Welcome Home

Disclaimer: I do not own FMA….*cries like a baby*
Title: Welcome Home
Pair: RizaxEd (hints of RoyxEd)
Summary: Ed’s gone for three years and when he finally returns, what will happen when an unexpected surprise is awaiting him?
***Okay, this plays around after/during the movie occurred so (spoilers some) but I changed some facts about the movie and the after events. So be aware that there are changes but some facts are still here. Sorry if the ranks I give people are their true ranks, I am not sure what everyone is after/during the movie.
Warning: hints Yaoi, M/F, language

Welcome Home
By: Kumiko

Chapter 9

Riza sat at her desk in the office, waiting but she wasn’t sure what she was waiting for. Her hand rubbed her stomach absently as she stared at the paperwork. How was going to tell him, it wasn’t like she could just go up to him and say hey I am pregnant. Not only was she pregnant but for all she knew Ed was gone not to come back again. She had made the choice the night before he left to share that night with him. Never regretting any of that time, her thoughts were always on what it would’ve been like now if he was here to share this next eight months with her.

“Lieutenant, you awake?” Hughes asked, tapping her shoulder hesitantly. “You seem kind of down.”

Hawkeye looked up from her paperwork. “No, I am all right,” she said, looking straight into his eyes. “Just thinking, that’s all.”

“You know, I heard that Ed is staying at the command center in East,” Hughes said, taking a seat in front of her desk. “It’s also the local hotel in the city.”

For a moment she didn’t know why he was telling her this. Then it hit her, she would be able to get a message to the hotel quicker than she could get one to any regular command center. Though she didn’t know what she would say in the message.

“If you wanted me to, I could make sure that a message is taken and safely delivered to the new commander,” the lieutenant colonel said, smiling. “It really wouldn’t be a problem for me at all.”

“Hughes…” Hawkeye sighed. “I wouldn’t know what to say to him. I really want him to know but if I tell him he may not be able to complete his mission but it’s not right to keep it from him, is it?”

He shook his head. “A father has the right to know if he is the one who is going to help you raise your baby.”

Once again, she was at a loss. “If I tell him, I would like to do it in person but I highly doubt that Mustang would allow me to go out there,” she said, leaning back in her chair. “Especially in this condition.”

“Well, I think I can make arrangements with Roy to allow that, if there was a certain chaperone along,” he suggested, grinning.

“You can’t leave here, Hughes,” she said, shaking her head.

“I was talking about Al,” he replied, pouting. “I’m sure he will be willing to go and see his brother anyway.”

She smiled. “You think of everything.”

“I know.” He stood and made his way out of the office. “I’ll talk to Roy; I might be able to get him to do this. If I am not successful, then I am sorry and would be willing to send a message to Ed.”

“Thank you, Hughes.”

Nodding, the Lt. Colonel left the big office, leaving her alone to finish her paperwork.


“Alphonse!” Winry yelled, (AN: Sorry I know I haven’t added these characters in the story much but I didn’t know what I should do with them) walking around her home in Risenbol. “There’s a letter here that I think you should read.”

As she walked around the house, she grew angrier with each passing moment. She couldn’t find him anywhere that he normally was. He wouldn’t go visit his mother’s grave unless he had told her first, because usually they went together. So the only other places that he could’ve been were his room and the workshop with Den.

“Winry, I’m in here,” she heard coming from the kitchen.

Why hadn’t I thought to look in the kitchen, she asked herself, shaking her head. She walked into the kitchen and saw Al fiddling with the dishes in the sink.

“Al, there’s a letter here from Hughes,” she said, handing him the opened envelope. “I’ve already read it but I think it was meant for you.”

Drying his hands, he took the letter and went to sit at the table. His eyes grew larger as he read down through the letter.

“I didn’t know he had it in him to get someone pregnant,” Al said, shaking his head. “We should go help Hawkeye the best we can, though since it seems like he isn’t going to be there to help.”

“Why did Mustang have to be such a bastard and send him away for so long again,” she complained. “He just returned to us and now he’s away again.”

“He did it out of spite at first.” Al replied, sighing. “Then it changed after the colonel in East was killed. They need Ed out there to help them but right now Hawkeye needs him more. It’s a shame that she hasn’t told him yet.”

“WHAT? You mean Ed doesn’t know that he’s a dad?”

“What’s the shrimp done?” Pinako asked, startling them as she entered the room.

Winry yelped as she turned to see the older woman walking toward her and Al. She didn’t even have time to explain before she ripped the letter from Al’s hands and began to read. A small smile appeared on her face as her eyes scanned the paper.

“So, the little shrimp is going to have shrimps of his own,” she laughed throwing the letter on the table. “You two better go help that woman, who knows when the brat’s going to return to her.”

They stared at her as she left the room then looked at each other. That night was spent by packing their bags and getting the next train to go to Central.


The streets of East were filled with bloody bodies from both Ed’s men and those he was fighting. Ed stood at the center of the mass of bodies. It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way, he thought to himself. I didn’t want this to happen.

“Boss,” Havoc called as he stepped through the streets. “Breda and Fury are on clean up with the others. What is it that you want to do?”

“Just tell me that this didn’t happen,” Ed said, shaking his head. The look of the city brought tears to his eyes as he stared at the bodies.

