A/N: Okay any chapters after this might come in a few days. My Grandmother is going into the hospital this afternoon. She's got an irregularity with her heart so they are checking it out. Thanks for reading and reviewing and I'll get back to work as soon as I can.

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Chapter 14: House call

East City was relatively quite after the startling events a few weeks ago, even Heidi thought so as she listened to Havoc's reports or lack there of pertaining to Scar. Roy questioned her over and over again at least three times a day every day about the man.

Today she'd about had it as she placed their fussy son upon the diaper changing table. Between Roy and her son she was about to scream and she couldn't figure out why, she'd never been so irritated in her life. Perhaps it was time to make a call to Mrs. Hughes and see if this sort of emotional roller coaster was normal. She understood why when she was pregnant but she wasn't any more, hadn't been for several weeks and she desperately wanted to go back to work. She wanted to help Roy catch this man so the questions would cease and then maybe she could understand why he knew her. Then again she couldn't imagine leaving Kairan alone, but she couldn't take him with her. Just thinking about this as she was changing him was only adding to her frustration.

"Heidi this is important." Roy said from the door way.

She sighed. "I know it is and for the millionth time I don't know Roy." She quickly finished with Kairan and lifted him. The baby had not stopped crying, probably sensing the tension in the air or just because he could. They had learned that Kairan didn't always cry because he needed his diaper changed or he was hungry. "Look no matter how many times you ask me in a day everyday it's not jogging my memory. Some of the things from Ishbal a fuzzy and that is probably due to what my brother did. So stop asking me okay?"

Roy sighed running his hand through his hair. He wasn't used to Heidi in a stressed state. It bothered him that she was like this more often than not. It wasn't that she couldn't handle it, she could, but perhaps he really should back off a little; maybe take a day off to stay at home with her. "Okay," He smiled reaching for Kairan. "I'll take him if you want to take a nap."

"I'm not tired, in fact I was thinking of taking him outside for a very short walk in the park." She replied holding him closer.

"Heidi it's nearly freezing."

Heidi nodded picking up some extra blankets. "I know but the park in just across the street, five minutes won't be so bad. Besides you think I'd take him with out wrapping him up nice and warm?"

"Let's just sit on the front porch then huh? I don't-"

"Because of Scar," She smiled. "I understand Roy I really do, but if he's all that interested in killing us don't you think he'd have come to our home already?"

Roy took the blankets from her hand and tossed the aside bewildered by her last words. As far as he was concerned they were damned lucky Scar hadn't come here. "Heidi listen to yourself a moment. That is exactly what I am afraid of. I haven't argued with you about leaving, but think about what you're saying. How am I supposed to go on if something happed to you? What about Kairan?"

Heidi closed her eyes. "I understand that too. The point I am trying to make is that Kairan and I can not live locked away forever. Roy we haven't been out of the house since the day he was born. You'll-" There was a knock upon the front door down stairs. "I'll get it, but first come here."

Roy took a step closer. "Heidi-"

"I'm going nuts Roy, I hate being confined." The knocking sounded again and she sighed and kissed him. "Even new Mom's with psychopathic serial killers after them have to get out of the house once in a while, just remember that okay?"

Roy nodded with a heavy sigh, following her out of the nursery and down the stairs. "I'll take him now," He said as they made the landing.

Heidi shook her head. "You just got home and I don't want to clean baby drool out of that uniform."

"Baby hog," He muttered on his way toward the living room.

Heidi laughed reaching for the door handle. "What?" She turned as she opened the door. "Hello," He smiled faded as soon as she saw who was standing upon their door step. His red eyes looked her over then rested upon Kairan. As soon as that happened Heidi slammed the door, locked it, and ran for Roy, hugging Kairan tighter to her chest. Fear pulsed thought her system, even the training she'd had couldn't stop that. "Roy he's here."

Roy didn't have a chance to ask who as the front door was blown open in a red alchemic light. Scar. He pulled Heidi into the room shielding her. "Go call in back up then get the hell out."

"What about you?" she asked as she heard someone shifting through the debris, feet stepping on, and breaking the wreckage of her foyer.

