Chapter twenty:
Vincent stands up laughing at the three, "How cute…." Lifting his hand he groans lightly at the plants on his side, "Put them in their cells, I'm going to try and remove this weed!" Vincent spits out.
Envy smiles and disappears with the others, "Congratulations Chibi-chan!"
Guards walk up to the three motioning for them to stand up once more. Al nods and picks up his brother he knew his brother wouldn't be able to walk on his own for at least a day. Kat puts the acorn back into he pocket before anyone remembers that she has it.
Galring Ed slowly opens his eyes as Al gasps and Kat whimpers seeing that the guards are treating her roughly, he growls deep from within his throat, "Leave her alone!"
"Or what little man?" One speaks up a grin spread across his smug face.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A TINNY LITTLE INSECT THAT COULDN'T EVEN BE KILLED EVEN IF YOU STEP ON IT!" Ed yells out falling out of Al's arms, groaning pushing himself up though falls once more.
The guards throw their head back laughing, as Al runs to his brother's side, "Nii-san!" He quickly picks his brother up once more. "Nii-san…"
"I'm fine Al…" Ed hisses closing his eyes, he'd never felt so humiliated in his life.
Their laughter slowly dying out, the same guard from before speaks up once more, "Well you I guess." One speaks up.
Kat looks at Ed before they finally push the lot of them into a cell. One guard pushes Kat to one side of the cell another pointing a gun at Ed's head, as Al motions to follow Kat, "You don't want him to die do you?"
Al lowers his head not wanting to gratify them with an answer.
"Thought not. Come on Ben!" The two run out of the cell as bars fall down between the two.
Kat runs up to the bars only to be too late, and only slams into them; she slams her fist into the bars angrily, for her lateness. Slumping down to the floor leaning against the bars and the wall Kat looks at the two. Though what she sees is something she thought she'd only see in her nightmares.
Al sits down tending to Ed's wounds asking what hurts. The poor young man's pride seemed like it would never die. Though Kat knew better, just three weeks in here, Ed would be begging them to stop, doing what they tell him to do. The thought alone brought tears to her eyes. It seemed so horrible that she could imagine it happening so easily. Ed looks to his lover and sighs motioning for Al to move closer to Kat.
Ed pulls up what's left of his boxers and pants, crawling out of Al's lap and next to Kat lifting her chin his face serious almost disappointed. "Why'd you come for me?" Ed sighs looking at the concrete wall.
"Because I couldn't stand the thought of them hurting you…" Kat gets out both sounding rather emotionless or just too exhausted to put a lot of emotion into their voices.
"What about Mustang?" Ed looks down at the ground seeing little pebbles on the ground.
Sighing slowly Kat looks to the same wall, "He probably found out that I left the hospital about two hours after Al picked me up."
"Why were you in the hospital?" Ed looks to Kat curiously.
"I had been stabbed that night Envy attacked you, that woman, with the tattoo on her chest she did it." Kat speaks up not looking to Ed, though feeling his eyes on her.
"You should have stayed." Ed's voice becomes heated.
"I was worried about you!" Kat becomes very defensive, glaring at Ed.
Ed looks at her for a moment, "Is it true?"
Kat closes her eyes resting her head against the bars, sighing again, "Is what true?"
"Are we going to have a baby?" Ed speaks up stoically.
"Yes… It's yours, no one else's. The doctor says that I might not be able to keep it though." She opens her eyes, "Are you mad at me?"
Ed sighs resting his head against the concrete wall closing his eyes, "No… I'm disappointed."
"Why?" Kat keeps her head sitting against the bars.
"Nii-san-"
"Al, you should have known better! Especially if YOU knew that she's in this condition, you'd have known not to bring her!" Ed glares at his little brother watching him cringe back and crawl closer to the wall.
"N-Nii-san…" Al gets out his voice trembling terribly.
Ed knew that Al didn't do such things with out good reason, still Al AND Kat knew that Mustang would come and get him with in the week, especially if he knows where they are.
"Don't be mad at him. He's only worried for his older brother." Kat speaks up emotionlessly.
"That's the thing! There's a big difference between him bringing you along when you're in the condition you're in and him coming alone!" Ed growls at her.
Kat glares at Ed lifting her head from the bars, "WELL DO YOU THINK THEY'D COME IF IT HAD ONLY BEEN AL THAT HAD DISAPPEARED!" Kat glares at him all the more.
