I am back with The Sequel to Forbidden! Im hoping you will all enjoy this as much as you did Forbidden :)

Discalimer: I only own Valerie, she is my own little creation!

Forever and Always

Bright sunlight shone through the window, defeating the shadows in the room where Edward and I had slept. It felt good, soothing my aching muscles from the long journey we had to get where we were… Resembool. I got out of bed, and noticed that Ed had already gone downstairs. I rubbed my hands across my face, and got up, walking to the window and discovered something. It must have happened last night, but it had snowed.

I smiled. I had been here now for almost a year, and was happier then I had been my entire life. It was like I was meant to be here, and I wouldn't have it any other way. My life with Ed was filled with adventures… many of them. I laughed to myself, and scavenged through my bag. I grabbed my worn blue jeans, a black tank top, and made my way to the bathroom. I got dressed, and inspected myself in front of the large mirror, impressed. I ran into the bedroom and grabbed my small purple make-up bag that I had been able to get from my world, filled with my my favorite pieces that I used on a daily basis. I stood in front of the large mirror, an ivy green eyeliner in my had. Recently, I had just been putting on the basic black eyeliner, and a bright blue eye shadow, but today I thought it was time for a change up. I drew the precise line on my lower lids, and used a deep green eyeshadow to match it. I smiled, and wiped on some lip gloss, tossed my bag in the bedroom, and met everyone downstairs. Ed turned and saw me, and his face went pale.

"Valerie? Since when do you wear makeup?" He asked, but pulled me close to him.

"Since I decided that the basics were quite fitting in my case. I don't wear it often, but I figured id use some of it today. You know, back in my world, I used it daily. Now, I just don't see a lot of point in using it."

"alright… If you say so. It looks good by the way. You should use it more often." Ed said, making me smile.

"You know, if you like my exotic makeup colors, you should have seen how many different colors my hair was back home. Amazing! I think I can find a way to make my own hair dye here using alchemy… I wouldn't mind having my colorful streaks again."

"You were able to color your hair those exotic colors?" I sat at the table as Winry was carrying a big plate of bacon, eggs, and toast to the table.

"Yeah. When I was about 14, I had pink hair, 16 I did my hair cherry red, bright Envy blue, then when that faded out, I did some purple in my bangs. I never got to try the other aqua blue, or the neon green..." I smirked a devilish little smirk at Edward, as his face paled at the thought of me dying my hair exotic colors.

"Wow, Val, you really liked doing your hair like that huh?" Winry asked, laughing with me as Ed's face seemed to get pale as she encouraged me to dye my hair.

"Alright, Ed, You look like you are going to drop dead. Don't worry, I won't do that to my hair. At least the make up washes off… Hair-dye, ha, it takes months to wash out." I kissed his cheek, and took a piece of toast and got up, leaving to stand on the porch.

It was winter time in Resembool, and without a jacket, the cold air nipped at my shoulders, and all the bare areas, because I was the smart one to wear a tank-top in the middle of winter… spaghetti strap at that. I shivered, but then calmed down, and let the cold air blow all over my face, and I made warmth flow through my body, using my power to control my body heat. When I had gone to my world again, to retrieve my things, somehow, my vampire side had completely canceled out, and in place of it, I got all these unique new powers, and I was just scratching the surface of them. I could tell deep inside me, that there was so much more that I had to figure out. As I closed my eyes, and breathed in I felt fingers caress my bare shoulders, and I turned around to find Edward smiling me, and Al and Winry watching out the window.

"Is there a reason you came out here?" Ed asked, wrapping his arms around me and pulling me closer to share his warmth.

"Just to think… Everything is still so new to me, and… its still sinking in, ya know?"

"I can understand that. So what do you think caused you to get these powers anyway? The Truth still cant need you... If your vampire side is gone then- Hey! Whose that?"

"Huh?" I turned and saw the Military car coming up the road, and shock overcame my body and I froze in Edwards arms.

"Come on, whoever that is can come inhere and talk…" He turned us both and we went inside. The heat rushed over my body like I jumped into a burning flame and couldn't move, and then no more then a few minutes after Ed had wrapped us in a blanket on the couch, Winry answered the door, and I saw two people I hadn't thought I would see again since Ed and Al got their bodies back… Mustang and Hawkeye. But I had to take a double take, Mustang was in uniform, but Hawkeye wasn't. She wore common clothing for Amestrians, but she looked happy.

