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A/N: Please leave reviews and let me know how it is. If you haven't read I will you love you until my heart breaks, it is best to read that first so you don't get confused because this is its sequel.
Chapter Six
Parker sighed.
He knew they wouldn't be happy about learning some of the truth but he hadn't expected them to be so angry. As long as the parents didn't find out, he was satisfied though. Tying his shoe laces, he knew he was going to be late. Going undercover to find out how to save the now one in a half year old could be troublesome but somehow he was managing. If it meant a better future, then he couldn't be happier.
*Flash Back*
"Thanks to Alchemy's advancement, power is what we have. It has been my destiny to use it and everything I possess to bring this world out of chaos. Now we don't even have to fight with neighboring countries, they're literally begging for peace treaties. People all over the globe have done-"
"Are you crazy Spencer? Thanks to your little empire, Gracie's gone!"
The man turned around. He had shoulder length blonde hair and golden eyes. Where they had once held light and an excitement that came with once being an optimistic person was now replaced with a coldness that nobody could take away. He just didn't feel anything anymore and he didn't hold any qualms about killing people to get what he wanted.
"Did I say you could speak Parker? You really are annoying though. I would have killed you long ago but you've always had to be the exception. As for Gracie, she didn't agree with anything. She would be happy with being hurt and what do you know, she was doing all sorts I disagreed with. She just had to be stopped-"
"NOOOO! You can't kill somebody just because they don't listen to you! Why oh why would you kill your own family member?"
Spencer looked down in annoyance and Parker kept looking down to avoid what the person had become. He was no longer anybody he knew. The one he knew didn't go around killing people nor would he kill his own family. He let out a surprised gasp when Spencer grasped his chin and forced him to look into his too cold, expressionless gold eyes. They gazed into his own blue ones seemingly bored for a moment.
"You aren't afraid of me are you Parker?"
Parker quickly shook his head although he closed his eyes by now and had them squeezed shut. He knew this man was different than what he once was. This one no longer hesitated to hurt and he killed without any thought to what it would do to his very soul. His soul had been severely damaged and he had yet to know why.
"If you aren't scared of me, you sure have a way of showing it." He released him and turned around with his hands behind his back casually. "While I've got you here, I would like to know why you would be telling those who are against me what I do. You do remember that at first you were doing the same thing right? What would they do if they found out that you once killed along with me? Stop all this teenage angst and do what I say, damn it! You're nineteen for god's sake! I'll resurrect your wife and you could always make a new baby. That other one was weak anyways. I would have suggested a new wife but you seemed attached to the one who died, she snapped you into this daze Parker and you could snap out of it again-"
"You can't bring her back the way she was before," Parker told him harshly. "You can't bring her back from the dead. Once someone is dead, they can never truly come back and that was my daughter you son of a bi-"
SLAP!
"Watch it!"
Holding his cheek, he glared as Spencer seemed to grow tired of dealing with him. Seeing him about to raise his hand, he was for once happy when he heard a chorus of noises before an explosion took place. Taking the time when Spencer was actually distracted, Parker slipped away.
It wouldn't be the first time he escaped when he had been in a close call and it wouldn't be his last. He was going to save the guy even if the most stubborn refused to help Spencer themselves. He just had to appeal to dad before it was too late.
*End Flashback*
Parker held his head and took a shaky breath. Ever since he dealt with the Monsules, he had been having dizzy spells and periods of reliving his past like it was happening all over again. These memories weren't the best and he hated to think what would happen if he had an attack in front of them. If they knew he was killing off dark creatures without their knowledge, they'd be mad. Sighing, he also knew that they would want an explanation for that afterwards for every little thing. Standing up straight, he had to catch himself before he fell over stumbling.
By the time he caught himself, he was already at his intended destination and a tall cloaked figure was standing there as though he wanted to look intimidating. Parker rolled his eyes before taking a step forward and pausing to catch himself. The man grinned in amusement.
"Monsules, those little crazy heathens grazed you! Did you know that you have seventy two hours to come up with the antidote before you go into a coma? Then your memories will rule over you and then if you can't get out of your memories, you basically become a vegetable."
Parker groaned.
Monsules were little but they had claws laced with their special ability to haunt someone through memories but not just any one but the worst moments of a person's life. There was a reason they were dark black creatures of the night and that was because eventually after they fed upon all the bad memories, they grew stronger until the victim just didn't wake up again. Grumbling, he held his head to steady himself for a few moments.
"Dave, I gotta cancel our meeting. I know, I'm supposed to meet Ryan the seer but I just can't right now. Not with the world spinning."
"Are you sure you're safe?"
He frowned but Parker seemed not to notice which was when he realized that he hadn't just been clawed. Sighing angrily, he decided to give him a glare which the kid ignored as well.
"I'll see you later."
Dave hoped he was going to be okay. He still needed him to keep his end of the bargain.
"Spencer's asleep," Ed mumbled, trying to hold back a yawn.
