False Insanity
"I'm telling you I'm not insane!" Ed yelled as his matted hair hung out loosely from his usual pony-tail and stared up at Roy with scared eyes. "There are just people in my head telling me to kill you!"
"Right down this hall Colonel Mustang" One nurse at the hospital led Roy down the hallway with creepy white walls and linoleum floor tiles. This was crazy, when Roy found out Edward was hauled to the insanity ward he couldn't believe it. This must be a misunderstanding. Looking around he saw the other soldiers who got treatment here, some he recognized from the Ishbalan War. Room 7, 8, and 9 they all passed, just how far into this is Edward. This was all too quiet for Roy's tasted, coming back here always gave him the chills
"This is ridiculous…tell me why Major Edward Elric got carted here?" Roy demanded with his arms crossed glaring daggers at the back of the nurse's head. Sighing in annoyance when the nurse didn't answer him he pinched the bridge of his nose just thinking. The last mission I sent Edward on wasn't a hard one, he was perfectly sane when he left…what happened. His mind was rattled, there was nothing that could make Edward go insane, not after what he has been through. He was snapped out of his thoughts by the nurse tapping him on the shoulder.
"Colonel…" She repeated again.
"Oh what" He said shaking his head.
"I said please wait here, I'll get the psychologist, please have a sit" she insisted again and turned away going into the office leaving him to his thoughts again. Sitting down he leaned forward with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hand thinking.
"Im telling you I am not insane just truthful! You all are fucking against me, let me out!" Edward yelled as he tried pulling the restraints off his one wrist, his metal arm had to be removed due to his ability.
"Edward calm-"
"IM FUCKING CALM!" He yelled glaring at the doctor. Edward bounced up and down trying to get the chair to at least move or tip over. The psychologist watched his movements behind his glasses and tapped his pen against the clipboard. He had his hair slicked back with a few strands of hair falling against his forehead. He was a middle-aged man, probably late 50's. His eyes were a mix of green and brown. Edward finally stopped jumping around like a kid and panted calming down a bit. He glared at the doctor through his bangs, his golden eyes never once blinking.
"Are you done now Edward?" He asked again, Edward just stayed silent refusing to talk to him anymore. Leaning back in his seat the doctor looked over the notes he took throughout the session.
Incoherent, unreliable, childish, unreasonable…this was going to be difficult.
"I'm going to ask you one more time…What happened on that mission" Everything in the room was still. The clock seemed to stop ticking. The only thing Edward wanted to listen to was the scribbling of the pen on the clipboard. His body fidgeted in the restraints and looked around to see if anyone was there. The doctor took a note of that.
I can't…I can't say I can't!" He said over and over again. "I can't risk it!" He said again as his body began to sweat.
"Why can't you!"
"The will get him! I can't…there here…in my head!" Edward repeated. "I need to get far away, it's not safe, not for me or anyway there here! Believe me!" He repeated, his teeth clattering in anger and frustration.
"Get who?"
"I told you I can't!"
"Edward there are no voices in your head, it's all in your mind" The doctor said again.
"Yes there are! I can hear them, but you can't! It's just me. They chose me! W-where are you going!" Edward watched the doctor get up and leave the room. "COME BACK HERE!" But Edward's plea went on deaf ears as he exited the room leaving Edward to his thoughts.
"Doctor Schiff, Edward's superior is here to see you" The doctor nodded his head and walked towards the bench seeing Roy sitting there. Schiff coughed and Roy looked up and stood up right away.
"Colonel it's been a while" They shook hands and Roy nodded his head.
"Where is Edward" HE said flatly and watched the doctor flip through his notes.
"Room 26, but I don't think this is a good time. He is quite unresponsive" Well that's nothing unusual, Edward never responded or listened in the past, why would he start listening now?
"That's nothing I dealt with that while he was under my wing years ago…tell me what he is doing now. He doesn't belong here" Roy tapped his finger against his forearm waiting for his answer.
