A/N: Hey, here you go! I had to type more while I felt the inspiration. I changed it a bit from the original chapter, but I like it better this way. Riza's in for a world of trouble, sigh. And Roy doesn't even know what's going on, must suck to be him. While typing this, I was listening to 'Move Across the Door,' by yellow generation, sigh, such a good song…
Disclaimer: Still don't own it, leave me alone already.
"Riza! What's going on over there?" Roy said exasperatedly over the phone.
"Well, long story short, today during field training I kind of collapsed at the end," Riza said, smiling weakly.
"What? But you're the most fit out of all of us!"
"Used to be Roy, used to be."
"What's going on? Are you sure your feeling okay Riza?"
"Yes… well, no actually. I feel horrible Roy, I'm puking every morning, and my head feels like it's close to bursting when I try to do paperwork, and do you know why?"
"Riza, you must be really sick, why can't you just take a few days off for a wh-"
"I'll tell you why it is Roy. It's because I, First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye, am pregnant with your child!"
The phone was dead silent the next few moments, apparently Roy had stopped breathing
"Are you sure?"
"How could I not be sure? Roy, I went to the doctors and this is for real. You need to get back soon; I can't handle this on my own! My doctor says I'll have to stop going to work, oh god what do we do?"
"Riza, I'll be back within the end of the-"
"Roy? Roy!"
The line was dead.
IIIIIIIIIIIII
"Uhh, yes, this is first Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye, I'm going to have to stay home today, please give my paperwork to Maes Hughes, he'll be able to handle it for me," Riza said into the phone. Hughes could always use the extra work; he had far too much time on his hands.
It was noon by the time Riza had woken up, and she needed the time off to think. If she didn't decide what to do now, it may be to late later, she couldn't wait for Roy forever.
"If I have this baby, I won't be in the military anymore… Roy makes more than enough to support us, but I'm not sure whether I could stand to be a stay at home wife, that's why I joined the military," Riza thought out loud. It was winter, but early winter so there would be no snow for some time still. And so, it rained almost continuously, occasionally lightening or thunder would appear also. Today, it merely droned down on the windows, a white noise. Riza sat in bed, as she often did now, mauling over the pros and cons.
All in all, she doubted she would be able to give up this baby even if she wanted to, she wasn't that cold hearted. The only noise was a clock ticking somewhere, along with the constant pounding of the rain. Riza seriously believed she would die of boredom, if the phone hadn't suddenly rung.
"Riza, is that you?"
"Elisia? Why are you calling?"
"Hughes told me you were calling in sick still and I got worried, how are you?"
"Lets just keep it at 'I've been better'."
"Why don't I come over to keep you company? Roy's still gone, so it must be pretty boring over there."
"Hmm, it has been pretty dull lately, I guess that would be okay, wait, I think I hear someone at the door, one minute Gracia."
Riza got up as quickly as she could manage and walked to the door. Opening it up, Riza stared into a sight that she hadn't seen for so long, she had almost forgotten how much she loved it. The dark, cool pools of black that were Roy's eyes.
"Why did you leave for so long?" Riza said, her eyes watering slowly. She dropped the phone, fell forwards and hugged him, clinging to his shirt as silent sobs shook through her body, rattling her bones. Roy was stunned for a moment, before gently hugging Riza back, and walking inside.
IIIIIIIIII In Central HQ
"Hughes, is that you?" asked Roy.
"Yeah, you haven't called for a long time Roy, what's going on?" Hughes said, holding the phone to his ear.
"How's Riza? She sounded pretty awful last time I called, and I haven't been able to call her since."
"To busy to call your love? I'm ashamed of you, now as for me and Gracia and my little darling daughter-"
"Hughes, I don't have time for this so please just shut up! I need to know how Riza is, and it's not that I'm to busy for her, I think one of the telephone wires was broken by the rain storms or something, because the line's always dead there."
"That's strange, she was able to call in sick the past couple days, so it must be something on your end. As for how she is, I don't know, she's been staying at home as I said, but I'll tell her you called."
"Alright, I'll just try calling her again later. Tell her I'll be back by the end of the week."
"Alright, I've got to go, there's a call on the other line."
"Bye"
Click. Hughes pressed a button on the receiver and waited for the other call to be patched through.
"Is lt. Hughes there?"
"Gracia? How are you? Oh, and how's my darling Elisia?"
"We're both fine, I just called Riza, I'm worried about her."
"Yeah, she's had it pretty bad lately."
"But there's good news Maes, as I said, I was just talking to her, when she had to get the door, and it sounds like Roy's back at last!"
"Wait, what?"
"Mustang's back from his trip, so now she won't be alone anymore, I swear I wonder how-"
"Are you absolutely sure of this?"
"Yes, I heard Riza's voice with my own ears!"
"But not Roy's."
"I guess not, he didn't really say anything before Riza hung up."
"I've got to go, I may be home late tonight so don't stay up waiting for me."
Click. Hughes cast a glance at the pile of paperwork on his desk, and then shrugged it off. He never did it anyways. Throwing on his coat, he walked to the front desk and ordered a cab. Something wasn't right, and he would always help his friends. One of which, he feared dearly needed it as soon as possible.
A/N: Here, an extra long chapter to make up for the short one! My goal is to get 200 reviews by the end of this fic, so, as that is not long off, please review even if you don't like it much! On another note, just watched the 5th DVD, totally awesome! Thanks to everyone who is reviewing too, you help me want to write!
Yuko
