Dear readers,
You got me surprised! A lot of people liked the last chapter – hum, perhaps the smut? Naughty dogs XD – and at same time threatened to death Roy's mother. Yeah, she's evil. She can fry your pancreas while she's eating your kidneys at lunch - sorry bad joke. I created many OCs, and I'll post in every chapter one profile per time, just for you better know them. I know that OCs can sometimes piss you off if you don't remember who it is. I posted a poll in my profile about this fic, you can chose what you want from this story, please let me know! It'll take just few seconds, please vote!
This time, Suzuku90 (formerly knew as UraharaFangirl90) was very busy and will get some vacation, that means this and the next chapters won't be revised by her awhile. After her vacation she promised that she can redo and correct the grammar mistakes. Sorry everyone - my english didn't improve an inch.
Today's profile is Major Berkley:
Name: Berkley, Tom.
Rank: State alchemist, major.
Height: 1:78m
Age: 26
Appearance: mild brown hair and green eyes, athletic body with handsome face.
History: he came from a peripheral district in Central. Three older sisters raised him, while their parents were working at the military. Gentle, honest and determinate, he has strong convictions. When he is not in missions, Tom works at the military hospital as a doctor, specialist in anesthesiology. His wife Rebecca now is pregnant with their first child. Tom and Ben Fowley are friends since the Academy where he graduated as doctor. His military name is "Dream Weaver Alchemist" because of his specialty in sedatives and anesthetics; he can manipulate some substances found in the human body as natural sedatives.
Warnings: PG-13 for language.
Enjoy :)
Chapter 6: Found out
Roy led his unwilling spouse to the reception for the check-out. Ed was nauseated again and feeling cramps on his stomach, but he was holding still since he wanted to be nice for his husband on their honeymoon. Also, he needed to be dressed like a girl, because society demands heterosexual couples. Ed hated this last part, but Roy got for him not so girly clothes, colored pants, warm shirts, comfortable shoes and black wool long coat for the cold autumn – the blonde didn't know how he endured their wedding at the Hughes' backyard – for what the young blonde was so grateful.
The blonde knew that he couldn't complain about Roy. The raven man was always thinking in his safety and well-being. He had been feeding him – the first of his priority necessities – in many ways than one, with love and food. Since Ed got knocked up, he couldn't work at the military anymore and Roy had been providing money for him and Al. Ed was worried if Roy can afford so many expenses, but his husband always said that he saved enough money for them. Nothing less could be so perfect happiness. Lately the short blonde had been feeling his internal organs shift and a very small lump started to show in his lower abdomen, remembering the proud parents that the babies indeed were there. Since his last doctor's visit, the doctor said that he was about of twelve weeks and two weeks passed from that day.
Roy went to Ed and kissed his forehead, waking the boy from his daydream.
"Everything done, we can go to the train station… I called a taxi." He put his arm around Edward shoulders "Are you sure that you're okay? Your face is so pale…"
"I'm okay. It's our honeymoon, I couldn't be better." Ed smiled softly and rested his head in Roy's chest.
"Yeah, I think so. But if you feel anything please tell me, okay?" the raven man led the small blonde with him by the hotel's entrance.
"Okay." Ed sighed and felt the cold autumn wind in his face messing up some locks of his hair.
"The taxi is coming." Roy left his spouse in order to call it.
Ed fought against his locks and gazed at the calm street. It was a Sunday and many shops were closed except for a few ones. He saw one coffee shop just in front of the hotel from where was coming a delicious aroma. The blond smelled the air and noticed that few people were there, if wasn't the short time he could ask for Roy to get some coffee there. Suddenly one black coated figure left the café door and was crossing the street. He looked better at that person, a woman, and he recognized… his mother-in-law. Shit! What's she doing here? – Ed thought.
"Good evening!" she greeted the couple with a smile.
"Mom?" Roy noticed her.
"Sorry for bothering you," she said "I just wanted to talk before you go, Roy."
"Mom, could this wait? We're heading to our honeymoon and we'll be back in one week."
"I know my child, but we didn't have time to talk… this old lady is going back to our home, it's your home too if you want." She smiled.
