Her friend? My brows furrowed together and thoughts raced through my mind and I couldn't keep up with them all. It just didn't make sense to me as to why she wanted to consider me her friend. Especially after what had happened a few weeks ago. Havoc was still in the hospital recovering from the burns he received on his back and it was all because the dumbass had to jump in front of me. But that was beside the point, she was the reason! This girl standing in front of me, telling this little boy that I was her friend, was the reason Havoc, was in the hospital and writhing in pain because he can't lay on his back.

I stared at her long and hard, waiting for her to say it was all a lie and then set my ass on fire too. But it never came, the air was just filled with an awkward silence. She was waiting for my answer and I was waiting for her to kill me.

"……..friend…….r-ri-right." She muttered out and I raised a brow. She was serious, or at least I thought she was. So at that moment, I made a decision and at the time it didn't seem like a big one or that was going to effect my life later. I smiled and nodded. Rage reacted with a slight twitch of the lips.

The small boy that was at her side, reached over and tugged on her dress. She continued to twitch her lips at me, before looking over at the little boy. His wide purple eyes glared at me before, looking up at the girl.

"But sister, Envy said we aren't supposed to go near humans. They don't like us." He whispered, but it was just loud enough for me to hear. Envy. She was with Envy? I thought s was with the one they called Greed. And the last the military about the Homunculi, Greed wasn't associated with them. He was off on his own.

"……….Red………..friend." She said once more and looked up at me and her mouth twitched once more and the corner of her mouth rose slowly into a smirk. I smiled and nodded once more, growing more uncomfortable by the minute.

"But Rage, Envy wouldn't like this!" Rage. That was her name.

She wasn't human.

Not just a normal girl.

She was one of them.

I did my best to hide my shock and looked around at anything but them. She was a homunculi. Or something close to that! It all made sense now! Why she was down in Lab 5, the break out. It all made sense. I didn't hear what the two were conversing, but it ended up with the little boy screaming something at Rage and running away.

Rage looked over at me with wide purple eyes. I stared back, feeling confused. Why didn't she run away with him? Didn't they stay together the Homunculi?

"Can…………I……..ask……………..you…………..something?" I looked around, anywhere but at her. I had to turn her in! It was the right thing to do, but yet I couldn't. It just didn't seem right to, especially since she just asked me to be her friend. Then again it could all be a trick and she's really trying to kill me.

"Uh…..um…." My mind was racing with thoughts. If I was to get caught talking to her and with no intention of turning her in to the military, I could get in trouble. Big trouble. The Fuher would probably believe I was in alliance with the Homunculi and planning the downfall of the military. I looked back at Rage with a worried expression. She was staring at me, waiting for my response.

So again, I made another decision that would change the rest of my life.

"Sure. What is it?"

"What……is……….family?" I stared at her confused by her question. It seemed so odd that a Homunculi would be asking such a thing. I glanced around once more, feeling more paranoid than ever that I was being watched. I then looked at Rage, she was waiting patiently and doing something with her face.

"You hungry? Why don't we just discuss this over lunch?" I smiled and Rage's head cocked to the left and then she moved her head up and down in sharp movements. I took that as a nod. I smiled again and started to walk away and she followed slowly. Now to find somewhere a little less out in the open.

* * *

The only place that came to my mind was my house. It was far away from the Military's headquarters and it wasn't even that close to the Market place. It was a place I didn't have to worry about being seen. I just had a greater risk of dying by Rage. But something was screaming at me that she wouldn't. That she couldn't. I just hoped that voice screaming at me was true. Or maybe death wouldn't be such a bad thing for me.

I shook my head and quickly pushed open the door and held it open as Rage shuffled in slowly. I closed it behind her and lead her to the kitchen. She followed and sat down in one of the kitchen chairs and I sighed walking to the fridge. I stuck my head in and looked for something that would be enough for the both of us.

"Um. . .would you like some water or something?" I glanced back at the girl and her purple eyes stared for a moment, before she mumbled something. "What was that?"

"Greed………….said…………didn't………….need……..…..eat or…..drink." I closed the fridge with a nod and sat in front of her at the kitchen table. I had been thinking about family the whole time on our walk over here and I just couldn't think of something to sum it all up. It seemed like such a complex word that could mean so much.

"Rage, why do you want to know about family?"

"Envy……….said……..I…………was……….his…………….family." The Homunculi considered themselves family? That was something new. I had always known them to be blood thirsty killers and loved to cause pain and steal people's sisters.

"Oh."

"What…….is……….that?" Rage's brows furrowed together and it seemed like she was trying to force her face to look confused. I placed my hands on the table and clenched them tightly together.

