-1944, Train station, Munich-

The sun boiled down upon them with leering heat. The train station was full of Jews. All were destined to board the train that day. Whether it trailed off to the left track or the right ultimately decided their fate. All of them with their little suitcases or little memorabilia of what they had left. Two among them though were not Jews, but strangers to this atmosphere. Edward and Alphonse.

Alphonse had a week before received a letter to board a train to a camp site. There, as it explained in the letter, he could start a better life and food would be plentiful as it wasn't now due to the credit crunch. But the brothers would be apart. It was hard to understand that through the war time and reigning of Hitler a place would be offered for Jews to live. But it was stranger still that Alphonse, a non-Jew, would be picked to attend such a congregation. Could it be that they were deceived by Alphonse's appearance of brown hair? It would set him apart from Aryans at least.

'I'm going to miss you, Al.' Edward smiled.

'And I'll miss you, but I wish you could come too. You'd be better off.'

'Maybe, but as long as you'll be looked after that's all that matters.' Edward's eyes filled up with water. The tears dripped smoothly down his cheeks.

The tears were contagious and Alphonse too found himself crying. They pulled each other into a parting hug; Edward didn't care what other people thought, it would be the last time he'd see his brother and he didn't want to waste precious seconds with a simple hand shake.

The brothers parted and Alphonse picked up his case to board the train as it blew its whistle. The windowless doors slammed shut in front of Alphonse before he could change his mind and he was whisked away. The train puttered along the tracks and they trailed off to the left direction. The tracks themselves led to a tower, which above it were gathering grey clouds and the tower billowed out darker clouds that polluted the air.

"W-what have I done?" Edward's desperate thoughts clutched onto his heart.

He collapsed to his knees, crying out for his brother even though he knew they would be ignored. The tears clogged his throat in heart-rending despair. He was the only one left on that dusty train station and now he was all alone.

-2008, Munich international airport-

Edward woke up with a jolt. Just a nightmare. But he wished it could only be a nightmare for it had truly happened all those years ago. The noise of the airport had brought him back to reality. The hard bench made his back hurt with a stubborn throbbing. He checked the black, digital board.

Manhattan-due 1 hour.

He had some time left.

Edward let his thoughts trail away. Ever since he came to Earth, he could live a normal life away from the homunculi and his normal life also included Alfonse Heidrich.

Two years later, his brother Alphonse had passed through the gate and Alfonse had been murdered by gun shot. But what was strange was what had happened afterwards. As the years went by, he would watch as Alphonse grew into a young man and yet Alphonse could only watch as his older brother seemed to keep the appearance of an 18 year old. Never growing, Even the growth of his hair had seemed to cease. His ponytail never grew past his shoulders.

It was scary that even though Edward should now look 105 years old, even though he still held his youthful appearance. It was also lonely living life for 87 years without growing older wondering when death would creep up on him or whether it would at all. Edward did wonder how his aging process failed while Alphonse's kept ticking away as normal.

"An absence of the gate?" he had often thought. "Maybe the absence of the gate meant the absence of a soul. No soul meant no aging." It would make little sense to strange eavesdroppers but to him it all seemed to add up.

'The flight 3 to Manhattan will leave in half an hour. Please prepare to board the plane. Thank you.' The speaker called over the hustle and bustle of the crowds of foreign customers who used the airline for business trips.

"This is my one chance." Edward thought as he walked towards customs with his suitcase in hand. "My one chance to escape Germany and all its bad memories. I can leave here and start anew." At least that was the plan.

Ever since the new Fuhrer, Morsch Erde had taken over the rule of Germany in 1980, he had disallowed his people from leaving the country if he could help it. Now that the train boarding's to the gas chambers or the slave labour camp had continued Edward knew it was a matter of time before he would be next. Germany could easily fall back into turmoil under its Fuhrer's leadership and Edward didn't want to fall with it.

But it was time for him to face his latest challenge. Customs. He knew that his auto-mail would alert the metal detectors, but he didn't care.

Once the queue had wheedled down to him, he walked through as casually as he could. But as the detector bleeped, the police officer was ready to intercept him. But Edward ran for it as he picked up his wallet and other belongings off of his tray and he fled the scene.

"Nice going Ed! Now you REALLY look suspicious!"

Policemen were not far behind him but they weren't gaining on him. Edward's speed under lighter auto-mail was defeating them. He pushed through the queues to board the plane while shouting back half-hearted apologies.

He was aboard the plane, but seats were filling up fast and if he took one then he'd be drawing attention to himself while arguing with a paying customer. Before the police could board, he climbed onto a seat, opened up the over head storage and slipped inside. As he did so passengers were inserting their luggage into the compartment with no awareness of the person curled up next to them. He was safe. For now.

Author's note: Once again i am claiming to be the first to do a Fullmetal alchemist crossover with something entirely different! My first one being House. Now, the new character that'll be in this one is actually one coming up in the House crossover, Artificial Deviations of Absolute Memories, so you could say that I own that character.

Anyway, please read and review, I want to know what people think to this new crossover! I actually started this crossover in 2008, nearing the end of it anway. I know because I was ill in December 08 when I wrote chapter 7 or 8, so I've been stewing on this one for quite a while. The updates won't be regualar, but i'll try and keep updating as much as i can, one chapter at a time. (D

Thanks for reading it, Ophelia Davis