Ch.5: Alphonse to the Rescue
Genre: Romance/Action/Humor/Drama (Aka General)
Rating: T For Mild Swearing and Violence (maybe more? Probably fluff)
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Fullmetal Alchemist, Hiromu Arakawa does.
Summary: Edward and Alphonse came back from a huge and long mission. But Ed's auto-mail and body weren't the only thing that was damaged; his mind seems to be completely 'out-of-whack'. He acts completely different, but will someone be able to turn him to normal! With that, will they be able to baby-sit an infant too?
EdxWin RoyxRiza and others too! (Perhaps, any suggestions? No Yaoi!)
Title: I Liked You Better
Notes: Everyone is same age. Edward 15, Winry 15, Alphonse 14 etc.
Last Time…
" Good." She smiled. " Because I have no idea how to take care of this baby!"
" W-wha? What do you mean you don't know! We came here because we thought you knew how!" Edward said.
Winry looked at the little baby. " Awe, he's so cute!"
" Winry!" Al yelled. She snapped back to her senses.
" What do you expect? It's not like I had a baby before!" She yelled back.
" Who would have known!" Edward snapped.
" Ed! I'm 15! FIFTEEN! I wouldn't do anything like that!"
" Even if it was me!"
" WTF! Ed!"
" I was just kidding!"
" Um brother, Winry-" Alphonse spoke.
The two fighters turned around. " WHAT!" They yelled. Alphonse stepped back.
" The baby's crying." Winry gasped and ran over to the basket and lifted the baby in her arms. " Shh… I'm sorry I'm sorry." She spoke to the baby. As if it would talk back or something.
The baby seemed to ease herself to back to normal. Winry sighed and placed the baby in her basket.
" Wow, Winry." Alphonse said looking at her astonishing work.
" I thought you didn't know anything!"
" It seems pretty obvious." Winry said walking over to the kitchen.
" Milk Milk Milk Milk. We need Milk." Winry started.
" What! I'm not drinking that crap!" Edward yelled over the room.
Winry pulled out the milk carton. " Not you." She said. " Uh-oh." She cried looking in the cabinets, and the drawers. " What?" Alphonse asked.
" We don't have ANY baby stuff." Winry said with a worried look on her face. Edward gulped. Who knew so much about baby stuff? Wait there is someone. Someone…
" Hughes." (AN: Yes, I know he is dead. Sob But not in this fic.) Al snapped his finger. "That's right! He knows how to take care of a baby!"
Edward grumbled reaching for the phone. Winry smiled, even thought Maes Hughes could be over obsessive about Elysia, he was still a nice person. Who seemed to be a friend of Edward and Alphonse. This was going to be hard explaining everything to him of all people. He dialed his number and waited for the- " Hello?"
" Oh! Um, Gracia this is- Edward Elric."
" Oh, it's nice to hear from you! What can I do for you!"
" C-can I talked to Major Hughes?"
" Of course." The phone layed dead for a moment.
" Hey Ed! What's up?"
" Um, you know how to take care of a baby right?"
" Oooh! Edward you got laid! Nice job, and at such a young age! So who's the lucky"
" IT'S NOT MY BABY!" Edward yelled through the phone.
" I'm at the Rockbell's and we have a baby to take care of. You see this woman-" (If I tell you the whole story on how Ed got the baby you would get bored because you already know what happened.)
" Hmm, alright I'll come over. Elysia doesn't need a lot of this stuff anymore!" Ed placed the phone in the receiver and sighed. Hughes is going to tell Mustang and he's never gonna hear the end of it.
" He's coming over." Edward said glumly.
" And my life is a living hell. Again." Winry laughed.
" Hey Hughes." Edward said waving.
But the Major had already zoomed through the door and over to the basket, dropping 3 bags to the floor.
" Aren't you a cute little baby? Yes you are! Yes you are!" He said using his finger to touch the baby's cheek. The other three starred and sweat dropped. Winry picked up a bag and skimmed through it.
" Baby formula, diapers, bottles, baby powder, baby shampoo, baby clothes, and the list goes on."
" Are you sure we can keep all of this stuff?" Alphonse asked looking in the bag with Winry.
" Why of course!" Hughes said.
" We can't thank you enough, Major!" Winry said, glad she had supplies. " Any time." Hughes answered.
After Hughes had left, the three had sat down on the table and had started eating. The food wasn't as good as Pinako's but it was decent, so they didn't complain. Winry was rummaging through the bags grabbing out some baby food for the baby to eat.
" Ed, which do you like better, peas or bananas?" Winry asked.
" That's a dumb question, why do you ask?"
" Well, I'm not sure which one the baby would like…" " She seems like a pea person." Alphonse stated.
" How do you know?" Winry asked. " Just feed it to him." Winry opened the small bottle, brought out the food and set it down on the table.
" Ed can you take care of it? I have to go to the bathroom." She said walking over to the restroom. Edward sighed, not wanting to do such a job. But he picked up the jar and placed it on the baby's side of the table. " Eat." He said sitting back down.
" Brother! You have to feed it to him!" " What!" Edward snapped.
Ed got back and held the spoon to the baby's face. The baby just looked blankly at him.
" Blib" The baby said.
" What?" Ed asked. " Uhh, here comes the train!" The baby didn't eat it.
Edward cleared his throat. " Er, it tastes really yummy!" "urlp." The baby answered.
" Please?"
"shlim"
" Pretty please?"
" Ishp."
" Do it for the state alchemist?"
" Blurb?"
" GOD DAMMIT EAT THE FCKING THING!" Edward yelled.
" something wrong?" Winry asked from the other side of the room. Edward jumped up.
" I can't make the baby eat it!" Soon the baby started crying. She ran towards the baby and calmed her down. She grabbed the jar from Ed's hands and tried to feed her.
" Open your mouth. Say Ah…"
" ooh."
" No, ah."
" Eeee"
" No ahh!"
"loob"
" Ah."
"noob" ( the first word! No JK)
" Arg! I can't get this baby to eat!" " Let me try" Al asked. " Wait Al, I almost got it."
Winry opened up her mouth a little bit and tried to slip the spoon in but she just bit on it instead. Edward looked at the baby. ' maybe I can open her mouth with alchemy…' Edward thought. Ed slapped his hands together and place them on the baby. Amazingly her mouth started to open.
" AHHHH! KYAA AHHH!" The baby screamed even louder, they wouldn't be surprise if their ear drums popped. " Shh, Ed make it stop!" Winry said franticly covering her ears. Luckily it did, and her cries became softer. " Phew."
Al grabbed the jar from Winry's hands and put it on the table.
" The baby is NOT hungry!" He yelled.
" Huh?"
" Look!" He said pointing to the wet diaper. " Winry he's right. We've been aiming the wrong thing." Winry sighed. " I would have never had guessed."
" Thanks Al, you came to the rescue."