A/N: Sorry for the long wait guys, I had such a busy weekend! Well here's the next chapter, hope you like!
Chapter: 3?
Authoress: Kitsune Kokoro
Disclaimer: Don't own FMA, just this plot.
"Blah" – Talking
'Blah' – Thoughts
Chapter Three (please read A/N at end of chapter)
Past
A beautiful woman of about 35 or so was sitting in her living room, knitting. She looked up as she heard the door to the kitchen open. She smiled lovingly when she saw her 18 year-old daughter, who smiled back.
"So how is Grandmother, Anna? I do hope she is well."
Anna laughed lightly and went and stood behind her mother, "Oh yes, Mama. Grandmother is in perfect health. She even has her eye on the local officer."
Marie smiled at what her daughter told her. "Well, I can't say I'm surprised. It's how she's always been."
Anna laughed and nodded then she turned towards the door. "I'm sorry Mama but I have to go meet with Marcus."
Marie frowned, "Again with that boy? I thought you stopped seeing him."
Anna shook her head, "No and I do not understand why you do not like him, Mama."
"It's not really him, it's his father."
"Mr. Fazeworth? I haven't really met him but Marc says he is a great scientist."
"Scientist? That explains it! Who would willingly work with potentially dangerous chemicals?"
"But he's the type of person who discovers new medicines for us."
"True but…he is just strange, Anna. I will not stop you from seeing that Fazeworth boy so long as you are wary around his father, understand?"
"Yes Mama, I understand. Thank you!" Anna turned quickly and ran outside.
With Marcus
A boy of 19 stood, watching as a girl came up to him and hugged him. He smiled and hugged her back.
"How was your trip up to your grandmothers?" He asked in his soft voice.
Anna smiled at him for remembering, "Good, I was happy yo see her again."
Marcus grinned, "And I'm happy to see you again…" With that he led her towards his house.
Two months later
Anna sat in the living room as her mother showed the doctor out. As soon as her mother came back she started yelling at Anna, who began to cry.
"How could you get pregnant at such a young age! And even out of wedlock! What were you thinking? Did you want to throw your life away!" Marie screamed at her newly-discovered pregnant daughter.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking." Anna looked up at her mother in deep sorrow.
"That's right, you weren't thinking. Now, what are we going to do? We can't afford this child."
"Maybe Marcus will help. After all, it is his." Anna looked down at her stomach as she said the last bit.
"Yes, maybe. I'll go ask, you stay here and rest." Her mother turned around and left to go talk to the Fazeworths.
At the Fazeworths
Marie shivered as she stepped up to the giant laboratory. It was pretty high up so the temperature was low, even more so because it was getting dark.
"Why would you want to live up here?" Marie asked herself before knocking.
Knock! Knock!
"Hello? Mr. Fazeworth? It's Marie Cullington, Anna's mother. I was wondering if I could talk to you." Marie stepped back in shock as the door swung open quickly and silently. In the doorway stood a man with extremely good looks.
"Ah, Ms. Cullington, I've been expecting you for two months now, a little late I see…" Mr. Fazeworth said in a quiet voice similar to Marcus', it sounded as if they never raised their voice.
"Uh…yes…but I was wondering if I could talk to you about Anna's condition…"
"But of course. Come in, come in!" He stood back to let Marie in. She walked in quickly and then turned around to face him so he could lead her wherever they were going to talk.
As he closed the door and instinctually locked it, he turned and smiled mysteriously at her. Marie smiled back nervously and followed him to the living room.
"So…what must we discuss?"
"As I'm sure you know Anna has gotten impregnated by your son, Marcus."
Mr. Fazeworth nodded, "Yes and it is such a shame, they are both so…young."
Marie nodded in agreement, "Yes, my thoughts exactly. But since it has happened and Anna and I can't afford the child on our own I was wondering if you could help somehow."
Mr. Fazeworth sat down on a chair and looked thoughtful. After 10 minutes he nodded to himself as if he decided on something.
"I have a plan but I cannot tell you. It will take time so come back to me when the child is born. Also, bring the child with you."
Marie expressed her thanks and left, saying she would be back when Anna's baby was born.
As soon as the door closed behind Marie, Mr. Fazeworth sneered and called out for his son.
"Yes, Father?"
Mr. Fazeworth smirked at Marcus, "We have a plan to perfect. Come, let us go to the experiment room."
9 months later (my, how time flies!)
Marie smiled at her slumbering daughter who held a sleeping baby in her arms. She silently and gently slipped the baby out of her daughter's arms and made sure it was wrapped up tight.
As she made her way up the mountain to Mr. Fazeworth's lab something was telling her to turn around. She ignored the feeling and kept going.
When she reached the lab she raised her hand to knock but the door swung open, much like the first time she was there, and there stood Mr. Fazeworth with a big grin on his face.
"Hello my dear, how have you been? You look wonderful!"
Marie blushed but managed to say, "Good and you?" without much difficulty.
"Ah, my son and I have waited with baited breath these past months for this child." He looked at the baby in Marie's arms and asked if he could hold her. Marie hesitated but eventually gave him the child.
'After all, he's not what I thought he'd be like' She thought.
Mr. Fazeworth looked at the child with joy in his eyes. "Oh! I'm sorry! Please excuse me for my lack of manners. Would you like to come in and sit by the fire?"
Marie blushed again for some unknown reason. She nodded and walked in and followed behind while he led her to the living room. He sat the baby down on a cushioned chair and turned to Marie.
