Human Transmutation Chapter 1: After, a fullmetal alchemist fanfic

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Chapter 1: After

"Maes! Nina! Come upstairs, its time to go to sleep!" The bottle blond's voice resounded through the house.

"Coming, Mama!" Two voices replied almost immediately. A six-year-old mini Ed and a four-year-old mini Winry climbed up the stairs and ran into their father and uncle's old bedroom where their mother was waiting.

"Will you wake us up when dad gets home?" Maes asked in his perfect tongue, aiming to be a prodigy like his father.

"Yeah, amma, dada open door you wake?" Nina asked in her broken tongue, but considering she was four she was pretty good at speaking.

"Yes, yes, amma wake you when dada open door." Winry picked up her daughter and nuzzled her on her stomach before placing her on the bed. She then hugged Maes, who blushed furiously then hugged back.

Winry laughed and remembered what Maes and Ed would have daily fights about before putting them both onto the bed. Her kids were asleep in minutes.

The blond went out to the balcony with a lantern. and leaned on the railing. She began to flash it, on and off. When getting bored, she pulled out the Rush Valley newspaper (which Paninya sent to her in Resembool weekly) and began to read, never stopping her continuous flashing.

Winry had a song in her head. She'd heard it in her dreams.

She laughed at how well it fit her situation:

I don't know where you're going. Or when you're coming home. I left the keys under the mat to our front door. For one more chance to hold you close. I don't know where you're going. Just get your ass back home.

We both knew this type of life. Didn't come with instructions. So I'm trying to do my best. To make something outta nothing. And sometimes it gets. Downright shitty in fact. When you call and I don't even know. What city I'm at.

Or what day of the week in the middle of the month. In a year I don't recall. It's like my life's on repeat and the last time we spoke. I told you I wouldn't be long(yeah)That was last November now December's almost gone. I'd apologize but I don't realize what I'm doing wrong

And you been nothing but amazing. And I will never take that for granted. Half of these birds would have flew. To coop but you, you truly understand it. And the fact you stood beside me. Every time you heard some bogusness. You deserve a standing o'. Cause they'd a just been over it.

Let em talk, let em talk, let em talk, let em talk. Like we don't hear what they saying. Let em walk, let em walk, let em walk, let em walk. We'll just drive by and keep waving it. Cause you and I above all that. Just let em wallow in it. Now they all choked up, yuck. Cause they be swallowing it.

No one holds me down like you do, sweetheart. You keep doing that, I'll keep doing this. We'll be aight in the end. Trust that. We put the us in trust, baby. Let's go!

I don't care what you're after. As long as I'm the one, No. I don't care why you're leaving. You'll miss me when you're gone.

I don't know where you're going...Or when you're coming home. I left the keys under the mat to our front door. For one more chance to hold you close. I don't know where you're going...Just get your ass back home...

She must have fallen asleep with the lantern on.

How she knew: Ed got home and, seeing Winry asleep, smiled and looked up the great view he got from beneath her dress. Winry's body leaned forwards, the lantern fell out of her hands, smacked Ed right in between the eyes, Ed yelled, Winry woke up, started laughing, and both their noises proceeded to wake up their equally loud children.

"Dada!" Nina started running down the stairs.

Maes was right behind her, being his father. "Nina, stop running! You'll trip and fall and break your supraorbital process!" Being a prodigy did have its setbacks.

Nina, completely ignoring her onii-chan, ran up and jumped onto her father's sprawled body on the floor. Ed grunted, then the brightest smile in the world lit up his face.

"Nina!"

"Dada!"

They proceeded to hug each other, looking and acting very much like Maes and his daughter, Elysia.

Elysia was now 13 years old and a very beautiful baker, opening a bakery joint in her mother's flower shop.

"Dad!"

"Son!" Edward barely had enough time to brace himself before his son body-slammed into him. "Ooh, yeah, you're growing for sure."

And Winry finally made it outside, wobbling slightly because of her four-months-in pregnancy. "Ed!" Ed stood up, Nina dangling from the back of his neck, and Maes latching onto his left leg. This didn't bother Ed at all as he hugged his wife. "Welcome home, you idiot. How was it in Ishibal?"

"It was great. Scar changed his name a while ago. He is now known as Kizeta-san." (A/N: Kizeta = Scar)

"That's great...though its kind of creepy, I respect his decision." The blond led her husband up the steps and into the house.

"Well you look older, don't you Winry."

"Shut up Ed, I'm only 25. And besides, you're not any better." Winry stopped growing when she was a quarter inch shorter than Ed, who was the most relieved man in the world when she stopped growing. She was taller than all the women they knew now, by about four inches, even though she was the youngest.

