Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction ❯ Veritas Hominum ❯ Broken ( Chapter 21 )

Broken

 

Ed hung his head in his hands and sobbed.

 

I can't believe I told them about the bomb.

 

He'd promised to do everything: design blue prints, oversee construction of the damn thing; hell, they'd even promoted him to the rank of Colonel for his “cooperation.”

 

They hadn't fed him and Winry anything more than bread and water. He'd watched Winry get paler and paler every day for the past three weeks; eventually she'd grown so weak that she wouldn't move from the corner she was huddled in. When the guards came with their final “offer,” she hadn't even flinched as the knife grazed her throat. That was the moment he broke completely. He may have lost his brother, but he wasn't about to lose her too.

 

They were coming for him tomorrow to begin the design phase.

 

He would get out before then. And he would get Winry out too. He didn't know where they would go, but it would be far, far away from here.

 

So this is what the government of the people has become.