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Pairing: Roy/OC

TEARS OF AN ANGEL

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Two year old Zoey was missing!

The toddler had last been seen with Clara who was quite sure she had been last seen with her father. The same father who loved his little girl to death and was hoping to get to give his daughter a nice birthday party once he had gotten back from a mission with his fellow soldiers. Clara remained seemingly oblivious to what was going on around her but one thing was for certain, until someone spoke, no one would know where little Zoey Emma Mustang was.

"Do you know where your little girl could have gone-"

"Please hear me out I told you-"

"No you hear me out; I am done listening to your lies! This baby girl is missing and you were the last one with her. It's been three weeks and the odds are being stacked up against your daughter! Do you hear me? Your daughter is out there somewhere and she could very much be okay but we don't know that because you won't say anything that has happened."

"I've been trying to tell you but you keep interrupting me-"

"Okay listen, do you love your daughter? Do you love little Zoey?"

Clara nodded tearfully.

"That's not good enough! Do you love Zoey?"

"I love my baby and I just want her to come home! I want to be able to give her hugs and kisses, play peek-a-boo. If she just came home, I won't care that she favors her daddy anymore. In my heart I know that my baby is close. She's closer than she has ever been and I also know that we will find her. We will find her and the first thing I will do is smother her with kisses and tell her how much her mommy misses her and loves her so much. I only want her to be here with me-"She broke down to cry and the man nodded, not being able to deal with this mother's supposed explanations.

"You said last time we were here that Zoey wandered off when you were in Rush Valley. Is there some truth to that at all or were you lying to us as well about that. We are trying to find your daughter and you keep lying to us about where she is. Do you know anything that could help us find her? We'd ask her daddy but it is obvious that he had nothing to do with it because he wasn't the last one to be with her. In fact we have several documents stating that you have had suspended joint custody due to the fact that you threatened her very life! Is it true? Did you really tell your then boyfriend that you were going to shoot your then nine month old daughter in the head if he had left you?"

"I was hysterical because I didn't want him to leave me! I wasn't really going to hurt my baby and he should have known that as well. I love my baby and I know he knows that! All I know is that the last day my ex-boyfriend saw her at all, she goes, 'I ruv ou dada.' He was always her favorite! It's no fair and what am I supposed to do? My hands are tied. They say if they find her alive that he's going to get full custody of her and they made it joint in the beginning because he works in the army. Is that why you are asking me all these questions? Because you believe that Mustang wouldn't hide my baby from me? He is just as guilty as you are and I want her back much more than he does-"

"Listen I don't give a fuck about Mustang's reputation as far as the military goes. I don't give a flying fuck about your dispute with him. If you have an issue with the man that you had your baby with, well that's what abortion is for. If you didn't want the baby in the beginning then you should have gotten rid of her. It probably would've saved Zoey in the end from how we'll probably find her. You already waited five days. FIVE DAYS! Not an hour, not twenty four even but FIVE DAYS! Do you know what could have happened to your little blue eyed child in that time?"

"I was scared. I panicked because I didn't know where she was and I was busy trying to find out where she had gone to. I thought maybe she went back to some of the places we went to before and she had liked but then I realized that there was no way she would have gotten on that train without someone she knew. Whenever she was with me on the train, she always sat on the seat and was afraid of every person all around us. I found out later that she wasn't afraid with her daddy there. He helped her with her nightmares supposedly. I hate that! He has such a great relationship with her and he doesn't even try anything-"

"You keep getting off of the subject Miss Bleau. I'm going to ask you once and I want you to look me in the eyes and tell me this truthfully. Don't bother trying to lie because I want the truth and nothing but. Did you kill your daughter? Did you kill your twenty two month old daughter before her daddy could come home and see her again and then told a lie that you were going to take the girl on a train ride to Rush Valley for the weekend despite knowing that he should have been able to see her? Was she already dead because you couldn't stand the fact that your daughter was a daddy's girl like 99.8% of all the other little girls in Amestris?"

Clara glared coldly at the man for a moment before shaking her head fervently.

"I DID NOT MURDER MY BABY! WHAT IS THERE TO GAIN BY MURDERING MY OWN BABY WHEN I LOVE HER SO MUCH?" Calming down, she said in a trembling voice, "Zoey knows I love her and she also knows that I wouldn't hurt her. Once I find her, I will sue you for so much money that you would have to take a second job to be able to support yourself. I am appalled that you would ask me something like that! I thought you alone would know that I would never kill my baby! Do I look like a cold blooded killer to you?"

