Ho, I know! I'm so late! But I really didn't have time to write since I was so tired from school projects (no homeworks…projects! X.x). 50 reviews already! I can't thank you enough:D You're really my motivation to kept going. Anyway, I really hope you enjoy this chapter!
"Joy and disaster"
It was Sunday already, that meant he could sleep until late, but the birds on the window woke Edward up. The boy rubbed his eyes and glanced around sweat dropping when he noticed the mess of books and notes Roy and he had left the night before on the living room. Both had fell asleep in the couches since they had studied until very late in the night and they left all the stuff they used in the floor.
Ed yawned and stood up trying not to step on the books, which was hard since there were books everywhere, but he manage to make it to the kitchen. He had learned to make coffee watching the man doing it every day since he didn't let the maid do it; he only liked coffee the way he prepare it. Picky man.
However, when he checked the coffee container, it was empty. Maybe Roy hadn't counted to be awake late at night studying when he bought the coffee since he had drank all of it already. Edward sighed and grabbed the man's wallet and his jacket, if Roy woke up and there was no coffee, the world would suffer surely.
When he was about to close the door, he heard the man's growl – which was supposed to be his name - and he turned around to see a half sleep Roy on the couch trying hard to sat up.
"Where are you going?", Mustang managed to say after he cleared his throat.
"To the store, there's no coffee"
The Colonel glanced at the kitchen where the blonde had left the empty container of the coffee and growled again in annoyance.
"It's just the store, I'll back in a minute", Edward said again pointing outside.
Roy stared at him for a moment. If he didn't let him go the kid would be suspicious of course…but then again, that man said they would let him take care of Edward…After a minute of internal debate, the dark-haired man nodded, so the blonde closed the door.
As he walked towards the store, he greeted all the people that said good morning to him and got into the store finding Roy's favorite coffee brand quickly, paid for it and walked back to the house. However, when he was in front of Pinako's house, he saw Alphonse waving his hand telling him to approach to the fence, so he did.
"Hi!", the kid said with a big smile before he glanced at the bottle of coffee, "Oh no, please don't tell Mustang-San made you addict to coffee"
Edward fought hard the urge to laugh at the comment, "No, I'm just providing him with coffee to help his addiction. Who knows what he is calpable of without coffee on his veins early in the morning"
Al chuckled and Ed grinned amused, but then the kid noticed the hose Alphonse had in his hands.
"What are you doing?"
After he blinked a few times trying to understand what he had asked, Alphonse smiled, "Watering the plants, it's one of my chores"
"I see", the blonde said almost in low voice as he was thinking if he should have chores too…since he was living with the man for free.
In that moment, Winry appeared in the balcony in the second floor holding a big wrench and some stains of something…dark in her face, "Alphonse! Granma and I need some help!"
"I'll be there on a second!"
However, when the girl was about to turn around, she saw Edward and waved his hand happily, "Hi!"
Ed raised his hand shyly since he wasn't used to talk to kids, but these cousins didn't seem that bad and they were…well..friends of Roy…
"Don't you want to come to see how we construct an automail?", the girl asked hugging the giant wrench that made her look rather funny.
"…Automail?"
"Yes! Didn't you look at the sign in the entrance?"
Edward noticed Alphonse was aiming his finger towards a piece of wood that said "Rockbell Automail". He felt how his stomach squeezed, it was obvious that they were oblivious to the fact that he had a automail arm, so he forced a tiny smile and shook his head.
"I'm sorry, Mustang-San is waiting for me. I have to go"
"OK, but you must promise that you'll come someday"
The kid nodded and waved his hand and hurried towards Roy's house quite sure the man would get out to look for him any second. And he wasn't wrong, when he was turned in the corner next to the house, the almost bumped into the Colonel.
"It took you long enough", the man said sighing in relief and patting the boy's head.
"I just stop to say hi to Alphonse-Kun and Winry-Chan", he said raising a brow slightly confused by the man's attitude. It was supposed that he didn't know about that Alchemists Union's man…
"…Just let's go home", he said placing his hand on the boy's shoulder.
Both walked towards Roy's house while the man glanced around slightly frowned which confused Edward even more, but he didn't say anything.
"Are you inducing the boy to your bad habit, Roy Mustang?"
Both turned around and saw a woman smiling – or smirking – at them. Ed was sure he heard how Roy snorted.
"Good Morning, Clara"
The woman giggled and glanced at Edward drawing a mischievous smile, "Is he your hidden son?"
Roy rolled his eyes and sighed, "No, he it's my nephew. His name is Edward"
"Ahh, I see", she said with a tone of voice that Edward felt as she was mocking Roy, "Hi there, kiddo, nice to meet you"
The blonde just raised his hand shyly, but lowered it when the man placed a hand on his shoulder, "We have to go, take care Clara"
The woman smirked one more time as both turned around and walked away.
"See you around, Roy!"
However, the man didn't answer and kept walking mad as Ed noticed. Well, that was new.
"What's your problem with her?"
