Ed wearily walked up the walk to the house he shared with his lovers. 'Just ten more steps...' he thought. All the windows were open to catch the early summer breeze and he could hear various activities and smell dinner.
Forgetting for a moment that his automail had even damaged in the mission, Ed reached up to open the door. He winced as his arm let out an ear piercing screech as parts grated across each other.
Masuta came running from around the corner of the house to see what made that god-awful noise. Ed's hand slowly sank to his side and the door opened to reveal Al.
"Brother! You're home!" He exclaimed. "What did you do to your arm?"
"I-uh...It got damaged..." Ed muttered, knowing full well that Winry would hit him in the head a few times with one of those wrenches that she seems to have around just for that purpose.
Al and Masuta ushered him into the kitchen where Riza was just finishing dinner. Roy came down when Riza called him for dinner.
"So, how'd the mission go?" Al asked, full of curiosity.
"It turns out there was some one with the red water. Needless to say he doesn't have it anymore. He figured out how to make it from a book by some guy called Franzoesisch. I have the book with me. It's written in a foreign language and what I got from a quick glance at translations in the book, it's about the quintessence being used for clandestine purposes." Ed said.
"You've got to be kidding." Roy said.
"Nope. Although, upon a second look I discovered it's really a bunch of fairy tales." Ed sighed. He wouldn't tell them that some idiots had created a couple of new homunculi.