Chapter 7- A Long Morning
Morning had finally came at last in Central, as it slowly started peaking up around the tall buildings of the city.
Katrina yawned and stretched lazily to herself, as she was slowly beginning to open her eyes, to check the surroundings around her. She still found yourself in the old central library, with Ed and Al still across from her, snoring away as they were leaning against the wall and against each other.
She blinked a few times, as she was trying to remember what had happened last night.
Sudden memories of the thiefs who had came last night flooded her mind, as she began sighing and mumbling to herself about something while sitting up.
"Ugh...damn. What a night." She said yawning, as she stretched her arms out. After doing so, she shook her head, trying to get her thoughts cleared about everything that happened last night, but as she was doing so, she suddenly also started hearing someone else's yawn. Katrina looked up to see Ed sitting up already, stretching and yawning loudly. She sighed, upon seeing him and leaned back against the wall she was once sleeping against. She watched as Ed stopped his stretching and yawning, till he finally looked down at her sleepily and blinked a few times before his sight had finally came into view.
"Oh...goodmorning Katrina. How long have you been up?" Ed asked looking up at her, as he leaned against the wall with his eyes closed.
"Just now got up." Katrina said simply, while yawning.
"Uh-huh...has anyone called or anything yet or notified us about the time their coming to get us?" Ed asked.
"What do you think pipsqueak?" Katrina asked, glaring at him. Ed glared back at what she had called him, but then sighed and turned his head away from her while using his human hand to scoot closer against the wall, as his other arm was still in pieces. Katrina watched him carefully as he did, and slowly travled her eyes towards where his metal arm use to be. She blinked a few times, now feeling curiousity take over, as she then looked back over towards Ed.
"Does it hurt?" Katrina questioned, making Ed look back up at her.
"What?"
"Your right arm dummy. Does it hurt?" She asked again.
Ed sighed. "No. I'm use to it, so of course it doesn't hurt. Just as long as it wasn't my left arm, i'm fine. Thanks for your concern though." He said looking up at her.
Katrina simply snorted and turned her head away.
"I only asked. That doesn't mean that I actually gave any care about what happens to your stupid limbs. I would of even cared less if he blew up your other body parts." She said simply.
Ed looked at her, blinking, before finally glaring at her.
"Ugh, you got one heck of an attitude problem, you know that?" He said.
"Yeah. You got a problem with it then I suggest you deal with it then. Now shut up, before I hurt you." Katrina said as she then started standing up on her legs, and began stretching them out.
Ed growled.
"Ugh, like I care. I'll talk whenever I feel like it!"
"Yeah? Well you know I can certainly take off that other arm of yours if I feel like it too." Katrina said glaring, while taking steps towards him.
"I'd like to see you try." Ed mumbled, also glaring.
"Oh well your about to." She said growling as she made it in front of him, and grabbed his left arm. Just as she was about to jerk it off, she and Ed suddenly heard a loud boom coming from the library entrance. They both quickly jumped at the sound and snapped their heads up to see a military people bursting through the door and running on into the building, carrying guns at their sides.
"What the..." Katrina and Ed both mumbled out loudly. Just as they both said that, they saw Riza, and Mustang running into the building, along with some of Mustang's military guys. "Fullmetal! Crystal! Alphonse! You guys still alive?" Mustang called out, whenever him and Riza quickly saw them in the library corner, staring up at them.
"Uhhh yeah..." Katrina said, lifting an eyebrow up at them.
"Thats a relief. Surely I thought that, that little theif had gotten you guys last night." Roy said, with a small smirk while looking down at them. Ed sighed and started mumbling.
"Yeah well as you can see we're all fine. And it wasn't just one theif either. There was two, but we already took care of them both, so you can go ahead and shut up about the whole thing." Ed grumbled.
"So there was two of them? I guess that explains the easy break in's and all the fast killings. Nice job once again Fullmetal. You guys can go ahead and head back to Central HQ, and get yourselves cleaned up and rested for your next few missions." He said.
"Ugh! Finally!" Ed said relieved as he soon started to stand up, wobbily, with his left arm supporting him against the wall, whenever he tried standing.