Roy pulled on his gloves as calmly as he could. "I'll be fine, go,"

Heidi nodded, watching him head toward the danger then looked for a way out. She couldn't go out the entry way, Scar was coming; the only option was the window, but Kairan… She yanked up the blanket upon the sofa and hurriedly draped it over her son.

"Where is she?" She heard a strange voice ask as she opened the window. The crisp wind blew in biting at her face and she shivered.

"None of your business." Roy replied and snapped.

The living room seemed to explode behind her, the glass from the windows shattering and blowing everywhere as Heidi's bare feet hit the cold wet ground below, blew her dress. All the noise and disruption, the sudden cold, had Kairan screaming. It was enough to send her into a panic. Where to go? She should stay and help but…

Torn in two Heidi took the risk of leaving Roy behind and ran as hard and as fast as she could, the broken glass slicing into her feet. It hurt but not nearly as much as the thought of Roy being killed.

Running out into the street Heidi was caught by a pair of arms, arms she recognized.

Roy glared at the man as he rose from the flaming debris that used to be his living room. "Brave enough to attack me at home?"

"You all did it to us. You might have sent her away for now, but her death will not long follow yours and the child's as well."

Roy's glare deepened. He'd die before this man touched his wife or his son, just thinking of Heidi and little Kairan's head being exploded from the inside out was enough to kill him where he stood. He wasn't able to bring his fingers together in time to snap, not with the large Ishbalin charging him and gun fire hitting the walls from what seemed all directions. All he could really do was take the body that slammed into his and fall to the ground and begin a fist fight, anything to keep that man's arm from doing it's destruction until either the house burned down atop them or back up came.

Between the kicking, the punching, the gun fire that didn't seem to be doing any good, and the rolling around, Roy caught the man by the throat. It didn't last long as the man's arm glowed red against the flames that were now surrounding them.

Heidi stood back holding Kairan, waiting, watching in horror as the military arrived. It was Havoc who'd come by with Fury, Breda, and Falman to pay a house visit who'd caught her. Falman had gone to call in back up not even asking who was attacking, no one had to ask. Fury stood with her now. She shook her head. "Take him,"

"But you're hurt and back up's-"

"I don't care take my son." She snapped.

Fury took Kairan from her arms. "Sir wait!" He said as she pulled his gun from it's holster.

"No, it's Roy in there and we're not losing him. Take Kairan to HQ, that's an order Fury, now." She snapped. She'd no sooner turned around when the whole house seemed to explode, the heat of the flames brushed them all followed by debris that shower the ground like rain. No one saw the figure jump out of what remained of the window Heidi had escaped from and no one saw him try to stand and fall to his face upon the cold, glass covered ground.

For a moment no one moved, not the people knocked down by the blast, not the spectators and neighbors being pushed back by the military on crowd control, not the ones blown to the ground by the blast, not Roy's own personal staff, not even Heidi. It was the sound of her son's crying that brought her back to herself, where ever the shock had taken her, some place suspended in time, someplace where she couldn't see or feel.

She could feel now, feel the gun in her hand, it's cold metal warming to her warmth of her hand. She could feel her heart shattering already knowing she'd left Roy in there, in there to die when that man had wanted her, knowing that the flames had probably reached the pipes in her home. No, Roy was not dead, he was the flame alchemist, those were his flames, and damn it she refused to believe it! Suddenly she breathed realizing she'd stopped. She had to take control right away on duty or not. So she forced herself to fall numb. "Lt. Havoc, get that fire put out now, before we lose the whole block!"

Havoc picked himself off the ground. "Sir,"

Heidi looked for Breda and found him not but a few feet away. "Breda!"

"Sir?"

"Keep your eyes open, I don't want anyone slipping passed unchecked. Form a team to go in once it's safe." She felt Fury come beside her with her son as Breda nodded and began issuing out orders. "I thought I told you to take Kairan to HQ."

"Sir he's crying, I don't know what to do."

Heidi turned to him. "He's going to cry, he's just a baby, now take him the hell away from here. HQ is the only safe place right now Fury."

"Yes sir," he replied and called for someone to accompany him.

Once Havoc had saw to it that a group of men were working to get the fire out along side the East Cities fire department, a city instillation, he went to see to Heidi. He remembered that her feet were bare and she was bleeding and despite the heat from the flames, the ground was still cold.

