Take a Bow
Chapter One
Take a bow,
The night is over.
This masquerade is getting older
Lights are low.
The curtains down,
There's no one here.
There's no one here,
There's no one in the crowd.
Edward smiled at Roy fondly as he entered the well-decorated office. He sat down on the leather sofa as Roy finished the paper that he was working on. Then coal-colored, narrowed eyes looked up to the blonde and smirked. "Edward, what do I owe the pleasure of you coming here?" Roy said in a playfully sarcastic tone to the blonde, fully knowing that he had called the short alchemist to his office. "Well, if I remember right. You called me in here you old bastard." Edward smirked; he wasn't going to let Roy get the best of him this time.
Roy stood up and walked over to the sofa, where Ed sat mocking his trademark smirk. Roy leaned down and whispered in to Ed's ear. "You do know that my smirk is has a copyrighted? Right?" Ed busted out laughing and Roy tickled his ear with his tongue. "Right...Hahaha" Ed laughed out as Roy stood up straight, smirking. Ed jumped up and wrapped his arms around the older man's neck and gave him a short kiss on the lips. "Copyrighted, by whom? I don't see a mark on your lips." Ed said sarcastically and he kissed the Colonel.
"I was thinking. I'm about to go on the yearly check with the state alchemists that live in Central today, want to come with?" Roy asked his lips brushing Ed's as he talked. "Why not? I have the time." Ed said as he let himself fall back on to the flat of his feet. Ed smiled as his hand linked together with Roy's as they left the office to the car.
Havoc flicked the cigarette butt out of the car window as he drove. In the back of the car, Roy and Edward talking about different Alchemy subjects that captured both of their attentions for the time being. Havoc had no clue to what they were talking about, Alchemy and science have always been a mystery to him, and he just didn't have the brain nor the patience for the art in general. He smirked as he heard a giggle coming from the back of the car and looked in the mirror to see Roy kissing the blonde. The perfect loveable couple. Havoc thought, as he looked in the mirror, unaware of the speeding truck.
It hit the right side of the car hard and fast. The car caused the speeding truck to stop, but the car didn't. It flipped three times and hit a side of a public building, causing people to come out and see what happened. The site made several people violently sick. The truck driver was hanging out the front of his windshield, bloody, and visibly dead caused by head and body trauma. The small car was torn apart, but one of the people in the car, pulling out a small blonde male, seemed unharmed.
The blonde's chest was slowly rising and falling, so he was alive, but he was bleeding at the temple. Then the crowd watched as the black haired male melted the front car door to pull out a taller blonde. He then turned to the crowd and yelled. "What the fuck are you people doing? Call a fucking ambulance!" The local storeowner ran into his store and did what the military man yelled.
Roy was tired and he felt a pain in his side. Probably a broken rib or something... he thought as he watched Edward and Havoc being put into a stretcher. He sat in the ambulance that held Edward and listen to the people in blue suits talk into a radio. "Three broken ribs, possible internal bleeding, blow to the left temple..." Roy didn't listen anymore. He felt something snap in him as he watched Edward, helpless...pitiful. He felt tears sting his bloodshot eyes. "He'll be alright." One of the men in blue suits said to him and he nodded, tears blurring his vision of the seemingly sleeping blonde.
The ambulance stopped at the hospital's emergency entrance. Edward was rushed to the nearest doctor. Roy sat in the waiting room, unaware of his own blood that was drying on his face. "Mustang-Taisa, you should get check by a doctor. Elric-san will be fine." A nurse came up to him and pushed him into a doctor's office.
Roy felt the sting of the antibiotics eating at the infected skin. He didn't know how badly hurt he was until the doctor started treating him. "Your very lucky you know." The doctor said as he cleaned the cut on his upper arm and started bandaging it. It was a shallow cut and he was lucky he didn't need stitches. He had bandages around his torso and left leg from a major cut that did get stitches. He had a bandage around his head. "We're going to keep you for the night, only incase you have a concussion." Roy nodded as he was handed a hospital gown and ushered off to a hospital bedroom.
