Since my last feature, Fifty Sentences, was such a hit, I'm doing a second edition. It's a similar challenge, but this time I'm staying away from the romance and focusing on family and friendships.

I'm still not Hiromu Arakawa, so all characters and situations relating to Fullmetal Alchemist still aren't mine and belong to their respective owners.

Once again, if any of these sentences give you a story idea, go ahead and run with it. But if you do write something around it, let me know so I can link to you on my profile page.

As always, reviews are welcomed and cherished, and flames are directed to the appropriate alchemist.

And now, without further ado, I give you my first pair of victims:

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Edward and Alphonse Elric

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001. Love

The crime they committed was motivated by love; all they'd ever wanted was to see their mother's smile one more time.

002. Hate

Trisha hated to tell Edward that he couldn't keep the kitten, but Alphonse's allergies made that impossible.

003. Pain

Alphonse knew that Aunt Pinako had said that Edward would spit blood while he was learning how to handle his automail, but he just hadn't realized the reality would be so terrifying.

004. Joy

Izumi wouldn't have taken on another student after her dealings with Edward and Alphonse, even if she'd been well enough to do so; they took a delight in their study of alchemy that she had nearly forgotten existed, and she wouldn't have soured that memory for anything in the world.

005. Fear

When Alphonse ran off, Edward took it as a sign that all of his worst fears were true.

006. Trust

Edward knew that his brother trusted him to find the Stone and get their own bodies back; he just wished he had that kind of faith in himself.

007. Betray

Looking back on the night they tried to bring their mother back, Ed always felt that he'd committed the worst kind of treason against his family; his brother lost his body, and his mother had to die a second time.

008. Promise

Izumi saw the same determination in Alphonse's eyes as she had so many years ago, though she knew she wouldn't live long enough to see him fulfill his vow to find his brother.

009. Appreciate

For the nine years he'd had a brother, he had taken Alphonse for granted; it wasn't until he nearly lost him that Edward truly appreciated him.

010. Annoy

It had taken Edward a while to adjust to having a little brother; there were times he thought that his parents had had Alphonse just to annoy him.

011. Death

Noa had seen both their pasts, and she knew that death followed in their wake, though they had never done anything to invite it.

012. Blood

The sight of all that blood terrified Alphonse even more than what had happened to him, but it didn't stop him from grabbing Edward and going for help.

013. Grave

As he and Winry watched over Edward the first night after they'd tried to bring their mother back, Alphonse prayed he wouldn't end up burying the only family he had left.

014. Life

Helping to bring Elysia into the world had blown both brothers away; they knew intellectually that life began that way, but to actually see it happen was another thing entirely.

015. Breath

As Alphonse listened to his brother rant about Mustang, he had to wonder whether Edward was going to stop and take a breath, or pass out from lack of oxygen.

016. Mind

It wasn't that Edward didn't like cats - under normal circumstances he wouldn't have minded adopting a couple of them - but they traveled so much that they just weren't able to properly look after one.

017. Think

Roy Mustang wasn't sure what pissed him off more as he got to know the Elric brothers - that those two boys had attempted human transmutation in the first place, or that they hadn't bothered to think through the consequences.

018. Share

Ed had never quite learned how to share with his brother; that was why they'd fought over so many things for so long.

019. Toy

The first time he and Alphonse ever transmuted a doll for Winry, it scared the living daylights out of her; she hadn't known that alchemy looked like that.

020. Guard

Edward and Alphonse Elric had been alone against the world for so long that Maria Ross sometimes wondered if they'd forgotten they could ask for help.

021. Moonlight

Winry's favorite memories of growing up were the warm summer nights that her grandmother let her and Edward and Alphonse stay up late and chase the fireflies in the yard.

022. Sunshine

Ever since his soul had been sealed in armor, the one sensation that Alphonse found he missed the most was the feel of the sun on his face on a hot summer day.

023. Wish

Elysia Hughes had grown up hearing as many stories about the Elric brothers as she had about her father; she just wished she had been old enough to get to know them.

024. Undecided

Alphonse still hadn't made up his mind what he thought of the Gypsy girl, Noa, but, though she was no Winry Rockbell, it was obvious that Ed liked her.

