Unbreakable chap.25
It was a few months after Edward and his family moved to Central when he came home one night and Coda meet him at the door. "Daddy, mommy is sick." Edward got a puzzled look and smiled "Alright Coda where's mommy at?" Coda pointed to the bedroom and Edward walked over to it and opened the door.
Winry was lying there with Trishara in her playpen so he went over and picked her up. Then he walked over and sat on the bed and putting his hand on Winry's back he bent down and kissed her cheek "Hey baby Coda says you're not feeling well. What's the matter?" She rolled over and gazed at him with slight tears in her eyes "I think I'm pregnant again Ed." Edward put Trishara on the floor and asked Coda to come watch her. Looking at his wife's eyes he wondered why she was so sad "Well isn't this a good thing?" she sat up and grabbed a pillow and hugged it "I want it to be a boy so bad Ed. But I'm scared it won't be. I know you want a boy."
Edward slightly smiled as he pulled her into a hug "Hey, I love my girls and if it's another girl then I love her just the same." He stroked her hair as he kissed the top of her head as Winry became a little happier but in her mind giving Edward a son was all she wanted to do. He leaned back looking into her eyes "Are you feeling better now? Do you want something to eat?" she nodded slightly "Alright then get up and I'll fix dinner."
It was a few months later when Al called "Brother we have a boy! I'm a daddy!" He was so excited and Edward was excited for him "That's great Al I'm glad to hear it. I'll make arrangements and I'll be on the first train." Edward scooped his family up and took a two week leave while they went to visit Al and Mei. Mei and Al had named their son Jacob Elric he had dark hair and golden eyes. Edward was a proud uncle to see his nephew for the first time till he threw upon him but Edward just laughed.
When they returned home Edward had put many of the soldiers in the army through some rough training. They would tell them something they said was classified then he'd have them kidnapped and placed in a make shift prison they built. Edward would go to town on them throwing everything that happened to him in prison and see if they'd break. Those that did were discharged and those that didn't were moved up in the ranks to higher commands and would help him with other soldiers. This went on for about eight months until and he knew he had trained the ones that didn't break well enough so they could take over.
Winry was now in her ninth month of her pregnancy and she was concerned again about the sex of the baby. Edward kept telling her it didn't matter but the stress of it threw her into early labor. He received a phone call form Sheska at work telling him Winry was in the hospital. So he grabbed his stuff knowing she had worried herself into this. Worrying himself he found himself praying to a higher being that he would give Winry what she wanted. Not knowing if he was being heard he just finally told the higher being he was praying to 'Please God, give her this because I don't think she'll be happy if it's not a boy.'
He made it to the hospital and met Sheska in the waiting room. He was scared because they wouldn't let him go back to see her. They said she was under dourest and that was putting strain on the baby. He found himself praying to that same higher being he talked to earlier. Not knowing what was happening he was a nervous wreck. So to calm himself he called Pinako to let her know what was going on and she told him to just hang in there, that Winry had done this twice before. After talking to granny and hanging up he felt a little better. But hours had past and no one had told him anything. He was just about to burst through the doors of the delivery room when a nurse appeared "Mr. Elric?"
Turning around quickly "YES!" she smiled softly "You can come in now." He walked over to her "How is she?" the nurse smiled again "They are just fine now it was touch and go there for a while but everything is fine." Edward's eyes widened "They?" She nodded "Yes your wife and son are fine now."
The word son hit his heart and he inhaled deeply like any proud father as he looked up and thought 'Thank you.' The nurse motioned for him to follow her as she led him to Winry's room. Upon opening the door he saw her holding their son with a huge smile on her face "It's a boy Ed. You have a son." Leaning back she felt such relief she had produced a son for her husband "I did it."
Walking closer he stopped and stared at the baby in her arms then looked at her "Winry you scared the shit out of me this time." With tears in his eyes she knew he was upset because he told her it didn't matter what the baby was. But it mattered to her she wanted him to have a son. Looking up at him her head went forward some "I'm sorry Edward but I wanted you to have a son." He couldn't stay mad at her as he leaned down and kissed her forehead realizing how important it was to her "I'm sorry baby but I love you so much and I don't know what I would do if anything happened to you." Then he looked at his son in her arms. His blonde hair and golden eyes only made Edward smile because he was a little of both of them in one body.
"Do you want to hold him?" she asked smiling at him and he gestured for the baby and as he took his son in his arms he knew now his life was complete, he had everything he'd ever wanted and soon he would have all the time in the world to enjoy them.
Winry looked up at her proud husband and smiled "His name is Elliot Edward Elric." Edward turned to her and smiled "I like it Win." Then Sheska brought the girls in to see their new brother although Trishara was only a year and a half she gave her brother a smirk as if to say 'I'm going to make your life a living hell.' Coda thought it was cool to have a younger sister and brother just a year apart that way she could boss them around for the rest of their lives.
