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First off, it was summer. Second off, it's freaking hot in an apartment when you have no air conditioning. Third off and finally the last, it didn't help when you had a sixteen year old sleeping right next to you.
I look to my left and there's Edwards' face buried in his arms, his entire body curled up into a ball. With all my blankets around him might I add? I sigh and sit up. Not much sleep last night since I was worried sick last night about my future and this kid. I climb out of bed and head to the restroom, brush my teeth, quick cold shower, and then getting into a dress shirt with slacks. It was going to be a long day for sure. I'd have to take Edward with me to my classes for the day, but he'll have to deal with it.
"Edward. Wake up." I open the door and he is already dragging himself to the bathroom. He rubs his eyes, and sits on the counter of the sink. He looks at me and then looks down at the ground. His hair is messy and looks oily, which means one thing. "Edward, did you take a shower last night?"
He blushes and shakes his head. He turns on the sink and uses a towel left out and brushes his teeth with that. I sigh and hand him an extra toothbrush. Edward nods and starts back up on brushing.
"Do….do you want to take a shower this morning?"
He shrugs and his blush gets bigger.
"Do you even know how to?"
His eyes clench shut and he shakes his head hard. I sigh and pick him up. He yelps and looks away from my eyes. Throwing him over my shoulder, I turn on bath water, let it fill halfway, strip him, and place him in. I grab hair products and place them in front of him.
"Dunk your head under water real quick." He does and rises back up, gasping for air. "Dunk your head under water WHILE holding your breath, then put in shampoo," I point to the products with each instruction, "dunk again, then put in conditioner, and then dunk again. When done, drain the water with the plug, grab a towel to dry off, then get dressed."
And with that I left him. About an hour later he came out, his hair in spikes. Holding a laugh in, I brushed down his hair and placed it into a ponytail. Looking at the clock, I grab a poptart and Edward's hand, leading him out towards the mall area again.
"Where are we going?"
"College. I have to take classes for an hour, so I expect you to be good ok?" He nodded and I picked up the pace. Once at campus, I had to run towards class otherwise I would be late. I had Edward sit down next to me, and Mrs. Izumi was all ice cream and rainbows when she saw Edward. I sighed as she wasn't cussing me out. Hughes was sitting next to me, starring at Edward.
"Is this the kid?" Whispered Hughes. I nodded and pointed to the chalk board with all sorts of questions known as advanced calculus. I sighed and handed Edward a piece of paper with a pencil. He hesitated before picking up the writing utensil.
"Just write down what you know, and then draw whatever you want when you can't do anymore." I peered down at him and he nodded. I started on my own paper quickly till Edward raised his hand. Mrs. Izumi was busy with another student but Edward's body tensed.
"Mrs. Izumi! I'm done!" I looked down at his paper and all the questions were neatly written with an answer that far exceeded mine.
"There's no way you can be done. It took me thirty minutes last night for me to finish all ten questions." Said Mrs. Izumi, coming up and grabbing the paper away. She slapped it down and looked Edward in the eye. "These are correct but I think that you may have copied Roy or Clara." Clara was a brunette sitting next to him, and she was a persacom.
"But I did them all by myself Ma'am." Edward sat down and looked upset. I rapidly looked between the two before speaking up.
"Why don't you give him a hard question just for him? Think you can do it Ed?"
"Yeah!" Ed jumped up and had that sparkle in his eyes again. Mrs. Izumi wrote down a random question from her book and told Ed to get it done by the end of the period. No one looked away from Ed, neither did I. Ed sat there for a moment, face full of concentration. Finally, his eyes dulled, not focusing on anything, and little whites stuff flashed in his eyes, his hand writing down fast till the answer was done. His eyes focused and he looked at his answer and smiled.
"Roy Mustang, take your persacom out of class. They are only here to download homework and notes." Everything froze; even Edward froze on the spot.
"But….I'm not a persacom. I'm just…human." Ed's voice cracked and tears started spilling out of his eyes. I grabbed Ed's hand and lead him out of class, Hughes following in tow. I sat Ed down on a bench and knelt in front of him.
"Ed….are you really a.."
"No. I'm just human. Everyone says I'm completely one, but in reality I'm just human. My master said he found me on the side of the road, unconscious, and that's why I have no memory of my past. Just my name is all I remember."
"Hughes, what do you think?"
"I don't know. May I?" Hughes put his hand behind Ed's ear, waiting for Ed to finally nod. Hughes felt around but found nothing of the characteristics of a persacom. We all sat there, wondering.
"Well he can't be one Roy; he has no cords, no switch, nothing. Plus you said he ate some food last night, so that's one thing." I sighed and put my head in my hands.
"Well since Izumi won't let you inside, then I guess we can just go home for now. Can you get me the notes after you're done with the exam Hughes?" Hughes gave thumbs up and smiled. He headed off to class again and Edward and I walked off to my apartment. Once inside, I turned on the TV and watched 'Doom'. Edward was screaming at every scary part, grabbing hold of my arm till the end of the movie. We watched more scary movies that night, till Ed gave in to sleep.
"Well, it's nine, so I guess we should head to bed."
"Mmhm." Ed nodded, sluggishly head towards the bed. He sat down and looked up at me.
"What?"
"Roy….t..thank you for everything." He smiled up at me and I smiled back. But it was short lived when a gun fire went through the window into my shoulder. I fell back, Edward jumping down and on top of me. His body was tense and those white lights came back from earlier. Four men jumped in through the window. Three ran for Ed and the other came up to me and punched me in the face.
"Roy! Run! Get up and run!" I hobble up and glare at the three on Ed. I ran at them, fist about to make contact with one of their faces when another gun shot hit me in the back. I fell down, looking up through black spots in my vision. Ed fell to his knees, tears forming and the unfocused look coming back in his eyes. His body shook till a blood curdling scream came from him and he threw a punch at one of the guys.
"Stop!" Ed stopped at once, his face holding a terrified look. We both made eye contact before the guy with blonde hair and moustache came into site. "You've been a bad boy Edward. Daddy is very made at you for running away. Just stop everything and come home."
"Home! That's not home! That's a torture chamber for the finest criminals in hell! I'd be damned if I was ever to accept going with a horrible person like you!"
"Is that anyway to talk to you master?" that man pulled out a control with two red buttons and pushed one. Static flew from Ed and he fell down screaming till his eyes rolled backwards. He fainted, when the electricity stopped. I looked up at the man and he smirked.
"Boss, you want him back where he was?"
"Yes. That would be a lovely thing to do." The four men ran out the door, the 'boss' following behind. I reached up and grabbed his leg. He looked down and frowned.
"Oh you poor little boy. You got hurt. Don't worry, you'll die soon. Thank you for catching my dear little servant."
"Fuck off you bastard."
"Tsk Tsk. I was hoping you learned your lesson. Oh well." He kicked me across the room. I gasped for air as he came up to me, pull out a gun, and aimed at my head. "Don't worry, this won't hurt…much."
"Rot in hell bast-" the gun went off and I drifted into sweet blackness, but not before seeing Ed look through slightly opened eyes and tears falling down his cheeks.