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"So how are they doctor?" Riza asked the elderly doctor who was assigned to Edward and Roy's care.
"Well, they're a little banged up; nothing serious though." He added with a small smile. "Edward did lose quite a bit of blood but I'm sure he'll be fine after a good night sleep and some sustenance."
"Good. Are we allowed to see them?"
"Yes, yes. You may. But try not to stay too long; they both really need their rest."
"Of course."
"They're in room 301; it's on the third floor. Do you need a nurse to show you there?"
"No, we'll be fine. Thank you doctor."
The grey-haired man gave her a kind smile and a nod of the head before he turned and walked out of the hallway.
Riza turned around and walked into the waiting where Alphonse, Havoc, Furey, Falman, and Breda sat awaiting news. All of their heads instantly snapped up at the sight of her before sending a barrage of questions toward her.
"Are they alright?"
"Can we see them?"
"Is Brother going to be okay?"
"How is their condition?"
"Where's their room?"
"Are visiting hours over yet?"
Riza held up her hand to silence them all. They quickly stopped their rapid-fire questioning so that she could speak freely.
"The doctor said that they are going to be fine." Riza said, causing everyone to let out a sigh of relief. "We can go and see them but only for a little while. They have to stay, at least, over night for observation. Their room's 301."
The group quickly moved to the nearest elevator and went up to the third floor. After a bit of confusion with the room numbers, they arrived outside of Edward and Roy's hospital room. Riza opened the door and move quietly into the room.
Both Edward and Roy were asleep. Roy was not hooked up to any sort of annoying hospital machinery but Edward was attached to a small bag of dark crimson fluid that was unmistakably blood. Both of their faces were pale but it appeared that they looked that way for different reasons. Roy's face was pale with extreme weariness while Ed's complexion appeared pale due to his blood loss.
After Riza had looked over Ed and Roy several times and deemed them alright, she let out a small sigh before pulling a chair from the wall and moving it next to Roy's bed so she could be closer to him. Al walked over to his brothers' bed and stared down at him. He had been absolutely terrified when he saw Edward fall off of the cliff and had been unable to rest for a second. But now that Al was sure that his brother was safe and sound, his exhaustion hit him with full force, causing him to sink into the nearest chair.
The others were talking about things that Al's drained brain did not register. It took all of his powers to stop himself from shoving Ed out of the bed and crawling inside of it. He was exhausted and he needed to find somewhere to sleep…
"Alphonse?"
Al's eyes snapped open at the sound of Riza's voice suddenly close to his own ear. His fried brain quickly attempted to gain hold of the situation. A nurse was standing in the doorway and was smiling at him. When did she get here?
"Huh?" was what came out of his mouth.
"It's time to go. Come on. You're exhausted. Let's get you to a nice bed so you can have a nice, long rest."
"Bed…" Al muttered sleepily as he slowly pushed himself into a standing position.
Al could swear he heard Havoc laughing quietly at his zombie-like personality, but he couldn't care less. Later on, Al could only remember the walk to the elevator and then being helped into a car; after that it was a complete blur.
Al let out a low groan as the offending light attempted to wake him from his coma-like sleep. He was lying in a heavenly comfortable bed and he could hear someone talking in another room. After trying to fall asleep for several minutes, Al cracked his eyes and stared around the room.
He was in a bedroom that could only belong to a hotel of some sort. The walls were painted in a pale peach color and the floor was covered in a brown plush carpet. He was laying in one of two queen-sized beds in the room. The other bed was empty but had been obviously slept in. The floral curtains were closed, but a crack of offending light had managed to break into the room.
"What time is it…?" Al mumbled to himself as he searched for a clock.
Finally, Al's eyes found the green glow of a digital clock and jumped a little when he learned of the time.
"It's four in the afternoon?"
Al tried to count back the hours he had been asleep but found it impossible to find an exact time since he had no idea it was when they got to the hospital. Al kicked off the thick comforter and walked to the door.
"Oh, you're finally up sleeping beauty!" Havoc said with a large grin once he saw Al slump into the hotel living area.
"Where are we?" Al asked as he rubbed his eyes.
