Chapter seven:
"Since there's going to be dinner at the ball we don't need to worry about eating out." Risa points out as she finishes applying her make up looking into the mirror of her bathroom, the other two girls helping each other into their dresses. Risa still having a button up shirt on so she doesn't have to worry about any perverts looking, even if she does have her own apartment, old habits seemed to be hard to break.
Kat twirls around giggling happily to herself in her black strapless gown with a surprise in the back, Winry already having tied the strings on the back of the dress. Under the black fold of cloth lies a light blue stream of cloth running down her back, graciously widening as it reaches the ground. The design on the blue seemed stunning as well, black sown flower designs leading from the ground of her blue train up to the ties that help keep the dress in place.
"This is so pretty on you, and you hair looks so pretty Kat!" Winry speaks up looking at the completed product as Kat puts on a black sash around her shoulders blushing lightly. "Could you help me real quick I can't zip this!" Winry jumps around.
Kat giggles, "Ok, ok hold on!" She zips up the green dress, looking at Winry seeing how pretty she looks.
Winry's dress being a little poofy around the main gown, like Kat's, the dress hides her green high heels. The main bodes of the gown made with a dark velvet green, as well as the shoulder less sleeves (You know those sleeves that are supposed to hang away from the shoulders instead of on top of them.) hang loosely in a thick silky form of fabric. Winry's hair hangs in perfect ringlets making her hair seem shorter but still very beautiful, as a clip with red roses hides her rubber band.
Risa slips into her dress this one a little easier to get into since it wasn't anything too terribly fancy. Her hair let down with large ringlets at the ends. Hawkeye's dress being mostly cream white, except for at the cups for the breasts which are black, with black spaghetti straps. The straps clasp onto a silver chain for each strap, which connect to a beautiful broche on the back. In lovely swirls of silver with a pearl hanging from the bottom middle, four more chains hang from the bottom of this lovely broche. Leaving most of her back open to the world, and from the small of her back creamy white surrounding Risa's body until reaching the last two chains making the fabric turn black much like Kat's, with out the flower design, leaving a slightly long train.
The ladies look at one another and nod lightly, "Shall we ladies?" Risa smiles.
Kat and Winry smile, "Lets!"
Risa quickly puts on creamy white cloves that reach up to her elbows as they leave. All three are stunned at the sight of Roy waiting for them with three roses one red and one yellow and one white, "Three roses for three lovely ladies." He gives Risa the red rose, Kat the white and Winry the yellow. "Would you lovely looking ladies like a ride?"
Winry smiles and thanks him getting into the car; Kat gives her cousin a small hug and rushes into the car. Risa on the other hand looks at him with a warning glare. "If you try anything sir!"
"I know Risa, I know." Roy opens the front passenger seat for Risa, closing it after she's settled into her seat and walking back to the drivers seat, starting up the engine he takes the girls to the ball.
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Ed waits at the front with a red rose, 'Thank you Al I don't think I'd have remembered this thing with out you!' He plays with it for a little bit waiting for Roy to drop the girls off. His feet nervously click against the ground waiting for his date to arrive.
"Hey Full Metal, planning on staying longer this year?" Hughes asks with his wife next to him.
"I just might, though I hear they're closing early this year, so you better hurry and get your dance with your wife." Ed replies knowing what he'll be doing for the rest of the night. Showing his lovely little girl to everyone for the billionth time.
Roy stops the car at the front of the steps letting a man give him a ticket to park his car. He puts out both of his arms for Risa and Kat.
Ed watches the three make it up the stairs in utter shock, 'Risa actually looked like a woman!' Ed pauses for a moment and scratches his head, 'Yea that's kinda mean never mind…' He nods at the three as they pass, seeing Roy pass him with a wink. Ed rolls his eyes remembering what his higher up gave him for later that night. 'Pervert!'
As Ed turns to see where Winry is, in pure shock all of his words are striped from his lips, looking at her beauty seemed like it could last forever. "W-Winry… you look." He tries his best to get out the right words.
