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CHAPTER 6!!

CARE FOR A BATH?

Riza thought that she was going to cry. She couldn't believe it, but it would tare her apart if she woke up, still as a cat, and found that it was all a dream. The person who had saved her from drowning, the person who was there when she needed him the most was now holding her.

It was Roy.

'Roy…'

It was just a moment that she was being held, shining in the street lamp's light, but it felt like an eternity for Riza. Her fur was brown from the mud but it was being washed away by the rain revealing a golden yellow color instead. Roy pulled her back to his chest and he began to run again. Even if it was the end of the world she knew that as long as Roy was with her it would be ok. Somehow.

Back at the S.R.M, our very OOC hero's are doing various things.

Pride, the leader, is doing some research on the over-crowded table of papers, Envy is in his 'stay out' room, and Lust is sitting in one of the leather armchairs recoving from last chapters' DDR event.

Lust just realized something. "Hey Pride," Pride looked up. "How did you even get that 'special coffee'? Where did it come from?" Pride put down the piece of paper he was holding and walked over to a crammed book self. He took out a photo album and sat next to Lust. As he was flipping the pages he asked "Remember the time when Master was furious at Envy and sent him to the other side of the gate?"

"Yes."

"And then by accident she sent me too?"

"Yes. And then a week later she was able to bring you and Envy back to our side."

"Well, when I and Envy were sent to the other side of the gate, we landed in their future. I think we landed in California…anyway, it was 1967 and we landed in this theme park called "Disney Land". If you ever get the chance you should go there.

See?" he said holding up a picture of him in a Hawaiian shirt, Envy wearing a hippie outfit, and the Disney Land Castle in the background. "That's us."

"But that doesn't explain how you got the 'coffee'."

"Well, there's something that you have to know about Disney Land first; Equivalent Exchange does not exist there. Instead, magic does. Envy and I both agreed that Master was a total ass-hole, so we wanted freedom from her. So, we saw Disney, in his Castle-"

"Wait, wait- you mean Walt Disney lives in that castle?"

"Yes, but he doesn't go out that often. As I was saying, we saw Disney in his Castle and we made an agreement that he would invent something to gives us our freedom from Master and Envy wouldn't destroy the theme park."

"And…why did you want coffee?"

"Well, it took him a few days to invent what we compromised. When we came back we were looking at him all like 'dude, is this a joke'. But he explained that since this was Disney Land, and that he was Disney, he had to keep it as PG as possible."

Lust nodded. After all the things that had been happening to her lately, this was the one thing that made most sense.

"So is there any way to get Riza back to her old body?"

"I don't know. Maybe. We just have to wait and see." At that moment they heard a loud THUMP and a "GGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!" coming from Envy's 'stay out' room. Pride just shrugged.

"He probably had another dream. Nothing to worry about."

Roy was running in the rain to his apartment. The cat was still shaking and he was getting pretty cold. He splished and splashed in the small puddles as he made his way home.

He finally got to his apartment building. It was an old building, with a few cracks in the walls, some bricks missing and the classic fire escape. Roy put his hand in his pocket searching for his keys but they weren't there. He checked his other pockets but he didn't find them. 'Damnit, I lost them' Roy looked around to see if anyone was out but no one was. The only thing that was out was all the street lamps, some parked cars, a few fire escapes…

"Bingo," Roy looked down at the cat. "Hey, cat, I'm gonna try and climb the fire escape to my apartment. But I have to use my arms for that, so you're gonna need to hold on to my shirt with your claws, do you understand?" The cat dug its claws a little too far into his shirt- but this really surprised him. He really didn't expect the cat to under stand him but then again cats were smart animals.

He backed up a few steps and aimed at the metal ladder of the fire escape. It was pretty high off the ground but Roy though he could grab it. He stopped, then ran at full speed, and jumped. Roy stretched out his hand and just barely missed grabbing the ladder; he swung himself and the cat on to the small wet, metal platform of the fire escape. He then walked up the small stairs of the fire escape. Roy didn't run because he knew from bad expeerents that it was easy to slip on fire escapes, especially when wet. He finally reached his window on the 7th floor and opened it. It was times like these that he was grateful that he hardly locked his windows. Roy crawled in side and kicked off his shoes and shrugged off his coat. The cat was still holding on to his shirt and it was still shaking. All of a sudden, he felt very sorry for it. He wrapped his arms around it and whispered "I'm sorry. You must be so alone," he paused, then said "C'mon, let's get you dried up." And walked to the bathroom.