"Okay guys, it's time for you to go to bed, and tomorrow we have to get ready for the day after." The golden-eyed boy whispered to his kids as Winry sat on the sofa. His kids obliged, tired enough already.

"Okay Edward, show me what you learned," Winry said, a smug look on her face.

"Actually, Winry, I did learn something," He glared, then sat down next to Winry. "Although I already knew this before, I've perfected it." He leaned down and put his ear and hand against Winry's stomach, who leaned back and closed her eyes.

"Its a...boy, Winry," Ed said after a few minutes. "What do you want to name him?"

"What do you wanna name him?" Winry repeated his question. Ed sighed.

"Well, we have five months to figure it out..." He pulled the blanket from the arm of the sofa over them both. "So let's just sleep tonight,"

"Mmm," Winry replied, way ahead of him...as always.

Ed was awakened by something he really didn't want to hear.

"So, Mama, will you do me the honor...of...marrying me?" Maes jumped out of the way of his father's kick.

"Winry's already married to me, Maes..." Ed grumbled, rubbing his eyes when he didn't feel Winry next to him.

Maes ran to his mother's side where she was cooking breakfast. "But mama loves me more than she loves you, right mama?"

Winry smiled. "Of course I do, baby," Edwart felt a mental stab, "because you're not stupid," Stab. "Or cocky," Stab. "Or annoying," Stab. "And most of all..."

"Don't you dare, Winry -"

"You're not SHORT!" STABSTABSTAB. Edward fainted while his wife laughed. His son looked down at his fallen father.

"I believe that this is my win," Maes huffed smugly.

"You cheeky little brat," A vein popped out on Ed's forehead.

"Food's ready," Winry called, and immediately the two *couch boys cough* were at the table. Nina always seemed to materialize wherever her mom wanted her to be.

Breakfast was scrambled eggs, huge drumsticks, apple salad (Winry's 'life-changing invention' as her son and husband put it), and apple pie.

"Apple pie! My favorite!" Maes yelled.

Nina looked confusedly at him. "Why onii-chan love appuru pie lot?"

Edward and Winry smiled. "We'll tell you one day." They said simultaneously.

Edward had a huge appetite. Maes had a huge one as well. Nina's was normal. But Winry...

She looked so normal, but she had a plate full of food...you'd look away, look back, and it would be gone, she'd be on her next plate. And not just that. She'd get seconds, and thirds, and fourths, while no one noticed. And baa-chan had always made a ton of food and always blamed Ed and Al for being hogs and eating too much, but know they knew who was the real hog… She had a black hole of a stomach.

When they were finished, Winry made Ed wash the plates and then she proceeded to give everyone their battle stations. "Okay, everyone! The family's all getting together in five hours, we need to get the house perfect before lunch! Ed, here's the list of stuff you need to buy," She handed Ed a list about three feet long.

"Are you kidding me? This'll take forever -"

"Which is exactly why you should start now. Leave, take the wagon with you." She kicked him out of the house. "Maes, Nina, I need you two to go clean up the yard. I'll be in here cleaning! Go!"

Maes and Nina took their jobs very seriously. They were out in seconds. Nina shouted to her brother, "Denny and Denchan's clean first!" Den's daughter and son, who had the same personality as Maes and Nina. (A/N: I know right, DEN'S A GIRL! AAAAAAAAAAHHH!)

The dogs were clean already, and being two months old they couldn't make a real mess. Maes and Nina went around, swept all the leaves under the side of the house, and then Nina forced her brother to help her pick flowers to put in the rooms inside.

Winry cleaned the whole house, making it spotless except her workroom (which she admitted that making clean would be impossible) and got ready to cook for lunch.

Ed got home two hours before the guests were gonna be there. It took him a while to get everything from the market, since everywhere he went everyone was saying 'Hey' and telling him to say hi to Winry for them. He got everything for free, though.

He got home carrying a mountain on his poor red wagon, which Winry relieved moments after Ed got home. She instructed him to do some cleaning, then go to the station to go pick everyone up.

"What's for dinner?" Ed asked before leaving.

"Amestrian mashed potatoes, Baa-chan's beef stew, Xingese noodles, Hughes-san's apple pies, and Al's sweet soup. Now leave before you eat everything," She slapped his hand away from the stew spoon and shoved him out the door.

Winry went to a window they got built in the wall so that you could see the front from the kitchen. She saw Ed walking up the hill in the direction of the station, on the right Maes and Nina running away from, on the left, babies Denny and Denchan.

Then all of a sudden, her vision was blotted out and she fell into a chair. The pain went as suddenly as it came, but she was sure she saw a white room.

"Oh well. Must've been the baby," Winry said, shrugging it off.