Super long chapter since I made you wait like forever, didn't I? XD Sorry, school is being pretty hard and I began to edit my new AMV featuring Edward and Roy and After Effects is a pain in the ass XD. So, enough blablabla, I hope you enjoy this chapter!
"It's all about trust"
Roy knocked at the door and yawned as he waited for someone to open it. Of course he knew he didn't have to wait too long when the door opened and Gracia appeared with a sweet smile on her face.
"Roy, welcome back", she said stepping aside to let the man enter the house.
The man smiled as he closed the door behind him. "Yeah, It's nice to be back to the civilization"
Both got into the living room where Hughes where playing with Elysia making funny noises as the girl laughed happily, but Roy just shook his head.
"Hey there! About time you were back already", Hughes said laying down the girl in the couch and approaching Roy to greet him.
"Come on, it were just 5 weeks"
"But you missed Elysia's first draw!", he complained funnily hearing how her daughter laughed at his voice.
Roy rolled his eyes and sat down in the couch patting Elysia's head who was now yawning tiredly, so Gracia picked her up, "I'll be upstairs, It was nice to see you again, Roy"
The man nodded and Gracia left the living room as Hughes sat down in the couch quite disappointed that her daughter decided to go to sleep already since he was having so much fun with her.
"So", Maes began, "Where's Edward?"
"I left him sleeping in the house, I asked a neighbor to keep an eye on it. He was pretty tired from the trip and I didn't want to disturb him"
Hughes' smile grew considerably, but he didn't say anything about it, "How did it go?"
Yeah, the question Roy was waiting for, "Well, I would say 'good'", he answered leaning on the back of the couch as Maes stared at him inquiringly, "He now is able to perform alchemy without risk as long as he don't try something huge like a building or something"
"Do you know now what's wrong with him then?"
Roy shook his head quite ashamed, "I wasn't able to figure out why he loses control of his alchemy, but at least I trained him so he could used it without worries…at normal stuff at least"
Hughes taped his fingers on the couch studying his friend's expression. He was seemed so disappointed, "You're blaming yourself that you couldn't do more for him, aren't you?"
The man smiled and closed his eyes, "You know I am"
"But you shouldn't"
Roy snorted impatiently, "I came here to ask you something actually", he said trying to change the subject, so Hughes sighed, "Do you know where the scientist that were in the lab are right now?"
The Lieutenant Coronel blinked a few times before he could process what Roy had asked him, "Why?"
"Isn't it obvious? They must know more about Edward…or I least I hope"
"And you think they will talk to you just like that?", Hughes asked him slightly smiling, but he knew the answer already.
"I have my methods"
Sigh. That was all Hughes could say to the matter. He knew Roy very well and the look on his eyes told him to stop whatever he was going to tell him. "Then let me go with you"
Roy raised a brow and stared at his friend for a second, "Why?"
"To stop you when I think is enough. I'm sure you're going to do whatever it takes to get information from them"
The Colonel smiled quite naughtily. Yeah, of course he would if he had to, but he was hoping the situation wouldn't get that far. "Alright, tomorrow we'll go"
Hughes nodded more resigned than anything else. Tomorrow was going to be a long day, he was sure of that.
When Roy got home, he heard the TV on in the living room, so he walked towards it just to see a sleeping blonde in the couch with Fuch on the floor moving his tail. The man approached Ed and sat down in the couch trying to not wake up the boy, he probably was tired from the trip on the train.
He examined the kid for a moment and noticed a few scratches on his arms, most of them because Edward wanted to play the explorer card in the woods. Kids.
Roy went upstairs to get ready to go to bed, but when he was buttoning his shirt pijamas, he saw how Edward was at the frame of the door rubbing his eyes almost falling sleep on his feet.
"I'm sorry. Did I wake you up?". Ed just shrugged and yawned tiredly, so the man smiled kindly, "You should go to your room"
"Are we going to the Headquarters tomorrow?", he said quite dozed holding back a yawn.
The man shook his head walking towards him, "No, tomorrow is Sunday. I have something to do and I'll take you to Pinako's while I'm out"
"…Pinako's?", the blonde repeated confused.
"She's the grandmother of Winry and Alphonse, remember them?"
