HI guys, next chapter is here this is pretty flashback heavy but I hope you'll stay with me.

Okay time for the shout out thanks to:

Natuala X: True that is what Lucia is. And the mystery man I drop another clue in this chapter try and guess before next chapter.

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Paces of Memories.

Lucia grabbed her chest, as fire seemed to flare up, while she stumbled away from the people around her, "no not now," she weakly said, as she tried to clap her hands to stabilize her heart. However she was shaking too much to even try, "please… not now… I still have…"

She stumbled into an alley, where she collapsed onto her back, "looks like… this is it…" she softly said, she began to close her eyes. As she felt her consciousness slip, she felt someone come close to her; she judged it to be someone running.

"H..." she heard a voice said a man appeared in her field of vision looking down at her in worry. Her glazed over eyes looked into his, for a second Lucia was hallucinating; believing she knew the person.

"Sorry" she weakly said, as her consciousness finally slipped to the feeling of someone shaking her trying to make her stay awake, "Al… Ed…"

.~*~.

"She's waking up," a female voice said, as Lucia opened up her eyes, 'Lucia', she was so sure of her name and yet… where was she… why did her entire body hurt so badly?

"Little miss, are you with us?" a male voice said. Lucia turned her slim and barely awake consciousness towards the voice, a man with mainly black hair, but the edges around it were graying for some reason. As she looked at him, he smiled, "she's awake, but it seems not to be fully"

"Can't you just use that miracle of yours?"

"I could, but she could get a shock from it if I do. No, it would be best for her body to adjust and heal on its own," the man said, "now all we have to do is wait for her to come fully around, so we can find out what happened to her."

Lucia's eyes glided over her surroundings, as she moved her eyes away from the male and female. She understood little of what they were talking about. While her eyes moved around she worked out her body; the pains were beginning to faint allowing her a better sense of what was wrong. She could move her legs even if just a little and right arm seemed to respond as well. Only her left arm seemed oddly unreplying, she looked down seeing no arm at all.

"Wha…" her voice was shocked, making both the female and the male turn around, looking at her, as the younger girl took in the fact; that she had no arm on her left side; only a metal port, "what happened? Where am I?"

Lucia finally woke up in fullest, as she took the place in, "easy, calm down, what is the last thing you remember?"

Lucia opened her mouth ready with an answer, but she frowned closing her mouth. Her face showing confusion and clear distress, "I don't know…" she said, "everything is white, there's something in front of me. But I can't see… what it is clearly"

The man frowned, "what else other than that?"

"Nothing… that's all I remember," Lucia looked at him with tears in her eyes, "along with my name, nothing else is there."

"Okay, then let's start with your name" the man said.

"Lucia, Lucia Misère," she replied, while trying to remember. All it did was strengthening the memory of the mysterious room, "now will you please answer my questions, sir?" she asked with a gentle tone, that still held some of the old edge of her voice, that much she was sure off too.

"Right, we don't know what happened to you. I found you a month ago in the next town over, but no one would help me, so I patched you up, the best I could at the time and brought you here."

The woman came over, "you were already patched up a bit, before he found you, that much we know, but you have been here a month. How long you were on your own before we don't know?"

"But my arm, what…?" she was confused.

"Perhaps you lost it in the war in Ishbal, many fates have been lost there," the man said Lucia shook her head, that much she was sure of even without her memory, "you didn't lose it in the war, and how can you be sure?"

She shrugged still shaking her head, before she looked up at him, "who are you by the way?"

"My name is Tim, Tim Marcoh; I took you in, when I found you"

"So I will be let go again," Lucia said looking away.

"No," Tim said firmly, "I saved your life and had you prepared for an Automail arm. I will help you figure out, what happened to you, I have something's to make up for…"

Lucia frowned, as she looked at him; things to make up for what did he mean?

.~*~.

Lucia blinked weakly, her vision was cloudy and blurred, as she attempted to make sense of what she had just seen in her memory.

How long had it been since then? She had been taken in under Marcoh's wing training and learning to use her arm. She had been nearing eight, when they found her; it had taken her a bit long to figure out to use the arm and when they had talked alchemy. Lucia had without thought clapped her hands and smacked them into the ground, shocking Marcoh before herself, as she realized what she had done.

"Easy now," a male voice said, as she shortly woke, but she was so out like a light again, her chest was hurting so bad and she was in no position to tell.

.~*~.

"Brother, you shouldn't have been sleeping like that" Lucia heard a voice say, she knew it. She turned around from what she was buying, before returning to look at it.

The Elric Brothers.

"Oh, so it's my fault, that we missed that train, I told you to wake me up," a second voice came, "come on give me a break, Al. The Colonel is whipping me again all becau…" his voice vanished from hearing range, which made Lucia ready to blot after them.

"Are you going to buy that? It's a rare book" the merchant in front of her said, she looked at him, before looking down at the book; Medical Alchemy of a writer, Lucia didn't know; someone named Edward Misell.