Winry smiles at him seeing him stutter like and idiot, "I look?" She turns her head a little to the right smiling all the more at his turmoil of trying to find the correct words.
"Beautiful…" He looks at his rose seeing that he'd picked most of the thorns off waiting for her to arrive and almost started going to the petals too if she hadn't come sooner, "I know this isn't much, and it's not as pretty as you are, but it's all I have to offer." Ed gives her his red rose with a hint of blush on his own cheeks.
Winry blushes at his words, 'since when does Ed talk like that?' Both stare at one another blushing terribly. She slowly takes the rose unsure what to really do or say!
Ed swallows hard as he steps down to Winry's step, which she stopped at and offers his right arm, "My lady?"
"Ed! Stop being silly!" Winry blushes even more and begins to giggle, both walking up together.
After entering the bawl, lovely music playing people dancing, and talking with one another. Roy already having Risa on the dance floor, Ed looks around seeing lots of people. He finally sees Kat waving to them, and leads Winry to the table. "Hey! Why are you here by yourself?" Ed speaks up.
"I don't have anyone to dance with." Kat points out the obvious watching everyone dance, "Roy promised to save one for me."
"Well how about Ed dances with you when the next song comes around, right now he needs to have one with me!" Winry pulls on his arm a little bit. Putting her two roses on the table.
Ed points to the food, 'but food, hungry!' was the puppy dog look in his eyes, "You can eat later, it's not like you'll be dancing all night long!" Winry assures.
Ed gives in letting her take him to the dace floor.
Kat watches them; she smiles watching Ed mess up every now and then since he really didn't seem to be able to dance.
Sighing she sees a man sit at their table, she looks to see that it's Havoc, "Well it seems you and I young lady have something in common."
"What's that?" Kat looks to him with a little bit more attention, she smiles lightly with her chin her the back of her hands.
"We don't have someone to dance with, and it wouldn't be right to let a lovely young lady to stay here in a seat instead of on the dance floor." Havoc points out, standing up and offering his hand.
Kat takes it and follows him to the dance floor. Getting very close to one another, Havoc holds the small of her back and her left hand as she holds his left shoulder and right hand. Kat smiles and blushes a little as they begin to dance to the lovely music. "Did Roy make you do this?" Kat smiles at him knowing Roy must have had something to do with this.
"No not really, he might have suggested something, but he didn't order me to." Havoc smiles at Kat, having his usual cigarette in his mouth. "Now watch out!" Havoc twirls Kat around and back into his arms as the music jumps into a new song.
Giggling Kat hangs onto Havoc a little tighter, "Well I guess it was a good thing to come here with out a date, I get to dance with all the lovely single guys!"
Havoc grins even more at her comment; "Yes I'm sure they'd love to dance with you, since you do look so very lovely this evening! Do we get to see you this dressy at the office Monday?"
Kat smiles and lightly slaps Havocs arm, "No, It'd take me way too long just to get to work!" Both laugh at the thought.
Ed tries to keep up with Winry in the slightly more up beat music, though feels like he's making a fool of himself. 'I thought she said only one song! And where's Kat when you need her?'
Roy still dancing a little bit slower than the up beat music though just fast enough to look stylishly handsome, he twirls Risa bringing her back trying to reach a little lower than the small of her back only to get a terrible glare from his dancing partner. "Sorry." Roy tries to look innocent about what he's doing.
Kat ignores her surroundings only paying attention to Havoc at the moment, blushing from how close they are and how much they had already danced. Though not a lot but she's hoping to use it as an excuse.
After the song had ended Kat, taps Havoc on the shoulder, "I'm going to go find Ed and save him from his date, ok?"
"Ok." Havoc takes hold of Kats hand and gives the back of it a slight peck, "It was very lovely dancing with you."
"And with you as well thank you!" Kat smiles and curtsies, walking through the crowd to find Ed and save him from Winry, some how she heard a little bird tell her that she might need to do so. Finding him easily enough she curtsies again, "May I cut in?"
