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Chapter7 - Lost and Found

"So you really don't mind?" Rose rubbed the cheek of her little Ravi. Winry nodded and smiled, Ed sat on the coach in the living room as he listened on, a rather pissy look on his face.

"I told you I really don't mind Rose, I like Ravi, he's really sweet." Ravi gave a coo of approval. "See, he doesn't mind either. Besides, I feel bad after what happened at the military banqutte a couple months ago; I don't really feel I should go to this one." Ed yelled in form the other room.

"I don't feel bad about it. I should be able to go!" Winry whipped around.

"Well you should feel bad!" She gritted her teeth. Winry could hear him put up a fuss folowed up by Al trying to coax him into setteling down.

"Come on, we had our fun last time." Ed sighed.

"I guess." Winry smiled as she turned back to Rose.

"We'll do just fine, I know plenty about taking care of kids, I babysat back in my home Resembool. You can go have a good time tonight." Rose thought about it for a minute; she then smiled.

"Alright, but call me at the mess hall if something goes wrong." Winry nodded.

"Of course." Rose walked down the stairs. "Say bye to mommy." Winry waved his little hand. Rose smiled and waved back. Winry propped the little baby up in her arms. He was so fun to hold, so warm and soft, he was like a little moving stuffed toy. She entered the living room only to see Ed, still pissed off and Al laying out on the coach.

"I still don't know why I couldn't go." Winry motioned to the baby.

"I need someone to help me with the baby, and only asking one of your wouldn't be fair; so you both get to help." Al smiled.

"Yeah brother, let Rose have her time alone with Kain tonight, they haven't seen one another in almost a year." Ed nodded.

"I suppose...but I'm not changing any diapers." Winry nodded.

"Alright, I just need you to help me feed him and put him to bed. I also wanted you two here to keep me company." Winry smiled sweetly. Ed closed his eyes and lowered his head.

"I guess I can't argue with that, it'd be pretty mean to go without you anyway." He sat back on the coach and slumped down. Winry stood up holding the baby. They talked for a few minutes and then, the fun began. The baby started to wail.

"The hell?" Ed loked at the baby. "What's wrong with him? Is he hungry?" Winry shook her head.

"I don't think so, he just ate." Winry stated. Al thenpiped up.

"Hey, maybe he needs a diaper change." Al put his hands up. "I'm not doing it though, I don't know how." Winry poked the front of the diaper and then checke down then back.

"No...nothing...he just woke up so he can't be tired...what could be wrong." They tried everything, rocking him, holding him still, wrapping him in a blanket and noting worked.

"Let me try." Ed took the baby from Winry and tried to calm him down. "Come on Ravi, quiet down." Ed looked so cute holding the baby and bouncing him lightly. "Even if you just turned it down a little." He rubbed the baby's back with his automail while balancing him on his left arm. Jsut then.

"Burrrrrrrp." The baby burped rather loudly.

"..." Ed looked like he had just seen a ghost; he leaned his head back and looked at the baby and then to the shoulder of his black coat. "Wow..." He smiled as the baby setteled down. "I guess you just had a pain in your stomach, huh?" The baby burped a little bit again. "Heh...real cute." Ed sweat-dropped. He bounced the baby.

"Way to go Ed, I guess I forgot to burp him after I fed him." Al nodded.

"Yeah, looks like your cut out to do this." Al smiled.

"I don't think so...uh..." He looked at the baby who was just resting on his shoulder babbling to himself. "Umm Winry...why is my arm getting warm?" Winry snickered.

"Well...he might be releiving himself." Ed lifted the baby under the arms.

"Take it! Take it now!" He held the baby out to Winry who could only laugh.

"Come on Ravi, let's get you changed." Winry left the room with the baby in her arms. Ed frantically checked the arm of his coat.

"He had a diaper on Ed, don't worry." Ed took off his coat and checked it better.

"It's still gross...baby's may be cute, but they can be incredibly gross at times." Al agreed.

