At long last, the next chapter! I'll be sure to make a second update today, I promise. It's been a while since I updated anything here, and frankly, I just want this one to be finished! So good luck, review, hope you enjoy!^_^

FYI, this is still Raven's POV. Next chapter will have Venge's.

So here I was, with perhaps one of the most dangerous people I could be with right now, in the bathroom. We stared at each other, blinked maybe once or twice, and after about a minute or so, Vengeance finally shrugged and stood up.

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"Um...outside?"

"I'd like to ask what it is you're doing here," I said.

She turned around to face me, looking more confused than defensive. I was doing my best to not look nervous, but I was picking at my thumb behind my back. After what Edward had told me about homunculi, I could only imagine the worst if I messed up. But if she wasn't lying about earlier...about actually being...

"Didn't I tell you already?" she broke my train of thought.

"Huh?"

"That I'm just out for brunch? No trouble?"

"Yes," I said, following behind as she started heading out. "Forgive me if I can't get the image out of my mind of the same person who attacked my best friend and I the other night!" My tone slowly rose to a shout. Now I was trailing behind her as she started quickening her pace.

"Well...I mean c'mon, that was payback...you have any idea what those bastards put me through?"

"Josh and I haven't even met you!"

"I'm talking about the others,"

"What others?" I snapped.

"The other homunculi," she was almost running now. And heading straight for the door. Without even paying, no less.

"Do you think we had anything to do with those people, whoever they are?"

"Wha- well it's your fault I'm with them you know!"

"Then it's your fault that we're in an apartment and Josh is missing a leg!"

She came to an abrupt stop, almost causing me to crash right into her. She turned her head to face me.

"Okay fine," she said through gritted teeth.

"'Okay fine' what?" I asked. I never realized just how angry I'd been up till now. I was lucky she wasn't mauling me on the spot.

"Okay...I wanted to talk to you about..." she turned around completely, then glanced up at the buildings around the city. She grabbed my hand. "Um, think there's a way we can meet up in secret?"

"Where are you going with this?" I asked, pulling my hand back and crossing both arms in front of me. She was acting completely different from the other night. And if anything, it made her scarier.

"I can't let them know that I'm talking to you," she said.

"Well, if anyone's watching you right now, they'd already know you're talking to me, right?" I pointed out.

"Don't be a smartass Raven,"

"I'm only stating the facts,"

She pouted, in a way that was all too much like Julia always did. "Fine. Just...I'll meet you at your place, okay?"

"I don't know if I can trust you," I said.

She pouted again.

"Do you really expect me to let the person who almost killed me into my house? Not to offend you or anything, but I can't just get over something like that so easily. Sorry, but no,"

Yet another pout.

"Look," I sighed. "If you want to tell me something, tell it to me here. No one knows about you-know-what anyway, so as long as you're not too loud about it, nobody will hear,"

"They know about you-know-what now thanks to your big mouth," she smirked. Okay, maybe she had a point.

"Alright," I said, readjusting my glasses. "I'll think of a time and a place. You can meet me there...hopefully tonight. Whatever it is you want to say,"

"Got it,"

"And I'll inform the Amestrian military, just in case you're trying to pull anything with me,"

"Wh-WHAT?"

"I'm not taking any chances. You could be just trying to get information out of me, or something,"

She glared at me for a moment, then shrugged. "Fine," she said. "' Guess it's fair,"

And with that, she walked off. That's when I remembered...

"Hey!" I called as I ran after her. "You forgot to pay the bill!"

Hm...not what you expected it to be, is it? Heh, Vengeance probably has some kind of bipolar issues...maybe it's because she's a homunculus. I always thought homunculi just went crazy from the screaming souls they had inside them, and they more or less all end up with some kind of problem. Anyways, review!