Edward raised a brow unconvinced by the idea of hanging with two…well…kids, "I guess…why do I have to stay with them?"
"Because", Roy began placing a hand on the kid's head, "You can't come with me and I won't leave you alone for such long time"
The boy just did a 'mh' sound but nodded since he wasn't in the mood to begin an argument, so Roy patted his head.
"Good night"
Ed yawned and raised a hand while he was walking, "Good night"
The man watched the boy left the room and smiled feeling kind of bad for him. Of course he wouldn't want to stay with people he didn't know when he was a kid, and he was quite sure Edward didn't like to interact with kids of his age.
…………..
"Mustang-San, I don't want t stay with them…I don't know them that well!"
Roy rolled his eyes for the fifth time that morning. They had had that conversation three times just in the few hours they had awake, and the blonde didn't want to drop it, he just keep going as he was sure Mustang would give up and bring the boy along.
"As I already told you, you can't come with me this time and it will be just a few hours", he told him as he glanced at the mirror to check if everything was OK, but he just saw Edward with folded arms and a cocked brow.
"Where that place would be? I'm 10 years old! I can go anywhere!", the blonde complained approaching the man who handed him his crimson jacket, "Please"
"No, Ed. Period. I promise you we'll go whatever you want once I'm finished"
Edward snorted and left the room as his way to throw a tantrum, but Roy found it funnier than anything else, so he followed him and both got out of the house saying goodbye to Fuch who was sleeping in the couch oblivious to the fact that he was being left alone.
As both walked in silence, Roy glanced at the kid out of the corner of his eyes and noticed that he still had his arms crossed and was frowned. He better please the boy in the afternoon or he would be mad forever…
Soon, they stopped in front of Pinako's house and the old woman was already at the porch with her pipe and her dog at her side. She smiled – or smirked would be more accurate – when she saw how cranky Edward was.
"I guess your nephew doesn't like the idea of hanging out with some strangers"
Roy smiled and patted the blonde's head which only made the kid growl, "Not really, but I have to thank you. I know he will be OK here"
"Indeed he will", the woman said opening the fence, "I'm sure he will be fine once he get to know Winry and Alphonse"
The man nodded and kneeled in front of the blonde trying not to feel bad since Edward had changed his face into a nervous once, but he was sure he was trying to manipulate him, "Be a good boy, I'll be back at noon I hope, alright?"
"But-"
"See you"
Said that, Roy stood up and pushed Edward gently so Pinako could close the fence. He waved his hand and turned around quickly so he wouldn't see the victim expression the kid had, damn the kid.
"Winry and Alphonse are still sleeping, but Den will keep you company", Pinako told him walking towards the house as Den approached Edward.
The kid just sighed in resignation and saw how the dog was staring at him moving his tail happily, obviously expecting him to play, "…Alright"
……….
Roy sat down in the chair in front of the small table and tapped his fingers impatient. He definitely didn't like the interrogatory room at all, but since the doctors were still waiting to be prosecuted, he had to interrogate them there.
He waited a few minutes looking around and glanced at the dark window in front of him where Hughes would be to watch him and intervene "if necessary" as he said. He had no idea why his friend thought he should be worried about that, but he didn't say anything about it.
Finally, the door opened and Roy saw a handcuffed Dr. Marcoh entering the small room almost pushed by an officer who forced him to sit down and stood in the corner of the place folding his arms. The Colonel stared at the man for a moment before saying anything, but he turned his hands into fists when Marcoh smiled as he was mocking him.
"I'll give you some credit. I thought you would come a few days after you decided to kept that brat but apparently you decided to try on your way first", the scientist said quite amused, but Roy didn't show any emotion.
"You know why I'm here so talk already"
Marcoh tried not to laugh , "Why I should know? It could be anything. Just ask you question"
Roy taped his fingers and shot him a glare "What did you do with Edward?"
"Ohh, Edward. I think they never told him his real name", Dr. Marcoh smirked again, "But anywhay, I think you should know that we didn't do anything to him"
The Coronel grabbed his jaw quite impatient and stared at the man with frowned brows, "I'm not in a good mood, Dr. Marcoh"
"I'm telling you the truth. Actually, you probably did the worst mistake you could have made"
"Yeah? And why would that be?", Roy asked trying to draw a smirk, but he was getting mad.
