As they brought him inside to face his fate, he went to his place peacefully. Many of the people there were astonished, seeing such a monster so calm and not even trying to escape. In their minds this just made him seem more inhuman.

Most of the trial was a blur to William, he couldn't stand to hear all of the "evidence" that the humans brought against him. Some of the things they accused him of were so horrific that he could scarcely bring himself to listen to, let alone actually DO.

Finally, they called the final witness; if William had still been human he was certain that he would have fainted. It was HER, the girl he had killed, but how? As she approached him he paled and backed away while she glared at him.

"No… No… no, no, no, no, no… It's not possible… How?"

"How am I alive? It's quite simple; you're not particularly bright are you? Although you did hurt me in your pathetic escape attempt I received only minor injuries."
"I'm so sorry, for everything… please…"
"Forgiveness is something that I reserve for humans; you disgust me MONSTER!" With that she turned away and took her place to give evidence.

She was being questioned by the judge: "I believe that you spent much time with the creature."
"Yes, I spent weeks with this monster in human form."
"And why do you think that he would spend that time with you"
"I believe that he was planning to use me in one of his many undoubtedly monstrous plans."
"Did he ever mention any of these plans to you?"
"No, I believe that he was brainwashing me. You have no idea how frightened I am that I might turn out to be just like him. A MONSTER!"

William couldn't stand it anymore:
"That's a lie! I would never harm anyone. It was never my intention to brainwash or deceive anyone. All I wanted was to live among humans, like a human."

The judge was speaking again: "If you have peaceful intentions then why do you bear such a striking resemblance to a young man of our town who recently died under suspicious circumstances."
"You saw me so infrequently back then; I doubted that you'd recognise me."
"You were always a monster!" Shrieked several of those in attendance.
"No I was born a human, but…"
"But, what?"
"I… can't say."

William couldn't continue, as much as he despised them for their past actions he couldn't get them involved… As much as he wanted to he couldn't defend himself that way. What if there was someone else stupid enough to try what his parents had tried. There could easily be another idiot in the room; he wouldn't subject another to the pain of his existence.

"Excuse me" it was the man who had been the leader of those who had captured him, "but his past existence is not really of importance."
"How so? If he truly was human then we should hear his story. Maybe he isn't a complete monster… yet."
"Consider this, when we told him that the girl had died he did not once question that statement in the 10 days he was held prior to today."
"Have you considered," said William "that I didn't have the capacity to question it as it shocked me, that I had accidentally harmed someone I considered a friend?"
Then his 'girlfriend' spoke up again: "Only a creature who was certain that it was possible for them to kill in such a manner would have acted in such a way."

William had to admit that was true, if he was certain of his humanity he would have questioned it. The small glimmer of hope that William had felt, about the trial and more importantly about still resembling anything vaguely human was gone.

"Do you have anything else to say, monster?"
William, only just barely managed to reply "No, I don't."
"Then, monster you have been convicted of attempted murder and sorcery."

Hah, we live in a world where human transmutation is possible and they go with sorcery.

"On this day next week you will be executed, to atone for your sins."

He was going to die? Again? And there was no question that it would be public, looking around he noticed just how many people were at his trial and he felt horribly sick realising most, if not all would be there for his execution as well. He wanted to beg for mercy, surely if he did they would at least allow it to be private, surely he could be allowed that mercy for something he had no control over and something that he hadn't intended to do. No, he doubted that they would listen, he had tried to explain everything to those idiots but they hadn't listened, it seemed that many humans suffered from that affliction.

Whatever happens, please let the alchemy books be wrong about our immortality.

And with that William was once again led to his cell.

Author's Note:
Usually I try not to put A/Ns in my fanfics as I feel that it can annoy readers, however I feel that due to my horrible timing with this chapter apologies are in order: I'm sorry that it took so long to update, I really have no excuse to offer other than that I have had writers block. In other words I knew what was going to happen in this chapter and how I wanted it to happen, but I had difficulty putting it into words, a poor excuse I know but the truth. I made the chapter longer than usual to make up for it, so thank you for (hopefully) understanding and I hope you enjoyed this chapter and will continue to enjoy future ones. Also, yes I am aware that this is not how real world trials work; the funny thing is this isn't our world so it works any way that I say it does (also, historically trials were different anyway).