"Colonel, to what do we owe the pleasure?" I asked, smiling at him. Ed got up, and saluted him.

"No need for the salute, Fullmetal. We are here on a personal visit. Figured that we could check in and see how you guys were holding up. You finally got your bodies back, and Valerie's human, so what are you guys doing with your lives?" Mustang and Hawkeye sat at the table, as we got up and joined them.

"Yeah, well, it isn't often that you show up for just a personal visit. This is actually the first time since we got our bodies back, and Valerie recovered her humanity and mortality." Ed broguht his hands together and smirked. I placed my head on the table and sighed.

"I really want to know why I am suddenly so tired… I swear, the Truth just popped a suprise on me with these powers… and they drain me! I thought It said I was human again." I got up, placing my hands against the table. "I'm going to go see what I can do." But just then, I felt a shiver run through my body, then heat in my palms, and a flame danced across the table, and I screeched, and the flame grew larger, and all together disappeared into thin air.

"Valerie! How did you- It was flame alchemy? You can't even know anything about that, so what the HELL just happened?" Mustang snapped, seeing the look on Hawkeye's face.

"I- God, I don't know. It felt almost like fire-bending… But that cant be! Its a fake thing, I watched it in a anime I used to watch… I always wished I could bend fire, like Zuko from the show, but it wasn't real…" Then I heard a voice in my head.

"Enjoying the gift? I figured, I have PLANS for you girl. I'm not quite through with you. You can learn to control this, just like before when I turned you to a vampire… Sure, you had a fault the whole time, but here you can learn from the start without hurting people. Have fun. Its a learn as you go thing, too."

"AGH! Why does the Truth come back to haunt me? Ugh… I'm definitely going outside... This way I cant set anything more on fire…" With that, I grabbed my hoodie and pulled it on, with my winter jacket on top of that, and I shut the door harder then necessary.

"Sir, do you think-" Hawkeye looked back at the door, and then to the Colonel and Ed.

"How long has this been going on, FullMetal? She just gets theses new powers, now shes exclaiming about the Truth not being done with her?"

"I'm just as clueless as you…" Edward Sighed, and watched the snow falling outside the window. Everything had been going so well, and now… all of this was happening.

All week, Riza and Roy stayed due to the large winter storm that had hit the day they visited, and I was getting restless. I could feel power in me welling up, and I felt as though I was going to explode. We all talked, and I tried to be pleasant, but mood swings overtook me at times, and I would lock myself in our room. On the third night of Riza and Roy's stay with us, I blanked out, and mustang said something and I just snapped, yelling at him to stop being an insensitive prick, and Ed followed me to our room.

"Val, Whats going on? You seem so different… Something isn't right." His warm hands cupped my face as I began to cry.

"its the Truth Edward… It has Plans for me, and I just don't know what, but I feel sick to my stomach, I'm so easily set off… I am a ticking time bomb! I just want to know what it has done to me…" I cried into his chest, and he sat and comforted me. After what seemed like hours, when it had really only been about a half hour, we heard a knock, and Mustang and Hawkeye came in when Edward had permitted them in.

"Valerie, You heard the Truth in your head today didn't you?" Mustang put a hand on my shoulder and looked at me sternly.

"I did…" I looked at the floor. "It said it had plans for me, and these new powers were... a learn as I go deal. I don't want-" But then I felt my stomach churn, and I ran for the bathroom, knocking Hawkeye against the wall and Mustang to the floor. I began throwing up, and Edward came in and held my short hair out of my face.

"Uh… Are you going to be okay?" he asked, worry plastered across his face. I rinsed my mouth out, and we walked into the room again, and i was speechless. My eyes drifted over to the calender that hung on the cork board in our room. I counted the days and recounted and realized the powers weren't the reason for my mood swings…

"Valerie… What's wrong?" I could hear the worry in the three voices behind me, but I was in shock. I turned and placed a hand on my stomach, and then looked at Ed.

"Oh…. My….. God…." Was all either of us could say.

:) Finally got this posted! I totally left you all hanging there at the End! I hadn't really planned it this way, but I guess we will see where it goes from here :) hope you all enjoyed Chapter One to the Sequel to Forbidden! Forbidden: Forever and Always