Much to her dismay, she didn't get an answer.

"When was the last time you saw your daughter Colonel Mustang? I know it's hard to think of all the possibilities out there but can you at least tell me what day it was and the time? Try to remember-"

"It was July 3rd. I remember because Zoey was born September 4th and that was the day I got back. Zoey was increasingly excited that day. Her blue eyes always lit up when she was happy so I tried to make her as happy as I could get without spoiling her of course. I remember I was seen off at the train station just that day. Clara was up near the phones and she was calling somebody-"

"Did you know who she was talking to and what the conversation was about?"

"I think it was about her work. She works with the research lab 2 and they are always developing methods to fight off illnesses and diseases. Clara told me she was inspired to become a pediatrician someday. So anyways, I was getting ready to board the train and I remember she was incredibly clingy that day because it just wasn't normal. It wasn't her normal behavior."

The man cleared his throat and adjusted his glasses.

"You said goodbye as usual though right?"

Roy nodded, not being able to speak. The man knew from the body language when somebody was lying. Interviewing the mother several times and listening to all her explanations was like pulling teeth. She hated the relationship that her daughter shared with her ex-boyfriend. She hated it with a passion. She had motive to possibly want to rid the obstacle of affection and he couldn't understand what would drive a hard working mother at heart to possibly do something to her own child. She kept reassuring them that she believed the little toddler to be alive though. Was she was the question. According to the friends she was with that day, she hadn't even gone to Rush Valley and she didn't seem overly worried in the time her daughter appeared missing. Of course, he wasn't going to let that out to the public right now.

"I said good bye and she hugged me extra tight that day. She was always sucking on her thumb and I always tried to break that habit but this time she hadn't at all. She broke the hug and kissed me on the cheek and goes, 'Buh bye dada. Me mwiss ou.' I love my daughter with all my heart and the fact that she is nowhere to be found worries me."

"It worries you."

He thought the flame alchemist was afraid of nothing but it appeared him and everyone in Amestris that didn't know him that well were wrong. He was scared for the baby that he came to love beyond anyone's wildest dreams. He already saw pictures of them together when he was sorting through the mother's apartment and he had to say for someone who held a grudge, she had all their pictures in her apartment alone. She carried pictures of the girl and her daddy in her car as well. Although it was highly suspicious that the car seat wasn't in the car anymore.

"She is afraid of the dark. If she's somewhere lost and all alone, I don't know how she would be able to cope with it. I just want my baby found so that she could come back to us. Her mother and I just want her back."

That was really interesting. Raising his eyebrows, he knew that the only thing that made it more interesting was the fact that they found a startling fact earlier on in the case. Having interviewed them both earlier in the week, he knew that the baby wouldn't go anywhere without her blanket. The blanket was missing too. They found the diaper bag in the trunk of the car and what appeared to be extra clothes which she told them that she wouldn't leave home without. The weirdest fact though was the fact that the woman had another daughter before she had been with Mustang in the first place and the girl was temporarily in a foster home until they could find some relatives.

Amanda Bleau loved her sister and couldn't remember a day when her little sister wasn't happy. As a baby she hardly cried and her mom repeatedly showed that she loved both her children. The father of the younger child loved her equally as well if not more. When asked, she said that the father spent much more time trying to teach her things instead of giving her anything she wanted so that she could call and talk to people. Amanda was often envious because her own father walked out on her as a baby leaving her with only her mom as support.

Right now, either one could have done something to the toddler but Douglas realized that there was no way Mustang did it no matter how much of a bastard he thought Mustang previously was. It was apparent that the mother was covering something up. She knew something that could help them and they had to get it out of her. But the main thing was to find the baby, find little Zoey before something did happen to her. It was sad though and Douglas would be the first to admit that this wasn't the first kind of case where he saw the worst when he was hoping it would turn out for the best. They were going to try their best to bring Zoey home alive to her family and they were going to go day and night into it.

But no one knew where little Zoey was, not even her mother and she was the last one to see her alive.

A/N: Please tell me how I did! I'd like to know how I could make it better and what could improve it.