Disclaimer: I don't own FMA... blah blah blah...

"Here Comes Maes"

by: Chibi Viki

Roy's POV

I never understood you, Maes. Why were you so hung up… so obsessed, with your child? You were always bragging about her. You were always proud of her. Sometimes I wondered if you did all that just to annoy me or even to coax me into getting married.

But now, as I sit here in the hospital lobby waiting in anxiety, I can't help but wonder that maybe there was something else to it.

A young female nurse suddenly comes out of the operating room and hands me, with gentle grace, a carefully bundled cloth. She smiles at me, and I stare back, dumbfounded.

"It's a boy", she whispers and leaves.

I look at the small ward in my arms… and for a minute, my heart skips a beat and time seems to have stopped. Everything around me seems to have disappeared… no sound, no people, no nothing… just the two of us, him in my arms and me standing in the waiting lobby. It all seems so unreal.

As I stand there in disbelief, my little ward let out a yawn. He opens his small eyes and stares back at me. At that moment, a realization dawns upon me as I see his eyes… proof that he was really alive. He is our first born son… mine and Riza's. An overwhelming feeling takes over me as I sit down on the lobby sofa. It is a feeling that I have never felt before. It is a feeling that washes away all my past regrets and sorrows, a sudden numbness and overwhelming joy. It is as if… as if I have been forgiven from everything that I have done in the past.

I never understood you Maes… but I think I now know how you once felt when your first child was born. I never understood you, but now I think I'm starting to and I smile at the thought.

"I think I know what I'm going to name you", I mutter.

Maes Luther Mustang.


A/N: This is my first series of short stories about the Mustangs and their first child. Thank you for reading! So why is the second name of Roy's son, Luther? Well, in my first FMA fanfic: Special Brew, I named Riza's dad, Luther Hawkeye. Since the first name is from Roy, the second name would be from Riza.

Again, I apologize for any grammatical or typographical error... ;; I'm not a professional writer after all. Otherwise, I'd be writing my own novels by now and earning oodles and oodles of cash. hehehehe.... yeah, I wish... > ;;;