Chapter eight:
Roy had to finally given up, resisting with all his might still he had to, it was turning into the later hours of the morning both Risa and Havoc were getting too tired to go on. Sitting at his desk reviewing the entire night, the dark circles obvious in his eyes, tired himself from the long search, though wouldn't admit it. Thinking about how it could have been possible for someone to look EXACTLY like Havoc and not have something about him that seemed odd. Rubbing his temples slowly his only comfort at the moment being the thought of him having the honor of killing Kat's kidnappers. Though the question would be quick extra crispy or slow with an original recipe?
Hearing a knock on the door he begins to look like he's working his eyes feeling terribly heavy from the long trying night. "Come in…" he calls out obviously trying to sound stoic. Looking up from his 'work' as Edward Elric walks in.
Ed walks into the office saluting his colonel, "Sir I have sent Winry home and am fully available to help you in the search for State Alchemist Flower sir!" Ed speaks up putting down his salute.
Roy smiles, the boy actually sounded serious for once, and actually willing to take orders. "I have work to do Full Metal…" Roy looks down at his work signing forms and various documents; he could almost feel Ed hurt glare. His pen suddenly stops moving as the colonel stays very still, "But until I'm not busy you can patrol the streets and look for her. I will like to join you later in the search. Meet back here in 6 hours, understood?" Roy looks up at Ed seeing him quickly smile.
Ed salutes his commanding officer quickly, "Sir!" putting down his hand he leaves to go looking.
After reaching the front of the main building Ed waves to Al walking up to him. "Brother are you sure it's a good idea to go looking for her with no idea where to look?"
"We have to try Al, besides," Ed holds up a map of the city, "We can mark down where we've been. We have to do this Al, we can't just give up on her!"
"I know brother, I'm just worried that's all." Worry evident in the boys' voice.
Ed pats his brother on the back, "Don't worry so much ok?" Ed smiles seeing his little brother nod slowly.
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After their six hours of searching Ed and Al both were terribly tired from their search and they only covered only a small part of the city. "This is going to take forever!" Ed groans, as the two boys return from their search with nothing to show for it.
Surprised to see the Colonel waiting for them at the front gate. Roy lifts his head at the site of the two boys, staying right were he is he waits for them to get to him.
Feeling a little sympathetic to Edward since he is only human. "You can rest here for a moment the others are finishing up and they'll be down in about ten minutes." Roy says flatly. "Did you turn up with anything?"
"No… Though we didn't get very far either." Ed points out.
"We started close around the bawl moving around in a circular pattern to cover lots of ground quickly." Al adds.
"I see…" Roy nods slowly taking in this information.
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Their search even with the entire group of people under Roy didn't turn up with anything. They all ended up looking for days, days slowly turned to weeks, and weeks sadly turned into months yet still nothing. Everyone felt for Roy since it was his cousin, and a great alchemist, but even after they got the approval of a large search party, they still found nothing. Hope for finding Kat was becoming a smaller and smaller thread by the day.
Roy sits in his apartment with a large bottle of whiskey and a shot glass. His hope slipping by the second, he'd put the blame on himself from the beginning. The only three that hadn't stopped looking for his cousin were himself and the Elric brothers. How ironic that someone that really didn't like him was sure looking awfully hard for his little cousin, even on the days that Roy had given up hope, Ed and Al still pushed on. Not very surprising since Those boys ARE the Elric brothers, stopping at nothing to find the philosopher stone… all but this. It confused him so much to think that these boys work so very hard for someone they'd known for about three four months. Smiling before taking another hit of whiskey and trying to remember where he put his gun, he slowly begins to think to himself, 'Why would they give up their grave search for someone when they may be losing their only chance to find the philosophers stone?'
Hearing a knock on his door Roy hobbles out of his chair and opens the door looking terrible, a cover over his shoulders, his eyes surrounded by darkness his face had become pale over the months, his only 'friend' being his liquor. Seeing Edward in the door didn't help much either he knew what was coming next, still he couldn't do much about it since Ed had done this many time before with the lovely help of his bigger little brother.
