Hawkeye decided it would be best until all the members of the office were there when she read Violets note. Why would Violet of all people pull something like this? Hawkeye wondered to herself as she put the note into her drawer for later.

…

"Lieutenant,"

"Hello sir. How are you?"

"Fine just weary, and I'm also worried about Violet. She was jumped last night, and I'm fairly sure her wrist is shattered,"

"What? Who jumped her?" A new voice joined the conversation. Roy and Hawkeye turn to see Fuery in the doorway with Falman behind him.

"She didn't tell me, but she was definitely worried,"

"Who was worried?" Havoc ambled in after Breda clearly hung over.

"You know what I'll wait until the entire team is here,"

"Or you could tell Edward to come down here now instead of just waiting for him to show up," Roy eyed his female subordinate but followed her advice.

…

"What do you think the Colonel wants brother?"

"I dunno Al, but whatever he wants it must be important to wake me up so early," Ed yawns and bursts through the door into the outer office and immediately collapses into a nearby chair.

"Oh no you don't Fullmetal, this is important you will not fall asleep on me,"

"Mmmmmm, fine," Ed shifts so he can look at the Colonel, but Al picks him up and sets the boy on his feet. "Alllll, not cool,"

"Well, now that all of you are here I need to tell you something. Violet was jumped last night and I am not sure what happened to her," Ed immediately wakes up and is paying attention.

"She wouldn't tell me everything last night, except that she was afraid something like that would happen again, from what I gathered the men were big and were holding her against her will, due to her crushed right wrist,"

"WHAT?!" Ed screams at the man incoherently with a string of obscenities that was cut off by Havoc's hand clapping itself over the runaway mouth.

"I also have something that everyone needs to hear," the office turns to look at Hawkeye.

…

I can't continue to do this, I need to find out the truth, not just for me, but for Ed too….He deserves someone better than me. Violet finds herself staring off into space watching the scenery roll by on the train. She imagines the blonde sitting in front of her laughing at a joke or fuming at a comment about his height. She smiles inwardly and then imagines the tall suit of armor with the kind voice. She lifted a hand to her face and found her cheeks wet with tears, she went to wipe them off with her right hand but her fingers wouldn't respond. She was on her way to an automail mechanic by the name of Winry Rockbell, in hopes of getting a prosthetic hand, although Violet knew she would have to remove the hand. The feeling was fine from the elbow up, but the feeling from her elbow down was nonexistent. She knew that going off on her own was risky, hell it was plain stupid, but the way she was right now she wouldn't be of any use to anyone, especially not Ed. That fight had made her realize she didn't know anything, sure she had seen Truth, but had she seen The Truth. She was going to Winry to leave a clue for Ed, because she knew that Winry was his automail mechanic. If she left too many clues though, it would be hard to disappear for long periods of time, which was why she had taken out all of her money from her bank account, in Central to keep from being traced.

…

"Why do you need automail again? Your arm looks perfectly fine," Winry was sitting inside on the couch talking to Violet.

"I can't feel anything from here down," Violet gestures to the area in question, "Hit it,"

"Wait, what?"

"I said hit it," Winry complied and hit the back of Violet's hand with the wrench, amazed that the girl didn't even flinch. "This is why I need automail, I'll be right back, because I know that you will need undamaged nerves to deal with," Violet steps outside, and before Winry can react Violet came back in wrapping a bandage around a stump.

"YOU DIDN"T NEED TO GO AND DO THAT!" Winry screams at the delusional girl.

"Yes, I did, now will this be enough to cover the hand?" Violet takes out a wad of money and hands it to Winry before walking out side to tend to the wound further.

…

"WHAT THE HELL DOES VIOLET MEAN BY THIS?!" Ed yells out in frustration at the note.

"It seems that the Rose Alchemist doesn't wish to be found," Falman said.

"Yeah I can see that, BUT….. The HELL does she mean by walk the path of right?"

"I think she is referring to the path of righteousness Fullmetal. I didn't think that someone could be this cryptic, though." Roy takes another look at the note, but notices a slight difference at the bottom of the note, "Gimme this," Roy says without his usual smirk and pries it from the kids hands. Roy looks closer at it and gives a huge AHA and dashes into his office taking the note with him, but runs back out brandishing a magnifying glass. "Look here," is all that he would say and hovers the glass over a spot and doesn't move until every last one of his subordinates had seen it.

Ed looks out the window and mutters to himself, "What clues? You didn't leave me any VI, how am I supposed to follow your clues if I don't know where to begin?"

…

"Seriously, it's only been three weeks since you got that automail, you need to take the rehab seriously," Winry brandishes her wrench threateningly.

"I am, I'm doing pushups to keep the rest of my body healthy, and to get used to exercising with an automail arm," Violet quits doing pushups and sits on her knees looking at Winry, "I'm not sure why you said it would take up to a year for my automail to completely adjust, it feels great, and I can even move it well," Violet throws a few mock punches into the air to prove her point. Violet went back to doing pushups, but this time to appease the mechanic she did one handed pushups on her left hand to keep the automail from breaking.

"Fine, but if you break it while you're in rehab, you're in for a world of hurt," Violet smiled as the girl walked away.

…

"6 months have gone by, I can fight, I can transmustate. I'm fine Winry, nothing is going to keep me from my goal,"

"I know, but it's been nice to have a girl over, someone who I can actually talk to."

"I know the feeling. Oh and thank you for letting me stay here while I do rehab," Violet turned and walked away. She was kind of sad to leave Resimbool, but she had to do one more thing, something that will catch Ed's eye. She walked over to an empty field that was close by to where Ed and Al had burned down their house.

…

"Sir, there have been multiple reports of a giant rose that suddenly came up out of nowhere, in Resimbool," Roy smiled to himself so this is your first clue for us huh, Rose Alchemist.