"Yes, I'll take it" she quickly said, before paying more than the price and running off.

"Hey! Your Change!" the merchant called, but Lucia didn't hear him. She had to follow them, even if she knew, it was wrong. Her heart was telling her to do it, it wasn't the first time; she had seen the pair more frequently after she transferred to the Eastern Command, but she had never worked up the final courage to talk to them, instead she learned a lot about them.

They shared a deep pain, which much was clear. But Lucia could hear that Edwards one leg was an artificial one as well as his right arm, he slept much more than the younger, if the younger brother slept at all. She had come into the library one cold evening, when she had been unable to sleep herself, seeing the elder sleep and the younger writing away.

There were also the way, the elder would look at the younger with guilt and pain in his eyes, which were gone, when Alphonse would turn.

In those days Lucia was envious of them, but after seeing Ed's eyes, she felt it fade replaced by something else that she couldn't explain.

.~*~.

The envy had turned to affection and a deeper desire to get to know them, but her shyness had still remained, preventing her from talking to them like it had so many before them. But there was something about them, something her heart was drawn to, not that she would ever be sure.

.~*~.

"Hey Lucia, what are you looking at?" a voice called her to attention, as she was watching one of her maps. She had shortly looked up spotting Maes Hughes curious gaze at her map.

"I'm just looking into riots and wars on the Amestrian territory, since it was founded around 400 years ago" Lucia said, taking one of her note books up.

"What has your interest on that?" Hughes sounded surprised, before looking into her notebook over her shoulder, "you got a firm grip on most of the history of Amestris"

Lucia looked at him, before nodding, "it's a funny desire, I came to have after I became a State Alchemist," Lucia wrote a note to something under one of her sections, "but there isn't much in here about Wars and Riots, I only know a few, but they are actually recent."

Hughes looked at the map, "yeah, Ishbal and Liore," he frowned, looking at the map, before looking at Lucia, "you know, I got all that information in the archive in the Investigation department, If you want to look into it"

Lucia lit up, it would really help ease her mind, if she could get access to those files, "really, would that be okay?"

"You aren't exactly one of those we have to pick up after" Hughes said, Lucia laughed a genuine laugh; she hadn't had in a long time.

"True I tend to heal them picking up after myself," Lucia said smiling, "would it be okay if we went there now?"

"Sure, then I can tell you all about my Angel~!" he said, Lucia just smiled weakly, she felt it was good to have someone to come home too.

Hughes had, after Lucia had found all her information and written it down, asked her to come home to them and sleep the night, Lucia had however kindly declined, but asked if she could take him up on the offer some days later.

That was just days, before Hughes had been killed.

.~*~.

Was it her fault? Was she the reason Hughes had been killed? All Lucia could do, was ask those questions. She knew he had visited the Elric Brothers the day after, she had and from what she could gather, he had briefly mentioned her name, but at the time she wasn't at the hospital or HQ, but out talking with a fellow State Alchemist on sharing an Apartment, since she had had enough of the dorms, too many came with little injuries, which they wanted her to heal.

"Hughes, I'm Sorry," she weakly said to herself.

.~*~.

"Come on, Medical get a punch in," a male voice said, as Lucia was kneeling gasping a bit, before getting up avoiding a fist coming her way, "good Lucia, you're reacting faster now, but not fast enough."

Lucia frowned, before managing a sidestep, she was unaware, she could perform. The larger male looked at her in surprise, as she took the chance to place a punch to his face, sending him flying.

"Lucia Misère, where did you learn that move?"

"I don't know it just came to me, Armstrong" Lucia looked over at her sparring partner, who was sitting looking at her, she looked at his face and saw that her punch had been with her left arm. She shook her head at herself, walking over and clapped, placing her hands on the cheek.

"I see, that's right, you have a substantial Memory loss," he said more as a reminder to himself, "but you walk forward like the Elric Brothers do, they have had a hard time."

"I know about their situation, but not their story," Lucia admitted, as she removed her hands sitting down next to, "when they were at the hospital after whatever happened before Hughes death, I met Alphonse, but I figured out long before that, that it wasn't his body inside the armor, but his soul."

Armstrong looked at her in surprise, "and I understood that Ed's missing limbs had something to do with it too" Lucia continued.

"Your researches have leaded you to the point of looking into human transmutation, hasn't it?" Armstrong said in a low voice, Lucia looked at him.

"It has, but I have never performed it. I have adapted some of the alchemy to mine, but never have it caused me to use it. I have always applied it on living humans, I used my own technique, I use for my heart, when I tried to save Hughes."

"Lucia, if I tell you something, what would you do with it?"

"I would listen, but never go on with it. It's not in my position to use information to blackmail or blacklist people," Lucia said, rising up to get something in her bag.