Al picks up the Colonel bridal style, as Ed holds a towel and gets some of the colonel's clothes to get him ready for the day. Roy had stopped protesting almost a week ago about the boys doing this, but it sure did help him skip from drunken strait to sober in a matter of seconds. 'I think I told them about this once time when I was really drunk…' Roy mentally grumbles. 'I wanna get that drunk again… then I wont have to think about Kat being gone. Or how to tell her parents that I failed them…'
Al walks into the lake dropping the colonel in nothing but his boxer shorts, letting him stay under for a few seconds and pulling him back up. He stopped letting the Colonel decide when to come back up ever since he decided that he needed over a minute a half to wake up in water that killed in three.
Picking up Mustang Al takes him to the hot tub that Ed had made for him dropping him in the hot water. Continuing to put him in the freezing and hot water until the colonel knew he was sober. Usually meaning that he'd growl at them rip the towel away from Ed and stomp back into his apartment embarrassed that he's nearly naked outside of his house. Getting a towel from Ed he walks back into his apartment putting on some clothes. Getting out of his room Roy sits on his couch seeing the boys are waiting for him. He sighs sits in a recliner chair and scratches his head rolling it back in exhaustion, it was obvious the colonel wasn't sleeping well at night.
"Sir." Ed leans forward a little worried, the Colonel never looked so serious.
"Why Elric?" Roy speaks up with his hand over his eyes.
"Why what sir?" Blinking, Ed waits for the Colonel to explain himself.
"Why do you keep on looking for a person that will never show up again? Why do you keep searching for a person that's not even your family? Why do you look for a girl instead of your precious stone? Why do you keep looking for a girl that even her older cousin has given up on?" Roy asks putting his hand over his closed eyes.
"Because sir, she's a state alchemist, she's a good friend, and if I were to give up on her, then I would have to accept that there are some things in this world that are unreachable. She helped take care of Al and I while she was with us. Though it was for a short time, she's still close to our hearts. I wonder why you do not want to look for her, or even want to hear what we have." Ed points out.
Roy's eyes pop open, 'they have something!' Roy sits strait showing that he's paying attention.
Ed smiles, seeing the perk back in the colonel that he knows. "Havoc wanted me to give this to you, no one has looked at it yet but what we do know is that a little boy gave it to us, most likely threatened to do so." Ed looks at the roll of film, handing it to his leader, "Here Sir."
Roy takes the roll, "There's a projector in the closet by the door to my room, could you get it for me Ed?" Roy asks not bothering to look up.
Ed quickly runs to get it Al following, both not noticing the unusual grin on Roy's face, some would think he were a mad man as he slowly stokes the roll of video film. 'Kat I'm coming for you I promise!'
After setting up the monitor Roy gets the film ready as Ed and Al wait to watch already asking if it would be all right with the colonel. Roy sits in a chair next to the monitor to well monitor it and keep it from burning the film. Turning it on the film starts to play.
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Man shows his face to the view of the lens watching everything that's going on. "Good morning Colonel Roy Mustang State Alchemist of Fire! How are you today? I'll bet not too well since this will get to you at around the time of winter." The man smiles with his black hair slicked back into a spiky ponytail. His chestnut eyes narrow showing that he knows all too well about what he's done, and will do. His clothes shown for what should be September. Brown long sleeve shirt and black baggy pants. Showing his hand to Kat who's tied up and seemingly unconscious. "Look my good sir is this little gem yours? She's pretty! Especially in that dress!" the camera keeping an eye on Kat, the young man no more than 24 gets behind her chair someone obviously behind the camera to zoom in on them.
"Maybe I should tell you my name first, or maybe I'll have this little kitten mewl it out for you! No? Ok, fine what a party pooper! I am Vincent Clarsh. My favorite hobby is to torture those around me, such as this little kitten right here, and believe me I love to break little kittens like this one." The man grins caressing the bottom of Kat's chin as though she were a cat. Her arms obviously tied behind the chair she's sitting in, her ankles tied to the legs of the chair. Vincent nibbling on Kat's neck a little and receives a slight moan from the girl.
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Ed and Al look at the film disgusted already but what started to worry Ed is that Roy is visibly shacking in anger just by looking at the film. Droplets of his blood hit the carpet as he grips his fist. "Sir maybe we should go…"
"NO!" Roy growls, continuing to watch.
