Aly nodded her head, "Yeah, when I get to Central I'll call Ed to come pick me up. No need to worry about me."

"Okay." Al waved her good bye as she got on the train to head back to Central. Then he headed back to Winry's house.

Aly limped into the office, and heard Roy talking to himself, or so she believed. She walked toward him getting closer to the voice box that was making all the sounds. She could make out few words at first then things became clearer. "Riza… please. I need it, come closer… Oh god. Show me more, take that off. Come on Riza. Come close. Don't do that… pleeeeeeease stooooop. I neeeee…… ahhhhh." Roy groaned loudly. Anybody would have been able to hear that in the office. "Riza… mmmmm… show me…you know how. That is the sexiest loungerie I've ever seen." Roy was moaning hard now, and it was hard not to notice the stiffness in Roy's lower body. Aly was trying to choke herself, blind herself and deafen herself all at the same time.

She was crawling toward the door, and crying at the same time. That was the nastiest thing she had ever heard. As she was crawling to the door, she knew that she wouldn't be able to tell anyone. So, to protect Roy from humiliation, she went over to him carefully. She started shaking him to see if he would wake up from this dreamland. Finally, she just smacked him across the face and he fell to the ground. He rubbed his cheek were Aly hit, "What the Hell?!"

Aly fell to her knees in rejoice, "Thank God you shut up." She sighed as Roy stared at her, then Roy turned over and layed on his belly. He put his forehead on the wooden floor, and sighed. "Thanks for hurting me, ouch. Um, can you leave me for a couple minutes. I need to… recooperate."

Aly got to her feet, "No problem! I'm so out of here! Oh, a nice welcome home greeting." Aly ran out of the office to wait outside of Central taking notes in her alchemy note book, and Roy was left to fix his stiffness. Roy did know what he was dreaming about and that made him sigh in anger, soon Roy was fixed with sad angry thoughts, oh and the thought that Alchemy was back.

"Al, what da hell do ya mean. Pinako told me ya'll went fer a walk an' it's late an' ya come back alone. What da fuck. She went back ta Central didn' she?" Leon yelled at Al making a scene in the rest area. Al looked ashamed and if his face could blush he would have been. Al tried to explain, "I had to. I trust her to be fine there. Please calm down."

"You're right. I'm going to Central. Stay here."

Leon found the closest train ride back out to Central and he was there within the normal period of time.

"Aly Braidley, what da fuck do ya think ya was doin'?! I bin so worried 'bou' ya and ya disappee'! Shit! Shit." He fell to his knees at the last whispered word.

Aly stood her ground as he yelled at her, "I left because I wanted to come back, and I have things that I need to do. Mind you, that you also have something that you need to do as well. Your job is to be my body guard, but what use is a body guard that has only one arm? Tell me that Lt.!"

"I…you're right I am no use." His face had dropped to a sad, sad frown. He went over to Roy's desk and picked up a piece of paper and a pen. He scribbled something on it and handed it to Aly. "That's me resination. I a'ready packed. Sorray fer da waste in space."

"Um…for one thing, this is just lines and scribbles on a paper, and two," Aly puts her hand out to block the door using alchemy, "You are not resigning now. I go through about thirteen body guards every year, for nine years. Do you want to do the math for me?! You are the first body guard who has lasted more than a month. You can't leave now, that would just be wrong!"

"Dat ain't no scrabbles an' lines. I qeet. God dat letta says 'I Cap. Leon resin from me post.' An' by da way I was promot'd I ain't no Lt. Why daw ya nee' a one arm'd bodyguar'? I us'less." Leon threw up an alchemy box. When Aly couldn't see him Leon began to cry weakly. He began crying harder and harder; he fell down and balled up. Aly couldn't do anything about it, she also noticed something was wrong with his writing; he needed to get to the hospital soon.

"Cap. Kazuo Leon, I order you, to go back to Risembool, get an automail arm, then return to be my guard, and one more thing, you need to go to the hospital, now. If you try to tell me no, then just go, but remember that this is the only job that I find to really be open in the military right now." Aly let the wall down, "So, if you leave now just to quit, then, I must say that you will be missed, and if you don't, thank you." Aly smiled her usually cheery smile at him. "Well, what do you say, Sir Cap. Kazuo Leon?"

