Chapter 3 - Getting to know you

After finally leaving Mustang's office, Katrina and the brothers had all decided to go ahead and get her room together. Well after fighting a bit with Ed about what kind of room she wanted of course.

Katrina sighed to herself as she walked towards her new bedroom and started pulling out the keys, and began unlocking her door.

After, unlocking it, she banged the door open, with old habits, and pulled her bag over her shoulder tightly and started walking into the little room which was now hers. The brothers room was right beside hers, so thankfully she didn't have to share a room with them.

Katrina started walking on farther into the room to come across a small couch in the middle, and a small bed to the side of the corner, with a little kitchen and bathroom on the other side of the room.

She lifted her eyebrow to the small room, and looked around.

"Ugh, you actually call this a bedroom? Looks more like an out house to me." Katrina said sighing as she started throwing her bag onto her bed, and then sat down beside it and leaned against it as she continued looking around.

"You have so got to be kidding me. I have to stay in this dump? Just perfect." Katrina said, sighing once more as she crossed both of her arms and legs, and looked down at the floor.

Katrina sat there, quiet for a moment with her eyes closed, trying to focus on the mission sje had to do with the Elrics.

'Ok so far, it's gone pretty easy. Thanks to Pride I have them as my new partners. But maybe I could mess around with their heads for a while. I have some time to do that. So all of this should be actually pretty easy---not to mention fun when screwing around with their heads. Ha! I can't believe all the others actually had such a hard time with these two! They look nothing, but a couple of wimps! Esepcially that one Al guy! He should be easy to take down first!' Katrina thought smirking to herself.

But her thoughts were quickly interuppted by a small knock on the door.

Katrina sighed upon hearing it, hating the fact that her thoughts were interuppted, and turned towards her door.

"Ugh you can come in!" She called out leaning back on her bed with her hands supporting her.

A few moments later, she quickly saw the door slowly open to reveal Ed and Al.

"Yo! Uhhhh Katrina was it? Listen me and Al here are going to the market to get a few things for our missions later on. You wanna come?" Ed asked.

Katrina sighed and shrugged.

"I don't really care. I guess i'll go." She said, as she then started to stand up and dust herself off.

"Ok. Well come on then. Maybe on the way back we can catch something to eat." Ed said as he started turning around and walking on down the hallway, with a blushing Al walking beside him.

After watching them leave, Katrina sighed once more and looked back down at her backpack.

"Man. This is like gotta be the easiest mission yet. All I have to do is pretend to actually be those two brats friend and then kill them when they're not looking. Piece of cake." Katrina said smirking as she then started swinging your backpack over her shoulder and started heading towards the door.

After closing and locking her door, and doing everything else, she finally started making it down the hallway to see Ed and Al already waiting for her, by the exit.

Once hearing her footsteps the brothers both looked up to see her already in front of them.

Ed and Al both blinked a couple times then looked at each other, then sighed and shrugged as they then began to follow her.

As they all made it out, Katrina couldn't help, but walk slowly, and look around at everything that surrounded her. She watched how the sun shone down on everything and made everything glow, the birds singing through the trees as they made their homes, and how the gentle warm breeze blew across the city, making everything seem smooth. Oh how she hated it.

Katrina sighed and mumbled to herself about how stupid this was and crossed her arms as she continued walking.

But as she was walking, she suddenly started feeling someone watching her.

Katrina slowly turned her head back to see Al suddenly blushing and looking away from her quickly, as he started stuffing his hands into his pockets.

Katrina lifted an eyebrow up at him, wondering why he kept doing that, and was about to ask, untill she suddenly heard her name.

"Soooo Katrina. Tell us. You have any home or family anywhere here?" Ed asked looking down at her as they walked.

Katrina sighed and shook her head while looking back up.

"No. I'm a lone wolf, and I prefer to be that way thank you." She mumbled.

"Ok, just askin. Soooo you can do alchemy without a transmutation circle?"

"Yeah. You got a problem with it then deal with it."

"I never said I did. But how exactly can you do that without a circle?" Ed asked, still a little curious, as he lifted his eyebrow up at her.

"Don't know, don't care."

"Well surely you would of had to of wondered how---"

"No not really."

"Oh come on. You mean you never wondered why you were suddenly different from others when it came to alchemy because you couldn't use a transmutation like they had to?" Ed asked.

