Ch. 16- Promises.

"It's cold..." Ed shivered as he felt a cold breeze brush across his cheek.

"Ed your awake?" Roy was already up, and staring into the distance.

"Yeah..." Ed rubbed his eyes, removing any sign of being tired.

Roy put his arm around Ed's shoulders.

"You gonna be alright? You went through a lot last night..." He glanced at Ed, making sure the he didn't notice.

"Yeah...I am going to be ok, I just can't believe I let myself wind up like that, I was pathetic...and I actually believed that Envy was you...When you both are completely different. Roy your..."

Ed looked into Roy's eyes. Pulled himself up, and surrounded Roy with his arms, with his head across the colonel's shoulder he said...

"Roy your my hero, thankyou for saving me. I love you." He meant every word. He would never mistake a monster like Envy for Roy ever again.

"Ed, I love you too." Roy hugged Ed back.

They sat there like that for a while, when Roy suddenly pulled away from the embrace and looked at Ed.

"Roy?"

"Ed...maybe we should give up, I can't take it if I loose you again, maybe this isn't worth..."

Ed's finger tapped Roy on the mouth, stopping Roy from completing what he was saying.

"Ed.." he mumbled.

"Roy, I know i got captured, I know I scared you, but I can't give up just because my life was in danger, I need to do this for Al, he needs his body back. Don't ask me to give up on him. Please."

Ed's eyes were full of courage, one of the many things people admired him for.

"Ed...I understand, we will continue to look... But I won't let anything like this happen again. I promise."

"I won't let it happen either, I'll be stronger." Ed gave Roy a soft kiss on the lips.

"That's my promise." He giggled. Kissing Roy again, lightly.

"We sure do make a lot of promises together don't we?" He stood up, pulling Roy's hand up with him.

"Ed?" Roy didn't want to leave yet, not just yet.

"Roy we can't stay here and mope around forever, we have to get going, leave Leore and head on to the next place...and.." Ed taped his head remembering something,

"I think we should tell Rose that I'm alright." He winked.

"I think that would be smart."

"Oh Edward..." Roy rolled his eyes, Ed was to cute.

So they got up and started walking back to Rose's, hand in hand.

"ROSE!" The father ran into the house yelling.

"Daddy! What is it!" She ran out to the street.

"Look!" He pointed to the end of the street.

Two people were walking towards them.

One started to wave.

"Ed...!"

Rose ran towards the both of them and hugged them.

"Thank god! Thank god! Your both ok!"

She was so happy, she'd been so worried about Ed and Roy.

"What happened to you Edward!" She grabbed him and hugged him tight.

"Nothing for you to worry about anymore." He smiled reassuring her that he was ok.

"But..." She didn't believe him.

"It's alright, I'm ok, thanks to him." He looked at Roy, blushing a little, then grabbed his and and pushed his side against Roy's.

"Oh! Mr. Mustang! You really are a good man! Thankyou for saving Edward!"

"No need to thank me Rose, I had to save him, I did make a promise." Roy winked at Ed.

Ed giggled.

"Aw! Well thankyou again anyway!" Rose smiled. She was truly happy that Ed was ok, and she didn't flirt with him again, because she knew how Roy felt.

"So are you two staying in Leore or..." She didn't want them to leave yet.

"Yes, we have to get moving, there is something I need to check out." Roy said frankly.

Ed looked at him. 'Something he needs to check out?' He had know idea what Roy meant.

"Yeah, well Rose thankyou for absolutely everything, and you guys too!" He looked at Rose's parents and gave them a nod.

Hugging Rose one last time, the two alchemists headed off to the train station.

They arrived at the station and Roy sat on the bench next to the ticket booth,

Ed followed.

"Roy, what were you talking about before? What do you need to check out?"

"Well...I started thinking about something, Lust was there with Envy, but she just suddenly left on a boat. Where exactly was she going, If her main objective was to capture you, why would she leave just you and Envy there alone?"

Roy was deep in thought.

"Well when she was there with Envy and me, she said something about her being needed by someone, specifically she said 'he' needed her."

"Well...It looks like our theory of there being someone behind the Homunculi is true. I have a feeling that 'he' is an alchemist, there's no way that things as strong as the homunculus would listen to anyone else."

"Yeah...but then who could possibly be so strong..." Ed was puzzled, and terrified at the thought of someone being so strong that even the homunculus were scared.

Roy saw Ed's fear and pushed Ed's head onto his chest.

"Edward, it'll be alright...nothing bad will happen, we will find out who's behind this, and obliterate them and you'll finally get the stone to restore your brother's body, and your own."

Ed knew Roy was right. "Yeah I know, I don't have to worry with the both of us working together, and knowing that Al's safe."

"Now..."

"Roy?..."

"Ed, we need to figure out where we should go to next, my guess it'll be a place with some type of port, considering Lust took a boat to go see whoever 'he' is"

"Yeah...and the only town that has any kind of port near here is..."

They both thought about it for a minute.

"Prodigium!" They both said at the same time.

"Good work, Ed."

"So is that where we should head to?"

"Yes, we'll have to take the train though, taking a boat isn't a good idea if Lust took one, we could end up in a trap."

"Yeah I agree, the train ride will be longer though."

"Well we'll have to endure it" Roy said sarcastically, like he couldn't handle being with Ed alone in a small room.

They got up, and asked for two tickets to Prodigium.

"Well the train leaves..."

They looked at their tickets.

"NOW!"

"Shit!"

*CHOO-CHOO*

They saw a train getting ready to leave, it slowly began to pull away.

"Oh crap, Ed lets move"

"Colonel! I can't..."

Roy picked Ed up.

"Hey!"

"Quiet!"

Roy sprinted as fast as he could.

"Ed! I need you to transmute us a rope or something!"

"WITH WHAT EXACTLY!"

"FIGURE SOMETHING OUT!"

Ed tore off his belt and jacket and clapped his hands together,

His belt and jacket were transmuted into a rope with a hook.

"Ed! Toss it at the back!"

Ed through the hook.

*CLANK*

It got hooked on the bar on the trains back.

"WOAH" Ed squealed as Roy pulled the rope, getting them closer to the train.

They reached it.

"Wow that was a lot of work!" Ed wiped his arm over his slightly sweaty forehead.

"Right Roy..."

He looked at Roy, who was gasping for air.

"Work! You! Im the one who just ran and pulled us onto this damned thing!" He was all red.

"Aww...well thankyou for that." Ed lowered himself down to give Roy a kiss on the forehead.

"Ew...your all salty,,,:

"Well Ed, I am sweating..." Roy was still breathing hard.

"I know...I like it." Ed grinned, shaking his hips side to side, playfully.

"Your an EVIL kid sometimes."

"Don't you love it?"

"I love YOU..."

Ed blushed.

"Let's go Roy..."

"Yeah...

They went into the train, and found there seats...

Roy made sure to close the door behind him, tightly.