Chapter Four: Study Week two: Ed's Accident and a Close Call.
Before the Alchemy exam, the two girls were studying extremely hard either in a field with the Fullmetal or over at Ed's place. Though of course, this wasn't making a very certain alchemist happy due to the fact that now he has two girls staying with him instead of one.When Ed was at HQ, Colonel Roy had told the Fullmetal pipsquick that he was going to have to put up with Beth as well because Maes and his wife had come down with a cold.
" WHAT! NO WAY AM I HAVING TWO GIRLS IN THE SAME HOUSE!" " That's not an option for you Fullmetal, you're just to obey the order and put up with her for at least a few days."
" Great, now I get the loud mouth Arwen and the hyper pixie Beth."
Now Ed of course wasn't very happy with this at all, in fact he would tease Beth about her nickname that her friends had given her.
" PIXIE! PIXIE! PIXIE!"
" SHUT IT BLONDE! AT LEAST I'M NOT AS SHORT AS A GRAIN OF RICE!"
" TAKE THAT BACK!"
" NO!"
Now Arwen had heard all of the arguement through the walls of the study and walked in.
" What in the seven hells is going on!"
" Teresa, tell this short stupid, size of a grain of rice alchemist to quit calling me pixie!"
" What did you say!" Ed yelled in Beth's ear.
" I CALLED YOU A SHORT STUPID, SIZE OF A GRAIN OF RICE ALCHEMIST! GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT!" she yelled back, cracking her knuckles.
Ed backed away a little knowing what was coming. Too late. A duffle bag of Alchemy books had flown at the back of his head. Unfortuantly for him, at that same time, Beth had thrown a punch at his jaw, knocking him out.
" Brother!" Al shouted and kneeled next to his brother, who was currently twitching a leg.
" Oops, I think we killed him this time Beth."
" Really? AW MAN! Now we're going to get into trouble and we won't be able to take the Alchemy exams and we'll be sent home and I'll have to work at a cheap restaraunt and...!"
" BETH! CALM DOWN!" Arwen told her friend placing her hands on Beth's shoulders firmly but gently enough not to hurt her.
" What we'll do is take him to the hospital and have the doctors look after him. I'm sure he'll be fine." said Arwen calmly trying to hide her worriness about the Fullmetal.
" But... what will happen to us if they found out that we were the ones that hit Edward that hard? Also what will Ed do once he wakes up?" asked Beth getting paraniod. " We'll just say that he hit his head a little too hard when he fell from the ladder getting one of his books off the top shelf. As for Ed let's just say this will be a lesson he'll never forget." Arwen answered.
" Al pick up your brother we're going to the hospital." Arwen said to Al.
" Okay." replied Alphonse.
At the hospital the nurse looked at Ed in Al's arms supicously.
" Okay, what happened?" she asked, raising an eyebrow in uncertainty.
Beth descided to let her acting come into play here. Putting on her puppy dog eyes and sad face, she faced the nurse and sounded like she was about to cry.
" Well you see ma'am, Ed had wanted to get a book off of his shelf but unfortunantly the shelf was too big for him and we offered to help but he refused and grabbed his ladder. He set it against his shelf, making it wobble and shake and he climbed. As soon as he got his book, the shelf gave way and the whole thing fell on him, knocking him out." she said and fake tears formed in her eyes.
" All we could do was watch in horror as the books came crashing down. We thought that he was dead!" she wailed, Arwen nodding, wiping some fake tears away.
Al would have snickered at the lie if he wasn't playing along as well. The nurse felt so touched that she was about to say something when a deep voice popped in.
" That fool refused these kind girls' help and climbed to the top of his shelf. He should be ashamed making them feel like this and getting himself hurt as well. I, Alex Louis Armstrong will make sure that he never does a stupid thing like this again to these poor and innocent girls." Alex said, ripping off his shirt and flexing his muscles.
" That's enough Armstrong." Roy said walking out from behind the flexing giant. " I'm sure that the Fullmetal was just doing it to show off in front of these ladies but it backfired, just like his alchemy." he grinned.
" If he wanted to show off his skills and artmanship, all he would have to do is call me, Alex Louis Armstrong, the StrongArm Alchemist for a match to see who is the best to impress these ladies." he said and started flexing again.
" Uh...no sir, he just wanted to read." Arwen said, trying not to laugh at Armstrong's remakes and stupidity for flexing in a hospital.
" Is that so Arwen? I thought he might've been showing off to you?" said Roy grinning.
" I don't know what you mean Colonel Mustang?" asked Arwen rasing an eyebrow curious to the meaning of the Colonel's statement.
