Ch. 13- Damned.

Ed felt Roy get up from under him...

He was really tired, so he just decided to pretend he was asleep...

He heard Roy said he was going to the bathroom.

After Roy left Ed sat up, and looked out the window, he kept hearing loud noises.

"Ugh probably a damn cat...I better get back to sleep before Roy comes back." He didn't want Roy to feel bad for waking him up.

He collapsed back onto the bed.

"Night...Roy..."

*SLIDE*

He heard the window slid open...

"Hey what the...!" He shot up, looking in the direction of the window.

He suddenly felt a sharp pain shoot through his back.

"Nighty Night Kid..." a voice said.

"Damnit..." Ed fell onto the floor.

The strange person pulled him through the window.

"No!" Roy punched the floor hard, again and again.

"Mr. Mustang! Whats going on! You being really loud!" Rose and her parents came into the Hallway...

"Mr...Mustang..." Rose looked at Roy and saw that his eyes were wet...he was crying.

"What's going on?" Rose's father asked.

"Ed...Ed's..."

"Mr. Mustang...where's Ed?" The mother asked, placing her hand on Roy's shoulder.

"He's GONE! Can''t you see that he's not in there! DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT! I was Supposed to protect him DAMNIT DAMNIT...DAMNN..." He punched the floor again and again.

"Mr. Mustang, hurting yourself won't bring Ed back..." Rose knelt beside him, grabbing his hand.

"Rose..."

She saw the pain in his cool midnight eyes.

'He...loves...' She understood why the colonel had been acting so strange at dinner. She wanted to say sorry.

"Mm, Excuse me, thankyou for your kindness, but I have to go look for Ed, Now." He pulled himself together, and stood up.

"We'll help look for him too..." All three members of the family said.

"No...this is too dangerous, I have to search alone." He gave them a serious look.

"But...Ed" Rose stepped forward, but her father placed his hand on her shoulder.

"No Dear, the colonel says its to dangerous, we musn't interfere." He nodded his head at Roy.

"Thankyou, for everything." Roy ran into the room, changed quickly, then ran down the stairs and out the door.

"Ed...I'm coming."

He had no idea where he was supposed to look.

Then he remember the 'drunk' person he'd seen on the street.

"Damnit, I such a fool"

He knew that the man had something to do with this.

"The old women, she was the only one we've spoken to other than Rose, and her parents"

He ran to Madame Oathe's shack.

"Madame Oathe! Madame Oathe." He shouted outside the curtained door.

"Ohhhhh" A soft groaned answered his call.

Roy ran inside, and saw that the place was in shambles.

"Madame? Where..."

"Ov-er-H-re" Someone said softly.

Roy saw her on the floor half covered in a red quilt.

He bent down over her, and picked up the quilt.

It was wet.

With Blood...

"What happened here!" Roy knew this had something to do with Ed's disappearance.

"I'm sorry...I had to tell-them..." She mumbled.

Roy took her up into his arms.

"Them! Tell Them!" He was getting more nervous.

"I'm-sorry-" She grabbed Roy's hand and patted it lightly.

"THEM! WHOSE THEM! WHAT DID YOU TELL WHO!" Roy was angry, and upset.

He shook the old women by the shoulders. Back and Forth.

But he wouldn't get another answer.

She was gone.

"Damnit! Damnit!.." He began to cry out again.

He looked down at the old woman, and saw she'd been stabbed three times.

"Who could have..." He tried to relax himself, with little success.

His eyes widened as he came to a realization.

He dropped he old women.

"Shit, they're here...and they know what we are here for..."

He ran down the street back to where he'd seen the person wobbling down infront of the window.

Roy saw that there was a store open on the street, and luckily the clerk was still inside.

"Excuse me...He tapped the man on the shoulders."

"Oh! Yes Sir, what can I do for you."

"Have you seen anything strange in the past hour?"

"Strange, like how?"

"Umm...Did a little blond boy walk in here with a man?" He looked at the man, hoping to god that Ed had been in here.

"A little blond boy and a man? Hm.."

Roy saw the man thinking, and then saw him flash with recognition.

"Actually yeah, only the kid was with a women, and she was holding the kid in her arms, she said he's had a little to much to drink, he was passed out like a light."

"A women...but I only saw a man..."

He came to yet another realization

"DAMNIT...!"

"Sir, is something wrong.?"

"You have know fucking Idea."

Roy didn't have time to be polite.

"Which direction did they go?"

The man pointed down the street.

"I asked the women if she wanted me to walk her home, you know, cuz streets could be dangerous for kids and pretty women, but she said she lived near the docks, which is pretty close so I left it there."

"The docks!" Roy was happy that he had a lead, but he knew something was wrong THEY would never blatantly just tell someone where they were hiding.

"Yes sir, too bad though, If she didn't have that little brat, I'd have totally asked her..."

Ed grabbed the guys collar.

"DON'T YOU FUCKING CALL HIM A BRAT!"

"Geez man settle down"

Roy punched him in he face, he was really angry.

"Get the fuck out of here you crazy.."

The clerk was yelling at nothing.

Roy already went out the door, and he was heading to the docks.

"Ed don't do anything that'll get you killed, Please I'm coming!"

He ran as fast as he could.

"Edward...I'm coming."