This is after the movie, but Al and Ed are still in Alchemy world, so everything but Ed and Al going t our world happened. This is also just going off of the anime, not he manga…it'd be too confusing. This is an EdxWinry. Anywho, Enjoy!!

Chapter 1

Edward had been awake for 5 hours straight. He decided to change his position for the 100th time and decided that was it.

"Damn it, I can't take it anymore!" He uncovered his auto mail leg and his flesh white one and walked over to the window to look over the musty, old city of Central. He'd been living there for 5 years, without AL or Winry or anyone that he'd grown up with.

Ed walked over to the bronzed phone and began to dial a number he knew all to well. His trusty therapist, Dr. Maro. She was the one who had gotten the blonde to come to the big city. Also, even thought Ed had been successful in giving his brother back his entire body, she still wasn't pleased with the situation he was in. So far all he knew was about this "problem" was the symptoms: sleeping patterns off, agony and anxiety panic attacks and his worst symptom, nightmares… of that horrible night so long ago, when his brother was ripped from this world, when he learned "the truth", and with he found out that the only thing on this earth that mattered was his family. These cut him deeply and hurt. That was Edward only7 reason for keeping in touch with her.

Of course he didn't just talk to her for help with his unstable mental state, she was also the only female friend had had in the city. Now this surprised her since he looked like a flawless person. He had long, golden hair that he kept in a ponytail. His huge, golden, shiny, expressive eyes that could cheer you up no matter how far down you were, and besides his height problem, he was as strong as any full-grown man. Oh, and of course his outstanding alchemy skills could make even that Flame Alchemist quiver in fear.

A car speeding by with a loud bang awoke Ed from his morning daydream.

"Hello? Hello? Ed you there? Come on, don't call me and kill yourself at he same time!" E had to chuckle at this.

"No…" Ed's sweet boyish voice said through the phone, "… I'm still here with you. Ha… Why would I quit on you?" Edward said sarcastically. " No Edward, its more like the other way around." She said back. "So..," she paused thinking he might want to talk, "..what is it you want to talk about?" She waited patiently for his answer knowing that he wouldn't speak very soon.

"Its nothing…" he said meekly.

"Then why did you call me?" she kept her calm professional voice even though she felt a little irritated.

"I just needed to say something, anything, to someone besides myself." He heard a small laugh on the other end.

"Why are you laughing at me?! You supposed to make me feel better!" there was silence on the other end of the phone. 'Did the phone die? Di-did she hang up?' Ed thought.

"Hello? Maro! Are you o.k.? What's wrong, answer me! Maro! MARO!!" Ed began to sweat and shake. Suddenly he heard movement on the other end of the phone.

"Hello….?"

"………………………………..hello?" said a voice.

'It sounds… so… young.' This made him almost lose his grip on the phone.

"W-who I-is this?" Ed asked nervously.

"……………………………………I am not Maro."

"I KNOW YOU NOT MARO! WHO ARE YOU! Tell me! And where is she? Where is she!?"

"……………………………………..I am not Maro. Who is she? I am not her. I am different. I am me. Not she."

This time he did drop the phone. It hit the floor with a loud 'clang' and thin beeps proceeded afterward. Who ever it was must have hung up.

Ed fell to the floor. Tears falling to the place he rests his now weak body. He feared that everything was going to start over and everything was nothing.

"This is it…." Edward in the lowest voice to ever come out of his mouth. After this… something changed. The atmosphere of the room became heavy, dense, and dark. Then a huge blue light began to light up around Edwards's body. He sat up enough to see a circle around him… one with runes.. with marking s he'd never seen before surround him. HE jumped to his feet, but not in enough time to have the light engulf him and send him into a spiral of memories, and more bright light and deep darkness, W-was he in the truth again? How could he get out of the gate again when he didn't know how he got into it?!

"What is this?! Am -.. " HE fell to his knees, clutching the ground that he had finally fell upon. "..AM I PAYING FOR THE UNFORGIVABLE TOLL?!!" His head fell down between his arms. HE could see his tears pouring down his cheeks…falling.. falling… until he thought they were going to hit the floor his body rest upon, but instead it kept falling. At this moment the invisible floor collapsed and he began to fall again.. going faster than before. But he seemed unfazed, apathetic, or uncaring of what could happen to him when he reached the bottom. With this decision, he closed his eyes.. and fell asleep.. with the thought to never awaken.

"AGGGHHH!!!" Edward jumped out of his deep sleep. HE was panting and was covered in his sweat.

"What happened?! I have to –to get to Maro's house!" HE got up and began to run when he noticed that he, himself was not in his won house. HE looked around to see that.. his plan of going to her housed was already done. HE was surrounded by her belongings in her living room.

