Chapter eighteen:
Kat had found that even after two days she has already become pregnant. She feels her lower stomach, feeling the life grow with in her. She knew Roy had been talking to the doctor about her past and how it could possibly affect the pregnancy, most importantly, about how Ed had been doing for the past twenty-four hours and how he would come out of this.
Feeling the baby, she didn't care if was considered too young to bare a child she wouldn't give him or her up.
Roy returns to the room scratching the back of his head irritated with everything. Just really everything that's been going on, 'I need a woman… I need a drink… I need for this to NOT be happening!' He watches his little cousin smirking to herself watching her move around trying to figure out what she'll look like when she becomes the size of a house. "What are you doing you silly Kat you?" Roy walks all the way into her room seeing her blush.
She turns to him and smiles, "Nothing important."
"I see." Roy speaks up showing a slight spec of interest but not enough for her to go into it.
"What did the doctor say?" Kat gets into her bed carefully.
"He says that with your past it is more than likely to lose a baby with in the first two to three years after the incident. Especially how you lost the first one. So don't get your hopes up too high if you miss carriage" Roy warns, in almost a parental manner.
Kat looks down at herself disappointed, "Oh… I see…" Kat picks up her head trying not to think negatively about all this, "Anything else?"
"Well Ed should be fine he just lost a lot of blood so it's just a matter of him getting it back." Roy smiles a little sitting back in his seat.
Kat smiles a little more, "That's good to hear." Kat slowly lies back trying not to hurt herself any more than need be.
"You little lady need to get some rest!" He kisses her forehead. "If Ed's ever mean to you-"
"I know, I'll run strait to you I promise!" Kat smiles closing her eyes, "And you'll burn him to a crisp."
"Damn strait I will!" Roy gets out before leaving her room. Then smiles to himself hearing Kat giggle slightly at his comment.
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Kat slowly awakens in the night hearing people running around frantically, hearing sirens going off, something about a red alert. She blinks looking around, she sees her guard, Fuery enter her room being very professional with his gun out, ready to attack anyone that tries to come after her. "What's going on?"
"It's a red alert miss someone's trying to attack one of the patients." Fury gets out seeming to be tough, though you could tell that he was lightly trembling.
"Ed what about Ed!" Kat looks worriedly to her bodyguard.
"He's being watch by Havoc. Just try getting back to sleep I'll protect you." Fury gets out.
Kat smiles at him, "Thank you so much Fuery-san." Kat lies in her bed, rolling to her right looking down at her belly thinking about the baby, mentally giggling about what he or she will look like.
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Kat awakens the next morning to find Fuery still waiting for someone to attack, as well as Roy walking into her room to relieve Fuery of his duties he sits in a chair completely serious holding flowers waiting for Kat to awaken. He puts the flowers somewhere safe. Kat blinks a couple of times waiting for him to notice.
"I know you're awake Kat." Roy speaks up, Kat smiles and moves around a little.
"What happened last night?" Kat slips onto her back, waiting to hear about anything.
Roy looks at her with mental turmoil only obvious to her. He had that face when she was little and he still has it now. That face that tries to hide the hopelessness to hid something that went terribly wrong. "Roy? What happened? Is Ed alright?"
He shakes his head slow at first then quickly, Kat quickly sit up, the terror obvious on her face. "What happened to him?"
"He was kidnapped." Roy gets out. Kat looks at him the terror still obvious on her face but sadness slowly forming in its wake. "I need to know what the other people looked like especially the one that could transform himself to look like anyone." Roy speaks up stoically.
Kat thinks about it for a moment, "That one… He… Had green hair, pale skin, dressed in skintight black clothes, a black bandana with a symbol one his forehead. He's a few inches taller than Ed. He had really long dread locks. Had black boots too." Kat gets out terribly worried about her beloved.
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Havoc, Risa and the others await in the office for their colonel to hear orders of what to do next. Falman looking to find anything he can about what happened last night by watching the surveillance tapes.
Roy walks into the office watching as everyone steadily works to find where Ed could be. "What have you found Falman?"
"Well sir, it seems that someone dressed up as Lieutenant Hawkeye told Havoc that he could leave since his shift had been finished. Entering the room some source of light, most likely alchemy distorts the cameras. Then when the picture returns the kidnapper appears as them selves obviously getting rid of their disguise. Taking Full Metal out through the window sir!" Falman finishes.
Risa sighs, "I didn't get a call or any information that I was supposed to exchange posts with Havoc until that morning. It shows that it's still night out. Who ever did this is very good at they do… but where would the disguise be?" Risa looks to the picture confused about what could have happened while the camera went out.
"He's not human." Mustang speaks up. Everyone turns to him confused, "Sir?" Everyone gets out in unison.
"He's not human, from what Kat has told me about this man is that he can transmute his body to look like that of another person, not permanently but still long enough to cause damage. He's also the same person that posed as Havoc at the ball last fall." Roy looks at them seeing that he's still got their attention. "We're obviously dealing with something more than your average crime. Kat says that his name is Envy, and that when she had shot him in the head he'd fallen and after five minutes he was back up on his feet again."
