Guess who's back! =D Well, I still have a touch of writers block for 'All is One, I am All', but I should have the next chapter up by this weekend! =D

Well, this is a twoshot that I came up with! I am just finishing up my last driving lesson tonight and a little while ago I was thinking up ideas for oneshots and this one popped in my head! =D

Also, I know the Hughes thing is when he's younger but I needed Hughes later on so Edward just turned 16 and Hughes is still around.

It's a parental fic for Roy and Ed. They have a little bonding time while Ed is learning, and there's death as well. So, sit back, relax, and buckle your seat belts because Edward Elric is learning how to drive!

Driving Me to Insanity

"Okay Edward, make sure you're buckled up. Okay, now put your right foot down on the break."

"How come? We aren't even moving yet?"

"Well, we want it to stay that way until we want to move. You have to hold down the break every time you switch gears."

Click

"Okay Hughes, what's next?"

It was a week after Edward's sixteenth birthday and, as promised, Hughes had agreed to teach the teen how to drive his first car. This was his first lesson and frankly, the thought of driving made Edward nervous and excited at the same time.

"So now you're doing to switch the car into reverse."

"That's the 'R', correct?"

"Yep! That's the one!"

Click

"Okay Edward, now slowly lift your foot off the break…… that's it, nice and slow. Now stop at the end of the driveway and check to make sure no one is coming."

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"Okay! There's no one there!"

"Did you check your blind spot?"

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"Blind spot?"

"Over your left shoulder."

"Oh……..no one is there!"

"Now start turning the steering wheel as you pull out……that's good Edward! Now keep going until you're straight in the street then you're going to put it in drive."

"With the brake down first?"

"Yep, with the brake down first. Now you're going to go about 20 miles per hour here…….Easy now! There you go, just stay around the speed limit. Not too fast, not too slow, the average speed is the way to go."

"Did you just come up with that rhyme Hughes?"

"Well, tell me later if you remember that or not and we'll see if my little rhyme worked or not."

Edward soon had to go on the road again for more research, but every other month he visited Central to get another lesson with the investigator.

That is, until about 8 months after his first lesson…

"Hey Colonel Bastard, where's Hughes?" The teen had barged into the office and Colonel Roy Mustang flinched, however it was the words then the slamming of the door.

"Fullmetal…….he isn't here." He replied, avoiding eye contact and he could the clank of Al's armor as the younger brother carefully stepped into the room.

"Fine then. Come on, we're going to the Hughes residence."

"NO!" Roy exclaimed and immediately looked down as the blonde gave him a calculating stare.

"What happened?"

The Colonel simply pulled a news article and set it on the far edge of his desk, the headline blaring 'Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes Found Dead'.

"No….." Roy finally had the nerve to look up and saw Edward clenching the paper in his hand, his bangs covering his eyes. "No….."

I'll put up the final part tomorrow! =D