Winry looks to Kat seeing that she'd like a dance with Ed she curtsies as best she can and allows her to dance with Ed. After Ed is sure that Winry has left from sight he lets out a sigh, "Thanks, I never thought you'd come, what took you anyway?"
Kat smiles and takes Ed's right hand and pulls him a little bit closer, "Havoc wanted a dance, and I didn't want to be rude and tell him no, he doesn't have a date after all."
"I see, well that was nice of you, and of him I guess." Full Metal winces at the slap on his human shoulder and sees the glaring Kat. "Sorry…"
"Now for a little dancing lesson since I saw the damage already." Kat giggles at the grumble Ed gives her. "It's ok to look down at first, but for right now, unless you absolutely need to, I want you to try and keep your eyes on me."
"Ok."
"I'm going to lead and then I want you to, in slow dace it's more of making your partner tag along. You decide where we go, but for now I'll lead." Kat leads Ed around the floor for another slow song, "It's best to take baby steps, if you start to feel something in the way of your footing then step off it immediately, or you'll end up stepping on someone's foot."
"Ok I got." Ed nods in understanding.
"Ok now I want you to try and twirl me it's not very hard it's just you taking my left hand and moving me-"
"I know that one!" Ed grumbles.
"Ok then do it mister smarty pants!" Kat dares him.
Ed twirls his dancing partner and ends up not knowing what to do so he quickly jerks her back causing her to bump right into him, she glares at him with a 'oh please' look, "See, if you'd let me finish I could have told you how to smoothly gotten back into normal dancing stance. Instead of having my slam right into you."
"This is starting to sound too complicated." Ed growls.
"It's not just relax breath, and this time all I want you to do in this type of twirl is to one twirl me with your right hand, and then catch my left hand and then let me twirl out again and then we'll smoothly get back into this stance, just don't let go of my left hand!" Kat warns him. Nodding Ed lets her twirl once twice and just as she said returned to normal.
"Well that was easy enough." Ed speaks up blushing a little.
"See not that bad, you just gotta relax yourself and you'll do fine!" Kat smiles, "you're doing beautifully."
"Well I wanted to know how to do that dip thing that I hear all the girls like." Ed blushes even more.
"Well that depends on the dip, if you're talking about real intimate dip than I don't think you'd want me to show you until we knew one another a little better." Kat giggles seeing the blush on Ed's face become a shade darker. "A friendly dip is just like it's said dipping your dancing partner. You make them lean back by leaning forward slightly and supporting most of their body weight with your right hand."
"What!"
"I'm just kidding, but you do have to make sure they don't fall or anything, and then simply return to normal, not hard at all. Wanna try it or do you wanna try the more intimate one with Winry?" Kat grins at the blush on Ed's cheeks.
"How do you do said dip?"
"Well that kind of dip is meant for a more up beat type of dance, were the dip is where the song is slow for a few bars and basically shows how much a man wants his dancing partner. I've only heard about it not really seeing it myself…" Kat blushes this time making Ed laugh.
"Still the friendly dip is still liked a lot?" Ed asks between snickers. Kat nods, and squeals at the sudden action the Ed acts upon, making a few heads turn, only to see Kat laughing like an idiot as Ed pulls his partner up once more. "What's so funny did I mess up?"
"No, you startled me!" Kat giggles playfully slapping Edward on the shoulder, only making the young man grin his oh so loved cocky grin.
"So you liked it?"
"Yes, very much, thank you. Now do you think you can lead?" Kate encourages.
"Sure lets give it a small try and maybe throw a few things in for fun, though you'll have to tell me about it before we do it." Ed blushes a little.
"Aww how cute you're trying to look cool!" Ed growls at his dancing partner only making her giggle all the more. "Ok, ok, lets have fun with this and turn a few heads while we're at it."
