Flannery's POV
We walked back inside and Daddy walked up to me and extended his hand.

"Flannery are you ready to go?" Daddy said.

"Yea I'll see you guys later" I said as Daddy and I made our way to the dance floor. "Can you believe it Daddy? We've been dancing like this for eight year" I said as we waltzed around the dance floor.

"I know you girls grow up so fast I can't wait to see Megan looks like in 8 years" Daddy said with a smirk which made me giggle.

"Daddy I've been meaning to ask you something" I said.

"What is it?" Daddy asked.

"You and Mommy knew my real Daddy right?" I said.

"Yes we fought together in Ishbal we were both fire alchemist after all" Daddy said.

"What was he like?" I asked. Like Griffon, My father was in Ishbal but he died shortly after. He was murdered on his way to headquarters but they never found the killer. It has been my life long goal to figure out who did it but all of my leads have been going nowhere and I hate it.

"He was a good man Flannery he was kinda like a my mentor and he talked about his daughters and his wife nonstop" Daddy said smiling. It's nice to think that my biological father and my foster father were friends. It's like a blessing in disguise.

"Hey Daddy a very important date is coming up" I said smiling.

"Well is it the anniversary of your official adoption?" Daddy said. He never ever forgot that date.

"You remembered!" I said.

"Of course" Daddy said. We danced by Aquanette who was just sitting there with a small smile. Then I realized that Aqua never had a father/daughter dance with my biological father or my foster father. What was I doing?!

"Daddy wait" I said breaking away.

"What is it?" Daddy said.

"Hold that thought" I said. I walked over to Aqua and grabbed her her wrist and pulled her up.

"Whoa Flanner where's the fire?" Aqua said.

"C'mere right quick" I said. I pulled her over to daddy. "Daddy you should dance with Aqua. You have two daughters not just one and Aqua no matter how much you don't want to admit it but you've always wanted a father daughter dance so what's it going to be?" I said.

"Aquanette I'm willing to if you want to" Daddy said sticking out his hand.

"Um okay" Aqua said taking his hand as they began to dance I sat down in Aqua's chair and then I hand was placed on my shoulder I looked up saw Griffon smiling at me.

"What're you all smiley about?" I said.

"Nothing your just a really good sister" Griffon said.

I looked out at my sister who had this huge smile on her face. "Yea I guess so" I said with a shrug. "Will excuse me for a moment? Tell Alex I went to the bathroom" I said standing up.

"Sure" Griffon said.

I walked into the bathroom made sure no one was there and then ran into a stall. I clapped my hands together and put it over my eye. I just put the seat down and sat down on top of it. I got into a meditative pose and concertraited. Something was going on with Robin and the Statelys and I was going to figure it out. I couldn't see much because it was blurry but I saw a beaten man but I couldn't really tell who it was. This meant something and I have to figure out. I changed my eye back to normal and calmly walked back out.

"Hey are you alright?" Alex said walking up to me.

"Yea I'm fine" I said. "You want to get something to eat?"

"Sure" Alex said. He could always take my mind off my stresses

Griffon's POV
I was watching Uncle Roy dance with Aqua when someone taped my shoulder. "I know I'm not technically your father, but we could go outside to dance if you want." He said.

I immediately recognized the man's face. "Freddie? Oh my God! Yes. Where have you been?"

We walked outside. "I've been working wherever I could for a long time, so that I could pay for your braces."

"Thanks so much, big bro." I said, starting to dance with him. "I would've been miserable without them. But how did you find me?"

"I was looking around the cottage one day when I saw you come in with that boy watching us." Freddie chuckled, nodding his head in the direction of the door.

I turned to look, & laughed, "That's Thatcher Lesser, my boyfriend."

"You have a boyfriend?" Freddie asked. "Aw, my little sis is growing up so fast. You can't grow up, sprout."

"Come on, I'm always gonna be the little sister in your eyes." I stated. "To you, I'm always gonna need protecting from the boys."

