Chapter seventeen:
Kat runs in the rain looking for Ed, and having heard some of the things they had talked about she was more than obviously worried for him. Not that she really knew what to do about a lot of those things still she could talk to him about it. If they were going to share everything with one another than she wanted to share his pain, and his worry and his troubles with him. She would never want him to feel as alone as she once did.
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Ed walks to the willow tree seeing two shadows in the distance, Ed mentally knew the written down reason why Hughes was there to watch them. Since Scar is still on the loose the military was definitely taking more precaution in watching over their state alchemists. Still that wasn't Roy's reason, no he sent him here on a babysitting job, not trusting either himself or the woman the Kat could have become. Ed blinks at the two in the distance, who would be here in the rain, 'right that's a question I should be asking myself…' Ed grumbles. Walking closer to the weeping willow he soon finds the person that his mind has been mauling over for the past thirty minutes. 'Kat?' Though the other figure seemed unclear to him.
Running past the willow tree he soon finds the light that he needed, a strike of lightening at his back only to show an absolute terror he'd never want to see. A monster that Ed would never want Kat to meet, time itself froze for seconds while he could still have light.
Seeing that tattooed arm move for her head he runs to her, "KAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!"
Running up to the two Ed slides in the mud guarding his beloved flower and himself, he shifts his metallic arm into place where Kat's head would have been. Seeing the red lightening flash, his metallic arm only receives a dent. Ed glares at Scar gritting his teeth, he looks back to see Kat there, 'how'd she get here?' looking back to Scar he glares at him with pure anger. "Leave her out of this!"
"She's a state alchemist, new but still a state alchemist!" Scar speaks up calmly.
"KAT RUN!" Ed yells out. "Take me! And leave her out of this!"
"That can not be a possibility…" Scar speaks up.
"KAT RUN!" Ed growls, knowing that Kat is still behind him.
"Oh but Chibi-chan I can't do that…" Comes a terrible whisper into his ear. Pure terror fills the young man's eyes, slowly moving his head to look at whom he really IS 'protecting.'
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Kat runs around trying to find Ed her hair a terrible mess of wet locks. "ED! ED PLEASE ANSWER ME!"
"He's not around here…" Comes a calm collected feminine voice.
Kat turns around ready to attack. "Who are you!"
"Me? I'm no one, though you seem to be looking for your precious Ed?" She smiles.
Kat tries her hardest to figure out where she's seen this woman before. "Yes…"
"Well, then we can take you to him…" The young woman smiles at Kat, and an extremely fat man standing next to her gives a terrible grin.
"I'll be alright, I can look for him on my own…" Kat walks past them and starts looking the other direction hoping to find him close to the Inn again.
"We can't let you leave yet." Comes the woman's voice again, the fat man grabbing Kat's wrist gripping it tightly.
Kat tries to pull her arm from the extremely large man, the terrible grin still on his face. "Let go!" Kat pulls harder. "Please! Let go!" Kat pulls a little harder.
"He wont listen to you my good dear." The dark haired woman smiles at Kat holding her chin. "Yes I think you're ready to see him now…"
Kat rips her face away from the woman's hands, "STAY AWAY FROM ME! NOW I'M BEING NICE OK!" Kat growls, putting her free hand into her pocket of tree seeds.
"Too bad!" Comes the fat man's grungy voice, "I want to eat her!"
"Not now Gluttony…" Lust speaks up.
Kat glares at them both, she quickly moves around putting the man's hands between her legs kicking them both causing Lust to hit the ground with a broken jaw and Gluttony to step back with a broken nose, both bleeding terribly.
Gluttony lets go of her hand holding his nose in pain, "Owie! Owie! You hurt my nose! That's mean!" He opens his mouth widely with his hand out ready to grab her.
Kat puts the seed into her mouth holding it there, she slams her hands onto the ground causing huge vines to sprout from the ground, extremely grateful to have remembered her special gloves, pushing her into the air, flipping toward Gluttony throwing her tree seed into his mouth, he quickly swallows it grinning at her. "Tasty!"
Kat lands behind him slamming her hands onto his backr causing the seed to grow about one hundred years older with in sixty seconds causing the overly fat man to practically explode.
Seeing that Lust is still getting up Kat slams her foot on the woman's chest glaring at her with her gun pointed at her, "You want to end up like your little friend?"
