I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist or Brotherhood. But there will be some direct lines from the story.
This story deals with a gender-swapped Ed.
And please feel free to comment and or give suggestion.
I walked up the the reception desk in the Central Military hospital. The building smelt of bleach and other cleaning supplies. I looked at the receptionist a grey haired woman probably in her fifties.
"Excuse me I'm looking for Lt. Colonel Hughes." I said to her making her look away from her work. She raised an eyebrow at our group.
"I'm going to need some form of identification." She said looking specifically at me and Al. What kind of a country is this that a girl pretending to be a boy and a giant suit of armour can't visit someone in a military hospital without showing id. I grabbed my pocket watch from my pants pocket and laid it on the table.
"State Alchemist Edward Elric." I said with a fake smile, the old lady at the desk looked at Winston and Alphonse. "And friends." I added. She gave me a look. "Honestly I'm Edward Elric!" I yelled. 'Great now I'm causing a scene at a hospital.'
"I'm sorry I can't allow you in."
"Why is it because of the suit of armour? Or is it because you don't think I'm Edward Elric?" I yelled at her.
"Brother calm down it's okay." Al said trying to calm me down. I turned to Al.
"No it's not I was having a great day until Winston crapped on it now this old hag is making it worse!" People in the waiting room where starring at us.
"Listen if you're not going to calm down I'm going to have to call security." The receptionist stood up trying to threaten us.
"Oh bring them on I'd like to see what they got." I said back to her.
"Hey big guy, can you go somewhere without making a scene?" I looked to see where the voice was coming from. Walking down the hall I saw Breda coming towards us.
"Breda what are you doing here?"
"Visiting Hughes. You know you wouldn't have to show idea if you just bothered to wear your uniform."
"It's not really my style." I said. Breda nodded a took a sheet from the receptionist.
"This is Edward Elric, and he is with Colonel Mustang." Breda said while writing something on the sheet "From now on just let him through alright?" He put the paper and pen back down and started walking away. "You do want to see Hughes right?" He asked over his shoulder. I smirked at him, good old Breda.
It was a short walk to Hughes room Breda opened the door and stood beside waiting for us to enter.
"You're not going in?" I asked Breda.
"I'm guards duty chief although now that they have a suspect in custody I pretty sure I'll be relived soon." He responded.
"Who do they have in custody?" I asked, happy that they found Hughes attacker.
"2nd Lieutenant Ross." Breda reported. I was shocked frozen to the spot. There was no way Ross could have done this and when we were done here I was going to clear this up with the military. I went to walk into the room but Breda grabbed my jacket and pulled me back. "One more thing, don't ask Hughes if he remembers the night,"
"Why not isn't that the easiest way to see if Ross really did this?" I asked
"The problem is is that he doesn't remember, pretty much the whole night that it happened he remember none of it." Before I asked a question. "He has dissociation amnesia. He doesn't remember what happen because he doesn't want to remember what happen. He has all of the memories but he's buried them deep within his mind. It's one of the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He shows other signs, but please just don't ask about the attack." Breda asked. I looked to him and saw the seriousness in his eyes and I nodded. 'Okay great now I'm walking on egg shells in automail.' I thought. I walked into the room to see Hughes sitting up on his bed with his right arm in a sling. Elicia was sitting on his lap colouring in a book on the table hanging over the bed and Grecia was sitting besides the bed in a chair. Hughes had a half smile on his face looking down at Elicia. I didn't want to disturb the scene but when the door shut the two adults turned their heads to look at us.
"Ed!" Maes said with a smile. "What are you doing here?"
"Well last time I was in the hospital you visited me, I thought I should return the favour." I said walking further into the room, the window sill was covered in flowers and get well soon cards and what looks to be a picture of Armstrong shirtless.
"Um..." I said pointing to the picture. Hughes started to laugh.
"Armstrong brought it to encourage me to get better with a perfect example of human health." I laughed at that.
"Yup that sounds like Armstrong."
"Hi Ms Hughes how are you?" I heard Winston ask as he pulled up a chair to sit next to her. I walked up to the bed.
"Hi Elicia, I'm Edward I work with your dad." She looked up at me and smiled. "What are you drawing there?"
"Giraffe." I looked down to the coloured drawing that surprisingly looked like a giraffe.
"It's really good." Al said.
"Thank you." Elicia said to Al.
"So how long have you been in this wonderful place?" I asked Hughes.
"A little over two weeks." He said. I cringed at that. "Mustang has been keeping me on my feet for most of my stay."
"Mustang just got the transfer a few days ago." I said trying to make sense of this.
"But before that Roy showed up before I woke up for the first time." He told me.
"but how did he..."
"Apparently I called him right before I got shot." He said nodding his head.
"This must suck for you." I said trying to change the subject.
"What sucks?"
"You talk with your hands a lot and know you're down one hand." I gestured to his right arm.
"Yeah guess I have to make do with one hand for a while."
"At least you have both of your original limbs." I joked. We laughed for a bit. I caught him up on our adventures in the south.
"I'm sorry your teacher is ignoring you." Hughes said.
"She was looking for a way to disown me after I joined the military, I think the lying about my gender was her scapegoat." I said I looked up and the sun was already setting. "Crap man we have to go." I said standing up
"Um Okay, why?" Hughes asked.
"I have to save an innocent person from a crime they didn't do. Come on Al let's go" and with that Al and I ran out of the room, leaving Winston with the Hughes. We were running down the streets of central trying to get to HQ before it was too late. As the sun got lower less and less people were on the streets. We turned down a dark alley for a short cut when we ran into an armoured man. His helmet was a skull and his robe was fitted with fur, just behind him was 2nd Lt Ross.
"Ross!" I cried.
"Edelle!"
"Hey you are from that time!" Al and the armoured man yelled at the same time.
"You know each other?" I didn't believe him. I heard more running then looked over the armoured man again. "Ling? What the hell is going on here?"
"Prison break." He said with that smile. 'oh great I fell in love with a criminal.'
"Ross run for it!" The armoured man said. I looked at her and she shrugged her shoulders and ran. I turned to run another way to cut her off before she could get to far but the man in the armour stopped us.
"Out of my way!"
"Sorry missy I have no time to play with you guys I'm on a strict schedule." I was about to charge the man when I saw a cloud of fire from a couple blocks away. 'That couldn't be good.'
Hey guys don't expect a update tomorrow, long shift at work. But hopefully this is good enough until Sunday.
See you next time with Edelle running into the Colonel. And like always feel free to comment or suggest.