Hi i was going through my old binders cleaning them out when i found this old story. the story is already complete but I'm just posting this ch now, the rest is not typed.

first of all i have some things you should know about this story first of all this one of the original stories i developed before i even read fan fiction on this site, or on-line at all. besides some editing so that it makes sense at parts i have left it nearly as i found it. this is an old story so i don't know how my style has changed. this was made before i knew others wrote stories like this so anything that may look like copying was reached by my own mind and was not intended to be taking someones idea.

second and this is important!this story takes place in an AU, it is mostly a mix of the two worlds FMA's and ours. the main story is much the same not that there will be many if any spoilers. Al has his body back but Ed still has auto mail, also in this universe they live in a democracy similar to America today and the military is changed to the CPD or Central Police Department. Ed joined for the resources same there and the way the CPD is run is similar to the military in the series. and even though the name is Central the CPD is the head police department and administers to the lower branches too so Ed and Al still traveled a lot.

oh and the usual crap of when i wrote this i didnt and i still dont own FMA.

The blue lightning from the alchemic reaction slowly faded and I stepped back to admire my handiwork.

Elric private eye detective agency

Edward and Alphonse Elric

Alchemic detectives

Inscribed in big black and red letters over laying a gold version of the insignia on my coat.

"What do ya think Al?" I asked.

"You didn't really have to use Alchemy to do that brother" he replied putting down the box he'd been carrying.

"We-ell if I remember right you, Winry and Mustang all say that my handwriting is quote unreadable chicken scratch unquote." I replied rolling my eyes "and we need people to read the door right?"

Al shook his head laughing "so are you just going to stand there boasting of your lack of legibility or are you going to help me unpack?"

"Ha, ha funny Al" I sighed moving over to work on one of the many boxes filled with stuff around the room. "So Winry is coming over today right?" I asked pushing a pile of wood to a corner till I had room to put what ever I would make out of it.

"Yep she said sometime around six" Al answered putting books in the shelf.

"Great we can get dinner and catch a movie!" I shouted.

"Movie? Since when do you go see movies?" He asked his silver brown eyes questioning.

"Uh… well… you know… er… well that was then and now we are supposed to be normal right? And normal people see movies!" I stammered 'damn he knows me too well' I thought turning to pick up a box that suddenly required my complete attention.

"Edward Elric, normal? I thought we were going to be detectives not comedians" Al said smirking at me.

'Since when did he start smirking?' I wondered to myself. "Ya know, I never remember you being this much of a smart ass before, maybe I should have let the gate keep your body." I sighed acting put off, but both of us knowing that the threat was fake.

"But why are we becoming detectives again anyway?" Al asked.

"I'm becoming a detective, you are free to do what you want, I think you should go to college and become a great alchemic doctor" I shot him a meaningful look.

Al sighed and rolled his eyes "ok why are you becoming a detective, with me as your partner."

"Eh." I sighed shrugging "might as well do what I do best."

"Shouldn't you be in demolitions then?" He asked smirking again.

"You have been with me way too long, your picking up bad habits." I sighed.

"Right Al one Ed is plenty" a female voice laughed from the doorway.

"Winry?! What are you doing here its mot even four!" I shouted in surprise almost dropping a heavy box on my flesh foot.

"You're early" Al commented.

"I wanted to help you two get settled" she said putting down her own bag and coming in to help.

"But how did you get here? The station is at the other side of town?" I asked not wanting to have made her walk all that way.

"Roy and Riza were there" Winry said.

"Bastard" I growled "he isn't here is he?"

"And what if I am?" Roy asked showing up in the doorway.

"Speak of the devil" I sighed "what do you want?" I asked turning to return to work fully intending to just ignore him until he left.

"I came to give you your last pay-check with all this new stuff I'm sure you need it." He said obviously not catching on to my plan, or maybe he had and that was why he was doing this. "And I came to tell you that to pick it up you must come down to my office"

"Wow, amazing" I growled "what a piece of paper too much to carry?"

