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Mustang and Winry had been traveling for a few days now and not a single word had been said between the two companions as they headed back to East Command Headquarters. The unending silence was starting to get to Mustang as he tried to break the silence by asking some questions about the Elrics, but Winry didn't seem interested in talking to the Colonel.
"So, Winry, how long have you known the Elrics?" Mustang asked as he noticed Winry looking out the window as she watched the countryside roll by as the train seemed to roll on towards its destination.
"You could say I've known them for a long time," Winry said as she kept her eyes on the rolling countryside.
"What do you mean a long time?"
"You could say I have known them since we were kids."
Mustang still couldn't figure out the blonde girl as she seemed to cast her eyes to the floor as she seemed to fiddle with her fingers as the thought of Ed's watch and the date that still plagued her memory of the day and what had happened.
"Did you ever look inside Ed's watch Colonel?" Winry asked as she moved next to him.
"No, why do you ask?"
"While he was home getting repairs I got a hold of his watch and I opened it up and noticed that engraved on the inside of the flap was a date engraved, but as I looked at it, it reminded me of the day that Ed and Al left for the Military. He and Al torched their home as they left and they haven't been back since their repairs."
"What does the date mean and was there anything else?"
"He wrote "Remember", but I never figured it out until one night I was sleeping and the memories of the past, of the night they did the impossible and then I remembered why, it was so that he would never forget his promise to bring their mother back and to always remember her."
Mustang sat in stunned silence, he knew parts of why the Elric's were like they were, but their home being torched seemed knew to him because he didn't seem the remains of what seemed to be their home just flowers that made a layout of the former Elric home.
"There is something I need to get off my chest about the past and your parents," Mustang said as he moved to the bench where Winry had been sitting.
"What is it?" Winry asked.
"During the fighting, we had received word that two doctors had been helping out the Ishbal rebels because they would come back and strike members of the Military during the night. I was order by Brigadier General Basque Gran to find the location of the rebel doctors and execute them. A million thoughts ran through my mind of why I should do it, but my heart was telling me I shouldn't, but I was under orders to do what I was told. I felt so guilt after words to the point that I want to shot my self and end my life.'
"Dr. Marcoh stopped me before I did something so stupid that I would regret it the rest of my life, but forever I have held the memory of what I did during that fight, there have been times when I wanted to end the painful memories. I even tried performing a taboo that would allow me to both erase the memories and end my life, but once again I was saved by a friend."
Winry sat shaking at what she was hearing and what Mustang told her about what he planned to do to himself to end the suffering of the painful memories of killing her parents, but, why? Winry took the shaking Colonel in her arms as the train rolled onto towards East Headquarters. The two train companions cried with each other and the healing of old scars and pains were been healed, but there as much healing to be done at East Headquarters for a young alchemist that had found out the truth about a dear friend's death.
Al had been hiding from his friends since his emotional breakdown in Shesca's office and the headquarters had turned into a ghost town as everyone tried to remain quiet as Al slept in extra quarters where he could be alone. Lust and Russell talked amongst themselves as they tried to rack their brains about ideas of where Envy could be by thinking of allies of the Elric's in the towns they had visited and reasons why he would go to such towns.
Rose sat alone as she watched the sun starting to set and as she looked out the window she noticed Lt. Hawkeye standing on the training grounds alone as her shadow stretched behind her as the sun was setting. Lt. Ross and Bloch had returned to their old jobs for the moment. Shesca and Marcoh had been avoiding each other for a long time after their fight as they looked over the files and placed them back in their draw in the filing cabinet, but the silence was soon broken as Al walked into the room.
"Al, you okay?" Rose asked as she took her eyes away from the window as Lt. Hawkeye fell to her knees and wept openly for the first time since Hughes' death.
Lt. Hawkeye had been the type of person to hide her emotions and not show them in front of others in fear of the male officers in the office thinking that she was weak for crying and that she was nothing more than a typical woman. All her emotions seemed to fall out as she pounded the ground, but she didn't noticed Lt. Havoc walking towards her.
"Lt. Hawkeye, I'm heading to the train station to retrieve the Colonel," Havoc said as he stood a few feet away.
"You're dismissed Lieutenant," Hawkeye said as she picked herself off the ground and headed back in doors.
"Al, you okay, you're not saying anything?" Russell asked as he moved towards Al.
"Where are the papers we found in Lior at Envy's hideout about the whereabouts of where he maybe?" Al asked as he moved towards an empty desk where the documents lay strewn about.
Al and the others worked and worked on figuring out what Envy had in store for the friends and the allies of Al and the others, but no matter what they did seemed to led to dead ends, but as Mustang and Winry walked into the room.
"From the look of things, I believe he may be headed towards your hometown Alphonse," Lt. Hawkeye said as she looked at the clues again.
"NO!" Winry said as she fell to her knees which made Al and the others turn to notice Mustang and Winry standing in the room.
"No, he's not going to Risembool," Al said as he kept his eyes on the clues.
"Where is going to then Al?" Russell asked.
"He's on his way here to headquarters and he may be disguised as anyone so we must be on the alert at all times," Al said as he stuck a dart on the map of East Command.