At first the two hear a new coming song still slow dace but still fast enough to have fun with. Ed leads his partner back then forward, Kat tells him about one dance move that's a bit fun making them dance horizontally away from and back to one another. Ed grabs her hand twisting them both back into hand in hand dancing. Ed lets her spin out into the crowd that suddenly started watching the two dance together. She twists in and out of his hands but instead of move the same way she went the first she goes the other. Having Kat twirl around him, Ed keeps a hold of the young ladies hand, and gets a fun thought. "Hang on I wanna try dipping you again."
"Whatever it is just don't let me fall."
Stopping Kat's spinning Ed dips her just like before though this time a little more gracefully. Slowly lifting both back up and hearing the song end, Ed smiles at his 'teacher.'
"Feel a little bit better now?" Kat grins at Ed's blush, "I guess so, now bow everyone's clapping." Both bow and walk back to their table seeing a rather upset Winry.
"So you suddenly know how to dance with her!" Winry growls.
Kat silences both by whispering in Winry's ear what was going on, she backs off and winks at her. "Don't be too rough on him." Kat grins as she bumps into Roy. "Hello cousin!"
"That was quit the display there." Roy points out.
"Yes didn't you like my dancing lesson? Now Ed doesn't look like an idiot on the dance floor." Kat tries giggling quietly at the sudden yelling she hears behind herself. Giving her cousin a cute innocent kitten look.
Roy lifts a questioning eyebrow, "And what do you want little kitty?"
"I wittle dance? Wiff my cousin?" Kat tries to look extra cute.
Risa looks at this display of cuteness and can't help but laugh to herself, "Sir is this how she got you to do things for you?"
Roy smiles resting his forehead in his hand, "Yes actually, and I think it still works."
"So dance with her I wont mind sir, in fact I was going to ask for a small breather anyway sir." Risa sits next to Winry hearing the two teenagers bicker about hiding something, and being truthful. She quickly rolls her eyes and gets up to get something to eat.
Roy takes Kat's hand leading her to the dance floor, taking her hand and her upper back in his hands, "So you put it upon yourself to teach Elric how to dance?"
"Well he kind of hinted that he wanted help and not look like a fool, though I think it's a little late for that." Both think about his first dance and begin to laugh.
"Yes I would have to agree with that. Though I'm curious where my little cousin learned how to dance like that?" Mustang looks at his cousin questioningly.
"Oh that? Well after we moved there were some schools and I decided to take some dance lessons. Ballet, slow dance, and tango but it didn't last very long. Papa couldn't keep up with the payments that were needed for the lessons. Still I learned enough to remember, though not enough of ballet to actually perform." Kat smiles nervously.
"You always seemed very graceful, I don't see why you couldn't perform." Roy points out.
"Baka! You know what I always wanted! I am where I want to be," Kat hugs her cousin, "besides not many people watch ballet anymore."
Roy looks at Kat and snickers, "I see, well you can pay for lessons now."
"Yes but I'm much too old." Kat points out. "Enough of that for now! I'm curious, what are your feelings for Risa-san?"
Roy looks at Kat slightly taken aback, never really thinking he'd be talking about this with his cousin, "She's my associate and we are good friends."
"Ah not brave enough to want to go out with her?" Kat grins, though quickly shuts up seeing the scowl on the colonel's face. "Right nothing more than friends, sorry…"
"Colonel sir, and Flower!" Havoc smiles at his higher up and his dancing partner, giving her a quick wink.
"Yes Havoc?" Roy looks to his good friend curious about the interruption.
"My I cut in sir? It seems Hawkeye wishes to talk to you." Havoc motions his head to the table where Winry and Ed are STILL fighting about is soon to be forgotten.
"Sure, did she say what was the problem?" Roy looks even more curious.
"No problem sir, just a quick chat sir."
"I see, well?" Roy looks to Kat, "would you mind if I talked to Hawkeye?"
Kat shakes her head no, "Of course not! Have a nice talk Roy-Roy!" Kat smiles as she takes Havoc's hand and shoulder in her hands dancing with him.
"What do they need to talk about Havoc?" Kat looks to her higher up.
