Life

Disclaimer: Don’t own FMA
I do own Julia and Jason and Nicolas

Warning: Yaoi, Lemon, Mpreg

Sorry it took me so long. I kinda had writer’s block. Challenges are always hard! Well I hope everyone liked this.

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“Roy, you have five mails. Three bills, and two letters, both from a place called Rinham,” Roy snapped his eyes, glaring at Hawkeye, who had his mail. He wasn’t really expecting something like that to happen.

“Just leave it on my desk,” Roy ordered, looking away while Hawkeye placed all his mail. Once he heard the click of the door closing behind Hawkeye, he pounced onto the mail, opening the most recent one. He chuckled reading the beginning of the letter. ‘So Julia didn’t like meeting Edward and Alphonse, or the fact that they were different. Yours? What is mine? Ed and Al’s condition, what is this woman talking about? Hey, my sense of humor is not terrible! I know Ed isn’t doing so well with the arm and leg but shouldn’t she think Al is worst off? Well at least she’s going to fix it, but why wouldn’t she think it was right? Ed’s wanted nothing else but to have Al’s and his body back to normal. Killed! Why would Ed die because of this? Not want it? Die from it? What the hell is Julia talking about? This isn’t funny. Don’t tell them that!’ Roy finished reading the letter at how Julia purposely capitalized her so-called last name that just made his blood boil over.

Roy quickly snatched the next letter, opening it quickly reading the letter his sister sent him the next day. ‘Oh shit, she doesn’t sound happy. Pedophile, why is she calling me that? Send her my child? What the hell, Edward is far from being my child. Mid-wife, you mean someone pregnant with my child? Who the hell is saying they’re bearing my child! Do what to Edward? Become a mother, how the hell can Ed become a mother? I’m not stupid! Fix what? Abandon what child dammit explain yourself woman! Hey, I’m not that perverted with woman. Impregnating a man, wrong and desperate? Agree to be who’s mid-wife? Ed is about a week pregnant, I have at least eight months to get there?’

“Looks like quite a predicament,” Hawkeye stated from behind Roy, who jumped in shock. She gave him a look that yelled she liked Ed more than she liked him right now. Roy didn’t know what to do except try to look like his casual self. He forced his body to relax and calmed eyes stared at Hawkeye.

“Probably just a joke Julia is making.”

“What are you going to do about this, Flame?” Hawkeye purposely used Roy’s codename, it was her sign of showing that if he didn’t do the smart and right thing, she would beat him to death. Roy thought about this closely and decided that a little check up on Julia and also check her mental state would be okay for a week. And he did miss Edward anyway.

“Fine, I’ll go to Rinham,” Roy replied before getting a ticket shoved in his face by Hawkeye. She smiled at him, as he reluctantly grabbed today’s ticket. “Now?” He wondered in shock at the time on the ticket. He looked up to receive a death glare from Hawkeye before sighing and walking out of his office. It would be a long ride until he reached Rinham and Julia can explain whatever the hell she was trying to say in those damn letters.

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“Ed we’re going to have to talk about this pregnancy. Being pregnant is no small thing,” Julia instructed as Jason forced a struggling Edward Elric into bed. Ed had gone outside to spar with his little brother and ended it by throwing up next to a tree. Ed didn’t seem to want to take this whole being pregnant seriously and now that Julia knew the child was a Mustang she would not tolerate him hurting it in any way.

“Listen up! Stop calling me pregnant! I’m not pregnant!”

“The thing is Edward Elric, you are pregnant. You are holding a precious life inside of you and I have to find out why! Now if you don’t want to be a murderer I suggest you stop struggling,” that statement made Ed pause as he stared at her with wide-eyes. She knew the question forming in his head at that very moment, how was he being a murderer? She answered, “Whether you like it or not, there is a baby inside you, or babies. If you don’t take care of yourself now they won’t survive. It’ll die before it has a chance to breathe. Do you want that to happen?”