025. Heaven

The long-ago days of their childhood weren't nearly as simple as either of them remembered, but both brothers couldn't help remembering them as something close to paradise in comparison to their current lives.

026. Dispose

Pinako buried the poor creature that Edward and Alphonse had transmuted before either one ever had a chance to go back to their house; she saw no reason for them to have to bury their mother a second time.

027. Illusive

Until they started reading and deciphering Shou Tucker's notebooks, the Philosopher's Stone had seemed as illusory as a desert mirage.

028. Inside

Al's decision to allow only women and cats into his armor disappointed Edward, he knew that much, but his brother would just have to learn to buy his own movie tickets.

029. Home

There were times Alphonse wondered when he and Ed had started to think of Eastern Headquarters as home, and whether that made the people he and his brother worked with family.

030. Sleep

The children had been playing together all afternoon, and when Pinako found her granddaughter curled up in a heap with Den and the Elric brothers, she shook her head and called Trisha to let her know the boys were staying for dinner.

031. Phone

Winry learned to dread hearing the telephone ring; every time Edward and Alphonse called, they were either both in pieces, or Edward had nearly been killed.

032. Discover

When Winry found out that Edward and Alphonse were fighting over which of them would marry her, she turned them both down flat; she wasn't interested in marriage yet, and they were too short, besides.

033. Investigate

The boys never knew that although half the missions Mustang sent them on were meant to distract the local authorities from his own activities, the other half were genuine leads.

034. Confide

It wasn't so much that Ed and Alphonse wouldn't tell her anything about what was going on that upset her, as it was the fear that they didn't need her anymore.

035. Follow

After a while, Mustang found that it was easy to track Edward and Alphonse's path through the country; all he had to do was follow the path of chaos and destruction they left in their path.

036. Threat

When both brothers came home from Central in pieces, Winry put them back together again and informed them that if they ever scared her like that again, she would kill them slowly and painfully; neither Edward nor Alphonse had the courage to argue with her.

037. Survive

Edward and Alphonse had both seen the armor in their father's old workshop so often they'd nearly forgotten it was there; they never dreamed they'd need it for survival.

038. Together

As strange as this new world was that he had come to, Alphonse knew that he and his brother would be okay; they were stronger together than they were apart.

039. Remember

When her son asked for the story about the two brothers and the phony priest, Rose took a deep breath, gathered her memories, and began the tale as she always did: "Once upon a time there were two brothers, one named Edward and the other named Alphonse..."

040. Mistake

Edward knew that people underestimated his little brother all the time; while he may have been the better alchemist, Alphonse was the better fighter.

041. Try

There were times it was easy to assume that Alphonse was the elder of the two brothers; he maintained a level head, where Edward went out of his way to try the patience of nearly everyone around him.

042. Fall

When Edward slipped on the ice, Furey made the mistake of pointing out that he hadn't had that far to fall; the only reason he survived was that Alphonse had managed to restrain Edward in time.

043. Redo

If Edward had had that night to do over again, he would have at least double-checked their equations; maybe then he'd have caught their error.

044. Experiment

Human transmutation was a project that did not allow for experimentation; Edward and Alphonse had learned that much the hard way.

045. Hollow

The armor that housed Alphonse's soul may have been hollow, but anyone who knew him knew he had a heart as big as all outdoors.

046. Missing

When both Elric brothers went MIA after the invasion, Mustang kept the file on their disappearance open until he was forced to close it; he wouldn't believe they were dead until they found their bodies.

047. Broken

After Ed broke his arm when they fell out of the tree, Alphonse ran screaming to their Aunt Pinako's house, terrified that he'd accidentally killed his brother.

048. Sympathy

Edward and Alphonse learned early on to never try the sympathy ploy with their teacher; she was way too smart to not know if they were faking.

049. Collide

The car accident, even at a slow speed, had not been a good experience for any of them; Ed and the colonel's arguing about Ed's driving had nearly gotten them both killed, and Alphonse had a surprising low threshhold for terror.

050. Writers' Choice: Envy

He had resented his younger half-brothers from the moment he learned of their existence because they had what he had always wanted - a family who loved them, and the attention of their father, even if it had been only for a little while.