A word from Me~ Sorry that this ones so short, but I didn't want to add the next part into this chapter, that would be addig way to much into a single chapter, so you'll have to wait till the next one to find out more, anyways thanks for reading and please continue too 3~
Ch. 19.- Cold.
Ed's arms dropped to his sides.
Was he seeing things? He hadn't seen his father since him and Al were children.
He hadn't been there at all, he just decided one day to get up and leave. His mother, Trisha, died waiting for him. He never came. Ed truly hated the man. Him and Al had spent years sending letter to try and get him to come home to see their mother. He'd never responded.
And yet in the middle of nowhere, out of the blue there stood the bastard, glazed over with shadow.
"What the Hell!" Was all Ed could spout out of his mouth.
He just looked at the man that stood before him, and the man looked back, eyes as cold and uninterested as he remembered them.
Roy took a step forward, and placed his hand on Ed's shoulder.
"Ed." He looked down and saw the anger and confusion swirling in Ed's eyes.
He lifted his gaze back to the man outside. He'd met Hohenheim before, He'd actually been searching for the man when he happened upon Ed that fateful night, many years ago.
"Hohenheim...It's been a long time." He calmly said, hiding his true surprise at seeing the famous alchemist. What the hell was he doing here of all places.
"The Flame Alchemist, I remember you, quite well." He responded to Roy with such a cold response, all the while keeping his gaze on his eldest son.
"Edward."
Ed stiffened as his father spoke his name.
"I see you've grown since the last time I've seen you, and Al...where is he?" His voice was filled with what sounded like empty concern.
Ed's face went from completely blank, to something Roy hadn't seen in a long time, pure anger.
"I've grown, where's Al?.." He cut his sentence short, and both his hands clenched tightly into fists.
"Ed..." Roy wanted to calm him down, but knew any attempt at that now would be in vain.
"WHAT THE HELL! IS THAT ALL YOU CAN FUCKING ASK ME YOU STUPID BASTARD!" His voice strained as it screamed, echoing in the distance.
His father just stood there.
"DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKING IDEA WHAT YOU'VE PUT ME AND AL THROUGH! NOT TO MENTION WHAT MOM HAD TO ENDURE!" His fists tightened, and his teeth clenched together.
"Ed, I am fully aware of what has went on within my family, since my absence, but I can hardly agree that any of it was my fault." Hohenheim's face was like stone, uttering these words as if it were nothing but a simple everyday conversation.
Roy was angered when he saw he complete lack of emotion that Hohenheim had towards his son, he couldn't believe that he didn't even blink at the pain his eldest son was showing him.
How he wanted to walk across the road, snap his fingers and turn the stiff bastard to ash.
But he didn't do a thing, he just stood there, it wasn't his place to interfere between Ed and his father, all he could do was support Ed emotionally. He gripped Ed's shoulder tighter, letting him know that he was there for him.
Ed felt Roy from behind and looked up, and gave Roy a smile, as best he could.
Roy nodded as Ed faced forward again.
"What the hell are you even doing here? You can't tell me you just happened to pass through the same exact town I was in, and just happened to come upon the Inn me and...my commanding officer were staying at." Ed's voice was low and filled with an accusing anger
It was doubtful that after years of not having any contact with his family, that Hohenheim just happened to run into in son in the middle of the night, while staying at a town that within just twenty-four hours had had a massacre.
'To hell with that' Roy thought. He'd been tired of seeing Ed suffer and angry as all his father did was coldly stare at him.
"Homhenheim...would you please come in, there are some things I'd like to discuss." Ry kept his eyes away from Ed, knowing he wouldn't be happy with his sudden request.
"Yes, I think I will, not that it's your place to invite someone in, when this isn't your home or establishment." The man spoke to Roy as if he were a young child.
He walked passed Roy and Ed, as if they were nothing.
He sat down at the counter and crossed his arms.
"Ed...lets go in."
