Whoah..I haven't updated this one in awhile...OH WELL I'm updating it now xD so umm..When we left off Elysia quoted her father from when she was little. For those who don't know what the quote was...go back and read it yourself xP! So umm...now I shall...continue thy story..

>>>Chapter 4

Havoc's cigarette was dropped on the floor now, unlit (thank god). Elysia just gave up with the food and just sat down on the sofa, next to Havoc.
"My insides hurt, now that you've declared no smoking." Havoc mumbled grumpily. "You don't understand. If I don't have one I'll get sick!"
"Then get sick, dummy! Smoking is bad for you anyway." Elysia replied with a evil grin on her face, "If you smoke then your lungs become all black and nasty and then you'll die...Quicker!" she added hastily at the end of the sentence. 'Don't even deny it!' she thought as she saw Havoc cringe with anger.

'Where does she learn all of this! It's as if she knows everything in the world!' (A/n: apparently Havoc hasn't ever heard or school...Lucky idiot, that Havoc is... He probably never went to school..T.T ) Havoc glanced at Edward who was still sitting on the ground in the kitchen. He covered his face with his hand and had a look of disgust. 'She's always criticizing me about my height. But I'm taller than her!' Ed thought as he hid his face from onlookers (a/n: Looks like Ed forgot he's 11 years older than her). Ed looked at Elysia who head her head tilted back on the sofa and had her eyes closed. It was almost 5pm and the sun was starting to set. Elysia wanted to go upstairs into her room, but something told her that she should be enjoying herself downstairs. As if her conscious was telling her to stay away from her room. She yawned loudly and Havoc looked at her.

"Maybe you should go upstairs and rest," Havoc suggested. Ed could see Havoc only wanted to get rid of Elysia so he could make peace with the cigarette. Edward, catching on, said "You really should. You've been busy all day," Havoc suddenly gave Ed a happy face."Nah. I'm gonna stay up," Elysia said. 'I wanna be here when Mom comes home,' she told herself. She mustn't fall asleep. "If you want to smoke that badly, you can go outside and do it." Elysia stated. Truthfully speaking she didn't want people to suffer. Even if the happiness meant that their lungs would turn black and they would die.

Havoc looked around, anxiously. He didn't want to tell Elysia he had been assigned here. He didn't want to make it feel as though she couldn't be trusted or anything. Because knowing Mustang, he probably made it sound as though Havoc was her sitter.
"Who said anything about smoking!" Havoc said, forcing a smile on his face. Which was extremely hard to do because he was hoping she wouldn't find that out.
"Your lying is just as weak as Mr. Mustang's resist to call Edward short," Elysia said, sighing.
"Short...short...short! Is that ALL you ever say about me?" Ed yelled, slightly spitting with every word he said
"Yes," Elysia said truthfully.
"You little..." Edward clapped his hands together and transformed the automail on his right arm to form a blade.

"Here we go again," Havoc said, shaking his head from exhaustion. Elysia was wide-eyed. She'd heard of Edward being able to do transmute without a circle but she'd never actually seen it.
"YOU WANT SOME OF THIS!" Ed held up the blade threateningly, but he never expected Elysia to ...
Elysia rolled up her sleeves and grabbed a knife from her pocket. "Bring it on!" she yelled. Ed was dumbstruck but didn't show it. 'Has she been training with those knives, herself?' Ed thought to himself as he saw her holding the knife.
"Oh no," Havoc covered his face with his hand. Knowing Ed, he might just take her on seriously.

"You can't actually be thinking about taking her on, are you?" Havoc said.
"I'm just as serious as I was when I told you that you'd never find a wife," Ed yelled in the direction of Havoc. 'I know perfectly well he'll never find that 'perfect' person. He just doesn't believe me. Stupid picky old person.'
"You were serious when you said that! I can't believe you're so heartless Ed! The stupid Gate must've taken that too while you were there!" Havoc yelled back at Edward.

'Now the war between those two begin,' Elysia sighed. It was her chance to beat up Ed. To be honest, it sounded like fun.

"Don't go joking on about the gate! It's pain I bet you probably couldn't take!" retorted Edward.