"Yeah, finally. Thought we'd never leave this dump." Katrina said sighing, as she then started walking towards the Library entrance doors. Ed began to follow you, but quickly stopped, almost forgetting his poor little brother, and turned around. "Oops. How could I forget." He said with a small smile while looking down at the still fast asleep Al.
"Yo, Katrina! Wait up would ya! We can't leave Al!" Ed shouted.
"Ugh, who gives a care! He'll wake up later and realize we've all gone back to the building! So move your tiny ass, and lets go! I ain't waiting on your ass!" Katrina shouted out back.
Ed sighed, and soon started mumbling something under his breath while turning back around to Al. "Ugh, honestly...yo Al. Alphonse. Get up, brother. We're leaving so come on!" Ed said as he gently started shaking Al a bit. As he did, he saw Al starting to stir in his sleep a bit, and then groan as he slowly started opening his eyes, squinting, so he could see through the morning sunlight.
"Ughhhhh...brother? yawns...ahhh what time is it?" Al asked sleepily, while slowly looking up at him.
"It's 11:00, now. Come on, the military people are already here and we can leave and get washed up." Ed said with a small smile. Al looked at him, and then slowly started looking around the library to see, indeed the military people all talking and searching around the place.
"Oh...where's Katrina at?" Al questioned, looking back up at Ed.
He sighed and started mumbling, as he began pulling on Al's arm, trying to help him stand up. "She already started heading back to the building. She seemed a bit too eager to leave this place already, so come on, we better follow her lazy ass." Ed mumbled. Al blinked a few times, before he finally nodded and began following Ed on back out the door and towards Central building so they could all get cleaned up, from the big fight they had, had last night.
Hours passed, and Katrina was up in her room still yet, laying down on her bed boredly, with her legs up in the air, watching the celing. She sighed to herself, and started grumbling, while plopping her legs back down onto the bed, and slowly lifted herself up, with her hands supporting her, as she started looking down at her clothes. "Man...damn theif. I hardly have any money left so I can't even buy myself any clothes. These are the only pair I have and i've been wearing them for five years now! Now what do I do?!" Katrina sighed once more, and fell back on her bed, still grumbling to herself, but as she was, a sudden idea popped into her head.
"Hmmm...I could use the brothers money to buy myself some new clothes. It's easy enough, all I would have to do, is seduce them or maybe even just still it when their not looking and i've got it." Katrina said with a smirk, but that little smirk soon turned into a frown.
"But...ugh I don't even know my own size anymore in women's clothes, nor do I know the style here either." She sighed, her idea suddenly going into flames. "So much for that idea..." She mumbled, but as soon as she did she quickly head a soft knock on her door, turning her away from her thoughts.
"Ugh, what is it now?" Katrina said annoyed, as she slid off her bed and started walking towards the door and opened it to see Al standing there with a small smile on his face. "Hey Katrina. Sorry if i'm bothering you, but brother wanted me to tell you to get your stuff packed up and get yourself ready for later this afternoon." Al said nervously, while blushing slightly.
Katrina looked at him, staring dully. "Uh-huh...and why exactly?"
"Well you know that little accident with brothers arm last night?"
"Yeah."
"Well, we kinda have to go back to our hometown either today or tomorrow so we can get his arm repaired again."
"I see. So we have to travel all the way to your hometown, just to repair your brothers broken arm?" Katrina questioned, crossing her arms.
"Uhhh yeah kinda." Al blushed, and scratched the back of his neck. She sighed. "Ugh why don't you just use your alchemy to fix it? Surely it can't be that hard."
"Well, it's just that I don't know much about repairing brothers automail and we were already planning to visit home again soon anyway. We kinda miss our old friends and it would be nice to see them again." Al said with a small smile. Katrina looked at him, blinking before finally sighing. "Whatever! But just so you know I hardly have anything to travel in! So it appearently already looks like i'm ready." Al looked at her. "You mean you don't have any clothes or anything?"
"No. Why do you think I kept wearing this crap over these three days?"
"To be honest i've never really noticed..."
"Well aren't you the first."
"What?"
"Ugh, nothing nothing. So are we leaving tomorrow?" Katrina sighed and looked up at him.
