SCARLETT
Ed and Al were in the library. She had decided to wait outside for them.
May was accompanying Scar... She's vanished, meaning she probably left to reunite with him... Tracking her would prove easy...
Sighing, she put her head in her hands. "Damnit, why can't I stop thinking about him?" she groaned.
"Why? Do you love me?"
He had said that to her, once upon a time. A long tome ago. They were younger then, and didn't have accurate views on the world.
Protecting the Elrics is priority Alpha. Scar can be priority Beta.
But that doesn't work out!
She groaned, flopping back on the stairs. "What's taking them so long? It shouldn't take almost a whole freaking hour to find a few measly books!" she complained.
"Scarlett?..."
"About time! I was starting to think you two had gotten kidnapped or something!" she snapped, sitting up and turning around. "Uh, who's this?"
"Selim, this is Scarlett, our body-guard. Scarlett, this is Selim Bradley..." Ed said nervously.
"Oh my... I really wanna hit you now." she sighed, running a hand through her silver hair.
"If you're their body-guard, why do you want to hit them? That seems a little backwards, don't you think?" the young boy asked.
"Nah, I hit them all the time when I get annoyed. After all, you need to discipline kids that misbehave." she sighed, standing up.
That boy isn't a boy... He's not what he appears, much older and stronger... But his shadow... What are these results?
The bars, graphs and other data in her eyes was all pointing to his shadow, screaming at her that it was important...
No... He... Is the shadow, that human body is just a vessel to hold all of it in!
Selim Bradley is a Homunculus!
She hid her shock and fear, following the Elric brothers and the little boy. She couldn't tell them. They'd freak!
She couldn't tell anyone!
Damnit! Helpless once more!
SCAR
May and Marcoh were traveling directly North. He and Yoki were taking a more Western route to throw the military off the scent.
But he couldn't get his mind off Yuuki!
She hadn't seemed human during that fight. Her eyes had been animal, her face livid with anger, and her body ripped apart with long silver weapons protruding from inside.
Yuuki...
"Why? Do you love me?"
"I don't know! Do I love you?"
She answered with a smile on her face, and used his image to pull through all the years of torture she'd gone through. What else could it add up to?
He almost sighed. Why couldn't he stop thinking about her? She was the enemy now, and he shouldn't think about her.
SCARLETT
"Scarlett?"
She looked away from the window. "What now?"
"What are you thinking about?" Al asked.
She turned back to the window, not answering. Al sighed, looking down. "Scar." she finally answered.
"What? Why're you thinking about him?" Ed almost wailed.
She was silent, looking out the window at the land-scape rolling past. "I don't know. You tell me."
"I can't answer something like that! I do't know what goes on in your head, I'm not a mind-reader!" Ed yelled. He recoiled away from her as she rapped her knuckles on his skull. "And would you please stop that? It hurts!"
"I know. That's why I do it." she answered.
"I don't know! Do I love you?"
That seemed a million years ago, but it felt like yesterday...
"Edward, Alphonse..."
"Hmm?" "What do you want?"
"Why do you want your old bodies back?"
They were silent, stunned by her question. "Care to elaborate on that?" Ed asked.
"No..." She sat up, facing them. "Look at all the things that have saved you because of your bodies now. Ed, you could be a thousand times dead right now if it weren't for your auto-mail. Al, if you live long enough, you can share things with ten generations from now that could greatly benefit them. There are reasons to not get your bodies back as well as to get them back..."
"She's right, Brother..." Al said softly.
"Yeah... Why didn't we look at it that way?"
They seemed a little confused about what to do now. Then Ed stood up. "Scarlett, why do you do stuff like that? Why do you always try to see both sides?" he sighed.
"I am both sides. I try to be what I am. Two forces in one, Alchemy and Ishvalan, organic and inorganic, human and metal. It only makes sense that I try to see both sides of every argument. Doesn't it?" she pointed out.
"Damnit, that's true too..."
"So, why do you want your bodies back?"
"I want to feel again. I want to be able to eat, sleep, and actually do things that I can't do in this body." Al answered.
"I can't answer that question. I don't see anything that's truly wrong about my auto-mail, but I do want my real limbs back." Ed said softly.
"See? There are two sides of every coin. Destruction and construction, right and wrong, good and bad. You know, the evil ones aren't normally evil? They're just different. Is what they do really wrong, impure or bad? For some, the answer is definitely yes, but to others, give it a little thought." she said, turning back to the window.