'Gate? What gate are they talking about?' To her they were just talking gibberish. And she didn't know about any gate.Elysia watched, biting her lip, wondering when they'd just shut up. She knew no one would ever stop the joked about Edward's shortness. And now that Mustang was Fuhrer he could do as many short jokes as he wanted and not get yelled at about it.

"I can go joking about whatever I want! I am I higher rank than you!" Jean Havoc clenched his fists as he said he was a higher rank than Edward.
"Shut up! You know perfectly well, that the promotion was only because of luck!" Ed said, baring his teeth at Havoc. 'Its not MY fault that he's so darn lucky!' Ed thought.
"You only say that it's luck because you weren't there to catch Scar!" Havoc said proudly.
Ed was silent. He couldn't find a way to get back at Havoc. Even if he did, he'd probably get in trouble for messing with a higher-rank. Then he remembered something..
"Well you know what! We're not even on duty!" Ed said, his hands on his hips. That would probably give him a good reason to get back at Havoc. But..As usual Ed's fantasies were crushed, yet again...By the same person, always.
"You two really love to fight, don't you? Especially you, Shorty." Roy Mustang stood in the doorway of where the two were standing, with a pair of keys in his hands. He had that 'I-am-really-bored-please-be-quiet' kind of look his face.
"Short? I have grown a lot, thank you very much! Ed looked away, angrily. To say the truth was that he barely had grown.
"And I suppose that's a complete lie, isn't it?" Mustang said with the 'wow-you-really-suck-at-lying' look spread all over his face.
"Yes..." Ed looked down in that emo kind of way.
"Well maybe if you drank some milk..." Mustang joked around and shrugged his arms. Ed was silent. 'Why did I get assigned to babysitting anyway? This is supposed to be a job for some idiot who's a lieutenant or something...Not a major like me..'

Just then a small sound was being made in the kitchen. Everyone was silent and tried to make out the noise and suddenly realized it was the phone ringing.
"PHONE!" Ed yelled. He ran into the kitchen and everyone frantically followed and scrambled around for the phone. Mustang was first to reach it and Ed sadly tried to grab it from his hand. Sadly because all Mustang had to do was hold his hand in the air to prevent Edward from getting it. When he had enough fun, Roy turned on the phone and pushed his ear against the receiver. The next moment, he wished he'd just given the phone to Edward.

"HELLOO, MISTER! HOW WOULD YOU LIKE A NEW, THAT'S RIGHT, NEW CAR! BEAUTIFUL BLACK AND WHEELS MADE OF PURE RUBBER (a/n: I don't think they put anything else in car tires but oh well.. XD)! SO? WHAT DO YOU THINK?"

Mustang held the phone a foot away from his ear but was still shaking from the shock. Even with the phone held away from him, he could still hear the man..Loud and clear.
"I think I've gone completely deaf," Mustang said in a whisper. He slammed the phone down and hung up from the crazed man.
"Wow...That was completely random, Roy!" Havoc said, "But I wouldn't mind getting a new car," he said raising an eyebrow, slightly.
"You...You answer the phones...Always...From now on. That's your new job," Mustang said, still whispering, pointing his finger threateningly toward Edward.
"Now..that's what I call the skill of perfect timing. I wouldn't mind getting to see that again," Edward said sighing.
The phone rang again. Everyone looked toward Edward.

'Looks like we might get to go and laugh at Fullmetal, now,' Mustang thought, smiling at the thought of Edward cringing on the ground from his puny ear being broken. Then Ed picked up the phone and cautiously put it against his ear.
"Hel-Hello?" Words didn't seem to form correctly, and came out as stutters. He just prayed the same man wouldn't come and destroy his ears too.
"Is that you Edward?" A motherly voice came from the receiver. Totally shocked, Ed was wide-eyed and silent.
"Er..Hello?" the voice came again.
"Give me that," Mustang said, snatching the phone away from Fullmetal.
"Hello?" Mustang said calmly.
"Roy? It's nice to hear you!" it said again.
"Mrs...Mrs. Hughes? Where are you!" Roy asked. What he had meant to say was 'Where the hell could you be, and putting me and my ears in danger because you have to leave so suddenly?'. But being the nice, kind, and wonderful man he was (a/n: pfft..yeah right) he decided to stay polite.

"What? Mom?" Elysia made a grab for the phone but Roy's height prevented her from getting a reach at it.