Freddie laughed, & after a little bit, we went back inside. I wanted to introduce him to our family.

"Griffon was it?" Mr. Stately called, walking over. "I believe you wanted to talk to me."

"Oh, that's right." I exclaimed. "Freddie, just follow Thatch. I'll be over in a little bit."

I walked back outside for the third time tonight. "I just want a simple, clear answer." I demanded. "Were you the one who killed my father?"

Mr. Stately smirked. "Yes, you're a smart girl."

I gasped & backed up. Someone put their hands on my shoulders. I turned around to face Mrs. Stately. "Dear child, you shouldn't have stuck your nose in our business."

"You, you're the lady from the graveyard." I gasped again. I knew that face way too well.

I tried to get free of her grip, but her hands snaked around my neck, tightening slowly. I closed my eyes & felt my body crash to the ground.

Thatch's POV
Freddie, as I heard Griffon call him, & I were hiding behind the door. We heard everything & saw what Mrs. Stately did. As soon as Griffon hit the ground, she put on a fake terrified face & shrieked. "Oh my god! Someone, call for help! This poor girl!"

I ran from my hiding spot & fell to my knees in front of Griffon. "Come on, G. Speak to me." I patted her cheek. Then I put my ear to her chest to try & hear a pulse. "This isn't good."

"Try chest compressions." Freddie offered.

I followed his instructions, but it didn't help. "One option left to try until help gets here." I told him.

He nodded. "Go ahead. I don't know how to do it."

"Yeah, good thing I do." I informed. People had gathered around her & were watching me try & resuscitate Griffon. I positioned her head & put my mouth over hers & puffed air into her lungs.

Freddie pressed his fingers into her wrist to check for a pulse. "We got nothing." He whispered.

I paled a little, but went back to trying to resuscitate her. Finally, an ambulance arrived & took Griffon to the hospital. I pushed through the crowd to get Col. Mustang. "It's Griffon."

"What happened?" Mrs. Mustang gasped.

I lead them through the crowd to Freddie. "It was the Statelys, we saw them." I stated.

Freddie nodded. "She strangled Griffon."

"Who are you?" Aqua asked.

Freddie squinted & leaned down to face Aqua. "Her brother. The name's Freddie. Nice to meet you, too."

"Well, if we leave now, we'll probably get to the hospital shortly after the ambulance." I informed them.

Freddie nodded again. "Thatch, I want you with me." He turned & started walking.

"We'll meet you guys there. Stop & pick Megan up on your way." I called back to them, running to catch up with Freddie.

We arrived as soon as Griffon was being wheeled into the Emergency Entrance. My face flushed again, noticing she had gotten paler, that her skin wasn't the usual tan shade it always was.

We had to go in through the front entrance, so I told Freddie to wait there while I went to check with some of the doctors. I ran to stay beside Dr. Steppe. "What's going on?" I asked.

"Young girl, Thatch, around your age." He panted, trying to go as fast as he could. "We need to get her revived quickly. This is our worst in years. Funny, our last case this bad, the same thing happened. You gonna help."

I pushed open the doors to the emergency branch so Dr. Steppe wouldn't run into them. His eyes were glued to his clipboard. "Of course, I was there when it happened & I'm gonna be here when it's done."

We set to work. In a minute or two, Griffon had a faint heartbeat. We had done it, with one small condition.

Roy's POV
We sat down in the waiting area for a little while. Thatch came to get us earlier than we had expected. He was dress in nurses scrubs, for some reason. "Follow me." He instructed.

He lead us through the hospital to Griffon's room. Her eyes were closed, her skin seemed paler & she had an intubation tube down her throat. "Is she okay?" Riza asked.

"Depends how you define 'okay.'" Thatch told us. We turned to face him. "We had to put her in a drug induced coma to give her body time to rest & repair itself."

"How long will that be?" Aqua wondered.

