Hey guys, another inspiration act, added to a load of free time. Hope you like this chapter; it's starting to get interesting I guess, even for me.

Enjoy!!

0-0-0­­-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0

Riza woke up a few hours later, she felt drained and heavy; probably the only part of her body she could move were her eyes. But managed a grunt of pain when she felt the bullet in her side.

Immediately two heads appeared in the picture, to very well known heads. The two Rockbell doctors looked at her like an experiment, she didn't feel like being kind right now.

"What?" She managed.

They didn't seem offended.

"Check the wound now please." asked from Mrs. Rockbell.

She felt the cold air of her shirt being lifted and then a stab.

"Argh." That hurt.

"It didn't hurt any vital organs, but she did loose allot of blood, we need more blood."

Now Riza really felt bad.

"Where's Jack?" she was worried for him.

"Uh, you should give him a little time." Mr. Rockbell answered while he bundled a ball of gauze.

"What? Why?" She winced, no shouting that hurt.

0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0

Jack cradled his head in his hands while he waited outside Melanie's room. Too much had been recently forced in to his head.

The first thing you could think of when you see a person turn purple and white and see a puddle of blood coming from her side is call an ambulance. That was the first thing he thought when he saw Riza on the floor in that condition.

But he wasn't allowed.

Riza fell to the floor before his own eyes and immediately bleeding like crazy. She passed out after ten seconds of being on the floor.

"I'll call an ambulance!" Jack shouted and ran for the phone. But before he could even leave, the two visitors shouted at him.

"NO!"

"Don't" The man said. "We will tend to her."

"But she's bleeding to death, can't you see her. Even if you people are doctors you don't have the equipment here."

"We have enough." He turned to Mel and asked for gauze, alcohol and a pair of tweezers.

"What? Are you crazy?! She's going to die if you keep her here."

"She wont, it doesn't seem serious."

"So?! You won't call a doctor just because you think you can deal with it?" He was at his limit now.

"Honey, take care of that, I'll talk to him." She nodded simply.

"Come with me please." They both walked side by side to the door.

"We can't leave; she'll die if we leave her."

"Look, young man. She has at least 48 hours of blood left in her body and as she is being attended by my wife I can bet you she won't loose anymore that she has already. Trust me I'm the doctor her not you. Now if you let me explain to you WHO this young lady is and show you why you cannot call an ambulance then you can choose yourself, but I'm sure you wont risk it." Jack calmed down and headed out the door.

If they really were doctors they could help her, and anyways he couldn't do anything right now. He would talk to the man and call the ambulance later.

Mr. Rockbell just hope he wasn't as stubborn as the man he looked so much alike.

They walked together through the cold sidewalk.

"Who are you?" That seemed like an odd question to start this.

"What?"

"Who are you?" her repeated.

"I'm Jack Royalton." Not pleased to meet you, thank you.

The man stared stunned at him. He had seen plenty of these people, the ones he believed were them and weren't and the real ones that had the same sad fate as them. He just didn't expect to find him.

"Okay. I'm Dr. Rockbell. And I know lieutenant Hawkeye; I come from where she comes from. Do you know where that is?"

Jack scratched his mind for it, she hadn't really told him where she came from.

"Right, you don't know do you?" Jack denied. But he must know her if he knew she was a soldier and her rank, name and all.

The man draped an arm around Jack's shoulder.

"Well you see, Lieutenant Hawkeye, my wife and me. Are dead."

Now he really was confused.

"She doesn't belong to this world, neither do us."

"What are you saying?" He wasn't getting it.

"Did she tell you that you looked alike someone she knew." How did he know that?

"Yes, her superior or someone like that."

"Yes. Well this superior of hers killed us back in our world, Amestris. We really thought it was the end to it, but we appeared here in London, with a whole different life and nothing but what we were wearing."

"Nothing but your clothes?" Now that sounded familiar.

"Yes. And the same thing must've happened to her; she appeared here and, made a new life." He thought the kid was getting it.

"So you're telling me you three come from a parallel world to mine, but you died there and therefore appeared here?"

"Exactly."

"Then you are out of your mind old man, I'm calling an ambulance AND the police." Jack said and started walking back to Mel's

"Wait." He grabbed him by the arm.

"Think. How else would I know more than you do of her? How would I know all you already know to confirm your suspicion?"

He was right about that. How did he know so much? Could all this crap be real?

"You truly expect me to believe that?"

"Yes." He seemed serious about it.

"Just think about it okay. You can't call an ambulance because they will ask for a social security number and a name. You can't tell them that because she doesn't have one, she does not belong to this world.

Jack felt unsure, more like betrayed. He ran back to his shop and grabbed a phone guide. There was not one single Elizabeth Hawkeye. He then searched in the library for her name history, but there was no Hawkeye as he had said, she didn't belong here.

So he sat there and cried on the phone guide. That was probably the last reaction you would get from a man, but he couldn't help it. He felt so out of everything.

0-0—0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0—0-0-0-0-0

He smeared his red eyes; he knew that what he knew now was not meant to be common knowledge. But he still could wrap his mind around it; that the woman that had been living with him for almost three months didn't not belong here.

He saw Dr. Rockbell come out of Mel's room where Riza was. He stood up and twisted his hat in his hands.

"How is she?"

Dr. Rockbell knew Riza was fine, but he wondered if the knowledge the boy had now was making him like this.

