Chapter 7: The Cards are in Place

A/N:

Ok this is the last chapter so enjoy the show!

Riza's POV

We all woke up early the next morning because the baby start crying. I heard Mustang grown in the bed next to mine. "Barley a day old and he is alrighty causing me trouble." Mustang growls. I roll my eyes at this. Roy and I got out bed and got dressed. When I left the bed room I noticed little Edward had stop crying. Trisha must have been able to quiet him down.

Hohenheim made everyone breakfast (I got to say he is a really good cook) because Trisha was still weak and couldn't get out of bed. After breakfast the Rockbells check up on Trisha and Edward. They said everything is fine. They went back home after that because it had stopped snowing and Ureg said Pinako would be worried about them.

I spent most of the day keep Trisha and Edward company. Trisha and I would talk about certain thing and I would cooed over little Edward (he really was adorable as a baby) when I held him.

It was about 3:00pm when Trisha said "It time to feed him." She was about to lift to chest when she looked me "Oh sorry, you don't mind right?" "Of course not." I say. Trisha lifts up her shirt slightly and starts feeding Edward. Just then the door swings open. Mustang and Havoc walk (well Havoc limped in on his crutches) in.

"Hawkeye we need t- AHH! CRIST RIZA DON'T SHOOT AT ME!" Mustang yelled dodging (I intentionally missed) the bullet I shot at him.

"You need to learn how to knock." I replied calmly. He and Havoc look behind me and blushed (I swear Havoc's nose started bleeding) lightly when they saw Trisha with a surprised look on her face still try to feed Edward.

"I-I'm sorry for interrupting." Mustang said sheepishly

"It's alright." Trisha smiled

Mustang nodded and turned to me. "We need to talk, Hawkeye." I nodded and I told Trisha I would be back later. I followed Mustang and Havoc down to the living room and saw Hughes and Armstrong waiting for us. Once we're all sheer that was safe to talk Mustang started. "I think it is very clear by now that we can't stay here any more."

We all nodded in agreement. The reason we can't stay here is because of Edward. Had alrighty made it clear that we could not change the past. Now that Edward has been born we run to much of a risk sticking around.

"When should we leave?" Havoc asked

"Tonight" Roy said firmly

We all nodded again in a silent agreement. I will admit I'm a little sad that we have to leave. I have grown kind of attached to Trisha and Hohenheim and I'm sad I will have to say goodbye.

Just then I heard to rumbling. It sound kind of familiar. Everyone in the room seems to notice this. We see a faint glow of blue light and we all look down.

It's a transmutation circle.

~~Break Line~~

Roy's POV

'Why is this happening again?! Does this mean we're going home?'

Over the rumbling I hear footsteps coming down the hallway. I look up to see Hohenheim and Trisha run into the room. Took note that Trisha was holding Edward protectively to her chest.

"Stop!" I yelled to them to keep them out of the circle.

"What's going on?" Hohenheim yelled. He look surprised and angry.

"I'm so sorry." I say feeling guilty because we didn't tell them the truth. "But you can't tell your child we were ever here." "What do you mean?" Trisha asked looking frantic. "I mean you have to forget we ever existed." I said sternly

Just then the light got brighter and the rumbling started to shake the house.

Trisha tried to move towards us but then Hohenheim pulled her back and held her close to his chest (of course being careful of the child in her arms) and said "Stay back Trisha." Trisha and Hohenheim were looking at us with sad eyes. I looked at Edward who was awake and had a look of amazement as the light reflected off his eyes. I looked back up at Trisha and Hohenheim and said "You better take good care of Edward."

The light continued to get brighter and the last thing I saw was little Edward and it looked like he was about to cry.

'I'm sorry.'

~~Break Line~~

Roy's POV ((A/N: Like I said in the first chapter it could easily be anyone's because they're all hearing and feeling the same thing.))

God dammit not this feeling again.

"Well done, you all completed the task."

That damn voice again. What does mean we did what it asked.

"You were able to make sure Edward Elric survived his own birth."

What! That's what it wanted us to do!

"Without you he would have just died and the domino effect would have never happened."

What effect does this thing have something planned for Edward?

"Its funny, you didn't even know you all did something. I guess it's like the old saying 'if you do something right, you're not sure you did anything at all'."

This bastard is pissing me off. Who is he anyway?

"The cards are all in place, thank you."

I hear him start to laugh. Ok that's it! I try to open my eye to see who this son of a bitch really is but I am blind by white. I swear I saw something though. Something in the white. Something smiling back at me.

Everything goes black.

~~Break Line~~

Roy's POV

We all woke up back in East Command. We apparently had only been gone for one day back in our time and Hughes somehow made up a good excuse (he didn't tell them the truth of course. I mean who would believe us) for our absence. None of us real talked about it afterwards we kind of went on with our lives.

I didn't see Edward again till he came to Central and I had to lie to him about Hughes's death. It felt so easy to lie to him because I have been doing it to him even before he was born.

~~~FIN~~~

A/N:

Well I finished it. I think I did an ok job on this story. My original idea for this story was they had to go back in time to make sure Trisha got sick and died but then I would feel horrible. Don't know when my next story will be, what fandom it will be or what it will be about. I'm thinking about doing a short sequel to this story. If I do it will be most likely one chapter. Since I'm on summer vacation I have more time to focus on this kind of stuff. I had a lot of fun doing this story. Thank you MidnaWolf, owlgirl1998, SapphireBlue82, Anna Riza Kurosaki, Assassin729, Noxy the Prody, Nakiera, RinzlerlsTron123, awesomenaruto, FemGenjyo, jleasor99, GodofGreed, and Krymsyn Vyxyn for the favorites, follows, and reviews . Special thanks to Lizzie for the trips and support you are awesome. Thank you all and anyone who takes the time to read this story. I now there are better stories out there but thank you for reading my story and sticking with me. You all get a cookie! Please review and favorite if you liked it. I appreciate it!

~Ireland