Roy Mustang's sister

Chapter 6

I walked to where Roy's apartment was, I put my key into the lock and turned it. Rogue padding along beside me, he had been depressed all the way here. But he was just as mad as Roy as I was, but I was depressed too. I had called my mother before coming here and told her everything, except for mine and Roy's argument. She'd just tell us to fix it, but you can't fix something that was completely destroyed.

I collected my things, hardly anything was at my mother's house, everything was here. So I packed it quickly, I didn't have too much, just clothes, boots, and books. So it all fit into my big messenger bag.

Once my room was bare I made the mistake of looking back at it, that's when I broke. I collapsed to the floor and cried, all my life I had looked up to my brother, done what he'd asked, everything, because I loved him. Then he tells me he's not my brother anymore, and it's my fault. It hurt, it stung, and it felt like I'd shoved a damn dagger into my heart.

Rogue sat next to me and offered comfort, which I gladly took, burying my face into his fur and sobbing. Eventually I calmed down and dried my tears, I had to hurry and get out of here, before Roy returned home. I looked out the window to see it was a fierce storm outside, it was either natural, or it was me. I hoped for the former, but the latter had happened before.

I took the key to this apartment out of my pocket, I stared at it before standing up, walking to the kitchen table, and setting it down in plain view. I didn't want to keep something that would only remind me of pain, that would be stupid, and I didn't want to cry over it again. I turned all the lights off again and stepped out of the apartment, I heard Roy's quick footsteps coming towards us so I ducked around a corner, not really wanting to talk to him yet.

He opened the door quickly and in the way that someone who wants to find something quickly does, he barreled through the door, leaving it wide open, and ran through his apartment. I started to sneak past when I heard him shout, "Dammit! She's gone! Dammit!" Then the sound of him hitting something, "And she left her key! I'm such an idiot." Yes you are, dwell on that for a while Roy.

I ran down the flights of stairs and out into the street, in a matter of seconds I was soaked. Rogue looked like a drowned rat and I would've laughed if I didn't feel terrible, instead, I ran to the hotel where the Elric's were staying.

After booking myself a room next to theirs I ran up the stairs, greeted their new 'guard dogs' since apparently Major Armstrong had to leave but they didn't want the Elric's unsupervised, and knocked on the door. Alphonse opened it and brought me in quickly, I shed my wet Alchemist robe and threw myself into a chair. Edward looked at me with a smug expression, "So, you're an Alchemist now?" I nodded, he grinned, "I bet your brother was happy about that." I gripped the armchair so hard my knuckles turned white, thunder boomed outside, "I don't have a brother, not anymore."

What happened next was chaos, Edward leapt up and demanded to know what happened, when I told them, Alphonse actually had to sit on him to prevent him from going and punching Roy. "Alphonse! Get off!" He shrieked, "I going to punch Mustang!" Alphonse desperately tried to get him to stop and yelled back, "Stop it Ed! You can't go punch the Colonel!" Edward stopped struggling and snapped, "And why not?!" Alphonse seemed to be at a loss for words so I spoke up, "Because, it isn't worth it. It won't change his decision. You've met with my Mustang more than once, you know that once he's made a decision he sticks with it. He won't change his mind, and he won't apologize either, his pride is too big for that. No, he'll simmer for a while and ignore me, eventually he'll start talking to me again. Just let it go for now."

Edward stopped and Alphonse slowly got off of him, I leaned back wearily, "In the meantime, what do you two have so far?" Edward sighed and started to explain about the Philosophers stone, a powerful stone that could heighten Alchemic power. They learned about the location where we might find clues because of a man named Dr. Marco, who had written down the ingrediants, it was supposed to be in the Library they went to earlier, but the library was destroyed. Luckily though, they found a girl who had memorized every book in that library and she was able to tell them that she could get the notes for them. If we got the stone, then Ed could use it to restore our bodies. Ed also added that the girl, Shesca, was a bit cuckoo so he didn't know if the notes would be accurate. Apparently she had a memory that could combat Vato's; the only thing that we could do now was wait for Shesca to finish the notes.

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