9: Nightfall claims another.
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POV of Laura Fang
I'm on the train back for Central the next morning. Who knew I'd be so exhausted from the day before? Anyways the train pulls up and Hughes picks me up with Emi and Elicia.
"Hello sweet heart!" I pick up Emi and squeeze her. She giggles and rests her head on my chest. "I hope she wasn't too much of a problem Hughes. Thanks," he smiles
"Anytime. Elicia had fun while she was with us. Anyways we have things to talk about." I nod so we're at my office going over the records from Ishbal looking for anything. "How can this Douglas person even be alive and be the Fuhrer's secretary? Something's not adding up here." he howls frustrated. I sigh
"There's something definitely wrong here..." I flip through the hand written books thanks to freaking Scar burning the whole damn library to the ground. We call it a day so I'm outside with the shrimps seeing if they're advancing the way they should be when the Fuhrer comes out. We all salute him; he stands next to me.
"Well, Colonel Fang; you've been rounding up these shrimps quiet well. Maybe you'll be able to choose your own Lieutenant soon." He smiles at me so I nod.
"Thank you Sir. Now do you have any assignments for me Fuhrer?" he shakes his head and sets a hand on my shoulder
"No Colonel Fang; continue on." on that note he leaves. Armstrong comes over next to me and asks
"What's wrong Fang?" I watch the Fuhrer disappear from view before I answer him.
"The Fuhrer never regards me as Colonel Fang. It's usually as Fang or Lieutenant." I mumble. If what Hughes is telling me is true; then it means the Fuhrer's one too...
Hughes follows the Fuhrer's secretary down the hallway to his office. I can see what's going on because I placed an Illusion Seal on him before we left Central to be able to see what's going on. I'm outside at a near by park so that way they don't figure that we're setting up a sting.
"Don't hesitate to call me in Mae." I send to his mind, the Seal allows me to communicate to him directly despite our distances.
"I know. Laura, if for some reason I don't make it out, you need to find yourself a husband before you die."
"Oh shut up, don't say that. Get focused again if not they'll know something's up." I cut the conversation and check on what he's seeing. A fight breaks out within the hallway between him, another female and the secretary. He runs down the hallway with Lieutenant Ross.
"Get out of here Laura. Before the other one knows that you're here. Tell everyone at Central that something's up with the secretary." I get up from the bench I was at and I start running to where he is. There's no way I'm going to leave him. I find him on the floor with blood around him.
"Mae!" I lift his torso off of the floor and he groans. Blood gets all over me but I don't care. The tears break out and down pour on my face. "You're not going to die on me now! Just hang on!" I scream with despair in my voice. I pick him up and carry him on my back. I struggle with his weight and his breathing becomes weaker by the second. "Mae talk to me please." I plead as I try running to the nearest hospital or clinic here.
"Laura... I'm sorry..." he chokes out as his blood paints some of my hair red.
"No! Shut up! Talk to me about your little girl! She's four now right?!" I order as his blood starts weighing me down. I pick up the pace and we're turning a corner when he sounds like he's drowning. I kick down the door to the clinic and the employees rise.
"We're sorry but we're closed." the man barks but his eyes grow huge as he sees what's wrong. I get Mae down on the gurney as the people start trying to save his life. Mae rolls his head towards me
"There's so many things... I won't get to do... tell my family that I love them... and tell Roy I'm sorry... you both... need to get married..." and then his eyes roll back.
"MAE! NO!" I throw my fist against the gurney as he's dead.
"Time of death; 11:45 pm. We're sorry..." they pat my back as I sob but then take him away to the back room. The rays of sunlight bounce off of the windows hours later meaning I have to leave back to Central with Mae dead.
I bring myself to pick up the phone to break the news down to Roy. He's going to hate me for this but it's not like I can do anything about it. I dial the numbers and it rings
"Colonel Mustang." I swallow and try to keep myself together.
"Roy, it's me Laura. I have some bad news." My voice waters a bit so I bite down on my llip. He doesn't say anything so I continue. "Mae's dead." I blurt out and he drops the phone. I hear it when it crashes against his desk. He grabs it again and demands sourly
"What happened?" I explain to him what we were doing and he's quiet. "You let him die Laura..."
"Roy I swear I did everything I could to save him. He wanted me to tell you that he was sorry. And that before you die that you needed to get married. And what reason would I want him dead?! If I did to you think I'd be telling you this?" I reason so he snaps back
"I dunno. When are you going to finally stop lying and tell me the truth for once?" and he hangs up. I sink to the floor... He doesn't know! He can't! I glance down at my foot remembering the night of it all.
Flashback
"MOMMY! DADDY!" I scream as the smoke clears. Where my parents were a second ago are two beasts. Their eyes glow a faint purple and I hear a chuckle. Lauren and I cling onto each other in fear as the man comes to us.
"They've been turned into my own new creatures. They're Chimeras, the State will be happy about my latest creation." The man snickers.
"Shou Tucker! How could you?! They were your friends!" Lauren cries out as he stands in front of us.
"Because in order for the Transmutation to work; I need live subjects and I thought that they would have been the perfect ones. The stronger a bond you have with someone; the stronger the Transmutation to work. Now it's time for you." He reaches out for me; Lauren slams her hands down onto the hasty Transmutation Circle she drew. It manages to keep him away but I know not for long.
He lunges out for Lauren when the Chimera of Dad blocks Tucker's attack. He snarls as his lion body keeps Lauren and him separated. Mom stands next to Dad and looks back at us.
"Run." her voice sounds so depressed so Lauren drags me back to my feet and we make a run for it. I hear them scream as there's a flash of light from the lab. I'm about to head back there when Lauren pulls on me harder
"We got to make a run for it! If not we're dead too and Mom and Dad wouldn't be all too happy about that!" she screams so we run into the night.
Ever since that night... It's been the only reason why I joined the State. To kill Shou Tucker with my bare hands; I told Roy when we were chosen that I wanted to be an Alchemist Soldier for honor but if he knew... So does he now know?