Disclaimer: I don't own it. I am merely messing around with the characters. I promise to put them back after I'm done with them. The only thing I own is Dani.

Chapter 8- Dreams

Dani woke in a chair. There was this really annoying light in her eyes. Not to mention she had a hell of a headache. And across the room seemed to be a shadowed figure.

"Well, well, well, we meet again." said the voice in the shadows.

"What do you want with me? And where is Edward? Are you part of the Uprising? Why have you killed so many of the military?" Dani asked quickly.

The figure approached her, Dani was scared now. She was vulnerable without her alchemy. The figure stepped into the light.

"Bro-brother?" Dani said. She couldn't believe it.

"You thought all of us were killed in that bandit raid didn't you, Dani? Didn't even bother to care to go looking for any of us did you?"

"The house was burned down! Momma's apron was hanging out of one of the windows! What else was I supposed to think?"

"I wasn't the only one who survived. After they took us to the bandit camp, we had to become a part of them. I honestly don't know how I kept my sanity. Maybe it was because I knew you were slowly loosing yours. I saw you that night, Dani. It was a year after Edward had died. I was living here in Central, this warehouse was my home. And I was awoken by this horrible red light. Next thing I know, some naked guy was walking out with my oldest sister. And I thought to myself 'What in the living hell?'"

Now she was confused, hurt, and still worried about Edward. Her brother was still alive? And he said 'us' which meant one of her other siblings had to be alive.

"Jacob, who else survived?" Dani asked.

"Why the hell would you want to know anyways? You hated us. And I remember everyday you'd ask Momma if you could go and live with the Rockbells, just to get away from us." the man, Jacob, said.

"I was young, Jacob. You have to realize it's hard for a teenaged girl to live with her younger siblings, I'm sorry I treated you and the others so badly." Dani said.

"You're just trying to get out of here aren't you, Dani? Trying to wiggle yourself free of danger. You always did." Jacob laughed.

"Jacob, what are you doing to our poor sister? Don't you hear her begging for your mercy? She's your sister, that's the least you can do to repay her for trying to put up with you." a female voice came from a door that Dani had not noticed was there.

"Marie? Is that you?" Dani said as the girl walked over and began to undo the ties around Dani's wrists, noticing the scars.

"Yes, sis, it's me." Marie said, more distracted by the scars on Dani's wrists. She traced them with her finger.

"Dani? What happened?" Marie asked.

Dani didn't feel like explaining to her little sister what had happened when she thought they were all dead.

"Are you all the only ones that survived?" Dani asked, avoiding Marie's question.

"Yeah. Jacob had to be big brother and protect me while we were at the bandit camp. Ever night they'd try to touch me, and he would protect me. We snuck out one night when they had been drinking. Oh Dani, it was awful!" Marie sobbed, putting her face into Dani's shoulder.

It was all too real. Things were going too good. Dani looked around for someone to jump out and say "Psyche!". Her vision was beginning to blur and she couldn't help but to fall asleep. She could hear her sister trying to wake her, until even her sister's voice faded out.

"Dani, dani, please wake up." said a voice that wasn't her sister's. Dani slowly opened her eyes to see Edward near her, tied up as well. 'Wait, when did I get tied up again?'.

"Edward? Edward! You're okay! Everything's going to be fine, my brother and sister are here and they're going to help us!" Dani said.

"Dani what are you talking about?" Edward said, fearing Dani had lost her mind.

"Before I fell unconcious, my brother had me tied to the chair and my sister came in and untied me. My brother was angry at me for not going to try to find them. My sister was really happy to see me." Dani said.

"Dani, you've been asleep this whole time." Edward said. "I didn't see your brother or sister anywhere."

"What?" Dani said, unbelieving.

"Dani, you were dreaming. One of the people from the Uprising had hit you in the head with a metal bar, you fell unconcious. I tried to wake you up, but..."

"Dreaming? No that can't be true, they're here and they're going to save us!" Dani said.

