Chapter 5: Next Morning
After the long night talking to Havoc, Riza felt a little more relieved because she told someone. She remembered jean saying
-Flash Back-
"You love him don't you?"
"We cannot feel that way towards each other, if the Fuhrer found out, I don't know what would happen." Riza replied in a calm voice.
"Sir, its ok to love" Havoc said in a worried voice as if he thought she never been in love before.
"Think about it, if you didn't then you would have taken Greed instead of him." Havoc said while putting out his cigarette.
With the little bit of smoke that danced away form the bud after it was put out faded away Riza started to think to her self.
"How would I tell him…" Riza said in almost a whisper.
"I don't know Sir, that's for me to learn and you to find out" Havoc said getting up from the chair he was in.
"But remember Riza, not everything has to revolve around the Military" Havoc said while starting to put his back to her and walking towards the door.
"But your not the one with your Grandfather in the military and a father that taught the Colonel everything he knows" Riza said smartly.
"Good night Sir, see you later on today" Havoc said with a smile then slowly shutting the door and walking away.
"After all these years I stood by him, I'd take the blame. I'd push him in Hughes's place" Riza whispered to herself then lying down and slowly falling asleep.
-End Flash Back-
The sunrises light shun through her 6 windows letting in a soft orange light. The light made a warm blanket on her bare skin. The walls were a champagne tan colour with dark brown trimming. The floor was also the same tanned colour but in marble. Riza didn't notice any of this when she first got there but not that she was awake and looking around she couldn't believe how beautiful everything was. She realized she was in a king size bed with big fluffy converters that were a deep yellow colour and on top of the bed was light green netting that released form the sealing and fell around 4 polls at the corners of the bed. The sealing its self was also marble. She noticed that all the furniture was a deep brown colour with angel faces carved into them. In the middle of the sealing in her room was a great chandelier that was a crystal and very detailed.
Riza looked over and checked the time it was about 8:30 "wow can't believe I slept in that late. And in my uniform as well" Riza looked at her self and back at the clock then got up from her bed. "I guess I got time to kill" Riza went to the bathroom and turned on the shower taps. She stepped away and looked at herself in the mirror. She undressed form her jacket and uniform pants and neatly folded them on the clothes stand beside her and took her hairclip out and let her long golden yellow hair hang straight. Looking again in the mirror she saw all the scares that were on her chest and her arms. In a why she was really depressed because there was so many and because it takes a long while for them to heal. Before she could take off her shirt and undergarments there was a knock at the door.
She grabbed her pants and threw them back on and went to the door opening it a few inches. "Yes?" Riza asked.
"Good Morning Miss. I have your clothes here for you," the lady said in a cheery voice.
Riza examined the young girl and she looked to be 15 or younger.
"Clothes? How did..." Riza tried to say them was cut off.
"There were in your bag, we took them and cleaned them for you." The Lady said with a cheery voice.
"You were in here? When I didn't leave my bag anywhere" Riza said getting a little angry at the maid.
In Riza's world it was rude to be in someone's room snooping around while they lay sleeping and even ruder to take things out with out permission.
"I'm sorry miss. You see it's my first day and all and I was instructed to grab them" the maid said with a little more nervousness.
Riza looked over and noticed her beg was unzipped.
"I'm sorry miss. It wont happen again" the Maid bowed and walked away.
"Umm excuse me, Wind. is she still here?" Riza called out.
"Wind? Umm miss I don't recall hearing about a wind here. I'm sorry. You should ask one of the other maids I'm sure they would have herd of her" the maid bowed again and went on her way.
Riza closed the door and locked it then went back into the bathroom to continue on with her shower.
Around the same time Riza went to take a shower Roy was also just waking up. He slowly got out of his bed and stretched. He also slept in his uniform and pealed his jacket off of himself. He hung it on a chair that was next to a table on the table was a crystal glass ¼ full of the usual stuff he used to drink at that bar with Hughes. After he finished un buttoning the first 4 buttons on his shirt to revile his chest, he picked the glass up and poured the rest out in a near by sink he to noticed his room for the first time.