"For you maybe"

"Who are you calling so short he would be crushed under a piece of paper!" I shouted lunging at him until Al caught me and held me back.

"Show up today or I will dock you some pay" Roy said turning to leave as I spluttered in fury.

Winry, Al, and I returned to working on the room until Winry saw our new phone, and began to take it apart.

"Win that's a new phone! We need that intact!" I said groaning as I saw parts lying around her.

"Please Ed, I promise I'll put it back together!" she begged her lower lip sticking out and her blue eyes growing two times their size.

"Sure whatever it's not like I could stop you anyway, just make sure you do or you owe us a new one." I sighed giving up, I swear, if she told me to jump off a bridge I would.

"Ed I think we will need a new bookshelf," Al said motioning to the shelves we already had all being crammed full and we still and more boxes of books.

"When did we get all this crap anyway?" I asked scratching my head in wonder. We had always traveled lightly and didn't own a storage locker. Most of the stuff we got off the internet flee-markets, or second hand stores. "Ah well" I sighed clapping my hands to an empty wall next to the other shelves and a new neat bookshelf came right out of the wall.

"You're a regular do-it-yourselfer Ed!" Winry laughed looking up from her phone mess. Al and I joined in too it had been forever since we all could just put everything aside and just hangout like this and we all were in a good mood because of it.

"Well, I think that's enough for today." Winry said inspecting the rooms.

Our apartment had a large front room with half of the back wall windowed looking out over the city, the other half of the wall had the book shelves running down the next wall to the door as well, that we were going to use as the HQ for our business. It would, once we were done have our desks in front of the windows and in the rest of the space there would be a larger coffee table and some chairs for the clients if they wanted to show us anything. Off of the main room there was a small hall that led to a smaller room that would serve as our living room with a TV an old couch and a small coffee table. The hall ended in a small kitchen with an oven, microwave, fridge, and toaster, but that was about it. The other room off the hall would be our bed room it had two beds a shared night stand and off the room there was the only bathroom.

"Right so we will meet at the Gryphon's Wing for dinner?" Al asked dusting himself off.

"Yep I'm gonna go get that pay, and then I'll be there" I said putting on my coat. "Need a ride to the hotel Winry?"

"You drive?" she asked picking up her stuff, after putting the phone back together.

"There a problem with that?" I asked.

"No I just, never mind" Winry said looking away.

"Brother learned to drive as soon as he could, and you would too if you spent too much time letting Havoc drive you," Al said coming out of the kitchen that he'd been stocking. "I'll go with you Brother to Roy's."

We left and I dropped Winry off at her hotel before driving to the CPD HQ. When we got there the whole place was empty and dark though I knew that the hours for the main office were nowhere near over. I suspected that Breada or Havoc had something to do with this.

Sure enough as soon as we got to Roy's office the lights came on and the whole unit jumped out showering the room in confetti. I was surprised that even Riza jumped out, I honestly didn't think she would go along with it.

"Well that was pointless" I growled pulling confetti out of my braid.

"Brother you should be nicer to them."

"Whatever" I growled "can I just get that money?"

"Oh got a date?" Havoc asked cigarette dangling from his mouth as always. "I have some great tips!"

"No thanks and it is not a date! I'm just going with Al and Winry to dinner and a movie." I said pushing him away glaring at him as I saw the face he made "she is just a friend!" I shouted as he started sniggering.

"Here Fullmetal" Roy said relinquishing the pay to me.

"Fullmetal is a CPD name, I'm freelance now so it is just Edward." I sighed.

"True enough but we probably will still use you a lot" Fury said "you really are talented"

"Oh I almost forgot!" Breada said pushing a framed document in my face. "We thought you might like it."

I took it and saw that it was the certification for me becoming a CPD alchemist. It was good credentials for my work like it or not. "Thanks guys" I said as we prepared to leave.

"Take care of yourselves!" Hughes called after us.

