"What are you doing to---- aieeee!!!!" Another shriek followed. Lorelei dashed up the stairs without thinking. Edward and Alphonse ran after her. A figure held the photo and stood above Lindsay. Blood covered her fist; obviously from beating Lindsay to unconsciousness.

"Who are you?" Edward demanded, using alchemy to change his automail arm into a sharp blade.

"Me?" She stared; she wore something similar to a females version of what Envy wore; but with red markings covering her skin. "That is none of your concern." She jumped back to the window and held up the photo. "I retrieved what I desired."
The girl jumped out, and Lorelei helped her daughter up; Lindsay was bleeding from the mouth and had a huge red bruise on her face. Her mother picked her up bridal style. "Why did she attack you? Of all people...." She sighed. Lorelei turned and handed Lindsay to Edward. He changed his hand back and took her into his arms. "Tend to her while I call my husband." She left and quickly called Lindsay's father out of work.

Edward stared at her and blushed slightly. She looked so delicate. And was she crying in her 'sleep'? Lindsay winced and stared up at him with half-awake, soulless eyes. This only made him blush more.

"Lindsay! Are you okay?" Alphonse asked, deep concern was shown in his voice.

"Mm-hm...." She whimpered slightly from pain. She sat up, holding her cheek and spitting out blood. "I.....m-more concerned.....my photo..." Her head throbbed, which made it harder for Lindsay to speak. "Where is it? Ow!"

"That shouldn't matter!" Edward scolded. "Is why the hell you didn't defend yourself!"

"If you were to actually fight your brother to one of you two faint - wouldn't you let Al win?" She looked at him with no expression in her eyes.

"She looks like Kaitlyn. But...." She looked at both of the Elric brothers. "She's now a monster!"

"You did human transmutation!?" Lindsay only took more of Edward's yelling. "Especially with some one like you, it's impossible!" He couldn't take it anymore. This unhappiness in her and her soullessness was too much for him. How could she do such a thing, and with her beginning too!? He grabbed her shirt and shook her, Alphonse tried to hold him back. "Is that why your Mom's sick?!? Sacrificing for you stupidity!?!?"
Lindsay huffed and punched him directly in his face, sending him to the wall. "Why are you pinning it on me?!" Her death glare was very effective in silencing him. "Just go to my Mom. She probably thinks I got hurt again." Edward rubbed his face and winced. 'Damn, she hits like a guy!' He thought.

He left the room, slamming the door behind him. Lindsay was still seething from her anger. Alphonse noticed her seating stated to sound more like ---- sobbing? She immeditily slammed her fist in the wall, which startled the younger Elric. The motioned with repeated until he had to stop her.

"Lindsay! Please! Your knuckles are bleeding!!!" He begged her to stop, but she pushed him off.

"Why?! You and your brother and so much braver and smarter than me!" She whimpered. "I, I didn't even do it." She fell to her knees, Alphonse going to her side.

"What? Then who did....?"
Lindsay breathed in and out, regaining herself and able to speak calmly. "An alchemist who was in love with her. He wanted her to be with him, so he thought that if he brought her back, she's love him." She looked at her knees. "I knew what he was doing. I didn't tell any one because---" She paused and smiled at him, then chuckled. "I guess I was stupid enough to want to see her again. I didn't do the actual transmutation, but I did help with the calculating. So when he did it, he died. I was forced to see what came out...." Her eyes focused on her hands. "These hands could've stopped that monster, but all it did was help." Tears flowed from her eyes, but was still calm. "I, want to reset, to undo....heh, sounds stupid. You guys never did anything like that."

"Actually, we did." Lindsay gawked at him, astonishment filled her eyes when he lifted his helmet off. "I gave up my body and Ed gave up his leg. Then he used his arm to seal me to this armor. We were trying to bring our mom back." She glanced at the blood rune and then to the helmet.

"I -- I'm so sorry...." She straightened herself up and placed the helmet back on his shoulders and grinned. "Let's go tell your brother, Mom and Dad that I'm fine now!" He hoisted himself up and walked with her downstairs. Her father looked at her daughter and was utterly worried. Edward glared at her, and looked back at the wolf painting on the living room wall.

"What happened?" His father asked.

"I'm fine Dad. It's just a brui--- ow!" She held her wound after her father poked it.

"That looks more than a regular bruise Lindsay, put something on it." She obeyed. Edward looked at Alphonse.

"We're leaving tomorrow Al." He glanced at all of them. "And I thought this family had nothing to hide." Lorelei and her husband Kenny both looked at each other. Lindsay ran in.

"What! But please, let me come with you!"

"Hell would have to freeze over before I let you come with me!"

Alphonse grabbed his arm. "She didn't do it Ed! And besides, what about us?" Edward looked at Lindsay with widened eyes. 'Did, did she try to stop the sinner....?'

Edward sighed. "I'm sorry Lindsay. You still can't come with us..."