Disclaimer: Though I have made many bids on it I still don't own FMA or it's characters...I do own this story and the original characters in it.
James was 26 now and ready to become a father. However, to support his new family, he had to work for the state for a while longer. He and Roy were assigned to an Ishbalan town that the military had been watching for a few months and now planned to attack. The civil war in the East had begun, after long confrontations between the military and the religious group. State alchemists were now being tested as human weapons, James and Roy were just two of these weapons. James packed his bag and kissed his beautiful wife who was now four months pregnant good-bye and left. Little did he know that he would never see his baby.
Roy and James arrived at the town and hid in an abandoned building. They watched and waited. James sat looking at a picture of his wife and a sonogram of his baby. "Aren't they beautiful, Roy? Look at my beautiful baby, the doctors say they think it's a girl...a beautiful baby girl." Roy smiled, "I bet she'll look just like you, James." "Thank you, Roy...can I ask you a question?" "Of course, Buddy, you can ask me anything." "I want you to take care of them...ya know..if something happens to me..this job is dangerous..we could die at any minute...just please, take care of my wife and my baby if I die?" "I would be honored to watch over them, James." "Thank you, Roy." Roy didn't have the slightest idea how to take care of a baby, let alone a woman. He had always been known as a womanizer.
When night fell, the bombardment started, and riots broke out in the streets. A young Ishbalan man ran up to the abandoned building and threw a homemade bomb through the window. Before they knew it, Roy and James were flying through the air. When Roy came to he couldn't see James anywhere. He tried to stand up and discovered that he was relatively unharmed. Then his wild search for James began. The Sun was creeping up over the hills and a new day was beginning. "James!" Roy shouted into the nothingness. The town was ruined, all the people had fled. The only one left was Roy.
"Roy!" James called, seeing Roy a slight distance away. Roy heard James' call and he ran to him. He was in a pool of his own blood and blood trickeld from his mouth. Roy knelt next to his friend and lifted his head. James coughed and blood poured from his mouth. "Please...you have to hold on, for the baby, James, hold on for the baby!" Roy begged. Tears streamed down James' face, "no, Roy...I'm dying, but please take my watch and give it to the baby when she's old enough, and remind her every day that her daddy loved her...and Calien, tell her I'm sorry, that I couldn't be there for her, and that I love her." "I'll tell them that for you, I promise..." Roy sobbed, his best friend was fading and there was nothing he could do to stop it. James looked up at Roy and whispered, "the only thing that I regret...is that I never got to hold my baby.." He gasped one last time and with that he was dead. Roy laid his friend down and screamed into the silence, "Somebody..please help me!" He screamed as loud as he could and collapsed.
When he woke up he was back in the Central military compound. The room was quiet, except for quiet sobs. He sat up and looked around. He saw Calien weeping in the corner of his room. "Calien?" He whispered. "Oh, you're awake.." She managed to say between sobs. Roy told her everything that James had said as he died. He told her that he would hold onto his watch and give it to the child when it was old enough, as James had asked. "What will I do now, Roy?" Calien asked, "he was everything to me..how can I have this baby alone?" "You won't be alone Calien, I promised James that you wouldn't be alone, I'll be there for you and the baby. As long as I live, you won't be alone."
Roy lived up to his promise to the best of his abilities. He helped Calien through her pregnancy, but only for a short time.
Thanks for reading my story so far...please review (be gentle!). The story gets better later I promise!