The night passed slowly, the baby was well behaved and quite pleasent. He ate, was burped and changed once more then it was off to bed for the night. The three of them sat in the living room, trying to gater up a few memories from the military banquette when the phone rang. Winry got up from her seat and headed towards the phone. Grabbing the phone she raised it to her ear.

"Hello?" She spoke into the reciever.

"Hi Winry, how's everything going? Are you guys doig ok with Ravi?" It was Rose; Winry could hear music in the background and many voices echoing through the line.

"Yeah, we're doing great, Ravi actually just went down for the night. He was no trouble at all." Rose laughed a little.

"Thats good to hear, he doesn't usually give me any trouble. I'm glad to hear it, I have to thank you again." Winry nodded.

"It's no problem I told you, you just go have fun." Winry could hear someone give a loud yelping 'woot' in the background. "Um...who was that?" Rose laughed again.

"Oh that." There was a couple seconds of silence. "That was Roy, I have no idea what he's doing...or trying to do." There was a loud crashing sound. "Oh my." Rose gasped then proceeded to laugh. "Do you kids need anything at all?" Winry shook her head.

"Oh no we're doing fine...and tell Roy to take it easy." Rose agreed.

"If I can find him, he dissappeared again. But I will tell him, he does have to work tomorrow." Winry smiled.

"Thanks for checking in Rose, have fun."

"We will, bye now."

"Bye." She hung up the phone. It sounded like the party was doing well, no problems; that was probably due to the fact that the three of them weren't there. She smiled and went back into the living room and sat on the coach next to Ed.

"What was that all about?" He inquired.

"Roy was being loud and rowdy. I imagine they're drinking." Ed nodded.

"Probably, they always drink at socials like that." Al shook his head. "I remember that picnic they had, I was still in the armor at the time, Havoc was pulling on my helmet trying to get it off." Ed and Winry laughed.

"Well Al, at least I got you out of that thing. But luckly the picnic was pretty fun anyway, besides Roy and Havoc's drunkness that is." Al nodded.

"Yeah, lucky for you maybe, being able to climb that tree to get away from them." Ed laughed.

"I would have loved to see Roy try to climb that tree to try and get me, it would have been pricless. He could barely walk let alone climb. But just remember, poor Hawkeye got the worst of it." Winry nodded.

"Yeah, I remember her having to drag them both home on her shoulders. They were so messed up." They all laughed about it. Looking back on times of crisis is a lot easier than dealing with them. Al stood up and stretched.

"You know what, I kind of want to go for a walk." He grabbed his coat from off the back of the chair. "Would you guys mind if I went out for a bit?" Ed seemed a little concerned.

"Are you sure you want to go out this late? Its like...eleven. Do you want me to go with you?" Al shook his head.

"Oh no, you can stay with Winry. I just need a little air, I'll be back in an hour...if it's ok that is." Ed raised an eyebrow.

"Well I don't mind...Winry?" She shrugged.

"Just be careful Al." She added. Al smiled.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine." Al left out the door and closed it tightly behind him. Heading down the stairs he turned off to the right and began walking.

The night was cool and there was a nice breeze; nothing was bothering Al, he just wanted to go for a walk. That, and he wanted to give his brother some time alone with Winry. The last little while he had been noticing signs that Ed might be intrested in her, but he was always aroud Ed all the time, Ed never got the chance to talk to her alone. This was the perfect opurnity for him, if he didn't take it, he was stupider than Al had originally figured.

Ed was a smart guy when it came to his alchemy, but when it came to relationships, namely one's with females, he was dumb as a post. Hopefully he'd use this time to woo her in some way. But miracles didn't happen everyday. Al sighed.

"Hell, brother's probably going to go to bed." He stuffed his hands in his pockets and continued on in the familiar part of town.

