Disclaimer: I still don't own FMA tear, I do own this story, however...YAY!

A month after James' death, Calien went into very early labor. Roy, Maes, and Gracia raced to the hospital with her, so that she could deliver the child. Maes and Roy went into the delivery room with her. The doctor looked at Roy, "the child will be born very premature, I don't know if either the mother or the child will make it." Roy's eyes filled with terror, this can't be happening, he thought with horror. Gracia sat in the waiting room, wondering if everything was alright. Roy and Maes held Calien's hands as she pushed. The baby was on its' way. The labor took a very long time, and Calien was in a lot of pain. She felt herself getting weaker and weaker and she hemorrhaged and lost more and more blood with every contraction. She gazed up at the doctor, "please...save my baby, save my baby," she cried. Roy and Maes both knew that she was dying. "Roy..Maes, please I want the two of you to raise my baby." Calien said quietly. Roy promised that he would raise the baby as his own. "What should we name the baby?" Roy asked. "If it is a boy, name him after James," Calien answered. "And if it is a girl?" Maes asked. "If it is a girl, you may name her whatever you want," she responded in a whisper. "I'd like to name her Calien, after her mother," Roy said with a smile. Calien just responded with a very weak smile. Suddenly she screamed in pain and blood poured out of her. Roy heard the baby cry as it was born. He looked back at Calien and she was pale and still, her hand had become cold. She was dead. The baby was an orphan now. Immediately he knew that he and Maes would work as a team to raise the baby, but he planned to adopt it himself. "It's a girl.." The doctor said solemnly. Roy wanted to hold her, but they had to clean her up quickly then take her to the NICU. The small child was put in an incubator, a feeding tube and a respirator were attached because she couldn't live on her own. Roy, Maes, and Gracia ran down to the NICU once they were told that they could. "That poor little girl, no mother or father left for her...Maes, we should adopt her." Gracia suggested, she was just trying to ease Roy's pain. He had really cared for this child's parents and he had come to think of the baby as his own. "That's very thoughtful of you, Honey, but I think Roy should get down to the court house as fast as possible and he should adopt her. We'll help him take care of her as much as possible, but he needs this baby." Maes said with a gentle smile at Roy. The three of them slept in the hospital with the baby. Roy was up all night looking at the tiny baby, who was so small that a ring could fit up her thigh. The doctors had said that if she lost a teaspoon of blood, she would die.

"You have to pull through, little one," Roy whispered, putting a finger through the hole in the incubator. They had told him that he could touch her. Right now, the child was sleeping, but when he touched her, she stirred and looked up at him. He expected her to cry like a normal baby would when disturbed from sleep, but she just looked up at him with watery blue eyes and seemed to smile, as if to reassure him.

A week had passed and the child was still in NICU, and the doctors were still unable to tell if the baby would make it. Roy hadn't had any sleep since the baby was born. Maes and Gracia were very worried for their friend. "Roy, you need to get some rest, you told Calien that we'd work as a team to care for this child, and right now, you're trying to be everything by yourself. You need some rest, Roy..You can't take care of the baby properly unless you take care of yourself. I promise, Gracia and I will be right here with her the whole time." Roy finally agreed. He went back to his room in the Central headquarters and fell asleep immediately. He dreamed of James and Calien. He told them that he wanted to name the baby Calien after her mother and they agreed. He told them that he loved the baby and that he would try to be the best parent he could possibly be. He awoke 15 hours later and rushed back to the hospital. Gracia was asleep on some chairs in the room with the baby. Maes had pulled a chair up next to her incubator and was reading her the children's book Goodnight Moon. Roy felt happy knowing that he was not going to be alone in the up-bringing of the child. In fact, he didn't know the first thing about being a parent. He never expected to even have children of his own let alone raise James' baby. There was something about the little girl that made him feel happy inside. The next day he signed the papers and adopted her. Her birth cirtificate read Calien Lilian Anarnore, her father's last name.

Finally, when the child was a month old, the doctor solemnly came to Roy, and asked his permission to take the baby off of life support the next morning. Roy cried as he signed the paper saying that they could make her live on her own starting the next day. Maes and Gracia stayed with him all night and the three of them spent time with the baby. "I did the right thing, didn't I?" Roy asked. "Yes, you did, Roy. What kind of life would it be if she had to live in the hospital hooked up to a machine the whole time?" Maes asked. Roy knew Maes was right, it was time for the baby to live on her own. That night he spoke to the baby. "Calien, tomorrow, they're going to take you off that respirator, I know it sucks being on it. you'll make it though, you're a fighter...you won't let this be the end. You wanna live, I see it in your tiny face." He spent the entire night with the baby. He told her how good her life would be, that she'd be taken off the feeding tube, and she'd drink formula like a normal baby, and that she'd be happy.

For the past two weeks Maes and Gracia were gone most of the night, and slept most of the day, they were back at the compound making a surprise for Roy..with the permission of the military, of course. Roy hadn't noticed, because he was spending so much time in the hospital with the baby.

The next day the baby was taken off the respirator. Maes and Gracia had to hold Roy up as they waited for the baby to breathe. After about a minute, the tiny baby with dark brown hair and blue eyes gasped and took her first breath on her own since the moment she had cried when she was born. For the first time in her life she was held for a long time. She was wrapped in a pink blanket and Roy held her. She looked up at him and smiled, as if she were saying, "I told you so." Little Calien reached her tiny hand up to him and he gave her his finger and her little hand wrapped around it and she cooed. Maes smiled, "if I didn't know any better, I'd think you were that baby's real father." It was hard for Roy to let her go, but eventually Gracia and Maes had a chance to hold her. That night Roy fed her her first bottle ever. He was told by the doctor that the next day the child would be released from the hospital, and that he was glad that the baby would have such a great father to look out for her. Sure enough, the next morning, Roy brough the baby home. Now it was time for Maes and Gracia to unveil their surprise. They took him to the empty bedroom adjacent to his room, right down the hall from his office. It had been turned into a beautiful nursery for the baby. It had pink walls and a beautiful crib, toys and books everywhere. This would be the baby's new home. However, the surprise was not over yet. They took Roy and the baby down the hall to his office and sure enough there was the entire group of military personnel and they had a surprise baby shower for them. Everyone got to hold her, and got to know her. Finally, Roy got to relax and get himself back to normal.

Anyhow, this one was a little longer...don't worry I have the whole thing written out (there's 22 chapters), so stay tuned!