Lust glares at Kat moving her eyes to Gluttony seemingly shocked at her companions state. The main branches of the tree coming out of his mouth, causing his mouth to be ripped open, and the trunk making it to the ground making a certain hold at his bottom much too large for any person's good. The roots deep in the ground as the tree slowly seep up the water around it and the blood as well. Looking at the girl on top of her she grins.
"He'll be out of that within the hour." Lust grins, "Nice trick though." Lust moves quickly stabbing the girl in her left side of her stomach, avoiding any critical organs, though the smirk on Lusts face being a direct reaction to the pain filled face on Kat's. Kat grits her teeth glaring at the woman.
Kat drops her gun, slamming her hands on the woman's chest causing massive vines to bursts through her chest and through out her body. "Try getting out of that you bitch…"
Kat stands up, holding her side, picking up her gun and runs for the Inn, 'Ed please be ok!' Though unbeknownst to her, holding her side in vain blood seeps through her finger to the ground leaving a trail of blood behind her.
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Ed moans out in pain as the only two spikes that can make it out of his right chest cavity, finding that the same spikes attack Scar right through his left chest cavity. Feeling the blood rises in his throat, coughing up some on his own. 'Kat…'
"That's right chibi-chan, give in to me…" Envy whispers into Ed's ear.
"No!" Ed moans out, watching Scar run off trying to save his own skin. Ed's eyes widen all the more as he feels Envy move the two spikes around in his lungs and muscles. Feeling things ripping that shouldn't. The feel of cold fingers on his flesh pulling him closer to Envy he knew if he didn't do something that it would be his doom, Ed tries his best to move his arms to perform alchemy only to feel the terrible pain of the spikes with in his body.
"Now, my chibi-cha-" Envy stops falling back onto the ground, removing the spikes from Ed's back.
Wobbling in place for a moment feeling the blood rush into his lung even faster he falls to his knees then flat on his face. Ed looks around dazed and confused. Hearing his name being called, by a female. "Kat…" Ed looks around watching lighting rip through the sky once more, everything slowly turning dark.
"ED!" Kat runs up to Ed and pulls him away from the man that had been attacking her beloved. "ED! PLEASE! WAKE UP!"
Ed looks at Kat's tear filled eyes, remembering what had happened, how Envy made himself look like Kat. "Envy you're such a sick bastard!" Ed pushes Kat away and quickly stands up transmuting his arm into its short sword form ready to attack his 'enemy.'
Kat stands up slowly "Ed…" She looks at Ed seeing that he can't really see her, but someone else. "It's me… It's Kitty-Kat…" Ed keeps his short sword still pointed at her in disbelief. Kat sniffles trying to find a way to make him understand, "Ed it's me!" Though saying this only seemed to make Ed angrier, tears slowly falls down her cheeks as she tries to think of a way to make him understand. Kat opens her eyes she punches the short sword up, running forward and hugs Ed, receiving a scratch on her left cheek from his weapon, "IT'S ME! IT'S YOUR BELOVED FLOWER!" Kat screams at Ed begging anyone that could help for him to hear her.
Ed blinks looking down at Kat a little lost, "My… beloved… flower…?" His eyes feeling terribly heavy, he slumps against her doing what he can to just stay awake, "Fl…ower?"
"Yes!Yes It's me! It's your beloved flower, Roy-roy's little Kitty Kat… Ed please look at me!" Kat becomes frantic seeing that he's slipping further and further away from her. "ED! Please come on wake up! Look at me! Come on, don't do this! We're going to get married! You're going to get Al's body back! ED PLEASE!"
Envy stands up holding the side of his head in distaste. "That hurt you know."
Kat looks at Envy seeing the same man that had kidnapped her, She does her best to move away from him, "Ed wake up! PLEASE! IT'S HIM! IT'S THE GUY! HE ED PLEASE!"
Ed slowly awakens his eyes not sure what she's talking about. "Kat what did he do?"
"HE'S THE ONE THAT HURT ME!" Kat nearly screams backing up into the willow tree, her eyes in a terrible panic.
Ed's eyes become fully open, now seeing one of the people that HAD hurt his precious flower. "YOU BASTARD!" Ed sticks his knife into the ground coughing up blood, letting it slip down his chin as he tries to stand up.
"Ed please your hurt!" Kat cries, seeing the blood dripping from his lips.
Envy smiles "That's right chibi-chan" Envy walks up to Ed not a spec of fear on the young man's face. "You see I made myself look like Havoc…" A stream of lightening makes him look like Havoc, "And I can look like anyone I want." He quickly makes himself look like the terribly hurt Ed, "Even you!" He pulls Ed's chin up smiling at the young man.