"The Elrics have performed Human Transmutation in the past," Armstrong's voice came from behind, Lucia froze turning around, "they lost their mother at a young age and thought to use human transmutation to bring her back, but they failed, both were thrown into a white room, before…"

"…black hands took them into a large gate," Lucia finished unintentionally.

"Yes, Edward lost his Leg, while Alphonse lost his body and in the bonding of his brothers soul to the armor; Edward sacrificed his arm to do it," Armstrong finished he saw Lucia's eyes, "we can only imagine how both of them felt."

Lucia placed her hand to her heart, "funny thing is; I do" Lucia said, lifting her left arm, "but another sad thing is that it's what I can't remember."

"What are you talking about?"

"My heart knows the ache, but my head can't remember it" Lucia said, before tears streamed down her face, "why can't I remember, I have tried everything; looked into any kind of research related to the memory, but nothing came from it."

Armstrong got up and over to the distressed girl, before kneeling hugging her, not the bear hugs he usually gave. But a gentle and light hug, that spoke enough to Lucia, who cried as she hugged him back.

.~*~.

Sweet and gentle.

Armstrong; a kind soul hidden and also expressed beneath a layer of muscles and uniform. Lucia would never be sure, what had prompted her to talk to him, mentioning her Martial arts. She wasn't an expert, but she was pretty much self-taught with some guidance from instructors, even a female she had happened to come across during a few months as a State Alchemist.

.~*~.

"What can I do for you?" a large muscleman said, Lucia looked up at him with a bit fear.

"Oh sorry," Lucia grabbed her bag to get her list of meat, she needed she had to stay at Dublith for a week or two due to some books that had come her way and she needed to study them, but first she needed something to eat, "oh shoot!"

A book and her watch had fallen out of her back, as she had found the list, "you are a State Alchemist?" the man said. Lucia looked up at him; he looked at her in some anger, "why are you here?"

"I … I" Lucia was frightened, but bit her tongue to talk, "I'm here to study some books, I had bought," she grabbed the one, that had fallen out her backpack, "see?" she showed it to him, "Medical Alchemy, I'm not like the rest, I work hard for my research."

"So we have a State Alchemist here?" a female voice said, Lucia turned her head looking at a woman with multiple braids in her dark hair, her eyes were slim as she watched Lucia, before their eyes met and she judged Lucia.

"Yes, I'm sorry, if you dislike them, but I'm not here to cause trouble, I'm here to buy some meat, I can cook and eat" Lucia said, stating what she was doing there.

"It's alright Sig, this young Lady doesn't seem to be like the rest of-"the woman cut herself of as she began to cough falling to her knees. Lucia was shocked, as she saw blood coming out the woman's mouth. Lucia quickly came over clapping her hands, before gliding them up and down the woman, whose husband was watching the young girl in shock; the woman had the same look, as she stopped coughing.

Lucia looked sadly at the woman, as she was done sensing, "I'm sorry there's nothing, I can do for you" she said, as she leaned back, before bowing her head, "you are missing organs. I might be good, but I can't bring Organs forward."

The woman grabbed Lucia's left hand, pulling the sleeve back, "what did you try to bring back?"

"Eh?" Lucia was shocked, what was she talking about? "I'm sorry"

"You clapped your hands; you can only do that if you have done something to bring someone back"

"I don't know that, I have amnesia," she said saddened.

Lucia had learned the woman's name to be Izumi and the man Sig. They had actually invited her to stay for dinner that night, so they could hear her story, both had been surprised about it, but also encouraged her to not give up.

The following day Lucia had seen Izumi train her martial artes and had observed her, before Izumi despite saying, she didn't take apprentices took Lucia in giving her a Crash course in her Martial Artes.

To say Lucia didn't learn anything was an understatement, she learned a lot, even proved being able to stand her ground, however was sent flying in the end.

.~*~.

"come on, sleepyhead" a female voice called, Lucia woke up looking through slim eyes, as she had just woken, "the time of today isn't to be spend in a bed Lucia"

"Come on, …" Lucia said, "Just a few more minutes."

"No, you are supposed to show me that Alchemy, which you were looking into yesterday"

"Dad said not to" Lucia said sitting up.

"Lucia, does dad know better than me?" the girl in front of Lucia said, "He and mom never has shown you any kindness or affection"

"Why haven't they …?" Lucia said with a low voice, as footsteps sounded.

Eyes turned to look at Lucia, but the figure in front of her was blurred, before the figure looked to the door, "their reason is something only they know, I wasn't near you, when you were born" the female voice was sad and filled with hate towards the footsteps.

An older female voice called a name, which Lucia wasn't able to hear, but the surname stuck, "… Misell"

.~*~.

Lucia came to after a long string of memories had come to her, "Misell, I need to find Misell" she moaned, she felt a coldness return to her forehead, as her still blurred vision turned and saw golden eyes look at her. A slight frown came over her face, as she tried to take him in, "Edward?"

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