Just Believe Me

To Forgive Four Years Of Betrayal

Hiiii!!! I'm so sorry for not updating in so long!!! But here's the next chapter so enjoy!!!
~Kurosaki-Chan

After the encounter between Roy and Ed, Ed didn't see the dark haired man at all. He wanted to believe that the man had gave up and left. But the voice in his head that was logical told him that Roy hadn't left and that he was just watching the blonde while staying out of his line of sight. He was always watching for the man though, but he never saw him. Now that Roy had come into his life again, Ed couldn't stop thinking about the man.
"Mommy?" Ed looked up from his book and at his daughter. He smiled.
"What is it baby?"
"There's a man at the door wanting to see you. He says his name is Roy" Ed frowned. After days of just watching him now the man wanted to talk again. The blonde closed his book and got up.
"Stay here, okay sweetie?"
"But I wanna see him!" Winry whined, "Why can't I see him?"
"You won't like him baby, trust me. Now stay here for mommy, okay?"
"Fine..." Winry huffed and pouted in reply. Edward smiled at her.
"Good girl." With that he turned and went to the door. At first he only cracked it open. Roy looked at him through the crack.
"Ed please talk to me.."
"Fine..." The blonde was reluctant, he didn't want Roy's bullshit anymore but someone out there must really hate him for this he guessed. Ed opened the door all the way.
"What do you want Roy?" He asked he asked in a tired voice.
"I want proof that you actually got pregnant." Edward sputtered. Was the man actually start believing him.
"Y-Yeah! I can, I've got the papers on the test results and pictures and stuff..." He looked at the man apprehensively, "If I show you the proof, will you actually believe me...?"
"If there's proof, there's no denying that it didn't happen because it's a fact then." Ed then stepped aside.
"Come in. I'll get the papers and everything." Roy followed Ed inside and allowed himself to be led by Edward into the living room.
"Wait here. I'll be right back." He said then left Roy, disappearing down a hall. The man sat in one of the chairs in the room. He studied it as he waited. It was furnished with tasteful maroon furniture and a cherrywood coffee table. The hardwood floor looked like cedar but Roy wasn't sure. A black rug covered part of the floor in front of a widescreen tv with a full system of stereo speakers surrounding it. The walls were covered in pictures of The child, Winry Rockbell and Ed. One that stuck out to Roy though was a picture of Ed laying in a hospital bed looking exhausted. In the picture he was looking down fondly at a sleeping infant nestled in his arms. Roy heard footsteps and Ed appeared again carrying a packet of papers.
"Here." He said throwing the papers onto the coffee table. "These are the results of all the tests they did. They tested me five times and they all came out the same." Roy picked up the packed looking through it. The papers all stated that Edward had been positive for pregnancy. He looked through the teats and saw that they had tested through both blood and urine samples. They had all came out the same.
"And here are pictures from the hospital." He laid them out on the coffee table as well. "I had a C-Section 'cause you know, I don't exactly have... You know..." He looked uncomfortable for a second then recovered and pointed to the first photo. It was a picture of Ed. He had his shirt pulled up and Roy could see the beginning of a baby bump. The next few pictures were showing Ed as his bump grew as the months went on. More pictures were shown, though in a different setting. They were in a hospital now. The first picture Ed showed him that had this change of setting was a photo of the Rockbell girl cutting the umbilical cord attaching the baby to Ed, smiling excitedly. He pointed to another of Winry holding the infant. Then the last photo was the same one he saw when he was looking around the room. Ed holding an infant while laying in a hospital bed, smiling fondly down at the sleeping baby.
"Is this enough proof? Do you believe me now?" He sounded hopeful. Maybe Roy could finally be convinced.
"Mommy...?" Ed looked up and Roy turned in his seat to see the little girl with jet black hair and golden eyes staring at them, "What're you doing mommy?" Roy saw what seemed to be even more proof in this girl. The little girl called Ed 'mommy' not 'daddy' and he started noticing resemblances between him and the child.
"Nothing sweetie, what do you need?"
"I'm hungry." She said, "When's lunch?" Ed looked at the clock on the wall. It was 12:30.
"How about right now?" He said smiling at her. The girl smiled back and nodded, "C'mon then, let's get you a sandwich or something." He turned to Roy again, "Do you want something to eat?" He asked but Roy Just shook his head.
"No I ate before I came here." He told him and Edward nodded.
"Alright then." Ed turned toward his daughter again smiling fondly down at her and took her hand, leading her into the kitchen. As the blonde left the room, Roy chewed over the things that Ed had showed him. It was all convincing enough to make someone believe that the man had gotten pregnant but Roy still didn't want to admit that it was possible, unnatural, something that should be impossible for a male to do. Yet here, in front of him, was proof that it was possible and that Ed had gotten pregnant. Roy's thoughts became guilty. The other man had been trying to tell him what had happened and what he'd been through and Roy had just kept on denying him and rejecting his claims instead of asking for proof first hand. He leafed through the test results again then studied the pictures a bit more. He'd never seen Ed as happy as he was in the picture of a tired him holding a baby. His baby. His daughter who had spent nine months inside him. He believed now that it had all happened and that he was the father of this child. He stood and followed the route that Ed and the little girl had taken to the kitchen and stood in the door watching Ed lather a piece of bread with peanut butter then spread jelly on top of it, finishing when he slapped another piece of bread on top of it. He approached the girl who was sitting at the square shaped kitchen table waiting and ready for food. He set the plate in front of her and she picked it up ready to take a huge bite out of it.
"Ah, ah. What do you say first." Ed asked making her stop in her tracks. She sighed, seeming annoyed at the question but responded anyway.
"Thanks Mama." Ed smiled and kissed the top of her head while she started on her sandwich taking a large bite, stuffing her mouth full of peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
"Take smaller bites! You're going to choke one of these days if you keep doing that! I swear." The four-year-old heedes Ed's words and began taking normal bites.
"What's her name?" Roy asked and Ed looked up.
"Winry." He answered, "It's a pretty name." Roy nodded thinking that the name was alright but not what he would've chosen.
"So..." Ed started then stopped. Roy know exactly what he was asking.
"Ed you weren't lying about being pregnant. I can ser that now." He looked at Ed with a guilty expression, "I should've listened to you and I'm sorry. Can you forgive me?" Ed looked down contemplating it. After a few minutes which felt like eternity to Roy the blonde looked up again.
"Yeah... I think I can." He smiled a little, "I guess it wouldn't be really that easy to believe that a guy could get pregnant anyway so I can't blame you much for it." Roy sniled back.
"You're right about that." He looked down at Winry, "I'd like to be apart of her life... If that's alright with you of course." He looked up at Ed again, hoping that maybe he could be apart of that family that he started but abandoned before he had realized that he'd created it.
"It's fine with me. I think that Winry had wanted someone to call dad anyway."
"So let's start over. Ed, would you do the honour of becoming mine again?" He saw Edward's expression turn thoughtful as he thought about it. Roy hoped that maybe, just maybe, the blonde would say yes and he could reunite with his love who he'd been searching for, for the last four years. After some time of contemplating it, ed looked up again with a smile.
"Alright, let's try this again okay?" Roy let out a breath he'd been holding. He had reached his goal.

Hi!!! So thia chapter is finished!! I hope you guys liked it and I'm sorry that it took me forever to write! I actually hand wrote it becaus I couldn't get to a computer for the longest time but I've finally got it typed up and posted for you guys so yeah! Hopefully my computer won't break again and I'll be able to put up the next chapter soon! See you guys in the next chapter! Bye for now!
~Kurosaki-Chan