~A word from Moi~-This ones kind of short, I geuss it could be called a 'filler' chapter...only a couple more left until the end! ~~~
Ch. 24-Miracle.
"Roy..."
Ed opened his eyes and pulled away from Roy's lips.
"Mmm...Ed...what's wrong..."
They both looked at each-other.
"Roy we need to get out of this town..."
"Yeah... But..we need to finish our..."
"Roy, I need to tell you what happened in the gate before you got to me, so lets get out of here first...then we can talk more..."
"Alright...Then I guess we have to get up" Roy grinned.
The two were still sitting, arms around each-other.
Ed's face turned red, and he quickly pulled himself up.
Roy fell forward a little.
"Roy! Are you ok!"
"Yeah...give me a minute."
Roy's head was still bothering him, not to mention he'd been hurt after being tossed against the wall.
Ed put his hand out. "Here...I'll help you."
Roy grabbed it, and pulled himself up.
He looked down, pulling Ed towards him.
"Thanks." He smiled.
"No Problem." Ed smiled back.
"Now, Roy let's go."
"Yeah."
Roy let Ed go, and walked back towards where the gate had been.
Ed looked at him, and saw him bend down as he picked up a pile of something.
"Roy...whats that? We need to get going."
Roy turned around, carrying the things he'd picked up in his arms.
He walked passed Ed. Ed didn't bother to look at what he was holding.
As he got to the door that lead to the stairs, Roy turned around, he had a huge grin on his face.
"Oh, By the way Ed..." He gave a little laugh.
"What's so funny Roy?" Ed grinned back.
"Not that I don't love looking at you the way your are...but...would you like your clothes back?" His grin widened.
Ed looked down, and realized he'd been completely naked the entire time.
He hadn't noticed that for some reason his clothes had been left at the gate when he'd gone through.
"What the Hell!" His face practically glowed a bright red.
Roy burst out in laughter.
Ed ran up to him, face still red.
He grabbed his clothes from Roy, who let them go easily.
"Roy..you...you...you..."
"Yes Ed?" Roy grinned once again, giving Ed his sly sexy smile.
Ed's face darkened even more.
"YOU PERV!"
He scrambled to get all his clothes into his arms, and quickly ran over to a pillar.
He walked behind the pillar, and rushed to put his clothes on.
Roy was still laughing, as Ed came back.
"Even after everything we just went through, you still just had to be a perv, didn't you! Now is so not the time to be pulling jokes Roy." Ed's face wrinkled as he tried to give Roy and angry look, the flush in his face still very visible.
He started to walk angrily towards the door.
"Roy! Now." Ed wasn't really that angry at Roy, how could he be after Roy just saved him, he was just embarrassed that he didn't realize he was missing his clothes sooner.
"Aww...Ed don't be embarrassed..."
He ran up next to Ed and opened the door.
Ed ran up the stairs, as Roy quickly followed him.
"Ed, Hey!"
Roy grabbed Ed's hand. and twirled him around, pinning him against the wall.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to embarrass you..."
"Yeah I know..."
"And besides..." He put his lips on the side of Ed's neck, and whispered
"I really did love the way you looked." He kissed Ed's neck a few times, before pulling back and taking a step up the stairway.
"Roy...you really are such an old pervert."
"Only for you, Now lets get out of here." He winked and started stepping up the stairs.
"Yeah, I seriously do have to tell you what happened."
Roy saw that Ed's face had gone completely serious. No more fooling around.
"Alright Ed, I'm sorry, let's go to the train station, we can talk there."
Ed nodded and followed Roy up the stairs, and back into the first room.
They came out of the room, and back into the shack that Lust had first brought them too.
"Well..I can tell you one thing...I am NEVER coming back to this place again."
"I plan to make it so no-one does." Roy looked around, before grabbing Ed's hand and pulling him outside of the building.
"Ed, stand back please, I'm going to need some room here."
Ed took a few steps back into the alley and watched Roy as he brought his arm up in front of his body and snapped his fingers.
The wooden shack they had just come out of, was reduced to ashes.
"Good riddance."
"Mhm" Ed agreed.
They walked for a while in silence, and eventually reached the train station.
They stopped at the front of the station, and they both turned around, looking back at the town.
"Is it our fault the town ended up like this Roy..." Ed asked, remembering all the people that the Homunculus had killed.
"No Ed, it wasn't our fault, nor was it the people's, those monsters, and that cruel bastard are the ones who are to be blamed...but those people can rest in peace now, so don't worry, now why don't we go inside. You said you needed to talk to me about something that happened in the gate?"
"Yeah."
They walked up the two large steps into the main part of the station and sat down on the bench under the ticket booth.
"Now, Explain to me what happened exactly before I came?" Roy placed his hand on Ed's knee.
Ed gave a small sigh, and explained everything as best he could to Roy.
...
"So that bastard did all this just to obtain a new...body?" Roy had a hard time taking in all the things that Ed had told him. He couldn't believe someone could do something like this to his own son.
"Yeah, I can't really understand it myself...but he never was a good father...not from what I remember, but what really surprised me was the fact that Al's body was the one he was going to use.
"Well it does make sense, Al's shares you and Hohenheim's blood, so it really isn't surprising that it's the body the gate showed you" Roy still had something he wanted to ask Ed.
"But Ed, somethings still bothering me."
"Is it about Al's body?..."
"Yeah...you said you placed a seal like the one in his armor on the bodies chest, and then it suddenly just disappeared?"
"Yeah...It didn't get taken away the way it had the first time, it..." Ed stopped speaking, and looked at Roy.
"It...was lifted up for a little while...and it just dematerialized...as if it were leaving the gate..." Ed tried to remember exactly what he'd done after he placed the seal on Al's body...
"Roy...After I drew the seal...I said...' Follow this seal back to it's twin! Back to your original Soul!' , then a warm feeling passed through my hands..."
"Ed, do you think that Al's body somehow got out of the gate and..."
Ed got up and ran into the ticket room, looking for a phone.
Through the glass he finished Roy's statement,
"And found its way back to it's original soul! I-I-need to call Winry...I need to talk to Al...where's a phone...I need a phone." Ed's eye began to water.
"Ed...what's wrong." Roy stood up.
"Roy...Al-"
Ed couldn't find a phone, he leaned against the wall.
Roy walked into the room. And gently took Ed into his arms.
"It's alright Ed, what about Al..." He already knew what Ed was going to say, but he knew Ed needed to say it out loud.
"Roy...Al...could have gotten his body back..."
