"You okay?"
"What happened?"
"You passed out in the park, and gave birth about three hours later."
Roy pointed to a baby crib where a sleeping baby girl rested. Roy patted Riza's head with a cold cloth and helped her sit up. She felt very light and she was happy to have her small body back. Riza turned to face the sleeping crib. Roy walked over and grabbed the baby and walked back to Riza. As he handed the baby to her, Riza took her and smiled. She stared into the sleeping child's face. Rosy checks, blonde hair and a pink blanket to bundle her up in. Riza smiled at the baby. Running her finger gently over her check, she froze.
-- FLASHBACKS --
Riza stood holding a baby in a pink blanket. Blonde hair and rosy checks. It was raining hard as she ran through dark streets in the mud. She approached the house. Yelled something then handed the baby to a large man. Then she ran through the streets again. The name Alexis running through her mind.
-- END --
"Alexis!"
Riza shouted as she stared at the baby with wide eyes.
"you want to name her Alexis...?"
"Um... no... um... I meant... Emiko..."
"...okay..."
Roy took the baby and placed her back in the crib.
"Riza, are you okay?"
He sat on the edge of the bed and held her close. She closed her eyes as she fought back tears. She leaned her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. Taking in a few deep breaths, she opened her eyes and smiled up at Roy.
"Yeah... I'll be just fine."
She lied as she rested her head back on his shoulder. Before long, she fell asleep and Roy left the room. Ryan approached him.
"Papa... some strange girl attacked mommy today at the park."
"What do you mean son?"
"She was watching us in the town while we were getting some food, then I saw her talking to mommy in the park. She said my mommy was her mommy and she stole Mommy's necklace saying it belonged to her. She called herself Alexis."
Roy stared at his son with wide eyes. This was all to strange for him. The girl Maria talked about was thirteen years old. Roy married Riza thirteen years ago. She would never cheat on him, would she. Roy smiled at his son and sent him off to play. Roy then walked downstairs and entered his study.
"No, couldn't be her. After all, there was once a military solider who looked allot like Riza... but she died over thirteen years ago..."
Roy sat down in his study and pondered. He did his best to think about thirteen years ago, but all that came to his mind was Riza, their wedding and...
"Riza did take a random four month vacation. Claimed she needed some time to rest and gather her thoughts before the wedding. Fullmetal verified she took a vacation in Risembool..."
Roy placed his head on the desk and closed his eyes. He lifted his head and a look of fear on his face.
"She wouldn't cheat on me. Riza loves me. I shouldn't even think about this. But it bugs me. I'll just prove to myself that she didn't and then I'll laugh and go back to normal."
Roy smiled and exhaled a breath he didn't know he was holding. He smiled and rose to his feet, walking across the floor. He wrote a note.
"Ryan, I'm going out for a while, give this note to your mother when she wakes up."
"Okay..."
Ryan took the note and went back to play as Roy left the house. He walked through the town and headed to the station. There, he took the first train to Risembool and then to The automail shop. It was an hour train ride and he happened to et a set across the aisle from an anti-military person who kept staring at him from the corner of her eyes. More his luck, the same woman was going to the same automail shop.
"Ms. Izumi thank you for coming..."
Winry Elric exclaimed as she opened the door. Izumi and Sig entered the house. Roy smiled and waved.
"Hello Fuhrer, come on in, too."
Izumi made sure to make a wide radius around Roy and stuck to hanging out on the other side of the room.
"I brought the medication for your grandmother Winry. This should last about two months this time. Same instructions as last time."
"Thank you Ms. Izumi."
Winry took the medication and placed it in the kitchen. She came back and could feel the tension in the room. She knew how Izumi felt about the military and having Roy in uniform didn't help much. From another room, the sound of Ed's voice could be heard...
"James, don't eat that. Yuck, no!"
Winry rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Edward! Company!"
Winry called and Ed came into the room, holding a four year old in his arms. The child had glue on his hands and some on his face.
"Hello Izumi Sensei. Sig-san. Fuhrer Bastard..."
Ed greeted everyone and gave his son, James, to Winry who went tot he sink to wash the glue from his mouth. Winry then took James and lead him over to a small table in the corner where the child began to play with markers and such. Winry requested Izumi's company in the living room to chat and Izumi followed, abandoning poor Sig in the kitchen. Roy turned to Ed as they sat down at the small kitchen table. Ed turned his body side ways and looked up at the ceiling, fixated on the slowly spinning ceiling fan.
"Hey, do you happen to remember thirteen years ago Ed?"
Ed closed his eyes.
"Yeah, didn't you married Riza?"
"Yeah... do you remember a vacation she took down here?"
Ed opened his eyes and turned his body to face Roy. He leaned back in his chair and hesitated.
"...yeah... what about it. She needed to clear her head before the wedding. I believe she stayed for about... four, maybe five months..."
"That's the one. This may sound crazy but..."
"Everything you say is crazy..."
Roy glared at Ed. The sound of heavy footsteps were heard leaving the room and entering the living room. Glancing to their side, they noticed Sig left the room. Then turning back to each other, Roy continued.
"There was just some strange information floating around between a few people up in Central about Riza having an out of wedlock child. It's crazy, I know, I don't know why I even asked..."
Roy chuckled to himself and leaned back in his chair. He closed his eyes and laughed to himself. His laugher died down when he noticed Ed wasn't laughing with him. He opened his eyes and found Ed walking across the kitchen to the sink where he grabbed himself a glass of water.
"You all right there Ed?"
"...yeah..."
Ed replied, swallowing the full glass in one gulp.
"Riza would never cheat on me..."
Ed choked on the water and tried to swallow again. He tried to laugh to cover the coughing and barely succeeded. He managed a fake smile and turned around, placing the glass in the sink.
"Riza, cheat on you, please... she loves you Roy...you crazy bastard..."
Ed sat back down and continued to smile. Roy smiled back.
"No, James, don't eat that!"
Ed jumped up and ran to his son in the corner who was attempting to eat glitter. Winry came into the kitchen to see what was wrong. Sure enough, little James was sticking a handful of colorful glitter in his mouth.
"I swear one day this kid is going to shit out a Christmas ornament."
Winry complained as she took her son from Ed over to the sink to clean out his mouth. Ed laughed as he turned back to Roy. Roy wasn't paying attention. He was watching something outside. Ed leaned in to Winry and whispered in her ear.
"He's questioning me about thirteen years ago. Remember when Riza came down here for a 'vacation'?"
Winry's hands stopped pulling glitter at the mention of this visit. Shacking her head, she continued to clean her son and brushed Ed off.
"It's nothing to worry about. She said everything was taken care of. Remember..."
Winry whispered back and Ed scratched his head. He turned around and saw Roy was standing and stretching.
"Well, I better go. Riza is at home alone with the kids and she as really tired when I left..."
"Kids? As in more than one?"
"Oh, damn, I totally forgot. She gave birth to a little girl earlier this afternoon."
"Congratulations!"
"Thanks... well, I best be going. Ryan is a handful."
Roy waved good bye, and as an added bonus, he waved goodbye to the couple sitting in the living room. He could of swore Sig was restraining Izumi. He shrugged it off and left the house, heading home to Central.