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For those of you who don't know

THOUGHTS/DREAMS!

TALK

The Way Home

Prologue:

The day after they had buried Alfons Heiderich. Edward and Alphosne Elric started on another journey. The item they were seeking this time was no mystical stone yet was more important for them to find than the last time. A bomb, not just any bomb. It was a uranium bomb that had come from their world and now threatened this one. A group of gypsies had picked them up along with Noah on a road leading away from Munich. Their destination was most likely London. Yet the Thule Society wasn't going to make it easy for them to complete their journey this time. All they had were the notes of their father, Van Hohenheim. Though they held valuable information for anyone that could read them. They certainly were just as dangerous as the bomb itself to the world.

The notes were brilliant even speculating on the cause of the inability to use alchemy on this side of the gate. His father had said that the souls of this world were the energy used in for alchemy in the other. If that is so then there had to be a way to get the gate open from this side.

Alphonse watched his brother silently as he read through the notes. "We never really change, do we brother?" Ed looked at his brother with a small smile on his face, and said softly, "No we never really do. Even when worlds separated us, we went forward on the same path. Always looking for something to learn and someway to get back together. This time though were back together on a new adventure."

Though I wish we were back in our own world together, Edward thought, I still need to thank Winry for making the automail. Heck I'm just homesick, first time ever but we can't go back just yet. Even if we could us alchemy on this side of the gate there's no way to cross over.

"Your thinking about alchemy again aren't you Ed?"

"Yeah, I keep thinking of ways to get us back home but I really just don't know. It seems everything wants to keep us away from those we love and the places we know. I wish we could go home Alphonse." A tear slid down from Edward's eye and fell on the bed of the truck. A blue spark erupted from it, but neither of the brothers noticed it.

Chapter 1: Of Dreams…

The group had pulled off to the side of the road shortly before sunset. The gypsies were kind enough to set a tent up for the boys, who weren't used to traveling and camping like the gypsies themselves. Noah seemed at ease with the group that had picked them up from the side of the road. The gypsies had seemed a little uneasy at first but the man who looked like Scar had accepted him with a glace of his eyes. They had set Noah and the boys just off the center of the make shift camp site, far enough that they could have privacy yet close enough to keep an eye on them. Alphonse had fallen asleep shortly after he had crawled in the tent with Ed. It seemed to Ed that his brother wasn't worried about what world he was in as long as he was with his brother again.

I wish that was true for me as well. It a cruel joke on me every day I've been here. I know I don't belong here, but still it seems that the Universe wants me to do something here and it won't let me go till I do, Ed thought as he watched his brother sleep. His brother rested his head against the red fabric of the jacket from Amertris. It looked so much like the one that Ed had worn throughout the years of searching for the stone. We truly are cut from the same cloth, Ed joked to himself.

Edward left the tent quietly to avoid waking his brother up. Noah quietly speaking with this world's Scar, Fredric, near the main camp fire. It seemed Fredric was this gypsy clan's leader, and he was interested in the story of her and the Elric brother's.

Let her tell her story. Most will never believe it. Even if they do there's nothing they can do about it, he thought as he walked away from the camp. He wouldn't tell anyone else but he often looked at the stars. Their just like the one's back home. He sat down at the bottom of the trunk of a tree and leaned back to watch the stars twinkle. Funny something in a place so alien can be so familiar. Ed drifted off to sleep shortly after.

Winry Rockbell was back in Risembool after the debacle in Central. Her workbench seemed empty after being having Ed's automail sit there for months. He left again without saying goodbye, Winry thought to herself. She couldn't kid herself about her feelings for Ed anymore not after seeing him in Central. They had been lurking under the surface for quite sometime, but they had come to full bloom when she had seen him again. She had always known that Edward was alive. It wasn't the same way Al had known, instead it was something inside her that told her he was alive, some force that had connected them together and bound them to one another. She fell asleep in her bed watching the stars come out after dusk clutching the wrench Edward had bought her several years ago in Central after he had become a State Alchemist.

Edward smiled as he fell backwards onto the grassy hill. He recognized it, and knew he would never for as long as he lived. It was a hill in Risembool; in fact it was the hill where he and Alphonse had fought over Winry all those years ago. The wind had picked up and blew his hair over his shoulders and onto the grass. The stars were out too, it didn't matter if it was a dream, he was content with it. "Beautiful" he whispered.

Winry found herself along the road that overlooked the very same hill. She was dressed the same way she had been in central, with her hair tied up into a ponytail.

She heard a voice, no more than a whisper, "beautiful". It had come from behind her, from the hill side. The voice itself was unmistakable, it was Ed's.

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Author note: Sorry for the time it took me to write this piece and for the fact that it is short. I have recently seen the OVA's and well it got me to thinking about certain things. Brainstorming can be dangerous o0, at least to an in progress story. I am not going to follow the "kid's" OVA by any means, though I have a story in mind for that though. Maybe it will come after I finish this. Anyways I though I should also warn you that I have read the manga, both the America and a fan translated Japanese version (up to Chapter 59 in any case.), so you may read something that I pulled from the manga. Oh and thank you Damgel for giving me an idea for something. Hint it's an EdXWinry, though you might have guessed that. Just though I should put that in here just incase. Anyway maybe I won't get side tracked this time and get the next chapter/section out sooner.

BTW- I gave our/this world's Scar a name for a reason. Might give Lust one too, anyway I looked for German names on a website, and Fredric means Peaceful Ruler. Thought it to be fitting for Scar as a leader of gypsies.

Update: I recently moved the prologue to be with the first chapter/section sorry for any confusion it made.