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Okay second chapter coming right up…

Taking over me

Chapter 2- It starts


"That was very delicious!" Havoc said leaning back in his chair and patting his stomach.

"Yes, thanks Alex." Riza said politely helping clean up the plates. There was a small chorus of 'thankyou's' and Alex Louis Armstrong merely shook his head.

"It was nothing really, just a recipe passed down through generations of the Armstrong family…" and off he went. Ed stood up and stretched, he was still really tired and unsure of why he felt so drained.

"Night all." He mumbled and headed towards the stairs. Another chorus of 'Night Ed' and the chibi disappeared.

"Bless him. He's adorable really when you get passed the foul mouthed arrogance." Riza said smiling. Roy felt another tug at his heartstrings.

Riza, Winry, Glacier and Fury all disappeared up to bed shortly after Ed (Elysia having gone to bed a few hours before) while Falmann, Havoc, Roy, Armstrong, Hughes and Breda stayed downstairs for a while. They sat around the kitchen table talking mainly of the things they were going to do whilst they stayed with Winry and how they were going to thank her, before finally going up to bed.

Roy walked into the large bedroom he shared with his girlfriend Riza. He took off his shirt and pants and crept into bed in just his boxers. He lay on his side and looked at the beautiful sleeping face of his girlfriend. The same feelings as before, the pulling of his heart, returned and he sighed. It wasn't fair. It shouldn't have happened to someone like her. Someone like Riza, who wanted dearly to have children at some point, only not to be able to have any children at all.

Roy brushed some strands of blonde hair out of her face and sighed again. Shot in the lower abdomen twice. Disabling her to bear children with all the damage done to her womb. That was the reason she was so protective of Ed, Al and Winry. She treated them like her own children because she couldn't have children of her own. Roy sighed for a final time before he lay down and finally went to sleep, his hand covering on top of his girlfriends.

I still love you

The next morning Ed woke early to find Al cleaning the breast plate of his armour on the floor in the room they shared.

"Morning brother, did you sleep well?"

Ed shoved his face into the pillow and tried to answer, "Mnnuh…" Al giggled.

"Winry's made breakfast." Al tried to encourage his brother to get out of bed, no easy feat; Ed did indeed love his bed and his sleep very much. "Come on brother, Riza was right, you are lazy." Al said this in hopes to get his brother slightly riled but all it did was gain a well aimed pillow into his empty chest cavity.

"Good shot!" Armstrong boomed suddenly causing Ed to sit bolt upright in bed. The Major stood in the doorway with his arms thrown up in the air in a victory style stance. He let his arms drop heavily back to his sides and walked further into the bedroom, throwing the curtains open blinding them all with the early morning sun.

"What time is it?" Ed's muffled voice sounded as he hid his face behind his arms to block the sunlight.

"It's nine a.m. young sir, and a glorious day!" Armstrong said standing with his hands on his hips staring out at the beautiful acres of land surrounding the Rockbell residence. He left shortly afterwards when his name was shouted from downstairs.

Ed got up and walked towards the window, doing as the Major had done and staring out at the pastures of Risembool. He sighed then turned to start getting dressed, there was no way he'd get back to sleep now.

Ed arrived downstairs to see Elysia, Glacier and Hughes sitting round the kitchen table eating the breakfast Winry had prepared.

"Hey Edo!" Hughes greeted, grinning his usual mile wide smile.

"Morning Edward." Glacier said as she poured a glass of milk for Elysia.

"Good Morning." Ed grumbled throwing himself down in a chair.

"What's up, you seem a little down?" Hughes asked, his cheerful smile fading to be replaced with a look of concern.

"No, I'm just tired." He answered simply while helping himself to a slice of toast from a plate in the middle of the table. He chewed on it slowly and stared off into space for a while. Hughes surveyed him, noticing the dark circles under his eyes and the pale colour of his skin.

Surely he was never that pale, and has he always been that skinny?

"You lost weight kido?"

Before Ed could even open his mouth to answer, Winry interrupted and answered for him.

"Yes he has which means he's got to eat more and build up his strength before he goes back to work at the end of the holidays!" Winry felt her stomach tighten slightly as she mentioned, against her will, the end of the holidays. She picked up another slice of toast and offered it to Ed, but he shook his head.

"It's summer, I always eat less in the summer." Winry looked at him for a moment before turning away and taking a whistling kettle off of the stove. Hughes felt her concern for the chibi and looked back at Ed who had spaced out again. Silence descended on the room apart from the occasional clink of the teaspoon on china as Winry made tea and coffee. She placed a mug of black coffee in front of Ed but he made no movement to show he had acknowledged the action whatsoever.

"Yo Ed, you gonna drink that?" Hughes asked with more volume than was necessary, though it had the desired effect and Ed flinched a little and looked at Hughes. He motioned to Ed's coffee, "It'll get cold if you don't drink it."

"Oh right, yeah…thanks Winry." He said detachedly. Winry didn't say anything but just looked at him with an odd look on her face.

Over the next hour, more people joined them for breakfast including Roy and Riza who were saying something about dreams. Ed wasn't really listening. He was staring into space trying to remember something that he had read in a book just over a week ago, something that was now bothering him.

"How 'bout you Ed?" he looked up at Roy who had asked him the question.

"I'm sorry, what?"

"What did you dream about?"

"Oh…I don't really remember."

I do remember but like I'll tell you bastard

"It's such a shame when you can't remember your dreams." Riza said stirring her tea, "It makes you wonder what the point in dreams is."

"Don't get being all spiritual with me!" Roy said smirking at his girlfriend who started saying something in defence. Ed got up intending to get away from the sickening sight of his superior officer displaying affection.

"Where you going?" Hughes asked as the blonde passed his chair heading for the back door.

