Chapter Four

"Roy!" Riza screamed as she caught him in her arms. The weight was lighter than she had expected. Havoc dashed to their side followed closely by Breda.

"Is he alright?" Havoc asked.

"Of course he's not alright you idiot," Hawkeye responded.

"Did you check his vitals?" Breda asked. He wanted to make sure if they were going to argue it was going to be over a living friend and not a dead one.

Riza quickly put her index and middle finger on Roy's neck right below his jaw bone. She breathed a sigh of relief when she felt a weakened but steady pulse.

"Breda, go call an ambulance from the phone in the main office," Havoc commanded. Riza looked at Havoc with a shocked expression. It was very unlike him to give direct commands to people. Still Breda rushed off to find the telephone.

"Should we move him to his room?" Hawkeye asked still cradling Roy as if he were a newborn baby.

"No I'll get a pillow for his head though," Havoc said taking off.

Riza managed to look up from Roy's figure. The soldiers were standing in the field with expressions of awe on their face.

"Ma'am will he be alright?" One of the soldiers asked.

"I hope so," Hawkeye said more to herself than any other. She quickly regained her composure and looked at all the soldiers sternly. "What are all of you still doing here? Get back to your tents, DISMISSED."

Moments later Havoc came back with the pillow and helped Hawkeye lower Roy down so his head was resting comfortably there. Soon Breda came rushing back with everything about him messed up.

"I-con-tac-ted the am-bu-lance," he panted out obviously tired from his excursion to find the phone.

"Good. How soon did they say they could be here?" Hawkeye asked.

"Anywhere from ten minutes to a half an hour. There was a large accident in Central and most of the ambulances are being used," Breda responded.

"Well I guess all we can do is wait."

"We will watch him. I assure you, Riza, Roy will be OK."

She wasn't sure however. The extreme skinniness and now fainting during evening practice not to mention the throwing up which despite what Roy had told the Fuhrer had continued until this morning. 'This is so puzzling. What could this strange illness be?' she wondered. She sat looking at Roy for what seemed like forever. Then she heard the wail of sirens coming from the distance. Her head shot up to where the sound was coming from and she saw the ambulance speeding toward them.

"It's about damn time," she said.

"Uhhh Lieutenant it's only been about ten minutes I think they made pretty good time," Breda responded.

"He could have been dead in that time!"

"Calm down Hawkeye. They are here now and are going to take good care of him."

The paramedics rushed over to where the three people were gathered around one person lying down. One of the men rushed back to the ambulance while the other two supported Roy's body. The other man quickly came back with a stretcher. They placed Roy on it and took him to the ambulance where they closed the doors swiftly.

"We will be taking him to The Northern General Hospital if you would like to follow in your car," the driver told them. Hawkeye nodded and rummaged in her pocket for the keys to the car. She needed to follow Roy no matter what. 'I know it's my job to be in command now, but I have to see what happens,' she thought. The trio decided that Breda would stay behind and tend the soldiers while Havoc and Hawkeye went off to be with Roy in the hospital.

-At the hospital-

Riza burst through the Emergency Room doors and practically ran up to the receptionist.

"Where is Roy Mustang," she demanded looking as if the secretary didn't tell her hell would be let loose on everyone in the ER.

"Hold on one moment ma'am let me just look up his room number….ah here we are ER room 24. You may go back now and see him," the secretary said motioning to the swinging doors.

Riza rushed through the doors almost letting them smack Havoc in the face. Both rushed to room 24 and gaped at the sight they saw. Roy was lying in a bed with fluids being given to him by means of an IV in his left arm. Over his face there was an oxygen mask and next to him was a nice looking nurse drawing his blood.

"Oh hello," the nurse looked up and smiled, "I'll be out of your way I just needed to get some blood to test his vitals."

"Yes of course ma'am," Havoc responded. Both Havoc and Hawkeye stood still in the attention position until the nurse was finished drawing blood.

"Thank-you he's all yours now," the nurse said leaving the room, "Come find me if you need anything. My name is Ida. The doctor should be in shortly though."

"Thank-you," Riza said sitting next to Roy. He looked pale and thin like someone who had become addicted to morphine. Though he looked more peaceful. She was also glad to see that his color was coming back it showed that the IV was working. She felt a weight on her shoulders and looked up to see Havoc resting his hands on her.

"He'll be alright," Havoc said soothingly.

"I know."

"Yeah but are YOU going to be ok Riza?"

Hawkeye looked at Havoc. He had never called her Riza before. What was going on? Did Havoc have something to do with Roy's condition? She ignored the thought saying to herself that no one would intentionally hurt their commanding officer.

Just then the doctor came in to ruin the perfect moment. He walked over to where Roy was and cleared his throat as to not interrupt too suddenly.

"Oh I'm sorry sir we will get out of your way," Riza said jumping up from her chair. Havoc moved to stand beside Riza they were back in their attention position.

"At ease soldiers," the doctor chuckled, "I'm Dr. Murphy, Roy's primary doctor while he is here. I just need to look him over for a moment to see if there is anything wrong."

Riza and Jean turned around and looked at the wall to give Roy the privacy he deserved. Havoc was listening in on what the doctor was doing and found only one curious part.

"Hmmmm I wonder what that could be? I have never seen anything like it," Dr. Murphy stated as he poked Roy.

"Is there something wrong with him?" Hawkeye asked.

"You may turn around," the doctor stated. As both turned around they saw what the doctor meant. There was a good size swelling on Roy's abdomen and it looked pretty sore.

"W-what is that?" Havoc asked pointing at the lump.

"That was what I was unsure about myself," Murphy said, "I'm going to do a scan on it and perhaps the blood tests will show us something too."

Meanwhile, in the lab one of the technicians was testing Roy's blood when they found something strange.

"I need Roy Mustang's doctor in here immediately," the technician shouted.

-Back in Roy's room-

"As I was saying the scan is…. Oh excuse me I need to take this call," Murphy said looking at his cell phone, "Yes? Ok…wait you found what? I will be right there." He turned back to the others in the room, "I am afraid that I have to leave you for a moment something has come up in the blood work."

Havoc and Hawkeye exchanged nervous glances as the doctor rushed out. 'This cannot be good,' thought Hawkeye as she looked down at Roy.

-In the testing lab-

"Well what did you find?" Dr. Murphy huffed as he entered.

"Here, I just I dunno," the technician looked at the floor lost for words.

Dr. Murphy took the printout from the blood work. He scanned not seeing anything terribly wrong until he came to the second page. As he read down the page his eyes got wider. He looked up at the technician. "You are sure this is right?"

"Yes sir, I know it seems…."

"Impossible," the doctor finished," It's impossible."

A/N: Again what just happened? Roy has swelling and now something with his blood work? What could be going on with our dear Brigadier General?

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