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(A/N: Sorry that this chapter is slightly disappointing and boring. I promise next one will be better


Chapter 13 - Roy's Confession

A Killer's confession to a teen.

"What are you talking about? They died in . . ." She stopped in her tracks, innocently looking at Roy.

"Ishbal. . ." Roy finished for her. "I was in the Ishbal massacre." It took Winry a minute to comprehend it all at once. She blinked and looked at him.

"You. . .shot them?" He didn't reply and kept his gaze to the floor. Winry stood up from the bed. "You shot my parents!" She was pacing now, but still Roy couldn't even look at her.

"Winry, look, I'm so-" She pointed at him.

"You're sorry? I'm an orphan, and all you can say is that you're sorry?" She emphasized the word 'sorry.' She couldn't even began to imagine how bad she wanted to smack Roy.

"Winry, I wish I didn't have to, I wish I wasn't ordered too, but it was a war! A man's a monster when he's on the battlefield, he's not even human!" She glared at him.

"You're right, you have to be some kind of monster! You shot a little girl's parents, and then you make an excuse for it! Not only that, you choose to tell me now, stay at my house, and you even have the audacity to KISS me!" She yelled at him. Roy knew he deserved the words, but he couldn't believe she would bring up. . .the kiss.

"The kiss meant NOTHING! I acted on impulse and that's something I don't often do! In fact, it was at that moment, that I wanted to tell you that I was the one who killed your parents!" He was relentless with his excuses, and Winry didn't want to take them. She continued to stare with them with the hardest stare her blue eyes could acheive.

"So you decided to kiss me instead? Real smart, Roy! I lost my parents when I was seven, do you know how hard that is? And you're telling me almost ten years later, that you're the one who did it!"

"I know exactly how hard that is! My dad was a damn alcoholic and he left me and my mom. All I had when I was younger was an suicidal depressed mother who couldn't even take care of me! I made a mistake, but it was my duty. You have to understand that."

Ouch. Winry had enver knew anything about Roy's parents, or much about his past. Still, that didn't make them the same. She wasn't the monster he was.

"Are you always like that Roy? Do you always have to stay loyal to your duty? Do you even have a mind that thinks on it's own, have you ever thought for once what it'd be like without the military dictating every single step?" Roy lost his nerve to look at Winry once again. She was right, he had to stay loyal to his duty. What else did he have left but the military?

"Winry, I don't know what else to say but that I'm sorry. When I was forced to do that, I knew that they were innocent, but I wasn't given the chance to decide, I was told, and I do what I'm told in the military." Winry wanted to cry, she really did. Her parents were gone and it was all because of the man standing in front of her. She didn't know whether to break down or to pounce on him, but she did her best to stay strong. That's what her parents would have wanted her to do.

"Roy, I'm not sure if I can ever forgive you, and I don't know if I can ever look you in the eye without seeing a murderer. But all I'm asking, all you owe to me, is to think for yourself for once, and stop asking so much from Ed. That's all I'm asking, and in my opinion you owe me much, much more." She left the room, leaving Roy to think. He couldn't believe that she had that much mercy not to hit him, or even worse throw him out of the house. Roy understood that Winry might not be able to forgive him, and may decide never to speak to him again, but at least his conscience was a little better, even though he knew that everything Winry had said was true. Yes, he stayed loyal to his duty, yes he let them control his life and yes. . .

. . .He was a monster.

Winry marched down the stairs, infuriated, but calming down when she saw Ed sitting at the kitchen table. Recalling everything that had happened last night, she smiled to herself, but Ed wasn't looking half as happy. He sat there, deep in his own thoughts, feeling guilty.

'Maybe. . .I shouldn't have pushed Roy that far.' He shuddered at the thought of regret, but he knew that pushing Roy to that point mentally wasn't right.

"What are you thinking about, Ed?" Winry asked him while pulling out a chair next to him. Once again he was holding that damned pocketwatch. It wasn't such a stupid little clock that told time, it was a symbol of everything that he had worked for, and he wasn't ready to give it up yet, and telling Winry he was about to would only raise her hopes.

"Nothing. . .just thinking about the military." She was hurt right now after talking to Roy, but she still managed to smile at him.

"Did Al talk to you about it?" Hesitantly, Ed nodded his head. ". . .well, what do you think?"

". . .I just can't do it. I'm too far to quit now." Surprisingly, Winry wasn't angry or upset. She understood that he was determined, and even though it meant him being far away for a long time, she wouldn't be the one to stop him. "I really have to talk to Roy." Not only did he owe Roy an apology, but he simply needed his job back. Marching up the stairs, he could imagine his dignity slipping out from under him, and decided pleading and begging would not only do wonders for Roy's self esteem, but help him get back to where he belongs. When he opened the door, he saw Roy sitting there, blankly in thought as Ed had been moments ago. He knew Ed was there, but refused to condescend and acknowledge his presence.

Roy was of course, angry at Ed for what he said - Words Roy didn't even care to repeat, and now that he had told Winry, he wasn't especially in the mood to discuss things with him. The next words that came out of Ed's mouth really, really surprised Roy.

"Roy, you're really going to have to listen to me. I know that I wasn't as kind last time to take the time to hear what you had to say, but please forgive me." Roy finally looked up from the spot in the wall and turned his gaze to Edward's pleading face. "I'm sorry for pushing you that far, I don't know why I felt I had to go that far."

"A sorry really might not cover it, Edward." It was true, Ed had really messed with Roy's head.

"I know it won't, but can you please find the mercy, or at least let me back in the military. . ." It was pretty much begging, but if Ed had to sink this low, he would do it. Roy was about to leave, thinking Ed had gotten what he deserved, until he remembered Winry. If she could find it in her heart not to kick him out of her house, then he could certainly find it in his to let Edward back in.

". . .I guess so, Elric. But I don't want to hear any complaints out of you ever, ever again. Understood?" Edward nodded, relieved at the huge weight that was lifted off his chest. Things were going back to normal, but this time, he had Winry by his side. It was going to kill when he had to leave.


I know, I know, horrible chapter. I'm really sorry, but it took me a while to break through the writers block, and it took me a while to update my other story ( I update one at a time. . .). I have some really good ideas now, though. Thank you to all my reviewers. . .

winryrockbell2- Not much suspense in this one, but I'll make the next one great. Thanks!

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