" Well, I mean is that Fullmetal has taken a liking to you Ms. McClure. That's why he is always arguing with you about the silliest things." said Roy with cocky smile upon his face.
Beth in the background nearly fainted as she saw that trademark smile of his.
" Well. come on Armstrong we'll leave them to take care of Fullmetal."said Roy walking out of the hospital followed by Armstrong.
" Hold on a sec! What do you mean we have to take care of him?" asked Beth.
" Well, Fullmetal is your responsibility until he wakes up." said Roy.
" That's why we brought him here Colonel so we could study for the exams!" said Arwen
" Well, then I guess you have to study while you're taking care of him here."
With that Roy and Armstrong walked out of the door. At that very moment the nurse came out.
" I'm sorry there appears to be no more rooms avalabile for Mr. Elric he would have to be taken back home." Arwen placed her hand on her forehead and sighed.
" I can't believe we came a mile and a half here to hear that there are no more rooms here. Great can my day get any worse."
The nurse aplogized and turned to Beth, " By the way Ms. Russell you can return to the Hughes' house they are feeling quite well."
Beth smiled and turned to Arwen, " Sorry Arwen, got to go. See you later!" Beth said as she ran from the door to Maes's home.
Arwen's eye twitched. " PIXIE! YOU GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!"
" I'm sorry ma'am but you are not allowed to shout in a hospital," the nurse said and left the frontdesk to help out some patients.
" Now what?" Thunder had rolled through the town as Al and Arwen walked to the Elric residence, Ed still unconcious.
" Just my luck."
" I have to get inside before I rust and my seal gets ruined." Al said and the two of them ran the rest of the way.
Once inside, Ed was set in his bed and Al went to dry his armor. Arwen went as pale as a ghost when she felt Ed's wet clothing.
" Great, I have to get this off of him but I don't want to!" At that moment, she went evil faced and turned her head slightly.
" Oh Al, could you come here for a second?" The clanging of metal had signified that Al was coming down the hallway.
" What is it Arwen?"
" Could you change Ed for me please. He's sooo heavy and I can't lift him up," she said looking innocent and helpless.
" Sure."
" Thanks Al. You're the best." said Arwen as she headded out the door to let Al change his brother into some dry clothes.
As Al was in his brother's room Arwen paced back and forth.
" I think Beth and I hit him a little too hard. I hope he isn't going to be that mad." said Arwen to herself.
Al comes out and stands next to Arwen he notices that she has a sad look on her face.
" You okay Teresa?" he asked.
" I'm just worried about Ed that's all. I mean I didn't mean to hit him that hard. I took out the heavy books that was in there." said Arwen looking inside the crack from the door looking at the slumbering Edward.
" Maybe when Ed wakes up you tell him that you're sorry. I'm sure he'll understand." said Al reassuring Arwen.
" Thanks Al."
" You're welcome Teresa." replied Al who walked down the stairs to clear his mind.
Arwen walked into Ed's room and pulled up a chair next to the side of his bed. She grasped his left hand and held it for a minute and sighed.
" I'm so sorry Edward. I hope you can forgive me about what happened." she said looking at Fullmetal and walking out of the room.
" Good night." she added before closing the door.
A/N: Wow that was long and funny, even touching
Ed: I thought that one of you two would start cracking up first but you somehow pulled it off.
Beth: Well duh, it was all thanks to my acting skills and the fact that you were out like a light.
Al: Brother, I almost snickered but then Arwen would have as well and then Beth would have and that would have messed it all up.
Ed: True but looking like you're unconcious is hard work.
Beth: Well, that's what you get for being in a fic, you have to pretend.
Ed: All I have to do to make you shut up is call you pixie.
Beth: Watch it Fullmetal, you're treding on thin ice her.
Author: Guys, come on, it was funny. Besides, did you see the way Alex was showing off? I think that he was happy to show off those bulging sacks of sand that he used for muscles.
Beth: Yeah. To me however that scene with Arwen and Ed was soooooo cute!
Roy: Yep, seems to me that the Fullmetal has someone who is in love with him.
Ed: Shut it Mustang! There's nothing between me and that loud mouth!
Author: Ed you might want to watch it or you'll get into some trouble.
Ed: I don't care. Wait a sec...WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!
Al: ACK! A GHOST! (both run around screaming about ghosts)
Beth: (sighs) Stop it you two or I'll make the both of you rust.Now Al, say goodbye to the nice reviewers.
Ed: Wait I want to know who this person is!
Beth: Sorry Ed you're going have to wait till some other time. Now time to go everyone.
Al: BYE! Oh wait, PLEASE REVIEW!
Ed; (rubs his ear) Not that loud Al. See ya!