Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal alchemist.

Warning: MPREG. Past ROY/MAES. Eventual ROY/ED. Present Roy/OC.

TEN

"Jocelyn how are ya baby?"

Jocelyn was beyond crying. She couldn't believe that her papa had been hurt so bad. She hugged him being careful not to hurt him too bad. He had only been up for an hour but she was the only one in here since Havoc stepped out to have smoke and she wanted to stay. She couldn't leave again. Her little mind couldn't hold around the fact that her papa was hurt. He just hugged her closer to him ignoring the pain.

"Me kay."

"No you're not. I know and you don't have to lie to me. I'm sorry." His voice was a whisper because of the tube they had to shove down his throat but since he was breathing on his own after the operation, they had substituted it for a non-rebreather mask over his face. He played with her hair and allowed her to cry. Lord knows she did that enough but he knew she needed it.

"No sorry. Papa loves me!"

Roy nodded with a grin gracing his lips.

"Of course I do. I love you with my whole heart baby and just remember that."

She looked over to see that nobody was coming through the doors before hugging him again. He returned it with a sigh and kissed her forehead, tracing the cut with guilt. He didn't like it when she was hurt. She seemed to understand, and yet stayed clear of the bandage on his nose. She also tried not to hug him tightly knowing there were bandages on his torso meaning he was hurt there too. Roy just smiled at his daughter's logic.

"What's going on?"

"I told doctor man. I said papa's friend hit and punch papa."

She looked scared and Roy did frown but only for a second before hugging her again. As far as he knew, she did nothing wrong and needed to know that. He pecked her on the cheek and then on the forehead again to let her know that.

"Papa, they say you sleep until weeks later but you up now." He nodded understanding the translation. 'They said he shouldn't be waking up for at least a few weeks but he woke up earlier than expected.'

"Papa loves you so much Jocelyn. Never forget that."

She nodded with a smile but it dropped when Havoc returned and saw that he was up. He came over not knowing whether he should slap the man he looked up to until he understood the gravity of what he did or the irritation was finally relieved. Whichever one did the trick Havoc was willing to try.

"Papa up," Jocelyn said trying to release the tension in the room.

"I see that sweetie." He turned back to Mustang with a glare. "How could you allow yourself to put Jocelyn into this predicament sir? Bad enough that you got hurt but what if whoever it is did the same to her?"

"Havoc I'll talk to you, you know I will but not in front of Jocelyn. She's too young to understand what you mean and she's not at fault. You're going to make her feel that way if you yell in front of her like that."

Of course the man was going to get out of that. But Havoc saw the one point was correct. He shouldn't bring up fights in front of children. It only had been a day and he was up but wasn't going to be out of the hospital it seemed for a while. He still had that concussion and it seemed like there may be fluid buildup. Even though he was awake and knew who he was now, he had periods of forgetfulness and still threw up. They woke him up every hour when he fell asleep and he was irritable. They were getting ready to do a CT scan of the head.

"My apologies sir, but why not tell people you have a daughter?"

"I'm no Hughes, I am not the type to go around gushing about my little girl no matter how much I love her."

"You could have told us. When was she born? I know she's two and she was born on the 28th of December but where? And why keep her from us? She said that you gave birth to her which I know had to have been a lie on your part-" He stopped seeing his look of surprise and Havoc looked surprised as well. "You had her that way?"

"No," he replied a little too quickly but before he could ask Edward was there.

"You know when I told you to break up with that dipshit I didn't know it would end up with you in a hospital-" Ed stopped seeing Havoc and that Roy looked even more irritated. "Oh hey Havoc. How's the colonel doing?"

"Ask him yourself, he's right there."

Jocelyn got down and ran over to Ed, bringing him down by accident and attacking him with hugs and kisses.

"Daddy Ed how are ya?"

Ed's eyes widened and Havoc's cigarette dropped from his mouth. He didn't have it lit because of Hawkeye's threat but now, he was slack jawed wondering what the hell was going on. She then turned to Al and hugged his huge metal arms. Al seemed happy that the girl wasn't scared of him hearing that she was afraid of the others until they had proven less dangerous. It could have been that both Ed and the colonel were fighting with each other that she came to the conclusion that they were safe. That and no matter how mad he was, Jocelyn knew he wouldn't hurt her papa.

"I'm not her daddy Havoc."

It didn't stop Jocelyn from pouting though and he had to go through with the fact that he hurt her feelings while trying to convince Havoc that the colonel wasn't a pedophiling pervert.

"Havoc can you leave the room." Havoc saluted and left while Ed gave Al a look figuring Roy wanted to talk to Ed alone. Al took the hint and lifted the child onto his armor where she situated herself onto his shoulders with a happy laugh.

Once they were out of the room, Ed glared.

"Please don't say anything Ed. They can't know the truth. Hell Jocelyn doesn't even know who it was that had a hand in making her. I don't want him to ever know and I told you why-"

"Roy you got the living shit beaten out of you. It was your boyfriend, was it? Damn it I told you to wait until you were single before there was an us but I didn't say to get beat up and put your daughter in danger! You see the problem shithead? Whatever you do has consequences for her."

