How long

They had been running, traveling, but for how long?

She remembered Dante yelling at them to leave, when Ed and Al were coming. And they had kept going. It seemed like weeks ago they were in the town with the strange virus, where Lust tried to help people. Kath didn’t know how it turned out, she had left with Envy.

Then she just traveled with him. Trying to keep him out of the bath time when she was already in it, feeding him green apples. Nothing bad, no killing people.

But then, it changed.

Envy said they got a call, though Kath had no clue what he was really talking about. They went some place under ground, in an old church. Others were there; even Dante in Lyra’s body, and a girl named Rose Kath was sure was the same one Ed had told her about.

Then she just waited.

She wasn’t aloud to leave a room, but through the air vents she heard everything.

Ed and Al’s father being killed,

Envy and yelling at Pride and Dante for not being the one to kill him,

Baby’s screams

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Kam and Evin slumped in the chairs they were sitting in. They had traveled with Ed and Al since Kath had disappeared. Kate had left with Winry when the mechanic decided to go back to central.

After that, they had been fighting.

In towns, all over the desert they witnessed all the things that made the military wrong, made them see why being a dog meant you had no choice about weather you wore a leash or not.

When Ed and Al were separated, they stayed with Ed, but that choice probably led to more death.

The eerie red light that had filled up Leor haunted their minds, and every run in with another homunculus played over and over again in their heads.

The fact that while they were screaming at the officers, trying to keep them out of the damned city they hadn’t thought even for a second to cover their bloody marks, the marks that showed the damn creatures they were. And so now, every one knew.

Everyone knew, and felt that the two were a threat, really undercover for the others to kill. That paranoid fear led to why Evin and Kam were tied to with chains to chairs. Now all they were doing was sitting there, in chairs, under armed guard. Those that saw them knew what they were, and the military took precautions.

“Where’s Ed?” Kam asked with a sigh.

“With Al.”

“Where’s Al?”

“With Ed.”

If Kam’s arms weren’t tied, he would have smacked Evin upside the head. Instead he turned his frustration to the two guards.

“Hey, I’m hungry.”

No response

“Isn’t it your job to protect us? Well protect me from hunger please.” Kam commented, half glaring as the guards continued to isolate them verbally. With a discontented sigh he slouched back into his chair.

“Evin, we need to do something.”

“Well, what do you suppose we can do? Our arms are tied up, and last time I checked, there were six bullets in each of those guns”

“Maybe we have homunculus powers?”

“Well then Kam, why don’t you tell where we could find them?”

But Evin’s comment was ignored as Kam continued to think.

“I mean, we must be able to do something. All the others can. Maybe we can…I don’t know, turn invisible.”

“Oh yeah, brilliant, but there would be one small problem.”

Kam looked at Evin out of the corner of his eye. “Well what would that be?”

“Well even if they couldn’t see you, you’d still be chained to a chair.”

Kam just rolled his eyes. “Of coarse we couldn’t turn invisible; each power has to do with the names idiot. Like Envy and taking peoples forms, and Gluttony eating things.”

“But Kami dear, we don’t know our names.”

Kam stared at the slowly turning ceiling fan and let out a defeated sigh.

“Any more ideas?” Evin asked, swinging his metal legs. They needed to be oiled, with every swing they squeaked.

“That’s it!” Kam would have jumped up, if he wasn’t tied down.

“Swing one of your legs to my hands!”

“Why?” Evin asked, sitting there his legs no longer moving.

“Just do it!”

it too the good side of 15 minutes for Evin to swing and move his leg so Kam’s bound hands could grasp it. When he finally did, Kam ripped hastily at the leg, exposing the metal to the air. He clawed, damning his nail biting habits, and hoping to find a loose screw or piece.

“What are you doing?” Evin shouted almost loud enough to alert the guards, who had closed the door and were standing on the outside. In a reply Kam hissed as his bleeding fingers finally got a screw free.

Being careful not to drop it Kam started to slowly engrave a circle into the wood of the chair. It seemed like endless hours before the transmutation circle was finally complete. With a sigh of relief he lightly touched the circle, hoping the guards didn’t notice the little, bright sparks.

The chair lost its back and became no more than a box on the floor. With the extra wood no longer making the chains taunt Kam easily slid his hands free. Within seconds of being free he had already done the same to Evin’s chair, and was transmuting the bars off of the windows.

“So now we leave, aren’t I a genius.” Kam said with a foolish smile as he tightened the screw back into its proper place in Evin’s leg. Evin smiled back.

“Sure you are; now how do we get out the window?”

“Umm, we jump I guess, why?”

“We’re on the fifth floor”

Kam walked over and stuck his head out the window into the fresh night breeze. The people walking around looked like little ants.

“Hmmm, this isn’t good, now is it?”

Something caught Kam’s eye, and with a little stretching and wiggling got it so that he could look up and see above him.
“ I think I found a solution; we’re on the top floor. Meet me on the roof.”

“Are you mad? You’ll fall and become a pancake!”

But Evin’s words never reached Kam, since her was already stretching out on the roof, working out the kinks from sitting in a chair for so many hours. Hearing a groan Kam turned to see Evin struggling to pull himself up onto the roof.

“Great, now how do we get down?” Evin asked, standing next to Kam.

“Sorry, I’m all genius-ed out. It’s your turn to think.”

With a sigh Evin picked up a coil of wire that was hanging right in front of Kam’s face.

“How come I didn’t see that?” Kam asked as he followed Evin to the ledge. Evin just rolled his eyes before starting his way down.

When they reached the ground, they quickly noticed they had no clue what so ever where they had landed. So like smart boys, they started to wander and get themselves lost even more so then before, which was good in a way, because they ran into Envy, though they didn’t have a lot of time to figure out it was Envy, since he had hit both boys over the head with a big, thick club.

When Kam awoke, the first the noticed wasn’t that Evin was also awake, and some one else was in the room, oh no, it was that he was tied to a chair again.

“God damn it! Just when I get out, I get right back in again!”

“Now, now brother, what did mommy tell you about such language?”

Kam turned his head quickly to the source of the voice, who Evin was also staring wide eyed at.

It was Kath.

She looked about the same, but was wearing the normal black clothing common among the homunculi. She smiled at them, but it wasn’t filled with her normal warmth or goofiness, but with evil.

“What happened to you?”

Kath opened her hand, and red sparkled in the dim light.

“I forget why I agreed to, but oh I am so glad I did. And you will be too.”

With the same smirk on her face, Kath stood and slowly walked over to her new companions.