Comatose Chapter 4

…It's been a month since I was taken, they've moved me, I believe out of Ishbal, and Al is no longer with me. I'm thankful, Lust took him to some village or town, and she says she left him in a clinic.
The room I'm in is what I'm pretty sure to be a basement. There is a long stair case descending into the room, with a platform of sorts, and a door. There is a bookcase on the side opposite the stairs, full of books on human transmutation, and the like. On the wall next to the stairs is, well a wall, but there are metal shackles attached to it…There were also no windows in the room, just a light bulb hanging from the ceiling
Envy has come every afternoon with a small loaf of bread and a glass of water. If Envy ever came down to see that I wasn't working, I'd be hit.
Just yesterday, after Lust had come back and told me about Al, I had finally been able to drift off into a some what peaceful sleep, knowing Al was being taken care of.
Just to wake to a sharp pain in my stomach.
Envy had kicked me. Hard. And pretty much bitch slapped me after I had gotten up.
The past few days that I've been here I've been drawing the sketch of the circle. I finished yesterday, they want me to try the transmutation tonight…
…If the transmutation fails again, I don't know what will happen to me.
Envy said to draw a simple transmutation circle on a piece of paper, when I asked why,…well I believe that by tomorrow my cheek will be swollen and changing colors.
I did as he told me to and quickly went back to retracing the circle and drawing the finishing touches.
"You're learning quickly, pipsqueak."
It took all I had in me not to stand up, spin around and punch him.
The last time I had done that, two days ago, I couldn't move for hours after without severe pain.
I figured if I could act like they had broken me, then they might let up on guarding me. And when that happened, I would make my escape. I just had to act like an obedient dog, 'Heh, if Mustang saw me now, he'd never let me live it down…'
I quickly finished and the homunculi walked in.
"Finished, pipsqueak?"
"Well, yeah, I-agh!" I flew back as Envy roundhouse kicked me, and sent me flying back five feet.
Gasping for breath, I looked over at them from where I laid on my left side.
"Maybe you haven't learned pipsqueak," Envy said kneeling down and grabbing my black jacket collar, chocking me and bringing me up to his eye level all at once, "You need to learn respect and fear for us, because you can't fight back," he said, binging his face close to mine.
"Understand?" He hissed, locking his eyes with mine.
I looked away, not answering, holding my breath so he wouldn't get the satisfaction of seeing me gasping for air.
He dropped me to the ground, walking away.
"Just because Lust let your brother go, doesn't mean that we can't still go after him." The bastard sneered.
"Don't go after Al! Please! I-I'm sorry."
I couldn't let them go after Al. His body is weak and he is still probably unused to it and adjusting.
"Good, now then any problems?"
"Yes," I sighed shakily as I sat up, inwardly wincing at the new bruises I was sure to have obtained, "We don't have any Philosopher Stones."
"Heh, don't worry about it pipsqueak."
"But the transmutation last time used up the Philosopher's Stone and the red water! So how can I-"
"DON'T worry about it!" Envy hissed standing near me.
Envy then made a signal to the others, and they arranged themselves in the circle.
"Better start soon, pipsqueak."
I quickly arranged myself so I was kneeling outside the circle.
The only thought running through my head, along side everything I knew on human transmutation, was 'Please, don't rebound.'
Screams of horrible pain, and the sound of skin being ripped apart, along with the strong scent of blood, filled the stale air.
The smoke cleared, and I could only see three figures, all of them thin and lithe. There was no fat, chubby-like, over weight figure. All there was that gave any indication to the fact that Gluttony had indeed been here, was the sudden large amount of blood that had been not been there before.
Floating in the blood, was small white ripped up pieces of paper.
"Well, pipsqueak, my leg…it's actually…human like…" Envy stated in shock.
"GLUTTONY! No!" Lust shrieked.
I quickly found myself pinned to the wall. I gasped in pain, her nails had pinned me to the wall by my arms. I could already feel the blood pouring from the stab wounds.
"What did you do?! What did you—"
Greed had wrapped his arms around her to calm her down. Her deadly nails retracted.
I groaned in pain as I slid down the wall, my shirt in taters. My automail arm, I could tell there was something wrong. There had to be, due to the fact that the armor plate protecting the wires had four holes in it.
As I looked up to observe what was happening, seeing as how it had gotten quite, and the only sound filling the air was Lust's sobs of grief.
Greed was suddenly in front of me, pulling me up by my already tattered collar, and threw me across the room. My shirt caught on the metal stair railing behind me efficiently leaving nothing left of the shirt.
Greed then began to kick me in the stomach, until Envy ran across the room and shoved him out of the way.
"Will you stop that! It worked, he needs to be alive so he can finish me off, and start on the two of you," He said rather uncaringly, "We all knew we'd have to make sacrifices, this was Gluttony's. Now you two go up stairs and leave."
The two of them left quickly glaring at me their entire ascent.
"Good job /shorty/." Envy's voice and appearance suddenly changed. He looked like…Roy…no…oh no…
"What's the matter? I thought you like me?"
"Bastard! What the hell are you trying to pull?" I tried not to show him how much this was affecting me.
"Why I'm just trying to give you a glimpse of the man you love! After all, you aren't getting out of here for a long time."
After he said that last line he turned back to his original form and started walking up the stairs. Leaving me to bleed on the floor.
"You have a month or so pipsqueak, I want more than just a leg."
Once he was gone, I promptly threw up what little contents I had left in my stomach.

…It must have been another month, with no windows to tell the time of day, it's hard to say.
I had found some more symbols that I had hoped would make the transmutation work better. I tried to figure out why the Gate had taken Gluttony, and not the others. In fact the others came out unscathed.
I've tried not to think about the world outside this foreign building.
I've tried not to think of Winry and Pinako, and how badly they'd kill me once the see the state of my automail.
I tried not to think of Alphonse, and how he is adjusting to having his body back.
I tried not to think of Mustang's team. My surrogate family. Riza my sister, Jean my brother, Denny, Heymans, Kain, and Vato as my uncles. Maria, like a motherly-aunt and Hughes as my father…they are like my second family, my second family…
And finally…I tried my hardest to avoid these thoughts, Roy…I admit now, I'm terrified. I'm afraid I won't see Roy again, or the others.
I am always distracted from my thoughts whenever Envy comes to give me my daily meal, as well as the daily fist in my face.
He hasn't impersonated Roy since my last transmutation. And that nearly tore my heart out.
When Envy came…I guess it was yesterday…he told me to make another transmutation circle on a piece of white paper that he gave to me.
Of course I was suspicious, but I didn't want to be beaten more than I was going to be.
I quickly did it and gave it back to him, never once looking into his eyes.
I didn't want him to see the heart-break, or the hate on my eyes. Because then it would only get worse for me.
He punched me hard; in the stomach laughing as I fell back gasping for the air that had escaped.
He was gone by the time I carefully sat up wincing from my injuries…
…The door opens and down come the remaining homunculi. Lust and Greed took their places as did Envy.
I sat myself down, same spot as the last time. My automail arm hasn't been functioning right, and has practically been a dead weight. It hurts too move, but I still clap to set of the alchemy inside me.
The same lights as before had shown up and surrounded us in a typhoon of colors and brightness. It was yellow-blue light, quickly turning dark, due to rebound.
A sharp, ear-piercing scream filled the air as the sound of flesh being torn apart joined it.