Drip, drip, drip.

Roy Mustang lay awake, listening to the infernal slooshing of water hitting the ceramic suface of the sink.

Drip.

Despite his best effort, he just couldn't get himself to go to ignore it and go to sleep.

Drip

He closed his eyes and shoved his pillow on his head. "Why won't it stop!" he mumbled into the cool fabric of the pillowcase.

Ding-Dong

Roy removed the pillow from pver his head, cold air rushing into his lungs, "That didn't sound like water..." He said sleepily, sitting up slowly.

Ding-Dong, knock, knock, knock.

"Who could that be at-" He glaced at the clock "3:42 AM..." He slide off the bed and onto the floor, shivering slightly as the skin of his warm feet made contact with the cold wood of his bare floor.

Knock, knock, knock

The knocking was getting more frantic, as if the life of the person outside depended on getting into the house. Mustang reached the door and opened it a crack, peering outside he seen the top of a blonde head. "Fullmetal?" he said skeptically as he looked down at the small alchemist.

"Colonel?... Can I come in" Ed whimpered pathetically.

It took Roy a moment to register what Ed had just asked. "Oh... Of coarse you can." He opned the door wider and let the young alchemist step inside.

Shutting the door softly, Roy turned to look at Ed, Ed's clothes were soaked through and he was shivering violently, his skin was deathly pale and his lips had a slightly blueish tinge to them.

"Fullmetal? what happened? Why were you out in the rain at almost 4:00AM?" Asked Roy, keeping his usual calm state of mind.

Despite being close to dying of hypothermia, Ed still managed to give Colonel Mustang a weak glare for the use of his Alchemist title.

Mustang rolled his eyes. "We should get you some dry clothes to change into, you have to get out of those wet clothes before you catch something." he said in exasperation.

Ed nodded and stripped off his heavy jacket. It dropped to the floor with a dull slooshing noise. He then started to remove his water logged pants.

Roy coughed in embaressement and quickly ushered Ed into the bathroom. "I'll get you something to wear, hopefully I'll have something small enough."

"Stop making fun of my height!" Came a weak voice from behind the solid door. Roy smirked his trademark smirk. "And wipe that smile off you face." The voice spoke again. His grin got wider, Ed knew him too well.

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Roy had found an old pair of pyjamas for Ed to wear and settled him away in the spare bedroom. But the eldest Elric was reluctant to go to bed without sharing his story of why he was out in the rain at 4:00AM. But Roy told him he'd have plenty of time in the morning to tell him. Right now he needed to rest and get warm. Mustang then went to bed himself, and was enjoying quite a plesent dream when-

"Roy..." came a small voice from the bedroom doorway. Roy jumped slightly and looked over to see Ed stood there, clad in purple black pyjamas, his hair tousled in an oh-so-adorable way and a pathetic look on his face. cute. Though Roy, now fully awake. He got out of bed and yawned. "Whats wrong now Fullmetal?" he sighed.

"I'm... Cold... and dizzy..." The words we're no sooner out of his mouth when he fell against the door frame, out cold.

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Yeah, I know... It's kinda short right? It was longer, but I chose to leave it there because I'm evil. Chapter two will be up soon