A/N:
Wow, I'm still alive. I actually get my butt on and continued after so long! Not that anyone read this anyway.. personal preference action.. I guess I pretty much failed on my English, my grammar, my vocabulary... It was so difficult to write, never rush an writer.. really.. All this while, when writing, I keep having feeling that I didn't put in enough detail explanation. Or I'm forgetting or lacking some detail to make this chapter look better... Urgh... Ok.. Enjoy reading.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist/Brotherhood

Enjoy!

Chapter 5

Trapped

-.-.-

After few holes in the wall, few seconds of alchemical light in the dim room, loud and quick frantic footsteps echo from the hard floor with each step. Roy Mustang once again in life had to do what Riza wanted.. Because, well.. Damn woman and their mother instinct at sake, it made them even scarier than usual.

He decided he will get back to Ezren later on.

"Did you found anything?" Riza lowered her cup after a sip.

Sat across her was Roy at the clean dinning table, cleaned by Roy earlier on under Riza's wrath, he took a sip of his black coffee. Gathering his thoughts as he placed the cup on the table and looked at his Lieutenant. "Cirle this name doesn't exist, not found in any registered document that our military archive stored." Roy frowned as he continued, "Falman gave a harmless remark of the name that I don't think is possible but at the same time it's plausible."

"What did he say?" She questioned.

"The spelling of the name is C-I-R-L-E, do those five letter matches some name that we know?" He replied heavily.

Riza gasped, but took a sip of her tea after the realization. "Guess we landed something big again."

"I suppose.." 'I'm kind of looking forward when Fullmetal came into the picture." Roy smirked slightly.

'What should I do?'

'What am I suppose to do?!'

'There's no hints or any of the sort, how am I suppose to know what to do!'

Ezren growled in her mind, frustrated and confused. She had no idea how to act and what to say and what not to say. Hugging herself tight on the bed, she shivered, be in a foreign place does not calm her at all. In fact it made her more anxious.

'Okay, hold on. There is hint actually.. More like forced to do, to fall in love with-'

Ezren could not completed her mind sentence when she felt a rush of hatred and disgust. She hated him, there no doubt right? She sighed, removing him from her thoughts. She wondered how's her family doing.. Surely they are worried about her sudden disappearance during the eclipse. Even it was only just one day here, she already felt very homesick. The pang of pain stabbed her heart when she think home.

Grinding her teeth, she wrapped the blanket around her and tried to go for some shut eye.

-.-.-

"..."

"...H"

A pair of hand shook Ezren on the shoulder. 'Huh?'

"Hey brat, wake up!"

"Wha-?!" Ezren blinked open in surprised and sat straight up almost immediately after she opened her eye. She turned to the direction of the source. Standing there was Mustang in his military uniform with black trench coat, prepared and is ready to leave for work anytime soon. He looked highly amused but returned to stern looking as he say.

"We are leaving for work. Be good and stay here, you look like a trouble magnet. So. Please, do not sneak out.

"What? You are leaving a total stranger in your property?" Ezren asked curiously.

"In-case if you do not realize, you look nowhere to go, correct me if I'm wrong." He retorted.

"..." She flipped her face, pouting.

"I will say it again. Do not go anywhere, your look itself is enough to attract unwanted attention." With that, he turned and leave Ezren behind with Riza at the door for work.

Clang

"!"

"Nowhere to go." Ezren flinched at those words, did he realized what she say yesterday night was fake? If that was the case, she couldn't stay here anymore. Throwing the cover off her, she stood and left to find her wet clothes from yesterday. Using alchemy to alter them into something that is more similar to this timeline, she left Hawkeye apartment.

Standing outside of the building, stood Ezren with her new outfit. Maroon red, short sleeved T-shirt with double black lining on the edge, black short that is above her knee length. Finished up with a black coat with red lining as a matching design to her shirt. She pulled the hoodie from the coat over her head to hide her hair and strayed off farther from the building.

Just walking through the busy streets of Central gave Ezren a whole new impression, she never knew it was this much changes from now and then. Everything here look rural, or more precised modern ancient. The future had all the advanced building and the only thing that remained is the big clock-tower, before alchemy was forbidden and science replaced alchemy.

"So this is the scenery of Alchemy Era."

It may seem old, but Ezren already grown fond of this time. Everyone is so friendly, well.. Majority of them are. Unlike her time where everyone scowled and completed with each other daily and show off their authority and wealth. The people here smiled kindly at any passer-by who nodded their head in greeting, regardless strangers or not. Ezren smiled for the first time here, influenced by the warmth atmosphere.

