A/N - As a before thought, I just want to let you all know that I got most of my alchemy statistics and data information from Harry Potter, FMA and the Internet. But because it is a mixture, this story will not flow perfectly with everyone else's concepts of the Art of Alchemy. So please enjoy, and should I be WAY off, inform me please and give me the corrections...but also allow me some creative writing leeway. Thank you. Enjoy...
-Dublith, The Curtis Home-
The sound a someone humming a sweat melody came from the back room of the Curtis meat shop/house. While Sig stood in the front taking care of a few customers, his wife Izumi was standing in the back room like always. Only, this time she wasn't reading, she was swaying gently side to side in front of the window looking into her folded arms. As she spun around gentle and swayed across the room a few times, it was seen that a blue blanket was draped over her arms with a wide-eyes baby boy smiling up at her. He had bright violet eyes and short locks of black hair. his cheeks were rosy and his smile was as bright as the sun.
Izumi smiled as she looked down at the baby in her arms who giggled every now and then. The resemblance between mother and son was seen as sunlight cast into the room and reflected off of Izumi's usually dark eye. Today however, her eyes matched her son's perfectly. The baby giggled once again and waved his arms up at his mother. His feet kicked slowly as Izumi ran her hand through his short hair.
It had been a year since the alchemy incident just out side of Eastern City. And nothing has been the same. For starters, Izumi and Sig had their son, Travis, back and Izumi was as healthy as ever. Also, Izumi's teacher Dante disappeared right after that night and hasn't been heard from since. But there was no real loss there.
"Izumi..."
Sig called as he approached the room. He walked inside and found his wife rocking the baby by the window. She was wearing a tan skirt that reached her ankles and a black shirt. Her whole perspective of things changed when she first lost her son. And then they changed back when she her son returned.
Izumi heard Sig call, she stopped humming and turned around to face him. She smiled and walked over, Travis giggling happily in her arms. Sig offered to take the baby and handed Izumi her blue jacket. They made the trade and once she had her jacket on, she took Travis back. They left the blanket in the room and all exited the house. hey walked down the street as always and were stopped once by a small group of children, all about six or seven years old.
"Teacher...teacher... can we see baby Travis again..."
They all jumped up and down wanting to see the baby. Ever since the baby came home with Izumi, the children all took great interest. If she didn't walk the streets, the children usually came to her house before dinner. Izumi bent down to their level and all the children gathered around her in a circle. The smaller children pushed to the front and all the children 'awed' and 'ohh-ed'.
"How old is he now?"
"When will he be able to play with us?"
"When's his birthday?"
The children ass moved closer to the baby who giggled at the sight of more little-people arriving.
"So many questions. He's only a year, his birthday is June 13th and he can play when he gets older."
"How much older?"
Izumi laughed. The kids were so desperate to play with Travis.
"Maybe a few more years...he need to learn to walk first."
"Can we watch..."
"Well... when I teach him, you can watch... but not right now... he is still too young."
The children all moaned by soon parted after they each shook the baby's hand and said good-bye. Once they all left, Izumi stood back up and looked at Sig.
"They all love you."
"I know."
"all these years you have many kids..."
"But none as precious as him."
Izumi smiled and looked down at her son who was slowly falling asleep. They soon began walking down the street once more. Their life was perfect now.
Elsewhere, in Central City, a woman who looked to be about seven months along walked down the sidewalk towards the military central HQ. At her feet was a black and white dog who wagged his tail happily. The woman sighed as she stopped walking for a moment and placed both hands on her back. She made a small stretch backwards before she continued walking, one hand remaining on her back.
"You know Hayate... what sucks most about this isn't just the constant back pain, but it's the fact I'm actually fitting into one of the Men's military uniforms. Can you believe I have to wear a man's uniform?"
The woman sighed again. When she joined the military at age eighteen, they had to custom fit the smallest men's uniform to fit her small figure. Even the other women in the military wore the men's small uniforms. But she was too tiny and needed a custom fitted one. Now, pregnant, she had to wear a man's uniform jacket to fit her enlarged stomach.
"Oh... quit winning Riza... I'm the one who had to deal with the hormone changes and the twenty times a night bathroom breaks... And be thankful all you need to wear is the men's jacket... imagine wearing the pants?"
Riza turned around and saw her husband, the Fuhrer of Amestris smiling, leaning against a wall. She glared at him, knowing full well he was talking about the skirt she was wearing in order to make walking around with a baby much easier. The skirt wasn't what he wanted on her but at least it went just down to her knees.
"I don't remember inviting you into the conversation...sir..."
She smiled as the dog barked and ran over to him wagging his tail. Roy then approached Riza and kissed her cheek.
"I told you to let me walk the dog You should be sitting, not prancing around Central."
"With all due respect Roy... I'm not doing much...'prancing' these days."
Roy placed an arm around her back and together they walked back to central HQ. As they walked along the street, they past the small market place. As they walked by the shops, they would stop for a minute and look inside the windows. Riza especially liked looking inside the clothing windows.
"I can't wait until I'm THAT size again."
She smiled and pointed at a window dummies who was like a size '0'. Roy laughed and they continued walking. Back at Central, they found Hughes bragging to who ever would listen about who his wife was pregnant and was gonna have another kid.
"Great... more photos..."
Roy smiled and Hughes ran over to spread the news around... AGAIN.
"Fuhrer sir..."
A private ran up and handed him a small envelope addressed to him. After the private left, Roy slowly opened the letter to revile an invitation to a wedding.
"Ed and Winry are getting married."
Roy smiled and handed the invitation to Riza.
"They hired me as the photographer..."
Hughes smiled.
"I wonder why..."
Riza smiled and handed the invitation back to Roy. Hughes already bugged them enough and they finally allowed him to take baby pictures of their baby when it is born. Now he is being hired to take pictures at a wedding. What did they ever do without him...
Fin
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