Hello, I'm the Lady of Gaia and I hope the last chapter was to your taste.

Last time, Father has ordered Envy to have a child with a girl of Xerxes blood and that girl seems to be Winry.

Envy is unhappy with the order to breed and Winry is unaware of what awaits.

The life that humans live is always a rocky path, we are bruised and beaten by the end. We are tire and often wore out, but happy in the end for we have lived a full life if we are lucky.

But what is the life of the homunculus?

What is the path of immortality like?

Please review what you like about it!

Chapter 2: A gentle dance

Envy screamed in pain as Father played around with Envy's shaft. Envy hated that he was naturally sterile and that this painfully operation was the only way to make him fertile enough to get the pet project done. "Calm down Envy…the sack is open now. It's time for the painful part of injects." Father told him before sticking one of the eighty-six needles into one of the exposed testes and not too gently at that.

Screaming in horrible pain, Envy feel each and every one of the needles that Father stabbed into his balls. Tears came as he felt the penetrating sting of the liquid be injected into him from the needles.

Lust and Gluttony showed from the side as Father tortured their older brother for the pet project, Gluttony frowned at the horrid screams of pain that came from Envy. Envy was the one to made people scream like that…not the other way around, it made Gluttony worried for his brother and more scared of Father. "Lust? Is Envy alright?"

Lust looked away from Envy and Father to look down at her brother, to see the worry and fear on his cute big face. Wrapping her arms around the walking stomach, she hugged him, wanting to calm him of his fears and worries. "Envy is fine, Gluttony. Father is just fixing him up for something special." Though Lust wondered what Father wanted from Envy's child…it made her feel a little concerned about what their futures held in store for them.

But she did hope that she would be able to 'play' with Envy's little baby maker after she had survived giving birth…it was always fun to cut them slowly, and the blood always tasted sweeter for Gluttony afterwards.

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"Mrs. Hughes, do you mind helping me?" Winry asked, her mind screaming that she didn't have anything that looked good enough for her date. She didn't know why, but she wanted those violet eyes to want her and worship her, but see the intelligent within her. Gracia quick to come to the girl's aid as memories played in her head for a moment of her first date with her husband. The hours that she had spent shopping for their date and the hours she spent asking her mother and friends what would look best on her…god, her husband was going to cry his eyes out when their daughter would do the same or shoot him die without a second thought.

She had a bad feeling the latter was going to happen first though.

"What do I wear!" Winry whinnied like any girl that found her perfect guy as she looked through all her clothes. Elicia watched in curious, wondering why Winry was freaking out like she was. She was grabbing a white dress with a blue flower print then a blue one with a green butterfly print; it was so confusing to her young mind that she went to her room to hide as her mother walked into help.

Gracia looked at the teenage girl, freaking out over what to wear for her date; it was silly and cute all at the same time. "Why do you wear the white dress with the blue flower print, it will bring out your eyes, Winry." Gracia told the teen, did as she was told and changed into the white dress before looking at her hair in dismay…she didn't know if she should wear it up or down. God did she want to cry, was it too as to look perfect for her date!

"Winry calm down, you should wear it down. It will look prettier that way," Gracia advised to which Winry obeyed.

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Envy was surprised to see that Winry was there before him. She smiled when she saw him walking to her; it was odd how he was pleased see that she was happy to see him. He smiled at her stood in front of him. "Sorry, did you wait long?" He asked, not caring one bit if she had. Winry just shook her head, happy that he was there with her and totally unaware they were being watched by Ed and Al, unlike Envy, who was quick to notice them. It pissed him off because that it meant that this part of the job would have to take longer than first thought if they had had a connection with her, until he could kidnap Winry and get her pregnant, but the thought of being able to be around her more…made him happy.

"So what well we do?" Winry asked him, Envy who wondered the same thing. What did humans do on dates besides fucking? "What do you want to do? He asked, hoping she would have some ideas. "Why don't we going to the park and enjoy the day?" Envy nodded; though he didn't know what they there was to enjoy at a boring, old park. The day was boring and peaceful; it held nothing for him unlike the night. The night was dangerous and exciting with blood and death waiting for him to paint the darkness red with his victims' blood.

As they walked to the park, it was interesting as they talked about their lives, though everything about his life was a lie or a half-truth. But he enjoy listening to her talk and how she asked him questions too, her voice was lovely and sounded sweeter than music to him. It was like she was magic or something, but he didn't want her to leave him until he understood what she was doing to him.

Ed and Al watched them from a distance…well, Al watched and Ed ranted in fury about Envy looking like a playboy and how he was taller than him. Al ignored his brother as he continued his rant.

Winry smiled even brighter when she saw music performers in the park square, couples danced to the music that was gentle and warm in nature. Envy watched the couples, thinking how great it would be to make them watch as he slowly torturing them with whips, a knife and some wine…oh, he so wanted to see them watch him in horror as he had his fun. He was surprised when Winry suddenly tugged him with her to dance, surprised and totally taken off guard, Envy stumbled a little at the beginning of their dance. But after that he found that the act of dance was oddly rather enjoyable instead of annoying like in the past.

They fell into the movement with ease and the music, it was like they had done this before that day. They moved in an ease grace, moving like they had danced a thousand times together before that day. Envy found it odd, but it was interesting that it was so ease with wondered why it was suddenly pleasant? But he would think more on it after his date, though Envy had an odd feeling that Winry was the cause. Why did she seem to calm him in such a way as being near her…it worried him that she held that kind of power over him. But he would think of that later and enjoy Winry's presence, to dance with her.