Marcoh moved on his chair uncomfortably, but still enjoying the situation. "We didn't do anything to that boy, in fact, he was able to survive because he was in that lab and we manage to control him"
"Stop babbling already and tell me what I want to know"
The scientist smiled and sighed, "I don't know why should I tell you anything, thanks to you I'll spend the rest of my life in jail"
It was Roy's turn to smirk, "I think they are talking about death penalty", he said and smirked wider when he noticed how Marcoh's face darkened, "You don't mind?"
The man clenched his fists and frowned, but his smile didn't erase, "It's almost the same, don't you think?"
"Are you sure, Dr. Marcoh? You're face doesn't tell me that", Roy said quite sure he had hit the right spot, "I can do that for you if you tell me everything you know about Edward. Fair enough, right?"
Marcoh glanced at the dark glass for a moment as he was analyzing the deal, but Roy was sure he was going to take it since Edward wasn't longer important to him.
"That boy", the doctor began, "All the information about his past in the record is false, he didn't get in the lab when he was 3 years old. An old friend of mine found him when his town got attacked by some men and he saw his mother dying during it. He was like 5 years old I think"
Roy raised a brow…Edward never mentioned something like that, he just had nightmares of when he tried to transmute her mother…
"It was the Alchemists Union who destroyed the town of course and my friend took the boy when he saw how they killed his mother", Marcoh glanced at Roy who was hearing him attentively, "But the boy managed to slip out of him and ran towards his mother. My friend told me that the kid quickly drew a simple transmutation circle and tried to get close to his mother, but when he was about to touch her, my friend moved him"
The Colonel half closed his eyes staring at the man, "He didn't transmute his mother?"
"No at that time, but he activated the transmutation", Marcoh continued quite serious, "My friend told me that he saw how the transmutation went out of control and the kid began to scream out of pain, so he grabbed him by the force interrupting it and the boy immediately fainted. That was when he brought him to us in the lab. The kid had lost a big part of his memory due to the transmutation"
"Please don't say that you wanted to help him", Mustang said smirking, "I won't believe you"
"I won't tell you that", the doctor confirmed with a smile on his face, "Basque Grand was there when he brought the boy and heard everything. I was going to tell my friend that I couldn't do anything for him, but Basque Grand ordered us to begin a research on the boy immediately"
"Then I was totally right, the Military wants that boy"
"You have a good intuition, Mustang, I always knew that", Marcoh remarked somewhat bitterly, "So I have to say that I'm surprised that you agreed to keep the boy since you know that's part of their plan"
Roy just smiled and laid in the back of the chair as he tapped his fingers, "Did you discover something in all these years about the alchemy of Edward?"
Marcoh shook his head, "Not quite. We just managed to control it and I kind of hope you did too since he is a danger to the people around him"
"You don't have to worry about that", the Colonel assured still tapping his fingers, "Are you telling me that after all these years you didn't find the reason of the power of the boy?"
"We had orders to perform another researches, as you saw while you were at the lab", Marcoh snorted and smirked, "Just for the record, we didn't have bad intentions with him"
"Of course", Roy moved his head so the officer forced Marcoh to stand up, "I'll do whatever I can to lower your penalty"
Said that, the officer pulled Marcoh outside the room and Roy approached the dark glass aware that Hughes was staring at him, "So I think Edward's alchemy doesn't have a scientist explanation"
A few seconds later, he heard Maes voice through the loudspeaker, "What are you going to do?"
"…I've no idea"
………………
Edward blinked again and saw how Winry handed him an orange juice while Al was looking for something in the fridge. They were weird, barely know him and both had welcomed him as a old friend.
"Where did Mustang-San go?", Winry asked him suddenly making him flinch and stare at her for a second.
"He didn't tell me…something about his job I think"
"He should quit that job already", the girl added with a hint of concern on his voice, "I heard on the news that there's some riots not too far from here and he probably will have to go"
Edward saw how the girl's face became sad and Alphonse placed a hand on her shoulder as he was telling her that everything would be OK….This kids really liked Roy so it seems.