She stopped at a nearby park to take a break, funny how there was fresh water fountain for public usage. She sat on one of the bench in the park, observing and taking in the happening of everything, she felt at ease, any anxious from before disappeared for now.. Till her stomach remind her of something, she doesn't have any money for food.

'Shit...' Ezren thought dejectedly.

Ezren dejected state was cut short when someone suddenly placed their hand on her shoulder from behind, startled Ezren squealed out in surprised and whipped her face behind. Only to come in contact with a pair of crystal clear emerald, kind and gentle orbs. It was a lady in her late twenties, dressed in violet overall and beige blazer. She had short hazelnut hair that is cut as a bob style, the side fringe framed her facial shape to look smaller and rounder. She gazed at Ezren kindly with a warm smile.

'I-Is this Gracia Hughes?!'

Staring at her in astonishment, she gaped slightly. Gracia Hughes seem to noticed the surprise in the eye and tilted her head in confusion, did she get the wrong person? Couldn't be, she was one hundred percent sure that it was Edward's silhouette. Plus he did look like Edward, why were he looking at her like she had grown a seconds head? She glances at him, did Edward changed from his usual attire? When she were about to question him-

"Gracia Honey! There you are!" Maes Hughes proclaimed loudly while running over to her.

Instantly, Ezren got a cold feet. ' .Bad.'

"Honey, please don't disappear from my sight like that, you'll give me heart attack!" Hughes cried dramatically as he swung both his arm like a kid. Hughes was wearing black long sleeved shirt with gray trousers.

Gracia chuckled as she explained, "Sorry dear, for scaring you, I thought I saw Edward here alone."

"That can't be, the Elric are out since days ago for a mission." Hughes said as he turned over to Ezren to confirmed and he froze.

'Shit... He know.' Ezren internally swear. Should she find ways to escaped? But who could ESCAPED from him!

Gracia blinked, Hughes had suddenly lost all his cheeriness for a second. Ezren gulped nervously, how wish she had took Mustang advice and stay back. Hughes grabbed Ezren arms unexpectedly and dragged her along, together he pulled his wife's hand. Grinning joyfully he declared.

"Ed, you ungrateful brat, you should have visited me when you were back from your mission, ONCE IS ENOUGH." He mumbled more stuff as he walked toward the direction of his house. Gracia gave a 'I'm sorry' gestured as both of them was being dragged. But the force on Ezren arm was more than enough to tell her that he had other plan than house visiting, she inwardly grimaced as she think about what may happened later.

Hughes house was huge, larger than Hawkeye. It was located nearer to the Central Headquarter in the south-east while Hawkeye was in the south-west. The living room was decorated nicely with green sofa, coffee table, displayed shelf sided with bookshelf, dinning table right by the entrance to kitchen and corridor down to bedroom and guestroom if Ezren were to guessed.

There was one plus point being in Hughes house.. You don't leave without gaining few pounds. With all the good food, it is amazingly how all of them managed to kept their slim figure. Gracia had whipped few good dishes within half an hour and leave both Ezren and her husband with a six-month pregnancy, not that any of them mind. Their daughter won't be back until evening, so Gracia don't leave to fetch her till later. After their pregnancy had disappeared, Ezren relaxed in the dinning table while Hughes walked over and whispered something to Gracia on the sofa, she nodded in understanding and at the same time, the door bell rang. She goes and answered, to greet whoever is at their door automatically and stared in surprised, Mustang stand there with usual endearing smile, still dressed in his military uniform.

"Good day, sorry to interrupt on Hughes off day, but he called me here."

With the initial shock from unexpected visitor calmed, she replied in understanding.

"Good day to you Roy, I'll be out to fetch my baby girl." She turned back in and ordered her husband. "Dear, take care of our guests okay? No pictures showcase." She winked as she took her purse and left. Leaving one overbearing papa, one charming playboy and one imposter alone in the house.

-.-.-

What have she done to deserved this treatment, Ezren mentally cringed. A good ten minutes of silence had passed since Gracia left. All the men did was stay in eye contact with each other as if having a conversation via telepathy. Ezren sighed softy, she remembered the disappointed gazed in Mustang's eye as he enter the house and upon finding her here. She almost tears up in stress, she wanted to go home, screw Truth and his fucked up logic. Now all she wanted to do is just go home, it that something so hard to hope for? She didn't asked for a time travel at all. Thank you Truth. Now she had to endured all this anxiety, alone.