"What do you mean?" Mustang asked as he walked up to Al.
"Brother and I faced him at times and now its starting to make sense, he's planning to come here because he knows that this is the place where most of the State Alchemist's are assembled, Maj. Armstrong; the Strong Arm Alchemist, Dr. Marcoh; the Crystal Alchemist and you Colonel, the Flame Alchemist."
"Envy was always a trickster," Lust said, "but now he is playing with human lives."
Al and the other Military members decided that guards were to be posted outside the Headquarters to look for any signs of Envy while the others stayed inside to make sure that the inside was secure as well. Unfortunately, the same train that Mustang and Winry had ridden in on was also the same one that Envy and Fletcher had been on and they were not hiding out in an abandoned building in town.
"The Flame Alchemist can't resist the Lt. Hawkeye, so it should be easy to get rid of the Colonel first and then, the rest shall fall like dominoes," Envy said as he transformed into the Lieutenant.
"Leave my brother out of this or you shall answer to me when this is over," Fletcher said as he tried to undo his bindings.
"Don't worry; your brother will be safe…for now."
Envy slipped away into the night towards East Headquarters to find Mustang with an evil grin upon his face as the hidden dagger that was coated in the poison that killed Scar hung from his waist hidden secretly from where no one could see it. It would be the ultimate end to the Flame Alchemist and would be a downfall among the Military and treachery was apparent in the moment.
Most of the Military officers and Al's companions had made their way to the Mess Hall to grab a bite to eat, but Mustang stayed behind in the office as he organized the papers that Al and the others had brought back with them from Lior. The papers were covered in scribbles and rabbles from the mind of a person bent on destroying others lives and possibly even his own as the sign of Envy's insanity showed through his notes that the companions had found in the Lior hideout.
"Colonel Mustang, what are you still doing here?" Lt. Hawkeye asked as she walked into the room as she noticed the Colonel putting the papers into a drawer in his desk.
"I was just tidying up here and then I was on my way to the Mess Hall to grab a bite to eat before I go to bed," Mustang said as he eyed Lt. Hawkeye that seemed to have her hair done up a different way.
"Why don't you and I go out and eat out somewhere because Mess Hall food has its limits of eatable," Lt. Hawkeye said with a sly smile as she placed her hands on the Colonel's shoulders and started pushing him out the door.
Al sensed something was going on in the office as he sat in the silent Mess Hall and it was not apparent to anyone else in the room, but as Colonel Mustang walked pass with Lt. Hawkeye on his arm, he looked down to the end of the table and noticed Lt. Hawkeye sitting with Lt. Ross and Rose as they sat talking about things.
"What's going on here, Lt. Hawkeye is down there, so who is that---OH NO!" Al said as he charged from his seat and grabbed Lt. Hawkeye by the arm and told her what he had just seen.
"Stay here and don't let onto to the others what is going on," Lt. Hawkeye said as she left the room with her gun drawn.
Lt. Hawkeye and Mustang had been walking through the town, but soon made their way towards a vacant part of the town which sent up a red flag in Mustang's conscience but his love for Lt. Hawkeye overruled his fear of what was going on.
"Lieutenant, why are we out here?" Mustang asked as he eyed where he was.
"I thought this would be romantic for us," Lt. Hawkeye said sweetly.
Mustang's mind was screaming "Run you moron!" but he couldn't take his eyes of the radiant Hawkeye and things were starting to get serious as she started to embrace him and as she did, she pulled out the secret knife that would cut the Colonel and poison him slowly.
"COLONEL!" Lt. Hawkeye shouted as she rounded the corner with her gun drawn.
"Lieutenant, if you are here…then who is this?" Mustang asked as Envy shed his disguise and charged towards Lt. Hawkeye and tried to slash at her with a dagger not covered in poison.
Lt. Hawkeye tried to dodge as she shot at Envy, but Envy managed to cut her in the arm which caused the Lieutenant to drop her weapon and lose her focus on the Colonel as she managed to shoot Envy in the left arm as he cut the Colonel with the poison covered dagger.
"We shall meet again Flame Alchemist, but I doubt it," Envy shouted as he ran into the darkness as Lust and Russell came around the corner with Al in tow.
"What did I tell you about not letting anyone know about what was going on Alphonse!" Lt. Hawkeye shouted as she held her arm.
"We have to go after Envy, he's getting away," Mustang managed to scream out as he lay on the ground on his knees.
"No use hunting him tonight," Russell said as he helped Mustang off the floor.
"He'll get away and we'll never find him again," Mustang said as he felt the pain of the dagger stab.
"If that's all you're worried about, you probably don't care about that gash in you right arm," Lust said as she slugged him in the sore arm.
"OW!" Mustang screamed out as he tried to swing at Lust.
"Sir, let's get you back to Headquarters so Dr. Marcoh can bandage it," Lt. Hawkeye said as Al helped her back to Headquarters.
"But---"
"NOW!"
Next time on Where is my Brother? Envy faces a mature Fletcher as he talks back to him and Mustang faces the starting consequences of the poison that now flows through his veins. Still more to come, but you have to until the next post of this story! Still so much more to happen. See you guys!