AN: This story is going to have lots of confusing shit and conflicting emotions when Edward goes home so just hang in there with me. I also really don't know what I'm going to do in it. Who knows till I get there I might change my mind and completely mind fuck everyone.

I couldn't wait for you Chap.2

BACK IN AMESTRIS

Winry awoke that morning and fixed breakfast for her husband Anthony who was a second-Lieutenant in the military under Mustang's command. They had met while she was visiting Hawkeye last year and fell in love. She had held on to the hope that Edward would return one day but after a year she began to lose that hope and that's when she met Anthony. He was kind, sweet and handsome and he'd swept her off her feet.

"Morning honey" He said smiling at her as he kissed her cheek. Anthony knew about Edward and he knew the feelings that his wife had for him and he also knew that sometimes when he saw her looking at pictures of them when they were kids she would tear up some because she missed the brothers so much.

"Morning" she said wrapping her arms around his neck "I have a surprise for you." She said fixing his plate and putting it in front of him "And what's that?" he asked sitting down and picking his fork up.

"Well…Uh….Let's just say we might not be alone very much longer." She said smiling at him with an ear to ear grin. He gave her a strange look "Why is your grandmother coming to live with us?" She cocked her head to the side and laughed "No silly I think I'm pregnant."

He dropped his fork and stood up and walked over to her and put his hand on her stomach "Really baby." This news made him the happiest guy in the world at that moment. He knew how much she wanted kids and he was totally on board for the idea. Shaking her head yes he reached out and pulled her into a hug then lifted her off the ground and spun her around "That's the best news ever you just made my day baby." She knew he would go to work and blab to everyone about it being as proud as he was and she wondered how Mustang would take it being Edward's friend. She knew he would be happy for them but she also knew in the back of his mind he would be thinking about Edward.

Mustang had destroyed the gate on this side after Edward and Al went through it but he hadn't completely destroyed it beyond repair and she always wondered why? Was it because he didn't want to destroy that life line to them? Was it because it reminded him of that fateful day when they left? Or was he truly trying to figure out how to bring them back? That was the questions that haunted her mind after that day. She had often visited that underground city just to be closer to them until Mustang posted guards outside the entrances and she remembered the day she stormed into his office and chewed his head off because she couldn't get down there and she also remembered what he told her "It's not good for you to dwell on the past Winry you have to get on with your life because their gone. They are not coming back and there's nothing we can do to make that happen." She always thought maybe he was lying to her so that she would get on with her life.

BACK IN MUNICH

Edward and Noah were married on a warm summer day in August in a gypsy ceremony. He wore a white shirt and black slacks and his hair was down and loosely blowing in the breeze. Noah wore a white flowing skirt with lace over the top of it and a flowing white shirt. There was a huge gypsy celebration afterwards and everyone was happy and dancing. Edward never knew he could be this happy as he watched his new bride dance in a circle with the rest of the girls and her stomach that was actually getting bigger now grew with his child. He hadn't thought about Amestris for some time now and he was quite content with his new life. He was going back to school at the university in fall and he was going for his teaching degree in physics and science knowing that would be a good job that would provide for his family. Al was going back to school too he wanted to experience it since he had never gone back to school after the transmutation with their mother and he really wanted to make some friends. Edward told him just to experience school for a while before he made his mind up on a career. He had rented a little apartment in the city right next to the university. He and Al had found jobs too Edward worked at a gas station and Al worked at the general store as a stock boy. Edward took night classes while Al took day classes that way someone was always home with Noah. People around the city still had problems with gypsies and he didn't want her being alone.

Six months later Edward paced outside of the bedroom door as Noah screamed in pain. Al tried to calm him "Ed don't worry." As he paced past his younger sibling and he had a feeling something wasn't right and he was correct when the midwife came out and told him the baby was turned around "WHAT!" He freaked out and began screaming "WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO?" The midwife tried to calm him by telling him they had to turn the baby around. Edward looked at her confused "And just how the hell do we do that?"

"Someone has to put their hand up there and turn it." She said trying to keep her cool as he screamed at her "HELLO MY ARM IS METAL I CAN'T DO IT!" As Edward continued to freak out Al walked into the room when he heard the midwife tell Edward they could lose both of them. He shut the door as Edward continued to scream at the midwife. Walking up to Noah as she shrieked in pain "Noah I want to help you but I don't want you to think this is something weird okay." She nodded to him "Brother's freaking out and someone needs to put their hand in you and turn the baby." Smiling at her he bent down next to the bed "If we don't we could lose both of you. So would you let me do that?"

Between crying and breathing she looked up at him "Al at this point I don't care what anyone does as long as it helps." Al nodded and went to the end of the bed and he felt really weird doing this to her as he stuck his hand up there and he could feel the baby as she screamed in pain and he turned it. "I'm sorry I know that was very uncomfortable for you as much as it was for me." She shook her head "No Al it actually helped some." Pulling his hand out a contraction hit and she pushed "AHHHHHH GOD!" Al could see the baby coming as he sat there while Edward was still cussing out the midwife and she was yelling back at him.