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Vincent walks up to the camera smiling, "What would a person like me want especially from you? Well It's a little red stone, I hear it's very powerful can even heal people that have automails for limbs. That's it! You got it the Philosophizers Stone! Find me the man I'm looking for who knows about it and I'll give you back your precious gem." Vincent walks back to Kat slapping her hard enough to awaken her and make her moan in pain. Vincent grabs something and moves just enough for the camera to see. "Do you want your cousin to go through so much pain? Just for one man?" The young man quickly whips one of Kat's knees causing her dress to slash open and her knee to bleed. "Do you want to know who that man is?" Vincent asks sounding too excited to care about giving it right at the moment, whipping the other knee causing Kat to whimper in pain.
Vincent walks up to Kat pulling her head back by her loose curly hair. He pulls down her cloth gag holding a knife to Kat's throat. "Tell me my sweet who would be looking for you RIGHT NOW if he knew you were gone?"
"Roy would…" Kat speaks up her voice cracked from being dry.
Vincent nuzzles her face licking it, "Good girl, now who else would be looking for you? He also knows where the Philosopher's Stone is." Too hard to tell what Kat was feeling since she has a blind fold on, she waits a minute breathing rather heavily as the knife that's held to her throat digs into her skin.
"I don't know! I don't know anything about the Philosopher's Stone thing!" Kat moans out in pain as her hair is pulled on harder making her neck push more into the knife.
"Incorrect answer my dear. You know him, He's blond and he could possibly hold feelings for you that are what one could say, MORE than just friends?" Vincent 'whispers' loud enough for the camera to hear but not loud enough to hurt her ear as he nibbles on it.
Kat whimpers feeling her tears dampen her blindfold. "E—Edward…"
"Edward what?"
Tears fall down the girls cheeks as her blind fold has become to wet to hold her tears anymore. "EDWARD ERLIC!" Kat sobs out feeling the knife dig deeper into her throat as though her skin were softened butter.
Nibbling her chin a little Vincent grins, "Correct my dear!" Vincent walks up to the camera leaning forward to it grinning, "You know who to get now Roy, your very own teen age boy, and oh so popular with the ladies Edward Elric. Who's probably given up on the girl by now!" Vincent stands up strait laughing at the thought. "Now remember I'll be waiting by the bawl for the lovely trade, don't for get the famous Full metal alchemist. In one week from when this film reaches your eyes."
"ROY DON'T LISTEN TO HIM! DON'T DO IT! ROY! PLEASE! I'LL BE FINE!" Getting a knife thrown into her right shoulder, though quickly silences Kat yells of encouragement. She grits her teeth in pain, moaning at the terribly pain. "Roy… Please don't do it, not for me…"
Vincent glares at the girl slapping her, "I didn't tell you it was ok to speak!" Vincent roughly rips out the knife causing blood to drip down her arm and onto her dress. "Maybe I should cut this lovely face of yours as punishment!"
"The film is still rolling." Comes an unfamiliar voice.
"Then stop it! As much as I'd love the Colonel to see what I'm going to do to this girl until he responds, it is not yet time for him to see my handy work." Vincent speaks up sounding a little too excited about his future actions.
The white wall returns to white, the only noise in the room being the flapping of the film against the projector. Turning off the machine and turning on the lights, Roy just stands there looking at his hands seeing that he'd hurt himself with out knowing it.
Ed stands up with a determined look on his face. "I'll go get my things." Ed speaks up heading for the door.
Al looks to his brother shocked and upset, "NO BROTHER! YOU CAN'T!"
Ed looks at his brother with a sad smile, "I have to brother, I have a better chance of staying alive and safe there than she does. I'd rather be in her place than," He shudders remembering the film, "than see what she will look like now."
"No FullMetal you will not be going." Roy speaks up in his stoic voice.
Both the brothers look to Roy surprised, "But what else can we do?"
Roy puts on his flint gloves with his eyes closed, blood slowly seeping into his favored gloves, "We have a week to figure that one out don't we?"
(TBC)
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