Hey, I got this chapter done. Sorry it wasn't as fast as I said it would be. My break was busier than it was suppose to be and now I'm back at uni. Anyway thank you to the people who review it really makes me happy when you do that and makes me want to continue, so again thank you. I don't own either of these show just this little story of mine.

Now onto chapter 3: Reoccurring Nightmares.

Ed followed Matt into another room. It looked like a meeting room with several chairs around a large table. Matt motioned for Ed to sit, which he did. "You don't mind if I ask you a few questions, kiddo?" Matt said. Ed shook his head keeping his eyes trained on Matt, he was ready to fight or flee at a moments notice. "Ok, what's your name?" Matt asked.

"Edward Elric," He answered

"Where are your parents?"

"My mother is dead and I don't have a father," It took a lot more will power than expect to keep the emotion out of that statement.

"Who looks after you?"

"Nobody,"

"Ed I need you to tell me who is looking after you," Matt said raising his voice slightly.

"And I said nobody, I'm on my own and have been for several years now," Ed yelled losing whatever advantage his calm facade had.

"Ok, calm down I believe you. Next question, How old are you?"

"10."

"When's your birthday?" Ed hesitated he didn't know if this placed even used the same calendar as Amestris and even then the year might not match up. "3rd of February," He said slowly, watching Matt's face to make sure that the date existed. "Ok so 3rd of February 1996," Matt said. Ed nodded slowly, surprised that the years didn't match up by that sort of extent, that or he had travelled forward in time but he didn't think the gate had that sort of ability. "I think that's everything, for now. Let's go see if we have any better fitting clothes and I'll call child services," Matt said.

Matt showed Ed a to a large box filled with random stuff. "Lost property, this stuff has been here for months so its moved out back. See if you can find any clothes that fit you from in here," Matt said walking off to leave Ed to search through the box. Ed did manage to find black pants, red sneakers, socks and a shirt that fit him but he was really tempted to not wear the shirt because of the creepy cartoon dog on it that held a sickening resemblance to the Nina chimera.

Once Ed was changed into the new clothes and Matt led him back out to the first room. "Wait here, Miss Sutherland from child services will be here soon. Thomas," he pointed to the secretary "will watch you until she arrives," Matt said before walking off leaving him alone in the waiting area. Ed noticed a couch over by the side, it didn't look overly comfortable but his body was still battered, bruised and exhausted from his trip through the gate. He curled up on the couch and quickly fell asleep.

House waltz into the hospital, loudly and obnoxiously singing. He ran into the person he did and didn't want to see the most. "Cuddy, nice shirt I like the cut," House said with a "charming" grin. Cuddy turned to glare at House "Did you know that you're over an hour late?" she said. House ignored her and continued to "compliment" her shirt "The way it presents your cleavage really says you're looking for a fun and perky mate,"

"House! This is not the time or place. Just tell me your clever excuse of the week for being late and we can leave it at that," Cuddy said

"I was at the police station," House calmly stated

"You were arrested!" Cuddy said in a harsh whisper

"I was most certainly not! I have never been so offended in my life! How could you suggest something so disturbing!" House said raising his voice to further embarrass his boss.

Cuddy sighed and massaged her temple in frustration. "Ok House, Why were you at the police station this morning?" She said.

"I was returning a lost boy to their care," House said giving a child like smile.

Cuddy gave him a look, "That's not code for anything, I found a 10 year old last night. Blonde hair, yay high," House held his hand up mid thigh which was smaller than Ed was but that didn't matter, "Golden eyes, beaten up umm oh and he has nightmares."

After a minute Cuddy managed to regain her voice "Right, right just get your paperwork and clinic hours done."

House decided he was going to hang around in his office pretending to do paperwork while he thought of new ways to mess with his subordinates. At the sight of Wilson entering his office House perked up and decided to tell his friend what had happened. He knocked at Wilson's door before entering leaving no time for Wilson to actually invite him in. "Guess what I found last night," House said giving the impression of an excited child.

"What did you find?" Wilson asked.

"A child smack bang in the middle of the living room." House said using wild hand gestures to prove his point.

"What did you do with said child?" Wilson said skeptical of House's story.