Kat physically smacks herself, getting herself back into reason, and slams her hands on the ground causing both Ed's to look her way, one standing the other falling from lack of blood.
'Ed!' She causes the vines to enter Envy's feet and move up his body, breaking every bone she can, and quickly makes all the vines exit out of his mouth, the plants socked in blood, she quickly makes a second weeping willow of out the young man.
Heaving from all the energy loss and blood loss she turns to Ed and tries dragging him along back to the Inn. "HUGHES! HELP!" She starts yelling right away. "HELP PLEASE ED'S HURT! SOMEONE HELP ME! PLEASE!"
She moans as the pain as her side throbs all the more. "Ed stay in there!" She looks around seeing that she's still meters from the village, "SOMEBODY HELP ME! I NEED HELP!" Tears fall down her face as the rain starts again this time thicker and heavier than before. "SOMEONE HELP! PLEASE!" Kat stops at hearing Ed coughing, "Ed!" Kat puts him on his hands and knees, "Ed I'm getting you help, can you walk?"
Ed puts his right hand up, thinking he wants help, Kat gives him her hand, his pulls down on her hand throwing up vomit and blood all over the ground. "Kat… I…"
Kat pets his hand slowly, "It's ok we're almost there, just hang in there!"
Sitting on his feet, his breath labored and his eyes obviously too glossy to be able to go on for much longer. "Kat…" Ed flinches from the pain, "Fill the holes in my right lung…"
"What? Why?"
"JUST DO IT!" Ed holds his left hand over his right lung.
Kat starts crying as she makes a thick vine from Ed's blood, filling the holes perfectly, "That… That should…. Help with the bleeding…" Ed gets out, falling unconscious.
"ED!" Kat cries all the more, trying to drag him back to the Inn.
Making it to town, she starts screaming again, "SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE! SOMEONE HELP I NEED HELP!"
Seeing lights turn on and people walking out of their homes, Kat smiles a little, "HELP US! HE'S GOING TO DIE IF WE DON'T HELP HIM!"
A couple of men look at one another nodding quickly they take Ed and take him to the local hospital. Kat holds her side not remembering how much blood she's lost, only noticing that it hurts like the dickens and that she's been feeling terribly light headed for the past fifteen minutes. Kat follows them to the hospital and quickly walks to the Inn and starts screaming again, "HUGHES! ED IT'S ED! HE'S HURT!"
After awakening many people Hughes runs down with only pj's and a robe, she takes him to the local hospital, holding her side the entire time, Hughes seemingly unaware of where her hands are too worried about one of his good men being terribly hurt. He moves people around trying to find Ed only to be stopped by a nurse saying that he's in surgery at the moment.
Kat leans against the wall, her eyes closed as she gnashes her teeth from the pain, Her breathing uneven as she slowly gets out, "Ed…" A tear falls down her face as she slides down the wall, she sees a young man look to her, not able to tell who it is she ignores him, since she can't really understand what he's saying anyway.
"Miss! Miss! What's wrong?" A young man asks Kat as she slides down the wall blood being left behind, his eyes bulge at the sight. His long and wet brown hair makes a smacking noise as he turns to the others. "WE NEED A DOCTOR OVER HERE!"
Hughes turns around to see Kat slowly falling into unconsciousness, holding her side. Finally realizing that she'd been hit as well as the amount of blood she'd lost. "KAT!" Kat looks up to see Hughes running to her before completely falling into darkness.
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Kat slowly awakens to the sound of her name being called. She blinks her eyes a couple times only to find her cousin, "Kitty-Kat?"
"Mmmm?" Kat tries moving around only to feel the terrible pain in her side, groaning she settles back down.
"That was a real lame stunt you pulled." Roy speaks up sternly.
Kat looks to her right seeing her cousin waiting for her to respond, his arms folded and sitting his a chair by her bedside, "I couldn't let him be killed." Kat sighs taking her eyes off her cousin not wishing to see those angry eyes, opening them to see a pale white ceiling.
"Well obviously…" Roy speaks up still upset.
Kat rolls her eyes becoming extremely defensive, "My goodness I just went after him to make sure he's ok! You act like I murdered someone!"
"Now you're being dramatic, though I would like to know why your doctor has come to me to tell me that the baby should be ok?" Roy glares at her all the more seeing the shock in her eyes. He raises his brow waiting for an answer to this lovely question of his.
