Edward zipped up his shirt and pulled on his red coat. He was about to leave his room but he took one more glance of his little brother sleeping peacefully. As he quietly made his way downstairs he saw me in my office chair sleeping. He came into the room carrying a piece of paper, he was about to put it on my desk when suddenly he realized that I was slipping out of the chair and was about to fall. He stuffed the paper into his pocket and just then I opened my eyes and slipped out of my chair only to be caught by Ed. I was a little startled considering I almost fell, I rubbed my eyes and said "Edward, what are you doing up so late?" I looked at his chest to see that he was dressed to go somewhere, "Wait, why do you have your coat on? Are you going somewhere?" Ed stared at me hesitantly but then smiled "I guess you could say that.." I was concerned now, why hadn't he told me about this?

"Well, where are you going?" Ed only smiled again but this time he looked sad as if he was going to cry. He stood up still holding me and then he put me back into my chair, he didn't look at me at all but I knew that he felt my eyes on his face. He finally looked into my eyes and said "I'm going to be gone for a while, if I don't come back in a day then you can come after me" I was becoming very frustrated about this whole roundabout way he was telling me this and still not answering my questions "What the hell are you talking about? Why won't you answer my question?" I raised my voice at him a bit but he only turned away so that his face remained behind his hair. "...I-I'm sorry.." Edward said quietly. I began to think that maybe he was crying but the only evidence I had was his shaky voice. "..I should have told you sooner..." His voice was still shaky and now was reduced to a whisper. "Ed, look I just want to know where you are going." Then it hit me Wait, is he no longer my body guard? Is that why he didn't tell me? But why would he be scared to face me about that? I thought to myself. Ed turned his head back to face me again, "...I just have to leave town because they need back up somewhere" I figured that "they" were the people at central. "Well, can't I come-" I barely was able to finish before Ed cut me of saying "No!...You can't go..." His head was turned away again "I will not put your life in danger EVER..." Edward said, his voice shaky.

I stood up slowly to come a little closer to Ed, I thought he would turn further away but he didn't. I reached my hand out to his face and the moment I came in contact I felt his skin jump but he still did not move. I then moved my entire hand very gently and slowly onto his cheek feeling how soaked it was with tears, he didn't want to leave and he still was crying only now his tears were falling onto my hand. I almost began to cry myself even knowing that he was upset. I slowly took my hand off of his face and brought it down to my side. Dripping from my fingers were the tears that my hand had caught from his face. Finally a tear rolled down my cheek and was quickly wiped away by Ed, he smiled at me warmly with his cheeks shining slightly from the very little light in the room. As much as I refused to admit it to myself I didn't want Ed to leave, the thought of him being gone made me want to cry more but I held it in. In order to avoid balling I looked down so not to see Edward's gold yet very sad eyes. Ed put his red coat around me and I looked up at him, "Hang on to that for now, you can return it to me when you come after me. But promise me you won't come after me until one day has gone by" I tried to speak but all I managed to do was nod, then Edward pulled me closer and held me tightly in his arms. I began to cry even more now but my voice remained steady "How will I know where to look for you?" I could almost feel Edward grin "You'll know when the time comes" I was going to ask why he wouldn't tell me but I didn't for I fully trusted him with this.

Before I knew it I was waving good bye to Ed as he started down the street in the night fog. When he held me I didn't want to ever leave his arms and judging by how tight he was holding me I think he felt the same way. But why would either of us feel that way, we're just friends aren't we?

I woke up in the office chair the same way I was last night, I thought maybe it was just a dream but then I noticed that I was wearing Edward's coat. That was when I knew that it wasn't a dream, He must be cold without his coat, why did he give it to me. He rarely takes it off. Then I realized how much of an idiot I really was, Ed gave his coat to me to show that he trusts me. He wants me to return it to him, and that was exactly what I was going to do.

I went upstairs into Ed and Al's bedroom and looked around the room a bit. To my surprise Ed even made his bed before he left Wow, he really must have been stalling. I also looked in the closet and none of Edwards clothes were on the floor like they usually were. I heard Al shift behind me, "Ed?" I turned around and as if Al was shocked he said "Raven?! Wha-what are you doing in here?" that's when I realized that Ed hadn't told Al either, Jesus Christ, Ed is beginning to trust me way too much, first he left his coat with me and now his little brother! I looked down for a moment "Alphonse, there's something you need to know.." Al sat up; he knew something was wrong I usually didn't call him by his full name. "...Your brother left last night." Al moved again "What?" I looked at him and said "He made me promise that we weren't to go after him until one day has fully passed." Al couldn't believe what he was hearing "But, why? Why can't we go now? What if he needs help now!?" I looked down again "I don't know why Al..." I put my hands into the pockets that were on Ed's coat and found a piece of paper. "hmm? What this?" Then Sakura came in saying "Okay boys time to get-" When she saw me and Al there but not Ed she looked confused. "Er, why are you in here wearing Ed's coat Raven? And where IS Ed?" I frowned "Ed isn't here.."

