A/N: Yeah... the chapters recently are a little on the skimpy side... sorry... it's actually becuase they just naturally break off where they do - I don't want to force a story thread togo on farther thanit should just so I can make the chapter longer... hope you don't mind!

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Chapter 5: "Alchemical Intuition"

"So, kid, are you ready?"

"Do I have a choice?"

"Well, no, but still, I thought I'd ask," Havoc chuckled. He was taking Trisha to the medical examination room; she had just gotten back her results on the written test that she had taken the day before – she had passed with flying colors, receiving on of the highest scores the military had seen in years.

"That really was amazing," Havoc told her. "After all, you got here the day before the exams started – it's not like you had time to study."

"Yeah, I know," she said. "I was kind of nervous about it, but when I took the test I was surprised about how much I knew without, well, knowing it."

"Care to swing that by me one more time?" Havoc asked, giving her a puzzled look.

"I don't know – I didn't know – I just – did, I mean…"

Havoc continued to look at her questioningly.

"Ok, let me start over – because alchemy is some kind of weird part of me – "

"Because of what your mom did…" Havoc offered, making sure he was getting the gist of the story so far.

"Right – because of that, there are things I know and can do that I shouldn't normally be able to – I don't know how, I just can. So like on that test, there were things I already knew, and things I knew without knowing – like it was subconscious."

"What, some kind of 'alchemical intuition?'"

"Yeah… exactly – it's an alchemical intuition," Trisha said as she slowly smiled, trying to hide her nervousness. Her stomach was fluttering and her face was pale and sweaty. She choked down the knot forming in her throat as she gripped the handle of the door leading in to the medical examination room, wondering how she was going to pull this next part off.

3more typed chapters to go! Please review! If you don't, you'll make me cry! Sniff! See, I'm crying! Ha! Oh, and let me know if anyone is OOC or if there are any passages that don't make sense. Thx! (NO flames, please! Unless they're from Roy! Lol!)