/three more months!), Rosepedal (I want a teacup XO), Sora Kohaku (I know what you mean, that song being stuck in your head is the worse thing that can happen, especially during a Chem exam. Auugh...And yes, yes it would make Envy the uncle, wahahahaha!), marufu-chan, Rinagurl13 (Thank you, that is really way too flattering for someone like me), and Sesshoumarus-Woman (Thank you for reviewing all the chapters, and I assure that I shall use that sometime. At least when it fits the moment (Evil laughter)).