"We're at a hotel near the hospital." Breda answered as he smirked at Al's disheveled appearance.
"Oh, okay…when can we go see them again?"
"Well we were waiting for you to wake up. But now that you're up, I guess we can go and check up on them. Riza's up there already."
"Good. Well then I'll just go get ready!"
"Right, we're leaving in fifteen minutes so if you're not ready, we're leaving without you."
They arrived at the hospital twenty-five minutes later. Al, having been half asleep when they had been there before, didn't really know the way and had to rely on the others, who were walking infuriatingly slow for him.
Roy was up and awake when they arrived, talking quietly to Riza. Ed however was a lump of mumbling blankets on his hospital bed. Roy and Riza looked up when they saw their friends had arrived.
"You guys aright?" Havoc asked as he looked from Roy to what he guessed was Ed.
"I guess." Roy said with a small shrug.
"Mghnnn…shuup!" something or someone whined from under Ed's heap of blankets.
"Oh so you're finally up Edward?" Roy asked while turning his attention to the occasionally moving heap.
"Yes!" Ed roared as he pulled himself free of his tomb of fabric. "I've been awake for hours! Do you have any idea how loud and annoying you are?!"
Everyone in the room stared at the yelling blond and tried not to laugh. Edward's long hair was mussed up in the most epic case of bed head. Even though he had slept for hours, dark circles still lingered underneath his crazed-looking gold eyes. Edward looked like a complete an utter mad man as he ranted on and on.
"Alright Edward we get it." Riza said in a stern voice that stopped Edwards' speech. "We are sorry that we woke you and we'll try to be more considerate next time."
"Pff. Next time? Hell, next time you guys want to visit I'll have to make sure there isn't any bullshit going on in the area so I know that you aren't trying to rope me into another wild scheme!"
Al couldn't help but laugh at his brothers antics. He just looked and sounded ridiculous.
"What are you laughing about?" Ed asked once he heard the small noise that had managed to slip between Al's lips.
"Oh nothing." Al said as he tried to regain an innocent expression.
Ed stared down his brother for another moment before he sat back in his bed and folded his arms across his chest, looking very much the part of an overgrown child after throwing a fit.
"Well now that we're all awake, I think that we should discuss what went on the past day." Roy said.
"Are you sure it's safe to do that here?" Breda asked while staring out of the window.
"No, but we have to regroup quickly or else it might be too late."
"So where should we start?" Furey asked while staring at the others.
"How about what happened after me and Edward fell off of the cliff."
For the next few hours, the group began retelling each others version of what had happened over the pass day or so. Once all had been revealed, the team slowly pieced things bit by bit.
"And you're sure neither of you remember if the boss or either of his hench-men said where they were gong to?" Riza asked.
"No." Ed and Roy answered together.
The group now redirected their focus on where their headquarters was located. Unfortunately, they had only a general clues as to where they could be, and right now, general was not good enough.
"So what do we do now?" Ed asked angrily as he stared at the wall were they had written down and tacked up all of their information on the terrorist group. "Go to Central and start banging on every shady looking building and hope that the terrorists answer?"
"No-."
"Then what the Hell do we do?" Ed asked angrily.
"Well we're trying to figure that out Edward! Now calm down before I make you calm down." Roy growled while glaring at the teen.
"…I'd like to see you try." Ed muttered before he sat back down on his bed.
"Falman." Roy barked as he tore his glaring eyes away from the sulking teenager.
"Yes sir?"
"Hand me the box of things you collected from their hideout outside of Azeum."
Falman quickly bent down, picked up the heavy box of items and brought them over to his boss. Roy hurriedly picked thought the box until he found the item he was looking for.
"Found it…" Roy muttered as he hastily read through the document.
"What is it Roy?" Riza asked as he got out of bed and moved to the small map Roy had procured from the nursing staff.
Roy moved his finger throughout the Central area on the map before it stopped on a certain location a few miles away from the center of the city. He then turned to the group and said, "I know where their headquarters are."
Oooh, looks like there's going to be a little action next chapter!
Sorry if this chapter was a bit dry or filler-y, but I had to leave it here so I could set up the next chapter were I needed it to be.
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