"Alright Noah I can see the head just a few more pushes." Al smiled knowing his brother was missing something spectacular he yelled over his shoulder "ED! GET YOUR ASS IN HERE NOW!" Edward continued yelling at the midwife telling her how incompetent she was as Noah kept pushing. Al seeing the head coming yelled for his brother again "ED YOUR CHILD IS COMING!" Edward stopped at those words and ran in the room just in time to see the baby come out and Al held it up "It's a boy Ed." Edward couldn't take it the sight of blood and the pure adrenaline rush he had going and he hit the floor face first. "Al is Edward alright?" Noah asked as she tried to look between her legs to the empty space where he husband had stood just seconds before.

Al looked down at Edward passed out on the floor "He's fine Noah I think his brain just hit overload though." Then he smacked the baby and it cried searching around for something to cut the cord he found scissors. Before he cut the cord he took the cup of water next to the bed and dumped it on Edward's head "HEY WHAT THE FUCK AL?" Edward yelled jumping up his head drenched.

Al held the scissors out to him "I thought you might like to cut the cord unless you find something more interesting on the floor?"

Edward raised an eyebrow at his brother then glared at him "No Al I was just admiring the floor." He pointed to the floor "Is this wood? Hey I got an idea let's name him Woody." He said sarcastically then walked over and grabbed the scissors from Al "Give me those…..You. You…Fuck nevermind." He focused on cutting the cord and as he did he got this strange feeling of disconnecting mother from child it had to do with he and Al's own past 'Shake it off Ed' he told himself as he cut the cord and Al turned around and washed the baby up. Edward leaned down by Noah's head and kissed her "I'm sorry for being such a spaz and freaking out like that."

She smiled up at him "I wouldn't expect anything else from you Edward that's just who you are." Al brought the baby over and handed him to Noah as Edward looked down into that little face "Yeah but I can't be that person anymore Noah I have to learn more patience now that I'm a father." He studied his son's face and as his eyes opened they were huge amber pools just like Edwards, his hair was dark like his mothers and he had a slight golden color of skin. Noah looked at Edward "He's going to be quite the heartbreaker when he's older."

"Yeah" Edward said softly as he moved his hand over the baby's head "What are we going to name him?" Noah smiled up at Edward "I always liked the name Malachi."

"Malachi" Edward said out loud then smiled "I like it. Yeah I like it a lot."

Three month's later in Amestris

Anthony paced the hall in the hospital as Winry screamed her head off in the delivery room. Mustang walked in "Brooks I'm giving you two weeks off to stay home with your wife and baby."

Anthony saluted "Thank you sir." Mustang thought to himself 'Don't thank me thank the Lieutenant' Just then the nurse came out "Mr. Brooks you have a beautiful baby girl" Anthony smiled and he was so excited "A girl?"

Mustang walked over and placed his hand on his shoulder "Congratulations Brooks" He started walking towards the door "I'll see you back at the office in two weeks." As Mustang walked out and met up with Hawkeye in the hall she could tell something was bothering him "Sir what is it?"

He snapped back from his thoughts and trying to hide them "Nothing Lieutenant." But she knew what he was thinking and who he was thinking about "Your thinking about Edward aren't you sir?"

"I never could hide anything from you" looking her in the eyes "Could I?"

She smiled a soft smiled at him "No sir."

"I keep thinking what would have happened if Fullmetal would have stayed?" He started walking and he kept talking "Would that be his child in there? Would he have married Winry?" These questions plagued Mustang often because he really didn't know what was on the other side of that portal. "I have nightmares sometimes Lieutenant that he and Al are stuck in a swirling black mass for eternity."

She stopped and put her head down "It was Edward's choice to go back sir and he looked fine the last time he was here so don't go thinking he's in hell."

Mustang had a determined look in his eye as he turned to Hawkeye "I will find a way to bring them back Lieutenant." She knew he was maybe holding onto a dream but she just nodded "Yes sir I know you will."

Anthony had entered the room and walked over to Winry's bedside and stared down at his daughter while she held her "She's beautiful Winry" he studied the babies face "She looks just like you."

Winry laughed "Well she has your nose" she looked at her daughter and her mind wandered for a minute to Edward and Al. Oh how she wished they could be here to see her daughter and to be in her life. She had to imagine that they were off on some wild adventure like they always were sometimes just to get through the day.

As Anthony stared into his wife's far off stare he knew she was thinking about the Elrics again and he wished there was some way he could help her see them again to take the pain she felt away. He knew only too well what it felt like to lose a childhood friend, his best friend of twelve years was killed in battle and he didn't want her to carry that pain all her life.

"So what are we going to name her?" He asked bringing his wife back to reality.

"Huh….Oh" she smiled at him as the memories of the Elric's faded from her mind "I was thinking maybe Edala." (Pronounced Ed-Al-A now say it fast a quite simple play with words) The baby smiled and Anthony knew why she picked that name it was a reminder of the two friends she had lost Ed and Al.

He softly smiled and gave her a nod that he liked it "Edala. Edala Brooks. I like it honey."

Smiling she looked at Anthony "Honey can you go tell the nurse I'm ready to eat now?" he smiled getting up and walking to the door and as he exited the room she looked at her daughter "You my dear Edala will know all about your uncles and their adventures." Smiling she knew she had tons of stories to tell the baby to keep her entertained for years.