Me: WOW!
Kaylee: What?
Me: this fic… it has the same name as Episode sixteen… That Which is Lost
Kaylee: Talk about irony…
Me: I know… any way… continue the insanity!
That Which is Lost
Chapter five: "I gotta see Teacher…"
Rena yawned as her sister dragged her out of bed.
"You're hopeless Rea… by the way where did you go off to at one last night?" Keria asked as she drug her sister to the dining room to eat.
"That Keria is none of your business…" Rena said moodily as her sister shoved her unceremoniously into a chair.
"Ohhhh, Rena's got a boyfriend…" Keria said in a singsong tone and avoided her sister's attempt at a punch.
"If I do it's none of your business, Keria…" Rena said getting the beginnings of anger showing in her voice.
"Ohhh…. I struck a nerve… So Rena… who's the lucky man?" Keria said and Rena punched her hard in the shoulder.
"None of your business. God, and for the last time I don't have a boyfriend…" Rena said blushing.
"Your blush says the opposite than what you're saying." Keria said evilly. Rena growled.
"Keria, you must want to die painfully… because that's where you're headed if you keep asking… you'll find out soon enough." Rena said and Keria squealed.
"It's Alphonse isn't it?" Keria asked and Rena began to laugh.
"Good guess. But no… oh shit… I forgot… I need to talk to Teacher…" Rena said and Keria began to freak out.
"You can't go see teacher! She's going to kill you!" Keria said and shook Rena.
"Well… I need to… I know she'll probably try to kill me, but I don't think so…" Rena said then looked around. "By the way, where are the Elrics?" Rena asked.
"Eh, Roy had them go in early…about five minutes after you went back to bed…" Keria said and Rena sighed.
"Kay, just wondering…" Rena said and yawned loudly. "I need to get to work Sis, call me if you need anything or come with me if you want." Rena said as she got up from the table without eating. Rena went to her room and changed into her uniform then went back to the table twisting her long wavy hair into a bun at the nape of her neck. Keria sighed and bit into a slice of bacon.
"You going to eat?" Keria asked munching on her bacon.
"Yah, later… I have to talk to the Fuehrer about taking a vacation this morning…" Rena mumbled as she clipped her bun in place.
"Sis… Why do you want to go to teachers so badly?" Keria asked gently.
"Keria… I can't tell you…" Rena replied and Keria sighed. "Look, it's my own reason so don't look upset, Kay? Teacher knows more than I do… and she knows as well as you do that transmuting humans has had a negative affect on my health, just as it has on her. Although I don't show it Keria, I haven't been too well, and I need teacher's insight on something…" Rena said and Keria smiled slightly.
"You DO know we'll be babysitting the Elrics right?" Keria asked with a giggle and Rena smiled.
"You mean the Elric Dummies? Yah I know we have to take care of them for a while." Rena said as she used some bobby pins to clip some stray hairs back. Rena then stretched. "Well I've got a shit load of paperwork waiting for me at HQ, do what you want until I come home… Damn I hate this job…" Rena mumbled as she picked up her blue uniform jacket and put it on. "See yah later sis!" Rena yelled as she headed out the door. Keria wolfed down the remains of Rena's breakfast as well as her own before she went into the kitchen to assess the damage she had caused her little sister's kitchen. The smoke had cleared thanks to the windows being open but the oven looked in pretty bad shape.
"Well, better clean this up before sis gets home…" Keria said then clasped her hands together. She then went to the stove and placed her hands in the middle of the stovetop and in a flash of light it was fixed. " Rena would kill me if she knew I'd fix it by alchemy with out using a circle…" Keria said as she began to clean up the remains of the breakfast she had been making. A few hours later the kitchen was clean and Keria was smiling at her handiwork.
Keria then looked around at her sister's normally messy as hell house. 'At least she's done some cleanup around here…' Keria thought but then found a note that was sitting on the table top in the dining room, being as nosy as she was Keria picked it up and began to read aloud.
"Dearest Rena, I know you'd rather I wait until your sister was out of town, but I can't resist the temptation to see you. Meet me at the usual place when the Elrics and your sister are dead asleep. I impatiently await you! Love, Roy." Keria read and stared. "WHAT!" Keria exclaimed wondering WHY Roy would give Rena a note such as this, then it clicked, Rena and Roy were in love and thought if Keria knew she's try to break them up. "Dear god, how long have they been together?" Keria asked herself looking pensively at the note. "AND WHY ROY!" Keria then shouted. "WHY THE PSYCHO FLAME BOY!" Keria demanded to know. At that moment the front door slammed and Keria stuffed the note into her pocket. Edward came around the corner and entered the doorway yawning loudly.
Hours later Rena came home exhausted and frazzled. Keria approached her little sister and smiled.
"SOOOOOO, Rena, how'd it go?" Keria asked and Rena yawned and looked at her silver state issue pocket watch.
"Good, I got the vacation…" Rena yawned. "And according to What's-his-face Archer you're also granted a vacation…" Rena said and slipped her pocket watch into her back pocket and took out a pack of cigarettes. Keria shook her head.
"STILL addicted?" Keria asked and Rena looked at the one in her mouth she had been about to light. A clouded look of determination crossed her face and she took the cigarette from her lips and stuffed it neatly into the pack and tossed them into the trash. "Woah, Rea… Are you alright? You never throw your cigs away!" Keria said and Rena sighed before she turned to her older sister.
"Havoc got me addicted when I was ten, Ker… Just as you became an alcoholic at eleven… I've got to quit. It's a mind over matter thing…" Rena said and sighed. "Besides… we're BOTH underage anyway…" Keria shrugged and took the pack from the trash and handed it to her sister.
"If I get to drink my life away, you get to do what you want." Keria said knowing her words had upset Rena. Rena gave Keria a look that told the elder she was hiding something that had to do with the fact she was underage. "You're not telling me something…" Keria said. Rena gave a sadistic smile and tucked the cigarettes between her sister's voluptuous breasts.
"Yes… I am hiding something… we're leaving first thing tomorrow and we'll be in Dublith in six hours…" Rena said in sadistic glee and then turned and went up the stairs to her room with Keria staring blankly at her back. Keria then let out a scream of rage, she was not looking forward to the trip and some vacation it would be.
Me: Ha ha… Rena's addicted to pocky!
Kaylee: WTF's Pocky?
Me: I donno… someone told me it was the brand of Cigarettes Havoc smokes, someone else told me it was what the Mustang Subies call the dangling cigarette in Havoc's mouth.
Kaylee: Cool! Hey, we're almost half way to the part where Scar attacks us!
Me: We are? Hey, we are! Sweet…. Wait a minute…. I see where this is going…
Kaylee: He, he, he…
Me: You're so lucky that I'm retyping "Life of an Alchemist" as "That Which is Lost"…
Kaylee: Who botched it and killed the original anyway?
Me: That's not the point, Kaylee. Why are we fighting any way?
Kaylee: I have no clue… any way… shall we give the readers a spoiler for next chapter?
Me: Ummm….. I donno…. Is it safe?
Kaylee: I think so…. Don't tell them too much now….
Next Chapter of "That Which is Lost"…
Some things going on inside Rena's mind, while Keria's scared stiff of seeing their teacher. What happens when the past catches the present and Rena makes several confessions that force her and her sister to relive their teacher's horrible training exercises? Who really is the young woman everyone calls Rena? Is there some deep dark secret the sisters are keeping from each other and the ones around them? Find out in the next chapter of "That Which is Lost"!