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Summary: More Roy Ed interaction

Al's perspective

Since the cooking incident, the colonel have been nice enough to order out almost every meal, a week had passed and I've recovered enough to walk around a few hours on a good day before tiring out. But neither brother nor the colonel would let me near the kitchen….. I think that colonel Mustang thinks that if he chokes on Ed's cooking then mine will kill him. And Ed, no matter how many times I tell him I'm fine, he forces me to go back in bed as if I had the chicken pox, any way possible….alchemy included. I still don't get why the truth did this though, I'm glad that it didn't take anything away from brother but he really, really hates the colonel. It isn't just his short jokes that get to Ed, it's how he would charm or use people any ways to become fuhrer. Brother isn't stupid or as thick as he like people to think, I heard it from brother after Mr. Hughes accidently told Ed about Mustang's role in the Ishval war when there was rumours of another war starting between Amestris and Xing. Brother would choose our own father who abandoned us over him because although he never gave any reasons, he never played any tricks either, or use people as pawns. But the thing is I don't get why the truth would do this, our father left again but we survived years without him so why now? Why him? I listened when our father and the colonel interrogated Ed… he tried to trade his gate, his ability to do alchemy for me…. He found a way, yet the truth chooses to do this to him instead. But as long as brother's here I have nothing to complain about….except the food should he choose to try to cook again, he mixed mineral water with minerals in general…..never let Ed near a stove, his cooking will be the death of you.

The second week after having to convince two stubborn alchemists, Al was finally allowed to cook, although his brother would only let him cook two meals a day, and the colonel well he had nothing to complain about, but it still felt awkward. Al was normally in the gardens or exploring the house, it's not like Ed would let him go anywhere else…without him, since he's still recovering. And Ed is always in the library.

Roy's perspective

During the first week, I've noticed something about Ed, I couldn't sleep with all these problems going through my head and I've heard whimpering from my workout room, it was Ed. Although I was blind, I do know the structure of my house so when I went in I heard him mumbling "mom…mom, don't go." Although I couldn't see his face, it couldn't be much different than my nightmares of the war in Ishval. So I went over to the bed and allowed my hand to run through his golden mane several times before petting him on the head, it seemed to calm him down, and soft snoring were vibrating around the room instead of the whispers and whimpers. Although who would've thought the brat would make himself at home so soon, the next day when I went to his room, I went to grab the door knob….it was a skull, I though the kid murdered someone while I was asleep….and I just went back to grab my things from his room!

"Ed what is this?"

"Your dumbbells?"

"No, what are these things on the end of this which are suppose to be weights?"

"Oh, well I though it looked cooler with spiky skulls…."

Mustang heard another set of footsteps coming towards Ed's room, and the only other person in the house was Al.

"Al, could you transmute whatever your brother changed in the room back, starting with this?"

"Oh, yeah, sure…brother." He replied causally but after looking at the damage, he was both surprised and more frustrated than amused by his brother's antics.

"What it looks cool Al, and besides bastard, I'll just change it back you know." Ed stated much like how Mustang would tease the blonde alchemist.

It was a lost cause; there was no way that the flame alchemist could win this battle, especially with the brat as stubborn as he was.

During the week on the third day both Al and Mustang heard yelling from the front door, Al in the kitchen and mustang upstairs…..it sounded Ed was arguing with …an old woman?

"YOU OLD HAG WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SMALL THAT HE COULD FALL INTO A CRACK IN A SODIUM MOLECULE? "Ed screeched.

"I didn't say that, you brain dead shrimp." The voice of a woman replied casually.

The woman had dark hair, a mole and a cigarette in her mouth, her face had few wrinkles in it and she was wearing a fur coat with a wine red dress and was currently glaring at the full metal alchemist.

That voice, Roy recognized was the voice of his stepmother's, how was he suppose to explain all this to her, she could be sharp or crude, neither would be welcomed in this situation. While Al was wondering who the woman Ed was yelling at was, he never seen her in central or around colonel mustang.

