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I'm a bit review deprived, so for now, one review makes me very happy. A big thank you to KawaiiTenshi for reviewing. Anyway, here is the next chapter!
--Chapter Two--
Katrina opened her eyes and looked around. The whiteness of the room was disrupted by a man sitting in a chair by her bed. Lieutenant Colonel Roy Mustang, the Flame Alchemist. Kat smiled at him.
"What did Maes say to you?" She asked softly.
"Everything. Did you really give that much up for them?" Kat closed her eyes for a moment then opened them back up, replying with,
"I'm only stuck on earth until Maes dies again." Roy slipped a glove on while a thought driffted across his mind, 'Would she kill him to get a chance back?' Kat glanced at his gloved hand and sighed. 'He doesn't trust me. Damn.' She decided to speak to him,
"It won't work." Roy glanced at her
"What won't work?" She chuckled a bit and replied,
"Trying to fry me, I can't be burnt to death." But even as she said those words she knew Roy didn't believe her. She sat up with a little difficulty. She leaned back against the pillows and looked at the door as it was opened to reveal Edward and Alphonso Elric standing there in the flesh, literally. Al was the slightly shorter than Ed with short dirty blond hair that was brushed over to one side. Ed was the first to speak,
"Hawkeye told us that we could get an explanation here." Roy nodded and motioned for the two boys to enter the room.
/\/\/\/\:15 minuets later/\/\/\/\:
Kat found herself in the embrace of two crying teens. Ed and Al had jumped on her and were hugging her fiercely. Between their sobs things like 'thank you' and 'we owe you so much' were heard. Roy had left the room after explaining the situation to the Elrics. After a few moments of weeping the boys pulled back and Kat spoke to them,
"Done?" The older of the two sitting on her lap replied with ,
"Yea I think so." Kat smirked and teased,
"Then would you mind getting your blond asses off of me?" Ed twitched but did as she asked, as did Al. At that moment the doctor entered the room and shooed the Elrics out with some difficulty. The doctor turned to Katrina and glanced down at the chart he held in his hand. He walked over to her and started to undress the bandage on her shoulder. She watched him work quietly. When he removed the final layer he gasped. He touched one of the few places covered with dried blood and found that it crumbled like ash. Her shoulder was almost completely healed. It was amazing. She smirked at him while he gaped at her shoulder.
"Done staring yet?" The doctor jumped when Kat broke the silence. All the doctor could say was,
"Holy shit!" The doctor stood and walked out the door in a daze. Kat sighed and laid back down on the bed. After laying there for a few moments she sat up again and flung the sheets off of herself. She started to unwrap the bandages that covered her thigh where her leg ended. It was completely healed also. Just at that moment Roy Mustang walked in. He looked her over and sat down in a chair. Kat stared at the bed and kept quiet. Roy was the first to speak,
"I need an answer to a very important question." Kat looked up and nodded for him to continue.
"When you get tired of this world... will you kill Maes to get to go back?" Kat was silent for a moment. She had expected for him to wonder this, but she hadn't expected him to ask her strait out. She looked directly into his eyes and replied,
"There would be no point in bringing him back if I was going to kill him later so, no I won't." Roy seemed satisfied with her answer so she laid down and pulled the sheets back over her again. She yawned and fell asleep with him looking over her.
Kat opened her eyes slowly and found a certain dark-haired someone laying with their head on her stomach, asleep. She stroked his soft (A/N- get your minds out of the gutter!) hair with her left hand and waited for him to wake up. After a few moment he opened his eyes and blinked before sitting up. He looked like he was going to say something when the door swung open, Ed and Al falling in on top of each other. Kat and Roy both narrowed their eyes at the camera in Ed's hand. 'For the love o'... grrr. Annoying brats.' Thought Kat as Roy strode over to the two blushing teens. He tried to snatch the camera away from Ed but the blonde hugged the camera to his chest and sprinted off down the hallway. Roy groaned and followed him as quickly as he could while yelling inappropriate things about the chibi alchemist. Al didn't follow the two, but instead stood and walked over to where Kat lay. He looked directly into her red eyes.