"At the least, two weeks." Thatch answered.

Flannery asked with a little hesitation, "And at the most?"

"She could never wake up." He stated quietly. "Stay as long as you need. They put me on the clock. I have to go." He turned & left the room, closing the door behind him.

Aqua's POV
I walked into Griffon's room where she was lying and I sat down next to her. I felt the odd feeling to talk to her.

"Hey Griff it's me. I know I don't seem like the person who would do this but I honestly do this all the time. I talk to my real mother and father all the time but anyway I wanted to tell you something. In my eyes the Statelys are very greedy and the reason I say that is because Marth dated Robin before he started going out with me I didn't tell you because it didn't seem to matter but I feel like that Robin saw Marth as an object that she wanted to have where I saw him as a person and that's why they broke up. I know what happened to your dad and I'm really sorry my Daddy was murdered too. Maybe Mr. Stately killed your Daddy because he thought that your Daddy took something from him but that's why you need to wake up so me, you, and Flannery can figure this thing out together. I know it doesn't mean much but that's all I have to say now." I said standing up. I looked out the window and saw that the moon was full which made me smile. "I don't much about healing alchemy but I know a little. This should take a little of the presure of off you neck" I placed my hand above her neck and a blue aura started to form after a couple of seconds I closed my fist making the aura disappear. Griffon took a deep breathe but she didn't wake up at least some air was getting into her lungs. I walked out and saw Flannery dressed in normal clothes she had her hands on her hips which mean she mean business.

"C'mon Aquanette we've got work to do" Flannery said.

"What do you mean?" I asked confused.

"I mean we're going to find out why the Statelys did this and then kick their butts" Flannery said.

"Right." I said with a nod of my head

"And you won't believe what I found" Flannery said holding up a piece of paper. I unfolded the paper and let out a gasp it had all of our names on it except Megan's for some reason thank goodness. It looked kinda like a hit list it was in this order 1. Roy Mustang 2. Riza Mustang 3. Flannery Mustang 4. Aquanette Mustang and 5. Griffon Heights and Griffon's name had a question mark next to it meaning they didn't know if she were dead or not. The Statelys had gone to far we couldn't show this to Mommy and Daddy they would go off. So we would keep this just in case we needed it.

"Okay Flannery so what's the plan?" I said because Flannery was always the brains of the outfit.

"We sneak into headquarters and try to get some information. We can get some of Mommy's uniforms and sneak into Major Stately's office to find something to use against him and his wife" Flannery said.

"Got it" I said with a nod of my head. The Statelys were going down...hard

Roy's POV
I couldn't believe it. A while ago, someone, wait, two someones, had broken into Central Library. And I'm only hearing about this now. "Did they take anything?" I asked.

"No, the security camera shows they only looked at & copied one specific record." Riza informed me. "The death report of a Mr. Ulysess Heights."

"I know who it was." I stated suddenly, sitting up straight.

"Well, then, let's go question them." Riza suggested.

"No use." I told her. "She's in a coma. It was Griffon. Get me that report."

"Yes sir." Riza said, walking out.

In half an hour, she let the record fall into my desk. "Let's see what Griffon wanted to know." I picked up the report & flipped through. "Hmmm, isn't that a coincidence."

"What is?" Riza wondered.

I turned the report around for her to see it. "Turns out that the person to find my old friend was the one & only Major Stately. And the weapon used to kill him, also the one used when Robin attacked Aqua. Well, they were both brass knuckles, anyway."

"You think that's enough information to confront him?" Riza asked, raising an eyebrow.

I shook my head. "I need to hear what they said. And I also want to know who the other person was."

Riza looked down at another report. "The words were, & I quote, 'Papa wasn't killed by an Ishbalan. It was Mr. Stately. He hated papa for having a higher ranking, even more so once he got to befriend Uncle Roy. Mr. Stately was also the only one known who owned brass knuckles at the time. He was the one who found papa's body. He would've been the last one to see him alive, & when papa died, he received papa's ranking.' She had the whole thing figured out. When Robin attacked Aqua, it must've struck a blocked memory that gave her a weird feeling that she had seen the incident occur before." she lectured.

