Chapter 3

"Hello?" Roy asked as he held the phone to his ear with his shoulder and one hand rubbing his eyes wiping downwards to try and wake up.

"…Roy…?" The voice was shaky and he immediately was awake. Standing straight up and turned his back facing the wall with a stern look on his face.

"Who is this?" He asked once again

"This is Doctor Schiff" Roy wanted to laugh, but he just smirked hearing the once calm psychologist in this state. But his smirk left him "…Edward Elric escape just an hour ago, threatened many of my staff" The doctor's voice seemed very shaky; Edward must have threatened him as well.

"Was anyone hurt?" Roy asked, if anyone did get hurt Roy would have no choice but to go after him and bring him in.

"No…we are all ok here, though we must find him. He is a threat to others and himself. Just keep a look out and if you see him you must bring him back here at once" The line went dead. Edward had escaped and threatened people. He would only do that if he was in serious danger, but he wasn't in that situation. Roy stood there dumbfounded on what to do. Slowly he hung up the phone and just stood there with his hands at his sides clenched into fists. Raising his head he saw that it was 3:52am he had almost five hours until he had to go to the office.

"Damn you Full metal." He said simply and hurried to his room. Putting on his military uniform, his long black jacket and grabbing an umbrella he headed for the door, after he grabbed a large cup of coffee. Heading outside he opened his umbrella and entered the unforgiving storm. "The things I do for this little brat" he said. The outside was unforgiving. The rain poured sideways switching directions every five minutes. Trees cracked and made noises as the wind bent some of them almost to the point of cracking. How was he going to find an insane, small, hotheaded alchemist in the early morning hours especially in this storm? He knew one thing that it was not going to be easy. He started asking around at all the early birds getting their family shops set up for the morning to come. Everyone he asked, which was not a lot of people, just a handful. But no one had seen Edward anywhere. Of course he wasn't going to ask 'hey have you seen an insane blonde state alchemist running around?' He knew if Edward found out that he was most definitely be dead by now.

It seemed that his search was all for nothing, there were no signs of him anyone in town. And he couldn't leave the city anyway where would he go? He was about to turn in when he saw something off heading along the outskirts of town. Bending down he picked up a white cloth that was stuck on a broken tree branch. Tracing from where if fell and where it used to be on the tree he saw a small broken area with blonde hair strands caught in some bark.

"Edward…" He said and stood up heading in the direction where the trail leads.

"Edward stop!" He heard the doctor's yells and pleas for him to return but there was no way in hell that he would return like this. He kept running as fast as he could, holding his robe closed to try and block the wind and rain from getting on him but that was like trying to stay dry when you're stuck in the ocean. When he was a couple blocks away he stopped and leaned against a tree trying to catch his breath. His body was completely soaked to the bone, his long hair stuck to his back and forehead. Sitting down he hugged his knees against his chest and just stayed there trying to think to him of what he was going to do. So far there was no voice in his head; it was just him and his thoughts.

"Where am I…" he said softly looking around, all he could see were tall buildings and the small glow of the street lights. If he had to guess he was in the center of Central.

"Ok think…I need answers…I don't know where to fuckin' start" He said holding his head and grunted in pain. He took his head shakily and pulled out his notepad and his pen and began writing.

"One….find hide out….two, get answers, three…." He stopped and thought for a second of what he could do.

Kill Roy…

He groaned gripping head once again trying to push the voice away. "No…I won't, three, push back voice…four find Al" He said and hid the notebook holding it against his chest and got up again. Growling he pulled his robe free from the branch as it fell onto the ground and pulled his hair free over his shoulder. Walking down the streets avoiding the light he looked around as his teeth clattered. His golden eyes shifted from one spot to another trying to avoid human contact at all time while he was out here. He skidded to a stop almost falling over when he saw another officer dressed up in the blue clad. Quickly he hid in an alley way holding his breath to make him be a little quieter. Ed has no idea if they military was alerted about his escape or if they are searching for him. If anything he had to stay away from all contact at possible. Make it seem as if he never existed; easier said than done. Everyone in Central knows who he is. Once the military officer walked past the alley way not even looking in he sighed a sigh of relief.

"Ok, I need a place with books, but not the library, I can't go there I'll get caught" Then his eyes widened. There was only one place in town with alchemy books better than the library, but he was going to dream going there. "I have no choice" he said looking to the ground before jogging away from the alleyway and headed down through the park, just as Roy was bending down looking at the evidence of him being there.

He made it safe and sound, no officers found him or any pedestrians. Pushing passed the military tape and jumping over the fence he headed inside the two story abandoned house. Slowly he pushed the creaky door open and the light from the streets poured in as he illuminated the stairs. Swallowing nervously he closed the door behind him and just stayed there. His knees were shaky and he felt like he was going to throw up. This house…was Shou and Nina Tuckers house. The only house with a better library and one that he could have full access too, the memory still haunted him. He looked around and grabbed a blanket and a couch pillow and headed down to the library. Rat's scurried around the floor to the new presence. Going to the back corner he sat down with the blanket over his shoulders and the pillow underneath him to make it a little more comfortable.

"Sorry to disturb you…Nina" he said hoping she was resting in peace, her little voice screaming big brother still rang in his head and he was going to have to get used to it if he was going to stay here. Clapping his hands he transmuted some old melted wax on the floor and made a branch new candle and set it down on the floor lighting it right next to him. Pulling out his notepad and looked through all his writings. Why was this all turning out like this? It was supposed to be a simple mission but everything got turned upside down. And the worst part of all was Roy. He thought he was actually insane. He hung his head low and put his hands on his head clenching fists of hair.

"I'm not insane Roy…I'm not" He said fighting the onslaught of tears threatening to fall. Shaking his head he took his hand and wiped his eyes. Now was not the time to be thinking about that. If he ever was going to get help with this he may need Roy, but that voice. He didn't know whether it would go away. And the last thing he wanted was Roy to know that the voice was telling him to kill Roy. Standing back up he kept the blanket around him and began walking through the house again, this time carrying the candle. Walking back up the stairs he looked around through the rooms. He saw the spots where the whole Nina incident went down. Hallucinations of him punching Shou over and over again, getting blood on his hands. Nina's blood stain where Scar had killed her, like hell he was going to stay in that room. Soon going back to the very end of the hallway he found an almost empty room with the cages where the entire failed Chimera's had been housed. A strong scent hit his nose and he immediately covered it up. It smelt like rust and blood. It made him sick to his stomach.

"I can do this" he said as he walked inside putting the candle down on a table top he began pushing the cages out into the hallway one by one making loud creaking and sliding noises. Grunting as he moved the large cages and just tossed the small ones out as loud crashing noises could be heard throughout the house.

"This will have to do" he said and made up a makeshift bed with only the blanket and the one pillow he had. Tomorrow he was going to do some major studying and searching for what could have happened to his mind. And also find food.