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Roy sat down on the toilet seat and held his head in his hands.

"Dammit."

He puckered his lips and made a kissing sound.

"I'm an idiot."

Suddenly, from under the door, a bright colored photo flew across the tiles and rested on his bare foot.

Roy rolled his eyes and groaned, "What… Hughes?"

Hughes slowly opened the door and crept in.

"Doesn't her smiling face make you feel oh so happy and warm inside?"

Roy rolled his eyes and half smiled.

"Sure…"

Hughes knelt down in front of the Colonel and began to carefully take the drenched denim

jeans off. Roy lifted his backside and in two seconds they were off, revealing Roy's green

and blue plaid boxer shorts.

Hughes was going to let Roy take care of that himself.

He didn't care how hurt the man was. Hughes then laughed at how easy it had just been.

He stared accusingly at Roy and said,

"And you couldn't do that for poor little Edward?"

Roy closed his eyes and smirked.

"To piss him off… I don't know. It's just so much fun."

Hughes laughed.

"Same old, same old Colonel Mustang."

Roy raised an eyebrow as Hughes turned on the bath water.

"How so?" Roy asked, a bit confused.

Hughes laughed.

"You were the same way with Riza, remember?"

Roy then smirked and closed his eyes.

"Ahh… the good old days."

Hughes laughed.

"Yea, but now it doesn't work on her, does it?"

Roy laughed.

"Yea… she got boring, so I dumped her…"

Hughes burst out into laughter and snorted,

"Umm... I'm pretty she was the one that dumped you…"

"No…"

Roy said sarcastically.

"She just decided we should see other people."

He laughed.

"That doesn't count as "dumping"…"

Hughes laughed back.

"Whatever you say…"

Roy chuckled. "I'd hug you if I was fully clothed."

Hughes laughed nervously and said,

"Why's that?"

"Because you understand me…"

Hughes then laughed whole-heartedly and responded,

"Yea… I guess I do…"

When the bath was full, Hughes turned around so Roy could take his "stupid idiot wannabe boxers" off. Hughes couldn't help but laugh some more.

When Roy was finally in the tub, Hughes sat down on the toilet seat and asked,

"How's your leg?"

Roy laughed. "Didn't you see it before?"

Hughes chuckled and said,

"I didn't exactly feel comfortable with checking out your hairy legs, Roy."

Roy and Hughes then shared another enormous laugh and all went quiet.

Hughes deeply inhaled and asked, "You like him, don't you?"

Roy, being unable to lie to Hughes, scrunched his face into a sour look and shut his mouth.

Hughes laughed.

"I already knew you did, I just wanted to confirm it with you…"

Roy laughed.

"You jealous?"

Hughes chuckled a bit and said,

"A few years ago I would have been. But I'm sorry Roy, you got ugly."

They then shared another laugh together and it echoed through the pristine white bathroom.

"So…" Hughes said after a while.

"Yea?"

Hughes took in a breath and closed his eyes,

"What's the plan?"

"What do you mean?" Roy asked.

Hughes took in another breath and responded nervously,

"The whole time we were in that forest, I swear to god, something was watching us…"

Roy had also felt something similar, but he ignored it, telling himself it was forest creatures, or maybe even his overactive imagination at work.

But, alas, Hughes had felt it as well. And Hughes' senses were far better than his, in more ways than one.

Roy took a deep breath and closed his eyes,

"I felt something as well… "

He paused.
"It turned my stomach sour…"

Hughes took in a deep breath and closed his eyes.

"I know what you're thinking Roy…"

Roy then started to laugh. "Do you, now?"

Hughes nodded his head and mumbled, "Mmmhmm…"

Roy smirked and said, "You and the bean…"

"Huh?" Hughes asked.

"He said the same thing…"

Hughes smirked. "Oh really?"

Roy just laughed and said, "Okay bean, what am I thinking?"

Hughes then took a deep breath and imitated Edward as best as he could by yelling, "WHO ARE YOU CALLING A TEENY TINY LITTLE PIMPLE ON SOME MIDGETS FACE AND YOU CANT EVEN POP IT BECAUSE ITS SO SMALL AND EVEN IF YOU DID THERE WOULDN'T BE ANYTHING IN IT BECAUSE IT WAS SO SMALL AND THE MIDGET ISNT EVEN WORRIED ABOUT GOING INTO PUBLIC BECAUSE HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT BECAUSE ITS SO DAMN SMALL?"

Roy then began laughing so hard, he nearly choked. Hughes fell off the toilet seat and rolled on the floor, surprised at his perfectly accurate imitation.

