Chapter Fifteen:
Both awaken at the feel of the train stopping with a sudden jerk, seeing that it's still late, Ed starts going back to sleep. "Ed, how many more stops till we get there?" Kat asks a little groggy.
"Two more…" Ed gets out sounding just as sleepy.
"Oh I see…" Kat yawns out resting her head on the table once more looking at Ed as he quickly falls asleep once more. "Ed…"
"Nnn?" Ed gets out, his eyebrows lift slightly to show that he's still awake slightly just that his eyes refuse to stay open.
"I'm glad we got to go on this mission together." Kat smiles gently at him petting Ed's face, feeling his soft skin.
"MmHnnn…" Ed grabs her hand and gives her fingers a little kiss, and rests their hands on the table between them both, while he falls asleep. Kat rests her head against his falling asleep once more.
(SC)
After the next two stops the sun had slowly come up awakening the two for the morning. Having someone come in asking about what they would like for breakfast. Ordering their food the two quickly eat seeing the next station coming up quickly.
After eating they grab their things and wait for the train to stop, both not really having much recollection of the night before except for flashes. Both thinking nothing of it they just step off the train after it stops. Ed smiles and wraps his arm around Kats shoulder, "Alright the first thing we do is find an inn of some sort." Kat nods as they both walk off to find some sort of place to stay for their mission, Ed happily pays for two rooms. Having a bit of small chat with the clerk. "So is that your girlfriend?" The older woman asks, holding her shall on her shoulders a little closer, smiling at the young man before her.
Ed gives a big toothy grin, "How can yea tell?"
Her smiles widens, as her eyes gently close, "You seem so protective of her, it's very sweet." She finishes glad to hear of their happiness. Nodding he happily takes the keys to their rooms, "Your rooms are joined so you can get to one another easily enough."
"Thank you very much!" Ed gives the older woman a flashy smile and turns to Kat; seeing that she's not paying attention he lightly taps her on the shoulder getting her attention from what ever had caught it in the first place. "This is the key to your room, and our rooms are joined so we can get to one another easily enough if there's trouble."
Kat nods and smiles, "Alright!" Kat takes Ed's left arm, giggling as he blushes. Both walk up to their rooms, which reside on the second floor. Opening the door for her Ed grins at Kat letting her into her own room, he smiles at her as he closes the door forher. Ed then walks over to his own door opening it and walking in. Looking around the place looked cozy enough and a lovely view of the town from a window on the opposite side of the room. After putting his things away in the oak wood dressers Ed slumps onto his queen size bed as the blue comforter snuggles around his body. Kat knocks on the door that joins their rooms, she opens it and pops her head into the room She finds Ed lying on the bed looking at the ceiling then at herself. She smiles at him walks up to him, standing in front of him, "So what do we do first?"
Sitting up Ed sighs remembering that this is still a mission, "Well we're supposed to be serious since we're apart of the military and all. Though I think it was a good idea that you got changed into something besides your uniform before we got off the train, some of these towns don't like the military too much." Ed smiles nervously remembering his first mission away from Central City.
"I see. I guess so too. What should we say when someone asks?" Kat looks curiously.
Ed shrugs his shoulders, "The truth, since there's no real point in hiding it. Though most of the time the people don't mind if I come since a lot of the people like me!" Ed gives her a big dumb grin.
Kat rolls her eyes, and then gets a terrible idea, She grabs his cheeks, and gives him the baby talk, "Well that's because you're such a cute wittle gu-uy!"
Ed glares at her, "DON'T CALL ME WITTLE… er I MEAN LITTLE!"
Kat blinks a couple times and bursts out laughing, that he actually said
'wittle,' Ed grumbles as she grabs her stomach.
Ed position himself to look like a crouching tiger, "Oh yea I'll bet you'll think this is funny too!" Kat barely having the time to stop laughing than merely scream with laughter, as Ed pounces her tickling her, "AH-HA!"