Katrina sighed now slightly getting annoyed with his questions about it.

"No! I never wondered nor did I ever care! All of it just means i'm different and I stand out! If your so freakin curious then why not go find out how yourself!" She shouted at him growling.

"Hey, hey! Chill! I was only asking! No reason to bite my head off about it." Ed mumbled crossing his arms as they soon made it to the market place.

"Well still. You should mind your own buiness and stay the hell away from mine! You got it? Or should I spell it out for ya?!" Katriuna shouted.

"Alright, alright!! God! I'll shut up if it'll make you that happy! Man you got attitude problems!" Ed said glaring at her.

She returned the glare and then snorted and turned back around.

'Ugh nevermind about what I said about the other dude. I think I may get rid of the annoying pipsqueak first.' Katrina thought growling.

As that was going on, Al was just walking behind Ed and Katrina quietly, while watching them both bicker on, and sighed to himself as he shook his head and continued to quicken his pace.

But soon after making it, Katrina quickly stopped, and started looking around the outside market and all the people in it, now feeling a bit of curiousity taking over her.

"Ok soooo where do we go now?" Katrina asked turning her head towards them.

"Well we have some time, so why don't we all just go ahead and get our shopping done first and then we could go ahead and grab something to eat and get to know each other for a while? Then maybe go for a short walk around the town that way Katrina could get to know the city a bit more." Al suggested, blushing a little as he looked up towards her.

Katrina and Ed both sighed and shrugged while turning around.

"I guess it couldn't hurt. Come on. We have a few things to pick up for our mission, that bastard said we had later." Ed said sighing once more, as he started walking on down the sidewalk.

Katrina lifted her eyebrow at him for a second.

"Bastard? You mean whats his face, with the black hair?" She asked looking back at Al.

He blushed whenever she did, and looked down as he started walking again.

"Uhhh y-yeah. Brother says that alot about him---" He said nervously while stuffing his hands into his pockets again.

"Uh-huh---right---" Katrina said sighing as she then started following Ed and Al on down the sidewalk and towards a few stores, while waiting for this long day to be over with.

Pretty much for a very long while of shopping around for supplies for their new missions, they had finally decided to stop somewhere and get something to eat before heading back to Central building.

As they walked into a dumpy old diner, Katrina couldn't help, but frown at the place. Seeing it all dumpy kinda reminded her of her old room back at her little castle place with the other humunculi.

But she only sighed and shook it off as she started following the boys towards an empty table in the far back.

Katrina sat down by the window quickly, before Ed could, which made him grow at her. But she only gave a yawn and leaned back into her seat as she watched Al sit across from jer and Ed sit down beside him.

After, they then picked up their menu's and started looking on down the colum to see what there was.

'Ugh. There isn't nothing, but crap in this stupid thing. How the hell do these pathetic humans actually eat this crap?' Katrina thought.

"Ugh, what exactly is all this?" Katrina asked, lifting an eyebrow up at the brothers.

Ed and Al, stopped what they were doing and looked up at her.

"What exactly is what?" Al asked.

"This crap. Don't you guys have anything else besides this junk?" Katrina asked, snorting as she placed her menu down and folded her arms across her chest.

Ed sighed.

"No, afraid not. Besides, of you don't like it tuff. Looks like you'll just have to starve to death then." He muttered looking back down at his menu.

"Brother." Al said sighing, while nudging him in the side.

"Ouch---Al!" Ed said loudly while rubbing his side, glaring at his younger brother.

Al, just returned the glare and shook his head.

"Be nice. Now. Ummmm K-Katrina---was it?" Al asked, blushing as he looked back up at her.

"Yeah?" She asked looking up at him.

"Uhhh--soooo w-what would you like to drink? You t-thirsty?" He asked nervously, while trying hard not to blush in front of her.

"Yeah I guess." Katrina said sighing.

"Oh, well would you like some tea or water or maybe some nice cold soda?" Al asked smiling sweety at her. ((I don't know if there actually was soda back then, but who cares, it's gonna be in my story.))

Katrina shrugged.

"Soda. Can't stand tea, and I only drink a certain kind of water." She mumbled, leaning back and yawning.

"Ok. What kind of water? And what kind of food would you like to have?" Al asked nodding.

