"FUCK!" Violet yelled as her report from her last mission went flying everywhere in every direction. She got down on her hands and knees and picked up the scattered pages. When her pages were finally in order again she continued down the hall thinking miserably thanks for the help everyone really appreciate it. She came into Roy's office and all she heard was a shout coming from inside the Colonel's inner office, "WHO YOU CALLING SO TINY HE COULD RIDE ON A FLEA?!" Violet shook her head numbly as she knew immediately who was behind that door.
"Geez, does the Colonel really have to tease him like that?" she looked at Hawkeye asking for an answer.
"It's how they work you know that. Oh, and go right on in the Colonel's expecting you," Hawkeye motions to the door.
"Great," Violet moans. She walks into the office and the swirling mass of hair and rage looked like the blonde tornado was having a seizure.
"Hey Ed!" she yells.
"WHAT?! CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BUSY?" He snaps at her.
"Shut up. And leave enough oxygen for everyone else in the room. Sir, here is my report from my last assignment." She salutes and hands over the report.
"Thank you Violet, and I actually have an assignment for the both of you that I would like to give you now." Roy smirked a little, and that sent Ed's bastardry sensor skyrocketing. Roy handed them both a manila envelope and motioned for them to read it. Violet was the first one into it.
"Travel to the town of Trinta and scope out the suspicious activity of the town."
"Trinta? Why Trinta?"
"There's rumors of a Philosophers Stone being used to bring the dead back to life," Roy managed to finish his sentence and plug his ears before both alchemists yelled, "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"
"Impossible or not, this is an assignment only alchemists can figure out, and like it or not you're the best I've got. So quit whining and move Trinta is only a day away from here, and if you do need back up just call." Mustang pulled the end of discussion not talking to you any more voice. I walked out and looked back at Ed wondering if this assignment was really going to be that bad?
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Ed walked onto the train with Violet and Al next to him and promptly chose a seat for everyone. Violet plopped down announcing that she was going to sleep. Ed nodded to show that he heard her and when he was absolutely sure that she was asleep he leaned over to Al.
"Do you think she remembers?"
"I don't know brother. Do you think we should tell her?"
"It might be the right thing to do,"
"But what if she remembers what happened last time we were in that town?"
"Please, Al everyone loved me there,"
"They chased you out of town shooting at you,"
"THAT WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING AL AND YOU KNOW IT!" Violet stirred in her sleep but rolled over. The brothers went back to whispering.
"That might be true, but still you broke almost half the town,"
"I offered to fix it,"
"And when you tried you ended up breaking even more of the town, in fact I think the only thing left standing was the cemetery and her house,"
"Pfft, Whatever Al," Ed turned away from Al and rested his head against the window soon joining Violet in slumber. Oh brother, when will you learn?
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The next day when Violet stepped off of the train she had a serious sense of déjà vu. Ed looked at her from over his shoulder and told her to hurry up. "Oh right," she took off after the brothers.
"Hey Ed have you ever been here before?" Violet questioned. The brothers flinched unconsciously giving Violet a suspicious feeling, "Is there something you guys aren't telling me?"
"No, no, everything's fine. We've never been here before." Ed was hiding something from her and she knew it. Violet looked at her the boys and decided it wasn't important at that time, so she brushed past the boys giving a huff. They boys exchanged relieved looks. Ed looks around for Vi but doesn't see her right away he spins around desperately trying to find her.
"-So can you point us to the right path to get to the inn? Down the right path and the second building on the right, got thank you very much sir." Ed turned sharply around to see her talking to a complete stranger. But she did seem to have everything in hand, so he let her walk back trying to push down the rage that was boiling up inside him.
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"What did you think you were doing?" he decided to blow up at her when they got into their hotel room.
"I was getting us to a hotel, because you obviously are incapable of doing it,"
"I'm not incapable!" Ed snapped back.
"From all the stories I heard about you, YES you are!"
"Um, guys,"
"Just a few times and that was just because I said state alchemist,"
"Which is EXACTLY the reason WHY. You show off your title sooooo much that everyone knows there is a midget for a state alchemist flaunting his silver watch everywhere. I got us a hotel room because I wasn't expecting special treatment because I'm a DAMN DOG OF THE MILITARY!"
"WHO'RE YOU CALLING SO TINY YOU COULD CRUSH HIM LIKE AN ANT?"
"YOU! YOU JACKASS! YOU KNOW WHAT FORGET IT! I'M GONNA GO AROUND TOWN TO SEE WHAT I CAN DIG UP ABOUT THIS GUY. I'LL SEE YOU LATER." And with that Violet swept out of the room and slammed the door shut behind her. Ed slumped into a chair amazed that his rant didn't faze her at all. When a metal fist came crashing down on his head.
"Ow! What the hell Al?"
"Didn't you see her tears brother? You did to her what you do to Winry! Didn't you see the tears in her eyes?" Ed didn't say anything mostly because he couldn't make words form in his mouth. All he could think was I did.
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That ass of an alchemist. He thought he knew everything. Violet was walking through the town fuming and sending off a vibe that said: Touch me you DIE!
"He brought my brother back!"
"Really? I wonder if he can bring my sister back?" Violet overheard a couple conversations and her feet took her in the direction of the cemetery where the man was supposedly bringing back people to life. She doesn't remember traveling to the other side of the town, but suddenly she was at the entrance of the cemetery. She shivers a little bit but then chides herself because she was being silly. Violet takes a step into the graveyard and feels a heavy weight being thrust upon her shoulders, and a pain in the back of her head told her that she had been there before, but she shook it off.
"Vi, Vi wait!" Violet spun around and saw the Elrics running towards her.
"What do you want Fullmetal? I'm still pissed at you." His nickname for her though made her feel fluttery.
"I know just don't go off by yourself we need to be there for you, and we're a team," he took her hand when saying that, which made Violet pretty sure her heart stop beating. She quickly tugged her hand away blushing fiercely.
"Whatever, lets split up and try and find this guy I'm pretty sure he's avoiding the laws of alchemy in performing these acts I'll go this way," she went to the left leaving the Elrics to decide which directions they were heading in.
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Why did I suggest splitting up? It's even creepier when you're alone. Violet was walking past the headstones when one caught her eye. She stooped to have a closer look, and on the head stone read:
Here lies Meg Hatter
Daughter of James Hatter
1898-1912
"no…. no….." Violet stooped down to touch the stone, and as the tips of her fingers brushed it the same sharp pain occurred, only mush stronger this time. More images flashed in front of her eyes: a little girl on a swing laughing, the same little girl in bed, a man bleeding out on a carpet, a house; the images flashed to quickly to see them all, but then the transmutation circle, the little girl(her sister she realized), then the funeral, and a man standing next to her she looked up and the face was Roy Mustang's.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Violet cried out but nothing could stop the flow of horrendous memories from reaching her brain. When her brain finally stopped being overloaded with memories her hair was sweat soaked and she was panting hard, hard enough to not here the thudding footsteps coming behind her. When she finally did stand her arm was pinned against her back and a cloth was over her mouth. Her last thought before the shadows overtook her was: Edward.
A/N. Sorry this chapter is so long I couldn't find a place to stop writing. New chapters on their way soon! Keep reading!