The Mercury Alchemist

Chapter 16 - Meeting the Sewing Life Alchemist

'That bastard... 

acting like as if nothings happened... 

How can a heartless man... 

just use his family like that...?'

Chapter 16 ~ Meeting the Sewing Life Alchemist

-Me-

"No!" I gasp for air as I shot up from under the covers of my bed, sweat dripping from my head for some odd reason. I look around to check if anyone woke up from my sudden episode, but I only saw Ed sprawled on his bed snoring loudly like he usually would and Al in a corner with no lights appearing in where he's eyes should be. 'Thankfully no one saw my sudden episode...' my thoughts sigh in relief. I fall back onto the mattress of my bed as I placed my arm over my sweaty forehead thinking, 'That's the fifth time this week since that time in Liore... If Ed and Al knew they would think I have to go see a psychiatrist for help. But why does that have to appear in my head again?'

I could still remember the nightmare I saw from that repeated dream, and it was not what you except to see in nightmares, something that felt more like a memory than your usual scary ass dreams you just shrug off when you wake up. Ever since the incident with Cornello I've been having the same nightmare every single time I shut my eyes. Honestly, I barely remember what happened, all I can remember is Cornello grabbing my body and that's about it until I found myself on the ground in pain.

**Dream**

"Al! Al Wake up! Ed c'mon wake up! Wake the hell up you guys! This is no time to sleep!" I cried continuously as I shake the two boys repeatedly. The building was collapsing, fire was spreading everywhere in the room, smoke was slowly starting to fill the air... and the scent of blood as well. One part of the ceiling fell a few inches away from where the three of us were, making me panic even more and try to wake the two up. "Ed please wake up! You guys can't just sleep at a time like-" I stop at the sudden bloody hand touching my right cheek, it was Ed's. He was finally awake, but Al continued to lay on the floor without moving an inch in his metal body, scaring me even more. A loud ring enters my ears and doesn't stop no matter how hard I tried to block it from my thoughts. Ed was talking to me weakily, but his words were only mute in my ears no matter how hard I tried to ignore the loud ringing, Ed's words never came out of his mouth until his eyes clouded over and also his mouth came to a stop.

My eyes widen in fear as I felt his body go limp in my arms. I tried to call out his name, but nothing came out of my mouth like I wanted to except that horrible ringing in my ears. "You killed them..." an eerie voice echoes at the moment the ringing stops, finally.

"You did it."
"You killed them."
"Your choices came to this end."
"Your responsible for their deaths."
"They trusted you."
"How could you just let them die?"
"It must've been easy to see so many die after what you've done."

I covered my ears to to try and strain of those horrible accustations from getting into my head to make me a mad person. Just the sight of these two has already has caused me to slightly lose it, like I don't even know what's wrong with Al for starters! "You did it...I know the truth about you Catherine... I've always had known who you really..." the voice was closer this time, but it sounded different from the previous ones. Scared as I already am, I had no choice but to see who exactly this person was if I wanted to punch him/her in the face. The sight of her scared me even more than Ed's sudden death, Jealousy's head was right beside me own, smiling at me with that familiar wild smile of her's no matter how many times I tried to forget it, she always pops up in my head everytime. How could I not? She has the exact same face as mine!