Ed lifts his eyebrows, in shock and disbelief, "You did this, so Mustang could come and save us?" Ed rolls his eyes into his head and half laughs, "That's really funny."
"HE KNOWS ED!" Kat hisses all the louder.
Ed looks to Kat wearily, "What do you mean he knows?"
"He knows what we did…" Kat lowers her shoulders and hangs her head in shame, "He knows that I'm pregnant…"
"Just like him to be spying on us!" Ed growls.
"I told him Ed." Kat whispers out as tears hit the ground.
"Why!" Ed looks to her astonished.
"Because… he wanted to know why the doctor told him that the baby is fine…" Kat sighs, it was partly the truth but still she needed a better reason than, 'I had a bad dream and told him about it,' "Did you want me to lie to him, my cousin?" her voice sounding a bit stuffy.
Ed sighs dropping his head down to his chest, "No… I didn't want you to lie to him. It obviously was something we couldn't control."
"I'll be going on my first week, real soon." Kat whispers.
"That's good." Ed gets out, he looks to where his little brother his seeing him sulk in the corner just seemed to break his heart all the more. "Al…"
"I understand brother…" Al gets out.
"Al, please, I'm sorry I… I'm sorry I yelled." Ed runs his only hand over his face, "I just… this is all… just happening so fast. I really don't know what to do… Hughes was right…" Moving the bangs out of his face he stares at the ground, "I don't know what I'm going to do, how I'm going to help You raise our baby, and at the same time… fix Al from my first stupid mistake."
"Ed… I might not even be able to keep it." Kat confesses.
"What do you mean, put our child up for adoption, I'm not going to have my kid-"
"I mean I don't know if my body is ready yet!" Kat looks Ed strait in the eyes, tears falling down her face.
"Wha-"
"It's from being here from the first time Ed… It's from everything that happened… It…" Kat closes her eyes her brows closing together as she rests her forehead against the bars once more. "The doctor says I might not be ready, for the next three to four years to have a child since there's so much scar tissue."
Ed looks at her suddenly feeling his heart drop through his stomach, he slowly pulls himself towards her, wiping his hand on his boxers, he uses his thumb to wipe away her tears, "Shhh… now come on, Al and I never thought that way about anything! Right Al?" Ed turns to Al who's been paying attention for the past ten minutes, he nods slowly. "See, we spent four years looking for the same thing and we're still going to look for it until we find what we need, to fix us both. Don't tell me the girl that's stolen my heart-" Ed stops at the giggling fit that's begun behind his back. "Be erm…" Ed's eyes slowly turn to his brother who's really trying his hardest NOT to giggle. Clearing his throat Ed begins again ignoring Al, "To give up on herself, much less a stubborn person like myself."
"I'd never give up in you." Kat whispers, trying to hide her tears.
"See that's my girl!" Ed smiles nervously, "So there's no need for these tears!"
"I know…" Kat sniffles wiping her eyes with her dirty gloved hands.
"Now look you got your face a little dirty," Ed licks his thumb getting the dirt off. Hearing Al teasing him behind him Ed lowers his head and grits his teeth, "ALLLL?"
"Sorry!" Al speaks up still trying to hide his giggles.
Kat smiles at them both, "Boys…"
Ed smiles at Kat lifting her chin through the bars, moving her closer to himself, kissing her lips lightly. "Thank you for coming to save me."
Kat smiles, "Always glad to come and save my knight in shinning armor." Kat smiles kissing his lips right back. Kat looks to Al and giggles/snorts against Ed's lips. "I think we broke your brother."
Ed looks back to Al seeing him just sitting there like a statue, "Sorry Al" Ed scratches the back of his head blushing a little.
"Eh!" Al scratches his own head, leaning closer to the ground, "Oh! Oh no! I-I'm sorry I'll just erm… turn around let you have some… erm privacy!" Al quickly turns to the corner and covers what would be ears if he were still human, he'd also be blushing about the same color as Ed's jacket if he were human too.
Ed turns to Kat kissing her lips, feeling where his child is slowly growing, He lightly part his lips with hers, whispering onto her lips, "Is this the right area?"
Kat smiles, lowering his hand over her actually womb and not her intestines, "Yea…" She smiles even more seeing him blush.
"It's… is that really how big it is?" Ed blinks seeing how small her womb really is.