Everyone looks at the Colonel as though the man had truly gone mad, or they were hoping that they heard him wrong or something to that accord. "But… how sir?" Risa speaks up.
"That is what needs to find out, but first, Havoc I want you to go to the morgue see if they still have the body of the man named Vincent Clarsh, see if the body had been disposed of." Roy moves around looking at papers looking for something, "Farman Get me some maps of East City of the borders of East City, every kind of map of this area, I want them all!" Roy looks at his desk looking for anything he can, getting yes sir's from both men.
"Sir what do you think is going on?" Risa looks to the Colonel, "And what are you looking for?"
"I think we might be able to find Full Metal, and I'm looking for the Elric's phone number." Roy smiles finally finding what he had been searching for.
"Why sir?" Risa raises an eyebrow to the last part of his response.
"I need Alphonse to protect Kat, if anyone can truly protect her while we go looking for Full Metal he can." Roy picks up his phone dialing the number.
Risa nods remembering how extremely protective Al is of his older brother. "Sir, why would she need protection?"
"…"
"Sir?"
Roy lifts up his index finger for the international sign of 'one minute.'
"Hello?" Comes the sound of a young man's voice.
"Yes may I speak to Alphonse Elric please?" Roy looks up pent up and ready to go.
"Yes hold on…" music comes on, "Hello?" comes the younger Elric brother.
"Alphonse?"
"Yes?"
"I need you to do me a favor and watch over Kat for a couple days." Roy speaks up stoically.
"Of course, but umm… is… is my nii-san ok? They haven't aloud me back into the hospital." Al's voice dripped with worry.
Roy looks down at his desk, sighing to himself, "Yes he's fine, don't worry he'll be home soon enough I'm sure the doctors were just doing some tests to make sure that he's healing just fine."
"Well that's good" Al sounds a little more relieved about his brother being well.
"Well thank you again Al, I'll see you in a couple days then."
"Of course sir, see you in a few days, good bye Colonel."
"Bye." Roy puts down the phone rubbing his eyes, not really liking to lie to Al since he knows what Al COULD do to him if he found out that his older brother has been kidnapped.
"Sir!" Farman salute Roy, Roy salutes him back. "I have those maps you wanted!"
"Good man, I'll be leaving for the hospital, If Havoc returns before I do then tell him to write a report about what he's found." Roy speaks up while leaving.
"Yes sir!"
Roy walks out of headquarters and into a car heading for the hospital once more. 'Why would the same people want Ed? Course that's like saying why would any other terrorist group not want Ed, he's one of the best in this whole area. Still wanting the philosophers stone? I don't even think Ed would make that for them! He won't even make it for the military. Stubborn brat!' Turning into the hospital, Roy gets out of his car walking quickly to his cousin's room. 'If what those two did together really did get rid of 'Katherine,' then this could be trouble.'
Roy walks into Kat's room smiling at her, "Hey Kitty-Kat…"
"Hey Roy-Roy, what's going on?" Kat smiles sitting up in her bed.
"I…" Roy looks down at the papers, sighing, "Do you remember anything of that night, when you were taken? Do you remember which route they took you by? Anything?"
Kat looks at her cousin for a moment, startled that he wants her to talk about such things when Ed could be in serious trouble. "Not really… Why?"
"Because I think the same people kidnapped Ed, and are going to torture him." Roy speaks firmly, almost worriedly, while closing the door behind himself.
Kat looks at him, with a look of pure terror on her face, "I…." She looks down at her bed, holding her head, obviously doing her best to remember, "I don't know… She…" Kat slowly lifts her head, though her face changed into the other woman. Roy knew who this was, Katherine. "Roy, Roy, Roy… Why can't I just sleep? What the hell have you done wrong now?"
Roy growls at her, slamming his bottom into a seat as well as his fist onto a table, "Damn it Katherine, Ed is missing and all you want to do is blame me! They did what you told them to do and now Kat's pregnant!" Roy hisses.
Kat smiles, "Good, then she's safe, but Ed, our Ed has been taken? By whom?"
"The same people." Roy becomes stoic once more.
"Well then I guess you're hoping for directions to where they could be? You know Kat isn't going to like the idea of being left behind." Katherine folds her arms.
"I know, she'll be staying with Al."
"Oh great idea Roy! Except for the whole thing of her possibly telling him what happened to his big brother AND the whole thing with the baby! Leave her with him long enough, I'll have my head reared out again and showing them the way." Katherine grins.
Roy glares at her, "Then tell me so my men can get there first!"
"Alright," Katherine grins confidently, "Give me your damn maps…" She looks at them looking at the one with the borders from the ball to the northern borders. She weaves a plant into the map going past the training grounds and strait to a graveyard. She opens her eyes, looking down at the map. "You'll go into the graveyard and there you'll see a little tomb normally meant for rich people all that good stuff. It'll say 'the greater ones rest here.' Because we all know that Vincent thinks himself to be the better bastard than any one else." Katherine looks rather disgusted at the thought of that man. "He was such a dick some times you know that?"