"Mom, the taxi is waiting… we can talk another time." Roy rushed Ed to the car while their baggage was being packed.
"I am your mother Roy, you must have to respect me!" she glared at him.
"Bye Mom." Roy glared her back annoyed and entered in the car. The taxi quickly took its way leaving her behind.
"This will not end here." She said glaring at the taxi.
"They're going to the train station." Ben talked at the radio while Tom was driving their car.
"Affirmative," the voice in the other side replied "We'll meet there."
"Okay." Ben turned the radio off.
"That woman created a good opportunity for us." Tom said.
"Yeah, she gave us time to prepare the team… I hope that you're right…" Ben lighted his cigarette.
"Damn you Ben! Don't smoke in the car!" Tom yelled.
"C'mon man, I need it."
"Geez… if you weren't my brother-in-law…I could kick your ass out of my car."
"Ha ha family sucks, huh?" he grinned "How Rebecca is doing?"
"She is fine, we chose the names for the baby… if it is a girl will be Linda and if it is a boy it will be Frank."
"Good names, soon my niece or nephew will show its face," Ben grinned "Did you read that obstetrics' books because of your baby?"
"No, apparently since I'm the only doctor in our team I'll take care of our target while he's in our custody. They don't want many people involved with this case."
"…but Tom, your specialty is anesthetics."
"That's why I was studying again. Maybe I'll have other doctor supporting me, but that kid will be my responsibility."
"You really think in everything... look, we're almost there."
"Roy, I need to go to the bathroom." Ed said halfhearted.
"Okay, but you'll have to use the ladies' toilet." Roy said concerned "You're so pale that is better we cancel this trip."
"No, just take me until there." The blonde walked wobbly by the ladies' toilet.
"I'll wait here, don't be long." Roy left Ed and watched him enter.
Ed though that the excess of sex and eating more than that he was used to were the worst things to be mixed together. After expelling the contents of his stomach in the porcelain toilet, he was panting hard and sweating cold. He stepped outside of the box and washed his face with cold water.
"Edward?" one familiar voice came from behind.
"Teacher?" the blonde turned to that voice and saw his teacher looking at him.
"I thought that you already were out of the city." She said concerned "Are you okay?"
"It's just a fucking morning sickness…" Edward washed his face again feeling very dizzy "Are you going to Dublith?"
"I'm going to visit Sig's family, my sister-in-law had another baby." She looked down at the shivering form in front of her "Edward, you're not okay, its better you go home."
"I don't want to mess up my honeymoon." Ed replied weakly.
"Don't be stubborn you little brat, you'll go home right now." She said and grabbed Ed's arm.
"DON'T CALL ME LITTLE…" and Ed fainted in mild sentence.
"Ed! Mrs. Curtis?" Roy looked at the woman carrying his spouse out of the bathroom.
"He fainted. Its better you take him to see a doctor." She helped Roy to get Edward in his arms.
"Ed wake up, talk to me!!" Roy panicked.
Sig Curtis that was coming from the ticket counter ran into them.
"Sig, you need to call some doctor..." Izumi said to her husband, but suddenly other voice interrupted her.
"I'm a doctor, I can help." A young brunette with green eyes approached the group.
"She is fainted doctor… and ten weeks pregnant!" extremely concerned, Roy showed the blonde in his arms to the man.
"Let's take her in other place, where I can examine her better. My car is parked near here and there I have a valet with my medical instruments."
"Thanks doctor…sorry you didn't say your name."
"My name is Tom Berkley, you can call me Tom." The brunette replied.
"Oh, young Elric! Good evening!" Major Luis Armstrong greeted a worried suit of armor coming out of Roy and Ed's place.
"Major Armstrong! Good evening!" Al greeted him.
"Long time to see you young Elric." He smiled.
"Yeah, you're right… I didn't saw you in Ed's wedding."
"Oh, I'm so sorry for that young Alphonse. I was in a mission and didn't get here on time… today I came to bring my wedding gift if they are in home." He showed the huge package inside of the military car parked in front of the building.
