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Roy Mustang had never been a strong person.
That had been proved before. The Ishbal war had almost broken the man down completely, leaving him in a suffocating darkness, only thoughts of suicide as his company. Maes Hughes had been the only one who knew this side of Roy, and he was the only one who had offered to help. Roy had never really showed how grateful he was, and kept the tough mask up to protect himself. No one but Hughes knew the pain he was in.
There he was, sitting in his office. Head leaning tiredly against his hands, piles of paperwork forgotten on the desk.
Downright pathetic.
Roy knew he was pathetic, and he also knew he was weak. But at that moment there was nothing he could care less about, and at that moment only one circle of thoughts were going through his exhausted mind.
He had never thought it would affect him that much. Fullmetal had just been another annoying and loud kid, hadn't he? Edward had never been anyone that important, his death would not matter!
Roy pulled at his hair, realizing he was only lying to himself. Edward had been important to all of them, they were all affected! Mustang, Armstrong, Hawkeye, Fury, Havoc... all of them.
And now, Edward Elric was gone.
The door opened, and Hawkeye stepped in. Her eyes were dark and filled with pity as she looked at the colonel. He hadn't even noticed her arrive.
"Colonel Mustang," she said carefully, "Roy."
Roy looked up, and smiled weakly at her.
"Oh I'm sorry," he said, "I dozed off."
Riza sighed and closed her eyes.
"Colonel, we need to tell Alphonse-kun about Edward," she said, "He still thinks his brother is alive."
Roy nodded tiredly.
"Yes, I know..."
"Do you want me to tell him?" Riza asked carefully, knowing that Al's reaction wouldn't be good.
"No, I'll tell him," Roy said, quickly getting up from his chair.
Roy pushed past Hawkeye, not looking straight at her. The blonde woman followed him with his eyes until he disappeared around the corner.
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Edward stirred.
Once again he felt his senses returning to him. He moved his fingers a little, as if trying to check if they were still there. His breathing felt okay again, but the rest of his weak body was still aching terribly. He shifted a little, making the pain flare once. He whimpered weakly, and lay still again only to feel the pain fade away a little.
His eyelids twitched once, before slowly opening. His golden eyes reacted strongly to the light coming from a nearby widow, tears filling them. He tried to lift his arm to protect his eyes, but found it impossible since he had a needle injected into his arm.
He was lying in a white hospital bed, medicines and needles all around him. Ed's first thought was that he had failed and that he was in the military's hospital, but then he noticed that he didn't recognize the surroundings at all.
Where...?
A door opened, and a chubby woman dressed in white walked in, carrying some boxes. She glanced at him once and smiled a little.
"You're awake I see," she said, "Here' I've got some medicine for you. It'll dull the pain."
She handed a glass of very strange liquid to the blonde. He looked at it suspiciously before putting it carefully aside.
"Who are you, and where am I...?" he then asked the woman, who now was busy with something else.
"My name's Madam Pomfrey, and you're at Hogwarts school for Witchcraft and wizardry," she replied, "What you did was kind of stupid you know? If we hadn't pulled you out, you'd have been dead allready."
"..Hogwa-" the words got stuck in Ed's throat. Did this mean...? "I... I made it..."
"Yes you did, by pure luck my boy," she said.
Edward suddely pulled out the needle in his arm and jumped up from the soft bed. He ignored his body's protests and tried hard not to faint when he rushed over to the woman.
"I'M AT HOGWARTS? SO I MADE IT!" he practically roared into her surprised face, "I NEED TO TALK TO NICHOLAS FLAMEL, NOW!!"
She grabbed him as his body gave in and he collapsed, going limp into her arms, exhausted.
"Listen," she told him sweetly as she helped him back to the bed, "Your body is in very bad condition, you need to rest now. And drink your medicine."
"But I HAVE to talk to Nicholas Flamel," he muttered, "You don't understand, I have to talk to him! Where is he? I need to..."
"You stay there or I'll be forced to sedate you," Madame pomfrey said sternly, avoiding the subject, "You can't talk to Flamel. But you can talk to Dumbledore when you have recovered enough."
"Who the Hell is Dumbledore?" Ed spat, "I need to talk to Nicholas Flamel, no one else!"
"Dumbledore is the headmaster of this school," Madame Pomfrey told him, "Now rest."
Edward finally gave in the attempts to get out of bed. He was happy he had made it, and the thought of being this close to the Philosopher's stone made him tremble with excitement.
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"It's true! We saw him!"
Gathered around a small table in the library, Harry, Ron and Hermione excitedly discussed their newest realization. The rumors had been true, there was a strange blonde kid in the hospital room, and no one knew who he was or where he came from.
"Man... I wonder who he is..." Harry mused, "Maybe a first year who got in an accident or something?"
"Yeah, he must be a first year, he was so small!" Ron replied with a snicker.
Hermione scratched her head a little.
"You know what was the most strange?" she said, "He had... metal limbs."
"Metal limbs?" Harry repeated, dumbfounded.
"Yes. I think he's lost his arm and leg and they were repaced with those metal limbs..." Hermione said, "It's incredible, muggle technology..."
"Should we tell the others, or do you think Dumbledore wants to keep it secret?" Ron asked, "It would be cool to let everyone know it's true."
"I don't think we should tell anyone," Harry said. Hermione nodded with agreement.
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Never had Roy Mustang's footsteps felt so heavy ever. The way to Edward and Alphonse Elric's dorm felt incredibly long and incredibly exhausting.
Forcing himself to straighten up, Roy knocked on the door. There was no reply, so Roy opened the door and stepped inside, finding the room dark.
"Alphonse," he called to the armor sitting on the bed further away. Al's head turned to stare at Roy in the dark, and a hollow sigh could be heard.
"So typical of brother, to make such hasty decisions," he stated tiredly, "I tried to tell him he shouldn't do it, but now he's stuck in whatever place he went to."
Roy closed his eyes for a moment. He didn't know how to put it, how to tell a fourteen year old kid that his brother was dead. Roy quickly decided he should just spit it out.
"Al," he said, "Listen... I don't think Edward's alive."
Al turned to look at the colonel again, looking as if he thought that the man was joking. But Al could tell from his expression... he wasn't joking.
The armor slowly got up and walked over to Roy. He towered over the man like a dark cloud.
"Don't say such stupid things," Al said, his voice darker than Roy had ever heard it been. Roy let his gaze slide to the side, avoiding the strange glow that was supposed to be Al's eyes.
"Al..."
But the armor refused to listen. Angrily, he grabbed Roy's shoulder and shoved him aside, before stomping out of the room, his steps echoing against the wooden floor. Roy stretched out a hand to stop the boy, desperate. But Al was allready gone, and Roy gave up.
Damn you Ed.
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A/N: I'm so sorry TT I know I said the chapters would be longer, but I just can't write incredibly long stuff. I know this story is really going nowhere, and this chapter was sooo boring o write... I'll do a better job with the next one, okay? Again, sorry, I hope you'll review anyway.