"She just wants to talk to him it seems, by the way you look like you might have been dancing a bit too much, do you want to get something to drink or go out for some fresh air?" Havoc looks a little worried.
Kat thinks about it for a moment, 'I've only danced a couple times, but a step outside does sound nice, the autumn air will feel nice.' Nodding with a smile, Havoc leads her to the front of the bawl room leading Kat outside.
Roy walks up to the table seeing Risa talking to Ed and Winry or more of calming them both down from their pointless fight, "You wanted to talk to me?" Roy asks smiling.
Risa looks at the colonel confused, "No, why?"
"Wha… but, Havoc said that you wanted to talk?" Roy looks confused and a little disappointed that she didn't want to 'talk.' Looking around for Kat and Havoc, he only seems to find the empty space in which where they were dancing. "Something's not right here…" Roy starts walking off to find his cousin.
"Sir what's wrong?" Risa rises from her seat following him.
"Havoc told me that you wanted to talk with me, and cut in with Kat to dance with her." Roy says looking around for his little cousin, seeing in the back of his eye that Ed and Winry are also following them.
"Where's the problem with that sir?" Hawkeye looks terribly confused now.
"They're missing from the dance floor, and I'm hoping that Havoc is terribly drunk if I find him doing what he's not supposed to!" Roy glares into nothingness, 'this is too fishy, what's going on?' Roy thinks to himself.
Ed thinks about it for a moment, "Well maybe they went out for some fresh air, Kat has danced the most out of all of us I think, so she probably asked for some fresh air."
Roy nods and heads for the front doors.
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Kat was vigilant about letting Havoc take her AWAY from the bawl, 'all I wanted was some fresh air dang it!' that was about ten minutes ago and getting farther and farther away from the bawl more importantly Roy and the others.' "Havoc-kun please can we go back. I've had more than enough air, and we're getting awfully far from the bawl. Roy's going to get worried!" Kat points out fearfully.
"Just one more turn and I'll show you the surprise." Havoc speaks up, his face hidden by shadows.
"You said that five minutes ago!" Kat tries to pull her hand away only to have its grip on it tightened to twice as hard as it was being held before. "OW! You're hurting me! Havoc!"
Kat's eyes grow wide in shock and surprise at Havoc's actions, holding her arms above her head; Kat finds her lips being captured by Havoc. Trying to mumble her protests to his actions, and failing terribly in trying to move back away from him since there's a wall in her way. Holding her hands with one hand and feeling her right side with his left hand, he slowly lets got of her lips. "Does that make up for the pain?"
"NO LET ME GO YOU PERV!" Kat tries stomping his feet only to be slapped across the face. Looking back her shock only doubles at the change in the man's face that's hurting her.
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Roy booms out of the front doors seeing Havoc smoking a cigarette getting some 'fresh' air. Roy pulls the cigarette out of Havoc's mouth and punches him to the ground. "Where the hell is Katherine?"
Havoc looks to his colonel confused and hurt, holding his cheek. "I don't know I haven't seen her ever since you told me to have that dance you 'asked' me to have with her!" Havoc slowly gets up only to see the terror on Roy's face. "She's not missing is she?"
Roy turns to the streets looking to see if he can find any physical evidence that she's close by. Havoc turns to Ed and Winry asking them to look through out the bawl room to look for the young woman. He looks to Risa and nods turning to Roy, "Sir we'll help you look for her. We sent Ed and his date to look for her in the bawl. Where do you want us to search sir?" Havoc asks putting up his right hand to salute his commanding officer.
"I'm sorry for hitting you Havoc…" Roy holds his head, frustrated beyond reason, "Both of you come with me, I might need you with me in case she's hurt."
"Yes sir!" both speak up in unison.
Risa hikes up her gown getting out her gun, Roy putting on his flint gloves, Havoc reaching for another gun. The three run off in search for not only Roy's cousin, but also a state alchemist that could possibly be in trouble.