"Nowhere in particular." He answered dully.

Like I have anywhere to go…

"Brother do you want to go down to the lake and train again?" Al had arrived downstairs not so long ago.

"Might as well."

The brothers headed down to the lake as they did the day before and initiated another training session. Ed was getting more and more frustrated as every attack he threw at his brother either backfired or did little or no damage.

"Come on brother, you can surely do better than this!" Al sighed as he blocked every punch Ed threw at him then, spotting an opening, braced a palm to his brother's chest and pushed, causing Ed to fall to the ground on his back. Ed growled in frustration, performing a backwards roll and pushing himself to his feet.

Pull yourself together!

Ed screamed at himself to get a grip and tried to talk himself into putting more effort in.

Come on, it's really not that difficult; you've done it plenty of times before.

Ed ran at Al with as much speed as his exhausted body would allow and jumped in the air to deliver a kick to the breastplate. He nearly succeeded but Al grabbed his leg and swung him around. Ed went flying into the lake again, just like the day before and surfaced shaking his wet hair out of his face. He began to wade slowly to the side of the lake, Al coming in halfway to meet him and carry him out, making it easier.

"Lets go get dry, Winry said something about helping clean out the basement today."

"Oh, will the excitement never end!" Ed retorted sarcastically resting his head on his brother's shoulder again. He felt so tired.

"Don't get falling asleep to try and get out of it, you know Winry, she'll just wake you up." Ed pulled a face knowing his brother was right. They finally got to the house to see a pile of junk already out on the grass. "Looks like they already started." They passed Armstrong who was carrying yet more junk and headed down to the basement.

"Yo Winry what do you want us to do?" Ed called when he reached the bottom of the stairwell.

"Just to look at that stuff up the corner, it was stuff your parents asked us to look after ages ago." Ed looked to where she pointed and saw a couple of boxes stacked up. He headed over with Al began to take them down and look through them.

"This stuff is really old, this must have been Mom's before we were born, I've never seen some of this before." Al said looking at a beautiful and delicate butterfly broach. He pulled out a hand mirror next followed by a couple of perfume bottles, still filled with perfume and a picture frame. "Brother look, this must have been taken a long time before we were born, look how young they look!" Al handed the picture frame to Ed who looked at it with an unreadable expression. After a while Ed handed it back without saying anything, but just continued to look through a box filled with books.

"These look ready to fall apart." He pulled a book out that had its spine missing but was still somehow together. He opened the book and looked through it before deeming it worthless and dropping it beside the box.

"Brother, I'm going to keep this picture okay?" Ed stayed silent for a second before nodding. He carried on looking through the box of books, flicking through each one before dropping it on top of the pile next to the box. Al had moved onto the next box and had found some old clothes. He began to look through it, remembering that their Mother would sometimes hide delicate or precious things within the folds of clothing.

"Hey Al, look, a diary." Al looked up as Ed opened the front cover and stared at the name inside, "It's Mom's." Ed passed it to Al, not wanting to look at it himself and looked again into the almost empty box, there were only three books left and all had a slightly familiar purple-ish leather cover.

February 27th

Dear diary,

I found something amazing out today, I'm going to be a Mother! I can't wait to tell Hohenheim, he'll be so proud. He's going to be a Daddy. The one thing he wanted to be all this time! I'm not sure I should tell him yet though; he seems so busy with his work. He spends so much time in his study. I wonder if it will be that way when we have our child, I hope not, he would make such a lovely Father. Anyway I must prepare the dinner; he will be hungry when he finally comes out of his hole.

Trisha

xxx

Al stared at the entry for some time.

February 27th … that must have been when she found she was pregnant with Ed.

Al thought about showing his brother but decided against it, Ed could be funny about this sort of thing, anything to do with their Mother, and especially their Father. He flicked through the next few entries where his Mother talked about telling their Father and him being delighted. He wondered if she wrote about her being pregnant with him. The diary was quite thick. He flicked through quickly but the entries ended abruptly with lots of blank pages.He suppressed disappointment but decided he didn't really care, after all, what could he do about it?

"These are alchemy books." Al looked up at his brother startled; Ed had been quiet for a long time.

"What kind?"

"I don't know, but it looks complicated." Ed flicked through the one he was holding. Al could see lots of transmutation circles, ones he'd never seen before and there were notes in their Father's handwriting. "I think I might read through them though, see if there's anything of interest."

"Are you sure that's a wise idea I mean…" Al tailed off awkwardly. He had always, deep down, blamed their Father for leaving his alchemy books lying around. That was the reason Ed and Al got into alchemy, because they had found Fathers books and were curious.

"I'm not going to try anything from them, I'm just…curious."

That's what you said the first time.

They finished looking through all the boxes and ended up throwing most of it away, apart from their Mom's diary and their Father's alchemy books. They helped Winry clear out all the things she didn't want anymore and Hughes suggested a bonfire near the lake.

Later that night, everyone sat on the grass and watched as Roy started the bonfire going, living up to his reputation of flame alchemist. Hughes and Glacier sat with Elysia telling her all about when she was born and how much Ed and Al had 'helped'. Ed felt his heart drop a notch as he thought of Nina and Roy, noticing the mopey expression crossing the teenagers face, quickly changed the subject to something more cheerful. Idle chatter carried on late into the night, mainly about the past, when Ed and Al first showed up in Central. Life seemed so much simpler then. When everybody decided it was time for bed, Roy put out the fire (his ability also let him douse fires as well as spark them) and they all headed back to the house to sleep and dream about the wonderful evening they had all just shared.


Cheesy much? I seriously couldn't think about how to end that chapter, I guess it turned out okay though, I dunno. I don't care right now either; I'm too tired to care. (Thats a lie.)

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