Chapter 4.

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Roy awoke to a hand on his back and a soft voice in his ear. He opened his eyes to see the face of Ed's nurse, Jessica. Jessica was lovely, she had red hair tied back in a ponytail, rectangle glass perched on her noise and only a tiny bit of make-up.

She had been the first one to see to ed at the hospital and bandaged all his wounds up.

When Roy had asked how he could help when Ed finally woke, she had handed him a leaflet about wartime illnesses and how to cope with them, but Roy didn't see how this would help with Ed's sirvear injuries.

When Roy had voiced this Jessica had said that when the time comes he would know what to do, but Roy seriously doubted that.

As he looked into her kind, smiling face, he couldn't help but smile back at her.

"General mustang, sir I think you should go get something to eat and have a proper sleep instead of these chairs," she said looking into his eyes.

"Roy" came his murmured reply "Call me Roy".

" Sorry" she laughed, "Old habits die hard"

"And your right I should get some food I wouldn't be any good to Ed if I wasted way" He said looking at Edwards still sleeping face, "but what if he wakes up and I'm not here?" he turned his head towards Jessica looking for an answer.

She gave his a sad smile and said softly "He wont wake up yet, he's still on the med's, and even when we take him off he might not wake for days, he's been though a lot" she moved to touch Ed's face softly, almost motherly.

"When do they plan to take him off the med's?" Roy asked.

"Um…" she moved again to look at the clipboard hocked on the end of Ed's bed and began to scan the page "…later today I think."

Roy looked at Ed then stood up and stretched yawning, "In that case I better look my best. Do you know where I could sleep for a couple of hours?" he said not believing he would sleep one bit, but said it to humour Jessica.

"Not really, but for you, I'm sure we can find something to your liking." she said motioning for him to follow her out off the room.

Roy moved towards the door then hesitated looking back at Ed and sighed continuing to following Jessica.

They move towards the public dining hall where Roy stopped to pick up some roast ham sandwiches for later. Then they move to a more quite place there few people where and turned off into a small corridor when Jessica stopped and opened a door in to a small office.

"Its my office, I don't use it that often" she turned to Roy and pointed to a small brown sofa in the corner, just long enough for Roy to lay down on "there's a comforter behind it that you can use if you get cold. There are some books you can read if you want, I think there might even be some on alchemy that the last nurse left behind…anyway if you want anything help your self" she smiled and turned to leave.

"Thanks, I owe you" Roy said moving to the sofa and taking out the sandwiches he'd bought, "oh... and if Ed w-"

"- I will and Don't mention it" she replied and left shutting the door quietly.

Roy sighed and began to eat his food; the bread was a little stale and the ham too salty but it was food Roy had forgotten he needed so bad.

When he had finished he laid back putting his hands behind head looking at the ceiling tiles, after and while, despite himself, he began to drift of to sleep thinking of ed.

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Before he knew it Jessica was shaking him awake again "Roy, Roy? Its ed he's off the med's and is starting to wake up, sooner than we thought."

He shot up looking widly around the room, seeing it was dark outside he asked "How long have i been asleep?"

Jessica looked down at her watch, "looks about 12 hours, you were really spent"

He looked up at her "Ed's really waking up?" He said in an almost pleading voice.

She smiled lightly "yes, but very slowly it could still be a coupel of hours yet, you asked me to come and get you if he show any signs"

Roy stode up and patted jessica's shoulder "Thanks" he whispered and strode from the small office his heart pounding. So its show time, he thought bitterly.

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I know this wasn't a great chapter but next it might be ed's POV and there might be some flash backs. Again light flames welcome and for some "yes this my first fic"