"... I can't tell you that," Mrs. Hughes replied, kind of sadly.
"Wait. What? Mrs. Hughes are you okay?" Mustang said, alarmed. The reply he got to his question made him feel as if she wasn't ok.
"I'm fine. I called to wish Elysia a happy birthday and to tell her I'm sorry I had to leave," she replied.
"Maybe you should tell her that. Here," Roy held out the phone from the palm of his hand and Elysia took it slowly. Her hands were trembling. She didn't understand why she was so scared.

"M-Mom?" Elysia stuttered. Her voice was hoarse and her mouth was frowning."Happy early Birthday, Elysia." a cheery voice said, merrily in the other end of the phone.
"Why did you leave? Where are you?" Elysia was bursting with questions she wanted to ask her mother. But she knew she could only ask so many at one time.
"Elysia, I'm safe and sound. And I think I may have a lead. I'll try to come home as soon as I can. But right now I have to go. Bye," Mrs. Hughes hung up the phone. Elysia had tears streaming from her eyes and she also put down the phone.
"She...She said she might have a lead," She said, her hands rubbing her eyes. Trying to hide her tears.
"A lead? For...what?" Havoc said anxiously. 'This might be the perfect time to find out where Mrs. Hughes went and get another promotion!' he thought happily, but his face showed anxiety.
"She didn't say,"
"You go get some sleep. We'll wake you up if we find something out," Roy said leading her up the stairway.
'But what if they don't find something out?' Elysia asked herself. She trudged up the stairs and went into her room. As she stepped in, random thoughts of her father entered her mind and brought her out to tears.

"Daddy has lot's of work to do! I'll be right back, I promise!" Mr. Hughes hugged his daughter and stepped out the front door in his military uniform.
"Come back safely," Mrs. Hughes smiled, holding Elysia in her arms.
"Bye, Daddy!" Elysia smiled and waved at her father who was leaving out in the distance.

He just..Never came back.

"What..Happened?" Elysia asked herself. What had happened to the ever so perfect family she had for only such a short time in her life. Her father first. And now her mother was slowly being dragged away and out of her life. Would Mustang, the closest thing she had to a father, go too?

She clambered onto her bed and slowly drifted off to sleep.
Edward stepped in the room and walked around to the bed. Memories came spilling back.

Mrs. Hughes fell to the floor dropping a tray of tea.
"It's here," she groaned as Mr. Hughes came running to her side.
"What? The tea?" he asked curiously?
"NO! THE BABY!" Mrs. Hughes yelled to Maes.
"What? I'll go get the doctor!" and with that he left the house with an ill looking Gracia, a giant suit of armor, a short 12 year old kid who could only do so much alchemy, and a 6 year old girl who usually just sat down and drew all day.

Now what?

Edward walked toward Elysia's bed and looked at her sadly. It was only then he realized that she and himself were so much alike. One of their parents left when they were young. And the other one left as well when they grew older. Ed had Winry and Mrs. Rockbelle to take care of them but Elysia had Roy Mustang who was as busy as he could be. He could probably say Elysia was worse off than he was when he was a child.He pulled out his wallet and withdrew a small bit of money and slipped it under Elysia's pillow. He just hoped, she'd find it.

"Now what's she going to do with money, Fullmetal?" Roy Mustang said, leaning against the doorway with a smirk on his face.
"She's going to eat it, Roy." Ed said in a sarcastic tone, "What else do people do with money? She's obviously going to buy stuff with it," Ed said pushing his wallet back into his pocket.
Roy just went straight to the point. "What do you think Mrs. Hughes meant when she said she might have a lead?"
"I don't know. Family? Truth?" Edward frowned. He didn't know what she was planning to do. "Whatever she's doing, though, she has to remember she can't go off and leave forever. She just can't,"
"Fullmetal...That's the exact thing I'm scared of her doing,"

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That concludes that chapter. I noticed I hadn't updated this story in awhile so here I go, I guess...:P I kinda liked this chapter...It was kinda long to what I usually right but yeah. OH yeah...I just want to let you know that I might not be able to update so quickly like this chapter. I was going to update this like two days ago but my dad took my laptop. So i kindahave less time to write...With Sunday school..normal homework. and I need exercise...Cuz I'm like...really fat, now...x.X and now that I'm going off subject even more...I have made a new friend today:D

so yeah...