Chapter 4

The Doctor finally came out of the room, and walked down the hall to the Elric family, and other friends. This would be hard to tell them, he knew he wasn't supposed to get emotionally attached to the patient, or the patient's relatives but, he was young, and it was hard not too.

He sighed as the family came into view, they looked up at him.

"Umm….this is not….something that you want to hear" Doctor Decosta said. A blonde headed boy looked up at him; he was holding his breath waiting for him to speak again.

"He's not….."Rose said holding her to hands to her chest and tears in her eyes. Winry was holding her hand and patting her hand.

"No…no...This is the bad news, and no body ever wants to hear bad news. Okay, Alphonse has…….some of his insides missing. We cannot know how this happened. Also on top of that he is losing his lungs" Doctor Decosta finished letting the family drink this in.

"Why is he losing his lungs" Izumi asked knowing the answer can't be good.

"He has something called Tuberculosis (ter-ber-cu-lo-ses). Or TB some call it. It's a disease that…eats at the lungs until they fill up with blood. Which is one reason why he is couching up so much blood" Doctor Decosta said.

"It…isn't curable" Winry asked tear visibly streaming down her cheeks.

"There is no cure for Tuberculosis…..I'm very sorry" Doctor Decosta said solemnly.

"So…your telling us that Al's going to die…and you can't do a damn thing about it" Ed asked balling up his fist.

"Well he's missing some of his insides, on top of Tuberculosis. We can't help the Tuberculosis, and we can't give him his insides back" Decosta said.

"Can you tell us what insides he's missing" Izumi said her voice shaky.

"He's missing his pancreas, appendix, and gallbladder, only one. And his…liver" Decosta replied. (Appendix, and galbladder you can live without, but the liver, and pancreas are very major organs).

"Oh" was all Izumi could say, and she started crying.

"I'm terrible sorry" Decosta said, and he walked away. Izumi leaned against Sig, Ed looked at his teacher, the woman he looked at as a mother figure. He hugged her, and she hugged him back, a slow tear sliding down each of their faces.

A nurse came out, she smiled at them.

"Would you like to visit Alphonse" she asked. They shook their heads, and were lead to a room with a glass window for people to look in on him.

Al was hooked up to a machine that was taking his blood and cleaning it, then putting the clean blood back in his body for him since he didn't have his liver. A nurse was over him, and she was giving him a shot filled with sugar water, for his pancreas. (If he did survive this, he would be a diabetic the rest of his live). Appendix and Gallbladder didn't need anything. The nurse that had given him the shot came out.

"Only one at a time" she said coldly. Izumi went first, Sig not wanting to go in anyway stayed behind. The curtain went down, and Izumi had complete privacy with him.

Al also had an oxygen mask covering his mouth and an I.V….also Ed's blood transfusion. Izumi squeezed his hand, his breathing sounded choked. Like there was water coming up with the breath of air, he couched and blood came up but not much and Izumi wiped it away with her handkerchief.

"I…umm…love you like a son Alphonse, and I..." she breathed in. "I hate to see you suffer like this" she finished tears streaming down her face. Al's head moved.

"Teacher" he whispered so low it was barely audible.

"Yes" Izumi said, she kissed him on his forehead, and hugged him wishing she didn't have to let go of him. She then left the room and reunited with Sig. She fare welled the others, and she and Sig went on their way.

"C-can I go now Edward….I thought you and Winry might want to go together" Rose said. Ed nodded his head, and watched her go in and shut the door behind her.

A/N-I'm soo evil, anyway NO FLAMES!!!...and please review.