So once again sorry for the delay. I decided to write the whole chapter again cause it was just plain awful. Hopefully this version isn't as bad but my writing mojo seems to have disappeared somewhere and I'm still waiting for it to return.
But it is the final chapter! Thank you to all have stuck through this story through good and bad times.
Once again this is the censored version...
"With evidence still needing to be given we shall take a half hour break. Court is adjourned." The head judge struck the wooden block with his gavel before the entire room rose to their feet as he made his way out of the back of courtroom before everyone else made their way to the main entrance.
Ed instantly made his way to the nearby coffee machine, paying for two drinks before making his way back to the bench handing a hot plastic cup to the person seated.
"How are you holding up?" He asked as he took the seat next to her.
She wrapped her hands around the cup before raising the brim to her lips, taking a quick sip of the hot liquid. "Better when this is all over and Maes can finally rest in peace."
In all honesty Ed wasn't expecting an answer from her since the first session in the court room was basically the build up to the murder - What her husband and Roy were doing behind her back.
A day before the trial Roy came to the police station asking to make a tapped confession about his time with Maes, so there was no need to stand up in court. Afterall this was a murder inquiry. His and Maes activities weren't the issue here.
"Gracia.."
Both seated persons quickly looked to their side to see a lone man in a dark blue suit and black tie with his head partially bowed. Roy Mustang.
"I'm so sorry.." He continued. "I was in the upper gallery."
Which would explain that when Ed looked around the room he couldn't see the bar owner. Then again with the taped confession he technically wouldn't have a reason to come to court today.
The older man raised his head and looked to the two of them.
Gracia placed her cup on the table beside her and stood up to look eye to eye with Roy. "All this time. I welcomed you into our home, I cooked meals and this was how I was repaid."
"I have no excuses for what I had done."
"You had no concern about me or Elicia." She took a deep breath, but it was clear she was desperately trying to hold on to her emotions. Ed watched as a tear fell down her cheek only for it to be swiped away almost instantly.
"At the time, no. It was only for my pathetic needs. I took whatever I could because I knew I could never have him. You and Elicia were his world."
With those words the tears fell. Ed wasn't really one for consoling, he was shit at it, but he was thankful that Roy knew what to do as he walked up to the woman and wrapped his arms around her. She tried to fight him away but was just too drained to do anything other than cry into his shoulder.
"Bring him back." She muttered to him. "Bring him back."
Roy looked over to Ed as the young detective rose to his feet. "Gracia. Do you want to go into a quiet room until they are ready for us?"
The woman nodded, Roy gently releasing her from his grasp before Ed called over another officer to take her to the relatives room.
The two men watched until she was out of sight before sitting down.
"I had to come." Roy spoke first. "How pathetic would it be if I didn't even show up and faced what I had done, faced Gracia."
"I was ready to pull her off you if things got violent."
"I would have taken it. I deserve it for what I have done to her."
The two men sat in silence until the call came that court was about to resume. When Roy rose to make his way to the upper gallery Ed held him back.
"Sit with us." Roy looked behind the detective as Gracia returned from the room. She looked at him with red puffy eyes before walking ahead back into the court room. "If you want to make this right.."
The older man nodded and followed Ed into the prosecution side of the court room. They didn't sit next to each other, the detective was at one end with Gracia and he was at the other, but it didn't help them glancing at each other.
Roy watched as Kain came up from the holding cells down below and take his place in the accusers box. The man glanced around the courtroom before his and Roy's eyes lock upon each other. It was the first time both men had seen each other since he was formally arrested for Maes' murder. Mustang decided to stay away from the first case of the grenade murders, but Ed kept him well informed that the jury unanimously declared him guilty for aiding Solf J Kimblee and for his lone killing after the man's incarceration.
"All rise." A bailiff called out before everyone rose to their feet as the judge returned to the seat.
"Connell Atreides. Before the break we had a recorded statement from Roy Mustang telling us how him and Maes came to be. Now we would like to here what you have to say about the night of the murder."
Kain rose to his feet. " I called him to meet me at the phone box on Southred Street. When he came I told him about the recordings of him and Roy and what I was planning to do with them and he laughed in my face."
"What were you planning to do with the footage?"
"Out him as a cheater. The man had a wife and child and he was doing this behind their back."