I blinked in bewilderment. "Insightful. Makes enough sense to me." I closed the record & handed it back to her. "The other person, it was Megan. Wasn't it?"

Riza just nodded & headed out to return the files. "They would do anything to find out the truth & protect each other. Megan followed Griffon to make sure she didn't get caught. Griffon risked death just to find her father's killer. Your side of the family is a little wrong in the head."

"We just stand up for our beliefs, no matter how extreme the actions we may have to take." I assured her, "She wouldn't do something like that just for her. It was to put an end to the mystery of it all, to let her sister's mind forget about having an unsolved murder in the family."

"I'll keep that in mind." Riza called.

Flannery's POV
Let me just make one thing clear. I probably wasn't a Mustang biologically but I was a Mustang mentally which meant I did not give in that easily. I was going to get to the bottom of this. I had a feeling that Major Stately wasn't going to be here because his family was under investigation. I found the key to his office and started looking around. I found the brass knuckles, some diary pages from Ishbal, Some files, and a copy of my Uncle Ulysess death certificate. The question was why did he have this?

"I thought you might be here" I heard a voice say. I looked up and saw Major Stately and his wife who had a gun pointed at me.

"Stately" I glared at him.

"You know it's not nice to go through people's things" The Major said

"Yea? But it's also not nice to put people in comas now is it?" I spat back.

"Aww the little girl's all upset over her cousin" The Major said.

"I'm not little girl. I'm bigger than you'll ever know you don't see it in my face do you?" I said.

"What on earth are you talking about?" The Major said.

"The name Fiery Pheonix mean anything to you? Or did you kill him too?" I asked.

"Ah yes old Ozai I thought about killing him but with his alchemy I couldn't touch him. It would have been nice to make Lieutenant Colonel though" The Major said.

"You're a horrible man. You took a father from three kids" I said.

"It's all about getting to the top hon" The Major said. "Now how about you give me that bag sweetheart?"I looked down at my purse which had all the evidence in.

"Of course just let me do this right quick" I said. I clapped my hand stogether and placed them on the floor. I used Alchemy to create a giant fist with brass knuckles on them. See how they liked it. I ran up the fist and jumped out.

"After her!" I heard Major Stately say.

I was wearing my brown leather boots that day so I could run very fast in them. For some reason I could run faster in heels than I could in sneakers. I knew I was going to be able to keep this up for long. An idea struck my head.

"Someone help! Help! I'm being chased by two homicide maniacs! They are trying to kill me!" I screamed as I ran the hall that made everyone come out of their offices including my mother and father.

"Flannery what's going on?" Daddy said as I ran by.

"Can't talk right now meet me in the library!" I said before running faster. I clapped my hands together and stopped for a moment to press my hands against the floor. I pressed my hands against the floor again and created another fist which stopped Mr. Stately but Mrs. Stately some dodged and ran after me. "You have got to be kidding me!" I said before taking off again. I ran into the library to hide no one was working today I guess. I was looking for a place to hide but I couldn't because the library so full of open space. "Oh man" I said.

"Nowhere left to run" I turned around to see Mrs. Stately pointing her gun at me. "You and that sister of your always took my daughter from me I'm not going to let you take my husband too." Mrs. Stately said.

"Mrs. Stately please you don't have to do this you can make this whole situation better if you put the gun down" I said holding my hands.

"Shut up! Say hello to your parents for us" She said starting to take aim. I put my hands over my ears and shut my eyes tightly to wait for boom but it never came I opened one of my eyes to see Mrs. Stately just standing there her face was getting tighter and tighter and some of the veins of her face were showing. I looked over to see Aquanette with her hand sticking out. Her left eye was black with a white pupil and crescent around it. Mrs. Stately was gasping for air when Aquanette felt like she had enough she put her hand down and Mrs. Stately fell to the floor.

