Ace: I know I said 7 reviews, but I just started thinking about Sonya thanks to the anonymous review I got, and it brought back some of the plot line I'd made and then taken out because I just wanted to stop messing around and get on with the story.
Kayla: Anyway, what Ace is getting at is that this is a little drabble on what Sonya was like before the story started and a peek into her head.
Sonya: I don't like it when people peek into my head.
Lela: Yeah, but it's either peeking into your head or comedy. This collection will NOT include sex. It may, however, include fluff.
Sonya: Perfect. Excuse me while I go barf my guts out.
Kayla: Ace5980 does not own FullMetal Alchemist.
Lela: And in case you haven't caught on yet, these are deleted scenes and random side-stories from Ace's story Chimeras Plus Alchemy Equals Love?, so if you haven't read that, the link is http:/ .net/ s / 6104286 / 1 / Chimeras_Plus_Alchemy_Equals_Love. Just remove the spaces to find the story. If you read on despite the warning, well, don't blame us if you get horribly confused.
Ace: Enjoy!
Musings On What She May Have Missed
Sonya remembered well what her childhood was like. Normally, she repressed those memories down with a fierceness that surprised even her because she didn't want to think about what had happened back then. But now, sitting out here on the roof, watching the fires of the city spread before her like a painting, she couldn't help but to think back to those times.
There was lots of shouting and crying and moans of passion, all one-sided. There was abuse and hiding and so many hidden dances to protect the little ones. Lela tried so hard to keep them safe and unhurt, to give the two younger children the childhood they deserved so much. Little did she know that Sonya knew exactly what went on behind closed doors and the flimsy walls that hid little of what was happening on the other side.
She had seen the tear tracks on her older sister's face, the way the girl cowered when their mother, a stumpy woman with crazed eyes and a bony hand despite her pudginess, would raise her arm up. She had heard the sound of their father ordering her older sister to beg, the whimpers the girl would make when she was alone in the room covered in a mixture of sweat, blood, and other things. Hell, she had even felt the red and bleeding welts on the girl's skin from when their mother would get angry and whip her older sister with a rawhide belt!
No, but what Lela and Kayla didn't know was that Sonya had done what no child should ever have to do. She drugged both of her siblings one night, carrying them to their beds, before she turned and, heart in her throat, ventured into her parent's bedroom. There, that night, she brokered a deal with the devil. In return for providing herself to them once a week, Lela would be left alone that night. Willingly, every night that it was youngest daughter who opened that door instead of the eldest, the mother would abuse the little one and the father would rape her so that her sister would be spared for one night.
Sonya was careful to hide what she did those nights. She always made sure her sisters were fast asleep before she dared venture into the lions' den and was certain she would have enough time to properly dress and bandage herself before returning to the soft comfort offered by the large, old mattress the three slept on. She hid how everyday movements made her body ache until she grew more and more used to the pain, but never did she once take more days than that simple one. To do so would be to reveal herself to Lela, and that would defeat the point of the quiet suffering she endured.
Later, when her mother died, Sonya kept quiet about how the place had no signs of force entry. In fact, she even broke the window on their room herself. She knew there had been no intruder the night their mother had been killed. The only one who had been there in the house was Lela, but Sonya did not hold her sister accountable for whatever had gone on in that house that night. Their mother had deserved whatever little Lela had given her.
The same suspicion arose in her mind when they left the house a year later, running from their father's death as well, but once again, Sonya remained mute on the fact that she knew Lela had killed both of their parents in cold blood. Sonya had done practically nothing to help them over the years, so she would play her part of the naïve sister as she had all these years, and play it well. No one would ever know what exactly had happened in the Animalia household, and that's the way it would stay.
Sonya had lost a lot in those days. Her innocence, her childhood, her happiness. In all honesty, Sonya didn't even really know how to love. Her parents had never shown outward signs of affection other than a gentler smack or a loud moan to the ear. Kayla had somehow escaped major harm, but she did have strange ideas on relationships, which was something the youngest sibling would not be taking up with the other two any time in the near future. Even Lela hadn't really known how to show affection, trying her best to always pull the other two closer behind herself and doing it all as more of a Lone Ranger kind of love than a true sisterly kind.
Maybe that was why Sonya had trouble showing any kind of positive emotion. Maybe it was because she'd always been stepped down on as a kid. Maybe it was because she'd left some vital part of her behind when she'd died. Maybe it was because the Gate had taken something from her in return for her passage back to the mortal realms. In a way, it didn't really matter anymore. Sonya was a darker kind of justice than what most had known, but that was fine with her. She used to be a homunculus who'd been purified into an angel, but she'd always told her sisters she was a pure bat-chimera.
The truth was that Sonya really did love her family. She protected her sisters by not being there, by hiding the truth from them. She loved the chimeras here at the Devil's Nest. She protected herself from letting them hurt her by acting like a bitch, but if they ever chanced upon her up here on the roof, they would see the shining lines her tears had made as they came down her face.
But really, she loved Greed with all her heart. She loved him enough to keep living, to at least act like she didn't hate him because really, when she was being civil to someone, they could see that she had been through just as much as her older sisters, if not more. That was why she hid herself underneath the facade. However, sitting there up on the metal roof with her legs dangling over the side, she couldn't help but think that she had missed something in her way of looking at the world and was now missing out on something as a result.
Ace: What'd you think?
Sonya: Don't answer that.
Kayla: DO IT, DO IT, DO IT!
Lela: Very nice, Ace. *pats on head*
Kayla: What're you gonna do next?
Ace: Probably something involving you.
Lela: Romance or peeking?
Ace: Comedy.
Kayla: Ooooooooooohhhhhh, press that little button down there that says review! Please! I WANTS TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!
Sonya: Where'd the guys go?
Ace: Somewhere.
Lela: She sent them away because they're being held hostage as rewards. Reviewers may do whatever they like to each one.
Kayla: OH NOES, ED IS IN TROUBLE! *runs off to go find Edward*
Sonya: OMFG, GREED'S BEING HELD HOSTAGE? *flies off to go rescue Greed*
Lela: I don't even want to go looking for Envy right now...
Ace: Smart girl.