The Colonel flinched at the sudden question, but then averted his gaze, "I really don't want to talk about that, OK?"
"…Alright"
At home, Roy was drinking his coffee while Edward transmuted some pancakes trying to control the heat so they wouldn't burn. The man saw amused how the kid's experiment failed the first three times, but this time he seemed to achieve since the pancake looked delicious.
"Who needs to cook being able to use alchemy", the boy said proudly as he grabbed one of the pancakes, but Roy took it before he could bite it. "Hey!"
"Don't use alchemy that careless. If you can do the things, don't use alchemy", he said before he took a bite of the pancake.
The boy just narrowed his eyes, "Yeah right"
Roy glanced at the clock and noticed it was 10:23 already. When did it become so late? "Let's go out. I don't like to spend my Sundays locked up"
"Out?", the blonde repeated, "Where?"
"We're going to improvise, come on"
Edward smiled excited and went upstairs to take a quick shower as Roy did the same. The man found the situation rather funny…he usually spent Sundays with a woman on a date, but now he was going to spend the day with Edward. Funnily enough, he really enjoyed the time he was with the kid, it was totally different from being with a woman or with Hughes and his family…it was like they understood each other and Roy really liked that.
A few minutes later, they were walking on the sidewalk evading the people that were coming in the opposite direction. Roy smirked when Ed grabbed him discretely from the pant, but he didn't say anything. At least, the blonde would be safe that way.
However, a car parked close to them and Roy glanced at it getting ready to react if needed, but he sweat dropped when he saw a happy Hughes waving his hand. They approached the car and got in since Roy was afraid that Hughes would get out and drag them by the force inside the car.
"Hi back there", the man said looking them by the rear view mirror with a big smile, "Edward-Kun, let me introduce you my beautiful wife Gracia and my gorgeous daughter Elysia"
The woman smiled at him softly hugging her daughter who was sleeping, but Edward just nodded shyly and glanced at Roy whose angriness seemed to have faded when he saw the girl.
"Where were you going anyway?", Hughes asked catching his friend attention.
"We were heading to the Fair", he said checking on his watch, "It should be open by now"
Hughes smiled excited, "That's an excellent idea! Let's go together",
Gracia nodded happily, so Roy just rolled his eyes. It's just that he didn't like to hang out with Hughes, but of course the man was prepared with a camera and he would be a pain in the ass with it, even more if Elysia were there with them.
"What's a Fair?"
Roy looked at the boy raising a brow when he noticed the confused face he had, "You really don't know what a Fair is?"
"It's not like I've visited one", the kid muttered almost growling.
"Then wait a little and you'll know"
Edward growled again and crossed his arms leaning on the back seat. He heard then how the baby woke up and Gracia was shushing her kindly and stared at the woman for a few seconds watching how the baby felt sleep again. His face changed drastically into a sad one and Roy noticed it, but he preferred to keep quit and don't disturb the boy. However, Edward lowered his face using his bangs as a cover and, if he knew well, that could only mean that he was holding back his tears.
He placed a hand on his shoulder trying to give some support to the kid and Edward looked up at him slightly surprised by the man gesture. He didn't know why, but Roy's smile made him feel better, so he tried to be strong and nodded assuring Roy he was ok.
Soon later they arrived at the Fair which was crowed already, but Edward was amazed by the place. Music, games, food…well, Fairs then were a great thing apparently.
"Let's go before more people arrive", Hughes said suddenly taking the boy out of his thoughts.
The five got into the fair, but Roy had to open his eyes since Edward disappeared from his sight a few times because the kid wanted to see some games and how the people play…and lost their money of course.
"Do you want to lose some money too?", Roy asked him since he noticed how the kid stared at the games. Edward just grinned so both approached the booths while Hughes took out his camera.
"You know Roy doesn't like photos", Gracia told him, but the man just smiled widely.
"He will thank you later, you'll see"
The woman just shook his head and his husband began to take picture of how Edward missed the target with the ball several times, lost a fish, but won a plushie that he gave to Gracia for Elysia. A few hours later, they had got in the Wheel of Fortune and a few more games, and now Edwad was eating a sweet apple while Roy talked to Hughes and Gracia. However, the kid saw something that caught his attention and approached a small cage where a small animal was sleeping. It was a little fox which was snoring quietly and the boy stared at it for a moment, he really liked foxes, they use to get in the lab by accident.
A man approached him with a big smile, "If you can hit the three bottles with this riffle, the little guy is yours"
Edward glanced at the targets and sweat dropped. They were too far and his skill with guns was zero, but the poor fox…closed in that small cage. Roy wouldn't want a pet anyay…
However, Mustang approached the vendor and paid for one opportunity. Ed was about to say something but Roy just raised his hand.
"Just watch"
The kid just bit his lip and saw how the man aimed the gun to one of the targets and stood like that for a few seconds. Hughes was prepared to take a picture of the moment and he did it skillfully when he heard the shoot. One of the bottles fell and Edward smiled and clapped amazed, of course he was a good shooter, he was in the army after all. He did the same with the other two targets and the vendor saw shocked how Roy handed him the gun.