Hawkeye, Breda, and Hawkeye really wanted to break the barrier that was keeping the two distant. They felt it wasn't right that Ed and Roy had been through so much and fought really hard, just to give up what they deserved. It was obvious that they deserved each other and anybody who just met them would even know it.
"That's good. The poor guy didn't even last to the end of the picnic before snoozing," Roy added with a soft smile.
Hawkeye shared a look with the other two. She was glad that the two didn't discover the motive behind the last minute picnic but they were grasping at straws trying to get them together. On another point, they were still reeling from hearing that supposedly Spencer became some big tyrant that Parker came back to prevent. It was odd and nobody who was there thought that was very fair either. At least they believed that now since they knew he would hardly lie about something like that. But it still didn't explain why fate had to do this to Ed and Roy who did nothing but help everyone. Hawkeye just sighed wondering if they should just tell them so they would know.
"Am I interrupting anything?"
Al and Winry were distraught since their marriage because of the fact that they couldn't have any children. They did adopt a little two month old finally for the need to become parents so badly and named him Langston though. Still, Winry wouldn't give up knowing that she just wanted to have a baby and knew in her heart that it would come true. She didn't say what she and Al had talked about but it seemed like Al was determined as well to have a baby of his own as well as the one they had now. Langston had dark baby fine hair and nice blue eyes like Winry. He looked enough like them that if they wanted to, they could pass him off as their own but they knew that he would want to know the truth someday and expressed that they would someday tell him if he were to be interested in finding them one day.
"How's Langston doing?" Roy asked curiously.
Al smiled.
"Not transporting all over the place and making his parents go crazy, that's for sure." At their looks he added, "The only thing he could do is freeze random objects with his eyes. He's not that bad. Not yet anyways," He muttered.
"I think we should talk about something-"
Parker appeared and fell to the floor much to everyone's shock. Picking him up, they made sure to get him to the couch before Roy tried to look over and see if he could find a visible injury. All he knew was that the kid was sweating like crazy and that he had a low grade fever. He must have caught something but Roy could never tell with the way the kid did things that not even he knew of and he had a lot of informants that followed him throughout the day. He didn't think he was dangerous per se but he wanted to make sure the kid wasn't doing delinquent things again and had convinced himself it was for the kid's own good.
"Why is he so hot?" Ed asked and moaned angrily when they shot him a look. "Not that way, why is he burning up so bad!"
Roy sighed.
"He has a nasty illness it looks like, although it's only 99.6. I don't get why he's like this…" He wavered off before placing the back of his hand over the man's forehead. Sometimes it was difficult to see that he was still techniqually just a kid but lying like that, all vulnerable, he knew he was and he needed someone to look out for him.
"We'll find something out. Besides Winry can help," Al added.
True, Winry had been taking some classes but she couldn't see what Al was getting at. She couldn't deal with fevers with unknown origins especially when the special ability that the kid possessed could be responsible.
"How about we just give him Tylenol for now and see if we could bring it down," Winry suggested.
Hawkeye nodded and got the medicine while Roy stayed there to keep watch. Ed looked bored at first but he did get worried after a little while.
"Who knew they got sick!"
"Spencer caught a cold a month ago remember?" Roy asked in annoyance. "Parker ended up staying with him most of the night so we could work. Said something about being here for a reason and made me go to bed."
Ed blushed remembering how that ended. He stopped long enough to really look at the kid. He had brown hair, not really dark that it could be black but it wasn't really light either. He also had blue green eyes if you really looked. He probably attracted all the girls like crazy when he went to school. Sighing, he sat there with an expression laced with appreciation.
"He'll be okay," He told them.
After everything he overlooked, at least once thing ended coming out right.
"What's the matter, afraid of me? Cat got your tongue again Parker Kaiden?"
Parker glared at him at that but didn't say anything. It was obvious that Spencer was trying to goad him again. It didn't end pretty when he took the bait and did something stupid without thinking. He had to get out of here though. Looking at the exits which were blocked, he tried to think of a perfect strategy in order to get out without hurting the man he used to idolize.
"What's the matter Parks? You lost the will to just disobey me for the hundredth time? I'm ashamed to think that someone like you would just call it quits? What, my pop dying didn't make you stronger-"
"YOU GIANT SON OF A BITCH!"
He was pulled back from attacking by Gracie who was being shielded from Spencer the whole time during the confrontation. She gave him a look through her deep blue eyes and Parker forced himself to calm down. She always had that calming effect on him and he knew that even though she disapproved of all that he had done since they were left on their own, she still looked up to the person he was at the moment.
"I'm sorry Gracie," he whispered.
She smiled sadly.
"It's okay. I know for one thing that they would've never wanted you to give up and as long as you fight the side that wants you to just give in, we'll be alright," she whispered confidentially.
Parker sighed allowing her confidence to wash through him. Turning to Spencer, he knew he wouldn't be getting out any normal way and that he was often forced to think outside of the box in order to escape. To make it a lot worse was the fact that Gracie had been dragged into it.
"Like the anti-transportation wards?" Spencer just knew how to hit buttons he knew would get to Parker. The other refused to take the bait though leaving Spencer to frown.