Over breakfast I explained what had happened last night leaving out some details just for the plain and simple fact that I still was too shy about how I really felt for Edward. After all of that was said and done, I finally opened the piece of paper that was in the coat pocket to examine it. It was a note, and it read:

Raven,

I'm sorry that I didn't tell you this before but I am leaving tonight and

I need you to come after me ONLY until one day has passed since you got

this letter. You probably are wondering now where I am going so I'll give

you a hint:

I met a girl named Rose here.

She was being brainwashed like the rest of the citizens here by a crazed

man named Father Cornello.

I know you can do it.

Good luck,

-Edward

I thought about his hint and I figured it out in an instant Lior! That's where he went! Wait a minute, just what the hell would he need to be in Lior for? I pondered at it for a bit but my mind wandered away to realizing the fact that Ed knows me really well, too well and I knew him really well too. I then began to think of how I was going to get to Lior, and before I knew it 10 PM rolled around. One day, huh, alright it was about 3 AM when he told me that, so at 3 AM tonight we're heading to Lior. I got up quickly and went into the back room where Al and Sakura were playing chess. I sort of startled them because I came in so fast that I crashed into the doorway, "Is everything alright?" Sakura said. I nodded "Yeah, Ed's in Lior. And he said not to go after him until one day has passed and that one day will pass at 3 AM tonight. So we can leave then or tomorrow." Sakura and Al looked at each other then looked at me and said "We'll leave tonight." I smiled, they were just a stern about this as I was. Waiting for 3 AM to roll around was very hard, but as much as I longed to leave then and there I got a strong feeling that waiting was going to be crucial to Ed and our safety.

Every minute felt like ten to me, my head spun from all of this waiting and my heart ached from being away from Edward. Eventually I fell asleep but when I realized that I passed out I quickly woke and noticed that it was now 2:57 AM. I jumped up and ran out of the office area and almost ran into Sakura literally. Sakura looked at me fiercely "Yep, we're ready. I was just coming to wake you up." I grinned. The entire house felt like it was in motion as the three of us got ready. I pulled my shoes on, so did Sakura. Then I pulled on Edward's coat, Sakura her flame gloves. We rushed down the street that was now wet from the rain that was now coming down like crazy, before we left I put some towels in Al's armor so we could dry him off quickly. When we got to the train station the next train going towards Lior was leaving very soon. When we got on the train we got the towels out, Sakura dried her hair but I didn't bother with mine, I was just worried about Al whom I was now helping get dried of before he began to rust. The estimated time for the ride between here and Lior was around two hours, and I didn't like that fact very much. "Man this is gonna be boring" After 30 minutes Sakura fell asleep in Al's lap, and soon Al nodded off as well leaving me as the last one awake. I stared out the window and watched the rain die down and eventually stop revealing a dark blue sky full of what looked like millions of diamonds.

The train began to slow down and it was now 4:45 AM and we were in Lior. The screeching of the train stopping awoke Al, "Are we already here?" I smiled "Yep, they were early probably because there aren't very many people on the train right now I suppose." Sakura groaned and stretched like a cat lying on its side. Once we got ourselves together, which didn't take long, we got off of the train into a deserted train station. The train took off quickly which told me that there was something seriously wrong going on here. We began to walk around the war torn town seeing people either dead or bleeding to death. Suddenly we heard an explosion and I immediately began running towards where I heard it. Al and Sakura closely followed. When we got to the place that the explosion came from I saw a very tall man with dark skin. He turned around, he wore dark glasses and had a very large scar on his face. When I saw that scar I knew immediately who he was, at first I was scared but I quickly put my fears aside. "Hmm..I should have known that you would send for help Fullmetal.." I glared at him "Actually we came of free will.." I said to him, I glanced over next to Scar and saw Ed tied up. "Ed!" He seemed alright accept for the blood that was dripping from his mouth. "Al, go get help from the military.." Ed said sternly. "But-" Al protested "Just go!" Ed yelled. Al nodded and Sakura said "I'll go with him" I looked at Sakura who was looking at me for approval. "Fine by me" I said, then I turned back to face Scar. "I see...You mean something to this boy...No matter I'll just have to finish you off as well."

