"My, my, my. I'm impressed you managed to hold things together this long without any subjugation abilities."
The inhuman voice echoed around her.
Amara's eyes blinked open to find she was once again in the familiar white space with the door and the annoying little white creature known as Truth.
"Dammit all! Why'd you yank me back here?!" Envy demanded.
Amara felt a surge of anger as she realized the homunculus was standing next to her in his usual form. She turned and shoved him forcefully. He staggered back a step in surprise, clearly taken off guard.
"You stupid idiot!" She hissed.
"What the hell ginger brain?" He raised his hands defensively.
"How could you do something like that?!" She cried, outraged.
Envy rolled his eyes. "I wasn't going to hurt her."
"You would have destroyed my entire apartment!"
"Oh… didn't think of that..."
"Ugh." Amara raked a hand through her hair.
"Well. You two seemed to have formed a wonderful, warm and fuzzy friendship. I'm almost reluctant to break you up, seeing how sweet you are together," Truth spoke up dryly.
Amara turned a bewildered expression on him. "Excuse me?"
"In all seriousness, the two of you have managed far better than I expected. I'm rather glad I chose to give him to you for a while."
"Great, so you stuck me with him just long enough for me to fail my exam?"
"Yes," Truth replied frankly.
The coppertop's eyes widened. "You mean you did that intentionally?"
"Its good for you humans to fail every now and then. Keeps you humble."
"You've got to be kidding me!" She balled her hands into fists.
"And it also serves to bring you back to reality. Your worst case scenario happened. Do you really feel like dying over it?" If Truth had eyebrows, Amara had the feeling one of them would have been raised.
She dropped her gaze to glare at the ground. "…well…no…"
"That's what I thought. Now that the course is over, do yourself a favor and don't subject yourself to another one. Go take something you actually like."
"Yeah, well, my dad will probably make me move back in with him now," she grumbled.
"No he won't. He's a little…preoccupied at the moment…"
Amara glanced up at the creature in surprise before her eyes narrowed. "What do you mean?"
"You aren't the only one that needed tuning up you know," it told her bluntly.
Amara's mind reeled with the implications suddenly bombarding her. The bizarre texts she'd been getting…did that mean…?
"What the hell are you saying?" her voice had gone a little hoarse.
Truth shrugged carelessly. "I gave him some company. You may find him a little more attentive in the future."
Amara felt a very unpleasant sinking feeling in her chest. She had a very bad feeling she knew what the creature meant by 'company." And if it was anything like the company it had dumped into her own life…
"Who?" she demanded, a hard edge to her voice.
"Well the younger teen version of Edward was complaining about having nothing to do once his older self took over the role in the story," it explained.
"You gave my dad Edward?!" she demanded in disbelief.
"Indeed. And Pride."
"WHAT?!" She shrieked, eyes widening further.
"He was getting a little too snobbish for my tastes."
"You're telling me my father is saddled with both Edward Elric and Selim Bradley the evil homunculus?" she demanded, voice quivering with barely controlled, horrified anger.
"Yes. I believe he's finding it challenging managing them and his job. Perhaps you'd like to help him now that your course is finished?" it suggested helpfully.
"You have got to be fucking kidding me!"
"My, my, you really did rub off on her Envy," the Truth turned a gland look on Envy.
Amara glanced briefly at the palm-tree in question and found him grinning from ear to ear at her predicament.
"Well you can't really blame her," he drawled. "The pipsqueak and father's creepiest little child? You're even crueler than me."
Amara rolled her eyes at his tone. A feeling of urgency had settled over her. "Alright, let me go. I've got to go help him before they get loose and destroy the world," she grumbled.
"I knew I could count on you Amara," Truth sounded ever so slightly smug.
"Don't push your luck!" She growled, glaring blackly at it.
"And if you need a hand, I'll send Envy back. I'm sure he'd be more than happy to help you keep the two of them in line. Especially if he starts getting rambunctious again," it replied reassuringly.
Envy's grin disappeared and his expression grew guarded.
"Why does that sound like a threat?" he asked, narrowing his eyes at the white humanoid.
It grinned alarmingly. "What, don't feel like helping out your new friend?"
"Friend? The ginger brain? Hell no," Envy retorted, appearing ever so slightly perturbed at the idea of being sent back to babysit the two boys.
"Ugh. I hate both of you," Amara muttered. As her vision began to grow blurry she saw Envy smirk.
"Goodluuuuck," his sing-song voice called after her.
"I'll be checking in on your later. As before, do try not to die. You're turning out to be more useful than I expected," Truth's voice echoed around her as everything faded to black.
A/N
One more chapter guys. ;)