Ch.6 the Automail secret

Ren's POV
I followed Ed's eyes and it led to my arm. It showed the metal hand that I had. I gasped as if it was new, but I knew it wasn't. I looked at Edward and he looked at me in shock. I tried to speak but no words came out. Ed was trying to speak as well and the result was the same. Al was the first to talk "You have automail? What happened?"

"Guess Winry didn't tell you huh. When you met me I only had one hand. It was chopped off by a professor for science. He gave me money and food so that I could live. I almost died because of that man. I left and then found you guys. Winry made me a hand and I-I made a skin cover up so that it looked like a regular hand." My mind wondered to that day.

-Flashback-
Ren walked into the house and she felt her hand bleed, but remembered that it was cut off. She ran to the bathroom and tried to stop the bleeding from showing. Winry came in and saw that her hand was missing. Ren's eyes were filled with pain "Please... Don't... Tell." Her plead must have worked because she took her to a workshop and told the boys to stay in the living room and that she'll be back soon.

The two went in and Ren had Winry sow up the wound and to give her a new hand. She agreed and the pain was unbearable. She heard Ed yell "Hey is everything ok?!"

"Just fine, Ren saw a rat a freaked out!" Winry had a good cover story and the two didn't ask what they were doing again. Once the pain was done Ren was sweating. "Thank you."

-End-

Ed interrupted my thought and said "What was this "science" for? Ed said putting air quotes by the word science. I thought about it and shook my head. "I don't remember. I was knocked out when he cut my hand. I'm sorry. I do remember him saying something about "taking it to father" whoever that is?" I said and the two looked at each other as if they were talking to each other with their minds. I looked at the two for a good period of time until I heard something. I sat up and Ed was already on his feet before I was. We ran to the house and it was in fire. Izumi and Sig were already out. I sighed in relief. I ran to them and Ed and Al were already working on putting out the fire. I made sure they were ok then helped them get farther away from the fire. "Izumi, Sig I need to get you two to a hospital. It will make me at ease if you do and so I know that you're alright."

"Of course Ren, but our car is kind of scorched as well."

"I will take you myself." I looked around and I saw a man in a wagon and I flagged him down "Excuse me. My friends here need to go to the hospital. Do you mind taking them?"

He looked at me as if I was an alien and was speaking in Spanish. 'A foreigner' I thought and began to speak it as well. I told him what I said, in Spanish, and he agreed. "Ahh Sí Sí."

"What did you tell him Ren?" Izumi asked, I smiled and said "That you guys were cooking and you burned your house down and that you need to get to the hospital. He said that he would gladly take you." I smiled and pulled out money from my pocket and showed to man. He shook his hands "no, no money." He said in English. I smiled and put the money back "thank you." I said and Izumi and Sig were on the wagon and headed on their way.

Back with the Elric brothers, I saw that they somewhat put out the fire. Just not much. I sighed and prayed "May the almighty watch over Sig and Izumi." I told myself. Ed looked at me and back at my hand. "I'm going to find that guy."

"What?"

"That guy that took your hand. I'm going to find him and teach him a lesson."

"Edward... Don't do anything rash. The guy is probably long gone. Besides I'm sure that I deserved my hand being gone."

"What do you mean?! You don't deserve that! He took your hand!"

"It was Punishment for me having alchemy. Let me show you something." I said and we walked to a grave yard. I walked to four certain ones and pointed them out. "These are people I killed in the past."

"Wh-what do you mean killed?"

"I was threatened. I let one person loose and my hand was chopped off. He put me on the streets. I guess I deserved it."

"But you said that it was used for science."

My face grew sad and full of grief. I looked at Ed. I saw Ed's face darken and looked at me in pure horror. I felt my heart die. I turned around and walked off. "Hey where are you going?"

"I'm leaving." I said darkly and went on my way. I didn't want to hurt him anymore. This is why I can't get attached. They will just leave me anyway.