Chapter 15

Wake up!

Point of View: no one, Ed and Electra are unconscious

((A/N: another intense scene))

Hughes went downstairs to ask if Electra wanted to join them for dinner. He knocked on her door, but there was no answer. Hughes opened her door, which hadn't been locked. That was strange; Electra always locked her door. Her room was empty, it looked like she wasn't there.

Hughes scanned the room one more time. Then he finallynoticed it, the blood smeared on the wall.His eyes saw the blood-covered bed below it. Hughes rushed over to the wall and almost tripped over something. No, not something, someone. It was Electra, laying in a pool of her own blood. She was unconcious, but she was still barely breathing, and her heart was beating faintly. She wasn't dead yet, but she was on the brink of it.

"Oh my God!" Hughes exclaimed.

Riza Hawkeye was walking down the hall. She was startled when Hughes rushed out of Electra's room. Hughes grabbed her and told her to go get Mustang and Havoc, who were waiting for him and Electra. She noticed the blood on his hands, but didn't ask why, this looked urgent. Riza didn't much like blood, but this wasn't the time to be nausous like a child.

After inquiring about Mustang and Havoc, she foundthem with Ed, who was just starting to regain consciousness. "Sir!" she said, saluting," You are needed downstairs, Hughes-"

They must have known what she was talking about, because the two of them were out the door faster than she could finish her sentence. She sighed loudly and followed them at her own rather quick pace. They might need her, after all, it had looked serious.

Mustang made it there first, "Hughes, there's blood everywhere, what the hell happened?"

"I don't know!" said Hughes, "I think someone tried to kill her again."

"It's happened before," replied Havoc, whose cigarette had fallen out of his mouth once he saw the blood.

"Yeah, but not like this," said Roy,"All of her previous attacks we with other weapons. Those knives are hers."

"What are we waiting for? Let's get this girl to a hospital! Pronto!" ordered Riza. Normally, she wouldn't have said anything like that, but the three of them were just standing there talking, and this girl was bleeding to death. Mustang triedto pick up Electra, who was quite light, but had to surrender her to Havoc because of his ankle.

The four of them, with Electra in tow, hurried to the nearest hospital. Havoc and Mustang were covered in blood. Almost the second they walked in the door, nurses and doctors were all on top of them, inspecting Electra's wounds and asking them questions. They took Electra right into the emergency room. "We're losing her!" one of the doctors shouted.

"Maes, Jean, do the paperwork! Riza, come with me!" ordered Mustang.

"He's making us do the paperwork…" said Havoc.

Meanwhile, in the emergency room, Electra was in critical condition. She was on a respirator and was hooked up to all of these machines meant to keep her alive. The doctors were trying to stop her loss of blood. They were bandaging her arms and her stomach in a desperate atempt to stop the bleeding. She had suffered so much blood loss there wasn't enough time to get enough blood pumped into her body.

"Clear!" said a nurse and an electric shock was sent into Electra's body, in a desperate attempt to restart her heart at a regular pace. Her body remained limp. The nurse did this a few more times, but nothing changed. Electra's body was as limp as a ragdoll.

One of the doctors shook his head, "there's nothing we can do, she's lost too much blood."

"Don't give up E, be strong, like the girl you once were," Mustang shook his friends shoulder a little, "Wake up you damn bitch! Fucking be strong you bitch! Wake up, open you eyes, call me an idiot or something!"

Riza put her hand on his shoulder as the machine that monitored Electra's heart held one beat. Riza wiped a tear from her eye and left the room.She never knew Roy would ever get so emotional, but then again, he had known Electra all his life. She was like family to him.

"You gave up Electra, you didn't fight it. Who's going to tell me I'm an idiot when I start with the whole miniskirt thing? Who's going to hit me upside the head when I get a little crazy? Who am I going o flip upside down? I need you, we all need you," Roy rested his head on her forehead for a few moments as the warmth left her body, then he pulled back.

Riza led Hughes and Havoc into the room, "Oh my God…" said Hughes.

"Let's go," said Mustang, "she's gone, and there's nothing we can do about it."

He was only about a step away from her, when something hit him on the head, hard. It was a stiletto. "What the hell!" he exclaimed. He turned around, and there was Electra, those bright green eyes open and her mouth curled into a triumphant smile.

"Don't you ever cus me out again!" she snapped.

"Only if you promise never to die again!" he replied.

"I won't, I promise," Electra said, and she let out a little bit of a laugh. True, for the doctors, it had been a great event, a success, but for Electra, it was a failure.

A failure…

I admit it, I got so much of this chapter from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I havn't seen the whole movie, but this is like the best part. It's that part where there's only one air suit and the one chick lets that guy use it, and she drowns. Then they try to bring her back with the machines and stuff and he starts cussing her out. Yeah, that was descriptive.

I don't like the ending, but it's the best I have right now. I think it's good the way it is, but everything happened so fast.