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Kat sees a completely different man, green hair with terribly dark purple eyes. His skin seemingly paler than the moon it self with a black bandana covering his pale forehead, the young mans clothes rather unusual, though the form of his clothes didn't matter. What mattered at the moment is that Kat can't reach her emergency alchemy defenses since they're her earrings, and her hands are in a terrible death grip.
"Let me go! Please!" Kat pleads, tears brimming the edge of her eyes; the terror in her face only makes the man before her grin all the more.
The green haired young man leans closer to Kat his breath tickling her lips with warmth. "I can't do that, you see…" He pauses loving how terrified he can make this girl before him, "I need you." His left hand slowly caresses her right side of her body feeling her waist and gripping her hip, which only causes they young woman to try inching away from him in fear though rather in vain as well. He smiles, brushing his lips against hers, watching her blush become radically worse, "For you are the one weakness, and true weakness of Colonel Mustang as well as Edward Elrics it seems." He grins all the more as her face twists from fear to anger, her brows knitting together, her upper lip curling up in displeasure.
"I wont be their weakness!" Kat spits out, kicking the young man in the groin, only to see him smile all the more.
"Oh stop your teasing it tickles." He whispers onto her lips, he slowly places his lips on hers once more before his left hand punches her in the gut. Kats' eyes bulge at the force brought upon her stomach and quickly slips into darkness. The young man lets her slip forward onto his shoulder.
"Roy… Roy… I… didn't… mean… to… be…" She falls limp in the young mans' arms completely at his mercy.
Lust walks forward from the shadows grinning her usual grin, "So you have her Envy?"
"Yes this is the one." Envy lifts the girl bending her over his shoulder, patting her legs, "She'll get us what we want I'm certain, these humans will do whatever it takes to get what they want. So funny aren't they?" He grins, and quickly wipes away to lips stick on his lips.
Lust grins wider, "Yes it is very amusing."
(TBC)
Trom: OMG! Kat has totally been kidnapped!
Ed::Glares at Trom:
Trom: What?
Roy::Still looking for Kat:
Ed: You and I are going to have a little chat when this is over… :Points a finger at Trom:
Trom: Bu-… I… She… Mew -.-; Anyway Reviews:D! To Anari Hanyou I try not to be lazy ;; Really all I need to do with this story is just edit it and I can put up the chapters.
Al::Pops out of NO WHERE: And now for a speacial announcement!
Trom::Scratches head nervously: Al you didn't have to do that.
Al: I know!
Trom::sighs: Well yea I wanted to get this all out before my surgery-
Ed::suddenly doesn't look so good: They're going to use needles aren't they?
Trom: Oh my goodness I have been stuck by so many needles for blood tests and stuff don't do the whole 'I fear teh needles' thing on me dude just not funny!
Roy::Clears throat: Do not worry about Trom Kehra she'll be fine, she just needs to get over her last procedure that she had -.-;;.
Trom: But I SO woke up in the middle of that!
Roy: You were put into a twilight, you were not really 'knocked out.' This one you wont even awaken.
Trom::Twiddles her thumbs: But what if I do?
Roy::Rolls his eyes: You're hopeless…
Al: You didn't finish what you were saying before.
Trom: Right! Sorry ;! I'm going to have a tonsillectomy, which is supposed to be REALLY FLAMING PAINFUL XP!
Ed::Grumbles about the needles:
Trom: So I wont be able to get anything up for about two weeks ;. That's why I've been posting a lot of the story up recently, normally I'd wait a couple days before adding the second chapter in this type of situation, with 'Unbreak My Heart,' is completely different I have writers block on that one :(, still I want to get as much of this up as I can cause I wont be able to post for like ten days which will be kind of like a little vacation from my job :D!
Hughes: She works with kids isn't that just the cutest thing you've ever heard?
Trom::Glares at Hughes: No… not really. Anyway! I hope you like what's up so far and don't be afraid to review or tell me about something I did wrong :D! Cause help is always loved! Also I do not blame anyone for flaming me for later chapters ;.