"Addison wakeup now, you have chores to do" called Winry.
"Please mom not today, I mean it is my brithday and all can't I skip them for one day"She begged as she climed down the stairs.
"Addison just because it's your brithday doesn't mean that the chikens and cows don't need feeding. NOW! Get to work."
"Fine fine, just give me a minute to feed myself."
"Hello Addison! Happy brithday!" shouted Major Armstrong as he came up the front road.
"Hello Major and how are you" she said as she hoisted a bale of hay over the fence for the horses.
"OH! ADDISON! SUCH DEDICATION TO WORK EVEN ON YOUR BIRTHDAY" Armostrong brought her into one of his sparkley hugs.
"Can't-breath"
"Avery, Ashly set the table please" shouted Winry out of the kitchen where she had been all day. This was probably the biggest thing since the house warming they had had ten years prior. They never had much to celabrate other than birthdays but most people were usually busy. Not this year though, anyone who had known Ed was coming.
"Mom the Major is here" called Addison.
"Ok just a secound"Winry walked out of the kitchen just as Armstrong ducked through the doorway. "Hello Major!"
"Hello " he went and sat in the living room.
"Mom i'm gonna go wait outside for people ok?"
"Sure Addie" Winry walked back into the went outside and walked along the path tha led up to their house. Izumi and her husband would be here soon. They were the only people that the family knew when they moved here ten long years ago. It was ten years ago to the day that Ed had left also. The last time she saw her father oh how she missed him. He said it was just a work trip and back then she had been so little she had not noticed that worried and haggred look in his eye. Back then she had not know she would loose her father. He said he would be back but lord knew he wasn't telling his daughter the truth. He left Winry to raise what he thought was three kids but soon after he lft Winry found was going to be four. None of Addisons siblings remebered Ed so this had been hardest on her because every so often they asked for stories of him. Winry after a while had found it so painful to talk about Addison was the only one left to tell them of their father.
It was her who told him of his days on the search for the stone and how all the military people who came by the house were all fathers frineds who had helped him and Uncle Al on their journey.
Why did he have to leave and why hadn't he come back. He had said it was just a work trip but-
"Addsion!" shouted some coming up the path. They had pulled her out of her train of thought.
"Hello Lieutenant, Führer how are you?"
"Addison why must we always insist that you don't use our titles?"
"Why shouldn't I? I mean, I'll probably end up in the military anyways so why shouldn't I get used to it now"
"Your father would kill us if we let you join."
"Well he isn't here so who care what he says. To stop me he has to be here doesn't he, and considering that in three years i'll be a adult he can't say a thing about it, isnt that right Roy?"
"Be that as it may I could still deny you"
"Yes but Roy who says I couldn't become a terror to the state. You've seen my alchemy, and it's almost as good as his. Now in three years if I go on to take the state exam and I meet the quailifications and you should not let me join who is to say that I shouldn't become a problem. I mean do you really want me as your enemy?"
"Thats enough you two." Said a flustred Riza.