"Roy, is this how you greet me? With a midget to open the door?"

"A MIGET, WHOARE YOU CALLING SO SMALL…." Ed was about to give the woman another piece of his mind when the bastard came. The woman was looking around when she insulted him again but when she made eye contact with Roy her whole expression changed.

"Roy…."Christina was at a loss for words, he stepson was blind.

"I can explain, Al, can you take your brother away from here?"

Al obliged but Ed was still muttering….. Loud enough for everyone to hear. "bastard, can't even spare a little time to tell your son what's going on. Letting us stay but I guess that was just a front … what are you pulling now, freaking bastard."

Now that they were gone he had to deal with his stepmom… and Ed…. later.

"I can explain…..just this will take a while, I ..." Roy was about to explain before he felt arms around his shoulders and a trail of tears next to his face. It took a while but he managed to explain to her how he lost his eye, although she doesn't understand alchemy, she understood that it was a power with consequences. Now to explain the midget and his brother…which didn't go as well, the midget who he found had very good hearing kept on interrupting when either of them mentioned his height problem, he only told her the gist of the problem when Ed yelled from the basement to reply to his remarks so he had to take her to his bedroom and fully explain everything. Although he never expected this reaction…..

"So I have grandsons now?"

"Well, if you ummm want to look it that way." To Roy mustang, this was awkward, more awkward when he had eels in his pants for a dare, more than when he first met Riza, more awkward than the time his tenth grade teacher mistaken him for a ten year old.

"Great, get the boys up at 10, I'm taking them out!" and she promptly walked out and slammed the door.

Great, how was he going to deal with this, his stepmother's sane thank you very much, but Ed, well in the current situation he could be called legally insane? But he heard his door being slammed again.

"Who was she bastard?"

"…"

"Well answer me!"

"…."

"Fine… but I never thought that your girlfriend would be the same age as your mom."

"W-what, Ed where did you even get that idea!" Roy mustang officially should have had a stroke, how could Ed think that, alright maybe he has seen him with a few women here and there but the kid string that together with his step mom.

"She even dresses like nanny, but maybe that's just your thing."

Roy choose not to reply and thankfully nothing else happened, other than Ed dragging Al to the hospital again, he swears, it's either him or Al. one of them have to end up there every few days since Ed declared himself, the only healthy one among them.

The next day, his step mother forcibly dragged the boys out of the house, well mainly Ed. And it was the first day that he spends by himself since the boys' arrival, it was different. It wasn't that they were loud but for the past two weeks, he gotten used to Ed's random temper tantrums, the sound of Al's cooking and the constant flipping of pages in the library. She took them out for nearly the whole day and during that time he found that getting around was harder, Ed would never help but there is always Al, and his attempt to cook thankfully only result in a kitchen fire but he had no idea how much he gave the delivery guy…..though he sounded happy. The sound of the door opening was welcoming to his ears but the rants were not.

"She bought me a wheelchair as soon as we got to the mall!" he heard wheels screeching in the house.

"She bought me vitamins so instead of a shrimp, I become a lobster!" he heard a slam of a bag on his kitchen table.

"She made me watch Ed try on 50 pairs of shirt and jeans!" Al pouted, still more upset about the wheel chair.

"She only picked two pairs." Ed said dryly.

"She made me try on practically everything in the store… even socks." Al crossed his arms.

"Although, she did say that she was related to you, and she brought you a walking stick."

"Oh, she bought you two."

"Al where did that thing came from?"

"Well, when you were eating…she dragged me out again"

"So bastard, is she you cousin, sister or aunt, no wonder you're so messed up, everyone in your family's crazy."

Roy chooses not to reply to that, after all, if he told the shirmp anything, that's just asking for trouble right now.

AN: The woman acting as Mustang's step mother do exist, Madame Christmas, and since Ed only called his biological father, father once, you can't expect him to warm up to him so soon after all he's the one that technically abandoned him. And Ed does have a reason to hate the colonel now. And Al's trying to be independent….. Although it isn't working.