It was a year later when the Elric's returned to Xing and upon their arrival they learned that Ling had proposed to Lan Fan. The wedding was going to be in two months so Edward and Ling went to work finding his family a house. They found a little cottage on the edge of some woods that Edward just fell in love with. It was peaceful, quiet, and had a little river running across the property. It was rough around the edges but Edward fixed it up in no time for his family. This is where he trained all his children in martial arts and alchemy with some help from Al when a demonstration was needed. Al and Mei had bought the property connected to Edward's and the brother's did everything together as they always did. Al wasn't about to let Ed out of his sight again. He loved having his brother around and since Edward moved to Xing he had mellowed out a lot and he was more at peace with himself and Al liked to see him that way, no more military ventures or problems, Ed was now retired. Two years later though they all made a trip to Central to attend Mustang and Hawkeye's wedding. It was there the now B. General as Edward called him tried to talk him into coming back but Edward told him if he ever truly needed his help for something major he'd help but he was done with that life.
TEN YEARS LATER
It was the afternoon on the eve of Halloween when Mustang was walking home. He happened to come across two men robbing a woman. He put his gloves on and was about to approach them when out of nowhere a girl appeared wearing black leather pants and a red shirt and took both men out without breaking a sweat. As he walked up closer to her she turned to him after the woman ran off "Hey grandpa is there something wrong?"
"Who are you calling grandpa girl?" he then noticed her eyes, they were golden and her hair was also in the braided ponytails she wore. The closer he looked the more he recognized her with the antenna sticking up from the top of her head "Coda? Coda Elric is that you?"
She smiled "Yea grandpa it is." He got an annoyed tone in his voice "Why do you keep calling me grandpa?" she smiled a huge Edward smile at him "Well you are Roy Mustang aren't you The Flame alchemist?"
He sighed "Yes" she stood up straight "Then my daddy says you're my grandpa."
Mustang smiled at the thought of Edward telling her that "Alright then very well I'm your grandpa." He walked closer "What are you doing in Central?" He looked around "And where's your father?"
She smiled again "I came to Central to become a state alchemist. Daddy says the military could use all the help it could get."
"You want to be a state alchemist?" Mustang said surprised "I thought your mother would have something to say about that?"
She scratched the back of her head "Yeah she wasn't too hip on the idea but dad told her his kids could be anything they wanted to be so here I am. Plus he said he didn't trust anyone but you for me to serve under." Mustang felt a sense of loyalty to Edward at that point "He said that did he?" She nodded yes then pointed to the café down the street "Daddy's sitting there having coffee waiting for you. He said you always walked home this way."
Just then a huge suit of armor came running around the corner "Sissy come on we're going to be late." Mustang's eyes widened as he held his finger up "What kind of human transmutation did you perform to get her soul in there?" He sounded angry. But Coda smiled and the suit of armors hand went to its head and pulled it off. Mustang was staring a boy straight in the face "Hi grandpa it's Elliot." Mustang walked up to the suit of armor "I could have sworn I heard a girl's voice." From the bottom of it he heard "Hi grandpa it's Trishara." Elliot was perched on her shoulders in the armor as Coda turned to him "It's Halloweenand daddy thought you'd like a trick and now were going trick or treating. Uncle Al loaned us the armor as a costume." Breathing a sigh of relief Mustang had sweat beading up on his forehead as he turned a slight pale color "You say your dad's in the café?"
Coda smiled "Yep." Then she turned to her siblings "Come on you dumbass's let's go get some candy." With that they all took off running as Mustang turned to walk to the café.
Upon entering it he recognized the golden haired person sitting with his back to the door. Walking up to him, "That was a dirty trick Fullmetal." Edward turned around and smiled at him "What you didn't think that was funny sir?" Edward chuckled "You should have seen your face when that armor came around the corner." He laughed and laughed as Mustang sat down "Alright I get it you were fucking with me." He got serious "Now what's this about Coda wanting to be a state alchemist?" Edward stopped laughing "She wants to join as a state alchemist and you're the only one I trust to be her superior. So I'm putting her in your hands but I must warn you she's twice as bad as I was at that age and quit the handful." Mustang smiled as they sat there reminiscing about old times and before they knew it the sun had come up.
Mustang turned to Edward "Come home with me because Hawkeye would love to see you and you can explain why I've been out all night." Edward laughed 'So whipped' he thought "Okay the kids are at the hotel so I'll go save your sorry prick ass from her kicking it all over Central." They both enjoyed each other's company all the way to Mustang's house where a very pissed off Riza swung the door open and punched him in the face as he went flying backwards she looked at Edward "ED! Is that you?" she hugged him "It's so good to see you. I've missed that smiling face of yours." Squeezing him tightly he wheezed out "Thanks Lieutenant." She let him go "Where are my manners come on. Come in." as Edward walked into the house he heard her yell "ROY YOU BETTER NOT FUCKING BE BLEEDING ON THE DRIVEWAY AGAIN! NOW GET UP AND HOSE IT OFF!"
Well this is where our story stops I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did writing it? I'll see on my next adventure then. Thank you to everyone who read it and if you haven't reviewed please do…..