Roy's Room has a flame warmth look to it. The floor was a royal red and the walls were a crimson red. The furniture was rose wood. He had a balcony at opposite end of the room where he walked in. beside the balcony there were 3 windows on both sides. The ones in the middle were both stained glass, which were in a shape of a red fire rose. The sealing was the same colour as the carpet but a little lighter which was a royal red. His room mainly had candles sticks instead of lamps. His bed, which stood in the far corner of his room, was also a royal red with multi colour red for pillows.
As he rubbed his eyes and walked to the balcony doors. He unlocked both doors and opened them totally forgetting that it was still winter. The cool air flushed past him like a summer breeze and a small chill came on him. It seemed warmer then winter and there was very little snow on the balcony. As he stepped forward and went to the edge of the balcony he realized he was at the back of the house because the garden was in front of him. He stood and watched as he saw a few maids start dressing the trees and clearing the snow away. "I guess it's for that party thing tonight. Strange why have it out there?" Roy said to himself. He stretched again in the sunlight and heard a knock at his door. Slowly turning and walking back inside his room then locking the doors to the balcony, he went to answer the door.
"Good Morning Sir" Armstrong said in a solute.
Armstrong was dressed out of uniform. He was in a blue sweater with white baggy slacks.
"Good Morning Armstrong, But please no formalities right now were not on duty" Roy said leaving the door open and walked back inside the room expecting Armstrong to follow.
As Armstrong followed he turned around to closed the door behind him. he also looked around Roy's room.
"Wow a beautiful room indeed" Armstrong said out loud.
"Yeah it is, so what do you need?" Roy said while sitting back on the chair near the table where it used to hold his drink.
"Nothing, Breda woke up bright and early just to get to eat the food here. Of course he waked Havoc and Falman and drags them down with him" Armstrong explained while taking a seat beside Roy.
"And Riza?" Roy said with out looking at Armstrong.
"I haven't herd form her yet. Mainly because I don't know what room she was in" Armstrong explained.
"She took them too late" Roy said in a little whisper.
"She took what?" Armstrong asked in a question.
"Its just something the doctor asked her to take. She isn't sleeping well, says she keeps having nightmares. But there not exactly sleeping pills" Roy explained.
"I see, it seems like you had a long night as well," Armstrong said looking at the liquor bottle beside him.
"Not something I want to talk about" Roy let out in a forceful yet calm way.
"Very well, lets head down stairs, better make sure Breda isn't making too much of a commotion" Armstrong said while getting up.
"I'll meat you down there I'm just going to get dressed" Roy said not moving.
"Alright then" Armstrong said while leaving his room.
"Oh Alex, take this with you down stairs. I might forget it" Roy said handing Armstrong the folder about the mission.
"Very Well," Armstrong said while taking he folder and leaving the room.
Once dressed in his usual white button up shirt and black slacks, Roy left his room and started to head down stairs. Still half asleep it almost seemed like he was walking with his eyes shut. With out noticing he tried to start going down the stairs when he bumped into someone with so much power it pushed them down and made them fall. Before they hit the floor Roy tried to grab their hand but to no use, with him losing his balance he fell onto of them and made a loud thud.
"I'm sorry… Riza?" Roy said snapping out of his sleep like walk.
And freezing in the moment with there noses almost touching.
"Good Morning to you to Sir" Riza said with a little nervous stutter.
With both of them starting to blush Roy got up and realized that Riza's hips were practically in-between his legs and his one hand was holding down one of hers.
"Umm, Sir can I get up now?" Riza said with a little more nervousness, not looking at Roy. Her cheeks started to get a deep rosy red.
"Did I come here at a bad time?" a voice said.
When Roy and Riza looked to their side Fuery was standing there in the corner observing nervously. Riza turned almost completely red same with Roy.
"Yes, (clears throat) Good Morning Fuery, Riza" Roy said trying to push the embarrassing moment out of his mind.
"Sir, your still on top of me…" Riza said with a whisper only Roy could hear.
Roy snapped back into reality and grabbed her Hand and pulled her back to her feet.
"Sorry about that" Roy said sheepishly.
