I stopped crying, and realized that Roy was holding me. I freaked out, and shoved him away. I wanted to process what happened, and how we got to that point.
"Hey, Colonel, I'll uhh.. see you before I catch my train tomorrow, okay?" a weak smile crept across my face.
"Are you sure, you look sick. Maybe you should stay the night so I can keep an eye on you." he was staring at me, with the most serious look on his face, and I knew I would have to make up a really good excuse not to stay, and fast.
"No, really I'm fine." I tried to stand up, but my knees were too weak. Great, we're back to square one. He's never going to let me leave now.
"C'mon, I'll help you to your room." instead of letting me try to walk, he picked me up into the new bride position. It was really awkward but he wouldn't budge. Roy put me down on the bed I used to sleep on, and left the room, closing the door behind him. It was weird, what happened when I walked in the house; it was like a was in a different dimension. Roy looked the same, but he was angry, and dressed differently. He was yelling at me about being late, and grabbed me. I fell to the ground, braced for impact, but instead of getting hit, he hugged me instead. When I opened my eyes, I was back where I was before.
"Was it a memory? If it was, then what was Roy doing there? Am I really from this place, or am I from a whole nother planet?"
So many thoughts were rushing through my head, but I had to catch my train early in the morning, so I needed to sleep.
Until today I never realized how awful it was to work in the office. I should be out with the boys, but they called and told me and told me to meet them at the train station here in East City* tomorrow. So I was stuck with Mustang all day, because he was still worried about me. I will say that he does have a nice office. I wasn't allowed out of his site, so I just messed around. Riza would come in to check on us, threaten to shoot Roy if he didn't do his work, asked if I needed anything, and left. I asked for a stack of blank paper, and a small tube. She got me what I asked for, but had no idea why I needed them. We were here for over 3 hours, and I already finished all the books that were interesting, so I decided that I was going to shoot spit balls at the Colonel. I shot three before he noticed. When he looked up, I shot another and hit him in the nose.
"Frosty, T'm really trying to work, could you not do that?" he pinched the bridge of his nose. I offered to help, but Hawkeye wouldn't let me. I just laughed at shook my head, and shot another.
"That's it!" he pulled on his glove with the transmutation circle, and set my stack of paper on fire. He's such a kill joy. The office door opened again.
"Sir, we need you out here." by the look on her face, I would say this is an emergency. Mustang and Riza left the room, and I slowly followed.
"They probably don't need me getting in the way.."
"Hey, what's going on?" I was shushed by people I didn't know, and they continued their rushed conversation.
"They want us to release their leader from prison. "
"Typical. Is the General really on board?"
"We're trying to verify that right now, but it's likely."
I had no idea what was going on, so I went to find the Colonel, he would fill me in. I made my way through the base until I found everyone.
"The Fullmetal Alchemist is on board." Roy grinned.
Turns out that I missed even more; I was starting to feel like Winry, I hope we get to see her soon.. The train had just arrived.
"Hey, Fullmetal." Ed's only respone to roy was to glare at him.
"Hello, Colonel." Al obviously the more mature one.
"I wouldn't have helped if I knew this was your district!" I had no idea why they hated each other so much, but we'd all just have to go with it. I was a little caught off gaurd when a large man with a busted up automail arm stepped off the train.
"Please, step back, Colonel." Riza acting as a bodyguard.
"I'll take care of this."
"Nope! I will!" Without even thinking, I ran in front of everyone, and froze the man in place. I was sick of missing out, so I wanted complete the capture.
"Sorry for stealing the spot light, Colonel."I grinned. I usually don't do things like that, but I had so much energy, I needed to let it out. I looked at the man I had half frozen.
"Sorry for freezing you like that, but you caused a lot of trouble." Roy looked a little pissed that I took that from him, but he made me stay with him all fucking day, so he'll get over it.
"Who the hell are you, little girl?" the huge man snarled at me.
"My name is Raven Mustang, The Cold Should Alchemist. Thanks for asking." I couldn't help but smile. Someone would finally know my name, I wouldn't just be the girl who hangs out with the Elrics that no one cares about. I walked over to my big brothers.
"Sorry I missed that, it looked like a lot of fun."
"I'm glad you were here, you could've gotten shot." Al was always like this.
"Whatever you say, mom. Now, lets go grab a bite and plan where we go next."
"Great! I'm starving!" This was the perfect oppurtuntiy to make a short joke.
"I'm sure you are; doing all that can wear out a little guy such as yourself." I grin tugged on the corners of my mouth.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SMALL?" he ran at me, fist curled, and knocked me down.
"Bring it on, small fry!" saying that we were making a scene was an understatment.
*I know I said central in the last chapter, but I forgot it was east city. please excuse that* Guess who's back? I wanted to end on a lighter note this time, because next chapter will be long and sad. ALL ABOARD FOR A FEEL TRIP.. (and this was a bit uneventful) But anyway, that's that. Until next time. Enjoy life,
-Owl