"You okay kid?" Aqua said clapping her hands and putting it over her eye changing it back to it's beautiful Aquamarine color.

"Yea I'm fine" I said. "How did you know I was here?"

"We're twins remember I know where are at all times" She said tapping her head. Then Mommy and Daddy ran in.

"Girls are you alright they didn't hurt you did they?" Mommy said.

"No we're fine. Mrs. Stately's over there" Aqua said pointing to Mrs. Stately's unconscious body.

"We'll get Military Police in here get an investigation started" Daddy said.

"Daddy this might help" I said pulling out the hit list.

"Yes this might help a lot" Daddy said looking over the list. "Why don't you go pick up Megan and go check on Griffon" Daddy said.

"Yes Daddy" We said.

Megan's POV
Flannery & Aqua picked me up. They were lucky that they didn't have to go to school today. I still think the work is too easy, even if it was fifth grade.

"Flannery, what happened?" I asked as she took my hand. Her knuckles were scratched.

"Nothing. Just a small incident." Flannery said smiling.

I didn't believe her for some reason. I let go of her hand & clapped mine together before taking her hand again. I know I promised papa I wouldn't do this, but I didn't like being lied to. Flannery's memories flooded into my brain & I saw what she had.

"What did you just do?" Aqua asked.

I answered softly, since doing that always drained my energy. "I'm just figuring out what you two are too afraid to tell me. It's part of my gift, so my papa used to say. I can absorb vast amounts of information & other people's memories. If I really concentrate, I can absorb & deposit energy." To demonstrate, I pressed my hand against a streetlight & made it turn on. I then took all of its energy.

"That's so cool." Aqua commented. She looked at her phone. "We should go check up on Griffon."

"Let's go." I yelled, racing off in the direction of the hospital.

When we got there, they immediately let us go to Griffon's room, saying that we were allowed to go in & out at any time. We ran into Thatch going there, too.

Uh, let me rephrase that. He was sitting on one of the benches in the hallway outside my sister's room. He had his eyes closed & was snoring quietly. I shook his arm. "Thatch? Are you alright?"

He jumped up & started speaking gibberish. Then he saw us, smoothed out his scrubs & picked up his clipboard. "Hey guys." he said, clearing his throat.

"It's practically the middle of the day. Why were you asleep?" Flannery wondered.

Thatch rubbed the sleep from one of his eyes. "I have to help at Aunt B's shop before school, then I have to go to school, followed by work here. Plus, I'm getting called here late at night when other nurses don't show up." He held up a pager. "I'm barely getting any sleep."

"That's terrible." I said, taking the pager & looking at it. It made a beeping sound & Thatch took it back.

"Speak of the devils." He muttered. "I have to go."

"Bye Thatch." I called to his retreating figure.

Griffon was still out cold, but they had taken the tube out of her throat. Thank God! They put one in my throat before, it was not pleasant, let me tell you that. She was still pale, & when I touched her hand, it was ice cold. The only thing that proved she was alive were the monitors showing her steady heartbeat.

The door opened again & Freddie walked in. He gave a small wave & sat down at the far side of the room. "Don't mind him, he doesn't talk much to anyone outside the immediate family." I told the twins.

"Okay. He must not talk a lot." Flannery figured.

Aqua nodded. "Must be why his voice is so gravelly."

I sighed, "Why won't Griffon get better?"

"Megan, Thatch did say it would be about two weeks." Freddie called to us.

"But…" I began. "She's supposed to be the strong one, the one who can handle anything." I sniffled a little.

I kept thinking that whenever Griffon came up. This didn't happen the first time it happened. The first time, she fought one of the doctors to prove she was well enough to leave, three hours after she was attacked. She boxed with papa & wrestled with Freddie. She would always win, too. She could lift me up with one arm. And I always kept in mind that all this was after she got sick. This wasn't right, she was stronger than this.