He then stopped and noticed what Riza was wearing. Riza was wearing Brown corduroy pants with a forest green knit loose turtleneck. She was wearing that crystal necklace she had found previously. In the light is was shinning and complimented her hair, which she had down and was in a light curl around her chest. It grew longer since when Roy first met her. When they were kidnapped it was rather too dark to see or it was covered in blood and dirt. At that time he could only feel the length of her hair never really see what it looked like. After Riza finished striating herself out she looked up again and saw that Roy was looking at her
"Sir?" Riza said looking a little worried.
Roy shook his head. "Lets head down stairs. Everyone is waiting for us," Roy said while stepping away form Riza. Riza who still was blushing followed him down the stairs with Fuery behind them.
When Riza, Fuery and Roy finally made it into the Dinning area they both herd some loud sneezing.
"Havoc what's wrong?" Roy asked while taking a seat.
"Sorry sir, it seems these people love their Pine trees. And I happen to be allergic to them." Havoc replied with a stuffed up nose.
"Ask the maid for Medicine. I'm sure they should have some." Fuery said while sitting next to Roy.
"I already did they have to go get it in town so it will take a little bit. But at least they gave me some home remedies" Havoc Replied.
Falman and Armstrong who were sitting beside and across from Havoc were quietly drinking their coffee.
"What is the plan?" Falman asked.
While Roy was handed the file back form Armstrong, while Riza made her self-comfortable in the chair across from Roy. She to was drinking coffee like everyone ells and quietly listening for a command.
"Before we start where in the world is Breda?" Riza said with a glance around.
"He is gone to get his 10th dish" Havoc said while grabbing a tissue and blowing his nose.
Breda walked in carrying his plate full of food. "Good morning Sirs?" Breda said in a chipper mood.
"Morning Breda" Roy and Riza let out simultaneously.
"Ok now that everyone is here, lets get down to business. The Problem is that there is a ghost in this building, apparently it is in a figure of a young girl in her late 20's early 30's and is trying to harm people. Sources say she only comes out at night so that's the reasoning behind the staff leaving at 5 in the winter at 7 in the summer. There is about 38 hired help here alone, along with one new girl who was hired recently. The 10 original people who used to stay all night were attacked by this so called ghost," Roy read out loud.
"Attacked? How?" Armstrong asked.
"By having things been thrown at them, metal heating up to incredible degrees so they cant leave the room, some cases there was the girl her self who would come out and physically attack them" Falman explained.
"So if they saw her then they should be able to tell us what she looks like" Riza said while looking up from her coffee.
"That's what I thought but no they said that almost every time they would be attacked they would black out and her face would be hazy. But continuing on this ghost only attacked girls and new people that entered the house. But she leaves alone most guys as well as the caretaker and his family" Roy read on again.
"Is there any background information on this ghost?" Havoc asked while wiping his nose.
"Apparently 5 years ago the workers were experiencing something watching them and it got worse. Doesn't say too much more" Roy said while looking at the papers.
"Our mission is to say until Monday and figure out what's going on here and stop this 'ghost'." Roy said closing the file
"So in short terms unmask the ghost? Any bet it has something to do with alchemy, I remember Fullmetal going through something similar. But it was a guy trying to bring back his dead girl friend by putting her body in a doll" Fury stated.
"Yes, I also herd of that one to. I think it could be the same. We just need to figure out the history on the caretaker and this house," Armstrong said.
"We have 2 days and 2 nights. To figure out what's happening here. I want no mishaps everyone understand." Roy said in an angry and determined voice.
"Yes Sir" everyone replied.
"Question, what about that dance thing they're having tonight" Fuery asked.
"What about it? we need to find information so we're going to it." Roy replied.
" Alright Sir, but what do we do for today? The dance is at 7. That's 2 hours after the help leaves" Breda asked.
"Apparently they have help coming to stay until 12. So we don't have to worry about that but for today I guess we just look around the house. I want everyone in pairs. One will stay with wind or Andrew and ask questions. Everyone will have to go back to that room at a certain time and then they will switch up partners" Roy explained
"So we figure out who is partners with who by…?" Riza asked.
Roy gave a smile and replied "any one have a hat?"