"Sir," Her sky blue eyes tore them selves from the destruction and met his. "Sir let's get you sitting."

"I'm fine, Havoc."

"Excuse me sir but none of us are fine and you're worse off than us." He said kindly yet sternly. He looked behind them and nodded. "There's a bench just over there." Did he dare say it, did he dare lie? No one could have survived that blast if they were inside. They were lucky that no one out here was injured. The one's inside, the one's who'd gone in to help hadn't even come out yet. "Hey, you know the Colonel, he's stubborn."

Heidi gave him a cold look. "He's not dead and I'm going to wait here until he's found."

"What about little Kairan, doesn't he need his mom?" He reasoned.

Heidi nodded swallowing. "Yes, but it should have been me Havoc, I just have to…"

"Okay well Fury's with him so he'd okay, I saw him leave." He smiled taking the gun from her hand and looking at her feet. He was going to have to step in for her, it was understandable and not out of reason. Some one had just attacked her family, her home was destroyed, her husband might be dead and it had been three weeks since she'd had a baby. "Come on let's get you sitting, if Mustang saw you standing bleeding he'd have my head."

Heidi looked at her feet, slowly. There was a piece of glass sticking right through her foot. How she'd managed to get this far and not really notice…She smiled closing her eyes she couldn't really feel it now, it had to be due to the shock. "Leave it in until a medic gets here."

"Right, need some help walking? I can carry you if you want."

Heidi shook her head. "No, I can walk, I did it before, and I can do it now." She reached for him. "Just come with me?"

Havoc nodded taking her hand. There wasn't anything else to do until she ordered him to do something else; everything else was being taken care of.

An hour later the house was put out and people were testing what was left of the charred mess for stability.

Havoc sighed desperately wishing he had a cigarette but he didn't dare smoke one, not after his commanders house was just basically burned to the ground. The whole second floor had collapsed into the first and it looked like Major Mustang had lost everything inside.

He turned to her looking at her now bandaged feet. She was shivering, a blank expression upon her face but her eyes wide almost unblinking. He didn't even want to know what was going on inside her head. What was going on in his was bleak enough. "Sir, let me take you to HQ, they'll let us know if they find Colonel Mustang."

"He would stay for me and Kairan." She said softly and simply.

Well that was as good as a 'no'. He thought. "Well here then," He undid the fastening of his uniform jacket and took it off. Carefully he placed it over her shoulders. "It's getting colder."

"It is," She frowned. "It's so strange I haven't liked warm weather or heat that much at all since Ishbal, but now… I'm so cold and wish Roy was here. He's going to be here soon right? I mean he wouldn't just… leave us like this right?"

Havoc saw it, she was beginning to crack. He should have spent the last hour talking to her, something other than just sitting here while she watch her home burn away along with the hope of Roy being alive.

Damn you Colonel, don't make me tell her you're dead.

Havoc rubbed the back of his neck. "You know I don't think so, not if he could help it."

Heidi smiled. "That's a nice way of saying 'I don't know'."

"Yeah it is but it's the truth. I mean think about it Heidi, you know Roy, he's stubborn and protective. I really don't think he'd up and die on you and Kairan. He's still got to become Fuher and change how this country's run."

Heidi finally tore her gaze from the smoking rubble of her home. "What do you mean?"

"He wants to become Fuher and fix some things, he didn't tell you?" Havoc asked.

"No," Heidi replied looking back at her home. "That would explain the comments he's made, the drive for promotions. I mean I guess I always knew he wanted to become Fuher but I never knew the reasons behind it."

"It's because of Ishbal, that whole war." Havoc said softly. "I think it changed him."

"War changes everyone, you can't kill some one, can't see that kind of destruction and terror…Havoc what we were doing was genocide plain and simple. That man, Scar, he's just acting out of revenge for that, what we did to his people, but why just state alchemists I don't know. Why he's targeting one's that had nothing to do with the war like Edward and Alphones is confusing even to me. They are just kids. Me and Roy well, you could say we kind of deserve it." She took a breath in pause and looked at him once again. "My alchemy, I can explode ear drums, blow whole walls over with a sound wave. I basically amplify sound and use it as a force, what I did there, in Ishbal, Havoc it wasn't anything to be praised about. I murdered people, that's what a solider does in service to their country." She smiled. "But you already know that."

