Can what was be Again?
Chapter 10: Havoc's cousin
Disclaimer: I don't own Full Metal Alchemist. It belongs to Hiromu Arakawa-sensei.
"So Jean, what brings you back home all of a sudden? I thought you had transferred along with Colonel Mustang to Central?" Havoc's cousin asked, as she opened the door on both him and Breda. With a bowl in her hand, still stiring the mixture inside with a spoon, it was obvious that they had interrupted her whilst she had been in the middle of something.
"Mary, instead of discussing this in the doorway, why don't you let me and Breda inside?" Havoc said, annoyed about the fact that if his cousin hadn't have had that bowl in her hands which was probably dinner) he could have just marched straight past her.
Seeing that nothing would be achieved until she had let Havoc inside (and fed him as well) , Mary moved and went back to the kitchen where preparations for dinner were well underway. Both Breda and Havoc tossed their Military jackets on the side of one of the chairs as they sat down.
When Mary was convinced that nothing in the kitchen would need her attention within the next few minutes, she wandered back into the room that Havoc and Breda had entered. "Jean, I know that you wouldn't come and visit the family for absolutely no reason, so why are you here? And how about introducing your friend here while you're at it," Mary waved the rolling pin in her hands at Breda.
Havoc sighed. Why was it every he went he was accused of something? "Mary, this is Second Lieutenant Heymans Breda, who works under the Chief with me,".
"And why are you here?" Mary prompted.
"To annoy the heck out of one Miss Kempt," Havoc said mischievously, rubbing his palms together at the thought of what he could do to the woman. He was allowed about ten seconds of greedy thinking before WHACK! Mary had hit him very hard with her rolling pin.
"Jean! That's not very nice!" exclaimed Mary as Havoc cried out in pain from her rolling pin. "Why should you harm some poor defenceless woman?"
"Miss Kempt is not poor, and probably not defenceless. Anyway, we're here to save he from a far worse fate. You've heard of Mustang and his alchemy, I presume," Mary nodded in reply to Breda. "He was wanting to burn Miss Kempt to crisp,"
"Who is this woman anyway?" Mary asked, seeing as everyone seemed to be so annoyed with her, Mary might as well know who she is. How could she know if Miss Kempt did deserve to be burnt to crisp if Mary didn't know who she was.
"The most annoying woman you'll ever meet," was Havoc's reply to his cousins question.
Breda decided to elaborate a bit more. "She turned up in East headquarters just before we got transferred. Asked us if we could find her missing daughter before starting shrieking at first Lieutenant Hawkeye. She hasn't stopped bugging everyone at East since,"
"So she's pretty bad," Mary said, her imagination conjuring up horrible things. "Wait you said she was looking for her missing daughter? Down in the village, one of my friends told me that there was a woman who kept moaning and shrieking about her lost daughter and how "Riza didn't deserve the child" and "How dare that man get in the way?",".
Havoc and Breda both nodded. "That's her,"
"How can you tell?" Mary asked. "There are probably loads of woman who have lost daughters," Mary then realised that there were things in the kitchen that needed her attention.
Havoc leaned over to Breda, and in a whisper said, "But how many of them scream and wail and curse Riza and the Chief?".
After eating the delicious (yet slightly burnt) dinner that Mary had cooked (there had been just enough food to go round, which had been lucky as Mary originally had only had plan to cook for herself) Havoc and Breda settled down to try and think up plans for getting Miss Kempt out of Eastern Headquarters for good.
"Do you think we should tell East and General Grumman about what we plan to do?" Breda asked. Their plans so far looked pathetic.
Havoc looked up from his doodling "Nah, we'll only get in trouble for allegedly disturbing the peace even though we're earning East some rest,".
"You're right," Breda said, even though General Grumman probably wouldn't mind, whoever had replaced Mustang probably would have had something to say about it. Like forbidding both Military men to go within a mile of Miss Kempt (which would be a good thing!) but, they'd never get rid of her.
There was then a knock on the door and Mary barged in. "Jean, your Uncle and Aunt are home. While I may not approve of your plans, they'll approve even less," Mary had a glance at what both of them had managed to come up with. "Those are rubbish! It would be better if I just whacked Miss Kempt over the head with a rolling pin!"
Two pairs of pleading eyes then surrounded Mary. "You actually want me to do it? I was only joking you know," Havoc and Breda started to talk about how much better it was than all their ideas and how Mary was the only one who could pull it off. Mary sighed, before saying, "Fine I'll do it. But don't think I'm guarantying a good result,".
"Thank you Mary!"
And that was how Mary had found herself outside the home of Miss Kempt, armed with a simple rolling pin. "How is this ever going to work? I'm not a practical joker, I have no idea quite how this is supposed to play out," Mary shook her head. "Note; never ever go along with one of Jean's schemes again!"
A/N: I'm sorry for how absolutely rubbish this chapter is. I'll leave it to your imaginations quite what happened to Miss Kempt, but lets just say she probably won't turn up again. Thank you to Bar-Ohki for trying to give me ideas. The next update will be much much later than usual, due to me being on Guide Camp for a week, and then going to Spain for four days. If I can squeeze an update in I'll try, but don't count on it. Thank you to everyone who has read and reviewed this story so far.