There she stood, head down, hands at her sides, a few stray tears came from her eyes as she watched them. They buried her mother. A mysterious illness had killed the woman, leaving the fourteen-year-old girl behind.
She glanced around, from left to right. Of course he wouldn't be there. He was always too busy for his own daughter. Then again, being the Fuhrer was a demanding job.
It wasn't like she was supposed to exist.
She didn't even have his last name.
You would have to know the story to know she was even related to him.
Raine Carsten sighed as her grandfather squeezed her hand. She would be staying with him...but only for a few days.
Only long enough for arrangements to be made to move her to Central.
Would she begin a relationship with her father? She doubted it.
His job would demand too much of him, wouldn't it?
Raine had only met the man a few times in her life.
She was Fuhrer Roy Mustang's best kept secret.
Sure, she always got a card and some money for her birthday that said it was from him. Though she knew if it wasn't for Riza Hawkeye, she wouldn't even be getting that.
No. She wasn't going to go to Central. Raine couldn't go on without her mother. And what of her grandfather? He couldn't live on his own. He was sickly, and hard headed. She always thought she got it from him.
Raine glanced up at him with eyes as green as emeralds. They were her mothers. Except for the jet black hair upon her head, she was the splitting image of the woman.
"Are you ready to go back home?" he asked her in his own gentle way.
Raine sighed, looking back at the freshly filled in grave, "I think I need some time alone, grandfather."
The older man nodded, "Take your time, Rainey. I will have dinner ready for you when you get home."
"Thank you, grandfather." she said, hugging him before he left her alone with her thoughts.
She had went through the stages. Denial, anger, guilt, acceptance. Of course, the acceptance part wasn't something she was happy with.
Her black hair was not the only thing she had gotten from her father.
Alchemy.
Her mother would always be happy for her when she accomplished something with her alchemic abilities.
You are more like him than what you know
She would say, a smile on her face, but in her eyes Raine could see the pain that was there. She had really loved him, but his heart still belonged to another.
"I know I can't do it without you mom." she mumbled, "He doesn't want me. Why should he have to have me?"
She knew the potential consequences. She had heard of what had happened with the Elric brothers. It was quite the well known story in Amestris.
Human transmutation.
It had never been done successfully.
There was a first time for everything.
Author Note: Please Review. The first three chapters are short, but that is because I'm not great at coming up with titles and such.