Roy just gritted his teeth as his wrists were tied down tightly to the armrest. He still had blood on his sleeves from carrying Aley's dead body up to the Fuhrer's office.

Riza was tied in the chair beside him.

Bradley patted Roy's arm as he backed away. "Now, tell me, what sort of threat did you think she was?"

Roy looked away, but his eyes found Aley's body on the coffee table.

Her arm was limply hanging over the edge of the table, blood dripping off the back of her knuckles. Her uniform jacket was open to show the blood from her head that had seeped into her white shirt. Her eyes were eerily open looking down.

"I stepped into your office and she was pinning you down and had scratched you."

Bradley touched his cheek where there were slight red abrasions. "Is that so? And you mistook her for a danger?"

"But-!"

Bradley held up a hand. "She was brought into my personal guard to test my men and take care of threats to my life at work." He went over to her body and moved her hand back onto the table. "Her main duty is to act as a private of the military as well as my personal helper. Under the surface, she's an alchemist that was awarded the title under strange circumstances during the clean-up of Ishval. She performed many clean ups of military bodies." He turned to the duo. "Do you know how she survived?"

There was silence.

Bradley raised his fist and brought it down hard on her ribs. The cracking echoed and there was silence as he moved to the door. He slammed it behind him.

The silence was starting to become anxious when they heard a soft exhale.

Aley's arm slowly came up and touched her face. There was a cracking sound as she moved, like her joints were stiff. She suddenly coughed and started to roll onto her side.

"Th-that's impossible!" Riza hollered, leaning forward. "I shot you! You're still alive?"

There was no answer as she hit the floor. She was slowly crawling towards them, backwards.

-GreedLing-

Ling's gasp startled Greed and he stopped on the roof of the building. "What?"

Ling suddenly sounded frantic. 'Hurry! I fear something's happened to her! Please!'

Greed shook his head. He tumbled down and through an open window into an office. He looked around and then stealthed his way through the hall and to a locked office. Greed couldn't just open it so, he backed up and kicked the door down.

There she was, covered in blood, slowly clawing her way up Roy's leg.

Her eyes were rolled back and the whites showed brightly against her bloody face. She reached up and grabbed Roy's collar as she pulled herself up. Slowly, her lips descended to his pinned arm.

She bit down.

'No. No!'

Greed's hand shot out and he pulled her back by the hair throwing her onto the table.

Roy hissed in pain and looked up. "What-?"

'Let me.'

Greed agreed and stepped into the shadows.

Ling shot forward and pinned her to the table when she opened her mouth. "Stop this!"

Bei's eyes suddenly rolled forward and she stared right into Ling's red eyes. Her violent blue eyes smiled at him as she lifted herself up to his face. "Stop what? I'm hungry. I want his energy."

"What?"

Ling was kicked off and Bei slid off the table and walked over to Roy. She leaned down and bit his shoulder.

Ling saw it then.

There wasn't a bite mark, she wasn't really biting in. She was absorbing the energy from his body. Like she used to absorb the Dragon's Pulse when she was a child. But she passed energy back, like she was giving and taking.

When she let go, Roy was sleeping. She moved to Riza, who was calling out the Cornell's name.

"What did you do to him?" she sobbed.

Bei touched Riza's face with gentle hands. "Sleep. Nothing will hurt you now." She leaned forward and her lips pressed to Riza's eye and the woman seemed to slack.

Bei stood up and rubbed the blood off her face before she turned to Ling. "How did you find me? I was disowned and thrown out to fend for myself."