Okay, I totally prefer writing in 1st person. And now, our story shall continue!
Gate of Promises
Chapter 2
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That bastard, how dare he try and order me to go to the fucking doctor! Well….. He is allowed to order me to go…but I'm still not going so ha! But damn it, I only have a few days to get this done and I'm not going to spend it by being stuck in a hospital for something they don't know of and have no idea where I got it. Doctors think they're so smart. -sigh- Well, at least I won't have to deal with them for much longer. I won't need a doctor, Al will be happy, and the Colonel will not bug me anymore. Sounds ideal…..
I headed home through the streets of Central and I had to stop a few times since it was getting hard to breathe. That damn coughing fit HAD to happen in the Colonel's office. Now he's going to be breathing down my neck with Al. Can't they learn to leave well enough alone? Well, technically I'm not completely well….but the concept still stands!
I opened the room to my military issued dorm and Al wasn't around anywhere and I double checked to make sure before collapsing on the couch.
"This damn automail is getting heavier everyday." I murmured, "Even more so now." I looked up on the calendar and sighed. Two days. Surely I could get it done in two days! I just had to rest up here for a bit and get to work. Nothing like a deadline to keep you busy.
I pulled off my cloak and jacket and winced as I undid the cloth wrap on my left arm and around my torso. Damn, it was spreading even faster. Fucking truth, -sigh. Well, at least I found what I was looking for during the past year.
I wrote in a coded entry of the past day into my alchemy notebook and set it back on my desk and looked at the clock. 5 pm…. Where the hell is Al? I went to HQ at 2 pm and he still isn't back. He better not bring home anymore cats….
I put a package of chalk in my pocket before I heard a pounding on the door. I froze as I could make out the shouts coming from outside the door.
"Fullmetal, let us in!"
"Hell no Colonel!" I yelled as I frantically tried to wrap up my arm and chest in the bandages again however I was struggling with both the rush and only using one hand.
"Brother, I have a key! We're coming in!" Al called and I paled and tried to wrap it faster however it wasn't staying on as well as I'd hoped. So Al had gone to the Colonel. How wonderful. I heard the key slip into the door and the handle turning. Only one thing crossed my mind as I saw the door open to reveal my longest kept secret and my horrified face: Oh shit.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Roy's POV XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
As the door opened into the Elric dorm, I felt my blood run cold. Sitting on the couch was Fullmetal, with half of his upper body and complete left arm a mixture of black and purple dead skin. His face was nearly completely white while his eyes were widened in horror.
"Brother! What happened to you?" Alphonse exclaimed in horror.
"It's nothing Al!" Edward said as he fell out of his shock of being found out.
"Fullmetal, how the hell is that nothing?" I growled and he glared at me as he finished wrapping his arm in bandages and slipped on his jacket and cloak.
"It's nothing to me." He whispered before he darted out the door and I restrained Al from chasing after him.
"Colonel! Let me go!" Alphonse screamed, "There's something wrong with brother! I have to go find him!"
"Alphonse! Calm down!" I yelled and the armored boy fell to the floor on his knees.
"Why didn't he tell me?" He whispered and I felt the boy's anguish just from his voice, "Why didn't he tell me what was happening?"
"Alphonse, I don't know why he hid it from you, or what it even is…but your brother has to have a record of what happened somewhere. You know that even if we find him he wouldn't tell us. Our best bet would be to see if he recorded what happened." I said as I looked down at Alphonse. He looked up as he thought and nearly crashed into me as he darted into the dorm while I followed him and he returned with a stack of small notebooks. I looked at him quizzically before he set them down on the table.
"These are his notes. He has them in code that I don't even know, but if we were going to find answers anywhere then Brother would have put them in here." He said proudly and I nodded. About 16 notebooks for 4 years so about 4 per year and hopefully the answers to our questions about Fullmetal's condition.
"I'll make a call to Hawkeye. We'll need time to decode these notebooks so hopefully she'll keep Fullmetal out of our hair until we're done. We can head over to my apartment." I said and Alphonse nodded. Now to make a phone call…
So how was that? Poor Eddy! =O So there's what his problem is but now to find out how he got it…. Please review! =D