Kat smiles, "Yes, but it'll get bigger."
Ed smiles kissing her forehead, "Thank you…"
"You already said that." Kat smiles at Ed watching his hand slowly reach up her back pulling her a little closer, as well as himself.
"I… I mean for… for having my…" Ed blushes a lot more not really sure if he's getting this all right.
Kat smiles all the more at his innocence, kissing his lips quickly, "You're very welcome love."
"My little flower."
"Are you two done yet?" Al gets out, blushing profusely for someone made of metal.
Both try hiding their giggles, "Sorry Al." Ed smiles, trying to move around.
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Roy having gotten grumpier by the hour had asked four people to stay up through the night to help him look for his much too rash cousin. 'What was she THINKING! Going after him like that! What was Al thinking… When I find them I'm going to give them both a very large piece of my mind.'
"Sir?" Havoc speaks up.
"What?" Mustang nearly hisses. Clearing his throat, he sighs and re assorts himself. "What is it?"
"We're coming up to the cemetery? Should we? Should we go in?" Havoc looks back to Armstrong sitting next to him, Risa sitting next to himself.
"We'll call for backup." Roy speaks up, "Since there's no where else she could be, we'll attack in the morning."
"Sir, shouldn't we go back and at least get some rest while we can?" Risa points out, "It'll be pointless for us to go in tired."
"She does give a good points Colonel." Armstrong points out.
Roy rubs his temples not wanting to leave Kat and Al or Ed for that matter, for any longer than possible. "Alright lets head home."
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Kat slowly awakens the next morning still feeling Ed's hands in her own, seeing Al having gotten closer to them sometime in the night. Kat slowly moves around a little and waves to Al, "Hey."
"Good morning." Al whispers, waving back.
Kat looks at Ed seeing his peaceful face, 'If I could have had anything during those three months I was here… I would have these two.' Kat kisses her fingers and places her fingers on Ed's forehead, giving him an indirect kiss. She slowly moves his bangs that cover his face out of the way.
Smiling she watches Ed's eyes slowly open, and close once more, "Mmmm… five more minutes…" Kat smiles all the more seeing how Ed's stubborn about pretty much everything.
"Alright… but only if you promise to kiss me when you wake up."
"Ok…" Ed slowly drifts back to sleep.
All three jump hearing the door being slammed open, seeing the terrible grin on Vincent's face. "Well good morning kids! Have fun?"
Kat glares at her capture inching closer to Ed and Al.
"Oh I wouldn't do that my dear, see we're going to lift that up so I suggest you get away from it, or you might get scratched." Vincent moves out of the room.
Kat moves away from Ed and Al watching them, Al holding Ed as they both look to Kat. Watching the bars rise, Kat quickly gets up making her way to Ed and Al.
"I wouldn't do that either my dear. Touching them would not be wise." Vincent grins his terribly grin once more, watching Al pick Ed up off from the ground, "I get very protective of what's mine."
"Stop talking about her like she's an object!" Ed yells, glaring at the man, looking ready to attack even if he does only have one leg and one arm.
Vincent half laughs, "As you can remember from yesterday I don't even care if they are crippled, even you Edward Elric."
"I am NOT a cripple!" Ed hisses.
"Right, and I'm head of the military." Vincent rests his right set of fingers on his chest oh so dramatically. "Now, we're going to get some questions answered ok?" Vincent pops his head out the door one more time, "See you in a few." Leaving completely.
Kat glares at him, "watch out boys…" Kat whispers. Quickly snapping her two fingers she slaps her palm against the joins between her index finger and her thumb, making a snap-snap-clap sound. A bright light fills the room, causing the guards to stop Vincent to yell at the top of his lungs. Gripping whatever has formed into her hand, she tightens her grip on it pulling out a long whip looking plan with thorns all over it.
Quickly wrapping it around one of the guard's necks she tightens her pull causing blood to drip down the poor man's neck. "Let us go or he dies!" Kat demands.
Vincent walks into the room looking at his guard, "What is that thing?"
Kat smiles, "It's a mixed bread, half weeping willow branch, half thorny rose, it's just blooming on my end! Now let us go! Or I will kill him!" Kat demands once more.
"Kill him… He's no use to me." Vincent grins at Kat, Kat raises her eyebrows in disbelief.