"Hey Ed?" Winry looked up from her tea that she had just boiled. "Do you think something might be bothering Al?" Ed blew on the steam coming off his cup. He was sitting on the coach next to Winry with his feet curled up underneath him.

"What could be bothering him?" She thought for a moment.

"I don't know...but him leaving like that just makes me think." Ed shrugged and upon doing so, something on the inside of his automail made a loud snapping sound.

"What the?" He tried to move his thumb and nothing happened. Winry laid her cup down.

"Let me see." Ed placed his cup down next to hers and held out his right automail hand. Winry moved the thumb. "It not jammed, so one of the cables must have broke." She clicked the forearm plate off and looked at the wireing. "Well...it's not this one." She replaced the plate and moved to the upper part of the arm. Removing the outer plating she looked in. "There it is." She pulled out a little elasic cord. It was still attached to the inside at the bottom, but it seemed to have snapped off at the top. "I see the problem." She held out the cord, there was a little broken rusty clip at the end. "I guess water got in here and rusted the connector...I thought I waterproofed everything. Oh well, I can replace this no problem." She stood up and headed to the kitchen where her tool kit was.

"You don't have to disconnect my arm do you?" There was silence and then Winry appeared through the door.

"It is easier for me to do if it's disconnected...I could try without taking your arm off...do you want me to do it that way." Ed nodded sheepishly. Though he was no stranger to pain, if he could avoid it, he did so.

"Thanks Winry." She smiled.

"Don't worry, It will be a little akward though...I'll have to get you to lay down. It connects in the front, and I don't feeling like putting a crick in my neck." Ed nodded. She hooked her thumb behind her. "You go lay down somewhere and I'll be in as soon as I find the right part." Ed nodded and rose. He headded upstairs, figuring a bed would be te best place to lay down. Hopping up onto the bed he placed his hands behind his head and waited.

All of a sudden, it hit him. He was laying down, in a bed, waitng for Winry to come up, to work on him. 'It's almost as if...' Ed thought about the posibilities and where this could lead. Quickly he shook the though from his head as he head footsteps heading up the stairs. He didn't want to think about something like that; he was just hoping she didn't have to check his leg too, taking his pants off would only make his mind wanter even more. Ed became rather bothered and awkward, he was never alone with her like this, hopefully nothing bad would happen.

Al rounded a corner and headed down an alleyway, he had heard a cry for help and was ever present to lend a hand. There was a dog, he was barking rather loudly at the poor thing; a petiet orange kitty was stuck up on a big crate with his tail all puffed out. "Hey!" He yelled at the dog. "Get out of here." He approached it rather quickly. The dog let out a low growl and backed off slowly, Al faked an advance at the dog and he took off instantly. Smiling triumphantly he reached for the small animal.

"Hey there." He scratched under the cat's chin. There was a small collar attached. "Oh, someone own you...are you lost? Or did you get locked out." The kitty let out a pleased purr. "Let's see if we can find out who own's you." Picking up the cat he flipped the tag over and read it aloud. "Kale?" He held the cat up on eye level. "You're Aria's cat!"

And there you go, the next chapter! It's lining up for some major fluff! I'd like some reviews to let me know what you think. And just so you know, Aria IS an OC, but that'll all get explained in the next chapter...whenever I get around to that. My dad's home from the states, so i'll be spending some time by the pool, so my chapters will be delayed. Hopefully not by too much.

If you don't want to wait to find out who Aria is and what she's all about, just read "Promise", it'll explain everything. And NO, she's not a Mary Sue, so you have nothing to fear, i pride myself on my writing, a Mary Sue in one of my stories would descrace me to the point of commiting Harry Carry. So, you can read it and enjoy it.

Chapter 7 - Ed's in bed with Winry fixing his automail...what could be going on in Winry's mind. Al meet's up with an old friend who needs his help.

I'm so happy with my reviewers! Thank you so much for sticking with me!

PS. I lost my spell checking program! So don't mention the spelling, I already know it blows!¬-¬