1. I do not own any of these characters at all in any way, they belong to 'The Cow.'
2. THIS IS IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE!
Chapter Two- 'Re' meetings
When he awoke the next morning his head was restrained against his hospital bed. He raised his hands to remove the restraint, but it was fastened tightly to his skull. A soft angelic voice on his left side spoke to him.
"Roy, please don't. That's there as a precaution. I don't want you hurting yourself any more than you already are." The voice paused. "What happened at your apartment wasn't supposed to occur. How Envy found you is totally unknown; as far as the world knows, the Flame Alchemist died in the hospital almost a year ago." Roy strained to recognize the voice, and he finally did.
"Rockbell? Winry Rockbell? Why are you here?" he asked, trying to turn his head to look at her. She stood up and looked down into Roy's head restraint. He finally got his eyes to focus on her face and they widened in surprise when he saw the rank of 2nd lieutenant on her shoulders. "When did you join the military? Why?"
"I'm here because my superior is out of town on a mission with Ed and Al. They've been gone for almost a month now." she answered.
"But you didn't answer my other question. When did you join the military?" he asked more forcefully.
"Let's see; you've been in a coma for six years now; so I've been in for five. I joined right after you began responding to outside stimuli, like voices." she answered again, letting her eyes glance down at the gash on his neck, stitched up and raw looking. A few more seconds and I would have been too late to save him. she thought. "I was trained by the best marksmen in the military, so I'm proud to say I'm a pretty good shooter myself, plus I still do all the automail maintenance for Colonel Elric and the one other person in the military here who has an automail extremity." she said as a knock came at the door. Winry stood and stiffened, saluting as she gave a quick status report on Roy's condition, adding 'he's awake right now,' at the end in a whisper. He strained to hear any verbalization from who ever had entered the room, but he got nothing. A strange male voice was heard in the background saying, 'the restraint can be removed as long as he doesn't move his head at all.' A few seconds later, he heard some clicks and the restraint was taken off his head. He felt two strong hands grabs both of his and pull him up.
"Full-Metal? What the…you're tall! Who are you?" Roy said as Winry answered for the blonde-headed young man who looked like Ed, only a few years younger.
"May I formally introduce you to the Pure-Energy Alchemist, Major Alphonse Elric; and of course you know this one, Colonel Edward Elric." Roy looked up at Al with amazement. He had never met him before in his human body, only the suit of armor. Someone pushed a stack of pillows behind his back and the brothers lowered him down gently. Roy watched as Winry stood next to Ed and he wrapped his arm around her shoulders; he was taller than she was! Since he wasn't able to move his head, everyone in the room gathered at the end of his bed as Winry treated him like an amnesia patient.
"This is Colonel Kain Fuery, commanding officer of Technological Reconstruction unit one-beta-seven. This is Heymans Breda, commanding officer of Central headquarters' strategic planning unit. He is personally responsible for unit placements and battle plans. Major Armstrong retired when his service contract was up, but he still spends time at the office with Major Havoc and me. And…" she was interrupted by Havoc.
"And you remember that girl I dated right before you… your accident? Well, we got real serious and now we're married! And she's gonna have our first kid any day! It'll be less than a week before I'll be a father…" He trailed off, allowing Winry to jump back in.
"I swear… he's the next Maes.. by the way; where is Major General Hughes?" she said, as the door swung open again and he walked in holding Elysia's hand.
"Daddy! I'm nine years old now! You don't have to hold my hand like a baby!" she said in mock anger as she jerked her hand out of his. She looked over at Roy and instantly paled, then fell to the floor in a dead faint. Maes caught her before she hit the floor, shaking his head and laughing.
"Well! I'd say she's still the attention getter she used to be." Maes said, lightly tickling her side and laughing harder when she burst into a fit of giggles.
"Stop! Stop! I won't do it again! I promise daddy!" Elysia said, wiggling and writhing out of her fathers grip and sitting down in one of the chairs. Maes closed the distance between himself and Roy's bed before patting his shoulder lightly.
"How're you doing? When I heard you woke up I was dying to come see you but Elysia have a spelling bee and I really couldn't miss it…" He said, looking genuinely sorry. Roy waved him off.
"It's fine; and if you haven't changed that much in six years, I know how important your daughter and wife are to you." Roy said. A momentary flash of utter and complete sorrow passed over Maes' face and the others in the room quit talking. "What? What did I say?"
"Nothing; don't worry about it right now. Hey! Want to know what grades Elysia made in pre-kindergarten? That was the last grade she was in before you… uh… left." he changed the subject quickly.
"Not really, although I know they were good. Do you still work in the investigation's department?" Roy asked, patting Elysia's hand when she got up out of the chair to say hello to him.
"Yep. Still there; but I did move up in rank and position through hard work and dedication, like these men. Well, men and woman at least…" He cut himself off as Fuery moved out of his vision and none other than Riza Hawkeye came into view.
A/N: Uh oh... is this the real Riza? I guess you'll have to wait to find out! RxR please!