"He hasn't told me anything about that, I don't think you should worry yet", the blond said quite shyly, even more when Winry smiled excited.
"I'm glad"
Alphonse sat down next to Edward who was drinking his juice while Winry ran towards the kitchen were Pinako was doing the breakfast.
"Try not to feel intimidated by Winry", the boy told Ed suddenly, "She's a good girl, just a little…scary sometimes"
Edward smiled and nodded, but then noticed that his shirt sleeve wasn't in his place showing a little of the automail arm and moved it quickly catching Alphonse attention.
"Something's wrong?"
"…No, my arm itched, that's all"
Alphonse smiled, but before he could say anything, Winry approached and sat down in front of Edward and laid down a plate with toast, "Let's eat, Grandma wants to go downtown to buy some stuff and she wants us to go with her"
"But she went the day before yesterday, didn't she?", Alphonse said almost complaining.
"Yes, but some clients came yesterday and we're going to need more supplies than we thought", the girl explained excited although Edward couldn't understand why she was so happy about that.
He would really like to stay in the house, but Pinako didn't let him and now he was walking at Alphonse's side with Den at his other side moving his tail. It seemed that this was something they usually do and he felt like an intruder for some reason.
"What do they want to buy?", Ed decided to ask finally catching Alphonse attention.
"Automail supplies", he answered with a smile, "Winry's paradise"
"….Paradise?", Edward tried not to show any emotion at the word 'automail' and he was sure he had succeeded.
"She loves everything that has to do with Automails", Alphonse explained with a smile, "Some boys says she is such a freak for that"
"…I see". Edward agreed on that.
"Edward-Kun, can I ask you why are you staying with Mustang-San?"
The blond certainly wasn't expecting that question…but the worst thing was that he didn't know how to answered it, "I-I…It's kind of a vacation thing actually"
"I see", Alphonse said smiling, "But for vacations I would have chosen the beach not Central"
Edward smiled him back and shrugged. "Maybe"
"Since you're Mustang-San nephew, I'm right to assume you're a great alchemist?"
The blond smiled shyly, "Alchemist, yes. Great…not sure. What about you?"
"He lend me some of his books, that's how I learned to use Alchemy", the kid say slightly ashamed, "So of course I'm not an expert"
"Neither I am", Edward said a little more confident. This was the first time he had really interacted with another kid…and it wasn't that bad, "But Mustang-San is training me"
"Yeah? That's must be exciting!"
"Actually it is. He's pretty tough, but his alchemy is very well-trained"
"Hey! You two! Hurry up!"
Both saw Winry waving her hand standing in front of a store very ahead from where they were. The boys hurried up their steps and went inside following the girl who just approached Pinako squealing about a new product they had in there. Edward glanced around and noticed it was the automail store and that gave him Goosebumps, but tried to remain smiling since Al was at his side.
"Aren't you interested in automail?", the kid tried to focus his attention on something else than the screws and metal pieces he had in front of him.
"Not really", Alphonse said sincerely, "Don't get me wrong, of course it's amazing that they can gave someone a limb, but mechanic stuff…not my thing at all"
Edward almost chuckled, but just drew a smile and watched how Winry was all giggling. What a curious girl...he better never mention that he had an automail.
Almost an hour later, they were walking back to Pinako's house, who smiled at the fact of how chatty Edward, Al and Winry were. Roy had told her that he wouldn't probably feel comfortable around the kids, but he had been really wrong and she was happy for that.
However, when she glanced at the kids through a store window display, she noticed how a man was following the kids staring at Edward fixedly, so she hurried them.
"Let's eat something in that cafeteria", the old woman said pushing them.
"Alright, Grandma, you don't have to push us", Winry complained.
When they were on the table, Ed and Alphonse were talking cheerfully while Winry analyzed the menu deciding what she wanted to eat. Pinako, in the other hand, watched how the man got into the cafeteria too and took a seat near them. She had to call Roy, but how would she do it without leaving the kids alone? Fortunately, a waitress she knew was on her shift, so Pinako called for her with her hand.
"Pinako-San! I long time without seen you", the woman said smiling, "Can I take your order?"
"Hi sweetheart, I need you to do me a favor, could you?"
