The Waters Of Lethe
Disclaimer: I don't own FMA, I just like to play around in it's world and torture Ed for awhile.
Author's note: Post-series and very AU. Some movie events will happen, just not exactly as they did in the film.
Warning: May contain movie spoilers, also bad language, blood, violence, death and maybe sex.
Summary: Thanks to the distraction caused by the "riot", Edward has escaped detection and successfully fled from Munich to Vienna. But the reach of the Nazi Party is long, and Edward isn't out of the woods yet.
Beta: Kittygirl109
19. The Chase Is On
When he returned to work at six the next morning, Captain Kesslar finally got a piece of good news. A guard on platform ten remembered seeing a young man with long blond hair in a ponytail, and wearing a brown coat running to catch the last night train to Vienna. "He barely made it, Herr Captain," the guard recalled with a chuckle. "I really thought he had no chance but somehow he caught up and made the steps of the last car just before he ran out of platform. I won't soon forget determination like that!"
The Captain thanked him and walked quickly back to the station master's office to place two quick phone calls. First to Hess to tell him Elric had been seen boarding a train to Vienna, followed by a long-distance call to the main Vienna train station. Kesslar gave them a detailed description of Edward, the reason he was wanted and he also promised to wire them a current photograph of the young man. After a quick visit to the wire services office, he went back to his desk at the station police headquarters feeling very virtuous.
In the Munich headquarters of the Thule Society, Rudolph Hess made a phone call of his own, first to Nazi sympathizers in Vienna, who he ordered to get a couple of men over to the train station quickly. But he hesitated before calling Fraulein Eckart, she didn't rise before seven, and she didn't take kindly to being disturbed prior to that hour. So he set the receiver back onto it's cradle and cupped his chin in one hand, while he drummed the fingers of the other on his desk. He sighed once, and fantasized about Shambala...
Unfortunately for the two Nazis who raced to the Vienna station, the night train from Munich had pulled in ahead of schedule. While they searched the mostly emptied train, Edward was already at a ticket window, purchasing passage to his next destination: Milan, Italy. After disembarking from the train, Edward had decided to go south a little further before he struck east. Plus, breaking his journey into shorter legs would attract less attention
After he purchased his ticket, Edward had some time to kill before his train departed at eight, so he left the station and found a cafe which had just opened for the day. He ordered a mug of black coffee, and a croissant, Then he sat down at a table nearest the counter and flipped the pages of a day old newspaper in a desultory fashion. When his order was brought by a waitress, Edward dropped three lumps of sugar into the coffee and stirred it slowly, but his mind was elsewhere.