Kat screams again giggling her head off, "Nooooo! No fair!" She rolls her head back laughing with her eyes closed. "I can't believe you said, GAAAAAAAAAH!" Kat wiggles around trying to get away, "NooOOOOOOO!"
"You wont say that to anyone!" Ed demands. "Do you give up?"
"Yes!" Kat giggles getting to her side still giggling. "I give up…" Kat tries to catch her breath for a moment, when she's actually waiting for Ed to drop his guard. Her hands like a striking snakes moves to tickle Ed, "I'm done giving up!" Though to Kat's disappointment Ed is not ticklish.
"You want more eh!" Ed pins her to the ground holding her hand over her head with a terrible grin on his face.
"No fair you're not ticklish!" Kat gets out.
"Too bad! You don't know where it is!" Ed grins moving his left arm to start tickling her once more.
"Nooo! You're mean! I'll find your ticklish spot!" Kat wiggles, though doesn't feel fingers trying to tickle her sensitive armpits. She opens her eyes to see Ed only looking into her own with some form of ultimate piece. Kat looks back curiously, "What?"
"Kat…" Ed blushes madly, "I…" He leans forward slowly brushing his lips against hers feeling the heat of each other's breath on their lips. Letting his grip go of her hands Ed rests his arms on the floor. Leaning closer to her ear so only she can hear his words, "I really do love you…" Kat wraps her arms around his neck, looking into his passionate golden eyes.
The young alchemist leans forward kissing his maidens lips gently, He slowly lifts his head hear Kat whimper out his name. She looks into his eyes moving up to kiss him back, her fingernail lightly scratch the back of his neck. She runs her fingers through his golden locks, though mentally smiles as he does the same with her own raven hair.
Kat's eyes openslightly as she feels his soft tongue beg her for entrance to her heated mouth, she quickly complies letting him search inside her mouth, her own tongue shyly playing with his own, as he encourages her to play a little more.
She slowly moves her right hand to his hair tie removing it letting his hair slip around his face. He breaks the kiss for a moment looking at his hair, giving a playful glare. "Hey…. It's hard for me to braid my hair on my own you know." He teases.
Kat smiles kissing his lips, "Then I'll have to show you how to do it easily…" She slowly moves her left hand underneath his coat pulling on it. Ed kisses her passionately, quickly taking off his jacket and shirt.
"That's fair enough…" Ed finally gets out, as slowly he feels the right side of her body with his human left hand.
Kat slowly feels both of Ed's arms, though she's quickly surprised that he's broken their intimate kiss, looking at her nervously; Kat slowly turns her eyes to his metallic arm quickly understanding his nervousness. She leans forward, "It'll always be with you, but please don't let it ruin you…" Kat whispers into Ed's ear, gently kissing his neck.
Ed looks at her shocked, though quickly holds her in a tight hug, "Kat…" Ed lowers his head to her shoulder just needing a moment. She wraps her arms around his back smiling gentle, happy to be here for him, just as he is for her.
"It seems there are things we both wish we could forget…" Kat holds onto Ed tightly. She smiles feeling him kiss her shoulder, he moves his human hand under the front of her shirt, looking at her for approval, she nods nibbling on her bottom lip. He nibbles and kisses gently on her soft silky neck, lifting her shirt caressing the softness of her belly, feeling the lace of her bra and kneading her right breast through the lace of her bra. "Ed…" Kat moans out as she slowly aches her head back giving him more room to her neck.
"And what are YOU TWO DOING!" Comes an all too familiar voice, though happy and playful at first, quickly changes to utter shocked at the site of the two.
Both look at one another with bulged eyes they both turn their heads towards the familiar voice.
"I knew that Roy said I needed to keep an eye on you two but my good ness how long has THIS been going on?" Hughes grins like a mad man.
Ed looks back to Kat quickly pulling down her shirt sitting up, both blushing the same color of Edwards red jacket.
"I can see why Roy is so protective of his little cousin. I would be too if you acted like this around my relatives." Hughes snickers to himself waiting for them to respond. "Well?"
