Disclaimer: I don't own the characters.

I lay here on this cold stone floor shaking. I can't tell if it is from excitement, nervousness, exhaustion or all three.

I'm too frightened to check if it worked. I don't know how it would, but I still have a tiny glimmer of hope that it did.

Somehow I get up the courage and muster the strength to check. My eyes fill to the brim with tears, tears of happiness, tears of amazement.

I crawl as quickly as possible to you. You're flesh again.

I grab your hand and press it against my cheek as you stare in amazement.

You, you're you again.

"Ed? Did it really work?" you ask. You seem confused.

I nod.

I wrap my arms around you. The body that I love and have missed so bad for the last four years. I run my hands through your silky hair feeling it's softness.

"Al…you're really back" I say my tears now falling freely down my face.

Your lips are suddenly pressed against mine as all the want and need that had been built up from the last four years is let out.

You waste no time and your hands quickly move down to my pants as you start to unbutton them.

I let out a huge sigh of relief that it had worked, that I finally had my brother, my lover back.

We break for air and I take the opportunity to say something.

"Al I love you"

"Ed…" you start sadly as you reach for my hand that I quickly let you grab. "I have to go" you whisper kissing me for a brief moment before you start disappearing , your hand suddenly vanished from in mine, the warmth of your lips a sudden absence from mine.

"Al! Al no! Don't leave me!" I scream and the tears come back. The ones you had caused a few minutes ago. The tears of happiness and relief suddenly turned to tears of fear and loneliness.

In the last seconds your face lingered in the air, it had the most pained expression. You managed to choke out a final message.

"Ed, I love you, I'm sorry"

And then you were gone.

I lay as a helpless heap on the ground crying silent streams of tears.

All of a sudden the floor is no longer hard nor cold, although I still am.

The tears are still there and I am once again afraid to open my eyes,

I am shaking all over again and I force myself to open my eyes.

It was a dream, I remember now that you suffered the same fate as mom.

"Al…" I say, voice shaking and cold sweat dripping down my back "Al, I'm sorry"

((A/N I feel so bad! I wrote this for my best friend. I love you Laur! Sorry for the suckiness by the way…you'll forgive me, yeah?))