He sighed as he lay on the bed. He wanted to know how Edward was, and if he was okay. He shouldn't have asked Edward to come with him. If Edward were to die from this, it'd be his fault. He closed his eyes; the white covering wasn't nearly enough to keep him from the chill of the hospital's cold and sterile air. He heard someone walk into his room. He opened his eyes to see Lieutenant Hawkeye. "Mustang-Taisa, did I wake you?" She said as Roy sat up and leaned against the uncomfortable cotton pillows. "No, I was thinking. Did you check on Edward, yet?" Roy asked wanting to know how his lover was doing. Riza sighed and sat in a chair by his bed. "I don't know. He's still in the Emergency Room. Havoc's fine, just a minor concussion and a broken arm."
Roy sighed and looked out of window that was slightly covered by blades of window shades that didn't exactly cover the tainted window. "They keep calling me lucky. I was hardly touched compared to Havoc and Fullmetal. " Riza frowned, her golden brown eyes darken as her eyes drooped down slightly. "It's very possible that Edward won't even live. He suffered head trauma and shock of the impact, he's broken several ribs, and I think he left arm was broken." Roy's eyes were darkened and deprived of any sign of life. Riza didn't like the look, nor did she like her superior like this, depressed. "Mustang-Taisa. Ed-kun will be fine. He survived worse situations then this. He'll be fine." Roy sighed and nodded. "Yeah, your right."
"So how did you get in here, I thought they told me I wouldn't have any visitors." Roy smirked as Riza smiled and sighed. "Hughes is distracting the nurse for me. " If Roy wasn't so worried about Ed he could have laughed at his two loyal friends. A frustrated nurse entered the room with the Lieutenant Colonel. The nurse glared at Hawkeye. "What don't you people understand about "no visitors"? Honestly! Mustang-Taisa needs his rest!" Hughes smiled and waved to his friend. Roy kept a straight face, although his friends helped him recover slightly. At least mentally. He wanted to laugh at the nurse and Hughes as he pulled out another picture of his daughter.
The nurse just left Hughes in the room with Riza and Roy. "I don't think she likes me." Maes Hughes said as he smiled widely. "But I did find out that Edo just got out of the ER and is in stable condition." Roy let out a sigh of relief and glared at his friend as a picture of a brunette three-years old girl holding a red and blue ball that was almost as big as her, came into his vision. "Who ever thought of giving you a camera at all needs to get a MRI." Roy said as he glared at the picture. Hughes laughed as he sat in the other chair on the other side of Roy. "I guess you called Alphonse about Edward right?" Roy asked his less then serious friend.
Maes smiled and scratched the back of his head. "Well, No. Would you like to do the honors?" Maes said as he picked up the phone that was besides the bed. Roy sighed and took the phone dialing the number to the Elric's dorm room, where Alphonse would be making dinner for the older Elric, unaware of the accident that just happened. "Hello? Alphonse Elric speaking." The innocent voice rang on the phone. "Hello. Alphonse-kun. It's me." The innocent voice, sounding hollow for that fact that it's soul was trapped inside of a giant suit of armor. "OH! Taisa-san! Is anything wrong?" The innocent voice made Roy feel guilty. "Yes, Your brother and I are in the hospital. I don't know if he's awake yet." He heard the beeping of the phone being hung up in a rush and he guessed that Alphonse was going to run here and demand to see his older brother, politely of course.
"Happy now?" Roy growled at Hughes and his friend shrugged. Riza got up. "I'm going to check on Edward-kun." She said as she left Roy alone with his best friend. "So how are you feeling?" Hughes asked as he leaned back in his seat, crossing his legs. "Fine, my head just hurts." Roy replied and he leans more comfortable against the stiff pillows. Roy fell asleep with his friend watching over him, his head full of worry for the blonde boy that slept not so far away from him.
I've always been in love with you,
Always with you.
I guess you always known it's true.
You know it's true.
You took my love for granted, why oh why?
The show is over, say good-bye.
Disclaimer: No one but the original creators of FMA own FMA. Oh and the song is owned by our lovely Madonna.