A/N: Well here's chapter two, I told you I'd make this chapter bigger for you, I hope you enjoy it. ^_^
Disclaimer: I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist!
Chapter Two:
'Scared... I'm scared... Where am I? Why is it so dark... Someone, please help me...'
The young girl gasped and sat straight up in the hospital bed, she was disoriented and confused as she looked around the room which had white walls and the only things in her room other then the heart monitoring system and her IV stand was two chairs, a bedside table, a tray for meals and a door leading into a bathroom. The girl stared down at the IV in her arm and was just about to touch it when there was a knock on the room door before it was opened.
"Oh, you're finally awake. I'll get a nurse." A really tall boy in a suit of Armor said upon seeing the girl sitting up and staring at him, her head cocked to one side with a mixture of awe and confusion in her eyes, eyes that followed him as he left the room again.
"What? She's awake, that's great!" A female voice said from the hallway shortly after the large suit of armor had left the girl's room. The girl heard the armored boy's footsteps getting closer as he spoke.
"Yeah, I walked in after coming back from telling my brother what room she was in and she was sitting up and staring at me." She heard the armored boy say as followed a young woman into the room. The woman came over to her bed and looked at the bag of fluid hanging from the stand by her bed and then looked at the heart monitor screen.
"Hello young lady, I'm your nurse Claudia and I'm here to help you get better. How are you feeling?" Claudia asked with a kind, friendly smile. The girl looked from Claudia to the boy in armor and back again.
"Wh-Who is he?" The young girl asked the nurse pointing to the boy in armor with a curious child-like look on her face. Claudia followed the girl's finger to where she was pointing.
"Oh, his name is Alphonse Elric, he found you unconscious in an alley and brought you here in case you were hurt." Claudia said looking back at the young girl with a smile on her face.
"H-Hello Alphonse." The young girl managed to say shyly as she smiled at Alphonse who was standing not too far away.
"You can call me Al for short if you want to." Alphonse said with a little wave directed towards Celeste.
"Ok, I'll call you Al then." Celeste said with a smile as she waved back. She then turned back to the nurse, "Wh-Where is here?"
Oh, you're in a hospital in Central City." Claudia replied as she sat down in a chair in case the young girl had any more questions she needed answered.
"Hospital? Central City? I don't know those places..." The young girl said looking confused as she thought for a moment as if she were trying to remember something. "What am I wearing, and what this in my arm?" The girl asked as she looked from her hospital gown and ran a finger next to the place where th IV was in her arm. Claudia looked surprise at how quickly the young girl changed the subject.
"You're wearing a hospital gown, the clothes you were wearing when you came in were really ragged so we had to change them, we also had to clean the mud off of you. The thing in your arm is called an IV it's how we resupply the body with fluids, you were a little dehydrated when you were brought in." Claudia said watching how the girl looked at the IV.
"Is this your first time in a hospital?" Alphonse asked curiously as he looked at the girl, he knew about hospitals, but he was in them before with Edward.
"I think so, I don't remember ever being in one before." The girl said as she tried to think back but couldn't recall being in a hospital before.
"Oh, we forgot to ask you, what is your name?" Alphonse asked as he moved closer to the bed and sat on the floor afraid he might not fit in the chair.
"My name? It's Celeste." Celeste said looking out of the window and smiling as she saw a blue bird. "Pretty, what is that?" Alphonse followed Celeste's gaze out of the window and saw the blue bird.
"It's a blue bird, haven't you ever seen one?" Alphonse asked sounding slightly confused as he looked back at Celeste.
"No, I don't think so." Celeste said as she looked at Alphonse and smiled as she cocked her head to the side. "Al, what does your hand feel like, can I touch it?"
"Oh, uh... sure." Alphonse said walking closer and sticking out his hand which Celeste took in hers and smiled.
"It feels so nice." Celeste said as she rubbed Alphonse hand against her cheek, if Alphonse could he would've blushed.
"Oh, th-thanks." Alphonse said as he watched Celeste rub his hand up against her cheek.
