Author Note: I am so sorry about the delay on this chapter, but I just have been feeling really lazy ever since the snow started melting not so long ago. But today I blew the dust off the rough draft of this chapter and will be typing it up for your viewing pleasure. R&R Please

Disclaimer: I own nothing, still

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"Are we there yet?"

"No"

A momentary pause

"Are we there yet?"

"No!"

Another pause

"Are we there yet?"

"NO! If you ask one more time Fullmetal, you will never get there! I will throw you out of the car!"

"I dare you to, you bastard Colonel!"

Riza sighed as Edward and Roy squabbled, wondering again how she got dragged into this mess.

Oh yeah, the Colonel and Edward had decided it would be a good idea to have a spar, and Edward's automail leg and arm had been burned to a crisp in the process.

Since the boy couldn't walk, the trains were not running that day, and he blamed Roy for the damage, he thought it would be fun to make his favorite superior officer drive him to Risembool.

Roy was planning to drive the boy all by himself, but as soon as Riza got wind of his plan she modified it immediately. Instead of driving to and from Risembool in one day, giving the Rockbells a nasty surprise along the way, Riza called ahead and arranged for the group to stay in the Rockbell home for a few days while they fixed the destroyed automail.

Also, she would be driving. No offense to the Colonels driving skills, but he couldn't find his way out of a barrel, let alone all the way to Risembool.

So Riza was driving, and Roy was attempting to strangle Ed from the front seat. Al was attempting to break it up, but with no success. After a few loud seconds of "WHO YOU CALLING SO SHORT HE COULD FIT IN THE CRACK UNDER A DOOR!" and "You, of course," she pulled over to the side of the road with a screech.

Both man and teenager froze mid yell and stared at her nervously.

"Is everything all right Hawkeye?" Roy asked hesitantly, as if he was afraid of the answer.

She turned her gaze on him and he gulped audibly.

"Act your age," she said simply, before turning to Ed, "Both of you." Gently easing the car off the shoulder, she continued down the road.

Al was in shock, he had never seen anyone shut his brother up so quickly. Ed was in a similar state while Roy just grinned and nodded.

As the trees rolled by, it occurred to Al that only his mother had been able to calm Ed so easily. Also, the only person Ed fought so often with other than the Colonel was their father. So if Roy was his father, and Riza was his mother, they were like one happy family going on a car trip.

A hesitant car trip to repair one of the childrens limbs, but a car trip all the same.

"Colonel, Lieutenant," Al said warmly.

"Yes Al?" Roy replied

"You guys would make great parents."

Roy and Riza exchanged a surprised look while Ed receded back into his previous state of shock. He had never thought about it before, but they really did act like pseudo parents for him and Al.

Roy turned his head to the back seat and thanked Al quietly.

Little did the boys know, their two superior officers thought of them as a family as well.

If not a slightly dysfunctional one.

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End note: So I think this puts me over 100,000 words. YAY! At long last.

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