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Title: Broken

Pairing: Roy x Fem!Ed, AlxWinry

Summary: Two years after the Promise Day, Roy is the Brigadier General and Al is living with Winry and their kids in Risembol. Ed was missing after that, no one has seen her despite having looked everywhere. An envelope shows up one day and changes everything.

Info: Ed is a girl in this story name Eden; she cannot use alchemy anymore and only has an automail leg.

Chapter 14: Explanations

The first night Eden spent out of the hospital was rough. She wasn't used to sleeping somewhere new again and the thoughts of what Illun had told her the day before kept her awake. Closing her eyes, she willed herself to sleep.

When Eden finally rose she slowly made her way to the bathroom attached to her room. It was a slow walk as she used the crutched the hospital gave her to help her around a bit. She turned the water on in the shower and stripped before getting in. Roy had given her a small stool to use in the shower in case she'd get tired from standing until she was stronger. Sighing, she let the water run over her as she thought.

I really need to tell Roy about Illun, she said to herself. What am I going to do?

Quickly, she finished washing and pulled on her clothes before moving out of the room. When she left her room, she heard voices coming from down the stairs. Al? As she neared the top of the stairs, Roy appeared at the bottom looking up at her.

"Eden, I thought I heard the water," Roy said as he climbed the stairs. "Al and Winry brought the kids."

"So early?" She asked as she let him help her down the stairs.

"It's nearly noon," he replied, smiling. "I let you sleep until you were ready."

"Noon?!"

"Yes, noon," he chuckled. "Come on, you have guests."

Roy led her down the hall at the bottom of the stairs and into the living room where Al and Winry sat on the couch while two small kids sat on Al's lap. As soon as they entered the room, Al looked up when he heard the familiar klink of metal against the floor.

A bright smile covered his face as he tapped Winry's leg to signal her to look up.

"Eden!" Winry smiled brightly, getting up to hug her.

Eden allowed herself to be taken from Roy and moved to the couch to sit.

"We want you to meet Ella and Liam," Winry said as she took the smaller child, boy, away from Al. "This is Liam."

Eden smiled as she looked at the young baby in Winry's arms. "He's so small," she said, letting him take her finger in his hand.

"He's not a year old yet," was the happy reply. "Al has Ella; she's a year and a half."

When she looked over at the girl in Al's lap, she smiled and received one in response. "She looks like Al and Liam looks like you," she said with a chuckle.

"That's what everyone says," she laughed.

"I'll get lunch ready," Roy said, nodding to them as they continued to talk and play.

"Do you want to hold him?" Winry asked, nodding to Liam. "He isn't fussy."

Eden looked up at Winry, wanting to shake her head but instead she nodded. Holding her arms up like Winry, she accepted the baby into her arms. She smiled down at the boy as he gripped her finger tightly and sucking on it. A warm feeling ran through her body as she watched his face smiling. It wouldn't be too long until she was holding her own child.

It wasn't long before Roy reentered the living room to announce that lunch was ready. He was greeted with a sight he wasn't sure he was ready to see. Al and Winry were on the floor with Ella, playing with blocks while Eden was on the couch with Liam sleeping in her arms. There was a peaceful look on her face as she watched the boy nap. For a moment, he leaned against the doorframe just watching the scene before him.

Smiling, he pushed himself from the doorway and moved to take the baby from Eden's arms, startling her. "Let's put him in the playpen and let him sleep," he said, nodding to her. "Lunch is ready and we need to feed the adults."

"I'll put Ella down for her nap, too," Al said as he stood with Ella in his arms.

The rest of the afternoon moved quickly for the group. Liam had spent most of the day in Eden's arms while the other two had played with Ella. Roy sat on the couch next to her with his arm on the couch behind her. She sat, leaned against the back close to him and not realizing it. There was a smile on Roy's face each time she looked up at him and smiled because of something Liam had done. If anyone saw them, without knowing the circumstances, they'd think that this was their kids with the way Eden was acting. This made him smile even more on the inside.

It wasn't long before the afternoon turned to evening and the two parents took their kids back to Gracia's with a promise to visit again before they left to return to Risembol. After they had gone, they spent time in the living room, talking about different things and reading. As it neared midnight Eden had returned to her room to try to get some rest after a long day.

Roy moved to his study where the top of the desk was covered in with few piles of papers about Illun Syst that Jean had been able to collect from the records in the library. There weren't many as the man was never official a part of the military or state alchemist. A few pictures had been gathered of a man with the same markings on his neck as Illun but the face was never the same. The only person or thing that Roy knew could change their appearance was Envy but all of the homunculi were gone. At least that's what he thought.

Sighing, he ran his hand through his hair before leaning back in his chair to stare at the ceiling. This wasn't going to be easy to find this man. Not if Eden wasn't going to tell him about what she knew. He knew that it would be difficult to get information out of her since the memories were rather dark, he was sure, and would cause more stress on her than she needed. If she knew any more about this Illun character, he wanted to know.

A small knock on the door brought him out of his musings. It's nearly two in the morning, he thought to himself before the door was slowly pushed opened to reveal Eden standing on the other side.

"Eden?" He stood up from behind the desk and moved to help her to the couch. "You shouldn't be moving around by yourself."

"I couldn't sleep," was her simple reply.

"Are you hurting?"

"No," she shook her head as she sat on the couch. "I need to talk to you."

"Alright," he said, taking a seat on the chair across from her. "What do you want to talk about?"

She took a deep breath and let it out before she spoke. "Illun."

"Ed…"

"No, you need to hear this and I need to explain," Eden said, holding up her hand when he leaned forward. "He told me before I was discharge that he is the Illusionist Alchemist. He can change his face to look like anyone he wants to but not everyone sees the change. In front of me he changed his face to Al then Hughes and then to you. He's going to take the baby away from me and he'll never stop watching me." She brought her hands up to cover her face. "I can't fight him. If I don't give him what he wants he told me that he is going to take me back. I'll end up back in that room again." Lifting her face up from her hands, she looked Roy directly in his dark eyes. "Do you know what he did to me? He took me right after I brought Al back, I didn't even get to see if it worked. He took me and told me that I failed. There was so much blood that I believed him. The next thing I knew was that I was chained up in that room. He took my leg and I couldn't fight back."

"Eden, you don't have to tell me," he said as he moved to sit next to her, rubbing her back.

She shook her head before covering it again. "I want to. I don't want Al to know," she stated with a sigh. "I don't want him to have the nightmares I do. That's not something he needs." Turning to him, she took a deep breath. "You can handle what I'm going to say. I called out for you for months after he took me every time he touched me. I still remember what it feels like to have his hands on me. The pain I felt each time he raped me or beat me. After you didn't come find me, I gave up. I gave up all hope that anyone would come for me and I allowed myself to be his slave. I didn't scream much after that whenever he used me." Now, she turned away from him, looking anywhere else. "I wished after that, that I would die. My brother was dead and you didn't come for me. Death seemed to be the way to do."

"Your brother isn't dead and I'm here now," Roy stated as he took her chin is his hand and turned her to face him. "I thank you for telling me."

"He's coming back."

"You know I won't let him take you or the baby," Roy said with a smile. "I know you aren't used to getting help from us but please accept our help now. I won't let anyone hurt you anymore or your baby, okay?"

"Thank you," she said, smiling.

Roy stood and pulled her up with him. "You need to sleep. It's been a long day," he said as he helped her back to her room. "Sleep well, Eden."

Eden lay in her bed, allowing Roy to lay the covers over her. "Thank you again," she said before turning onto her side and closing her eyes. When she heard the door slide shut a small smile over her face as sleep took her.