The waitress seemed surprised, but nodded when she noticed the seriousness in Pinako's face. The kids, oblivious to the situation were arguing about the best dessert they had ever tried, so the old woman relaxed or tried to; if the man tried something, she wasn't sure what they could do to protect Edward.
Fifteen minutes later, they were eating their meals…sort of. Ed and Alphonse were discussing something about Alchemy and WInry just heard them attentive since she didn't know anything about the subject, but it sounded amazing. Pinako glanced at the man every now and then and he was still there drinking coffee...maybe she had overreacted.
However, Roy finally arrived ruffling Ed's hair who growled and tried to fix it. "Hi kids, is the food good?"
"Yeah, it's actually pretty good", Alphonse answered before he took a bit of it.
Mustang smiled and turned at Pinako who moved her eyes indicating who the suspicious man was. The Colonel stared at him for a few seconds, but then he glanced at Edward as anything was happening.
"Are you free for the rest of the afternoon?", Edward asked him suddenly which made him flinch.
"Yes, we can go wherever you want"
The blonde smiled happily, "I want to go to the book store!"
"…the book store? Come on, you're a kid. Shouldn't you want to go to the Central Park or something?"
"Alphonse-Kun told me there are brand new books, I want to take an eye on them", he said moving his fork, "I really need new books"
"Alright, alright. We'll go after here", the man gave up glancing at the man again.
However, this wasn't going to be that easy, "Can we go too!", Alphonse and Winry asked together taking the man by surprise.
Pinako shook his head, "He must have other plans, kids. You can't ask him that so suddenly"
"But grandma!", both complained disappointed, but Roy nodded happily.
"You can come if Edward is ok with that"
The blond was surprised that Roy had asked for his opinion, but he nodded too so both kids smiled excited. He would have to open his eyes like never before.
And so he did, always trying to be a inch far from the kid although Edward was busier showing books to Alphonse. He glanced around and noticed the man not so far from them, so he approached the kids and placed a hand on Ed's shoulder.
"Can we buy these books?", the blond asked him suddenly.
"Grab as many as you want"
Edward smiled excited and began to discuss which books would be better to buy while Winry just watch them clearly not understanding what the big deal was about alchemy. Roy sat down next to the boy glancing at the man every now and then.
"We're done", Ed announced carrying like 7 books on his arms, "I think these will be enough for one week since they look difficult"
Roy sweat dropped, but nodded so Edward ran towards the cash desk and the girl on it smiled kindly grabbing the books.
"…These books are pretty hard to understand, you know?", the woman said surprised when she saw the titles, "You probably aren't going to understand a thing"
The blond stared at her quite grumpy, but Alphonse shook his head telling him that he shouldn't tell her anything, "They're for my dad"
"Oh, I see!", she said a little more relaxed.
Roy approached them to pay for the books, but he took the chance to flirt with the woman a little while Alphonse laughed covering his hand and Edward rolled his eyes and Winry shook her head sighing.
……………
That night, Edward was reading one of the books almost sweating, the damn was so hard! But he will do his best effort to understand them. Fuch was in the table moving his tail as he was watching Ed studying…or maybe he just was waiting for him to give him food.
In that moment, the phone rang and the kid glanced at the device for a second. Roy was taking a shower so he wouldn't probably hear it, so the blond stood up and picked it up.
"Hello?"
"I'm glad you answered", a deep voice said, it has to be a man, "I need to see you in the telephone booth at the corner of the street"
"…Who the hell is this?"
"Don't ask questions. If you don't come, I could get a little mad and take it with your little neighbors you hung out today with, the same if you say something to Mustang". The blonde's eyes widened and remained silently for a moment, which mad the man laugh, "I'll wait just 5 minutes"
After that, the man hung up leaving a shocked Edward with the phone still on his ear staring at the wall with a blank stare. He left the device on his space and took a pick at the upper roof where he heard the water still on in the bath and then glanced at Fuch who was staring at him.
The boy frowned, grabbed his jacket and ran out of the house as fast as he could through the street feeling that he was making a mistake, but he didn't have a choice. Soon, he saw a man near the phone booth with a hat and a raincoat with his hands on his pocket staring at the blond, who stopped a few feet away from him.
