-Jodie Age 20; Envy Age 21-
Three years had already gone by since Jodie and Envy came to Camp Peary. Training had taken it's toll on them and yet somehow they managed to pull through. They tasted the basics on surviving and hand to hand combat, and even training that had required them to use their powers; Even though half of the time, Envy went go and play hooky.
All of it was pretty much leading up to the end of their training period. Tomorrow was the final test, to see what they're training has build up too. To see if they were able to be a part of the CIA. This all they were prepared to do the moment they were bought here. That night Jodie had a hard time sleeping; she laid in bed and was reading one of her favorite books to take her mind off of it. She was nervous; she kept thinking to herself that she might just screw it up, and all the training she was put through would amount to nothing.
It wasn't long till she heard a banging sound at her window. Curious, she gotten out of her bed and went towards the window to see what was the source of all that banging. She opened and stuck her head out .
"Psst! Jodie!"
Jodie looked down and saw Envy standing there waving to her; turns out that he was throwing small rocks at her window to get her attention.
"Envy?" Jodie said, a bit surprised to see him, "What is it?"
"Come on outside, I wanna show you something." Envy said.
"Really? What is it?"
"Just come on okay?"
Jodie went ahead and met Envy outside, wondering what exactly he was up to now. He didn't really explain to her, why he wanted her to come out when it was way past curfew. She followed Envy up a flight of stairs on a steep hill that was on the other side of a fence; at that point she started to lose her breath.
"Envy!" She called out, "Hey, what is the big deal? Where are we going?"
"You'll see." Envy replied, "We're almost there anyway."
Eventually they had gotten to where they Envy had been leading her. Jodie had soon come to realize that they were on the top of a hill; the air was so clear and there wasn't even a single tree. She saw that there were a couple of chairs there; they were two recliner chairs and between them was a cooler.
"What is this?" Jodie asked him.
"I figured you would be nervous about tomorrow." Envy said, "So I thought you need to relax for a bit, after three years worth of training."
"Seems a bit cliche don't you think?"
"I like to be old fashioned. But the best part is just above you."
Jodie was confused what he meant by that. Envy sat on the recliner chair and motioned Jodie to sit right next to him. She complied and sat back in the recliner chair; she looked up and was in awe at the sight of it.
Never before in her life had she seen so many stars in the night sky. They all shined like diamonds and some of the stars from what she saw made shapes. She couldn't help but stare at the site of the many stars in the night sky.
"It really is a sight to behold isn't it?" Envy asked her.
"Yeah…" Jodie said, "Now I see why you liked to play hookie when it came to late night training."
Envy had explained to her, "I found out about this place around the time when we first arrived here. Now I come up here whenever I wanna clear my head, which is a lot. I figured you could use some of this too, by the look you had on your face tonight."
"I have a look?"
"You're pretty easy to read."
Envy took out a drink from the cooler which was a can of beer. "Wanna drink?" He asked her.
"Ah, what the hell." Jodie said. She took the beer from him and started to drink from it. At that point none of them didn't say anything to one another. They just sat back and enjoyed the view of the night sky. Sometimes they would point out shapes that would stand out the most to them; They really did enjoy it. All the while they couldn't help but think about the test tomorrow.
"So… What do you think?" Envy asked her, "Doesn't looking at this view make you forget the bad day you've been having?"
"It does." Jodie said with a smile, "It really does."
Envy twiddled his thumbs before asking, "...So are you nervous about tomorrow?
Jodie heaved out a sigh, "I… I am, a little bit. How about you?"
"I… I might be." Envy told her.
"I can tell that you're lying you know." Aiden said to him.
Envy couldn't help but groan; and looked over to the direction where he sensed Aiden's presence, "You know, sometimes I hate how you can do that."
Jodie on the other hand looked at him with disbelief. Envy noticed this, "What?"
"You of all people are nervous?" Jodie said with disbelief. Envy gave out a sigh and made a face to her, "Okay, so I might be a little nervous about tomorrow but, can you really blame me?"
"I guess not." Jodie said, "We've gone through so much to get where we are now. I really don't want to mess up in it."
"Yeah…" Envy said turning his attention back to the stars, "Seems like only yesterday, we were birds in a cage. But being here… Being trained to become an agent. I don't know what to call it now…"
Jodie gave him a look that was filled with confusion, "What do you mean?" She asked him.
Envy let out a sigh, "I mean… We didn't exactly come here for our free choosing. You and I didn't want to leave Nathan, Cole and-"
"And Emily?" Jodie finished for him.
Envy stopped himself from and clenched his fist. "Ye-yeah. And Emily." He said stuttering between his words, "And ever since we left we haven't had contact with any of them since we've been here. I mean… Don't get me wrong, I hated being in that place, I wanted to leave that place ever since I was first bought there, but us just being here… It feels like it's a prison you know?"
"Is that what you call it?" Jodie said a bit amused.
"It's well… Just my opinion." Envy said, rubbing the back of his head, "How about you? What do you feel about being in this place?"
Jodie sat herself up and she thought about it, "Honestly… I don't know what to think. I mean, sure I didn't want to leave everyone at the DPA in the first place but… Well, honestly I feel great about being out of there. For once, the guys here, our instructors aren't treating us like we're lab rats. To them, we're just regular people. Even Ryan opens to me once in awhile."
Envy couldn't help but groan at the mentioning of the name Ryan. Jodie was confused as to why.
"Is something the matter?" Jodie asked him.
Envy seemed to stutter when he replied, "Hmm, what? No, nothing is wrong. Really, nothing's wrong."
Jodie had a quizzical look on her face, as she took a closer look at him. Envy couldn't help but back up when her face was close to him. "Wha-What?"
Jodie let out a smile and couldn't help but laugh. "Hey, what?" Envy said to her, "What's so funny?"
"William Envy Elric!" Jodie said with a bit of sass, "Are you jealous?"
Envy turned a bit red, "What? Me jealous? Of course I'm not jealous! Really I'm not!" Envy let out a nervous laughter.
Jodie herself started to laugh again, this time at Envy's expression. "How ironic! You're jealous, and it's basically in your name!"
"Sh-Shut up!" Envy said nervously, "It's not like that! Really!"
"You're turning red." Aiden said.
"No I'm not!" He said to the entity.
Jodie added, "He can tell that you're lying you know."
"Don't remind me!"
The two kept on talking for awhile; Often Jodie would make Envy's face turn red, since she couldn't help but laugh at the expression he made on his face, as did Aiden. Eventually they had realized that it was getting late, so they headed back to the dorms; Envy escorted Jodie back to her dormitory. Before Jodie went inside the building she turned to Envy and said, "Hey… Thanks for tonight. It was… Well needed."
Envy smiled to her and said, "It's what family's for. See you tomorrow?"
Jodie nodded and waved; she entered the building and Envy went back to his dormitory for the night.
Jodie didn't expect to see her best friend tonight; honestly she expected him to be getting a good night's sleep for the final test tomorrow.
In truth, she was really happy to see him tonight. It made her forget all of the worries that she had for tomorrow.