Chapter 5

"Roy? Are you finished taking a shower?" Riza called through the door. "Not yet, why?"

"Oh, Terra just showed me some of the most adorable pictures of you..."

"What?" Roy yelped from inside. "Did that album happen to have any baby pictures in it?"

"They were so cute... I didn't know you were so cute when you were a baby..."

Roy groaned. "I hate those pictures..."

"Why?"

"Because they were taken at inconveniant times, especially the later ones. Dad loved to humiliate me."

"Are you going to come out any time soon?" She heard the water stop and Roy stepped out. "Happy?" he asked, a towel around his waist. "What's with the modesty all of a sudden, hmm?"

"Maybe I like to cover up sometimes. It's kinda cold you know."

She moved closer to him and put her arms around his neck. "Anything special planned for today? Or... tonight?"

"Did I say it was cold? I meant it was hot." He kissed her and pushed his tongue in her mouth, his hands moving downwards. She put her hand on the towel, but thought better of it and pulled away. "Okay, Ed, you can stop peeping." There was a surprised yelp from the door and Ed stumbled back onto his behind. Roy crossed his arms over his chest, a frown on his face. "I can't get a few minutes alone now? I was so close... Beat it before my mood gets worse, Fullmetal."

"Don't be so hard on him, Roy," she said after Ed had decided to run back to the living room. "You know what he and his brother asked me, Roy?" He buried his face in her hair and smiled. "No, what?" Riza hesitated and put her arms around him. "Go on, what did he ask?" he persisted. "You're still wet," she said, avoiding the question. "Please? You can tell me! Did he ask if you were pregnant or something?"

"No, he asked if... if we were going to get married?" it came as a question more than a statement. "Oh!" Roy said, surprised. "You... you weren't sure how to answer?" he asked. "I said to ask you, because... it's up to you, isn't it?"

"Yes... yes it is, isn't it?"

Roy put his hands on her hips and pulled her closer against him and she moaned softly. "Roy..."

"Would you, if I asked you to?"

Her fingers buried themselves into his skin as he started to kiss her neck and rub at her chest. "Yes..."

"Yes?"

"If you're not in a towel when you ask."

"That can be arranged. You go downstairs, and we'll see what we can do about lunch, alright babe?"

"And Ed?"

"He'll get some slack today. Poor kid looked like he got jumped by angry cats."

"He did."

"Oh."

Roy and Riza came back down decently clothed to everyone's surprise. Roy shot a look at everyone in the room and sighed. "Okay. What are you guys planning now?"

Ed and Al jumped and grinned sheepishly and Terra swiped papers off of the table. "N-nothing! We weren't doing anything!" Ed stammered. "Rrrright... Let me see." Terra held the papers against her chest protectively. "No way!"

"Come on Terra, no games today."

"No!" she shoved the papers at Ed. "Run!"

"Are you crazy? I can't outrun Mustang!"

Al opened up his armor and Ed jumped in with the papers. Unfortunately for Ed, WCC Inc. wasn't pleased at having another roommate. "AAAAAAAGHHHHHH!" Roy could hear him scrabbling around in Al as he ran after him. "Get back here and give me those papers!"

"It's a surprise, Colonel, honest!"

"Alphonse! Get back here!"

"Only if you won't try to take the papers!"

"Okay, okay. I won't take the papers, just explain what's going on."

Al stopped and turned, and Ed moaned from inside the armor.

"The pain... the pain... ohhhhhh... somebody just kill me already!" a cat hissed and Ed screamed. "Somebody who's not a cat kill me!"

A triumphant meowing started up in the armor and the cats started to meow 'Celebration' as Al opened the armor and a scratched up Ed slid out, moaning and groaning. "I hate cats... ohhhh..."

Roy nudged Ed with the toe of his shoe. "So spill, what're you guys doing?"

"I'll never tell, mwahahahahah... ohhhhh..."

"And this is the same kid who survived automail surgery? You're crying cause you got scratched up by cats?"

"Cats are worse than automail!"

"Mm-hmm. Now, tell me, or I'll introduce you to some street cats." Ed twitched on the floor. "Tell him, Al... please..."

"Uh, well, we were planning for..."

"For?"

"For a wedding," Al admitted. Roy's jaw dropped. "Have you ever thought that maybe I need to get engaged before I even think of a wedding? I haven't even got the ring yet!"

Riza eyed him carefully. "So you were planning on getting one?"

"That's where I was going to take you... I wanted to get you something you'd like," he admitted.

"Do we still plan on going?" she asked.

"Yes!"

Ed, Al, and Terra looked at them imploringly. "C-can we come too, Colonel?" Al begged. "Please Big Brother?"

"Yeah, just this once, Mustang?"

"I'm glad you guys are so excited and all, but... you have to keep this a secret from everyone, okay? No blabbing to anyone, especially you Fullmetal."

"Promise!" They said in unison.

"Do you mind, Riza?" Roy asked. "This is all about you, you know."

"I don't mind."

"But why are you so interested?" he asked Ed.

Ed shrugged. "I don't know, I guess Terra's sort of rubbed off on me... and... I guess another Mustang wouldn't be so bad after all."

"It's settled then, we'll go after lunch."

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