His hair was so ruffled he honestly looked like Roy Mustang, his red eyes showed poor sleep and many crying, there were new lines in his face, worry lines and creases that he probably didn't notice, he also looked paler if that was even possible in this place.

"You can see her, she's awake." He nudged him in the back.

Now that he was allowed to see her he wasn't sure if he was able, he wanted but why?

He gulped hard and summoned all his courage; he was going to need it.

-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0—0-0—0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-

"Why did you tell him?" She asked Mrs. Rockbell while she dug the wound for the bullet.

"We had to; he was going to call an ambulance, and the police." She said without looking away from her work.

Riza didn't ask anything more, she wasn't completely satisfied about the reason, but it was obvious she had no papers.

"Hi" Jack appeared in the door.

Riza turned her head to him, but didn't answer.

Mrs. Rockbell was still busy plowing Riza´s side, but Jack looked at her and she understood she had to leave, in that moment she could have really sworn this man was Roy Mustang.

"Lieutenant Hawkeye." He addressed sarcastically.

"Don't call me that."

"Why not? You are a soldier after all aren't you?" She could hear anger in his voice.

She didn't look at him.

"How much did they tell you?"

"Why? So you can keep lying to me?"

Riza didn't answer and avoided his gaze all she could.

"Why didn't you tell me the truth Riza?" He calmed down and she glanced at him.

"I couldn't, you would've never understood. Even now I believe you still don't understand-"

"Then explain it to me!" He interrupted.

Riza didn't say a thing. So Jack knelt next to her bed.

"Do you believe that if I didn't believe what that man said to me about your lives, do you believe I would still be here? I would've probably run out the house and leave you here knowing you were safe and not bothering to see you again."

Riza couldn't say anything; she made a mistake by not telling him who she was.

"Tell me who you are." He sat in the floor Indian style and waited for Riza to answer something, anything.

"I was first Lieutenant Elizabeth Hawkeye, from the Amestrian army. I worked under Colonel Roy Mustang the flame alchemist, as and assistant and a body guard. More like a babysitter."

"Uhu." Jack encouraged her; he was not running away from this.

"I worked among four other men, and two boys."

Riza looked away from him.

"I died on a recent suppression of the Ishballan army, and without knowing ended up here in London, instead of under three feet of rubble." She finished.

He had set aside in his mind all his questions.

"Okay, question one what's an alchemist?"

"What? You don't know what an alchemist is?" She stared at him as if he were dumb, wasn't it obvious? He shuck his head.

"Do you know what alchemy is?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about." He seemed serious.

"Okay then, umm. Let's see. Do you know what a transmutation circle is?"

He denied.

"Do you have any remote idea of what I'm saying?" She seemed annoyed.

Jack took his time, and denied again.

This was going to be hard, why didn't he know even that simple term of alchemy? How could she explain that to him?

"You know that's fine, I really don't need to know every detail. I was just mad you hadn't told me the truth"

Actually, alchemy seemed to have a lot to do with how they all ended up here.

Mrs. Rockbell came into the room.

"May I?" she seemed scared of Jack. He just nodded.

She checked Riza´s wound and wrapped it in a bandage.

"There, you're all set to go, just take care of it and it'll close in a few weeks."

Just then Mr. Rockbell appeared in the room.

"Lieutenant, may I speak to you?" He looked at Jack. "In private." He added.

She already felt bad enough from keeping things from Jack. He was staring at her, wondering if she would keep going with it or would she open herself to him.

"Whatever you need to say you can say it in front of Jack."

He already knew everything, what else could he add?

"Very well then." He didn't seem sure about Jack being there but he kept going.

"I would like to know, about the sigil on your back." He breathed.

"Please tell me he didn't draw it."

Now that was something she didn't expect him to bring up. Jack didn't really understand anything that had to do with alchemy.

"Can I see it again?" he asked.

She wouldn't really care if he saw it; he already knew it was there, but what about Jack?

"I- Well." She turned to Jack. He didn't seem uncomfortable with it, if anything he seemed confused.

"You may see it. He didn't draw it and Jack-" She looked at him; he seemed satisfied just by taking part in this.

"Jack, you wont understand this, I swear Ill explain everything when we get home. I wouldn't blame you if you don't want to see it." Please leave.

"That's okay." He didn't move, he wasn't leaving so Riza started unbuttoning her bloody shirt. She could hear Jack go stiff as she slid the garment down to her waist and revealed the tattoo that covered her back.

"Oh god" Mrs. Rockbell gaped; it seemed she didn't know about it.

Mr. Rockbell observed the pattern and traced her skin with his cold fingers.

"If he didn't do it, then who?"

"My father."

"Your father? Who was he and why would he do this to his own daughter." He seemed disgusted.

"He was very well known for his work and the fact that he wasn't very forgiving."

The Rockbells seemed to be scratching they're minds for a name but couldn't come up with any. Jack stood motionless on a chair he had eventually pulled out. His arms crossed over his chest, his expression tense and his knee crossed over his other.

"His name was Silder Hawkeye." Riza said coldly.

She felt both Rockbells tense and Jack's motionless figure at the back, trying his best not to stare at her.

"Silder Hawkeye." He repeated in silence.

0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0

I made this chapter a little bit shorter I guess, sorry about that but I couldn't think of anything that wouldn't jump into the next chapter, so sorry.

Hope you liked it, the next chapter will be up soon.