"Oh I believe he does. Edward keeps saying, they're going to get him. Voices are telling me I can't, it's in my head, I was chosen…makes no sense" Roy snatched the clipboard and the doctor just let him have it as he waited for his response. There is was in the hand writing.
Patient 206, Edward Elric, deemed clinically insane.
Patient Edward Elric, age 19 exhibited violent behavior. In this session he tried to pull his restraints, jump up and down, tip over in his seat and destroy anything near him. Sedatives were used to help him sleep. He wakes up screaming in the middle of the night, multiple migraines and threat to others. Today we have to remove his auto-mail arm to keep himself safe from self inflicted wounds.
"I'm not insane! They're telling me in my mind, you can't hear them, only me! I have to run away, get far away!"
Symptoms – haggard breathing, migraines, self harm, threat, dangerous, fearful, hearing things, hallucinations
Must keep for further sessions
End result - _
His onyx eyes stared at the words almost in disbelief. This was not Edward, this had to be a mistake. The Edward he knew would never let anyone get into his mind. Edward was strong and brave. After the hell he has been through as a child and the mental torture he went through while he served under his wing he never showed these signs. And what was this end result? Why was it left blank?
"Let me see him. Now" He commanded and the doctor nodded and led him down the back hallway to the very last door, in the deepest part of the hospital ward. Soon they came to a door leading into an almost empty room. The glass was a two way mirror so they could see Edward, but he could not see or hear them. Seeing the small blonde like this made Roy's heart ache terribly. He was slightly rocking his head, his hair was a mess, pieces of his blonde hair falling out of his pony-tail and his lips were chapped and trembling as he talked to himself over and over again.
"He has been this way for a while now…wait you can't go in!" The doctor yelled as he saw Roy heading for the door. Ignoring his words Roy walked in without warning. Edward raised his head and just stared at Roy for a while. His eyes widened as he stared screaming uncontrollably. His shook his head from side to side screaming in pain.
"GET OUT! IT'S NOT SAFE, LEAVE ME NOW, GAHH! YOU'RE NOT SAFE, WE ARE ALL NOT SAFE!" Roy staggered a little bit as he heard him yell. Nurses pushed passed him putting a needle in his arm as he struggled and soon he slowed down and his speech turned to mumbles. The only audible thing he spoke, Roy heard.
"…help me…" Ed mumbled before he passed out from the drugs. Roy then and there made his exit unable to comprehend what he had seen. Edward passed out, screaming for him to leave, not safe. What did this all mean?
"Colonel?" He ignored the doctor and just kept moving and busted through the door. Edward, his Edward could not be insane. That mission, what happened during that mission? He felt extremely guilty, but why? He walked to his office passing everyone that said hello which caused a worried glance. Whenever people saw Roy Mustang in this state they knew to stay clear. Like last time they had to get a new roof due to fire damage. Pushing threw his doors like a bull going after a matador.
"Come on, where is it. Why did I have to be organized this time?" He said throwing papers left and right looking for the report that was handed in by Alphonse.
"Ah ha!" He said victoriously when he saw the report. "Ok day one…"
Alphonse and I arrived at the small town, looks like a shit hole to me. Many of the people were starving and freakishly skinny. But what didn't make sense was they weren't poor, they had farms and stores and had money, why were they all dying off.
"Ok normal so far"
Day two, damn these people are like zombies. I managed to get some information from someone who was halfway sane. They told me strange people had set up camp here a couple months ago and when they came everything started going down-hill. I noticed strange marking on every building, they looked like transmutation circles, but I have never seen these kinds before. I am going to go look tomorrow.
Day three –
Day four –
Day five -
His eyes widened and he flipped through the pages seeing blank spots all over the report. He pounded his fists on the table yelling damnit. Why were these days blank? What happened when he went to investigate those people? Something happened.
Oh so is Edward insane or is he telling the truth, you will never know haha. Please review it's nice hehe :)
