Clipped Wings: Chapter 3 Part 3

Recap:

"Greed..." Came a familiar voice. "I didn't know you were in town..."

Part 3:

Alina froze. This was not good. Not good at all. This man, Greed, had already kidnapped hwe. Now, Envy was here.

"Visiting some... relatives, Palm Tree. Namely you. Though... It's none of your concern, really." Greed sneered at the the green haired homunculus.

"It's my concern if you're getting involved with things you shouldn't stick your ugly nose into." Having been approaching Alina and Greed since announcing himself, Envy now drew even with Alina, who was still on the ground. "I didn't know you worked for Lust. Then again, you're both whores. You probably get along just fine."

Greed growled softly. "Watch it, oh 'Lord of Androgeny'. Father sent me here to see if the BlackWing family was taken care of. When Lust reported to Father, she said that you had not yet come back so he sent me to investigate." He shrugged and watchedas the terrified girl shied from Envy's side, scooting about five feet away from Palm Tree.

"I haven't done anything wrong so go back." Envy saw Alina move away from him but he didn't doing anything about it... yet.

"Can't. I'm not doing this for free, you know. Besides... I think Father would love to see that you saved the girl when he specifically said to leave them all no chance of living."

Envy's lip lifted in a feral sbarl. "Father doesn't need to know, though I'm betting you'll tell him, won't you? What're you getting out of this, anyways?"

Greed laughed shortly. "Why do you care what I get? Jealous, probably... as always. And yes, I'm going to rat you out. I wouldn't pass that chance up. You know that. Even if little by little, I will have my revenge on you for sticking in that damned cell for 150 years."

'What is this? They act like they hate each other... This is getting out of hand. I've got to get back to Winry's. That's the only way I'll be safe...' Alina, in short, was panicking. Her eyes flicked from Envy to Greed, back and forth, over and over again. She knew she had to get away very soon but when Greed walked towards her.

Envy lunged for Greed but the other side stepped Envy and grabbed the girl's wrist, starling her.

In her fear of Greed hurting her, Alina lashed out with her other hand, though not really meaning to hit him. Only to get him off of her. "Let go! Don't... Don't touch me!" She screamed, emotions and fear running high.

However, Alina did end up hitting Greed... Right across the face.

Greed, mortified that the girl had hit him, stopped and blinked, looking right at Alina, who stared back up at him, horrified of what he might do to her now that she had hit him.

Then, she regained herself, putting a hand on his arm and pushing it away rather forcefully. She crawled back, watching the flesh of his arm and cheek turn black and decripid and begin to fall away from the bone.

Greed stared at his arm in disbelief. "What did you do, kid?" He asked, his unharmed hand running over his arm, then tentatively touching his face. "What did you do?" Purple-grey orbs went to Alina.

Envy's eyebrows rose in surprise and question as Alina shook her head, slowly.

"I...I don't know... I don't know... I'm sorry... I didn't mean to...I didn't know..." Alina's eyes were wide in fear. On a sudden, broken though, Alina stumbled backwards, trying to get to her feet, nearly falling as she turned away and sprinted back towards the house, leaving Envy and Greed behind.

Greed, though still puzzled, shrugged as the flesh stopped rotting and instead, began to heal.Gaze turned questioningly to Envy, but the Palm Tree had vanished.

Rubbing the back of his neck, Greed sighed and walked off into the night.

Back at the house, Alina approached the window to her room. She placed her hands on the window sill. She hesitated, not knowing whether she could do this or not. Nevertheless, she pulled herself up and climbed into the room. However, her hand slipped and she fell into the room, landing on the floor quite hard.

"Damnable floor..." She muttered, standing up and walking over to the bed.

The door opened and Winry stood in the door way. She stared at Alina, who promptly (and stupidly) stared back. "What was that noise?" She asked in both a tired and exhausted voice.

Alina glanced at the bed, quickly deciding that Winry didn't really need to know the truth. "I...uh...fell," She stuttered. "Off the bed. Yeah... I fell off the bed... It hurt...alot...Your floor's pretty hard...uh...Did I wake you up?"

Winry shook her head, "No. I was up working on something. Are you alright?"

"Uhm...yeah, I'm fine...Thanks." An awkward silence followed and suddenly, Alina became really uncomfortable. "What...um...What are you working on?"

Winry shrugged. "Nothing. Have a good sleep." She left the room, leaving Alina standing beside the bed.

"Errr...Okay then...g'night." She said to Winry, even if the mechanic couldn't hear her.

Alina climbed into the bed and nestled her face against the pillow, lying on top of the sheets and cover, trying to forget the occurences of the last hour or so.

In less than ten minutes, Alina had fallen into a deep state of sleep.

End of Chapter 3