Mustang sat there quietly as his best friend stared at him for explanation. He had to admitted that he felt slightly annoyed that his instruction was ignored. But here he are, in his best friend house, in this situation where he himself had no idea what to do, to tell or not to tell, to shared or not to shared, that the question. He intercepted his finger in a praying position and he leaned his elbow on the table, supporting his chin as he sighed perplexedly.

From the park where he glanced at the person that look like his so-called son, Ed. Hughes immediately raised his guards and instinctively took this person back, because the canny resembled are too dangerous for him to be wondering around. He thought it was a good idea to alert Roy about it, but he noticed the reaction from earlier, the expression he shown when he saw him. Look like Roy already knew this person, he was feeling puzzled actually, the lack of information is driving him nuts and he was desperate to find out.

"Hughes..." Mustang started, grabbing Hughes attention.

"I should probably cleared out one point for you, in case you were thinking that he is a he, reality, he was a she."

Hughes froze in shock, his eye widen and eyebrow croaked, okay, hold on a seconds, it's a girl? That explained the non-automail feels when he kidnapped her earlier. So she was not Ed. Then, who is she? She look freaking like Ed.

"Who is she?" Hughes managed to coughed out.

"Beat me, all I know was her gender, her name and know something more than us." He decided to leave out the homunculus part for now.

"Her name?"

"Ezren Cirle. She was found by Lieutenant, yesterday night in the storm."

'Circle huh..' Hughes thought and gave Mustang a knowing glanced. He took his time and properly observed Ezren once more. Now that he slowed down and looked, he realized that the resembled is definitely something scary, but there is still angles that shown a feminine version of Ed.

Ezren felt that she's like a display trophy recently, so many intensively stared at her. She was a girl, it feel violated and awkward being stared at. Hughes seem to noticed the tension in her, he switched his glance to his hand on the table. Hughes was a father, he should be making a child feel safe with him than opposite. Then he got an idea.

"Ezren." Hughes called.

"Yes?"

"Do you trust or don't trust us?" Hughes asked seriously.

Mustang looked at Hughes, that was one straightforward question. Man. He is feeling a little nervous while he anticipated how will this goes.

"I-I don't know.." Ezren timidly said. It true alright, knowing them in anime doesn't mean she knew them in real life. For her, they are still considered strangers at this point, maybe kidnapper for Hughes.

Hughes paused the conversation by taking off his specs, cleaned the fog with his shirt and putting them back to their original place.

"Ezren, we knew that your last name is not Circle, but Elric." Hughes stated with a cold glint.

"Brother? Brother wake up!" Alphonse Elric, the boy in armor (A/N: Man in suit... Oops) shaking his drooling, dead to wonderland brother. They had arrived at Central Station.. But his brother is currently sleeping like a baby.. He sighed as he pulled Edward forward, gravity pushed him down and crashed face down, hard on the floor.

"Owwww!" Edward Elric sat up and groaned, rubbing his sore chin while glaring at his baby brother.

"You had me no choice Brother." Folding his arms, Al explained.

Resisting the temptation to protest, Ed grabbed his luggage and make his way to the exit. Al followed quietly behind. Once out at the train platform. Ed stretched his arm, his red coat floated along with the cool breeze. Gold lock sweep against his skin. He had been losing sleep for a few nights when they are out for mission, not that it is something serious. So he tried get as much of sleep during the day instead.

"We are back."

"Yeah, but first.. You have to submit your report." Al reminded.

That straight away took all of Ed motivation, he slouched in dejection, bang covered his eye. He grumbled something unknown like, bastard and useless in rain. Al sweatdropped at his Brother behavior. Even when his Brother didn't tell how had he been losing sleep, he still know.. Call it a brother instinct, you see, Al was always worried about his brother welfare.

-.-.-

"What? He's not here?" Ed said, they had arrived at Colonel Bastard office in the headquarter to submit his report, but the news of him being absent when he is always here, took him by surprised.

"Sorry Edward, But Lieutenant Hughes call for him earlier." Hawkeye informed. Looking up from her work, the Elric Brother stood there not knowing what to do.

"Boys, can you do me a favor? Can you deliver this document to the Colonel at Lt. Hughes house?" Hawkeye asked while pointing to the document beside her. Hawkeye's guts feeling tell her, the reason why Hughes called for Mustang. And she think it proper to sent Edward along the way for the case. Hopefully it would settled peacefully if she dropped the Elric brother over.

"Okay." Ed took the document.