Envy smiled at her when he noticed that the other couples had stopped and watched them with envy in their eyes, the woman envied Winry for him, and the men envied him for her. He liked it, but what he liked the most was how lovely Winry looked, her hair was like spun gold that danced in the air with every move of her lovely body, and the light and warmth of her blue eyes as she looked at him in a way that he had never seen from another human or of his own kind.

"Having fun?" he asked as he stared into her eyes with his own. They shone so beautifully, it made him want to kiss her until she was breathless with those soft and full lips of hers as he played with her body.

"Oh yeah, I'm loving this! But what about you? Do you want to stop?" She asked, concerned that he wasn't having fun. Envy laughed at her question before giving into the urge to kiss her. "Yes, I'm having a lot of fun. And seem you look like a dancing Goddess, right now. I would, no doubt be cursed by God himself, if I said that we should stop until you're ready to do so," He whispered into her ear before giving it a lick, sending wondrous chills done her spine.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, YOU EVIL BASTARD?!" Ed shouted as he stomped toward them, Al trailed slowly behind him, acting little a scared little mouse as he did so. Envy gently pushed Winry behind him, with every intention to look like he was a protective boyfriend, but no intention of seriously harming the two sacrifices. When Envy moved to walk towards them, a wrench suddenly flew past him and hit Ed in the head, Envy looked back to see that Winry was anger as hell. "EDWARD, ALPOSE! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?" Winry screamed at the top of her lungs, scaring the shit out of the two boys and all the couples. She walked past Envy; her eyes telling everyone that blood would be shed. Everyone, but Envy took a step away as she started to scold her two childhood friends, unaware that her temper was doing…interesting things to Envy.

Winry only stopped her scolding when she heard laughing and turned to see that Envy was laughing, it confused her until he wrapped his arms around her and stopped laughing long enough to whisper into her ear. "You are too perfect." She stared at him for a moment as she felt tons of different emotions all at once, but happiness was the strongest in that moment. He thought she was perfect, where every other boyfriend she had had when running the moment they saw the wrench.

Ed just waking up from the near-death experience, immediately started ranting about how Envy wasn't the guy for her, how he looked like a playboy and a lazy bum. But the fire in Winry's eyes had told him running away before she could throw her wrench at him again; Al followed his older brother, not wanting to be the one that Winry took her anger out on.

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Lust enjoyed the Earl's garden tea that she was drinking as she watched her brother with his…'date'; he smiled without that look of insanity that was always there in his eyes and his smile. It was odd to see it, she looked like a normal girl, and though her actions were different from others, she wondered what this would mean for her brother.

It worried her, her brother like her…was not what humans would call stable, and the lack of insanity within his eyes and smile, even in that form made her scared for the future that was to come for them. What was it about that girl that allow him to be like that, he looked like he was at peace within his own mind and body, something she and her brother were not able to achieve for all the years that they have lived. But that girl had been able to give it to him with that simple dance, their mindless talk, how had that girl done it?

She watched the two as they walked away to go, leaving her and the park behind as the sky turned dark. This was going to be interesting project with an interesting result, She mused to herself.

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Envy turned off the main street, holding Winry's hand as he led her away. He planned to take her to the laboratory 3 to take her to father and began Father's pet project, though he the thought of raping Winry was leaving a bad taste in his mouth. Envy frowned at that, he had had no problem raping women in the past or men with he thought about it, he had enjoyed it to be truthful, it was went his victim would moan in sweet pleasure when he fuck them that he hated sex.

But the thought of Winry in a room, broken and empty shell of the woman that she had been bothered him a great deal. It was weird, but he like the light that he saw in her blue eyes, the light was warm and beautiful, it was one of the purest thing that he could remember seeing. He looked at her, walking beside him with a sweet smile on her beautiful face, she was so unlike him, who was an ugly monster under the disguise that he wore in front of her. Winry was beauty and warm, he was ugly and cold, she was innocent and pure of heart, he was tainted by the darkness of humanity and impure…they were so different, but he didn't want to see her harmed any way.

"Where are we going?" She asked him like an innocent child unaware that her was about to be taken from her. "I'm taking you to a café and I'll call a cab to take you back, it's getting dark and I had to go to my other job soon," he said without thinking and did just that without realizing it as well. Winry gave him a kiss on the cheek before getting the car and waking him up to reality. Realizing that Winry was about to leave he took out a piece of paper from his pocket with a number for her on it. "Call me later," Envy told her with a smile, oddly happy that he was unable to take her to Father's lab yet.

After she was gone, Envy headed to the Command Center to see what he order for the night would be. "I saw that, Envy." Pride's shadows said with a disappointed tone, Envy froze for a moment as he thought of how Father would react if he heard about him letting her go. He knew that he should regret it letting Winry go, but he found that he couldn't and didn't want to regret let her go, save her for a time from the horror of his father's experiments.

"Don't worry, Pride. I'm going to make her fall in love with me and then I'm going to take her to Father. When I make her fall in love with me and get her pregnant, I change into the doctor that she'll be seeing and tell her that the pregnancy is high-risk and then tell her that she should go to Father for help with the baby." Envy told his older brother his last second plan. Pride's shadows stared at him for a long moment before leaving Envy there. Envy knew that he wasn't in the clear yet that he couldn't disobey orders until he was, or he would be in deep shit with Father.

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Winry frowned when she saw Ed and Al were in the living room, waiting for her with Gracia. "How did it go?" Gracia asked before Ed exploded. "WHAT ARE YOU THINKING, WINRY? THAT GUY IS CLEARLY NO GOOD FOR YOU!" Ed shouted at the top of his lungs, he would have said more, but Winry threw her wrench at his head again, knocking him out when it hit. "Al, please take your brother to your room and don't me see him again for the rest of the night." Winry said with a sugary sweet smile, but her voice was dark and terrifying, making Al quick to obey her orders.