Ed looks at the floor ashamed of himself. "Well what?" Ed growls at the lieutenant colonel, Kat obviously not seeing the little tent in Ed's pants.
"Well explain yourself Full Metal this will be going in your report." Hughes speaks stoically though his face showed his cool and collective smile.
"Lieutenant Colonel! Don't get angry with Ed! We were just…" Kat blushes.
Ed gets up sighing, knowing what this would bring, he's still an officer of the military, and such actions are looked down upon especially with other officers. "I am willing to take on any punishment that should be given to me, but I will not renounce my feelings for Kat!" Ed glares at Hughes for once feeling truly upset with the man.
Kat looks from one man to the other sitting on her legs worried that Ed might get hurt because of what they had done. Hughes smiles, patting Ed on the shoulder both surprised by how casual the man suddenly has become. "Well I guess this will be your warning… If I SEE you doing this again I will have to remind you of the responsibilities that will be brought upon you two IF you had… let yourselves perform your acts in full." Hughes points out as he starts taking out his picture of his daughter.
Both look at one another smiling nervously, "No that's ok! We won't do it again we promise!" both speak up at the same time.
Putting the picture away Hughes smiles, "Well that's good to hear! I have a room right across the hall so don't think I can't hear you if you try anything!" Hughes leaves the room closing the door behind him.
Ed slumps to the floor, a little overwhelmed with the situation. Both look to one another and begin laughing once more.
(SC)
Spending the after noon together seeing how the town's doing. Ed knew that this is Kat's first mission away from the city, also his chance to help Kat, still sending Hughes after them… it seemed so odd. 'Maybe he really didn't send us here with his blessing… that wouldn't be surprising…'
"Ed!" Kat speaks loudly, shaking his arm a little.
"Neh?"
"Where do you want to go now, we've circled this block about five times now…" Kat teases.
"Eh? G-gomen! I was lost in thought that's all." Ed looks around a bit, "How about over there." Ed points to the close by riverbank. "We could walk by there for a while."
"Ok!" Kat smiles holding onto Ed's arm a little tighter, snuggling close to him. Walking for a couple yards they come up to a weeping willow tree, it's pedals just in bloom. "Oh Ed it's so pretty! You wanna sit under it for a while?"
Ed smiles at her and nods walking her to the willow tree having a great view of the world, plains of grass for miles on end, the riverbank close by making the area perfect.
"You know weeping willows are more well known to be around bodies of water, because they need more water than your average willow tree." Kat looks up to Ed seeing him smiles. "Did you know that?"
"Not really, though I've always wondered why their branches are always so limp." Ed holds one of the ends of a branch looking at the flowers on its stems.
"I guess it's so that it can be more durable when heavy weather comes in, you know a weeping willow is less likely to get knocked over than your everyday willow tree, because of it's flexibility." Kat smiles looking at the tree she speaks so fondly of admiring it.
"You guess?" Ed looks at her in disbelief.
Kat looks to him a little confused, "Yea what about it?"
"I thought you were supposed to be the plant lady you're supposed to know EVERYTHING about plants!" Ed nudges her a little.
Kat unsuccessfully tries to hide her smiles with an angry face, shaking her head. "Well yea I don't know EVERYTHING about plants because there's too many to remember!" Kat nudges Ed right back.
"Ah I see you're using the 'there's too many' excuse! Used much too often!" Ed of course is lying through his teeth.
"I am telling the truth there are like over two billion plants on this planet and I'm supposed to remember them all?" Kat puts her hands on her hips, now pretending to be mad.
"Yes!" His voice drips with sarcasm.
Kat pushes him away playfully, "You're so terrible!" Kat tries to get away, only to have her hips be caught by two manly hands.
"Where do you think you're going!" Ed speaks up playfully, though the tone of his voice being very husky.
Kat suddenly stops her eyes blinking as though she'd seen a ghost. Ed becoming worried crawls around to look at the young woman in the eyes. "Kat?"