"Yeah pretty much. So I think thats it. Just wanted to tell you. Also I think it might be kinda fun that your gonna accompany us on our way home. We could introduce you to all our old friends and everything and maybe even Winry could help you out with your clothes problem." Al said smiling sweetly down at her.
"Winry? Who the hell is Winry?"
"Oh she's kinda our old childhood friend. But of course to brother I think she's means a bit more than just a friend to him. Same with Winry, but seems like there's nothing happening now." Al said sighing.
"Oh how cute...to bad I could care less about your brother and his little girlfriend." Katrina said yawning.
"Ummm right. Sooo uhhhh..." Al started to say nervously, blushing as he scratched the back of his neck trying to think of something to say.
"Yeah...well i'm gonna go back in here and get back to my boring life if you don't mind." Katrina said as she was about to slam the door in Al's face, untill he quickly stopped her before she could.
"Wait! I-I-I mean...uhhhh w-would you like to...maybe get some lunch down at the break room with me and brother?" He asked nervously, blushing a bit more. Katrina looked at him, blinking. "Uhhh no thanks. I'm not really all that hungry, later!"
"Ummm y-you sure? You want me to save you something? We have a big day tomorrow and i'd hate for you to travel with us on an empty stomach."
"Yes i'm sure. Now will you please just..."
"Crystal!" Katrina heard another voice call out. She groaned when hearing it, now getting very annoyed with all of these sudden interupptions. Katrina turned her head to see Ed and Mustang heading towards hers and Al's way. "Ugh, what?!" She shouted, annoyed.
"We're all going down to the old diner across the street you wanna come?" Ed asked.
"No! Now get lost!"
"Woah, woah there Crystal..."
"Ugh, for the last time my name is Katrina, flame boy!!"
"Ok, ok chill. We only wanted to know if you'd like to go with us. And I also wanted to tell you that even though this has been your very first mission that you now have some break time with the Elric brothers to go to their hometown for the weekend." He said with a slight smile. Katrina growled and rolled her eyes. "Yeah, ok ok! Tender foot here already told me, so please just go and leave me alone geese!"
"Alright we're leaving if it would make you that happy, but before we go, I just would like to say great job on your first mission Katrina. You did an excellent job. You and your new partners." He said with a small smile.
Katrina only sighed and nodded. "Oh thanks sooooo much for your little compliment, now if you'll excuse me I have better things to do then just sit here and talk to you all and waste my life, now bye!" She said, as she then slammed her door shut in everyone's faces. After doing so, Ed, Al, and Roy just started blinking a few times before finally looking at each other. "She sure has one hell of an attitude." Roy said sighing.
"I told you! Now you see what you paired me up with?! Geese!" Ed mumbled.
"Well she isn't that bad brother and you should know that."
"Yeah and how would you know? You her boyfriend now or something?" Ed asked glaring up at him. Al quickly felt his cheeks going a little pink as Ed said that and shook his head nervously. "Uhhh...w-well no, but she just seems a little misunderstood is all. She might of been through alot and so I think we should just give her some time and maybe she might lighten up on us a little." Al said nervously.
"Ugh yeah right! Seems like a century before that'll happen!"
"Come now Fullmetal. Alphonse may be right, who knows. I mean you guys have just now met her and it could take a while for her to warm up to you two. Who knows, she may even fall in love with one of you two one day." He said with a small smirk as they all then began to walk down the Central hallway. Ed snorted. "Yeah right. By the time that would happen, birds will fall from the sky and all things not ment to fly, will fly, not to mention I think hell will freeze over." Ed mumbled.
"Y-Yeah...not that I am agreeing with brother or anything, but still. I don't think she'll fall in love with us anytime soon. Maybe she would be softer towards us like treating us like friends or maybe even her own pair of brothers." Al said blushing slightly at the thought.
Roy chuckled and shook his head. "Well who knows judging her. Who knows...it may just happen one day..." Roy said as they all soon started walking on towards the old diner, all of them not realizing the truth of what was all spoken.
A/N: Sorry you guys for not updating in forever, I was wayyyyy to busy working on some other stories of mine on Quizilla, but don't worry i'll try and update some more for you guys! So srry again, and I hope you enjoy this chapter! Laterz!-