He just exited the room using his alchemy, he slammed the door behind him. Aly glared at the door, "Fine! Be a jerk and leave! I was most likely going to make you quit anyway, better to do it now then later!" It had been another month and Aly couldn't get ahold of Leon, she now had Winry's number and he wasn't there either.

Roy was doing some paperwork and Aly was knocked out on the couch hidden under Roy's jacket. He looked up at the door and saw Riza; she looked more beautiful than usual. Her hair was down and she wasn't wearing her jacket or collar shirt. Her black t-shirt was hugging to every beautiful curve. She walked to Roy and on some impulse he stood; she pressed her hand on his chest gently pushing him into the chair. She began swaying her hips smoothly back and forth, Roy made a light sigh. She straddled herself into his lap still dancing calmly. Roy leaned forward and swiped everything on his desk to the floor and Riza was slowly getting off Roy.

He picked her up by the waist and set her down onto the desk, Roy opened his mouth to speak, "Shhhh this moment's too good for words, " Riza told Roy. Riza slide off the desk and began walking to the door. "Show me… Roy. I want to see what you got for me." Riza said as she put her shirt and jacket back on, Roy began walking to her. In that instant the hallucination was over and the real Riza was walking through the door, Roy couldn't tell the difference between the Riza's.

He backed her into the wall. Real Riza's eye's widened as Roy pushed his body roughly against her's. He put his lips on hers and was moving his lips ever so kindly across hers, once Riza began to kiss back even a little Roy kissed with more power. He kissed her with such an intense force that her lips may have bruised right there. He was breathing heavily and making light groans. He pulled his hands away from Riza's head and began taking Riza's jacket off. Next he had unbuttoned her collar and he was putting his hands up her shirt; he hadn't made it but an inch up before Riza spoke. "Sir?"

"Yes Riza," Roy said as he kissed her neck.

"It's Hawkeye Sir and I have to… go." Riza picked her jacket up and hurried out the room. Roy stood silently, he didn't believe what had just happened. He knew he needed to find another girl to screw before he went as far as he could go. Roy spoke something in his mind, "Damn it, I'm hard again. God Damn you Riza!"

Roy left for about two hours to walk around and calm himself down. When he came back to his office, Aly was sitting on the floor with her notebook, a pen in her mouth, and rocks everywhere. She was trying to control her alchemy, and she was having a hard time. When Roy walked in she looked up, "Where have you been?"

"I went out for a while to think. How long have you been awake?" Roy sat across from her and watched her. Aly smiled as she closed the book, but not before Roy noticed a note that was on the top of the page, "What do you mean by Pride?"

Aly's smile faded, "I mean the homuculus Pride."

"How do you know about him?!"

"Well…I created him. Pride was created when I was nine, my sacrafice to make him was an accident, but he was still created." Aly was taking the rocks she had and throwing them out the window.

"If you transmuted him, that makes you his master?!"

Aly nodded her head, "Yes, and I am supposed to be his daughter. Pride, is my father, Furher King Bradley."

"The Furher is the homuculus Pride?! Is that why you practically live in my office?!" Roy was mad at the thought.

Aly again nodded her head as she sat back down, "Yes, that is the reason why I do not go home. I am not loved there, it is also another reason why I crave for attention."

Roy stared at her in awe, this little girl had been living by herself since she was three. Roy stood up and looked down at her, "Alchemy, I don't trust you to stay her by yourself anymore. You're coming home with me." Roy took Aly by her arm and walked back to his house.

Aly was starting to worry that Roy was going to try andd kill her again, when he let her into the house, and lead her to the guest bed, "You can stay here. This'll be your room okay?"

Aly walked into the room with fear, "Okay."

"Good night Alchemy." Roy closed the door and went to his room to sleep.

Aly tried to smile, then she crawled into the bed and tried to fall asleep. When she did, she woke up in the middle of the night to a nightmare. She climbed out of the bed, and walked over to Roy's room. He was shivering, and Aly was worried that something was wrong. She went over and shoke him gently, "Roy? Roy? Are you okay?"

