Lt. Hawkeye and the others had returned to East Command Headquarters were a flurry of questions were asked as Mustang was brought in with a knife wound in his shoulder and the same for the Lieutenant, but Mustang went to his room to be alone from the hustle and bustle as Dr. Marcoh, with Shesca's help, bandaged Lt. Hawkeye. The Lieutenant couldn't take her eyes of Mustang for a second as Marcoh bandaged her arm as an unrelenting fear of foreboding seemed to surge forth as Marcoh tied off the bandage.

"That should do it for you Lt. Hawkeye, something wrong because you seem kind of vacant at the moment," Dr. Marcoh said as he closed up his bag and set his bag on the desk.

"Yeah, I'm just worried about Mustang. Envy stabbed him pretty hard and from what Alphonse told me about the fact that Scar was killed by poison that had mysteriously found its way into his bloodstream was the culprit, I fear the same may happen to the Colonel," Lt. Hawkeye said as her eyes wandered to the door of Mustangs' room.

"I'm sure he's fine, besides he's a tough solider all and all."

Lt. Hawkeye wanted to believe that, but an unrelenting fear was overthrowing his kind and caring words that should have reassured of the possible and then again, Mustang wasn't the kind of guy to come out and say how he felt if he was sick or was sore or anything of the sort. Those things started to make the Lieutenant's heart race faster and faster as the thought of the unthinkable happening to the Colonel and the words Envy kept coming back. What did he mean by, "Until we meet again, and then again, maybe not?"

Envy slinked into the hideout as he held his right arm as blood seemed to travel down like a small stream as it started to make a small pool at his feet as he slammed the door for the entire neighborhood to hear as he placed his head against the door and started to laugh at the antics that had previously happened.

"What are you laughing about that is so funny?" Fletcher asked as he came from the shadows, but he stopped suddenly when he saw the blood and Envy trying to remove the bullet from his arm with his teeth.

"That stupid Colonel, he'll fall for anything when it comes to a woman he loves so much to trust instead of his own instincts!" Envy said through the laugher as he slid to the floor and with his knees bent to his chest and his legs spread apart.

"What did you do Envy?"

"I tricked him into thinking that I was Lt. Hawkeye!"

"What did you do?"

"Let's just say, things didn't go like I hoped and I ended up having to fight and when I cut him… what he doesn't know is that my dagger blade was covered in the same poison that I gave Scar!" Envy said laughingly as he held up the dagger and let it drop onto the floor to stick into the floorboards.

Fletcher stood nervously in the middle of the room as he watched the fool make a fool of himself, but all Fletcher could do was stare at the bloody knife that was covered in the Colonel's blood as it seemed to swim together with the poison the covered the blade. The colors were enough to make anyone sick to watch its eerie dance of death play upon the floor of the abandoned home.

"Fetch me a wrap for this," Envy said as he caught his breath.

"No," Fletcher said defiantly like a little child as he stood his ground.

"I mean it kid!"

"I said, "No"'"

"Don't make me hurt you like I will your brother."

"Leave…my…brother… out…of …this!" Fletcher said as he picked up the dagger from the floor and waved at the murderous Homunculi's face.

"Do it now or so help me I will make you suffer through a world of HELL!" Envy said as he pulled out a hidden dagger that he had used to cut Lt. Hawkeye with and was going to use on Fletcher.

Fletcher let the murderous Homunculi and headed to the back room where he had found bandages and other forms of bandages to help Envy, but his conscious was telling him that he should let Envy die of his own acts. Fletcher headed for the doorway of the supplies, but he didn't notice was that Envy had gotten off the floor and took the secret dagger and threw it at the doorway as he called out Fletcher's name.

"Fletcher, I need to say something," Envy said as Fletcher started to turn around, but he knew had to react as he looked into a piece of broken glass and noticed the dagger.

Fletcher grabbed a piece of wood and turned to face Envy as he tossed the dagger straight towards Fletcher's heart, but Envy missed Fletcher as Fletcher held the piece of wood up to block the attack.

"Whatever you want, I'll be back when I have the supplies," Fletcher said as he took the dagger out of the piece of wood and tossed into the floor.

Envy saw the look of hatred in Fletcher's eyes and knew that since taking the boy, Fletcher had grown into a man like his brother and he knew that either he fight back against the boy or else the boy would become his demise in the end. Fletcher came back into the room with the bandages and tossed them at Envy's feet as he moved to the wall away from the murderer and there he sat the rest of the night.

"You've got guts kid, but stuff like that can turn into problems that even what you pulled tonight won't save you," Envy thought as he stared at the boy as he bandaged his arm.

Everyone else at Headquarters at either been working on the clues from Lior or where in bed by then, but Lt. Hawkeye found herself still awake as she moved to Mustang's room to attend to his wound and possibly about what he found in Risembool.

"Whose there?" Mustang called out as he sat on the edge of the bed looking out the window that reflected the eye patch over his left eye.

"It's me sir," Lt. Hawkeye answered as she opened the door with bandages for his arm.

"I thought you went to bed hours ago, but I guess not."
"How are you feeling sir?"

"I've been better, but I have this weird pain in my arm from where Envy stabbed me."

"I brought dressings for your wounds."
Lt. Hawkeye and Mustang talked for a couple hours over what had happened in the alleyway between Envy and Mustang, but then the conversation moved towards what Mustang had found in Risembool. He told about what he had found out through some friends of the Elrics and the heated fight that Winry with him at the dinner table one night and how he had to tell the truth to Winry about what happened and why the events of her parent's deaths occurred.

"Have you ever thought that maybe someone in the department liked you Lt.?" Mustang asked as he stared into the Lieutenant's eyes.

"I've had my doubts and theories, but I don't think there is anyone," Hawkeye said as she wrapped the bandaged a little tight.

"I've always thought that coworkers shouldn't date, but I've seemed to think differently these last few days," Mustang said as the pain of the poison was slowing working with each tying of the bandage.

"I've thought that maybe some should and some should stick to business," Hawkeye said as she tightened the bandage.

"Maybe you're right, but these you can't be too careful."

"I'm done, but promise me one thing," Hawkeye said as she tied off the bandage and leaned forward to whisper something in Mustang's ear, "Don't go trying to be the hero and getting yourself killed, because I have plans for you."

Mustang cringed in pain as Hawkeye socked him in the sore arm that she had just attended to, but he knew that it was out of love for him and he understood that he was interested in her, but did she feel the same way.

"For the record Lieutenant, you hit like a girl," Mustang said as he escorted Hawkeye out of his room.

"You want me to hit you harder next time sir?" Hawkeye said as she readied her fist to sock him again, but twice as hard.

"No, I'll do as you say even though I'm the superior officer."

Lt. Hawkeye found an alchemy book sitting on his dresser and as she left the room she took the time to throw it at his head as it made a thumping noise at it hit him in the head that knocked him out as he fell onto the bed, unconscious to catch some sleep.

"Good night sir," Lt. Hawkeye said as she closed the door and posted a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door.

A little romance and little action from Fletcher, but in the next chapter things start to get a little bumpy as Envy's tricks don't stop at stabbing the Colonel with a poisoned dagger this time Al decides to go and search for Envy himself without help, but will Mustang be okay as the poison races through him? Find out next time.