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Riza couldn't believe it; she was in her commanding officer's apartment and she just got a hug form him! And now, she was being taken to his bathroom to be dried off. She wasn't sure if she should be happy or sad or weird-out but she wasn't feeling any of those feelings. She had this weird butter fly feeling in her stomach- she felt this before, when Roy would say something to her or he would be staring at her. She just couldn't figure out what this feeling was but she kind of enjoyed it.

Roy took her to his bathroom; it was very small and it had light blue walls and an off white bathtub and sink. "Hmmm…you seem a bit dirty. I think I'll give you a bath then dry you off."

'What? Did he just say that he was going to give me a bath? ME? A-a-a- b-b-b-b-BATH??' Riza was starting to blush now 'He's going to scrub me with soap? Aaaaaagggggggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!' Riza tried to squerrem out of his grasp, but his hands were too strong and kept her in place. He turned on the bathtub foset and adjusted the temperature to WARM/HOT. The bathtub was soon halfway full and he turned off the water. Roy tried to place Riza in the water but she kept squirming and started to meow. "Look, I know you cats hate water, but you have to take a bath. Hey, why do you hate water anyway? Are you scared of it?" Roy stared into Riza's eyes and pouted. Then he smiled and started to laugh. "Then I'll take a bath with you!" Riza instantly stopped. 'D-D-D-D-DID HE JUST SAY THAT HE WAS GOING TO TAKE A BATH WITH ME? US? TOGETHER!?!' Riza was furiously blushing now and started to go 'hummen-na hummen-na hummen-na' like what people say when they're in shock or embarrassed Roy unbuttoned his white collared shirted, then started to unzip his pants. Riza immediately turn around and thought 'In and out Riza, breath in and out, in and out- it's no big deal, no big deal at all! Ahahaha! Th-this kinda thing h-h-happens all the t-t-t-tt-time!! Yes! That's it! Just calm down! Breath in and out, in and out-huh?' Now she was being lifted and Roy was holding her to his chest again. Even though it was still soaking wet, it was still warm. Maybe it was even warmer now that Roy's shirt was off.

Who knows? Who can say? Life is strange that way.

Roy stepped into the tub and slowly lowered him self into it. Then he lower Riza in the tub. She wasn't squermining or fussing so Roy thought that this was a good sign. "See? It's not so bad." It never really occurred to him that she wasn't squirming because she was paralyzed with embarrassment. Nope.

Roy reached for the soap. He had two; one strawberry and the other a mango.

"Strawberry or Mango? Your call." With her paw, Riza pointed to the Mango soap.

"Mango? That's an interesting choice. Never thought that a cat would ever like mango soap. But it happens to be one of my favorite soap smells. I don't know why," Roy said as he squired some soap into his hand. "It could be from when I was little-I always had a mango, everyday. I never went a day without eating a mango. Until I joined the military, that is. Then I stopped eating mangos….wow, I haven't had another since." He started to rub the soap into Riza's fur and all over her body. Riza growled when he rubbed the soap into some places and he quickly left that place. But besides that, it felt really good.

Before Riza knew it, she was covered in soap and she was like a snowman-only with soap and she wasn't a man. She was a cat.

Roy cupped his hands so that the water could fill up in them and poured it on Riza to wash the soap off. He then washed his own body and during that time Riza repeated the same thing to her self: 'don't look down, don't look down, don't look down, don't look down, don't look down, don't look down, don't look down, don't look down, don't look down-' because, well, we all know what would happen if Riza looked down in the water at Roy- she would be scared for life.

Roy was done and he unplugged the drain of the bathtub and picked Riza up and carried her to sink where a few towels were. He picked one up and rubbed it against her; going faster and faster until he whipped the towel off of her and her fur bounced out, looking like a giant hair ball. Roy laughed. Riza how ever, wasn't too amused. Roy got out a comb and started to comb Riza's fur. Soon it was shiny and golden and it looked pretty stunning.

"Wow that looks beautiful." And Riza blushed again.

strange, huh?

it was accutlaly really fun to write this chapter, and i don't know why.

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