Contains spoilers if you haven't seen up to episode 51 and the movie

There's a lot of difference between my story and what happens in the actual series and the movie. First, in my story, the movie hasn't happened, and never will. Anyways, the differences…

Envy is, in the ending of the series, kind of "transforming" into a dragon. He isn't a dragon in my story, though he has travelled through the gate, and is now in the same world as Edward.

Edward has been in "our" world for just some weeks, so he hasn't met the other Alphonse yet. He lives with his father, because he hasn't disappeared so far.

So, let me get this straight. The time is after the series ended, before the movie. I'm not going for a fun story… hehe, it's kinda serious.

Well, enjoy and review if you want to.

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The night sky… It could be so annoying sometimes. Maybe it was because it reminded him of his past, all those times he and his younger brother Al had watched it. Back then, everything had been so easy. However, Edward had been looking at it for a while and was just about to get up from the ground, when he heard a noise behind him. It wasn't loud, but enough for him to hear. Ed, who straight away thought it was only some animal, didn't take much notice of it as he began to walk away in the dark night, unaware of the growing shadow becoming visible behind him.

He untroubled continued walking, or, so untroubled he could be. After all, he had failed with pretty much everything in his life. Not a so uplifting thought, but it was true. Skipping the whole brother-and-brother-making-the-greatest-sin-in-alchemy-thing, Ed had recently lost his brother to his home world Amestris and himself had been thrown in to this world, the world where alchemy wasn't an option. Ed began to get used to it now. In the beginning, he wasn't really too positive about it.

He forced the thoughts out of his head and rounded a corner, deciding he would step by some place to get a drink. This had becoming kind of a habit lately; taking a walk late at night and then drinking something, just to clear his thoughts. So, he stepped through the wooden door and took a fast glance at the desk in front of him. He immediately noticed that he hadn't been here before. It didn't bother him or anything, but in this world, he felt better with people he knew around him, though it wasn't really many he did knew.

"Hey you! You're just gonna stand there or can you tell me what you want?" The bartender said with an uninterested voice. Ed looked up at him and said:

"Oh, I'm… not gonna have anything." He snatched by his own words. Had he really said that? He hadn't planned to say anything like that, so why had he said it?

"Why are you here then?" The bartender started to be more and more irritated and Ed felt that it was time to go. He turned around and, as fast as he could, he ran down the street to the right. His footsteps echoed in the empty alley, making it impossible for him to even hear his own heart pounding. Something was wrong. Terribly wrong.

With an unpleasant feeling, Ed continued running until he reached the house where he and his father lived. He smashed the door open and, without even having a chance to defend himself, he felt a rough pain in his shoulder – and collapsed halfway through the door.

His world was in darkness at the time, blurring around in some insane circle. And the unpleasant sense of falling…But even so, he could feel life in him again.

"Wake up, pipsqueak."

That voice…

"Come on, wake up already!"

Someone hit his face, causing a sharp pain spreading from his cheek. If it wasn't for the pain, he probably wouldn't have forced himself to wake up. He stopped up in the air, not falling anymore. The world was still dark… until he shut his eyes open.

"At last! Shit, I thought you would never wake up."

Ed couldn't move. Everything was spinning, all the colours fluted around…

"What did you do to me?" he could finally spoke, his head still hurting.

"Gosh, I didn't mean to hit you that hard." That voice again. Ed knew who it was, but he couldn't seem to remember.

"Where am I?" Ed asked. He heard a movement in front of him, like if someone sat up. Then, that was followed by footsteps. They felt distant, but yet so close.

"Oh? You're asking that now?" The voice sounded extremely superior and confident, and Ed could only figure out one person who was like that.

"Well, I'm not gonna tell you. Only if you tell me where your father is."

Ed's limbs started to soften up, he tried to move his left arm, but it was still impossible.

"I don't know where my father is", he said just to gain some time. The person in front of him sighed.

"I feared you would say that. And I who came all the way through the gate…"

Edward panted. He had almost forgotten about that. His memory from what happened that time by the gate was still a little fragile.

He swallowed, and tried to move his arm once again, and this time, it worked. His eyesight suddenly became plain clear. He turned his golden eyes to the green-haired homunculus and raised his fist, missing the surprised face with only a couple of inches. If it had hit, it would really have hurt, since Ed still had an auto mail arm and leg.

"Whoa! Close you got me there", Envy laughed and jumped aside easily. Ed groaned and got up from the floor he was laying on. He had only time to flash through the room with his eyes before he ran after Envy. Black walls surrounded them, and the room itself was pretty dark and gloomy. Some kinds of pipes were placed on the ceiling above, making the place even more uncomfortable than it already was.

"Where the hell am I?" Edward screamed and kept swinging his auto mail fist towards Envy.

"Doesn't this remind you of something, full metal?" the homunculus said and smirked at Ed's reaction. As so many times before, he remembered that day… that day when he fought Envy and was killed by him, and then when Al rescued him…

"You shouldn't stand still so much pipsqueak."

Edward realized he had stopped moving, confused by his own thoughts. He shaked his head, trying to focus on what he was doing. He saw the homunculus coming closer, but he wasn't able to think properly. He knew Envy must have done something to him other than hitting him, and that he was now taking advantage of it.

"Is something wrong?" Envy giggled, visibly pleased with himself.

"What did you do to me?" Ed tried to sound contained and calm; the opposite of what he actually was feeling. He crunched a bit, looking instantly at the floor underneath him.

"Hey, full metal. This is getting boring… should I just say what I want, eh?" Envy stopped, simply watching the blond-haired alchemist, who was still crunching down. Ed raised his head and met Envy's eyes. The homunculus smiled and said with a low voice:

"I think you want to listen to what I have to say."