"Celeste, how old are you dear, where are you from and how did you get here?" Claudia asked somewhat amused by Alphonse's situation as she couldn't help but smile slightly. Celeste stopped rubbing Alphonse's hand against her cheek and just went back to holding it as she looked deep in thought for a moment.
"I'm fifteen, but I can't remember where I'm from or how I got here... Why can't I remember?" Celeste asked looking at Claudia with a sad look in her eyes.
"I don't know sweety, but I'll go talk to the doctor and see if he can help figure it out." Claudia said with a smile as she got up and headed for the door. "Oh, another nurse will be in with some food for you soon, and Alphonse, you stay with her ok?" Claudia said looking back at Alphonse before leaving the room.
"Al, I have to go to the bathroom, can you help me up please?" Celeste said after a few minutes of holding Alphonse's hand.
"Oh, um... S-Sure." Alphonse said as he took both of Celeste's hands and helping her stand and holding onto her as they walked towards the bathroom. 'She's like a child when it takes it's very first steps.' Alphonse thought to himself as Celeste kept stumbling and almost falling a few times.
"Thank you Al." Celeste said with a smile after Alphonse helped her into the bathroom.
"You're welcome, make sure you hold on to that bar for support so you don't fall ok?" Alphonse said bowing slightly before leaving the bathroom and shutting the door.
After a few minutes Celeste came back out of the bathroom, she shakily walked over to the bed and got back into the bed without Alphonse's help who kept close to her just in case she started to fall, but she didn't.
"Thanks for walking behind me to catch me in case I fell." Celeste said as she got situated into the bed, covered up and looked up at Alphonse with a smile on her face.
"O-Oh, well it w-wouldn't be good if you f-fell." Alphonse said rubbing the back of his head nervously. He and Celeste looked over at the door as someone knocked on it.
"Come in." Celeste said happily as she took Alphonse's hand as a brunette nurse came into the room carrying a tray of food.
"Hello sweety, I have your lunch for you." The nurse said smiling sweetly as she sat the tray on the table and pushed it closer to Celeste so she could get to it better.
"Thank you." Celeste said smiling happily as she swung her arm which made Alphonse's arm swing because she was still holding his hand which made the nurse smile.
"Let's see what you're having for lunch shall we?" The nurse said smiling as she took the cover off. "Oh, roast beef, mashed potatoes and baby carrots with cheesecake for dessert. It looks good." The nurse said encouragingly to Celeste with a smile.
"It does look good." Celeste said in agreement as she looked at the food smiling and let go of Alphonse and reached for her fork so she could eat. The nurse smiled happily at Alphonse and Celeste before she left the room.
"Wait Celeste you have to cut it first!" Alphonse said as Celeste tried to stuff the entire chunk of roast beef into her mouth. Celeste pulled the roast beef back out of her mouth.
"Oh, you do?" Celeste said as she put the meat back down on her plate. 'She's almost as bad as brother.' Alphonse thought to himself as he cut the roast beef into smaller chunks for Celeste to eat.
"Now, you can eat it." Alphonse said as he finished cutting the meat for Celeste and handed the fork back to her.
"Thank you Al, I'm so glad you're here to tell me these things." Celeste said smiling happily before going back to eating her lunch. If Alphonse could he would've smiled.
A few minutes after Celeste was finished with her lunch and had asked Alphonse about what kind of foods you needed to cut before you ate them the nurse came back in to take the empty tray away.
"Did you finish your lunch? Oh, I see you did." The nurse said as she saw the empty plate. The nurse then put the cover back on and pushed the table out of the way.
"It was really good, Al had to cut my roast beef for me though. I didn't know you had to cut it." Celeste said as the nurse picked up the tray and started to walk towards the door.
"He did, well you are a good boy Al, and I'm glad you were here to help her." The nurse said with a smile on her face before she left the room with the tray in her arms.
"Hello again Celeste." Claudia said as she walked back into the room with a middle-aged man right behind her. "This is the doctor he will be the one taking care of you." She said gesturing to the man beside her.
