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Roy sat at his desk avoiding his paperwork as usual. The papers all looked the same to him. Blah blah blah finances blah blah alchemy reports blah blah Fullmetals medical status. Wait a sec. Medical stats? Why were these here? Just as Roy was about to start reading the report he heard an extremely loud scream down the hallway.

That sounded like fullmetal. The shrimp never yells like that unless something is really wrong or he's scared.

Roy had gotten to understand the boy a bit more since he had gotten his brothers body back. Edward had become prone to anxiety attacks whenever his brother was in the slightest amount of harm. Including if a wasp was in a 5-foot radius of the younger sibling.

Roy hurried to the young alchemists dorm room when he heard another scream. Many people were looking in the direction of the room wondering what was going on inside. Bursting in the door Mustang saw the older Elric huddled in a corner clutching his automail arm.

"What's wrong Fullmetal?" Roy was close to freaking out at the situation. If this was enough to cause the boy to have an anxiety attack while his brother was in Rizenbul safe as could be than it meant something was seriously wrong.

Edward didn't say anything he just sat there clutching his automail arm and crying. "Please Fullmetal. Tell me what's wrong" Roy asked

"It- it really-" Ed choked back a sob "It really hurts. Make it go away. Please. Just make it stop."

"Make what stop Fullmetal? What is it that hurts?" Roy was surprised at the boys reaction to pain…he had gone through automail attachment as a mere child. Yet this seemed to hurt more for the boy. "Tell me. What hurts?" Roy crouched down to the teens level. Edward didn't even have a chance to make a smart-ass remark about how obvious the answer was before the exhaustion of enduring the pain got to him instead he opted for collapsing into his commanding officer letting the smell of coffee, cologne, and burnt wood engulf his senses. Quietly he muttered.

"You smell really good."