"You came", the man said smirking, "Good, very good"
"What the hell you want?", Edward asked trying to hurry the meeting since he was sure Roy would notice he was gone soon.
"Let me introduce first", he said almost mocking him, "My name is Leijon", the man began. He had a deep voice that made the boy shiver, "I've heard that you're a powerful alchemist"
Edward blinked a few times before answering, but then he turned around, "I think you're confusing me with other person"
"Of course I'm not"
The blond stopped with wide eyes and turned around again to see the man onto his eyes; yes, for some reason, this man knew…
"So?", Edward asked trying to apparent a calmness he wasn't really feeling.
"So, I'm quite interested in you. I saw how powerful you are that day in the fair where you tried to transmute the Ferris Wheel"
Ed tried to remain emotionless, but cocked a brow, "So?"
Leijon smirked slightly amused by the boy's attitude, "So, I kind of need you"
"Good for you…or this case, bad, because I'm not helping you"
"Oh of course you're going to", the man said, his voice more threatening each time he spoke, "Or I will make you regret that you didn't"
The boy clenched his fists and his teeth, but he couldn't let this man hurt anybody because of him, "What do you want me to do?"
"Come with me"
No, he couldn't, "Mustang-San will notice I'm not in the house very soon. I can't"
Leijon frowned, this time clearly irritated, and tried to approached Ed, who had transmuted his automail into a blade and threatened him placing it right on his chest.
"Don't even think about it", the kid said, half confident half nervous.
"Such reflexes, I'm impressed", he said amused, "But not quite"
The man did a quick move and slapped the automail, but before he could grab Edward's neck the kid backed up and kicked him in the stomach. The boy tried to run, but Leijon recovered fast and grabbed his arm slamming him against a wall painfully with his automail immobilized"
"Don't try that again you stupid kid, as I told you, you won't suffer the consequences but your little friends will"
Edward narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth, so the man let him free and began to walk pretty sure the blond would follow him. And he wasn't wrong; Ed began to walk behind him his head down but clearly scared since his fists were shaking. It didn't take long before they got into a dark house where everything upside down as nobody lived there, but there was food, so…
Leijon guided the kid through a basement until they reached a door and he opened it revealing a gloomy laboratory with book everywhere and some substances in the table. However, that wasn't what caught Edward's attention, but what was in the middle of the room.
Some stuff gathered together in the middle of a transmutation circle…a transmutation circle he knew very well.
"W-wha-what ar-", he stammered with wide eyes.
"It's pretty simple", the man said with a malicious but hopeful smirk, "I want you to bring back my lovely wife, Charlotte"
"…Bring back?", Ed said trying to pretend he didn't know what he was talking about, but feeling a hole in his stomach.
"He died last year due to a sickness the doctors couldn't treat", Leijon said clenching his fists, "She didn't deserve to day; she was a sweet woman. I want you to bring her back from death"
Edward then lost it. He shook his head freaked out and turned around to try to get of the place, but Leijon had closed the door. The blond quickly clapped his hands, but the man grabbed his arms and slammed him against the door.
"I'm not asking you, you better do it before I lose my patience"
"I'm not doing it!", Ed hissed trying to slip away, "Leave me alone!"
Leijon slammed him again hard against the door making the boy groan in pain and stop the struggling, "I'm sure you know how to do it, bring her back!"
"NO! Let me go!"
"BRING HER BACK!"
"I CAN'T!"
The man stopped shaking the blond and stared at him with wide eyes for a moment analyzing what he had said, "What do you mean with 'you can't?"
Ed looked at the man back with narrowed eyes, "I can't bring her back"
"Why do you say that! Of course you can! Such powerful alchemist must be able to do what others can't!"
"I CAN'T BRING HER BACK!"
Leijon stared at him with shocked eyes, almost squeezing Ed's wrists at the point that the left began to hurt a lot, but the kid did not move.
"I can't bring her back", the kid said a little more calmed, "Why do you think I have an automail arm?", he asked him bitterly. The man backed up with wide eyes leaving the kid free but staring at the automail hand. "I can't transmute something that doesn't exist anymore"
"SHUT UP! OF COURSE SHE EXISTS!"
"SHE DON'T!"