"I turned him into the police this morning, Cute kid he was rather interesting," House said slightly distracted the Ed mystery was still tugging at his mind. Wilson noticed the look on House's face and he really hoped House hadn't done anything to scar the poor kid.

Ed awoke with the horrible image of Nina's murdered body at the forefront of his mind. A wave of nausea overwhelmed him and he unfortunately vomited on the poor woman who had woken him up. Al had learned pretty quickly not to wake Ed during his nightmares because of this exact reason. Blinking tiredness from his eye he looked at the woman she had a familiar face but he couldn't pinpoint from where in his jumbled and hazy mind. She was a fairly young woman with a kind face who was currently giving Ed a concerned look. "I'm sorry about your clothes." Ed apologised

"No, it's ok sweetie. Do you feel sick?" The woman said in a way that just made him feel uncomfortable. Ed shook his head but woman didn't seem to accept his answer. "I have another set of clothes in the car. The bathroom is over there. Do you need any help to clean yourself up?" She said, Ed shook his head, "That's good, when we are both cleaned up I'll take you to the hospital just to make sure you're ok." She gave Ed a sweet smile. Ed couldn't help but think she was rather innocent for a social worker.

Ed had dealt with social workers before, when his acceptance into the state alchemist program was released to the public there was an uproar from concerned parents. The state compromised by assigning a social to monitor Ed and Al's life. Ed had hated the woman that had been assigned to them, she was extremely nosy, stuck up, grouchy and always tried to interfere with his work. After 3 months he scared her off with the help of the Colonel, it was the only time he had ever been allowed to use flame alchemy. It was also the day the woman had decided to scold second lieutenant Hawkeye about her use for guns as "motivational" tools. Ed shook off the thoughts of the past although he grudgingly released he was older, and taller, in those memories than he was now.

The social worker gave Ed a motherly smile when he exited the bathroom. He hadn't been in there long but she had already changed and was currently holding his little bundle of things in a plastic bag. "How are you feeling, sweetie?" she said.

"I feel fine," Ed muttered loudly. She gave Ed a slightly hurt look and Ed couldn't help but notice the slight similarities she shared with his little brother. "Ok then let's get going," she said ushering Ed out of the building towards on of the cars. Once they were on the road she began to question him.

"So it's Edward right?" she said. Ed just gave back an affirmative hum. "And you're all on your own?" again Ed just responded with a hum. "Oh you poor thing, you must have been so frighten all on your own. Oh, look at you, you're covered in bruises. How did that happen?"

"I umm got into a fight, but it was nothing really just something I had to do," She gave Ed a concerned look and quickly realised that she was clearly upsetting him.

"Oh silly me I never introduced myself did I?" she said to release Ed from his quickly down spiralling mood.

"No,"

"You can call me Miss Sutherland, I'll be watching over you until we have an available foster carer for you,"

"Lucky me," Ed tried to stop the sarcastic comment he really did but he said it regardless.

"Bullseye," House yelled as his paper plane nestled itself into Cuddy's shirt. Cuddy glared at House and pulled the plane out before throwing it back at him, "That better not be the paperwork I asked you to complete," she said.

"No it's umm…," House unfolded the paper, "Chase's,"

Cuddy frowned "If you're not going to do your paperwork why don't you go down to clinic,"

"Cause I don't want to," House responded childishly.

"If you find anything interesting you can have it," Cuddy bargained.

"Would take it anyway. I'm getting bored," House said getting up and leaving the room. Cuddy counted it as a victory.

"Dr House, there is a patient in room 3 that needs seeing to, he was starting to fall asleep out here so let him rest in there," said a nurse. House walked into the room. A woman got up and woke the boy, who House instantly recognised as Ed, sleeping on the bed. Ed sat up quickly when he woke he began to gag, after a minute of gagging and trying to gain his breath Ed was finally able to look up at House a small smile forming on his lips. "Well, you're just another of my recurring nightmares," Ed said sarcastically although there no hiding the happiness in the look he gave House.

And that the end of this chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. I will try to get the next chapter up when I finish it but don't expect it to be too soon. Give me a shout if you see any major errors I do try to edit my work but its not my strong point. Thank you to all that read this and I hope you will comeback when I post the next chapter.