Haloo, chappy 17. and the amount of reviews is becoming depressing anyway please read on enjoy.

Disclaimer: if I owned it you would know. –evil eye twinkle-

Ed made his way to the colonels office. He turned around a corner to see Akane standing there, almost like she was, waiting for him.

She had her hands behind her back and she was staring at him, a blank expression really.

Then instantaneously it changed and her posture became more relaxed, her shoulders drooped and her eyes softened.

"did you hear about the rebellions?" she asked her eyes inquisitive, much more different from when he first met her. Slowly but surly her eyes were filling with life.

"ya, but not much, I heard it from the guard and he would tell me much." .He muttered angry that he just accepted it and didn't try to get answers

"you want answers don't you?" asked Akane her eyes full of knowing.

"how did you?" he managed to say.

" I can just tell." She said.

All of a sudden it began to rain.

Akane gasped and her eyes grew huge as she watched Ed uncomfortably move his Akane automail arm.

She turned to the window next to her opened it and reached out far to touch the rain.

At first Ed thought that she was going to jump out.

She felt the cold rain on her hand, and sighed, relief filled her whole body.

"just regular rain." She mumbled pulling her hand back in, and rubbing her wet fingers together.

"what's wrong?" asked Ed perplexed at her sudden mood swings, caused by something so trivial as rain.

"huh? Oh nothing… just rain….. just… rain." She said speaking to herself more than Ed.

"why is the rain so special?" he asked akane's interest in the rain seemed to spark his curiosity.

" well last night I had a weird dream." She started. " we were in this room with book, and we were sitting on the floor, looking through alchemy books about… the philosophers stone." She said getting the feeling Ed knew about the stone considering the expression he gave her.

"the… the philosophers stone? But how?" he asked dumbfounded.

"I don't know, I don't even know much about it, but we were looking through pile and pile of books about it and it started to rain. But the rain looked weird, so we went through this door that seemed to come out of nowhere, and when I caught the rain in my hand it was… blood." She finished her mini story about the dream rather dramatically.

"but how could you know about the philosophers stone? I mean its, Al has had his body back for a few years now. We aren't looking for it anymore." He said still confused on the subject.

How could she know about me and al searching for the stone? That was years ago.

Thoughts swirled in his head and droved him nuts until he was brought back to his senses by Akane snapping her fingers in front of his face.

He blinked.

"you okay?" she asked worried about the blank expression.

"no, ya, just thinking." He mumbled, shuffling his feet.

"so what's the deal about the rebellions? What do you know?" he asked changing the subject.

"all I know is that there have been weird attacks from random alchemists." Said Akane disgusted with the taste in her mouth from the words she just uttered.

"what do you mean random?" asked Ed his expression inquisitive.

"they haven't been keeping their attacks within the military, they've been attacking at random, like women and children." Said Akane fighting the urge to slam her fist on something. She knew what that kind of slaughter was like; she had known it first hand.

Ed put his back to the wall. "hmmm." He said a frown evident on his face.

"hmmm?" Akane mimicked questioning his choice of sound.

"nothing, I was just thinking maybe we should talk to…" he said, then the looked at each other.

"nah." They chimed, laughing.

They sighed, signaling the end of their laughter.

"you know maybe we should." Said Akane hastily thinking it over.

"ya, maybe." Said Ed deciding they needed to talk to Roy, he might know something about the rebellions. Heck if anything Roy would know about it, or at least Riza who is always on top of things would inform him.

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"do your work." Said Riza curtly, taking her gun out for no reason just to supposedly admire it. Though roy knew the reason why she took it out, it was to scare him, and heck it did.

"that's easy for you to say." Roy said lazily flicking his pen. "all you do is…" he stopped when he caught the fierce look on her face. "work… work, work, work, work." He finished rather nervous.

Riza, got back to organizing papers when she tripped and began to fall. Roy stood up instantly to try and catch her, but she caught herself mid fall, papers falling all around her feet.

"you'll never let me save you will you?" he asked rather crestfallen, at the idea.

"well, it's not for you to be saving." Replied Riza her expression fierce. She remembered how she vowed to protect him.

They stared at each other their faces only inches apart, then without warning their lips met.

It was electric, like an explosion had just gone off. The kiss seemed to last forever, then suddenly broken by Riza who blushed furiously.

She looked away blush evident on her face.

"get back to work sir." She said her blush only increasing.

Roy had never seen her blush before, it was pretty, he liked it.

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"Hey Ed, where's Al been the past two days?" asked Akane as they walked back to Roy's office.

"oh, he's been hiding from me in a closet." Said Ed not giving it much importance.

"what? Why?" asked Akane amazed that Al who loved his brother and would die for him, was hiding from him in a closet.

"because when I was mad at him I told him that I would use alchemy to obliterate every cat from the surface of the earth." He said.

" he completely spazed, and went and hid in the closet." He shrugged thinking Al would come out eventually.

"Ed that's horrible!" Akane wailed.

"hey, you would have done it too, besides I was angry. I cant be held responsible for what I say when I'm angry." He said as they finally neared the office that seemed to far for comfort.

"your completely insane, you know that right?" she asked as they walked in front of the door.

Akane was about to open the door when Ed stopped her.

"If there's one thing I learned about roy and his office, is put your ear to the door before you go in." he said putting his head to the door.

"why?" asked Akane, getting the feeling she knew why.

"because you never know what's going on in there." Said Ed gravely, then returning to see what was going on inside the room.

"okay, coasts clear, lets go." Said Ed without warning smashing in the door.

Roy stared at them. They stared back.

Roy sighed with a happy go lucky smile on his face and returned to work, almost happy.

Hawkeye was organizing papers a slight blush evident on her face.

Ed had no idea WHAT happened but he had an idea, and followed his instincts not to pursue it any further.

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Laziness and writers block do not a good pair make. Also I just got accepted to this pageant and my friend wont leave me alone because she's obsessed with knowing if she got in too, so now I get to answerer to phone yell shut up and hang up fun isnt it? Anyway hope you enjoyed the chapter, put a little humor and a little romance, since the relationships are moving so slow I thought I would speed them up so review and have fun.

Is anyone still reading my pointless message? OO if you are boy you got one heck of an attention span.