Author's Note: I do not own FMA, Harry Potter, or their characters. This is AU and set during the fifth book.
Passage Home
He woke to find a blond curled up beside him in the bed. Roy turned his head to study Hawkeye's sleeping face. There was a bruise across her cheek, but other than that she seemed fine. The last thing he remembered was the fight in the Department of Mysteries. Clearly, they had survived that since this was the Hospital Wing at Hogwarts. His movement seemed to have disturbed Hawkeye as she made a sleepy little noise and opened her eyes.
"Roy?"
"Hey." He reached over to brush her bangs out of her face. "What happened?"
"You got hit by a stunning spell and then hit your head when you fell. You didn't really miss much. The battle was over shortly after that."
She moved to sit up. Roy wrapped an arm around her and leaned against the headboard.
"Everyone is fine. There were some minor injuries, but nothing major on our side. There have been some developments with the whole Order of Phoenix versus Voldemort issue, but that doesn't concern us. Ed thinks that he's found our way home. He and Al just waiting for you to double check their arrays and calculations."
"Using the arch?" He knew that was the key. The thing had been pulling at him since he saw it.
"Alchemists." She almost sounded annoyed with him. "Yes, with the arch. It looks like we'll have to sneak in to use it, but Black and Lupin have offered their services to help with that. The only remaining issue is how to put us back our proper ages."
He sighed. "I still don't know how to do that. I think it was caused by the interaction of the wizard's spell and my alchemy, but I have no idea how to replicate that or to reverse it."
Riza let out a sigh of her own. "We will deal. If worst comes to worst, at least you still won't beat out Edward for the title of youngest State Alchemist."
He kissed her temple. This could throw their plans out of order. It would definitely be harder to achieve his goals with the scrutiny their new appearance would cause. There was also the problem of her tattoo. Neither of them wanted it remain intact, but Roy wasn't sure he could bring himself to burn her once again. Hawkeye let him pull her closer as she continued.
"For all we know, simply going home will restore us. Edward and Alphonse both regained what they had lost when they arrived here. We should focus on getting back to Amestris. It has been almost a year now, and we won't know what will happen and what has happened until we go back. We can make plans from there."
She was right as usual. Getting home was their primary focus. There would be plenty of time to worry about their other problems later. So, the first order of business would be to see what Fullmetal had come up with. Roy swung his legs over the side of the bed and stood up.
"Right then. Where's Fullmetal?"
The next week was spent pour over diagrams and planning their exit. The Ministry of Magic had tightened security on the Department of Secrets, but Black and Lupin were certain they could get them in. They were only going to have one shot at this though, so they would have to make it count. The goodbyes were thankfully brief. None of the connections any of them had made here were strong enough to cause any real grief or problems with their departure.
Feeling apprehensive, Roy stood in front of the arch and nodded to Edward. The array drawn around it flared to light, and the same pull that had brought them here could be felt. With his had wrapped tightly around Riza's, Roy was the first to step forward into the arch. Cold filled his limbs and now familiar blackness swallowed his consciousness once more even as he was thinking that this was getting to be a bad habit.
Theme: The Die Is Cast