"Sure you too!" Al called back.

Early the next morning we were woken by a knock on the door. "I'll get it" I groaned glancing at the alarm clock blinking four at me. "you stayed up late last night working"

"You too" Al moaned sleepily not really arguing with me.

"I'm used to it, you aren't" I replied pulling on a robe to hide the fact that I was just in my boxers. "Go back to sleep" though I think he was already asleep again.

"Finally Ed I didn't wake you did I?" Winry asked as I opened the door.

"well usually I'm not up till after dawn" I yawned "but hey are you ok, what dragged you over here this early that you couldn't just call?"

"I just wanted to talk, in person" She said.

"Should I get Al?" I asked knowing that those two talked a lot particularly when I was off somewhere.

"No I wanted to talk with you." She said almost franticly "I mean if it's ok"

"Uh sure, wait" I said seeing the first rays of the sun peeking through the window. "hey I know a great place to watch the sunrise mind if we talk there?"

"Huh?" she asked.

"Yeah were the top apartment and we have this hatch that leads to the roof. Best view in Central!" I answered leading her in.

"Is it safe?"

"Course!" I said pulling her up after me.

We lay back on the gentle slope of the roof watching as the whole city was bathed in a warm pink glow.

"So what did you want to talk about?" I asked.

"Well…" she looked down to her lap fiddling with her fingers.

I cocked my head curiously she was not acting normal. "is everything ok?"

"Y-yeah fine, it's just, E-ed I…"

"What?"

"I think… please don't be mad but…" she stammered.

"Win you can tell me, I won't be mad I promise"

"I think that I love you!" she said hurriedly clenching her eyes shut flinching as if expecting me to attack her.

I blinked in surprise for a bit then my expression softening I whispered back "I think I love you too" she looked up at me and then we moved to kiss each other.

"Brother wake up!"

I opened by eyes and found myself in the dark movie theater watching the characters on screen make-out with each other. "Wha…" I asked wiping the sleep from my eyes.

"You fell asleep at the best parts!" Al scolded.

"Sorry" I sighed 'damn movie, damn mushy dream. Should have been tipped off when there was no wrench in my head' I thought.

"Let's go you two" Winry said rather coldly. "You know Ed if you didn't want to watch the movie you could have said so." She growled hitting me with a wrench.

"That's not…" I tried to defend myself, true I let her pick the movie and it was a chick flick but why was she so angry, I could fall asleep at slashers, I really was just not a movie person.

She turned and walked away Al looked back but followed after her as I tried to untangle myself from the seat. "Wait up damnit!" I shouted earning myself glares from the people watching the movie.

I caught up to them a block away "Winry I'm sorry… It wasn't that I didn't like the movie-"

"Shove it Ed" Winry spun around to face me glaring. "I'm going to my hotel room see you Al." she said turning back around and walking ahead. The fact that she had just only referred to Al was not lost on me.

"Win" I pleaded for her to listen.

"Shut up Ed! You may be devoid of all human emotions but the rest of us aren't!" she shouted stopping and spinning again to glare at me "I thought your limbs were steel not your heart Ed!" she said tears in her eyes then she turned again and ran off to her hotel I assume.

I wanted to run after her and tell her that it was just a misunderstanding but her words had simultaneously paralyzed me and brought my world crashing around me.

"Brother?" Al asked timidly after I just stood there for a bit.

"Go on home Al, I'll catch up" I mumbled dropping my head so that my bangs hid my eyes which were burning with tears that I was not going to let fall.

"But Brother she…" Al said.

"go home Al" I said a bit angrily "I just want to be alone for a bit" I said sounding utterly depressed that didn't even hint at how much I felt as I turned the opposite direction and shuffled off. 'Damn why am I so stupid?' I thought.

Thanks for reading, depending on how long i have left on the computer i may even get the rest up, too. please let me know just cause this story is old doesn't mean i dont want feed back. personaly i really like this story or i wouldn' t post it here. well enjoy and review!