Roy Mustang sat at the head of a large table. In front of him sat his most trusted servants, their families and several others who were of little concern at the moment. Among the vampires close to Roy were; Maes Hughes, Riza Hawkeye and Jean Havoc. The topic of conversation was the attack on the Elric household.

"Falman, Breda and Furey are still investigating with the humans," Hughes said. He looked about middle aged with black hair and goatee. He had greenish gold eyes. "All evidence points to an attack by Envy's group."

"Sir," Hawkeye said softly. She looked like a young woman with blond hair and intense brown eyes. "It's very obvious that they were after the boy. The entire house was torn apart. They were definitely looking for him."

"I know Hawkeye." Roy sighed. "Tell me something new."

"Well boss," Havoc said, reading off a sheet of paper, "It the mess in the house was made of three parts. Blood from Alphonse Elric, remains of Hohenheim Elric and, what is as of yet, and unidentified source." The blond haired man closed his brown eyes as he blew out smoke.

"Unidentified source?" Hughes blinked. "It wasn't Trisha Elric?"

Havoc shrugged. "Apparently not," he said around his cigarette.

Hawkeye was looking at a similar sheet of paper. "The remains appear to be vampire."

"Interesting." Roy said as he leaned on one of his hands. "Do we know what happened to Mrs. Elric?"

"No sir." Hawkeye looked over the paper to make sure.

"Look into it." Roy commanded.

Havoc and Hawkeye nodded. "Yes sir," the blond woman said.

Roy smirked. "Good. Anything on the brother's condition?"

"All blood loss was from the injuries suffered from Lust and those fingers of hers." Hughes sighed.

"Yes. He wasn't bitten at all." Falman said walking into the room. "In fact it looks like the attacks were only attacks. Almost a show of power."

"Or anger." Furey added softly. He and Breda stood behind Falman, near the door they had just entered.

Roy's charcoal eyes narrowed. "Just like Envy."

"You really hate him don't you?" Hughes asked. "You sure can hold a grudge Roy."

"If it wasn't for that bastard none of us would be like this." Roy hissed.

Havoc inhaled some more smoke, "It's not like he Changed you boss. Or forced Gran to do it."

Roy gave Havoc a sideways glance. "He Changed Gran, who Changed me. If not for Envy then Gran wouldn't have been able to turn me."

Hughes shook his friend's shoulder. "We have business. You can think about grudges later."

"Right." Roy turned his attention to the three near the door. "Anything else?"

Before any of the men could say something a small mousy haired girl walked in. "Um, sir?"

"Yes Sheizka?" Roy asked.

"He's about to wake up." Sheizka said.

"Thank you." Roy stood up. "This meeting is over. You may leave." The vampire turned and walked out the door Sheizka had entered through.

Hawkeye, Havoc, Breda, Furey and Falman followed the dark haired man. Hughes turned to the woman next to him. "Gracia, I have to go. I'll be back soon."

Gracia, a blond woman with stunning green eyes, smile. "Alright. Do you want me to put Elicia to bed?"

"No!" a small blond girl piped up. "I want to stay up till Daddy comes back."

Hughes beamed. "Of course sweetie. I'll come back as soon as possible so I can read you a story." He leaned down and kissed Elicia on the forehead. He turned to Gracia. "Love you." He kissed her as well.

"Same here honey." Gracia smiled. She stood up, took her daughter's hand and walked out a different door.

Hughes went out the door the others had left by and say Roy waiting for him. "Hey Roy!"

Roy smirked and started walking down the hall. "I would have waited till you put her to bed."

"Pshaw. I know how anxious you are to get to the kid. Besides, Elicia really should be trying to stay up the entire night. She'll be four soon!" Hughes smiled.

"Do you think she's realized that she's different from everyone here?" Roy asked.

"You mean that my little girl's human and everyone else is a vampire?" Hughes asked. "Probably. My darling daughter is a genius!"

Roy sighed. "Anyway, when do you plan to Change her?"

Hughes rubbed his beard. "Hmmm. I really have no idea."

"I see. So, how's Gracia adjusting?"

Hughes beamed. "Really great! She's been a vampire for three years and she's really gotten used to it!"

"Really?" Havoc interrupted. "If I'm not mistaken, I heard it to you almost fifteen years to adjust."

Hawkeye sighed. "It took you twenty-two, Havoc."

Roy smirked as Havoc blushed. He still couldn't believe that Hawkeye and Havoc were together. Well, you really can't choose your Only. Roy thought. Thinking of Onlies brought Roy's mind to Edward, his Only.

Thinking about the blond boy inevitably made Roy think about Envy. And how Envy was after Ed. Until Edward was Changed, he wasn't safe.

"You're thinking about him, aren't you, sir." Hawkeye asked softly.

Roy nodded, unsurprised at Hawkeye's accuracy. When she'd been under his command nearly six hundred years ago, when they'd been human, she'd seemed able to "read his thoughts". She always seemed to know what was on Roy's mind and that ability had only grown stronger in the centuries she'd served under him.

The two had meet during a war, he a top ranked colonel and she a girl fighting under the guise of a man. They'd both served under General Basque Gran, the man who Changed Roy against his will one night. Roy had then Changed Riza after she'd been attacked by one of the homunculi and left for dead.

Over the years the two of them had met up with Hughes, Havoc and the others, some Changed by others and some still human. Just recently Hughes had met, and fell head over heals in love with, a human named Gracia. They'd had a child, which surprised most of their kind. Shortly after, Hughes changed his wife. Now all that was left was to change Elicia.

The group had arrived at Roy's bedroom, where Edward was sleeping. Everyone looked at Roy questioningly.

Roy shook his head. "I'll do this myself."

"Are you sure that's a good idea Roy?"

"Too many people will make him nervous. I need him to pay attention to what I tell him."

"Point," Hughes nodded.

"This would also give us a chance to find more information about the attack. We need to find out how many of them were there and why," Hawkeye said.

Roy nodded. "You do that."

"You want us to alert you if we find anything?" Havoc asked, putting out his cigarette.

"No." Roy said slowly. "Not unless it's really important."

"Fair enough." Hughes smiled. "Let's go people. Gotta give the lovebirds some space."

Roy glared at his friend. Lovebirds? If anyone's a lovebird it's him. Hughes smiled, as if reading his thoughts. He waved merrily and ushered everyone away.

As soon as everyone was out of sight, Roy turned and opened the door to his room. He looked into the darkness, hesitated and then entered the room. This was going to be a long night. The door closed silently behind him.

TBC

Sorry it took so long to update. I'm still alive. Next chapter up in a couple days.