Ed suddenly became very passive, allowing Julia to gently cover him with a thin blanket. How could he be pregnant? He didn’t feel any different. Shouldn’t he feel the baby’s kick or something to tell him the baby was really in there? “How can I be pregnant?” He repeated out loud.

“That’s what I’m going to find out. First things first though, I have to find out about you two boys. How did you end up the way you are? Alphonse without a body and you without an arm and leg?” Julia asked opening her bag against. She had to check Ed’s heartbeat and see if the baby had a heartbeat yet. She listened to the entire story, nodding her head already thinking up a hypothesis on how Ed was pregnant. All she needed was to take some of the blood near Ed’s auto-mail. She grabbed a needle and took the required blood. “Now get some rest Edward, I serious. I will go examine this blood.”

Julia and Jason left the room, leaving the Elric brothers to their own talk. Ed and Al sat in silence unsure of how to start a conversation. Nothing was the same anymore, Ed was pregnant and Al was only there to watch.

“So…uh…you mad at me, Al?” Ed wondered softly looking down at his hands that were placed on his lap. He didn’t know what his brother was feeling at the moment and was scared his brother wasn’t going to talk to him.

“Of course not big brother. I just wish you had told me Mustang did such a terrible thing.”

“The thing is Al, it wasn’t so terrible. It felt good. I don’t know if it was because Mustang did something but I liked doing that stuff with him,” Ed answered quietly. He didn’t know why he was confessing this to his brother but he had always been comfortable.

“Big brother…?” Al paused when he heard frantic knocks at the front door. He excused himself knowing Julia wouldn’t be able to answer. He walked to the front door and opened it a crack to see who was outside. It was a man, more like a teenage boy around the same age as Ed was but much taller, the same height as Mustang. He had short red hair and dark, mesmerizing black eyes. The guy’s cheeks were flushed, panting slightly. He seemed as if he had ran here scared of something.

“I need to talk to Julia. Please, my mother is dying! We need more of those herbs she gave her before,” the boy explained in a hurry. He seemed panicked, so much fear was in his eyes that he was even scaring Al.

“Julia can’t talk. I’m sorry but she’s busy,” Jason came out to answer. He looked sad, he know this boy and his mother. The boy was Nicolas, he was normal a happy, relaxed kid. Full of energy and athletic, he had a part time job in constructing. His mother was ill with lung problems but there is a special herb in the forest behind the house that could help heal that problem. The only thing was that Julia was the only person in town who could identify.

“You don’t understand, my mother is dying!”

“What’s the herb you need?” Al asked through the tension of the room. Jason quickly answered remembering the herb Julia always repeated along with Nicolas’s mother. “My brother and I have studied alchemy for years and so we know every herb there is. I can find this herb for Nicolas and prepare it for his mother if he’ll let me.”

The next thing Al knew a strong Nicolas was dragging him to the backyard to find the herb. Al quickly found the herb and rushed back to Nicolas’s house. He grinds the herb into a bowl and poured some horse’s blood, mixing it all together. He made Nicolas’s mother drink and told her to rest. In an hour she was calmly resting and easily breathing, her life no longer endanger.

“Thank you so much,” Nicolas declared calmly at Al. He was so happy his mother was going to be okay now. And it was all thanks to this tall man in armor. He chuckled at the thought, his knight in shining armor. “My name is Nicolas Mikan. I’m sorry if I seemed a little odd when you first met me.”

“It’s alright. My name is Alphonse Elric but most people call me Al,” Al answered, standing outside of the house, watching as sun lowers and night begins. He would have to go back soon. He turned his helmet to stare at Nicolas’s bright smile as the wind blew against his body. Nicolas looked radiant, perfect for a picture. Al could clearly see the expressions on Nicolas’s face as he ran across his yard. “Uh…Nicolas I’m going to have to go back to Julia’s soon.”