Ed and Al look in disbelief, "Kat…"
"You're right he's not worth my time…" Ed and Al breath a sigh of relief. "But you are Vincent!" Kat loosens the hold quickly whipping at Vincent only to get Envy's neck.
"What are you going to do now, are you always this noisy?" Envy grins.
Kat glares yanking the whip causing the spikes the whip only grow thicker and sharper, slicing Envy's head right off, the rest of his body hitting the ground. 'He'll be getting up with in the hour.' Kat glares at their captures. "Who wants to go next?"
Vincent watches as the other men start to scramble out of the room. "Oh just get her! If you get it away from her she'll be harmless! And take away her gloves!" Vincent speaks leaving the room.
Ed grins, "Hey Vincent!" Vincent looks back at Ed, "It looks like she still was able to get you!"
Vincent glares at Ed feeling his neck and the nick left from the dangerous whip. Growling he stalks off.
"Al help Kat." Ed gets out using the wall for support.
Al puts up his dukes ready to fight. "Don't worry Kat I'll help you!" Kat looks from Al to Ed who's already fallen onto the ground.
Kat walks over to him still holding her weeping rose. "Ed…"
"I'll be fine." Both hearing a clank against the wall Kat turns around to defend Ed, as he watches five men needing to hold down Al, two more joining to help out.
"ED!" Kat whimpers out as they quickly grab her whip, a man having gotten his arm lashed up from it to do so. She pulls though only sees the man grin at her, pulling the whip out of her hands.
"KAT!" Ed tries moving around watching the men laugh slap her and punch her in the gut. "NO! YOU LEAVE HER ALONE!" Ed gets up only to fall down. "KAAAAAAAT!" Ed yells, looking up only to finding two men holding her against the wall, the rest laughing at him.
"Ed!" Kat tries moving around.
A tall bulk man walks in being bald and chains hanging from his leather vest and pants didn't bring any comfort to Ed's slowly turning stomach. Stomping his foot on Ed's hand he grins as the young man looks away gnashing his teeth. Turning his foot, Ed yells out feeling the bones in his left hand slowly break. The overly bulky man easily sits on the young alchemist pulling his head up by his hair, "Stop struggling and I wont kill him!" The big bulky voice comes out, dangerously serious. Pulling out a knife he take it to his throat, he looks around to Kat and Al. "Understand?"
Al instantly stops struggling, letting the men take him outside to have what the only thing they really could do with a suit of possessed armor chain him to the wall, to watch his brother and soon to be sister in law tortured.
Kat stops for a couple seconds and starts flipping out in another, "LEAVE HIM ALONE! LEAVE MY FIANCÉ ALONE!"
"I will when you stop struggling!" The man speaks up again his extremely tan skin slides against Ed's as the blade starts cutting the young man's flesh.
"Please stop you're hurting him!" Kat starts crying trying to reach Ed.
"Will you cooperate?"
Kat calms a little nodding quickly. "Yes…" Kat whispers as tears start rolling down he cheeks. "I'll stop…"
"Good," The man stands up, twisting his foot on of Ed's hand. The young man moans once more about his poor hand. Kat runs to his side falling to her knees her eyes frantic as tears fall down her face. "Ed!" She whimpers taking his head putting it into her lap caressing his face as she looks at his poor distorted hand.
"Ed…" Kat whimpers as she pets his hair.
Yelling out in pain Kat holds onto her head as she's being pulled out of the cell. Ed tries moving around to get to Kat only to moan about how much pain his only hand is in. One of the stronger men picks up Ed taking him along to where ever they plan to take him. Lowering his head in shame he couldn't believe it, he really was a cripple with out his automail.
(TBC)
Thanks everyone that reviewed :D! Again I know you can't tell that someone is pregnant after one day. I promise I wont make such claims in later stories ;.
Japanese words: The usual ones XP.
Sorry its been so long everyone, college has been a little harder than I thought it would be.
Ed: grumbles I still can't believe you had that guy break my hand.
Trom: Rolls her eyes It's a fake hand you weenie Slaps the hand away pulling out Ed's actual hand see?
Ed: Sticks his tongue out
Trom: Anyway I'll try updating sooner this time though if I don't, then it'll probably be about this new paper I'm writing for English for college XP. I really don't like fast food anymore… Flips off "Fast Food Nation" and "Super Size Me" Anyway I hope you like this chapter :D!