"Doctor who?" Celeste asked curiously as she looked at the man beside Claudia and cocked her head curiously to the side.
"I'm Dr. Foster, and Miss Claudia here has told me you can't remember anything but your name and age. Is that right?" Dr. Foster asked as he sat in a chair next to Celeste.
"Yes sir, that's right." Celeste said taking Alphonse's hand again as the doctor checked her vital signs.
"Well, I can tell you it's amnesia, but I can't tell you want's caused it, we checked you when you came in and after we cleaned you up it didn't look like you had any injuries, did you hit your head at all?" Dr. Foster asked as he started to feel her head for any bumps he may have missed.
"Not that I can remember." Celeste said tightening her grip on Alphonse's hand slightly feeling a bit uneasy as the doctor touched her head.
"Well you don't have any bumps on your head, but amnesia can be caused by stress or a traumatic event. Unfortunately there's no way to tell which one since you can't remember." Dr. Foster said as he stopped touching Celeste's head and stood up looking thoughtful.
"Well how do I get my memories back?" Celeste asked curiously her grip on Alphonse's hand loosening now that the doctor had stopped touching her which went unnoticed by everyone except Alphonse.
"It could be temporary or it could be permanent, only time will tell." Dr. Foster said with a sigh. "Well we'll just have to reteach you everything you've forgotten and hope you'll remember in time. For now, I think you should rest." He said as he headed for the door with Claudia right behind them.
"I'm sorry you have amnesia Celeste." Alphonse said a few minutes after the doctor and the nurse had left again.
"What's amnesia Al?" Celeste asked as she looked up at him with a smile on her face still holding his hand.
"Oh, it's when you forget things that you shouldn't and can't remember them." Alphonse said as Celeste began to make their arms swing again smiling happily.
"Oh, well I'm glad I met you after this amnesia thing happened, I wouldn't want to forget you." Celeste said as she looked up at Alphonse with the biggest smile on her face which if he could have would've made him blush.
"I'm glad too Celeste." Alphonse said which seemed to make her even happier. Alphonse glance at the clock on the wall to check the time, it was now two forty-five in the afternoon and his older brother still hadn't shown up.
"Why are you looking at the clock Al?" Celeste asked curiously which made Alphonse look back at her.
"Oh, it's just my older brother hasn't shown up here yet, he should've been done with his report by now." Alphonse said as he looked back at the clock on the wall then at the door hoping Ed would burst through it complaining under his breath about the Colonel.
"You have an older brother? I can't wait to meet him! What's a report?" Celeste asked suddenly looking curious and thoughtful again.
"Oh, my brother is a state alchemist in the military, he has to give reports or tell the people in charge about our missions and stuff. The military is what protects our country from danger when bad people try to hurt us." Alphonse added as he saw the confused look on Celeste's face at the word mission.
"Oh, ok. What's an alchemist?" Celeste asked looking like a curious child learning new and exciting things.
"An alchemist is a person who studies or practices alchemy, alchemy is a science you can transmute things, but there is equivalent exchange, you can't get something from nothing, you have to give up something of equal value for something in return." Alphonse explained to an eager Celeste who hung on his every word.
"Oh, so your brother is an alchemist, are you one too Al?" Celeste asked curiously as she swung their arms back and forth.
"Yes, my brother and I are both alchemists." Alphonse said with a nod which seemed to make Celeste's smile grow.
"That's so cool, I want to stay up until your brother comes." Celeste said with a smile as Alphonse sat down on the floor.
"Well I guess it's ok, but the doctor did say you need to rest." Alphonse said as Celeste turned her head to look at Alphonse.
"I am resting aren't I?" Celeste said with a smile, it was true she was in bed and he didn't really tell her to sleep so Alphonse decided to let it go.
Two hours passed and Ed still wasn't there and Celeste was getting sleepier by the second her eye's kept closing but she kept trying to fight off the sleep so she could see Ed, but sleep won out and soon her eyes closed for good and she fell right to sleep.
A/N: Well that's it, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. ^_^