Havoc nodded. He did know. "Still that's no reason to attack, the war is over."

"Maybe for us but for people like Scar, I don't think it is. You know Roy keeps asking me what Scar meant the first day we saw him, the day he nearly killed Edward and Alphones. Scar said he knows me and I was there and I'll pay for what I did. I don't know what that means. I don't remember him. I can guess that I did something terrible, but I don't know. I've tried to remember, but I just can't. All I can think of is that he saw me and I didn't see him. I never really was close with in foot distance to any Ishbalin's save for a few times the last time I was…"

Havoc nodded for her to continue. "The last time you were what?"

Heidi sighed. "With my brother, Zolf. I was sent to bring him in, it was just after he killed his commanding officer and some of ours. It could have been when he was attacking that group making their way across the desert. I remember there were two people on the ground but it was so windy and I was so focused on getting him away I wasn't paying attention. I guess by then if anyone lying at his feet, I figured were dead."

"Lt. Havoc, Major Mustang!" Someone called from across the street.

Havoc stood, "I'll check it out you stay off your feet."

Heidi began to protest. "Hey I don't want Roy chewing my ass about you, so do me the favor."

Heidi sighed. "Okay,"

Havoc nodded and walked across the street to where the officer had called him from. "Sir I think we've found the Colonel, we're digging him out now."

"Where, show me," the man pointed to a darkened area where others were shining flash lights. With the sun going down on an already cloudy day seeing anything was next to impossible with out them. But he saw a familiar blue uniform and white gloved hand. The glove dirty but in the light that was shining upon it he found the tell tale transmutation circle. It was Roy alright the only question was, was he alive, close to death, or just knocked out. "Thanks, LET'S GET SOME HELP OVER HERE." He called before going to help pull the debris off the man he served.

It didn't take long at all, not with several people helping and Havoc calculated less than five once the large piece of what he assumed was part of the upstairs side of the house. Well it wasn't that big, just heavy.

He knelt beside Roy's unconscious form to help turn him over. "Careful now," He ordered. As soon as they began to move the man he began to stir on his own. "Colonel," The man groaned in response. Havoc sighed in relief. That was a pretty good sign. "Colonel, can you move?"

"Heidi…"

"She's close, worried and scared pretty bad so you gotta get moving." Havoc replied.

"Heidi…"

Havoc called for the medic's and continued to help, moving Roy to a stretcher. "We'll take him to the infirmary; you might want to bring Major Mustang along. I'll have a better diagnosis there. I'd like to keep an eye on her feet since she has trouble following the orders any doctor gives her."

Havoc nodded remembering what Roy told him and her day of using alchemy while pregnant. "Will do,"

Heidi stood when Havoc appeared again dirt and soot covering his hands and some smudged upon his face. "Havoc?"

He smiled. "I told you he was stubborn, they're taking him to the infirmary now. Come on I'll drive you, Breda and Falman can take care of this. Once we're there I'll call Fury and have him bring Kairan over yeah?"

Heidi nodded smiling.

Havoc lifted his hand to her face to wipe tear away. "Don't cry, you'll make me cry and that's not a pretty sight."

Heidi laughed wiping her face. It was the way he said it, the goofy look he gave her that made her do so. "Thanks,"

Roy awoke with the worst head ache he'd felt in all his life, in fact his head, neck, back, and shoulders were killing him. It just felt like someone had run him over with a very large truck. If that wasn't bad enough he was cold, really cold and oddly enough hungry. While trying to figure out why he could possibly be hungry with this much pain, he heard a baby cooing near by.

Slowly he opened his eyes remembering Heidi and Kairan, hoping that was them and they were safe. From the looks of things he was in the infirmary, no one could mistake all the white for any place else. Though the dim light from the hall way bothered his eyes, he was so relieved to see Heidi sitting upon the next bed over playing with their son. "Is there any way I could talk you into getting rid of this head ache for me like the paperwork?"

Heidi smiled picking her son up. "Sorry lover no can do. You have a concussion only pain medicine can do that." Slowly she slipped off the bed wincing from the pain in her feet. She'd be damned if she didn't walk over to Roy's bed and sit with him. "You were pretty damn lucky Roy Mustang, you could've had come out worse."

