Heir to the Flame
Chapter 12: The Mysterious Caller
Roy had somehow managed to pin Havoc down on the ground and smirked at him. "Heheheh... never could get the best of me, Havoc." Havoc growled at him, his face on the floor. "Get off of me, Roy! You know I go easy on you because you're smaller!"
"That's not true!"
"It is too! Let go of my arms and I'll prove it!"
"You're beat, just admit it."
Keira sighed from the bed and Havoc bounced up from the floor, knocking Roy over and into Maes, who tumbled onto the floor. "What?" he asked, looking into her green eyes. "What will we name her?" she asked, and Havoc put his chin in his hand and exhaled slowly. She sniffed and her nose wrinkled for a moment. "You've been smoking again, haven't you?"
"I've been trying to quit, I swear Keira!"
"Really Jean?"
"Yes! I'll be clean by the time the baby comes!"
"Good!" she said, hugging him tightly. "I want to name her Luna..."
"Luna... Luna Havoc... sounds good!"
Maes and Roy, meanwhile, were having a fit in the corner. "L-Luna... Luna Havoc! Hahahahahaha!"
Jean gave them a murderous look, pulled a gun from his waist holster, and cocked it. "You know, I may not be as good as Riza... but I can still aim pretty damn good!" Roy and Maes took this as their cue to leave. Roy grunted. "Sheesh... touchy much?" Maes held out his hand for the papers and Roy gave them to him.
"Well well... looks pretty big for just four and a half months... he's probably going to be a lot like you Roy."
"Yeah... that's what I'm worried about... but if he looks exactly like me, I can say that Riza had a miscarriage and that this one is mine. I can bring him to work, so that's no problem..."
"Unless of course he screams for his mother the whole day, hours on end, and conveniantly stops when Riza is in the room."
"Riza is always in the same room with me, so that's covered."
"You realize that this will be tremendously straining on Riza. That's her baby and she can't show any kind of affection, or she'll blow your cover."
"If the baby looked like her, then she could keep it, but... I'm... well... If she's walking around with a baby that looks like me, what will the obvious conclusion be?"
"Can't beat logic... she could always drop out of the military, you know, resign."
"I can't ask her to do that... she's already said she won't. She won't drop out until after I'm Fuhrer, maybe not even after that."
"I see..."
Havoc came out with Keira on his arm, Keira sporting a very shiny diamond on her ring finger. Roy made eye contact with Jean and nodded slightly at the ring, and Jean nodded back; he had proposed. Then something struck Roy.
"Havoc... why were you so angry when you thought I was involved with the First Lieutenant?" he asked. Havoc looked blank at first, then realized what the heck Roy was talking about in the first place. "Oh! Well, Riza and I... the easiest way to say it is that we're relatives; a bit distant, so I won't bore you with the family tree gist of it. I was just... concerned for family's sake, you know." Havoc shrugged. "We're so distant that we might not be considered related at all, and it's not by blood anyway."
Riza groaned and turned over in bed, trying to grope around for the phone even though her eyes were tightly shut. She found the reciever at last and yanked it up, coughed momentarily, and groaned into the phone, "Who is this, and what do you want?"
A rather miffed sounding masculine voice resonated over the phone."Man, one phone call and this is what I get? I thought you wanted me to call more often, sweetheart." Riza sighed and laid down in bed, smiling slightly."Mm-hmm... I'm glad you called, Jackory."
"I hate it when you call me that, if you must, shorten it to Jack."
"How's your dad?"
"Dad? He's fine, still his old wandering self. I think he might be in your area, so if you see him, be nice and say hi, Elizabeth."
"If you call me Elizabeth, I'll call you Jackory."
"Fine, done deal Riza."
"Thank you, Jack."
"You holding up alright? Want me to come see you or anything?"
"No, no I'm fine. I've missed you though, Jack."
A soft pause on the other end. "I've missed you too, Riza.And we've only been apart for... couldn'tve been more than a few months! Are you sure... you don't want me to visit or anything... stay the night maybe?"
"No... it's okay, I'm fine. Well... maybe... Jack."
"Yeah?"
"Can I see you tonight in Central Park?"
"Sure, what time?"
"...eleven o' clock, one hour before midnight."
"Alright, I'll be there."
"I love you Jackory."
"I love you too, Elizabeth."
Riza hung up the phone and laid on her back, waiting for eleven o' clock, one hour before midnight.
I must say that I can't wait to see you guys freak out. Tell me whatcha think, review! Review! And try to make the reviews more than a word! You know, if I got as many reviews as Heir to the Flame has favorites... well... I'd have a whole lot of reviews to sift through. I wish T.T
And yes, getting women pregnant without getting married is against my ethics as well, but it makes the story a whole lot better if you ask me. Also, well... nevermind, I'll make you wait for it! Mwahahahahah! I'll just say that something very bad will happen later in the story, and I'm not even going to tell you to who!
Oh no... I left another cliffy... must-stop-putting-cliffies-aaagh. I can't seem to stop, I'm addicted. Time to go to rehab... I think I gave you a break last chapter though.. so maybe I don't need rehab.
Anyway, thanks for all your loyal support, especially my die-hard fan unexpectation who revies everything I write.
And, lastly, for anyone who cares, I've got a new story which can only be described as strange... The Revenge of Mr.Bean. It is supposedly the TRUE story of Edward Elric, written by my ten year old brother. Next off is for all the Jean Havoc fans, a bit of a side continuation of this and a major spoiler for this story's later chapters... okay just a bit. It's called... Wrecking Havoc. You know, there are very few good Jean Havoc stories online...
-T A