Here you have it, the next chapter, it only took me a couple hours to write. (baby and all) It's really going to start picking up from here on out! I hope you read and review. Remember, the more reviews, the quicker I update!

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Chapter 4 - Disturbance
"Well...there's no doubt about it." Kain exclaimed as he examinedRavi. He and the baby looked almost identical. Aside form the hair and skin color, they looked so much alike; the face shape, the nose, the eyes and even the eye color. "Wow, it's like looking at a little me." He extended his hands to pick up the baby. Carefully he slid his hands underneath Ravi's arms and lifted him up to eye level.

"Geez, does he ever look like you." Ed said from across the room. His arms were folded, almost in a disbelieving manner. "Rose..." She turned to face him. "Not that I doubted your word any...but I do need to ask you something...it's kind of personal." Rose smiled.

"I don't mind." Ed took a deep breath.

"Do you remember when the military took you in as a prisoner a while back? We were told by Dante that you experienced trauma to the extent that you were no longer able to speak...what exactly happened?" Rose's eyes became sad. Winry spoke out.

"You don't have to tell us anything you don't want to." Rose shook her head. They all sat there, around the Hughes's kitchen table, Roy had even accompanied them, he too wanted to see Fuery's baby. Not that he thought Rose was laying, he just wanted to see the little onefor himself.

"It's alright, I knew the day would come where I had to tell someone." Rose folded her hands on her lap. Since Rose was going to be staying at the Hughes's home for the next two days, they all decided to move there to meet the baby. "You see, I was about six months into term when I was captured, they treated me rather badly, I was beaten and practically starved to death. I went into false labor about 20 times before I actually gave birth. When I was in labor, I was given no anesthetic and after the baby was born they took him away and then beat me till I stopped crying. I received no medical attention for my wounds, and I was suffering constantly. Ravi was taken away from me and I didn't see him for almost a week." They listened on intently. Gracia and Winry were almost in tears.

"Some of the other prisoners saw what I was going through. Every time I would wake up I would cry and ask for my baby. This only cause me to receive more beatings." Rose swallowed a lump in her throat. "They beat me till I would lay still, the pain was too much. After a while I just couldn't speak, I guess I was afraid they would hit me again if I did so. The other prisoners decided they had to get me out of there. They caused a riot and in all the confusion helped me to escape." Everyone seemed relieved the sad part of the story was over. Rose smiled.

"That's when I saw him, someone had left Ravi unattended, crying and unbathed, in one of the unlocked prison cells. He looked starving, like they didn't feed him at all in the last day. Taking him in my custody I ran and ran until I couldn't see the prison anymore." Rose sighed. "But that's all I can remember. I don't remember being taken in by Dante, I barely remember Scar helping with the village. My memory only starts to come back around the time my voice returned. At first I remembered all of what happened, but then those memories beforemy voicecame backwere like a bad dream, they just seemed to fade away, as if they never really happened." The kitchen was silent and Rose drew in a breath.

"But all that's over now." She said confidently. "I'm living well leading my people with my new baby, and now that I know you're alive Kain, I can put my mind at ease." Kain smiled at Rose, he was so happy to see that she was now doing ok.

"Are you sure if it's alright for me to stay here for the rest of the day?" Kain asked politely with his baby in his arms. Roy nodded.

"Yeah, it's been lazy all day anyway, you spend some time with Rose and your little one." Roy smiled warmly. Ed and Al headed down the stairs, Ed had a rather predominant scowl on his face.

"How come we don't get to spend time with the baby?" Edward spat as he walked by. Roy only gave him a pat on the back.

"When you have kids of your own someday, I'll look into giving you a family day or two." Ed rolled his eyes. Kain had a very pleased look on his face. He was reunited with his Rose after so long. "Besides, you have to fill out some paperwork for me." Al was surprised and a little annoyed.

"It'll take us five minutes to do that. Can't we just do it later." Roy shook his head.

"I mean you're doing 'my' paperwork, I've wasted the day and need assistance to finish it. With that he opened the back door to his car and the two boys got in, mumbling all the way.

"You lazy bas--" Roy slammed the door on Ed's sentence before he could finish it. Roy gave them a wave and hopped into the drivers side and headed off down the road. Rose waved back and turned her gaze to Kain, he was holding the baby in one arm and waving with the other. Ravi had found a comfortable spot on his daddy's shoulder and had dozed off.