Kat looks around trying to figure out SOMETHING to say.
"I said Full Metal could go with you I didn't tell you go sleeping with your training officer!" Roy's voice slowly starts to raise with anger.
"But they wouldn't be able to tell that quickly!" Kat starts getting up, wincing at the pain, she slumps back into her bed holding her side.
Wrong answer! "So you DID sleep with him." Roy speaks up glaring angrily.
Kat's eyes widen all the more she wasn't pregnant, she couldn't be, it didn't seem possible, she glares at her cousin, "What would make you suspicious of such a thing!" Kat demands.
"The doctor told me that you have a high chance of becoming pregnant because you're so close to your cycle AND a LARGE sum of semen had been found in your womb! Care to explain!" Roy glares all the more.
Kat plops onto her bed grumbling to herself, "My goodness you act like you're my father or something."
"Well since I AM the only family you have left." Roy growls out.
Kat eyes slowly turn from the ceiling to her cousin in utter shock, "But how?"
"Well you screamed it in my face! Also I went and perform some research of my own. It seems that three months before you joined Uncle and Auntie had died. Why didn't you tell me?" Roy shoots up out of his seat slamming his fist against the bar of the bed. Seeing her hurt face he sighs and sits back in his chair looking to the floor obviously frustrated.
"I didn't want to hurt you, I mean they didn't even get a funeral! They where burned to death… and…" Kat drifts off.
"Katherine! I could have taken care of you!" Roy growls, slamming his fist on the armrest.
"You wouldn't have let me join in the military, even if I had a gift." Kat points out hotly.
"You're right there! I wouldn't let you join."
"LIKE MOM AND DAD DIDN'T LET YOU JOIN?" Kat yells out moaning in pain as she grips her side. She breaths slowly, feeling the wetness of her own blood coming out of her wounds as they slowly reopen, her head facing the ceiling though her eyes turn to Roy, "Don't talk about protecting someone when you can't even protect yourself! You can't even protect your own men! How in the world could you of all people protect me?" Kat slowly sits up, glaring at her cousin, waiting for an answer.
Roy looks at his cousin baffled just by what she'd just said, giving that smile that all people give when they're showing they're defeat and their anger at the same time. "You're right, I would never have been able to protect you from those bastards that kidnapped you, I would never have been able to keep my soldiers away from you, and to keep you from a situation like this if you hadn't joined the military."
Kat's mouth drops open her brow knits together accusingly and in utter shock. "WHAT the hell is THAT supposed to mean?"
Roy gets up, walking to the window, "… You want to be big and bad like Edward? Mister I'm better than my commanding officers orders? Is that what you want?"
"No… I just-"
"You know Kat I really am disappointed in you. I have felt for the better part of this year like a failure to you… I wonder where I or even where Auntie and Uncle could have gone wrong, but I see now that they couldn't have done anything since-"
"Don't do that…" Kat growls tears brimming her eyes.
"Do what?" Roy grins, turning around, a terrible grin on his face walking up to his precious cousin.
"Well do that for one! Look I wanted to tell you but you didn't-"
"Didn't what?" Roy leans close to her causing her to lean back. "My little cousin, the genuine slut!" He looks at her disgusted.
"THAT'S NOT TRUE!" Kat points out nervously.
"The question is…" Roy's voice becomes terribly awfully different, though familiar, "Would you…?" A ring of lightening flows down his body showing Envy, with a terrible smile on his face. "Sleep with me?"
Kat shoots up from her bed screaming, tears falling down her face, her chest heaving terribly, moaning in pain from her wound. She looks around her room to see no one in it, just complete darkness, a bathroom to her right and a window to her left with a chair in each corner of the room by the window. Hearing the beeps of the machines monitoring her ever heartbeat and breath she looks to the window once more, hoping to find something. "A… A dream… it was just a dream…" She whispers to herself.
"Kat?"
She looks up to find her cousin happy just to see her awake. "… Roy… Roy…?"
"Yea!" Roy walks up to Kat ignoring the doctors for a moment. "How're you feeling? Are you ok?"
Kat looks at herself and nods, "Yea… I just…" Roy gives his cousin a light hug and steps back.
Roy feels her shoulders feeling her shiver, "You're shivering, what happened?"
Kat looks at the bed for a moment knowing that she's going to need to tell him everything eventually. "I…" She looks up to him worriedly, "I had a terrible dream."