“Oh, I’m sorry,” Nicolas stopped in the middle of the yard, the sun shining behind him. Al could feel his soul jumped, Nicolas looked like an angel. He glowed, his smile wide and carefree. Al didn’t know what just happened but his soul was moving around in his armor, and the way it was pushing, was towards Nicolas. “Here I’ll walk with,” Nicolas offered, he grabbed Al’s armor arm and led the way back to Julia while chatting about random things along the way. Once they were close Nicolas sadly said, “I think you should go the rest of the way. I don’t want to leave my mom alone for to long. I might come over tomorrow though. I like to help Jason with his work and Julia with her planting. I come over around five times a week. Well bye, Al!”

Al waved in return as he watched Nicolas run off, feeling his soul push in the direction Nicolas was going. Al ignored the feeling as he walked back towards the house. He walked to the door and was about to open it but it was swung open and his big brother bumped into him. He quickly wrapped his arms around his brother when he heard someone yell, “Alphonse don’t let him go!”

“Argh! Let me go Al! I swear Al if you don’t let me go!” Ed wasn’t able to finish his threat when Julia grabbed his shoulders and pulled him back into the house. “I’m not staying! Forget it!” Ed yelled shoving Julia’s hands away forcefully. In doing so he got Jason mad and had to big guy cuffed him to the bed.

“Um…Julia why is Ed mad?” Al asked watching as Ed ranted and yelled throughout the entire house. Ed was definitely angry and was yelling something about Mustang.

“She contacted Mustang! And she just got a letter from Hawkeye saying that Mustang is coming here to check on me! I’m not talking to Mustang! Damn you Julia! Let me go, I am not going to talk to him!”

“Oh yes you are. He is the father of your baby. He has a right to know,” Julia snapped back at Ed. She was happy that Roy was coming as soon as possible. She now knew how Ed was pregnant and once Roy arrived she would explain everything. And of course, Ed would have to calm down first.

“Brother, she’s right. Mustang does have a right…” Al couldn’t finish what he was about to say because Ed started spitting out curses to Julia. Julia sighed finding a needle in her bag. She quickly injected some sort of fluid into Ed and not to long later he curses turned to muttering and soon he was asleep. “What did you do to him?”

“I just gave him something to put him to sleep. It’s bad for the baby if he’s hysterical,” Julia answered, cleaning the needle. He brother would be here in three days, he was taking a quicker ride and so would be here soon.

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“Hey Al!” Nicolas greeted as he entered the Grethers’ home. He was wearing worn out clothing for the work that day. He was supposed to help Jason fix the fence in the back. The first thing he walked in on was his knight in shining armor. He chuckled to himself as he continued to think that.

“Hi Nicolas,” Al replied sitting at the table with nothing to do. He had been told earlier by Jason to wait for Nicolas and help fix the fence together. Jason had gone shopping with Julia and forced Ed to go to sleep again. “Um…Jason told me I should help you fix the fence.”

“Sure, you look strong. Even though you sound younger than me,” Nicolas stated walking out of the kitchen. He walked to the backyard to find the tools they needed. “I’m seventeen, you?”

“I’m fifteen.”

“Holy! I thought you were older than that. Oh well, you must’ve ate your vegetables to have gotten that big,” Nicolas laughed as he picked up a toolbox and boards of wood. Al was feeling guilty for some reason, he wasn’t really that big. It was just the armor, he didn’t want Nicolas to feel envious for something Al really wasn’t. With his luck he might even be shorter than Ed.

“Thanks.”

After forty-five minutes of working on the fence it was finally fixed. Nicolas was sweaty and hot while Al wasn’t feeling anything. They walked back to the house and Nicolas had a glass of water to help cool his body down.

Once it was time to leave Al walked with Nicolas to the front gate, just to be polite. Nicolas and him had so much to talk about. Before Nicolas walked away he looked at Al and said, “You know Al, you’re pretty cool. I’m gonna want to see what’s behind that helmet soon, ‘kay?” Nicolas winked. Al suddenly felt his soul warm and swell as it leapt towards Nicolas more forcefully.

“I wish you could see something too,” Al whispered to himself sadly as he turned back inside and try and get some rest.

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What does everyone think of Nicolas? Roy’s back home in the next chapter and Julia will tell them how Ed is pregnant.