"Would you like some tea?" Marie nodded again, "Could you help me possibly? I just got a new stove and I'm not quite sure how to work it. Pathetic really, I'm a scientist and I can't even figure out my stove."
Again, Marie nodded and followed him, this time to the kitchen. 'If I don't stop nodding my head Mr. Fazeworth is going to think I am an airhead!' She thought.
"Oh, but what about Claire?"
Mr. Fazeworth stopped and looked at her, "Who?"
"Claire. The child, Anna named her Claire."
"Oh…that's…cute." He turned quickly and continued towards the kitchen, "She'll be fine. I'll have Marcus watch her." He called for Marcus to go to the living room then swung open the door to the kitchen.
Living Room
Marcus watched as his father 'called' for him. He smirked when he saw that Marie had fallen for the trick. He quickly went into the room where Claire laid. He took out a syringe and easily took some of the child's blood. He ran out of the room when she started crying. He hurried to the lab, set up the necessary items and equipment, then put the blood into a tube, and did the test. When he saw the results he sighed and left.
With Marie and Mr. Fazeworth
Mr. Fazeworth turned and leaned against the counter as he gazed at Marie. She was looking around the room in quiet interest.
"So how is Anna?" He asked, not really caring but trying to occupy Marie's mind so she would be momentarily distracted.
"Oh, she is fine. Tired but happy. I'm glad because the two of us have been at odds lately. She was mad that I scolded her about having a child at a young age when I, myself, had Anna when I was 17. The whole town knew we were fighting. But we made up after she had Claire. Then she fell asleep." She went back to observing.
"Good to know…" He inwardly smiled when he heard the news and then smiled even more when he heard Claire's cry.
Marie looked around, startled. "Is that Claire? What's going on? Why is she crying?" She rushed back to the living room, Mr. Fazeworth at her heels.
She saw Claire crying with a cut on her arm. Marie scuttled over to her.
"Oh…what happened? Poor baby…" (A/N: my mom always use to say that when I got hurt…) Mr. Fazeworth rolled his eyes at her actions and looked at Marcus as he came hurrying in.
"Marcus! You were supposed to be here to watch your daughter!" Marcus looked sheepishly at his father.
"Sorry, I was caught up in a novel and ran down when I heard her crying."
Mr. Fazeworth looked at his son, "Alright…so…is it?"
Marie looked up from Claire to Mr. Fazeworth then to Marcus.
"Is what it?" Marcus ignored Marie and shook his head. Mr. Fazeworth cursed under his breath and turned to Marie.
"Sorry dear but our meeting must end right now." Marie, suddenly getting a strong sense of fear, got up with Claire clutched tightly in her grasp. She headed to the door until Marcus blocked her way with a sinister smirk. Thoroughly frightened she turned to Mr. Fazeworth and gasped as she saw him with a sharp butcher's knife in his hand.
"W-what are you doing? Let me out! I have to get back to Anna!"
"Don't worry about her…" Marie let out a shriek as Mr. Fazeworth stabbed her but it was silenced by Marcus' hand.
Both men watched as Marie's lifeless body fell to the ground. Mr. Fazeworth quickly killed Claire as well. He smiled at his son.
"Come…we must put them in their proper graves."
The two covered and picked up the bodies then headed out of the house/lab.
Anna
'How dare she take my newborn child without my permission?' Anna thought as she angrily burst into her house. She had woken up to discover her mother and child gone. When the nurse told her that her mother had left with the child she screamed out curses towards her mother and rushed out.
At the sight that welcomed her home Anna let out a piercing scream.
No one
The officer ran into the house that people were reporting about. Supposedly there was a scream then crying. He stopped when he saw Anna Cullington clutching onto a dead baby. She kept muttering 'my baby, my baby'. He sighed and headed out to get back up. Later, after investigating, he found out Anna had left the hospital in a fierce anger. He, and the rest of the town, concluded that Anna, after discovering her mother had taken her child home to rest, had brutally murdered her mother and, on accident, her child. The police ordered her dead. When she heard, Anna took off running to get away; ultimately she trapped herself in an alley and was killed there and then. She died, still clutching her dead child's motionless corpse. Strange enough her body glowed with a bright red light and a strange symbol. The body never eroded, it always stayed right there in the alley.
End Past
Ed, Roy, and Al all let out a gasp as they felt like they were dropped from the sky.
"What…the fuck...was that?" Ed asked while throwing himself away from the body.
"I think it was the past…but how?" Roy said, contemplating.
Al stepped forward and looked at the body. "So this is Anna? She was mistakenly killed but her body won't erode away…"
They all jumped when they heard a loud bang. They ran out of the alley to see the laboratory lit up, standing out against the darkening sky.
"That's not supposed to happen…" Ed muttered.
Roy frowned, "Come on. We have to go up there." He started again towards the mountain.
Ed's jaw dropped open but he found himself following anyway, Al right behind him.
From the lab a man was watching the trio head closer. "That's right…come to me Edward Elric…"
TBC
Whew! That was a longer chapter! Hope you all enjoyed it.
Previous Chapter: I noticed I put:
"Brother! Something is strange! I can hear it! I can hear the noise!" Al was screaming to his brother.
And I was thinking about that…of course Al can hear…how does he answer Ed! So, that was a stupid mistake on part. It should've been:
"Brother! Something is strange! I can feel it! I can feel the noise!" Al was screaming to his brother.
Yes, it should have been feel not hear. Just wanted to clear that up.
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Kitsune.