Leijon clenched his fists, but pulled the kid until he was in front of the transmutation circle and aimed a gun at his head, "Bring-her-back. I won't say it again"
This was when Edward began to shake in fear. The man was crazy, even thought he had told him that he had lost a limb for trying human transmutation he didn't care and now he had a gun on his head.
"The only thing that will happen if I active the transmutation is that both of us could lose parts of our body or our lives!", the kid said trying to remain calm and not panic…at least not yet.
"Well, in any case it will be you who lose your body, but she will be alive so I don't care"
Ed breathed agitated as he tried to analyze the situation and escape, but he would have to be quick…very quick. "…I'll try"
Leijon smiled, but didn't lower the gun as Edward felt the cannon on the back of his head. He slowly clapped his hands but then stopped staring at the transmutation circle, which made the man press the cannon harder against his blonde head.
It was now or never. Edward moved to kick him in a foot sweep so the man fell on the ground and touched the gun to transmute it into a steel bar. He felt his heart beating as fast as ever, but he hurried to the door, clapped his hands and transmuted it.
He began to run but he heard that Leijon was just behind him and of course he was faster than him since he had shorter legs - shorter! – but he didn't look back. Ed hurried through the stairs feeling the man closer at every step, so he clapped his hands and touched the floor to transmute a small wall to stop him, but when he glanced back he saw how Leijon easily dodged the wall.
Maybe he should fight him back now that the man didn't have the gun, but he didn't have a chance to decide since when he turned a corner he bumped into someone and almost fell in the floor if that person hadn't grabbed him. He felt how whoever had stopped him pulled the blond behind, and it was when he saw the gloved. It was Roy.
"Stop right there you son of a bitch", the Colonel hissed drawing Edward closer to him, "Or be sure that I'll burn your ass off"
Leijon stopped shocked, of course he knew who Roy was and how powerful he could be, and he was mad, pretty mad.
"You're under arrest you bastard"
………..
Edward was in the living room of Roy's house moving his fingers nervously with Fuch at his side laid down. Mustang was outside with some officers who would take Leijon under arrest while he waited inside the house…waited to be scolded he was sure.
Finally, he heard a door opening and closing quietly. Well, at least he didn't slam it…it could be a good sign, couldn't it? When Roy appeared in the living room, the kid straightened up and stared at the man, he didn't seem that mad, but he was mad.
"Why did you go out of the house?", the Colonel simply asked glancing at the nervous boy who flinched at the question.
"I-I….He-He….", Ed stammered not quite sure what he should say, "…I'm sorry"
Roy crossed his arms and sighed, he knew what had happened since he interrogated the man, but what he didn't understand was why Edward couldn't just trust him when something like this happened. It would be like this forever?
The man approached Edward who became even more nervous, but Roy just kneeled down and placed both hands on the kid's shoulders, "Are you alright?". Edward blinked a few times surprised by the question, but he merely nodded and gulped. "It's alright, Ed. But you have to understand that you can solve things like this on your own".
Edward lowered his head and averted his gaze quite ashamed…but he had done it for a good reason, hadn't he?
"Why don't you trust me?"
That question took the boy out of guard. Of course he trusted the man! "Why do you say that? You know I trust you"
Roy smiled kind of relieved by the answer and nodded, "Then you have to understand that a lot of people will be interested in your alchemy, but I'm here to protect you from them, alright?"
If Ed wasn't that embarrassed in that moment, he would have sighed in relief, but he merely smiled. "How did you find me?"
"Well, when I noticed you were gone – and voluntary since you jacket wasn't here too", Roy began as he boy blushed in embarrassment, "I went out looking for you scaring the little people that was outside since it was too late asking if they had seen you and fortunately someone saw you getting into the psycho's house"
"I see…", yeah, that was all Edward could say to the matter. If he could be more ashamed he would be.
"Are you sure you're Ok? That man was crazy"
Actually, he had almost forgotten about the incident per se…he had been a little more scared of disappointing Roy. "Yeah, I'm ok I guess"
"Then you better sleep. Your punishment for going out without permission begins tomorrow"
Edward sweat dropped and narrowed his eyes, but Roy stood up and ruffled his hair as he headed towards the kitchen to make a quick dinner.
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