Roy didn't wake up, so Aly just took the chance, and climbed into his bed. With her back to him, she fell asleep.

Leon was walking along the dirt path once more, and Winry's house was only ten steps away. He knocked on the door because he felt that now he was intruding and that he wasn't invited. He only hoped that they hadn't stopped making his automail while he had disappeared. Al opened the door, "Leon you're back! Come in, they've just finished your automail only minutes ago!" Leon stepped in awkwardly. "Well ,well you're back. Winry prep him for the surgery." Pinako ordered.

Roy and Aly walked into Roy's office to start the day, Aly's new body guard, Kain Fuery, was already waiting for her. She sat on the couch as Roy's phone rang and he answered, "Hello?"

He looked at Aly and handed her it, "It's for you."

Aly put the phone to her ear and replied, "Hello?"

"Aly, it's Winry. We're about to start the surgery on Leon's arm, and I thought that," suddenly someone was screaming in the background, and Aly pulled the phone away from her ear for a second, "Sorry, about that, he is having a bit of pain at the moment, but yeah, Leon is in surgery now, so I'm gonna have to go. Talk to you later."

Aly hung up the phone, then turned to Roy, "I'm going to Risembool," She turned to Kain, "Come on Whimpy, we need to go."

Aly left Central to go to the train station, and got on the next train leaving for Risembool.

"Ahhhhhh… heh heh. Owwwww. Basterd. Pain is a 'spensive bitch. Lemme tell ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Leon was screaming so loud that it filled the whole house with a sense of pain. "Oh God, I fine. Oh ho haaaaaa. Bitch! Mother Fu…er cryin' ou' lawd." Pain was shooting through Leon's body and they were only half way through with connecting the nerves to the shoulder plate. "Okay Captain we can either break or continue, your choice." Pinako questioned. Leon laughed, "We kahn stop 'til t'morrow. Al can ya carry me somewhere?"

Al was helping Leon out of the door, "Where to?"

"Just go in that direction for a while I'll tell you when to stop." It was about forty minutes later and Al was standing in front of a forest entrance. "Thanks Al, I'll take care of myself the rest of the way."

Five minutes into the forest Leon hit the river bank, he sat on a flat, dry rock and looked across from him. "Mizz, awr ya here? I came bach."

"Leo, its you. I've missed you ever so much." A beautiful young girl walked out from the trees. She sat gracefully on a fallen tree trunk.

"I 'ev mizzed ya too. Ya look amazazin'. Ya awr me lovelay rose."

"Leo dear, are you feeling okay? You look so sad and pained."

"Sweet, sweet lovelay girl; I stawted da surgery. It hawt me plentay. I'll be strawn enough ta admit dat."

"Aw, haha. You my dear strong man. Will you want me to be with you at the surgery?"

"Naw, naw mizz there awr thangs ya can't see. But I want ya to be bach here tamorrow. I have a persent. I luv ya."

"I love you too and goodbye."

" 'Til next time, luv."

It was an hour wobble back to Winry's and once he made it to the place he ached all over and pain was as real as hisself. When he walked through the door, Aly was there sitting next to Kain, with a smile on her face. Once she spotted Leon, her smile faded, "Cap. Leon, how are you feeling?"

"Lik' a flowa in da soonshine."

"You look like Hell, you don't need to lie to make me happy anymore." Aly got up and walked outside to sit in the cool night air, and Kain followed her not too far behind.

Leon followed out front, and he told Kain to leave so him and Aly could talk in private for a moment. Leon took a seat next to Aly and started up a conversation, "I went ta da docdor."

Aly sighed, "Really? Well, there's hope in the smallest places. What did they tell you?"

"Dy…Dis…Lax…Lex…E."

"Do you mean Dyslexia? Wow, that's got to suck. I'm sorry about that. So, what do you plan on doing now?" Aly was twittling with her fingers.

"Mirage," Leon spoke seriously.

"Really? Well, I wish you and your woman the best of regaurds. I hope that you two live happily together."

"I wish way could ta, I wan't be home wit her I ev a job. But way wan't need to be wit each other 24/7. Da luv and fate we got iz enough, alwez."