Kat looks to him almost frightened to even see that he's there, having a terrible vision of her past.
"Shhh… Shhhh it's ok…" Ed offers his hand obviously forgetting himself before thinking about what she'd gone through. He'd have to remember to not pull her like that again. Kat takes his hand crawling to him shivering terribly.
"It's ok… I'm here… Everything's going to be ok." Ed kisses his little Flower on the head. "I'm sorry I did that… I should have known better than to pull you like that…"
Kat clings closer to Ed, shaking her head, "I can't let this rule my life… I can't let this hurt me so much…"
Ed smiles, "Well like you said… we both have things we want to forget." Kat nods to the statement.
"Ed…"
"Yea?" Looking down at Kat Ed sees her still in a slightly fragile state.
"Did you mean… what you said earlier? To Lieutenant Colonel?" Kat clings closer to Ed holding his red jacket.
Ed smiles and pets his lovely flowers' hair, "Yes. I meant every word."
Smiling Kat snuggling closer to Ed, "Thank you…"
Ed blinks, "For what?"
"Loving me so much!" Kat looks up kissing him on the lips.
Ed smiles wrapping his arms around her waist, "Well I love loving you."
Kat blushes, "And I love loving you." She leans closer to him giving him a full kiss on the lips.
Both hearing a rustle in the bushes, both sigh irritably, "Yes Lieutenant Colonel?" Both speak up.
"Nothing I'm just strolling along, you love birds seem to be determined to be rid of ME." Hughes smiles at them both as he walks up to them from so that they both can see him.
"We were just talking is there something wrong with that?" Ed growls.
Hughes holds up his hands retreating, "Hey I'm just under orders that's all!"
"Well your orders suck!" Ed gets out before Kat covers his mouth.
"Lieutenant Colonel?" Kat speaks up with a slight grin.
"Yes Flower?" Hughes looks happily his best friends cousin.
"Isn't it about that time that you go on a break, you know call your wife, have a chat with your daughter, eat something?" Kat smiles.
Hughes faces pales up slightly looking at his wrist watch seeing that it has already been three minutes past the time that he was supposed to call his beloved wife. "I… erm… Be RIGHT back!"
"Take your time!" Kat smiles watching the man scramble his way out of there.
Ed looks at Kat with respect and amazement, "Hmm hid hoo ho hat." Kat giggles taking her hand off of Ed's mouth, "How'd you know that?"
Kat smiles, "Well you have to kiss me to find out."
Ed smiles giving her a full kiss on the lips, pulling her a little closer to himself, soon forgetting how Kat got them out of their little mess and started concentrating on just her. Venturing through the caverns of her mouth, caressing her curved though still clothed body just seemed so sweet to him. Slowly breaking away from the kiss he whispers in her ear, "You don't have to tell me now."
Kat giggles, "But I wanna tell you…" Kat whispers right back; she kisses his nose, making him blink a little at his nose, which only causes Kat to giggle all the more. "I talked to Risa, I wanted to know how often Hughes talks to his wife, she told me, three times a day once when he first awakens if he's on a trip, or when he arrives at work, wanting to know the he made it safely to work. A second time at lunch just to chat about work and about their daughter of course. The third time is when he's about to leave from work or going to bed when on a mission." Kat smiles at Ed seeing that he obviously hadn't known this information. Kissing his cheek, before she speaks up one last time, "You can thank me later."
Standing up Kat walks over to the riverside watching the water pass on by as fish do their best to swim through it. Ed stands up and walks behind her resting his head on her shoulder, and putting his arms around her waist. "It's beautiful isn't it?"
Ed nods, holding her a little tighter, "It is beautiful, but not as beautiful as you…"
Kat smiles and blushes, "That's sweet of you to say…"
(TBC)
Trom: Behold the fluff!
Al: I didn't know Nii-chan could act like that o.o;;
Trom: Love does strange things to people.
Ed::Hides blushing:
Japanese words:
Nii-chan- Big brother
Gomen- Sorry
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