Roy nodded feeling tears in the corner of his eyes. He quickly wiped them away. He didn't really want Hughes to know though. He'd hate him! He never told him even when Jocelyn was learning to walk and he had the chance to many times. He could have brought it up but he was afraid. He didn't want to lose her and Hughes had Elysia. Why couldn't he just not tell Hughes? He best not touch his baby.

Ed's eyes softened and he raked a hand through Roy's hair before smiling to show he wouldn't stay mad. Roy pulled him down and kissed him, gaining entrance through the boy's surprise. Ed sighed into the kiss but it ended with the tender part of Roy's nose getting hit. Ed smiled while Roy grimaced. It sure was punishment enough so he couldn't see himself staying mad anymore. Ed kissed him on the forehead before hugging him.

"You at least told him that you were done right?"

Roy shook his head.

"What the fuck! Why not? He hurt her Roy!"

"I was kinda being fucked against my will," he admitted in a deadly whisper.

Ed nodded solemnly. He just chose to give Roy a squeeze of reassurance on his shoulder. It didn't pay to stay mad. He was about to go in and steal another kiss when in walked Hughes. Ed quickly back away and Roy tried to sit up further in the bed.

"What happened Roy? What's this I hear about a little two year old girl needing someone to stay with at two in the morning when I'm sleeping with my wife and that somebody beat the shit out of you enough to put you in the hospital for two months as well? At least tell me you pressed charges."

Roy sagged trying to avoid looking into those pain streaked eyes. The eyes that were reflected to him whenever he saw the hurt his daughter went through just by watching him be taken away by strangers just to come here. She had to be so scared too.

"I had a nasty breakup, that's all Hughes."

Ed sighed before getting a cup of water from the pitcher beside the bed and handing it to him. Roy gulped it down before handing it back only to get it refilled.

"Well that doesn't explain her. Where is she anyways?" That question caused him to spill water all down his front and Ed attempted to take the glass away only to have him doused in a little as well. He couldn't blame him though. He sighed.

"Come on Roy and talk to your best friend. Baby face aren't you going to say anything?"

Ed knew that Roy was slipping and it was pretty bad to keep doing this. He wanted to tell Hughes to talk to him when he felt better but didn't think Roy would go through anything to keep Hughes from knowing the truth.

"Hughes I didn't tell you about my daughter because…she's Ed's as well!"

That did it. Hughes paused.

"You and Ed?"

Roy nodded and Ed was too shocked to say anything. He almost yelled at him to tell Hughes the truth. It was cruel to do something like this. But looking at the man, he didn't understand why he didn't tell him from the beginning. Why was he so scared that Hughes knew now?

Hughes didn't look any better.

"Damn it Roy that means he was twelve years old at the time. Are you fucking sick?"

"I like him Maes. You told me once you can't control who you like sometimes-"He trailed off realizing when it was that he told him that.

Hughes looked at him curiously.

"I don't remember saying any of that Roy. You could be in trouble though. That's no excuse to hold back telling me you have one. How did this happen? Why?"

Roy wanted to tell him the truth, he did but one look at Hughes scared him into keeping quiet. Ed seemed in shock before going out of it enough to shake his head to Hughes.

"What Ed? Tell him nothing and have him make a repeat of another child? Elysia had been born out of love whereas it took-"

"DAMN IT HUGHES, JOCELYN IS THE RESULT OF YOUR DRUNKEN NIGHT WITH ME!"

He suddenly realized what he did but the damage was already done. Hughes looked totally shocked and he knew that was why he didn't want to tell him at all. If anything to avoid breaking Hughes's heart like his own was already. He whimpered and turned away to avoid looking at him only to have his face roughly grabbed. He tried to pull away holding up his arms to expecting to be hit out of reflex when he felt the grip relax a bit.

"Asshole, I only have one daughter. Tell me the truth."

Roy didn't say anything and Hughes let go of him completely but not before forcing him to try to look at him. Roy flinched and tried to keep his gaze from any part of Hughes's face only to feel a sting from a tiny slap.

"Whose daughter is she?"

He just whimpered from the fear and Hughes sighed before shaking him. Ed couldn't take it anymore and pulled him away from Roy. He didn't want to see the man break down just like he knew Hughes didn't want him to either. He sighed before turning to Hughes seeing as how Roy didn't want to say a thing.

"She's yours," Ed answered for Roy. "Supposedly it was some drunken night I guess and she was born later in December. Funny isn't it that she was born twenty five days after the day yours was born."

"But I-this can't be happening." He stopped when Al returned with Jocelyn who was excitedly chatting about whatever it was that she was holding conversation in. She stopped though eyeing him with curiosity before running to Ed.

"Daddy Ed I saw birds."

"How the hell is this girl anything like-"he paused seeing the emerald green eyes a lot like his light green ones. He found himself almost tearing up and knew that it wasn't a lie.

"Hi," she greeted with a smile that reminded him of how Roy often did back in the academy before the war. He honestly loved that smile so damn much that he had wanted something with the man. He brought up the game to make sure he knew that they would be nothing other than best friends who fucked each other occasionally.

