Chapter Two: Tell about yourself

Okay, so I lived after attempting supuko. I am very grateful to all of the like two or three people who sent me reviews. Yay! Go people! Also, I got into this summer program called Upward Bound at Coe College so I don't know how often I'll be able to up date. Maybe I'll write the story on notebook paper and then make my sister update it for me. I don't know, I'll figure it out for you all.

Disclaimer: I wished I owned FMA but I don't. I came close to owning FMA the manga volume 4 because I lost the library's copy for a while but then my mom found it. I was a little sad when she found it.

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The hostess seated Ed, Al, Noah, and Serenity at a round table. "Thank you." they all said and sat down.

"Anything to drink sirs and madams?" a waiter carrying a wine bottle asked.

"I think I'll have a little scotch." Ed said.

"Nothing for me," Al said and began to look at the menu.

"Same for me," Noah said.

"Just a little gin for me," Serenity said.

The waiter nodded and walked away. Noah looked at Serenity. "You drink?" she asked.

"Just a little," Serenity admitted.

"But you're so young," Noah said.

"Now Noah, there's nothing wrong with drinking if you do it in moderations, besides it's not like she's any younger than us; we're all the same age." Ed said looking at the beef entrées.

"That's not true big brother, you're seventeen, I'm sixteen, Noah's sixteen, and well I'm not sure how old Serenity is…" Al said blushing.

"Don't fret Al," Serenity said smiling. "I'll be seventeen in May. (It's late March)"

"So Serenity, where are you from?" Noah asked after the water had brought Ed and Serenity their drinks.

"Well…I am originally from Ed and Al's world, but after my mother died when I was five my father, his best friend and I all moved to this world." Serenity said sipping her gin.

"You're from our world?" Al asked amazed.

"You know of our world." Ed said.

Serenity nodded. "I just said I was from it, didn't I?" she asked.

"Who was your father's best friend?" Noah asked ignoring the boys.

There was a pained look in Serenity's eyes but she covered it up quickly. No one other than Ed noticed the look. "Then when we got to this world we found at that we could no longer use alchemy, but my father's best friend said that nothing was impossible and we began to learn alchemy all over again.

"It took us five years but we finally mastered alchemy, me being the youngest, I was even able to use alchemy without a transmutation circle without having to see the truth. But when I was ten my father passed away.

"He left me in the care of his best friend and his best friend took care of me until I was thirteen. But when I was thirteen he said that he didn't know why my father left me to him, that he couldn't take care of his own family so how was he supposed to take care of his best friend's child, a daughter no less. So it was then that we went our separate ways. And I've been on my own for the last three almost four years." Serenity said.

"Do you have any idea where your godfather is now?" Al asked.

"Yeah, and I know that he still cares. He sends me money to a p.o. box in the city, because I haven't left the city since he left. We promised that we would meet each other again." Serenity said finishing off her gin.

Ed stared at the table cloth. For some reason Serenity's godfather sounded really familiar.

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It was after midnight and the teens were now in the hotel room, Ed and Al were sleeping on one bed and Serenity and Noah were "sleeping" on the other.

"Who is your godfather, Serenity?" Noah Asked.

Serenity stared at the ceiling. She didn't want to say but she knew from her talk in the bathroom with Noah earlier that Noah would find out one way or another. Whether Serenity told her or Noah read her mind.

Sighing, "Hoenhien Elric," Serenity said.

Noah rolled onto her side and looked at Serenity. "You mean Ed and Al's father?" Noah asked just barely heard over their snores.

"The one and only,"

"Don't you think they have a right to know?" Noah asked laying back down. "I mean where their father is or what he's been doing?"

"I have my reasons why I didn't tell them." Serenity said calmly.

"It's their father!" Noah cried getting angry. "They have a right to know."

"Like I said, I have my reasons for not telling them." Serenity said rolling over so her back was to Noah.

Huffing as soon as Serenity was asleep Noah gently touched her forearm. "France," she whispered and went to sleep herself.