What's your name?
Benjamin Doyle
The same name that's on the front page of Daily Central. Not Comedy Central. No; the Comedy Central star has long stopped posting tidbits about her personal life in her beloved newspaper. Instead, she writes increasingly sarcastic columns and has even taken to naming hurricanes after politicians. They're to blame. Not her.
Not her.
Her columns still received laughs and applause. The sarcasm is carefully hidden behind falsely cheery words she doesn't feel. Isabella writes well enough for at least that. The Isabella Hopkins whose marvelous words killed her Benji.
I didn't kill him.
Giving the paint on her nails a particularly nasty chip, she snorts. Benji would have told her to get a hold of herself. She would have asked him how. And then he would rub her shoulders in a calming way. Just as he would tell her to stop living in the past. But she doesn't want to stop living in the past. The future's dead.
Which means I'm dead too.
"Miss. Hopkins?"
She snarls. The man smirks at her. He's undeserving of my attention, she thinks. So she turns back to the tomb.
"Miss. Hopkins, you are under arrest for making a scandal out of the military."
"Where'd freedom of speech go?"
"We don't need discouraging comments in Comedy Central, even if no one believes it."
Snort. Right. Then what was the boy behind him reading anyways? She's not far enough gone yet to not be able to recognize her ads. The boy chortled.
"Quiet, Fullmetal. Do you wish to be reminded of the 'Shortmetal Shrimpis; Shrimpier than the People' incident?"
How flattering. She had indeed written that article.
"Shut up Colonel Bastard Useless When It Rains!" Edward Elric shouts. Blink. That was a new one. Muttering to herself, she sits down on the soft grass. Roy Mustang's ears perk up. She can see the title: 'Roy Mustang: A Vampire Bat Hybrid or An All Knowing Colonel?
"What did you say?" he demands. She mutters some more to herself.
"I said that freedom of speech probably died meeting your face."
There's silence.
"Fullmetal, you're charged to watch her for signs of treason. We can't have negativity about the military in our country's critical condition."
"WHAT?"
I DIDN'T KILL HIM!