CH.3 Eastern Headquarters

He recklessly tossed his bags on the couch.

"5 days" he thought out loud "and then I have to go face Hawkeye and it…"he couldn't say her name out loud much less his. He had 5 more days not of vacation but work; god he wished it was vacation but wishing gets you no wear. He had been called over because there was a meting concerning recent events, why they didn't just hold it in central was beyond him but it gave him some time to think things out. But now he was tired an all he could think about was

"Riza…"he wisped before falling asleep.

"Mon Mon" yelled an enthused Elysia "Big sister Winry's hear!"

"I'm up" he moaned as he rolled out of the make shift bed "what's so great about her any way?"

"Winry's the best she can fix any thing!" she replied as she pulled him down the stairs.

"Can she fix a broken arm" Elysia stopped and stared at him.

"Of coarse, why"

"Because you're pulling mine out of its socket"

"MOMMMMMMMY" she cried as she ran down the hall and started hugging Gracia leg tightly "Isaidshecouldfixanythingandthen"

"Elysia, please slow down" Winry said as she put her hand on Elysia's shoulder.

"Came down Ely I was just kidding, I'm fine" it wasn't just his voice it was the look on his face he looked like…

"AHHHHHHH" Winry screamed as she fell out of her chair "OH GOD"

"Are you all right" he said as he rushed over

"I swear I just saw a little Roy" as she turned to take his hand she yelled again "it is a little Roy"

"No, this little guy is more cultured and has more manners then Roy" Gracia giggled "don't tell him I said his son has more charm then him I don't think he'd like it"

"His son?" she screeched in response

"Yup he has his mother's eyes though"

"Oh god I'm taking a nap"

He sat at the bar thinking how he would tell Hawkeye listing the ways

A note

Over the phone

Have Gracia tell her (women always take it better from other women)

Not tell her

That sounded good he had four more days of bull shit meetings he could think of something…anything

"Okay I think I have it, she was a close friend, they were really in love with each other, and then she just up and left?" Winry asked

"Yes but we now know she had a reason"

"I really wouldn't trust Roy with a baby either"

"Theirs more to it" she paused "its best told another time"

Damon stood out side the door felling hurt by what they said; his own farther doesn't want him, nether did his real family, and if they did they were dead. He was confused his mom had always said they were dead. He had only met his grandfather he was really nice, but had died for real and they lived to far away to go to the funeral. But what really confused him was his dad; mom had always said incredible, wonderful, and interesting things about him like that he was brave and strong and an alchemist. Not just an alchemist a state alchemist, imagine that! His mom hated the military more then any thing and his dad was a military dog! His mom was in theater and her friends all ways teased he about it, but she'd always shrug it off and say 'at lest he was loyal like a dog' before making fun of one of there flames. But way if he was so loyal so devoted that he wouldn't take him in? He went to sit on the front stairs to think.

"Mom" he whispered "How could you let this happen, did he really change that much?" He started to cry as he watched cars speed by "life's funny like that you never know when it's going to come to a crashing halt"

"Honey" Gracia asked "Are you alright, I didn't mean for you to hear any of that"

"I was gonna find out a some point, better sooner the later I guess"

"Honey give'em a chance you might find out some thing you didn't know"

"Like what?"

"Honey, there are things even I don't know" she paused "But please give him a chance you might grow to like him"

"Alright I'll give it a try, but if it doesn't work can I live with you?

"It's not up to me honey it's not up to me"