"I guess we can take the fox with us, am I right?", the dark-haired man said with a grin.
The vendor just lowered his head defeated, so Roy grabbed the cage and handed it to Edward.
"It will be your responsibility, OK?"
The blonde nodded happily and saw how the little fox was still sleeping, "Thank you"
Roy patted the kid's head and the four headed towards the car to go to eat something…healthy. Hughes put the camera in Gracia's purse and glanced at Roy with a brow raised.
"Don't you think that was considered as cheating?", the man asked slightly amused.
"Why would I? He never said I couldn't participate if I had gun skills"
Hughes just laughed and both glanced at the kid who was carrying the cage carefully, but he seemed very happy.
"I thought you said you wouldn't have pets anymore after that cat"
"…That cat was possessed…I'm sure of that"
Before Hughes could say something to defend the little feline Roy had had once and he had to give away, they heard some horses and laughs behind them followed by some shoots and screams of the people. A band of well-known thieves had arrived armed and scaring the crowd and shooting destroying everything.
Roy took out his gloved and pulled Edward so Hughes could grab his arm. "I'll take care of this, please protect Edward"
Maes nodded and grabbed the kid's hand, but Ed saw worried how Roy disappeared among the scared crowd.
"Come Edward"
The Colonel approached to one of the thieves who was shooting his gun and snapped his hands scaring the horse so he would dump the man. When he tried to recover from the fall, Roy placed his hand in front of his face ready to snap his fingers again, but the thief was away too shocked to react.
"Who's you leader?!"
The man didn't say anything and passed out, so Roy let him there and attacked another of the thieves. However, a big explosion caught his attention and saw terrified how the Wheel of Fortune was falling with people on it and under it. He hurried drawing a transmutation circle on a paper, but he noticed shocked how Edward was running towards the metal structure with Hughes running behind him trying to stop the boy.
His eyes widened when he saw the blonde clapping his hands, "EDWARD! STOP!"
But the kid touched the metal structure that was bending and the Wheel stop falling while the passengers screamed in fear. Hughes stopped behind Ed not sure what he should do and Roy decided to attack the thief that was carrying the bazooka that destroyed the Wheel.
When he was sure the man was immobilized, the Colonel ran towards Edward afraid that it would be too much for the kid alone with the wheel, but then, he noticed something. The blonde had almost transmuted the metal structure to its original form, but something was wrong…
Ed had put both hands on his head and greeted his teeth at the same time the light from the transmutation began to become bigger and bigger. Roy ran towards the kid, but the force of the transmutation kept him from getting close to Edward.
"EDWARD! STOP! YOU HAVE TO STOP!"
The blonde fell on his knees still holding his head, but the transmutation became even stronger. Roy raised a hand to cover his eyes and thought as fast as he could in a way to approach him getting really scared since he didn't know what was happening. The man noticed the transmutation circle he had drawn in the piece of paper and used it to create a hole and a tunnel in the ground.
A few seconds later, he got out of the tunnel exactly in front Edward and hurried to grab him from the shoulders noticing the face of pain the blonde had.
"Edward! What's happening?!"
The kid tried to open his eyes, but he was unable to do it and screwed his eyes shut, "I-I don't…don't know! It hurts!"
"You have to stop!", he said when he heard how the metal structure began to creak dangerously, "Try to focus!"
Edward finally half opened his eyes watching the scared but confident gaze of Roy fixed on him, as he was telling him that he trusted the boy.
"You can do it"
The kid shut his eyes again and screwed them trying to ignore the pain and focus on controlling this power he had never felt before. It was hard, but he had to do it, Roy trusted him on doing it. He just had to.
Finally, Roy saw how the light of the transmutation began to fade quickly until the reaction disappeared. Edward panted with his hands still on his head and opened his eyes to see the smile on Roy's face, so he drew a tiny smile. A second later, he had passed away and the Colonel lifted him carefully running towards Hughes since a lot of people were staring at them confused.
"Call someone to come for the thieves. Let's get out of here", the man said to his best friend who just nodded and headed towards Gracia who was carrying a crying Elysia and guarding the fox in the cage already awake.
A man watched them leave with an interested face which turned into a smile of hope, while the crowd began to wonder what had happened. Then he turned around and disappeared.
Hughes watched at Roy from the rear view mirror and saw how he was checking Edward's vital signs and the Colonel sighed when he was sure the blonde was OK.
"We don't need to go to the hospital; he just has to take some rest"
Gracia turned around and glanced at him with worried eyes, "Are you sure? That was…horrible to say the least"
"I'm sure, Gracia", he said confident, "He will be fine"
Hughes stared at his best friend through the mirror slightly frowned, but Roy just nodded, so the L. Colonel decided to trust on his instincts and take both home. He better be right or the poor kid would suffer the consequences, but Roy rarely made mistakes.
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