"Don't worry about it major, Ed and the colonel will like with your gift," Alphonse said gently "They're in honeymoon, but I can give it to them when they come back."
"Thank you young Elric! You're a perfect gentleman like the old lords of the Armstrong's family…" his eyes started to sparkle.
"Hum… let's put it in their apartment…" Alphonse said quickly before the man start to tell the traditions rooted under generations of the Armstrong's family.
When they finally put the huge package in Roy's apartment, Al gazed sadly at the empty apartment.
"You do miss your brother, don't you young Elric?"
"Yes, I do… I won't see him awhile." Al replied sad.
"Don't worry young Alphonse, soon he's coming. My older sister left our house to go to Briggs and rarely come to see us, but young Edward isn't like her."
"Briggs? It's in the north doesn't it? What is she doing there?" Al asked in curiosity.
"Oh, she's the Major General responsible by the great wall of Briggs." He said proudly.
"Hum… if I were going north should I meet her?"
"Of course! She controls the north with iron hands."
"Major, I'm going north to… hum… training; yeah because my teacher went there and she said that does the best place for it… could you give me some recommendation letter? I don't want to get myself in trouble with Briggs."
"Of course I can do it young Elric!" he grinned.
"She's very tired and slightly dehydrated… some rest and caloric liquids can help her to be fine again." Tom concluded after examined Edward.
"Thank you doctor, its better I take hi-her to home…" Roy said holding the small blonde again in to his arms "How mu-"
Tom looked around and interrupted Roy.
"You don't need to pay me… listen," he whispered "I was supposed to be following you because of my orders, but while my brother-in-law is risking his life covering me, I'm telling this to you…"
"Are you a spy?" Izumi clapped her hands and Roy stepped away from him.
"Wait! I have orders to arrest you but I won't do it!" Tom said desperate "Please listen to me, we don't have much time!"
"Why on earth are you doing this? Who is after us?" Roy glared at him.
"My team received the orders to arrest the former State alchemist Edward Elric and escort him to a military lab…the military wants to study his body since he's pregnant," Tom looked at the parking again searching for any sight of the others "But I'm a doctor, and I don't want to see a kid and babies treated like laboratory rats. My wife is pregnant too and I understand your position, Colonel Mustang."
"So the military found out about Edward…" Roy looked at Izumi who nodded offering her support.
"I want you to get out of here and out of the country if needed… we have one team following you and other is moving to the next station. Our orders are to arrest you there."
"I see… thank you." Roy didn't know if he can trust in this man, but the information that he gave to him was more important now. The military found out about their children. Things are turned out badly and he can't forgive himself if he let something happen to his family.
"I will come back to my partner and say that we lost your track, go now!" he watched the group just for a few moments and rushed back to the train station.
"What are we going to do?" Izumi asked while Roy was leading them to a cheap hotel near the station.
"We need to contact my friend Maes Hughes and he can help me. We must take Edward by car out of Central…"
"…and then? He's pregnant, he needs some nice place to give birth and he can't have them like a woman does." She replied.
"I don't know! I need time to think! If we stay here uncovered they can find us, Ed is fainted and he needs to recover." Roy gritted his teeth.
"Okay, but if we need to fight you can count on us." Sig nodded agreeing with his wife.
"Thank you Mrs. Curtis." Roy smiled softly.
"Where?" Ed whined softly "Roy?"
Ed looked around and saw that he was in a hotel room, laid in a large bed. At his side was his husband seated in a chair and he sounded very asleep. Somebody moved in the room, and he noticed his teacher coming closer to his bed.
"Teacher…? What are you doing here?" Ed rubbed his puffy eyes from the sleep.
"Edward, you're in a hotel room because you were fainted…" she looked at Roy and kicked his ass "Wake up lazybones!"
"What?!" Roy awoke with his gloved hand ready to spark, but the only menace there was his fake mother-in-law looking angrily at him.
"Geez, she's worst than Hawkeye…" Roy muttered "Ed! You're up!" he went right to the bed and kissed the blonde's forehead.
"S-sorry Roy…" Ed started feeling very embarrassed because he was fainted like some clingy woman.