"Well, I guess they could be considered someone you can always count on and will always be there for you. They love you, of course." I struggled with something to come up that would make sense. I had forgotten what family was really all about when I lost all of mine. I didn't see the need to remember. I had failed all of them and they slipped through my fingers. "Does Envy care for you, Rage?"

"Care………..I…………care………..for………..Greed." Her lips twitched again and I smiled softly. She seemed to care greatly for Greed and it made me wonder why she wasn't with him, but with the other one. Envy. I was just about to open my mouth and ask her when there was a loud banging at the door and my eyes widened and I side glanced at Rage, she was trying to make her eyes do the same.

"Stay here." I whispered and stood up from the table, I made it to the door way at the kitchen and turned back at Rage with a pleading face. "Please?" She nodded slowly, her eyes still trying to widen in shock.

I sighed and smoothed down the fabric of my white sundress, trying to calm down and make it appear that I was calm. I glanced through the peep hole and it was Roy. He was standing on my porch and he was in his Military uniform. What was he doing here? He never came to my house.

With my brows furrowed together, I opened the door slowly. "What are you doing here? I was actually on my way out to go see Havoc at the hospital." Roy didn't even acknowledge that I had spoken.. He pushed right past, grabbing me roughly by the arm and slamming the door closed behind him.

"Where is she?" He growled, tightening his grip on my forearm. I winced and tried to pull my arm free.

"Roy. You're hurting me." I muttered and I brought my other hand over and tried to pry away his hand that was gripping my arm. As my hand scratched at his, it started to glow and I froze, my eyes following the bright light that went up to his elbow and then his shoulder. His body slowly changed and his once sun kissed skin turned to a deathly pale, matching the girl who was sitting at my kitchen table. His dark short shaggy hair, was no long and gave him the appearance that he was a palm tree. His dark brown eyes shifted and were wider, giving him an insane look and they were purple.

"Does it hurt? Really?" He sneered in my face and he then released my arm and threw my back. I hit the floor and stared in horror at the new man that was now standing in my house. It wasn't my Colonel, Roy Mustang, but a Homunculi. After the shock settled in the fear was next to take over. I didn't say anything, but tried to crawl away backwards from him and he smiled widely, taking small steps to follow after me.

"What do…what do you want?" I was surprised when my voice didn't shake and I think that pissed him off more.

Envy growled and brought a foot down quickly on my leg and I screamed out in agony at the crunching noise that filled the air. He cackled at the satisfying crunch and leaned down in my face. "Where is she?" I didn't look up at him, but bit my lip from screaming out again. That was a good question though, I admit. Where was Rage? I thought she'd coming running to find out what all the noise was from.

"If you're talking about your little friend," I took a deep breath before I went to continue. My leg was on fire and I had to look away quickly when I glanced at it. "She's in the kitchen, but I have a feeling she's hiding from you."

He smiled and glanced around the corner and I'm guessing he saw what he wanted, because he looked back at me. "Good little human." He stood up straight and placed his hands on his hips. "I might just let you live." He picked up his foot off of my leg and rubbed it on the floor.

He then walked away into the kitchen and said something to Rage. I couldn't make out the words, nor did I understand them. My head started to spin as everything was getting fuzzier and slowly slipping away. I did my best to hold onto consciousness. I heard footsteps and then two figures were standing in front of me.

"Red……not…….okay." I looked up and Rage stood above me and she looked distressed about something. I can't see why, she was probably apart of this. "What….did…..Big Brother……Envy…….do……..to………..Red?" Envy's brows raised and he pointed down at me.

"You care about this human, Rage? Humans are bad. We kill humans." Envy explained calmly to her and I could feel my heart race quickening and the struggle to stay away was growing stronger.

"Red……is…….friend." Rage mumbled and Envy growled menacingly at her remark.

"No! You don't have friends Rage! You stupid little brat!" He spat and then he smacked her roughly. She didn't say anything, her head just shot to the left and her purple eyes stared down at me. I looked up at her with not knowing what she was going to do. If she was going to believe him or just fight him.

One thing was just racing through my head.

I was going to die.

And it was going to be by my sister's killer.

How pathetic.

"Kill her!" Envy barked out and he pointed at me, but my eyes never left hers. Her purple eyes were so wide and innocent and she just looked so confused. She didn't know what she was doing or why she was here. She just was. "Didn't you hear me? I said kill her! Now!"

Finally she looked away from me and shook her head slowly at Envy. "No…….kill……..Red." My eyes flickered to Envy's terrified of what his reaction was going to be from this. I got the vibe from him that he didn't like to be ignored. He wanted what he wanted when he wanted it. So I was safe to say he didn't take it well.

But I wouldn't know his reaction.

The fight to stay awake just came to be too much and I fell into an unpleasant sleep, where I had to fight off my nightmares.