Griffon's POV
I slowly started to open my eyes. I was trying so hard but they just wouldn't open!

"Psst! Griffon" A small voice said.

"Hmm?" I said with a groan.

"Griffy poo wake up" The voice said/

"Ugh!" I said. I opened my eyes and saw these great big blue things staring back at me. They scared me so I let out a scream and it screamed back at me. I sat up and butted heads with it.

"Ow!" The voice said. It grabbed it's forehead and fell to the floor. "I'm going to admit that hurt" The voice said. I finally recognized the voice and sat up completely.

"Aquanette! What the hell is your problem!" I said/

"I've been doing this to make sure you're awake! And now you are! And now my heart is glad" Aqua said standing up.

"Little weirdo" I said shaking my head. "How long was I out?"

"According to Megan, 11 days, 8 hours, 52 minutes, and 47 seconds" Aqua said looking at her watch.

"Yea that sounds like something Meg would do" I said.

"Is everything okay? I heard screaming" Flannery said running in.

"Yea Griffon woke up" Aqua said.

"Griffon you're awake!" Flannery said running over and giving me a hug.

"Gigi!" Megan said running in and jumping on the bed. "I knew you would wake up! I have to go get Freddie" Megan said running off calling Freddie's name.

"Freddie's steal here?" I asked.

"Yea he's been staying with us" Flannery said.

"Yea did we mention that he was a real jerk face?" Aqua said.

"Aquanette" Flannery said.

"Well he is" Aqua said.

Hey sis how's it going?" Freddie said holding Meg.

"It's been better" I said with a shrug. "Hey where's Thatch?" I asked.

"Oh poor thing's been running around like crazy. He has to work at his Aunt B's then school and then come here all night" Flannery said. "Plus he spent most of his time taking care of you"

"Is he here now?" I asked. I really wanted to see him.

"Of course" Flannery said. She walked out and shortly came back in with Thatch he quickly walked over to me.

"Griffon how are you?" Thatch said taking my hands.

"I'm better now" I said with a small smile.

"Well, you certainly look better." Thatch commented. I held onto his hands. "Are you sure you're okay?"

I nodded. "Just cold. Really cold."

"I'll get you some blankets." Freddie said. He put Meg down & walked out.

"Like I said, total jerk. He ignores us all the time." Aqua said grumpily.

"Uh, he's built a little wall to keep anyone out. He's been that way for a while." I stated softly. My grip on Thatch's hands loosed. "It's the fact that his closest family members are dead makes him a little edgy & off the scales. In other words, he has trust issues."

Freddie came back in. He walked over to me & I quickly let go of one of Thatch's hands & grabbed Freddie's ear. "Ow! G, what the.."

"Listen here, Alfred Ares Heights." I interrupted him. "These twins are our family. You are supposed to be nice! Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes! Let go, let go, let go." Freddie gasped.

I smirked & pulled harder before letting go. "You should tear down the barrier between you & everyone else. How do you expect to…" I trailed off & stared at his hand.

"What?" Freddie asked, rubbing his ear.

I grabbed him again, this time turning his hand over to look at his ring. "Did you?"

"Uh-huh. Sorry I forgot to mention it." Freddie blushed. "She's just outside."

"Then go get her." I ordered, motioning toward the door.

Freddie ran outside & came back with a young woman. She was okay, with long blonde hair & brown eyes. "Griff, this is Jessica, my wife."

"So you're finally awake. It's nice to meet you." Jessica said. She smiled at me. "I'm glad to see that you're okay. We all are."

"Thank you." I told her. I turned to Thatch, since he knows the drill. "How long before I get to go home?"

Thatch thought for a minute. "They'll probably hold you overnight to check your vitals. I'll get Dr. Steppe."

After Thatch left, I turned to the twins. "What happened to the Statelys?"