"Shhh…" Roy gazed at his lover fondly "Listen Edward… we're here because of other problem… you need to be strong, okay?" the raven man grabbed Ed's hands.
"You're scaring me…" Ed looked at him unsure.
"Ed… baby… we were found out… the military sent soldiers to chase us and arrest you…" Roy could see anger ant at same time fear in Ed's golden eyes.
"We're alchemists, we can defeat them!"
"Do you remember what doctor said? You just finished your first trimester… you can't do anything laborious or you can have some miscarriage…"Roy tightened his grip in Ed's hands "I'll protect us, your Teacher and I we're enough for them… Maes is coming to bring me a car and provisions for our trip… we're going to get you out here."
"Wait! What about Al? I want to talk with him!"
"Maes couldn't find him… Ed the soldiers are very close to us, I saw them." The older man embraced the young one "Sorry, we need to go without Al."
"No! Al is my only brother!" Ed whined.
"Ed, try to be reasonable…" Izumi said very serious "Al can take care of himself, I'm pretty sure, and I didn't trained freaking chicken, didn't I?"
"Hum… no…" Ed felt chills down his spine, his teacher was quite scary.
They waited for almost forty minutes. Meanwhile Edward was treated for dehydration and the group discussed where they'll head to escape from the military.
"We don't have enough money here, and surely we can't go very far with this." Roy grunted annoyed and put the money back in his wallet.
"My brother-in-law has a small hotel in the North Mountains…" Izumi said "By train it takes eight hours and after we have a track of one hour by car… it's quite calm there and out of sight of the Government…"
"By car maybe we can get there in ten or eleven hours?" Roy kissed Ed's forehead "Can you endure this trip Ed?"
"Do we have another option?" the blonde asked not feeling very well for an uncomfortable trip.
"We can try Maes' relatives or my mom's house…" Roy said disgusted.
"Yup, I get the mountains." Ed said quickly.
They heard a knock in the door and the voice of Sig Curtis.
"He just arrived, let us come in."
Izumi opened the door and Maes entered leaving Sig behind to do the guard.
"Roy, I brought everything that I could… but when I was about to go to your apartment I saw some military soldiers there…" Maes handed a bag to Roy.
"My apartment? Damned bastards!" Roy looked at the bag's contents.
"My brother, what about Al?" Ed asked desperately.
"Sorry kid, I didn't saw him today… he left my house very early today and I looked for him everywhere…"
"Al! Roy, if they caught him? We need to find Al!" Ed cried while Roy was holding him still in the bed.
"Don't worry Ed, your brother is very smart… Havoc and Breda are looking for him right now… I called Major Armstrong and he said that talked with Alphonse today." Hughes glared at Roy "You must go now; I saw a lot of movement in the streets near the train station."
"We're leaving; Mrs. Curtis could you take Edward to the car? I need to talk with Maes before we leave." Roy gazed at her in a meaningfully way. She nodded and carried the sobbing blonde in her arms.
"Thanks Maes… please tell me the real situation." Roy locked the door again.
"Apparently they're in the plan B. All the places and people related to you two have been checked…I had to get rid of one car before I come here."
"Shit… I don't have enough money with me and surely they blocked my bank account."
"Here, take this with you." Maes handed an envelope.
"Maes… this is a lot of money… I can't…" Roy stared at the big amount of money in his hands.
"Oddly or not, this money came from your mother Roy. She came to my home and made me give it to you."
"I don't have any choice…I'll write in code for you, surely you remember our old code, don't you?" Roy grabbed the bag and hid the money in safety.
"Yeah, I do. I'll keep you informed… and tell Ed that I'll take care of Alphonse…" Maes grinned.
"Of course you will. See you my friend, wish me luck." Roy always hated farewells; he stepped in front of the door and unlocked the door.
"Good luck buddy."
To be continued.
P.S.: This chapter was transitional, some events needed to happen before the progress of the pregnancy. From the next chapter Ed and Roy shall have more time for romance, cuddling, foreplay… AND review me or I won't feel inspired to write the next chapter! XD