Roy half laughs and looks down at the map, "I bet…" He looks up to her seeing she's waiting for anything else he might need. "Thank you, for protecting her, and for helping out." Roy gets out.
Katherine looks at him a little surprised. "Well I am doing this to help myself, and Kat needs a father for this little baby in her belly." Katherine smiles, "Now if you don't mind I'm going to get some shut eye." Katherine closes her eyes and lies back in the bed, "I wouldn't say good bye to her it'll only upset her." She gets out before finally leaving.
Roy looks at her for a moment, reaches his hand out to his poor little cousin, stopping his hand from touching her skin, he looks to one of the roses and puts it next to her sleeping face. "I'll get him back for you Kat… I promise…" Roy leaves the room heading back to headquarters.
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Entering the office Roy looks at the people seeing that they're busy at work and Risa waiting for him holding paper work. "Sir I talked to the fuhrer's assistant and asked for permission to have a special squad put together for out rescue mission. She will get the message to him as soon as possible. It could take up to three to four days sir. Also Havoc has the information you asked for."
"Read it to me." Roy speaks up a little disappointed about hearing that he has to wait to rescue a fellow state alchemist.
"The report says that the morgue had written a report about how they had buried the body, he said that the body had been buried in the-"
"Northern cemetery… right here?" Roy points to the cemetery that Katherine had shown to him."
"Y-yes sir…" Risa clears her throat not used to the Colonel interrupting her, "Havoc asked if they had checked up on the grave recently, they said that the grave seemed to have been robbed after the check. They didn't right a report since they didn't think it was necessary." Risa finishes.
"It's the bastard Envy…" Roy growls to himself.
"I'm having someone do research on these people that you say Kat saw, I told them not to over look any kind of book not even supernatural ones." Risa rolls her eyes at the thought of how many stupid answers they'd get.
Roy rubs his eyes in irritation, "Alright… I guess I'll need to do paper work until we get some answers…"
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Steadily awakening, Edward blinks his eyes slowly finding himself in utter darkness. 'where AM I?' Feeling his arms have been tied as well as his ankles. 'What the hell?' Slowly getting feeling again through his body he quickly feels the pain from his right chest, trying his best not to complain about the pain.
He brow's furrow a little feeling something like cloth in his mouth cotton most likely. He tries opening his eyes once more only to find darkness. 'Blind folds? Gag… oh no…' Listening carefully, he waits to hear if someone might be coming or not.
Hearing foot steps Ed tries to make it seem like he's still asleep while he tries to get out of his bondage.
"What do you think Vincent will do with him, he normally likes females." Comes a calm and collected feminine voice.
"Well if he doesn't want to torture him that way, I can always have MY fun with him." Comes another sleek and cocky young man's voice.
"I want to bite off his hand!" Comes a grungy mans voice, seemingly non too intelligent.
"Not right now, we need him remember," Comes the woman's voice once again.
'Kat… Did they take her too?' Ed thinks to himself, still slightly struggling to get free.
Not hearing anything Ed pauses and waits to hear more, hearing foots steps, Ed slowly pales at the feel of hot breath against his ear, "What do you think Chibi-chan?"
Ed tries his best to ignore that and just try staying with the quite, 'I'm asleep look.'
Feeling his head being lifted up by cold fingers, "You know Chibi-chan, I'd never felt anything before like what she did, it was very painful. Maybe I should show you…" Comes Envy's more than obvious voice. Ed shivers leaning his head away as he feels lips against his lower chin, "So you ARE awake!" Envy moves his hands to Ed's keeping him from transmuting his chains, using the other hand to feel the young man's chest. "I heard that you cheated on me Ed."
"I WHAT?" Ed gets out through the gag, "Lisssen I neher haad anfing wiff you! Soo baak off!"
"Oh what's the lovely woman's name then? She seems pretty…"
"Ihhh you lay a hann on heer I'll kii you!" Ed gets out.
"Oh promises promises…" Envy pets Ed's hair, "Now wait here we're going to make a couple home movies." Envy finishes, sounding a little too excited for his own good.
(TBC)
Ed: Turns to Trom Home… MOVIES!
Trom: Smiles nervously Hai ;.
Ed: Growls This better be nothing like that fic you wrote before this one!
Trom: whistles innocently
Ed: It's going to be just as bad isn't it?"
Trom: Rocks back and forth whistling innocently.
Ed: Blinks It's going to be WORSE?
Trom: Well yes and no… ;
Ed: Growls running after the fleeing Trom GET BACK HERE!
Trom: quickly finds a place to hide. Whispers I'm giving you all an early update for both tainted alchemist and Vampires Kiss cause Otakon is this weekend and I wont have the time to update it this weekend. Hope you like the early update :D!
Japanese words:
Chibi-chan: Little shrimp pipsqueak.
San: It's like saying, Mr. Ms. Or Mrs.
I think that's all it ;.
Thank everyone that's commented :D!