"Thank you so much for doing this for us. Now Brother doesn't have to worry about the philosophers stone anymore. He's so happy now. And now Elysia won't have to grow up without a father. But I can't help but wonder...why you helped us." Al stated quietly. Kat stared at him for a little while before replying hesitantly,
"I'm not sure why I did it either. Maybe it was the tears of a child. Or the shear amount of pain and love surrounding all of you. Whatever it was... I don't regret doing what I did" Al smiled and walked out while a doctor walked in. The doctor smiled at her and held out a clipboard to her,
"As soon as you sign a few papers you will be released." Kat nodded and took the clipboard.
/\/\/\/\:20 minuets later/\/\/\/\:
Kat sighed. After she had sighed about 10 different papers the, Elrics and some huge guy named Armstrong showed up and explained that there was a really good automail engineer in the Elrics hometown. Since she only had one leg and one arm crutches were out of the question. So Armstrong would accompany Kat and the Elrics to Rizenbul so that he could carry her over the long distances so that she wouldn't have to hop in public. She was wearing a long dark skirt and a tank top with a black cape over top of all of it. She was in Armstong's arms, Armstrong and the Elrics were making their way to the train station quietly. Well, Kat was quiet, Armstrong, Ed, and Al were chatting away like a bunch of birds. Kat took no notice of the strange looks they were getting. She figured on the odd glances and flat out stares so they didn't really affect her. They reached the station and sat Armstrong sat her on one of the benches. Since it was around 9:30 at night there weren't a lot of people there. Armstrong left to get them tickets while Ed sat by her and Al left to relieve himself. Ed was the first to speak,
"I've debated with myself on wether or not to ask you this and I decided that I have to know. Why didn't you restore my arm too?" Kat stared at a wall as she answered with,
"You gave up your arm willingly so that your brother's soul would stay on this earth. I could do nothing to bring it back. I'm sorry." Ed didn't say anything to that. They both sat in silence until Armstrong and Al came back to get them. Armstrong picked Kat up and they got aboard their train. They used up 4 benches. Armstrong sat across from Kat, who had her leg stretched across her seat. While Ed sat across from Al. The ride to Rizenbul was relatively quiet with no major occurrences. When they finaly arived at the little village they got off the train and Kat whispered something in Armstrong's ear. He nodded and walked to the door of one of the 'ladies rooms' He set her down so that she was balancing on one foot and she hopped through the door. A few minuets later she returned and Armstrong picked her back up, bridal style.
They walked the way to Winry's house and by the time they got there it was dark outside. (A/N- look, I don't know how long exactly it takes to get to Rizenbul, but bear with me.)Pinako opened the door and quickly ushered them in.
At some point during the trek to the automail engineer's house Kat had fallen asleep so Pinako told Armstrong to take her to one of the spare rooms while Ed and Al explained everything to Pinako and Winry.
!\!\!Dreamscape!\!\!
Kat was surrounded by swirling flames. She got a glimce of dark eyes before something wrapped its hands around her throat. She thrashed around trying to get the creature to release its hold but as hard as she tried it wouldn't let go. Suddenly there was a flash of red light and a rush of flames before she heard a voice.
"Katrina. Katrina.. Don't ever give up Katrina."
/\/\!End Dreamscape/\/\!
Katrina flew up in bed and with her hands around her throat as if trying to get someone's hands off her neck, but there was no threat there. She panted for breath before holding her head in her hands. She lay back down and tried to get back to sleep with that voice drifting in her head
"Don't ever give up Katrina."
(\/\/\/)TBC(\/\/\/)
So? Feed the author! Tell me what you think! Otherwise I won't update. Oh! I'm going to combine the chapters since when I originaly wrote this I was very, very tired (I was staying up all night to take care of a puppy) and the chapters weren't very long. Well, thats all for now
