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Twin
Chapter 4
--Military Headquarters in Central—
"Did she have any ID on her?" The medic asked Havoc and Hawkeye as they wheeled in their new patient.
In uncertainty, Havoc glanced at Hawkeye, from whom he received a blank stare.
"I'll take that as a no." The medic responded after watching Havoc shrug in his own way of saying, 'I don't know.'
From his vantage point leaning against the opposite wall, Edward said to Al, "Well, that was absolutely pointless. I mean: we get called out to go after a routine chase. This bites, right, Al? Al?" It was then that Ed realized that his younger brother was not paying attention to a word he had said. Al, on the other hand, had been watching what was heading down the hall. "Al? What's wrong with you? Are you still mad at me about this morning?"
"It's still morning, Ed." Came the simple reply.
"Oh, hey! You're right!" After a moment of awkward laughter (which consisted of himself) and silence, Ed then said, "Hey, listen, Al. I'm sorry about what I said earlier, you know. I know you were just trying to be helpful…"
"Edward…"
"I mean, I was only mad at the Colonel for waking us up. I didn't mean to—
"Edward! It's okay! Its fine! I understand that you didn't mean to take it out on me!"
Shocked by this sudden outburst from his normally quiet younger brother, Ed shrank in mock fear. As both of the Elric brothers recomposed themselves, the Colonel walked right by them, deep in thought apparently.
Ed stared after the Colonel who hadn't said a word to them, when he would have normally berated him for disobeying orders. "What's with him?" Al shrugged in response as he followed Edward down the hallway after the group of medics, Hawkeye, Havoc, and Roy.
"You know what's weird?"
"What, Al?"
"Didn't it seem like the Colonel actually knows that girl we caught?"
"Yes, why?"
"Why would he know her? I mean: she is from out of town, right?"
"You know what, Al. You're right. Why would the Colonel know someone from out of town? You don't think--?"
"That possibly they were dating?"
"Well, no. But your guess is as good as mine."
As they got closer to the hospital ward of Headquarters, the Elric brothers could hear yelling coming from one of the rooms down the hall:
"He left us to die by his hand! Let me go!"
"No! You mustn't move around so much! You're badly wounded! You need medical attention right away!"
"Careful of her arm, Havoc."
"I know! I know!"
"Ouch! You're hurting me!"
"Nurse!'
"Get her onto the bed."
"That's what we're trying to do!"
From what they could see from the doorway, Ed and Al watched as Hawkeye, Havoc, and two doctors tried to restrain the woman from lunging at Roy, who stood silently, not saying anything, just in front of them. The nurse ran to the side of the room and began frantically searching for something in the cabinets hanging on the wall.
"Let go! You don't understand! He's the one responsible! I can't let him get away with that!"
"Nurse! The sedative!"
"Yes, sir!"
The woman was finally pulled down to the bed in the room, still struggling against the others' hold on her. But she was obviously not going to win because of her injuries. The nurse handed one of the doctors a syringe of a clear liquid as she changed places with him so that the woman's left arm wouldn't be flailing around making giving her the shot more difficult.
Al watched as the doctor gave a small push to the button at the back to test the needle. The doctor then turned quickly to the struggling group by the bed and roughly grabbed the patient's left arm securely in his big hand. Al saw the doctor struggle a bit to find the right vein because the woman kept struggling the whole time. Once he found it, the doctor then stuck the needle into the woman's arm and immediately pushed the clear liquid through the syringe and into the arm.
"There. Now, just hold her there for a few minutes until the sedative kicks in."
The group of four continued to hold onto the woman until her struggling became the weakest it could possibly be. The Colonel took this moment to approach the group at the bed. He calmly stared down at the angry expression on her face through the tangle of arms holding her down.
"You shouldn't have come here, Rei."
"It's all you're fault, Roy! They were killed because of you…"
Roy remained silent as he watched the sedative begin to take hold on the woman. In a few seconds, the angry look on her face disappeared as her head sank to the pillow in sleep.
"Okay, you can let go now. The sedative will keep her this way so we can treat her wounds." The doctor said as Havoc, Riza, the other doctor and the nurse released their hold on the woman.
Roy stood staring at the woman for a few seconds more then turned to exit the room.
"Colonel." Roy stopped in his tracks at the sound of Hawkeye's voice, "If I may ask, who is this woman? How do you know her name?"
Roy sighed and closed his eyes, "Come with me." with that, he passed by the Elric brothers at the doorway and continued down the hallway.
A few seconds of startled silence ran by Riza, Havoc, Ed and Al, as one of the doctors and the nurse began the treatment of the woman's wounds. Hawkeye's face showed indifference as she too passed through the doorway and quickly followed the Colonel down the hall, along with Havoc.
Al asked, "Should we follow them?"
With a serious, yet slightly mischievous look in his eyes, Ed replied, "Oh, we'll follow them alright…"
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"I don't think we should be doing this, Edward…" Al said as he followed his brother, who was tiptoeing down the hall, to the door to the Colonel's office.
"Ed…"
Stopping by the door, Ed pulled out a piece of chalk and began drawing a small transmutation circle at his eye level on the wall in front of him. When he finished the drawing, a small hole appeared in the middle of the circle.
"Ed! What are you doing?" Al asked when he saw what his brother had done to the wall.
"Quiet! Do you want them to hear us?"
"But I don't think you should be drawing holes in the wall of the Colonel's office."
"What? You don't want to know what's going on?"
Al stared at Ed; metal armor hands on his hips.
"What? Do you want me to make you a hole, too?" When he didn't get a response from Al, "Fine. Suit yourself."
Shocked, Al grabbed the piece of chalk from his brother and began drawing his own tiny transmutation circle on the wall, just to prove he could do it on his own.
"Hey, I didn't know you had it in you, Al."
"Shut up, Ed."
"D-Don't talk that way to your older brother!"
"Shhh! Do you want to hear what's going on in there or not?" Al said while putting one of his eyes up to the hole, obviously intrigued as to what was happening inside the office:
"So who exactly is this woman, Colonel?"
Silence for about two minutes…
"Colonel?"
A sigh, which must have been the Colonel…
Then: "She's my significant other."
"She's what?"
"What!"
"She's your wife!"
"NO NO NO! She's related to me…"
"You mean she's your sister."
"Yes. She's my twin sister."
"You have a twin?"
"What did I just say!"
"So if she's your sister, what is she doing here?"
"I have no idea."
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NOTE: so there's chapter 4, finally. Now you now the woman's name and part of who she is. (Roy's twin sister: Rei) Anyways… I shall be updating more often, hopefully. I have just been so busy lately: play rehearsals, classes, club meetings… you know the drill. I shall have increasingly more free time after February 15th, where my schedule frees up. So expect a few more updates around that time! Reviews for this chapter and others to follow would be welcomed with an open mind, heart, and arms.
---Howls--- riawolf