Roy half laughs getting a chair and sitting in it he pulls it up to her paying attention, "You aren't much for getting scared from bad dreams unless they were real bad last I remember." He points out to her. He smiles, "I remember you had weirder dreams than I ever did sometimes." Kat slightly smiles fidgeting with her covers, "What happened Kitty Kat?" Roy looks to her in all seriousness.
"My dream starts here actually… in the hospital, it's day and… you're awakening me…"
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Roy sits back stunned by everything he's hearing, his uncle and aunt, what his little cousin and Ed had done things he'd NEVER want to hear about. Though these things were terrible, still the thought of Kat never being able to let go of a terrible fear of a man that truly could haunt her for the rest of her days, seemed too terrible of a thought. "Kat."
"Roy I'm sorry I know I shouldn't have… that I should have told you sooner, please don't be mad!" Kat slowly begins to sob, "I'm sorry I slept with Edward, just please don't be angry with me!" Kat holds onto her cousin's shirt lowering her head, her tears hitting the covers as her shoulders shake from her weeping.
"Sir?" A soldier walks into the room holding some paper work.
"Get out!" Roy speaks up coldly, only causing Kat to flinch, remorseful of his tone he sighs. "Kat… You're growing, and I can't make decisions for you. You're sixteen and, yes you're right I wouldn't want you joining the military because Auntie and Uncle died. Still all the same I wouldn't want you to feel caged from the world around you. If anything that's good that can come from this military, it's that we can look for you massive numbers." Roy smiles at her seeing her half laugh, "Still in all seriousness, I am glad you told me." He looks at her though her head still not lifted, she could sense the sad look on his face, "I am a little disappointed but if what you say is true then it can't be helped."
Kat nods, "I'm sorry…"
"It's alright, you need to get better." Roy squeezes her hand smiling at her. He smiles a little more, "This is the second time I've seen you in a hospital and I want you to listen really carefully."
Kat wipes away her tears, lifting her head to show she's paying attention, "Yea?"
"I don't want to see you in this hospital again until I come in here finding that you're having a baby! That's the only reason why I WOULD want you in here!" Roy points at her. Smacking him lightly she shakes her head at him.
"You're so weird sometimes Roy-Roy!" Kat feels her lower abdomen, blushing a little, "How long have I been asleep."
"Two days. Also I think you should be lying down!" Roy helps her lie on her back. "I was worried about you."
Kat smiles at him, "Yea, that weirdo lady winged me pretty good didn't she? I feel kind of bad for them…" Kat remembers the night well how weird it was that she didn't feel anything, any pain any remorse for those people she killed. "I killed those people."
"What people?" Roy looks at her curiously.
Kat looks at him like he's insane, she'd made two men go through a brutally painful death the woman through a quick and effective one. "Those three people, the lady with long black curly hair, had a black dress on. A terribly huge man who…" Kat shivers at remembering what he kept on saying, "Said he wanted to eat me…"
Roy looks at her as though she's completely nuts. "Eat you?"
"Yes! The last one could transform into anyone he wanted, he made himself even look like Ed before he… he…" Kat tries to keep her lunch down, suddenly remembering what condition Ed was in when she left him, her eyes widen as she looks to Roy. "ED! How's Ed doing!"
Roy sighs, "He's still unconscious, and he has been that way for two days like you but he still wont awaken."
"Do you know what happened to him?" Kat looks overly worried about her beloved.
"No I don't… Hughes knows what happened. He's put it into a report, that's on its way to the Furher." Roy points out.
Kat looks to the ceiling, "Oh… I see…"
Roy looks at her and then to where her hand is, still at her lower abdomen. "Do you wanna see if you are or aren't?"
Kat nods slowly.
(TBC)
Trom: Well that was…. Interesting. O.o;.
Ed::Glares: Trying to kill me off are you?
Trom: no no it's nothing like that! ;. It's just part of the story.
Roy::Sighs: You got pretty close there, most people would have died with the amount that you supposedly said that Ed as an open lung wound, two to be exact.
Trom::grumps: Well Ed's a stubborn guy just like you :D!
Roy::Grins: Oh? But will he turn out to be such a ladies man like myself :3?
Ed::Growls: One woman is good enough for me thank you!
Trom::points to all the fan girls: Well you better get used to many XD!
Japanese words:
Chibi-chan: Short stuff, little shrimp (stuff like that)
Gomen: sorry.
Hai: yes
I don't think there were that many this chapter o.o;.
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