"But we've heard that it wasn't for his own gain. Him and Mr Mustang didn't have sexual intercourse. Mr Mustang even said in his recording that Maes Hughes did not show or receive anything sexual from him."
"He was doing this kind of thing with a man behind his wife's back, I couldn't allow it to continue."
"How did you feel when he laughed at your threat?"
"Of course it made me angry, he didn't take me seriously, that's when I pulled out the gun and threatened him."
"But you pulled the trigger and ran from the scene, leaving the man to die on his own in a phone box laying in his own blood."
"I didn't mean to pull the trigger. I didn't mean to kill him. It was just a freak accident!"
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"From the evidence provided and guilt admitted by the accused I have no choice to hand down my verdict of Guilty for the murder of Maes Hughes." He looked to a distraught Kain with his head bowed in the stand. "You have already begun a life sentence, convicted of taking yet another life only recently. With this newest guilty verdict for murder you are given another life sentence and will now have absolutely no chance of parole. Court is adjourned." He slammed his gavel down to end the session.
Ed turned to Grace and put a comforting arm around her as she watched Kain return to the holding cells before returning to his prison where he will rot for the rest of his days. He looked around for Roy to find that he must have already left. Turning back to Gracia he lead the distressed widow from the court and into the care of a bereavement officer.
Taking his phone from his inside jacket pocket he swiped across the screen and begun to call the bar owner, placing the device to his ear as he loosened his tie. It rang and rang until it reached the answer phone. He walked quickly to the main lobby in a hope of spotting him, but it was like he just suddenly disappeared.
His phone sounded of a received text message.
"I can't thank you enough detective." Ed locked his device, before he could even read the item, and turned around to see Gracia. "Maes can finally rest and I can finally move on."
"Just doing my job, but what about Roy?"
"That may take a bit longer. Regardless off those past happenings with Maes he has helped the family so much. When I feel ready I will speak to him."
Ed smiled. "Do you want a lift home?"
"I'll be fine."
Ed said his farewell and made his way to his car, taking out his phone again and reading the text.
5 Grustrail Meadows
An address? It was unfamiliar to him. He tried to ring the man again but it went straight to answer phone.
There was only one way to find out as he reversed out of his parking space. The address was one of the newer roads in the city, but the area was only a ten minute drive away.
xXx
He carefully looked at each house as he passed. Each as elegant as the next before he came to some open gates with the number 5 etched on them. Turning into the driveway he cautiously parks his car and turns off the ignition.
Stepping out of the vehicle his eyes couldn't help but look at the building in front of him. An open porch made of brick with two very fancy stone columns holding up the roof. A double door garage to the sides. The click of the front door unlatching drew his attention away from the rest of the building to the opening panel and especially to the person now standing in an open doorway.
"What is this place?"
"My home." Roy leant slightly against the door frame.
"This address wasn't on the database, maybe I should turn criminal if it gets me something like this." Mind you since he turned detective his pay packet did get a rather nice pay rise.
"I'll have you know the Flame and Alchemy bars paid for this place."
Roy stood to the side as he walked in, still wearing the slacks and shirt he had seen him wearing at the courtroom.
Ed took his jacket from around his shoulders. "What did you call me here for?" He turned around to place the jacket on a spare wall hook, kicking his shoes off in the process.
Within milliseconds of the sentence being finished Roy had closed the gap between them and placed his hands on Ed's waist. The younger man paused his actions and turned his head slightly to look only for Roy's forehead to rest on his temple.
"I don't want this to end." His voice deep, but quiet. "I don't want us to end."
"This started off-"
"As a way to use you..." He interrupted. "... I'm sorry I used you in such away, but it pulled me closer to you." He closed any space between them. "Is this feeling mutual Edward?"
Ed gently nodded, of course it was, what kind of question was that? He doesn't go round kissing random people in their place of work and on a darkened footpath. There were times he could have pulled away, but he didn't. Because he felt the exact same. As soon as Roy appeared in that courtroom earlier even he didn't know what would become of them. Part of him still believed he did this for the Hughes case to be solved quickly, but what was being said now had dismissed that line of thought, and he couldn't be happier about it.
Mustang begun to pepper the blonde's neck with gentle kisses. "I just want you."
"Then how about you do something about it?"