"Come on Rose, let's get inside, I have so many things I need to ask you." He snuggled the baby close and the two of them went back inside.

Ed sat at the desk and went over the pile of papers that Roy had stuck in front of him. Al got the shorter documents to go over, Roy knew very well how quickly Edward read, so giving him the lengthy ones meant things would go quicker. Ed muttered as her forged Roy's signature on paper after paper. He paused and looked up to Al.

"Isn't there a law against this? You know, faking someone else's signature." Al nodded without looking up form his papers.

"Yeah...but who's Roy going to tell? The military?" Ed sighed.

"I guess you're right. I should tell Riza he's doing this, that'll make him smarten up." Ed snickered, he remembered how much trouble he got in last time for doing something like this, it wasn't a pleasant sight. Riza had him at gunpoint and everything; it was one of those moment you just wished you had a camera.

"Brother, don't be so hard on the Colonel, he does a lot for us." His older brother nodded.

"Yeah, I guess you're right...I just wished he would have stayed here and helped us." Ed looked up to see no one else in the room.

"He hadn't eaten all day, he needed to get to the mess hall before it closed." Ed gritted his teeth at the gullibility of his younger brother.

"He's just making excuses Al!" Ed quickly scribbled down another one of his perfected 'Roy Mustang' signatures. Al bit his bottom lip as he finished off readng another paper. Out of nowhere, the phone rang and scared the two boy's out of their wits. Al dropped his quill as Ed made a rather indiscriminate black ink mark across the bottom of one of the papers. "Shit..." HE tried to whipe it off, this only made it worse.

"Should we answer it?" Ed nodded as he tried to remove the stain.

"Yeah, it might be important...you do it." Al looked at his brother in a shocked manner. Ed gave up on the paper and threw it to the side.

"Why do you always make me do all the dirty work!" He yelled. The phone rang again. "You're voice is a lot deeper than mine, I can't fake being Roy!" Ed waved a hand at him.

"It's really easy, just act all self important and really haute when you talk." The phone rang for a third time. Al bit his lip again.

"Forget it, I'll just answer it." He allowed the phone to ring one more time and at the end of the ring he picked up. "Hello, Roy Mustang's office."

"I need you two to come down to the briefing hall on the double!" The voice that emanated through to his end of the phone was none other than Roy himself.

"What's going on?" Al asked. Ed rose form his seat and approached his younger brother.

"I'll fill you both in when you get here. Now hurry!" Roy slammed the phone down. Al was left there, dumbfounded; he hung the phone up, his expression turned to worry.

"What's going on?" Al shrugged.

"I have no idea. He want's us down in the briefing room; it sounds urgent." With haste the two boys headed down to the briefing room. It looked like a bee's nest, radio signals coming and going, people running around filing papers, new recruits getting updated on the locating and demography of Lior. The room was completely bug-nut. Roy saw the Elric's enter the room and got their attention.

"Boy's! Over here." He directed them to a table in the far corner of the room. Upon approaching the table they noticed Riza, she had on a headset trying to get a signal. The speakers fuzzed and crackled with static. "We just have to wait for Rose and I'll explain everything. I've sent Havoc out to get her." Only a few minutes passed when Rose appeared through the door with Fuery and Havoc. She went straight for Roy.

"What's the meaning of all this, what's going on?" Roy raised his hands to calm her.

"We received a transmission asking for you. Apparently the ones we thought were going to attack youon the way here,were in fact waiting for you to leave so they could revolt. They started rioting sometime early this morning and are demanding your head or else they're going to kill their hostage in the church." Rose thought for a moment.

"But, the only one who should have been in the church while I was gone would be...Catharine." Roy raised an eyebrow. "I gave everyone else the day off. Catharine said that it would be better for her studies if she were alone anyway." Havoc folded his arms.

"Where have I heard that name before...Wait a minute...Do you mean Catharine Armstrong?" Rose nodded.

"Why yes...do you know her." Havoc's lip trembled and his ever present unlit cigarette fell to the floor.

Yet another chapter under my belt, I hope you liked it. Like I said in the beginning of this fic, I'll be jumping around from character to character, I won't just focus on one or two the whole time. The next few will focus on Havoc. He's so cool:)

Chapter 5 - Troops gear up and move out. Some to save Lior and other to save Lior and win a heart in the process. Good luck guys!

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