"I'm in her house? How did I get here? But where's she then?! DR.MARO!? Where are you!?" A moan came from a room right down the hall. EH turned to see that the door was open, and the inside looked like a never-ending black abyss. Never the less, he still walked towards it. Step by step…each getting harder to take. His breath staggering, and getting melted with the tears that slipped down his cheeks as fast as his breaths and mind would allow. He thought his stomach could jump out of throat at anytime. With every step tempting it to, he could turn and run. But then regret… and distrust. would flood his mind. So he continued to walk to the door that could hold the body of Dr. Maro. HE reached for the cooper colored doorknob and took and regrettable step into a gruesome scene of the murder that he with would have never happened. He looked to the window .He could see an out line of a body. Stepping closer he could tell it was no other than Dr.Maro, even though body was in nearly a hundred pieces, covered in crimson blood, that was being illuminated by the moonlight. He hit his knees to the floor and tried to think about what to do. Call the police? The Colonel would probable want to know.. .but how would he explain about how he got there? Ashe was thing of a way to explain himself; he heard a creak come from behind him, and then a small,

"…Gah.. Ed-ward….Elric?! How I've waited for this day.. of revenge!" Edward turned so fast he felt sick and dizzy, but when his gaze did get to the sounds origin, he saw a dark, thin figure. HE had to squint his eyes to see who this was. HE noticed a familiar mark, one that has a ruin looking design within a circle. Every. thing that wore this mark was known as a homunculi. A disgusting being that was created every time a human transmutation was committed. Almost like a living doll, kept alive by no other than the mystical object… the Philosopher's Stone!

"YOU!? I THOUGHT YOU WER DEAD! .. ENVY!!!!" Edward knew exactly who this thin, green and pale man was. His… brother.. his father's regret and one of his greatest enemies.

"Oh, dear brother, I was dead. But I came back," Envy stepped closer to the blonde, "..to get you!" Envy's breath alone clouded Ed's mind, but then knowing that he came back to get him to go to a potential hell?! This made Edward and. He got to his feet and took a quick leap towards Envy and pinned him to a wall.

"What.. MY FATHER WAS'NT COMPANY ENOUGH??!!" Edward thrust his fist hard against Envy's face, causing him to spit out blood and have a small cut. Edward smirked seeing hat Envy didn't heal himself.

"So you cant heal yourself anymore? Well now I know for sure what to do!" Edward lifted his leg to make hard contact with Envy's rib cage making the ribs go 'THUMBP'. Envy pushed him away and seemed to make him go in a certain direction.

" You think you've got me brat?!" Envy smirked.

"What do you mean?" Edward said still falling back, since he had no way of stopping himself from going down. As he landed he noticed that his left leg was elevated by something else on the ground. Edward stared to looking the direction and saw that part of him had landed on the bloody body. He reached out and a hand to touch her mangled face, but a sharp object stopped his metal hand from reaching the corpse. Envy had thrown a piece of glass from a broken picture his way. Good thing it was his fake arm, otherwise it would have cut right through him.

"Why..?" Edward spoke. Then whipping his head toward Envy.

"Why did you kill her?! Why was she more important to kill-" Edward was cut off.

"More important than you to kill?! Oh! I would have killed you in a second, if it wasn't for the very good reason that father told me not to." Envy said this with a sickening look in his eyes, and his horrible breath pouring out of his mouth.

"I'll tell you why…if you tell me why she's so important to you?" This was a question hat Edward, for some reason, dreaded to answer. Why id he care for her so much? Was it love… or did he rely on her so much that he couldn't bear to live without her?

"I-I don't …. Know…." This was Edwards's response. This was the reason why he cried so hard, and felt cut so deeply. HE didn't know. This gave Envy a cruel chance to get a hit at Edward. But as he was getting a free punch at Ed, Edward noticed a light outside the window, and regained his senses. Fortunately he moved just in time for the blow to glance by him. 'What was that light?' Ed thought. I was soon answered when he heard the door that lead into the apartment crash down to the floor and a million feet rush in.

"This is when I take my leave…brat." Envy said in a cool voice, and then behind him an almost miniature gate appeared. He stepped into it, and was engulfed with glowing red eyes and demonic faces. Then he was gone, gate and all.

A loud crack and then the Colonel Mustang appeared in the door way followed by nearly a hundred different soldiers. He was angry at first but once he took a cleared look at the room and the state that Edward was in, his face turned to looking shocked.

"Edward….Elric, explain what this is!" Roy said in a shaky voice."

"I-I really have no idea…" Ed felt light headed and a firm hand catching him, followed by a soft voice.

"Edward? Its me… don't worry. You're going to be alright." 'This voice…who is it?'