"I'm cold and hungry too, can you fix that?" Roy asked choosing to ignore her comment. He knew he was lucky, lucky enough to knock that bastard out and jump out of the window before all hell broke lose.

Heidi nodded, placing Kairan in his arms and pulled the blanket from the other bed to place over him. She smiled as he moved his legs over so she could sit down. "We lost the house, but no one else's caught fire. From the looks of it we lost three men and Falman says they couldn't find Scar. Havoc says a call came in from Central, from the Fuher. We're to be under twenty four hour guard and I'm off maternity leave as soon as I am able to walk with out problems. Shouldn't be more than a few days, but you're not to go back to work until you're one hundred percent. We also got a call from Edward and Alphonse; they'll be back in East City in a day or so. I guess they were on their way back and got side tracked again. Armstrong's still with them so they're fine."

Roy frowned at that. "What do you mean?"

"Glass, I got a nice piece right through my foot and I was cut a few places, but you know what I think I might have an answer to your question. I think Scar might have seen me when I didn't see him. It would make since as to why I don't remember him." She smiled brushing his hair from his face careful to avoid the bruise upon his forehead. "Guess you'll get to spend lots of time with Kairan now. Oh and Fury set us up with a dorm room. It's not much but it's got a bed and a shower. Breda's working on getting us some clothes, and Havoc's going to find some baby necessities. Those guys won't let me do anything."

Roy smiled. "Good,"

Heidi sighed then became serious. "If you tell my parents what happened I'll kill you my self. They are never to know is that clear? They can handle me going to war because they've never actually had to live through it, but this. You don't know Mrs. Kruger like I do. She's a good second mother, she really is but neither of us will hear the end of it and unless you want her here breathing down your neck then you'll keep your mouth shut."

Roy almost laughed. "Heidi she's your mom,"

"No you don't understand. I met her shortly after I could really sit up after coming back from Ishbal. They had already agreed to be my adoptive parents, she and her husband, and gladly too, but as soon as she saw me she wouldn't leave me alone. She barely left my room."

"So she's the doting, mother hen type?" He asked feeling nauseous. "Heidi if I don't get something for this head ache I'm going to be sick."

Heidi nodded. "Okay I'll get the nurse, but yes she is. Which is why I called her and asked that she and my dad not come to East City for a few months, that we're too over loaded with work." She said getting off the bed and limping toward the open door.

"How did you do that with our son in the picture?"

"I sort of lied and said I was allowed to bring him to the office for now. I had too, else they would have come seen you and I in this state and that we currently don't have a house. Then they would lecture us about the dangers of our jobs, hound me about retiring, hound you about taking better care of us, and try to replace every little thing we lost." She poked her head out of the room. "Nurse," she called.

Roy sighed. "What's Ivan say?"

"Ivan doesn't know, but he will and you can bet Colonel Stein will let him take leave to come and see us. There is no stopping Ivan if he thinks I'm in trouble." She smiled glancing back at Roy. "He'll probably ask you if he can transfer under you."

Roy groaned. He didn't mind Ivan in small doses, but all the time, seeing him every day with those looks the man gave him… He hated the way Ivan looked at him, the 'if you hurt my best friend I'll kill you,' look and his all time favorite even now that they were married, 'back off and stop touching her.' Honestly didn't the man trust him? He'd married Heidi, he loved her, and they now had a son. If he was going to be shallow and leave her he'd have never done any of that.

Heidi giggled as a nurse came from the nurse's station. "Yes?" the woman asked.

"Colonel Mustang is going to ill if something isn't done about the head ache, I suggest you do something." Heidi said softly but with purpose. The nurse nodded and left.

Heidi returned to the bed and sat down with a sigh. "You really don't medical staff do you?"

Heidi shrugged. "Not really, and I hate hospitals. Don't worry, you'll feel the same way in a few days. Now tell me what happened in the house."

"Heidi,"

"Don't even think about it Roy, I'll just pull rank on you again and I can do that especially with you unable to get out of bed to really stop me." She paused to smile a wicked smile. "Don't you just love me?"

Roy blinked a moment then smiled. "Yes I do,"