"Well it's just a certain kind that I know you hum---kind of people wouldn't like, and i'll just have whatever comes my way." She said shrugging, while turning her head towards the window.

Al smiled and nodded.

"Ok---" He said, blushing as he started gazing at her.

As he did, he suddenly started feeling his heart pounding fast into his chest and his stomach suddenly go into knots and he had no idea to why he felt this way as he gazed at her.

He sighed to himself, still blushing as he continued to gaze at her, his eyes lowering a bit. But soon, he was quickly brought out of his gaze by Ed's sudden voice beside him. He shook his head, upon hearing him and blushed a bit more while looking up at him.

"Sooooo Crystal---"

"It's Katrina, blondie."

"----Riiiiight. Sooooo how old are you?" Ed asked, his eyebrows furrowing.

"I'm seventeen, duh." Katrina said looking up at him and Al.

"Ok. So you can do alchemy by controling water molicules?" Ed asked.

"Yeah pretty much."

"Interesting. So why exactly did you want to become a dog of the state anyway?"

"I have my reasons, and they don't involve you." She said glaring at him, as he was annoying her with his sudden questions.

"Ugh, I was only asking. Besides, don't you have a family or something back home that misses your butt or something?" Ed asked sighing.

Katrina also sighed and leaned back against her seat and looked away.

"I don't have a family." She said simply.

Ed and Al quickly looked up at her, now feeling as if they shouldn't have asked that questioned.

"Oh---we're sorry to hear that." Al said quietly while looking at Katrina, sympathetically.

"Whatever. Like it matters. Besides, I think i'm better off with no family. No one holds me back from doing what I please so who wants a sniveling little family when I got all I want right here." She said shrugging.Ed and Al looked at her, both lifting their eyebrows.

"Ummmm ooooook. Sooooo where did you come from?" Al asked changing the subject.

Katrina sighed and shrugged.

"Just some place. I don't really have a home. I just travel from place to place really. I'm more of what you call a drifter. I don't stay in one place forever. I move on and just find somewhere else to go."

"Really? Cool! So what kind of places have you been to?" Al asked, smiling.

"Alot. Can't remember much. Actually I don't really remember anything at all." She said sighing.

"Oh. So you don't remember where you once lived when you were little?" Ed questioned.

She shook her head.

"No. Nor do I care. All I really care about is whats happening now. I don't look back on the past. But, like it matters. Not like I can actually remember what happened anyway, so whats the point." She said, as she started grabbing a hot roll from the basket, that the waiter had just brought out.

"Oh. Well thats sad Katrina. We're sorry to hear that. You know, we kinda do share some simularites. Like me and brother also not really having a family. I mean we kinda do, but not really blood relat---ow!" Al yelped, as he quickly started rubbing the side to where Ed had punched him at.

"Brother---" Al mumbled, glaring up at him.

Ed glared back.

"Ugh, don't tell her that Al! It's none of her buiness about our past!" Ed shouted.

"Well I was only being nice!" Al shouted back.

"Still! Your telling some girl we just met, our past, which really isn't her buiness!" He shouted, growling.

"Well I think we can trust her, brother!"

"Ugh, yeah right! We just freakin met her Al!"

"So!"

"So?! Al we hardly know anything about her! Yet your already telling her information she doesn't need to know!"

"Well she's your new partner shouldn't she know some things about us, like we should about her?!"

"Ugh, will you both shut up!!!!!!!!!" Katrina shouted loudly, quickly breaking Ed and Al's little argument.

Both of the brothers quickly started shutting up whenever hearing Katrina's sudden outburst, and looked up at her.

"Finally!!! Now listen! We just now freakin met, and I don't freakin care about your stupid fucking lives, you got that?! If it will make you both shut up, then how about we all just not say anything about our past lives ok?! Geese!" Katrina shouted annoyed.

Ed and Al looked at her, blinking, as they then looked at each other then back at Katrina, and quickly nodded.

"Uhhhh ok---" They both said as they started calming down a bit.

Katrina sighed.

"Ugh thank you! Now if you don't mind, our food is here and I would like to eat in peace thank you!" She shouted, grabbing some french fries from her plate and started taking a bite out of them.

Ed and Al, both watched her for a second, before they both finally started to sigh a bit and slowly nod, as they then started to also pick up there food and start eating in silence, while waiting for this whole tiring day to be over.