When the two finally calmed down, Roy asked, "So what am I thinking…Hughes?"

Hughes closed his eyes, took a deep breath and said, "You're thinking that…

you wish Alicia was here so she could calm your fears and make you feel all special!"

Roy then sucked some water into his mouth, opened the shower door and sprayed it at Hughes.

Hughes laughed and Roy growled.

"Damn you…"

Hughes raised an eyebrow and smiled, "For what?"

Roy glared. "For being a picture freak…"

He paused.

"And for making me laugh, making me... NOT mysterious…"

Hughes laughed and stated matter-of-factly, "Well, you're not…"

They then shared another laugh then all went silent.

Roy was carving little transmutation circles in the soap and he laughed.

"What?" Hughes asked.

"So much for our Vacation…" Roy yelled. "We have to leave already…"

"And where will we go?"

Hughes asked. "We do have to keep Ed away from them. Either side will try to use him, you know this…"

Roy took another deep breath and submerged his head in the water. When he came back up, an idea came to him.

"We have to lose them somehow. It's obvious that they're following us."

Hughes laughed sarcastically and asked,

"And how do we go about doing that?"

"Very simple, my friend."

Roy paused.

"We must appoint… a decoy…"

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Edward stared at the ceiling. It was fairly dark in the room and it slightly scared him. He had never been quite a fan of the dark.

He took in a deep breath and waved his hand about in an odd, childish fashion.

He then quickly sat up and held his chin in his hands. He had changed into light purple sweat pants and a white over shirt. His hair was still slightly wet, but it didn't bother him.

He had given his soaking clothes to Riza and hinted the apparent make-out session taking place in the kitchen.

Riza just laughed and handed Edward an apple and a couple candy bars. She obviously knew there wasn't going to be any dinner.

He gratefully accepted and chowed them down in no time. He was still hungry, but he decided he would ignore his angry stomach, and keep his mind occupied with the happenings of earlier that day.

While in the woods with the Colonel, they weren't the only ones present. He wasn't sure whether or not the Colonel noticed, but he swayed more towards Roy being an idiot and unaware of anything.

Edward got the feeling that whatever was out there, it wasn't completely evil. But in the same token, it wasn't completely friendly either.

He was also sure that whatever was out there, there was more than one.

He was also quite sure that Riza had noticed. Maybe Havoc had as well. It wasn't going to surprise him if they were on the move soon.

He didn't exactly like the cabin itself anyway. I mean, he had to share a room with the Colonel. Maybe they could go back and stay with Nora.

No, that would be way too hard. It would be very tricky to keep it a secret that he was in fact, male. She would be putin danger as well.

Also, since he had already said he wouldn't run off again, that was out of the question. Of course, he may be confronted by whatever was out there, and a few more questions may finally be answered. Not to mention he'd be getting everyone else out of danger.

Or it could be that if he ran off, they wouldn't be protected and would be especially in danger. He wasn't exactly sure how capable Riza would be if the thing she faced was as scary as that thing before.

And especially if there were more than one. Roy had been the one to put it down. After all, he had seen them before.

"He used to help create them." Ed reminded himself.

He clenched his fist and growled.

"It was stupid. Very stupid. But I know he regrets it…"

He sighed.

"He's probably the only one of us that could stand up to those things…"

Edward figured that obviously they wouldn't scare Roy anymore. But it had definitely scared Edward.

Oh, he hoped it wasn't more of them. Maybe they were just normal human spies from the Red Claw. This is what he hoped. This is what he wished.

He was afraid that if it was more of what he saw before, he may just decide to sacrifice himself in order to help them.

But, now that he thought about it, he wanted to anyway.

That was when he decided. The next day he was going to find out what he could do to save those poor creatures, one way, or another. Even if he had sort of promised he would not run off, he had to do something.

"The saddest eyes in the world…"

He sighed.

"They say that your eyes are the windows to your soul…"

He took another deep breath as a tear fell down his face.

"Empty nothingness. Sadness. And Pain… Horrible pain."

He paused.

"Almost like..her soul was gone..."

He then smiled sadly and said,

"Before I go, I'm gonna give the Colonel a chance to tell me…"

He paused.

"And then I'm going to kiss him…"

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Okay yes, I'm getting on with the plot. I have a developing story in my head and it's still a baby so please be patient with me. As I've said before, if this story ends up sucking, I'm going to write a strictly Romance/Humor RoyXEd FLUFF! Okay:)

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