He took an earlobe gently between his teeth before reaching to Ed's dress shirt and untucking it from the band of his pants, reaching underneath to feel the Elric's upper body for the first time.
Ed leant his head back against Roy's shoulder as his fingertips explored every groove of his torso. The older man taking his sweet time as he reached the hardened nubs and rolled his fingers gently over them before caressing them between his thumb and forefinger.
Roy's fingers tips slowly raked back down his torso, before leaving the tanned skin completely. Ed stopped leaning on him and turned to face him, the older man looked down and took Ed's hand in his own before leading him straight to the staircase and up to the first floor.
He wasn't led to the bedroom, but the bathroom. Roy left him for a moment as he reached over and turned the shower on before returning and begun unbuttoning Ed's dress shirt. The blond's eyes alternated from the man's eyes to his hands as the buttons slowly popped one by one until the very last. Roy pulled each piece of cloth to the side to reveal the torso he was exploring only minutes earlier, letting his fingertips once again glide over the soft skin before his leaned down and placed a soft kiss on the younger's collar bone. Nothing was hasty as he calmly begun to kiss his way down the sensitized flesh, giving longer attention to the hardened buds licking, kissing and sucking before continuing the descent. Licking the canals on the detectives abdomen before briefly dipping his tongue into the navel.
Mustang's eyes met with his once again as he slowly kissed his way back up the center of his upper body, instinctively Ed raised his head as his neck gathered attention before the older man cupped his cheek. Their lips connected softly and sweetly, Ed didn't realise until now that this was the first time they had actually kissed since he stepped foot into the house. Roy was about to pull away when the blonde cupped the back of his head and bring him back into a short embrace as his hand slide from the raven locks and along the ivory skin.
Roy watched as the detective removed his shirt and threw it to the side before the younger man's hands begun to undress him, a bit quicker then his painfully slow ways.
As soon as the shirt was detached Mustang helped remove the item of clothing before throwing it in the same direction as his own clothing. Of course his eyes landed straight on the man's physique, not resisting a smirk before his hands traveled down the muscle and straight to the groin.
Roy moaned as he was stroked and fondled through the clothing, watching the detective unbuckle, un button and un zip the suit pants before pulling the them, along with his underwear, down and out of the way in the position they were in. Both men stared hungrily at each other before any remaining clothing was swiftly removed before Roy took Ed's hand and led him into the shower.
Their lips met once again under the water. Roy's hand stroked along Ed's jaw to the back of his head, his fingers immediately found the hair tie. Once removed the already soaked blonde locks fell down Ed's back and over his shoulders. Breaking this kiss he brushed the wet strands through his fingers before reaching behind him to grab a bottle from the small shelf behind him..
Roy turned the shower off and grabbed a large towel from the rack and wrapping it around Ed before taking one for himself before taking his hand and leading him to the much warmer bedroom.
Both men sat on the bed drying themselves off.
Roy looked to the side. "Have you got to go back to work?"
"No. Just had to be for the court case."
"Good, because if you did I'd feel like I'd have to steal something to see you."
"That doesn't mean you have to commit a crime and get arrested."
Roy smiled. "If it means you handcuffing me."
Ed turned his whole body towards him. "You don't need to be arrested to be handcuffed, besides how can you fuck me if you are in police custody?"
"I'm sure you'll find a way." He leaned over and kissed Ed gently on the lips. "So that means I get you all to myself."
"For a while." Ed rose from the bed only to straddle Mustang. "But I don't want to tire you out old man."
Roy placed his hands on the detective's hips. "You'll come to know how much stamina I have."
"Maybe we should test this theory of yours..." Ed pushed him flat onto the bed.
"It'll acquire many days of testing." Roy smirked as he unwrapped Ed's towel.
"Best get started then..."
This isn't the last we shall see of Kain/Connell. I've got a plan to put him in the third installment of this series.
The epilogue will be released nearer the time the second story comes out ( which is.. I dunno yet.)
At the moment I will only be focusing a the sequel to 'It had to be you' thanks to a reader request which I was more then happy to oblige. Then I'll try and get 'Undercover' back on track and continue the Law and Disorder series.
Once again thank you for reading my work. I know it's not the best and well detailed but I think I am slowly improving.
See you next time! o/