When did this miracle happen though? When did Roy somehow come to carry his child and before Elysia was born? He felt himself feeling faint and fell into a chair in front of the bed. He was lucky that Roy was trying to make himself small so that people wouldn't look at him because he was pissed as hell. He thought Elysia had been his first child, he knew that Roy didn't like the fact that he often brought pictures of her even from within the stomach but if he had any idea.

"Roy when I first showed you the sonogram and you said something, how old was she then?" Roy seemed to flinch from the question making Jocelyn climb up onto the bed and hug him.

When he failed to answer, he picked the little girl up despite her struggling and shoved her into Ed's arm giving him a look to get out. Ed would have gone against him but saw that Jocelyn was beginning to cry and it wasn't such a good idea to disobey at the moment. Al followed him out and when he heard the click he pressed forward and asked again.

"Six months."

"I don't honestly feel sorry for you. You gave extra pain to yourself by keeping her from everyone. How long did you think you could get away with it? Why did you? I knew that your mom messed you up but I didn't know you took after her. Yeah, your dad was worse because whose dad ignores the cries of a child and works leaving them home alone with an alcoholic mother? Roy that just proves you can't raise a child. You don't have the mental capability to-"

"I've been raising her just fine. This was an accident, I already told you-" He yelped when Hughes squeezed his torso to prove a point.

"You want your daughter to see you like this again? Do you want the darling toddler to end up going to school not knowing what she'll find out later in life? What if she comes home one day and her darling papa is murdered because the only thing he could think of is keeping his daughter safe? No one is your keeper Mustang but again nobody is ever innocent! But we try to keep them innocent as long as we could and you are failing your part. You want her to get hurt? It may not be just her head this time. Your loving boyfriend may get annoyed and take a leg and just squeeze and twist. Do you want that, answer me!"

"I DON'T FUCKING WANT THAT HUGHES!"

"How long has the abuse been going on? How long was your little girl hit? How long were you?" When Roy didn't answer, he tapped him on the head losing patience with the man who had stubbornly not told him a thing about the child he knew nothing about but fathered.

"A year! Jocelyn wasn't hurt though, this was the first time! I swear on my little girl's life that he wouldn't normally dare!"

Hughes nodded.

It seemed like he did what the typical male did, and that was basically threaten the little girl to control Mustang. He glared wanting to know who did it. For Roy to be really beaten up, he had to have had low self-esteem for a while. And not like when they went to the academy either. Because then it was just a shyness that Hughes was able to get him to overcome. He was a bright boy and with the determination he was able to win over favors but not like now. He was really really down.

"Roy," he let out a long sigh. "I don't hate you but we'll have to talk about Jocelyn. I want to see her too you know. Maybe you should send her to Central until you get some counseling-"

"No," he whimpered. "Don't take her away from me, I'll die if you do."

He glared.

"I'm not Roy and threatening to kill yourself isn't gonna help."

"I'll do it if you take her away without second thought," he continued. "Why do you think I didn't tell ya about her?"

"I don't know Roy why don't you tell me," Hughes gave him some leeway really wanting to know the reasons and why. He wouldn't have done anything to take her away had he told him in the beginning. Was this man Roy had been seeing made him think that way? Hughes wouldn't know and didn't know if he wanted to know all he had done.

"You were with Gracia and I didn't want her to come between you. It was rocky in the beginning and I knew she didn't like me much although she's gotten better about it. Then if you both loved her enough you probably would have taken her away from me. I did what I felt would make both of us happy. I also thought of giving her away but when she was born I found I couldn't, I loved her too much."

Hughes nodded.

"What drunken night was it that I took advantage of you?" he really was curious about this. Roy never told him about him doing anything to him.

Roy kept quiet and he saw that the man wasn't in the best condition. He sighed and stroked his forehead watching him flinch. He gritted his teeth really wanting that man's name. Such a horrible man he had to be to do all this. Sighing, he hugged him lightly and Roy finally lost it. It looked like the emotions just built up because he refused to deal with anything and this one last thing finally broke it for he finally started to cry. Hughes was just glad he showed something. He waited until he saw that Roy was in a fitful sleep before letting him go.

"Damn Roy, what happened?" he asked him in a whisper. He thought that Roy could tell him anything, he even thought that Roy realized that as well. Take his kid away? Roy should've known he would have never done that to his friend. "I wish you never had feelings for me buddy because if that never happened you would have been able to love somebody. If you loved somebody you wouldn't have been in such a messed up relationship."

He continued to stroke his head knowing he couldn't be heard but felt maybe, just maybe he should do what he suggested. Roy may feel upset at first but then he would get better with time. Hughes would let him visit her as well, he just needed to concentrate on breaking up thoroughly with that damn asshole and get some counseling. The only question was who would take care of Roy to make sure he didn't go through with his threat? He smiled again when the thought went through his head. He would make sure Ed made sure to take care of him. He did mention liking Ed and he was damned if he thought he'd allow Roy to be by himself.