"Yeah, if you get a chance.." I clapped my hands together and created a spear from the ground, then charged at Scar with it. Scar thrust his hand forward onto my face but I quickly moved my head to the right before he could blow my head up. Just then Edward who was behind Scar got free and attacked him with his hand blade but missed. Scar attempted to destroy Edward's right arm but Ed just quickly changed the metal type in the auto mail. Scar charged forward but didn't hit Ed, just hit at him which somehow sent Ed flying hard and fast into the wall. Scar hit the ground and split it below us causing us all to fall into a pit. Scar turned towards me but I used alchemy on the wall behind me and sent it flying into Scar. I made a hand blade but Scar used the same air attack that he used on Edward, slamming me very hard into the wall. "Raven! Oh, now you've done it!" Ed yelled. I lay on the ground in a lot of pain I had to get up but I couldn't move. I hated this I was too weak to fight but Ed was getting his butt kicked. Get up...GET...UP!! I finally got up and then Ed got slammed against the wall. I knew that what I was about to do was very stupid but I did it anyway.

Scar was about to kill Ed, but before he used the alchemy I put my left hand into Scar's right and his alchemy thrust me backwards into the wall. I almost landed on Ed but I just hit the wall above him, I used alchemy on that part of the wall and made another spear considering I didn't know what happened to the other one. Scar dogged my attack, and then Ed attacked with stone spikes that Scar quickly blew up. I attacked with my spear again and this time I hit Scar in the left shoulder. He yelled in pain but soon thereafter turned to face me, and I knew he wanted to kill me. I stood my ground and was ready to move anywhere, then Ed charged and swung his left leg towards Scar's head but he soon caught it then destroyed it. "ED!" I screamed, Scar turned to face Ed now and it looked like Ed had succeeded in pissing him off more than I did. Or maybe it was because he was now closer to finally killing his enemy. "I guess this is it Fullmetal.." Ed turned his head preparing for death, "Say good bye to this world.." Scar's hand grew closer "NO!" I jumped in between Ed and Scar the I saw a flash of light and a shooting pain in my right side. Blood splattered and fell onto Ed's face, which traumatized him.

I came down to the ground holding my side, having trouble breathing. Scar scoffed "What a waste, well now at least you both will be easy to finish off" I wasn't done yet, in fact I was livid. "You...bastard..." I said with some difficulty. "You are going..DOWN!" I clapped my hands together and hit Scar with the stone spikes. Grabbing up my spear I charged at him again but I missed and he merely punched me in the stomach, he obviously thought that I wasn't worth wasting the alchemy on at this point. I leaned against the near by wall holding my side again. "Why do you bother..?" Scar asked me. Panting hard I said "You wouldn't understand.." I was still looking down. "Maybe you don't know, so think about it why are you doing all of this for him?" Scar asked pointing at Edward. "Oh I'll tell you why..." I said with a shaky voice. "So why don't you..?" Scar said still picking trying to get me to say something that I should have said a while ago. "I love him..." I mumbled incoherently. "What was that?" Scar asked again.

"I LOVE HIM!!" I yelled looking up at Scar with tears in my eyes. "She..What..?" Ed said under his breath. "Hmm...I should have expected that such a useless emotion would cause you to do this" Scar said. "You just say that because you don't understand it...Love is very powerful, it doesn't make you weak but strong" I said. I stood up strait, "It's powerful...and that's why it's feared...That's why I feared it" Scar came closer to me "Here let me relieve you of it.." He put his right hand towards my head then Ed yelled "Don't dare touch her!" Ed actually managed to transmute himself a crutch and he had it hand blade to the back of Scar's neck. "Do it, and I will kill you myself.." Scar turned his head a little to see Ed out of the corner of his eye. "...I think I remember that you are Raven's Body guard, and that's the only reason you're doing this isn't it?" Ed growled "No, that's not the only reason, in fact it's not the reason at all...It's because I love her!" He shouted. After he said that, he had an expression on his face as if he couldn't believe he said it. We began to hear voices, lots of them then Scar moved out from between us and said "This isn't over, I will be back so you had better be ready Fullmetal.." Scar ran into the darkness and disappeared.

I felt a bit weak and before I knew it I was falling only to be caught by Ed, again. "Raven! Are you alright?" Ed said sounding fearful if I wasn't. I smiled "Yeah I'm fine, how about you?" I said softly. "Well my left leg is busted and Winry's gonna kill me. Other than that I'm fine" I slightly giggled then my mind fell to what Ed said before. "Edward..?" I said "Hmm?" I was silent for a moment then I finally asked "Ed, do you really love me..?" Ed was silent then he began to embrace me tighter "Yes..." I held Edward back "I love you too.." I began to cry "..I love you so much..."

There were many footsteps then we heard First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye say "Alright, where is he?" Edward looked up and said "Well, yer late...Just missed him. And we would have gone after him If my left leg wasn't busted and Raven wasn't bleeding. Riza grinned "But you two are okay, right?" Both I and Ed yelled back "Yep.." The got us out of the pit and got me bandaged up.

As they searched, the four of us waited and watched the sun rise. Ed held me the entire time and I eventually fell asleep since I didn't get much sleep while I was worrying about Ed, but now my worries were rested. Now I could sleep, in the arms of the man that I love.

To be continued...

End Chapter Ten