True feelings
The trip was long, ten hours by train and then an hour in the car . When they arrived at the hotel they checked in and got some rest.
" So what are we going to do now?."
" I don't know about you but I'm gonna go wash up."
" Women."
" Hey your the one who brought me with you, the least you could do is not complain."
" Yea yea I know. You wash up I'm gonna check out the sight's."
" Don't you mean the women?."
" Ummmm..."
" Whatever just make sure you don't drink to much. I have no intention of taking care of you when your hung over."
The colonel went to the bar to get a drink. He didn't really feel like showing off.
" Waiter, scotch on the rock's."
" Here you go."
" Thanks."
" What's eating you?."
" Nothing just tired from the trip here, ten hours on a train."
" He he he I take it your not from here then ?."
" Nope I'm from the east."
" I see so your from central then." Central was also the city not just the place where the colonel worked.
" Yea."
" So what have you come here for?."
" Well I wanted to spend some time with my daughter but it's not really working out the way I planned."
" Your married? That's strange I didn't see a wedding ring."
" What?, no I'm not married. She's my adopted daughter. I took her in a couple of months ago."
" I see, so how exactly were you planning for it to work out?."
" Well I was hoping to get the chance to talk to her more personally. The truth is I've had her for almost six months now and I don't even know what she like's to eat, what her favorite color is, I haven't even had breakfast with her in almost four week's."
" Well there must be a reason for that. Are you a busy man?."
" I should think so. After all I'm a colonel."
" A colonel? Well there's your answer. Your to busy with your duty's that even if you wanted to sit down and talk to her you couldn't."
" Yea I guess so. But I know doctor's in the army that work twenty hour's a day and still have time to spend with there kids."
" Well did you ever think that maybe your just to scared to talk to her. Maybe you have something that you think might give her a bad impression of you?." The sadness left from his eye's and he got up and headed for the room.
" Old man ,thanks."
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" Hey."
" Colonel what's going on ,aren't you busy with your sight seeing?."
" Nope the women here aren't all that great anyway."
" Oh really?."
" Hey, come on ,lets go get some normal food."
" OK."
They had dinner and then dessert. They also went for a walk outside. The weather had calm down.
" That chocolate moose was really good hu?."
" Yea sure was ,I wish I had sweet's like that when I was growing up."
" You didn't have chocolate ?."
" No we did but only adult's were allowed to buy it for there children. So there wasn't really someone to get some for me." She stopped, her feet were frozen, she couldn't move.
" You didn't have any parent's colonel?."
" No they both died during the war. You see after my mom gave birth to me she was called for duty with my father. She was a military doctor and my dad was a Major."
" Do...do you remember them at all?."
" No, not really but I've seen photo's of them. My officer's used to say that I looked just like my father."
" Do you miss them?."
" Sometimes but I got used to it."
" So who took care of you ?."
" No one really, I learned to fee for myself. I got a job and slowly moved my way up. I'm lucky to have found her."
" Her?.
" Yea I was and I still am. She was so beautiful. Brown hair and blue eye's. Such a wonderful women."
" Wait do you mean ?."
" Yea ."
" I thought as much, You were always looking at her that way." The colonel's love for lieutenant Elizabeth was finally reviled.
" Why don't you tell her?."
" She deserves a better man then me. I've bin with her for more then five year's and I've never taken her out or said something nice to her." Mako's eyes weren't visible, She seemed as if someone had punched her in the stomach and she was trying to recover.
" Colonel would you please forgive me for this. I know it's not regulation but..." She ran to his arms and hugged him, her hand's trembling. River's of tear's falling from her eye's she was holding them back all this time.
" I'm sorry, I'm so sorry I ….I had no idea."
" What are you sorry for. It's because of you that I'm even here today. When I first met you I was a man who didn't even know what to do with his life. But that day when I came to the police station and saw that look in your eye's I knew that you reminded me of someone. " She turned her head up toward him her eye's shinning bright in the moonlight.
" I finally see who you remind me of. You remind me of myself."
" Colonel." Tear's feel from her eye's as if a dam had collapsed and the water had started running down. It was hard to see but it almost seemed as if the colonel shed a tear as well.
" Colonel?."
" Yes ?"
" Can I tell you something ?."
" Anything."
" Promise that you won't ever tell anyone OK?."
" Yes."
" Colonel I'm the one who's responsible for my parent's and friend's death."
" What?."
" The day of the incident I was playing with some flammable chemical's and I forgot them open. The gases started spreading and when mom opened the stove the house was set on fire and after a few minutes the whole village. I never meant for it to happen. It's all my fault if I had bin more careful with the tube's they would all still be alive."
" No it's not."
" Yes it is."
" No no ,it was a terrible thing but it wasn't you fault." She continued to cry in his arm's .
" Shh It's ok, It's ok. Listen I know this might sound selfish but if that had never happened then I would never had met you. Don't forget that."
" Thank you colonel. May I ask you one more thing ?."
" Yes, of course."
" Do you think that I'm going to burn in hell for what I did?."
" No your not. I don't know god very well, but I do know that he would never have the heart to send a little girl like you to hell. The same can't be said for me."
" What?"
" During the war I killed many people even though I didn't want to. I had the power to say that I quit but I was to scared. If anyone deserves to go to hell it's me."
" No colonel don't say that!. You may have done bad thing's in the past but it docent matter. You've done so many good dead's in your life. You took me in when I though I had nothing. You gave me a home. It's not a matter of who you were it's who you are now. And when I look at you I see colonel Roy Mustang the future Furor. The man who will bring peace and love back to this world and will make it a better place for us all."
" Mako... Thank you, Thank you my daughter." The Colonel let his tear's fall as well.
The two of them were together and they were finally open to each other. How I wish this could be the end. How much I wish that I could stop here and tell you that she lived happily ever after. But I want to tell you what really happened and I'm afraid that in the real world no deed goes unpunished whether it is from the army, the police or from god.