"How cute…almost disgusting. Now, Cap. Leon, you know that you have no job to return to, Kain, unfortunatly, has filled your position. I know he seems meak…but he will suffice." Aly rolled her eyes at the thought of having to be protected by Kain.

"HAHAHAHAHA, 2nd Lt. Kain report to me stat!," Kain came barreling out of the house. "Yes, Sir."

"Lt. Kain, I fire ya fro' been bodyguard. Pack yo bag and leave 'meadiatly, oh and by da way no hard feelin'."

Aly stood up quickly, "Hell no! You can't do that! I control this puppet! Kain ignore him, you're staying here! Ignore his stupid self."

"Aly ya and I ain't no fightin' ya do as I see. Kain NAW, go. Aly SHUT UP!" Leon got up and grabbed Aly's arm roughly, "Ya do's I say… And… Ahhhhhh." Leon was crawled into feedle position, "Gat… Al. Hep, HEP!" He had passed out, "No… Fiyaaaaa! BLOOD. Stop!"

"Al! Winry! Pinako! Help! Kain go get some help!" Kain ran into the house and seconds later everyone came outside. Aly ran over to them, "I don't know what happened, he just knocked out." Aly started shivering with fear.

Al went over and carried him inside, and Winry helped Aly inside the house too. She sat on the couch and was holding her hands on her lap in fists. She was upset, but trying to contain herself in fear that she would blow up Winry's house. Al came out after a couple minutes and looked at the distressed Aly on the couch.

He picked her up and carried her to the back room to calm her down, away from all the stress. He placed her on the bed gently, and she curled up and started to cry, "Everyone…everyone leaves me. I cause so much pain to so many people, so they leave me…and I'm always…alone."

Al sat across from Aly, "I'm still here, and you've hurt me plenty of times. I would never leave you…I love you."

Aly's tears ceased for a moment, and she uncurled to look at Al, "Wh-what do you mean…you love…me? Do you mean like a sister, like the way you look at Winry?"

Al took a little offense, "No, I don't just love you, I'm in love with you."

"Al…" Aly blushed, then smiled. She jumped up and wrapped her arms around Al's neck and he wrapped his arms around her as she pecked him. She didn't care if he was metal or not, the fact that he loved her was all she cared about.

If Al had the ability to show emotion, he would have been blushing at that moment, that was until Aly knocked out only seconds later in Al's arms from all the adrenaline. Al calmly pulled a blanket over her and caressed her face, he spoke softly as to not wake her up, "I would give anything in the world just to be human right now, and be able to show you just how much I love you, and feel the warmth of your kiss."

"Winry get ice, lots and lots of ice." Pinako yelled to Winry. She appeared with a bucket from the icebox and they dumped it into a tub with water filled halfway up. "Help me get him in the tub, his temperature is too high, he'll die." They hurried and Pinako decided it was time to continue the surgery while he was knocked out. Blood was dripping and soon the blood poured and the tub water became red. Screams rang loudly through the whole house.

Aly woke up with a startle which surprised Al. She looked around and then heard the screams again. She started to tear, then started crying as she tried to cover up her ears from the noise. Al held onto her, trying his best to calm her down, "Aly…it's okay. Please don't cry, I'm here, you'll be okay, I promise."

Aly continued to cry against Al, "I'm killing him, he's dying because of me."

It was the morning and finally Leon's automail was finished, he left the house to go back to the river. "Oh sweet Juliet, I'm waitin'." Leon spoke.

"Dear Leo, You have grayed plenty, you are worse then yesterday sweet love."

"I okay Juliet, I ev a sweet question fer ya oh lovelay one. Will ya marray me?" Leon smiled for the first time in age's.

"Oh sweet man, I cannot. I love you too great but it will not do. I can't." Juliet ran off into the woods, and Leon walked back to Pinako's thinking of him never returning again.

Al was outside with Aly who was starting to doze. Leon went over and told them that they needed to start back to the train station. He swayed in place from his fever, and Al looked at him, "I'll carry you, but let me get Aly first."

Al went into the house and brought back two blankets, he placed one inside his chest, then the Aly lazily climbed in, and he placed the second blanket over her. Then he went over to Leon, and picked him up to carry him to the train station.