Seeing as there nothing to do and both the brothers liked to helped out, especially for Lieutenant. They agreed. When they also doesn't want to bothered the rest of the crews while they are all writing furiously or focus on reading the paperwork at hand. They left the office with few of adults waving their hand silently to bid them 'see you'.

Hughes was dead crazy the moments the words leave his lips, that what Mustang thought the moment he heard them. That was one hell of a sentence that he been meaning to say but find no chances, is Hughes trying his luck or he really think Ezren is actually a Elric. Feeling bewildered, he massage his eyebrow. Gee, this situation is getting intense and deep.

Hughes icy demeanor chilled the room, Ezren shivered. Feeling cold when the taboo words was being said. She fidgeted in her seat, feeling really nervous. If any words could described her, it would be she wished to find a hole and buried herself in it. But now, the world love to see her overwhelmed by stress. She goes into brainstorm mode, Hughes knew or was he jumping conclusion? She didn't leaked anything about herself to anyone yet, except maybe the accident spill of homunculus. Hawkeye and Mustang found her yesterday, Hughes kidnapped her while thinking she were him. In those time before she gotten into this situation, Hughes did no investigation, he shouldn't have proof. Yes proof! That was her counter!

"You got no proof to said I'm a Elric, it can be I'm just a nobody who happened to look like the Fullmetal Alchemist." She rolled her eye at the title leaving her mouth.

That was a nice comeback, Hughes praised, rubbing his chin. His initial idea was to accused of her being a Elric, because human under high stress may leaked out some important information. But Ezren took it nicely and counter back, she can be difficult to be interrogated. Now, if he got some evidence to shown that she wasn't Cirle, than it possible to get her talking.

"I have my men to do some investigation yesterday, it was confirmed in Amestris. We have no Cirle Family." Mustang nonchalantly add on. He stared at Ezren, expecting her to cut the crap and out with the truth. Hughes gave a thankful smirk at the corner of his lips.

Uhh.. Uhh.. Shit, this is bad, real bad. Now that Mustang had said that, there are most likely no ways to save her own arse except to tell them. But could she really tell them? Ezren bit her lower lips, definitely stuck in this spot. She kept her gaze on her laps, feeling vulnerable and weak. A prey trapped in a lion den, those two look like they would pound on any available information that are about to be revealed.

"I... I don't know what to do.." She mumbled softly, still focused on her laps instead than holding eye contact, unable to withstand any judgment right now.

They kept quiet, not going to interrupted when they finally had her talking.. But life was never the gentlemen, mother nature are never the motherly.

Ding Dong

The door bell rang for the second time, Hughes goes as he was the only members of the house left. To see the Elric Brother behind the door caught him off guard.

"Ed? Al? You guys are back?" Hughes said curiously.

"Good evening Hughes. Lieutenant told us that we could find Colonel here, she specify requested us to help her in delivering this document to Colonel. The polite one clarity their intention on the visit.

'Fullmetal is back?' Mustang glanced at the doorway.

'Wait, what! He's here?!' Panic rushed to her head when she heard that they; he's here! This is one hundred percent without a doubt, dangerous situation for her! She wouldn't be able to flight if he seen her. Added him in, she fully aware that the secret would not kept as secret. They are sure gonna dug it out from her, how! What can she do? Hide? Hide seem like a good idea... For now..

Ezren attempted to escaped to the kitchen to prolonged her planned fate, but... They made themselves home too fast..

"Huh?" An hollow voice emitted from hallway, sounding surprised.

"Huh?" Another voice echoed from the hall way, highly dumbfounded.

Deadpanned. Yes, she was trapped. She slowly turned her head to face them..

Oh dear, Mustang can't kept the grin that been bugging to appeared off his face. Now that the most crucial element is here, let's get the talk started.

Hughes too, can't wait to know more about The Mystery of Ezren Elric Origin. He just naturally input Elric to Ezren last name, don't asked him why. Just felt it is a natural thing to do, Papa instinct.

Ezren began to understand that the Truth was really coming after her with many many trolling scenario. If he was deadset on making her insane, she do praised Truth for the job well done. She's amazed with herself, how much more could she take before snapping? Truth knows.

The Elric Brother are dumbfounded, when they realized this was not just simple delivery business, Ed gazed at Mustang for details. Al looked forth and back to his real Brother and look-alike brother. Hoping by doing so he could understand what's going on. One thing Al was very confident on, two Ed mean double the trouble.

A/N: Seem to be lacking of character personal own interaction if I focused too much on the thoughts..
My range of words is quite limited too... 'tears'