Walking in Shadow, Seeing the Light

Author's Note: YAY! I get to post another chapter for all you weird post hungry fans of mine! I love you all so much thank you for reading all the way through my lime! I like Limes more than Lemons…. LMAO! I was in a strange mood and I was listening to Dirty Little Secret while writing this if that tells you anything! HAH! If you couldn't tell from the title of said chapter.

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Summary: Past meets present the clash of a haunting past lingers overhead as the Elric brothers attempt to find peace. Can an angel who guards the gate help them discover the secrets of her past as well as theirs? EdxOC and AlxOC

… you are the beauty and color in this black and white world…"

Unknown

Chapter: Spite

"Hello, Hughes? It's Edward Elric… yeah…" Ed spoke quietly into the mouth piece. He was bandaged severely. His forehead and the left side of his face was burned and wrapped up. He had a bandage around his neck and wrapped around his upper left arm. His left wrist was wrapped tightly as well. His chest and stomach were bandaged severely, a small red stain appeared on the right side as he moved. His right calf was splinted and he walked with crutches.

"Hey Ed! What's up? I got some new pictures of Elisia- huh? Attacked? By Envy you say? But you said that he was dead… Alright I understand." Hughes covered the mouthpiece of the phone and looked over at Bloch, "HEY! Lt. Bloch! Look up the records we have on the visitors of the hotel named, "La Bleu" would you please?"

"Yessir!"

"Did you hear about Roy and Riza yet?" Hughes asked. Ed gave his response and Hughes explained, "They were found in the same bed yesterday morning…"

"WHAT? Get me as much information as you can Hughes!" Ed shouted then covered his mouth as he received a dirty look from one of the nurses.

"Alright, alright but if I get my head blow off I'm going to come back and haunt you." Hughes threatened jokingly. Ed chuckled darkly.

"Now I'm scared." He replied and Hughes mumbled something about taking care of himself and Ed hung up the phone. "How is she?" He asked the nurse. She shook her head and Ed pressed his face back against the glass. Asuna was lying in the ICU room, she was surrounded by machines and tubes and IV's. Her forehead was wrapped tightly with a bandage, her long swanlike neck was bandaged, all the way down her body long white bandages were wrapped, her lower arms were torn up while her upper arms were not bandaged and only carried a few cuts. Her left knee was wrapped up and her right thigh was bandaged. Her breathing was light and uneven. Her heartbeat was slow and irregular. Just standing there watching her Ed felt his heart jolt.

'Asuna please wake up soon.' Ed pleaded in his mind. 'I love you. Please don't die.' A flashback from the night before rocketed through his mind. He closed his eyes and pressed his forehead against the glass a little harder.

"Awwwe… now isn't that cute?" Ed heard an all too familiar voice and the two turned to see Envy standing in the corner of their room. Ed pulled Asuna closer to him and leaned on his right hand, his left around her waist, a look of sheer defiance on his face.

"Envy… I thought you were sealed away."

"Well you thought wrong didn't you?" Envy grinned. That look sent a slight tremble down Ed's spine. Envy was the one who had killed him in the first place. Ed stood up in the room, standing in front of her.

"Get out of here!" Ed snarled at Envy, he clapped his hands and formed a blade from his arm. Envy merely smirked as another figure dropped down next to him.

"Welcome to hell." Spite, the one from before muttered, standing beside Envy.

"Why hadn't I done something then?" Ed felt tears well up in his eyes. He banged his head against the glass and allowed tears to roll down his face. "Why had I let them stand there and talk! Why didn't I do something?" He tortured himself. Suddenly he felt a tug at his heart strings. Was it her? He looked up into the ICU and she was looking directly at him, her eyes spoke of pain that she didn't deserve. Pain that he wished with all his might that he could take away from her. Pain that he couldn't, not for all the alchemic power he possessed, not for all of the reputation he had he couldn't wash that pain from her, not for anything that he had, not for anything he could trade, not for anything that any human possessed on this Earth.

"Mr. Elric… Mr. Elric…" He felt a cool palm on his arm and he looked over to see a nurse. "I'll allow you to go in there, but only on one condition… please don't get too upset, it would only make her worse." Ed nodded and he was guided in.

"Hey." He whispered, crutching into the room, sitting down on a chair next to the bed. She smiled faintly.

"I created him." She spoke softly but loud enough for him to hear. He took a double take.

"You created who?" Then it struck him, the other homunculus that was with Envy, of course. He had a flashback of that red haired monster slashing violently at his right arm as he parried his blows.

"I created him, his name is Spite because I hated myself for what I did to him and the rest of my family. He's my baby brother. A year younger than me, those dreams you keep having, they're my memories. My memories of what had happened that night. I destroyed everything. I ruined so many people's lives and my humanity's what I sacrificed for that." She whispered. Ed felt a familiar feeling wash over him. She wasn't lying, from the way that tears rolled from her eyes, from the way that her hand clenched his tightly to the way that she buried her face in his chest and he cradled her broken body in his arms. He could tell that she had created that monster. "Caleb." She said softly through her tears. "Caleb."

Not that this bothered him any. He had created something just as dangerous. Something that now wanted to kill him. He knew what it felt like to have no one. To have nothing. To be alone. Now she wasn't alone, now she had him.

AAAAAWWWWE! The next chapter is all about Caleb. He's her brother by the way, you know, Spite. Now we know who Spite is and where he comes from. LMAO! Read on, the next chap should be up by… like………… Wednesday..

HUGZ 3

Ringo.