Disclaimer: FMA/Brotherhood is not mine. Ember is though. Trust me alllllllll the sarcasm is me.

Winry was cooking dinner like always, when she heard a knock at the door. It was unusual for someone to come to the house at this time of day, or any time of day for that matter. Ed wasn't due back from the Eastern Headquarters for an hour and Brigadier Gen. Mustang and Lt. Hawkeye were there as well. As she walked up to the door she wondered if Gracia and Elisia were visiting. If they were she would have to make some apple pie, or five seeing as Ed would eat at least four. She was already planning the recipe when she opened the door to find a young woman approximately her age. "Oh my!" she exclaimed as the woman collapsed right there on her front porch.

"Hawkeye," was the last thing she said before she lost consciousness.

Roy Mustang was not one easily surprised but when Winry Elric called in hysterics screaming something about a girl asking for Lt. Hawkeye, it was suffice to say he was exactly that. He decided that the best thing would be to go to the Elric residence with Edward and Lt. Hawkeye just to sort this all out. He called in to Edward, who was poring over some reports of a gang frozen in a small town near Rizenbul, "Hey Elric, there's trouble at your house, Hawkeye and I will accompany you."

As Winry started to really look at the girl, she could tell she was very pretty. She could be no older than Winry herself but it was hard to tell under all the black clothing. Her face seemed lined with years of age and stress. Winry wondered where this mystery girl came from. Well, she would find out sooner than later since Gen. Mustang was coming with Lt. Hawkeye and Edward. She had told Mustang she needed everybody there when really all she needed was Lt. Hawkeye, but since the Lt. never leaves Mustang's side since the incident at the famous battle. All of a sudden she heard sounds coming from the room where she had somehow managed to drag the stranger.

"Where am I?" was the first words out of her mouth.

"You are in my house, you passed out on my porch an hour or two ago. What happened to you? You're covered in bruises and don't think I didn't notice those tattoos on your shoulders. They're forms of alchemy, aren't they?" Winry managed to say all in one breath.

"How did you do that," the girl asked, not answering any of Winry's questions.

"Do what?"

"Say all of that without breathing. I mean, you must hold your breath for fun or something cause I have never heard anyone talk that fast. In Amestris at least."

"That's not the point!" Winry cried in frustration, "At least tell me your name."

"Fine, my name is Ember, and that's all I'm going to tell you. Now I'm sorry that I have intruded upon your humble hospitality, but could you point me to the Elric residence?"

"I'm pleased to meet your acquaintance Ember, but this is the Elric residence."

Ember looked taken aback. "Oh, I'm sorry! Um… so, you're Winry right?"

"Why yes, but how did you know that, you didn't even know that this was the Edric residence?"

"Well, Al told me to-"

"You know Alphonse? How? Why didn't you say that in the first place?" Winry was once again confused.

"Yes, of course I know Al, he told me that his brother Edward was married to Winry and since you are obviously not, well, male… I made the assumption that you were Winry. Now I would love to explain all this but I think there are some people at the door that we shouldn't keep waiting and I would love to explain this as a group."

"How do you –" Winry heard the door open and Ed call in, "Winry, Mr. Flame and Hawkeye are here."

"Edward, I would much prefer you do not address Lt. Hawkeye and myself that way, not even at home," Roy stated with the expression on his face that showed how much he disliked the names Ed came up with. That or he was extremely contstipa-

"General, though I agree fully with your feeling of annoyance towards Edward, I do believe we came here for a reason," Riza Hawkeye said in her usual business like tone.

Winry was suddenly reminded of the reason there was two military officials, one with, most likely, five concealed weapons on her person, were standing in here in her living room. "Oh goodness, come in here. Now, I told the general that I needed everyone but-"

"EMBER, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!" Everyone turned to look at Hawkeye, who was on the brink of spontaneously combusting.

"Oh good evening Riza, long time no see, but I really didn't need all of you to come here, I would have been fine with just Edward and Mr. Mustang here," Ember said with just a hint of amusement dripping from her voice.

"OH YOU WOULD BE FINE WOULD YOU? DO YOU REALIZE I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM YOU IN YEARS!"

"Hawkeye, I am sorry to interrupt, but some of us are a little lost. Do the two of you know each other?"

"No, Roy dearie, we just happen to know each other's names, and it's obvious by the way Riza screamed at me the moment she saw my shining face that we had no knowledge of one another's existence before this moment," Ember practically laughed out, her voice soaked and deep fried in sarcasm.

"General Mustang," Hawkeye stated with an emphasis on the general, "was wondering how we knew each other, Ember.

So I came back and revised this, realizing I got really comma happy in the beginning. I also had to change a few things in the beginning due to a mistake in my writing process. I plan to fix the rest of the chapters I have to this point and hope you enjoy!