Ed was just standing there. He didn't look at Roy, when he shook Roy's hand from his shoulder and walked past him, taking a seat on the bed.
Roy felt a cold chill inside the Inn.
Stinging with an invisible force.
He walked passed Ed, and sat quietly across from Hohenheim.
All three of them sat there for a while, not speaking one word.
Roy broke that silence.
"So What exactly are you doing here?" He put his elbows on the table, and rested his head on his hands. He tried to look as calm and indifferent as he could manage.
"I have been in this town for some time, I have become a doctor of sorts, healing the people of this town, and others. But as of recently I had to depart for a while on...some business." He lifted his eyes to Roy's.
"I see, a doctor? What was this 'business' exactly that made you want to leave?" Roy became suspicious.
"I needed to do some research on a new and updated theory on healing alchemy. Is there a problem with that, Colonel?" He sounded as calm as he'd been all night, but there was but a slight presence of annoyance at Roy's sudden interrogation.
"No there is not a problem with that, but I do have something else to ask you? Haven't you noticed that this town is completely empty, do you have the slightest idea why?" He looked at Hohenheims face, expecting to see even a trace of fear, sadness, curiosity or anything, but there was absolutely nothing.
"Yes, I did notice that, but It doesn't bother me much if there aren't any people in town, I'll just move on then to the next." He responded to Roy's obvious accusation with such a coy voice that it was really starting to piss Roy off.
"I see." Roy remarked. Hiding his anger behind his hands.
He took a quick glance over towards the bed and saw Ed, sitting there, staring at the back of Hoheheims head.
Hohenheim noticed that Roy's attention had been averted towards Ed and turned his body to face his son.
"Ed, you both have been questioning me for my reason for being here, but I have been wondering the same thing, what exactly are you both doing here."
"We...are.." Roy started to answer the mans questions in Eds place.
"I did not ask you. I asked my son."
Ed glared at his father.
"Like it's any of your fucking business" Ed glared harshly into Hohenheim's eyes.
"I think you owe me the courtesy of answering my question, since I answered yours. Not to mention you shouldn't speak to your father that way, show some respect boy."
"Screw you." Ed turned his body so his back was facing the two men at the counter.
Roy was about to intervene when He saw Hohenheim rise from there chair, and raise his arm.
The man smack Ed on the back of his head with full force, knocking him to the ground.
"I said show some respect you ungrateful child. I am your father so you better act like my son."
Ed grabbed his head and winced in pain.
"I can damn well speak to you anyway I fucking want, your no fucking father to me. Screw You. Screw You. Screw You. I hate you and I want absolutely nothing to do with you, neither does Al."
"You..." Hohenheim took another step forward.
Roy saw that he was angry, and got to his feet so he could prevent him from hitting Ed again.
But before he could get in between them, Hohenheim had grabbed Ed by the braid and had pulled him up, to the point that Ed couldn't touch the ground.
"Your an ungrateful, spiteful, selfish little brat, I loved your mother and you boys, How dare you speak to me like this." He tossed Ed on the bed as if he were a rag doll.
"I'm warning you two, don't get involved in things that don't concern you, or bad things will happen."
He turned towards the door.
Roy ran to Ed's side and made sure he was alright.
"Ed, are you hurt.?"
"Colonel I'm fine.". Ed looked pissed.
He turned his head and glared viciously at Hohenheim.
"Fuck you, Roy and I can do whatever we please, you have no say in it, so go back to whatever fucking hole you crawled out of."
Hohenheim didn't even flinch at Ed's remark, he just placed his hand on the doorknob and left.
Before he was all the way out Roy heard him utter the word's. "Don't say I didn't warn you."
At that moment, Roy recalled what He'd heard the little girl tell Ed.
He looked back at the door, and Hohenheim was gone.
"Ed we have a huge problem."
They'd delved themselves deeper into the mystery of the Philosophers stone, and as they get closer, the more danger they shall face.