"You know Spence, you could always just use friendly fire on me, like for old friend's sake?"
He laughed but nodded just then.
"I'll give you thirty second then."
Parker nodded before blowing apart the guard that was guarding the back door. At Spencer's furious look, Parker just pushed Gracie in the direction of the exit.
"Listen sweetie, outside that room the ward is off. You could get help but know this; he would never kill me alright?" Gracie nodded, tears washing down her face but knowing that he was doing this to protect her.
"I love you Parks." She whispered.
He nodded.
"Right back at you. I got you're back."
"And I've got yours," she finished with a watery smile.
She ran off whilst Parker turned around in time to get a punch in the stomach. Spencer was pissed and by the looks of it, he didn't want Gracie to escape just as much as he tried to keep Parker in the room as well. Keeling over, he moaned in pain and without a second's hesitation, Spencer landed a kick in the same place causing Parker to vomit violently on the ground.
"This is what you get for your insolence. I won't have it no more, you hear me? YOU HEAR ME?"
"God Spence that hurt," he just moaned.
Grabbing his hair, he glared daggers into his half-lidded blue eyes.
"You better learn or you're in for a world full of pain sweetheart," he told him sarcastically.
"God what happened to you Spencer?"
"God what happened to you Spencer?"
Al jumped at hearing Parker mumble those words. Winry looked just as surprised to hear that but both just shared a look instead of going crazy over it. Didn't they say he was from the future and he knew Spencer? That wasn't someone that was a distant friend or someone who casually saw him. Parker must REALLY know him in the future he came from if he was asking that question.
"What are we going to do?" Havoc was pacing back and forth and Al couldn't help but wonder the same thing.
"He just didn't catch a normal cold. The Tylenol isn't working at all," Al said as though he wanted to tell himself that it wasn't that.
Anything but that.
"How could you do that Spencer? How could you do that to Gracie?"
Even though he was in a fever induced sleep, he seemed to be having nightmares. Al wondered who this Gracie was and hoped that it wasn't anyone close to them in the future. He didn't know what they would do by losing another person that they got close to. They already lost Nina, Hughes, and a bunch of people during the war on the homunculi. Roy lost his first born to child abuse and almost lost Spencer. What the hell was causing this though?
"Gracie is a pretty name," Winry commented. At the looks she continued. "I was thinking of that as a girl's name if I ever do become pregnant."
Al nodded whilst the others shut up not knowing what to say. Havoc was about to say something finally when he jumped at the hooded figure to his side. The mysterious figure chuckled before turning to observe Parker. The kid was pale and it looked like almost twenty four hours already went by. Stupid boy, he thought. Taking out a dark lilac colored vial, he handed it to Al who looked at him in surprised shock.
"It's something to get into his head. Stupid kid is going to kill himself going against half the dark creatures on his own. He got scratched by one of them and it looks like he's already getting lost in his own dreams. Drink that or share half and half between two people and then get him the hell out of there."
Al just stared at the guy so Winry spoke up hesitantly.
"What do we do?"
"Snap him out of his dreams. The dark creature he encountered are Monsules and they stick you in your worst nightmares and feed off of it until there's nothing left." Seeing their look he added, "There's a lot of dark creatures out there. You didn't think the world was safe, did you? Why would he come back to the past if there wasn't anything wrong with the future? Tell yourselves that."
There was a black flash that filled the room, much different from the normal golden flash of Spencer and Parker when they teleported. The feeling they got from that was void and they wondered what he was if he knew so much about the evil species that they still couldn't understand.
"I'll take it," Al told them finally not taking his eyes off of Parker.
Winry took the vial from him and gave him a stern look. He thought he would have to argue about going there and saving this kid's life but was saved when she said in an absolute voice;
"Let's go."
He just smiled.
His wife was one of a kind.
Al woke up and found himself in a room. It was odd but there was also a baby crying. Sighing, he got up and got to the room where the tiny infant lay. She was beautiful and he thought she couldn't possibly be anyone else's. She had his eyes and Winry's hair! Smiling, he picked her up to stop her wailing and was surprised to see Spencer looking at him like that.
"What r u doing?"
Al was surprised. He looked older than the last time he saw him but had to remember that these were Parker's memories. If Spencer was here and the little girl here, then where was Parker at?
"Gracie, hi," Spencer greeted waving at the little girl in question. She giggled much to Al's amusement and before he could ask anything else, Roy was there.
"What the hell are you doing up Al? I thought I told you I was helping you and Winry like you helped me when I was pregnant."
Al looked shocked.
"I-uh didn't think it was worth it," he stuttered.
Roy just smiled at the thought.
"Come on, your wife is happy enough that you two have Gracie but if you two are so exhausted you won't be able to appreciate the fact for another six months."
"Winry had a baby!" Al asked amazed.
Roy laughed.
"I'll play along okay. Yes, yes you did. Twelve months after I had Parker remember?"
Al's eyes never gotten so big.
BUT DAMN, PARKER WAS ROY'S AND EDWARD'S SON!