"Dani! Listen, I hate it, but your parents and siblings died in the fire from the bandits, we watched them. They didn't take any of your siblings or your parents." Edward said.

It was true. Dani had been dreaming the whole time. Inwardly she blamed herself for that night. She felt helpless as she watched from afar that night as they burned her house down. The doors were boarded so her family couldn't escape. Dani hung her head and closed her eyes. She sighed and looked up at Edward and put her mask back up.

"So, what are we dealing with here?" She asked.

Edward just looked at her and realized that she had accepted that it was only a dream.

"There's a big guy, standing gaurd on the other side of the door. And then there's this smaller guy, but he looks like he could still take on someone strong. I believe the only way we can get out of here is alchemy. Sadly they tied my arms just short of me being able to perform alchemy. But I think yours are tied closer together." said Edward.

He was right, she felt the metal of her other hand.

"My alchemy isn't like yours Edward. My arm doesn't transform into a big blade, but.." Dani trailed off and began to think.

"Edward, if I can make a strong enough magnet to get my dagger out of my pocket, I can cut us free." Dani said.

"Sounds like a plan, but how do you think you're going to make a magnet?" Edward said.

Before Dani could elaborate, the knob of the door began to move and turn and a large man about mid twenties entered the room.

"Well, well, well, look what we've got here. A bunch of spies for the military." the man said. He got close to Dani's face. "Do you know what I do to military spies?" Dani shook her head, trying to play the stupid route.

"Now, now, Dani, I know you know better than that. I'm going to give you a chance. You can either tell me what you did with the Philosopher's Stone, or I can make you tell me."

"I destroyed it." Dani said.

"How?" the man asked.

"What does it matter you bastard, it's gone and you're not going to get it!" Edward shouted.

"Hush, Ed!" Dani said in a loud whisper.

Before Edward could retaliate again, the larger man had kicked Edward, causing his chair to fall over. The man continued to hit and kick Edward.

"Stop it! Stop hitting him! He didn't do anything!" Dani yelled. The smaller man chuckled.

"Now, I do believe that that is enough persuasion, Dani?" the man said, a cue for the larger one to stop kicking and hitting Edward.

The men knew Dani's weak spot. Edward layed unconcious on the floor, blooded and bleeding badly. Dani was afraid that the man had killed him.

"Well, I'll give you some time to think about it, Dani."

Before the man could step back into the room, though, it seemed as if he was engulfed in fire. Before she knew it, Dani was surrounded by confusion.

"Come along, Miss Dani. We need to get you and Edward out of here." said a voice that she recognized as Riza's.

Quickly, Dani was untied, but pulled away from the fight. She didn't see Edward anywhere.

Like she was reading Dani's thought's, Riza said, "Edward's going to be fine, Dani. They pulled him out quicker than I untied you. Right now we need to get back to HQ and let Roy and the other's fight."

"But I don't know how many there are! What if that was their HQ? They could be killed Riza!" Dani exclaimed.

"They'll be fine." Riza said, getting into the car, motioning for Dani to do the same. As they were driving off, Dani saw Roy escourting the smaller man out to a police car.

Maybe Riza was right.

Once they were out of sight from the warehouse, Dani asked, "Riza, How did you know where we were, or even if we were in trouble?"

"Havoc and Fury followed you and Edward. Once they saw that you were captured, they went back to HQ for backup, no knowing how many there actually were." Riza answered.

Dani nodded.

"Where's Edward?" Dani asked.

"He looked pretty bad, Dani. I think he'll be in the infirmary when we get back to HQ." Riza said, her voice full of concern.

Dani just sighed.

A/N: Hey guys! Next chappie up as soon as I could. I hope you enjoyed it! Oh, maybe I didn't specify at the beginning of the fic. Constructive criticism is nice, but when I start getting comments on how it sucked and they didn't even leave me anything to work on, that gets a bit...angering. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Or in this case type. REVIEW!

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