“I’m sorry, boss, but they must’ve gained more men in the time it took us to prepare the surprise attack,” Havoc replied also looking out at the bodies. “It was what we had to do to make sure that you survived.”

The two of them, slowly, made their way to the end of the street where the line of bodies stopped. Ed turned around and kneeled on the ground, clapping his hands together and turning the bodies to a fine dust.

“Come on, Boss,” Havoc said, pulling Ed away from the street into the hotel. “We know that this is just their main force, the spy that they had in there finally gave his report. They have one other group that will come to try and take over this place again.”

“Let’s keep the next fight a little cleaner,” Ed said, walking away. His thoughts were on the bodies of the dead and the families that were left behind because they had died.


**Over the course of the next seven months**

IN EAST
The fighting in East kept getting worse and worse and Ed’s plan to get rid of the problem quickly died after the new colonel stepped in and took over. Many more people died, more than what any of them wanted. It was a complete massacre. Bodies of the enemy lined the streets along with the bodies of innocent women and children who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Every event that Ed fought in for this man brought him closer to wanting to die. Now he understood what Mustang felt when he wanted to kill himself all those years ago because of the Ishbalan war. It wasn’t until he got a frantic message from Hughes that brought his senses back to reality.

IN CENTRAL
Riza lay in the hospital bed, she was only in the eighth month of pregnancy but the contractions were coming fast. The doctors told Winry and Al, the ones who had brought her in, that it was like that they would have to perform a c-section on her. Of course they were worried because Ed wasn’t there to help Riza through this, although he still never found of about her pregnancy because of the fighting in East and the mess in Central. The battles in East had caused a major riot in Central, delaying and then cancelling any messages to be relayed. In the end, Ed never received any messages about what was going on with Riza.

They were lucky enough to convince Hughes into taking the risk to go get Ed from East. It was a chance that Hughes was very willing to take; he wanted Ed to be present at the birth almost as much as Riza wanted him to be there. The trip from Central to East didn’t take Hughes long, at the speed he was going they would be back in Central by the next day. It wasn’t safe to be in such a hurry but being at the birth was very important to a father.

IN EAST (present time)
“Edward!” Hughes yelled, running into the hotel where Ed was supposed to be staying. “Where the hell are you?”

Everyone in the hotel lobby was staring at him, but he didn’t care. He was on a mission to find one person and one person only.

“Hughes, what are you doing here?” Ed asked, exiting a room to Hughes’ left. “Aren’t you supposed to be assisting Mustang?”

“Not right now, something’s happening and you are needed in Central right now,” the man yelled, grabbing Ed’s arm and literally dragging the young man out of the hotel.

“Why? What’s going on?”

“I’ll explain later!”

Confusion ran through Ed’s head. What the hell is going on here? Havoc and the others risked their lives all these months to keep my butt alive and now Hughes is dragging me back home, he thought to himself as he allowed himself to be taken away.

Hours were spent in complete silence. Ed wanted so much to know what was going on back in Central but thought that Hughes wouldn’t give up any information. When he opened his mouth to ask, he was greeted with a surprise.

“Ed,” the lieutenant colonel began, keeping his eyes ahead of him. “For seven months we’ve been trying to get message after message to you about Hawkeye—”

“What’s happened to her?” Now he was beyond the stage of worry.

“Edward, she’s pregnant.”

Ed stared at him in disbelief. Pregnant?

“She’s in labor as we speak, I was sent to get you back and take you to Central as soon as possible,” he continued. “She didn’t want you to worry about her while you were in East trying to settle that mess.”

“She was alone, then,” Ed mumbled, leaning back into the seat. “I did this to her. It’s my fault she was left alone all this time.”

“Now, Edward, the good think is that you are alive and you are going home to help her,” Hughes said, glancing over at the blond. “Everything will work out; besides, Al and Winry were there to help her.”

The state was shock was all Ed was in, he couldn’t say anything about this situation. Thoughts about how I was his fault and why he didn’t suspect anything ran through his mind. He wished he would’ve been there to help her. What could he say to her when he saw her? Would he even be able to see her right away? The questions were left unanswered by his mind; patience would be the one to answer.
That next morning they arrived in Central right in front of the hospital. Ed was frantic when they ran inside to where Winry had told them where they would be.

Ed stood outside the door, watching as Winry and sat waiting. Mustang stood leaning against the wall with his head rested on his arm. Beads of sweat slid down his face when he heard a scream come from a nearby room. Panic washed over his whole body as he felt his arm being pulled. As soon as he saw Riza’s face in his vision, instead of feeling panicked he felt worried. He watched sweat run down her face, holding her hand.

He could hear the doctors talking around him but he didn’t know what they were saying. All he knew was that she refused something and wanted to wait for him to show up.

“You’ll be okay, Riza,” he said, kissing her hand and smiling at her.

She smiled at him and nodded before the pain of another contraction shot through her body.

Outside in the hallway, the others could hear her screams and hoped that she would make it through everything just fine. They knew that she had refused getting a c-section, knowing that she wanted to do this with Ed with her. She wanted him to know what she was going through for him, a commitment that she meant only for him.

To be continued…

AN: are you guys happy with how this turned out? I am, but there’s still more to come. Review please!!