Edward stiffened from where he sat outside hearing the chaos inside. It was actually a little closer to home than he wanted to admit. From deep within his chest he felt a tightening feeling. He shut his eyes leaning his head back into the grass where he had been laying before. Hearing Lena's voice inside was taking him back to the initial shock he'd gone through himself. His hand tugged lightly at the grass strands as the screaming continued.

"WHERE THE HELL IS MY ARM!?" Lena screamed raggedly. Her chest heaved in and out unevenly as dulled pain thudded through her side and shoulder. They'd taken it. They'd taken her auto-mail! Lena felt panic seize her heart. The pain medication was making her slow and barely responsive. For a moment her vision was tunneled darkly and she saw that man standing over her with his hand clamped around her wrist.

"WHERE IS IT!?" she screamed again shifting her weight unevenly to swing herself off the bed. She stumbled and yanked an IV from her arm trying to get up. Pinako's eyes got wider watching the girl.

"You need to take it easy child. You're in no shape to be up and moving. It will take weeks to heal even the least infected area around that stump." Winry was trying to put an hand on Lena's good shoulder to guide her back to the bed.

"Don't touch me." Lena said in a cold dead tone of voice. Her eyes were blearily trained on the ground staring at her feet. Winry hesitated biting her lip unsure of what to do. Ed walked inside having been unable to listen to the screaming anymore. He knew what this felt like, at least he was pretty sure he did.

"We had to take the arm off to heal you." Winry said softly. "There was a lot of damaged skin around it too…you could have died."

"You will die if you don't lay back down and let the antibiotics into your system." Granny finished taking a tug off her pipe. Ed leaned against the doorframe watching.

Lena stood as best she could. He could tell by the set of her shoulders and the way her head hung down as she glared at the hardwood floor that her insides were churning. She was burning. She was angry, she was hurt, and she was burning to hurt something like she was now. He knew what it felt like to be helpless. He knew that she didn't want to be.

"She's right you know." He said gently from the doorway. He watched as she stiffened at the neck, a few strands of dark locks falling over her shoulder, before she glanced up at him. She didn't answer him but the swirling anger inside her eyes was more than enough to fill the empty air. He sighed rubbing the back of his neck watching as she shifted back gripping the table and tried to sit in the chair by the window closest to her. She was defiant, he'd give her that. There was a sameness to the way in which she'd stay firm that he recognized from the Colonel. Lena sat down in the chair letting go of a breath. Her back shuddered and she shut her eyes. She wanted to let herself cry. She hated this feeling. She couldn't cry in front of these people.

"You can either sulk or get over it." Roy said standing behind Ed. Ed made a face scrunching up his nose. The same conversation had almost taken place between the two of them when he was a child. Lena's head snapped up hearing the deeper voice.

It was almost like someone had flipped a switch. Her honey colored orbs grew slightly wider in shock and Lena leaned back against the wall breathing out. She just stared at him. This was too much. It couldn't be happening. She remembered the words the Lust had said to her years and years ago about this man. For a moment she narrowed her eyes at him before standing up shakily.

"Wha…"

"Daunte told us." Ed said simply. The glare turned to him.

"It wasn't for him to tell anyone." She said stubbornly.

"If you've known for all this time why didn't you come find me?" Roy asked raising an eyebrow crossing his arms back over his chest.

"You would have believed me?" she shot back slurring. She swayed groaning and sat back down rubbing her head from the medication.

"Take it easy. Boys, perhaps this conversation should take place another time." Pinako suggested.

"I would have at least heard you out." Mustang whispered watching the young girl.

"I had nothing to back me up. All I had was the word of the homunculi." Lena said shivering. There was a slight sweat breaking on her brow again. The fever from the infection was still raging inside her body.

"I am nothing if not a man of my word. I would have been there for you…" Ed watched indecision amongst other emotions play across the normally stoic man's face.

"You didn't need something else to worry about. There was enough going on in Central as far as I could tell…and besides…don't you want to be the President? How can you do that if you have some snot nosed brat to watch out for?" her voice was dry as she spoke.

"I already have two snot nosed brat's that I take care of." Roy laughed suddenly putting a hand on Ed's shoulder. Lena looked up hearing him laugh. Slowly, a smile crossed her lips warily as she saw Ed growl angrily under his breath glaring at the Colonel.

"I'm not a brat!" He snapped.

"Yes you are." He smirked and squeezed Ed's shoulder to signal him to shut up. He leveled Lena with a gentler stare. "How can we know you're my sister?" he asked. "What did they tell you?"

"Siblings of the opposite were born on the day the sky turned red. Father told us we could find you here. He said you'd be the fire man's sister. He said we could use you to open the gate but we'd need the other to get what we wanted inside." she said staring ahead past Roy's head. She would never forget what they said. She'd spoken Envy's words exactly.

"We weren't born the same day. You're younger." He stated bluntly.

"But I was born the day the sky turned red. There was an explosion from the war in the hills near the city where my mother lived." Roy blinked.

"Where your mother lived?" he asked.

"You're slow to keep up here Colonel." She heaved out shaking her head. Ed laughed which earned him a smack to the head. "We're technically half siblings. Different mothers. Same dad." She shrugged.

"That's why I wouldn't have known about you." He said realizing it.

"That's why I wouldn't have known about you." She nodded.

"Wait…if the homunculi said that father wanted to use you two for the gates..." Ed piped up.

"I don't understand it. Ok? All I know is that they wanted to use us to get something from the gate. I don't know why us." Roy walked past Fullmetal and towards where Lena sat. She leaned further back in the chair at first looking away from him but then she finally looked up to where he stared down at her.

"Well…shit." He said rubbing his chin. "You're too pretty of a young lady to be my sister. I'm going to have to beat the living hell out of any boy who comes near you." He smirked putting a hand on her head. She blinked surprised as a creeping embarrassed blush dusted her cheeks.

"I…" he chuckled.

"No buts. AND No dating." Ed smiled watching the banter between the two. Maybe this was what Roy needed. Maybe this surprise would help him lighten up. Lena felt her shoulders shake a bit before she started laughing so hard she could barely breathe.

"I'm a grown woman. You can't tell me what I can and can't do!" she shook her head.

"Grown woman my ass." He said firmly. "You're my baby sister and it's going to stay that way."

It wasn't until later that evening after they'd all eaten that Ed slipped into Lena's room to check on her. Roy had helped her walk into the dining room earlier that night while keeping a hand around her side to steady her. Once some of the pain medication had worn off she'd gained a bit of color back to her cheeks. Ed had noted the subtle ways that she moved her hand while she spoke in much the similar fashion to how Roy spoke to Havoc. She'd explained to them a little bit about her childhood growing up with Daunte and about the orphanage. It also hadn't gone unnoticed to Ed the way her eyes would scrunch up when she laughed or the way she'd tilt her head to the side when she was listening to someone so that just this one piece of hair fell into her eyes. She'd subconsciously brush it back behind her ear just as quickly as it's moved. He stood close to her bed now sighing. Something was drawing him towards her and frankly it probably wasn't a good idea. He didn't know if it was the fact that he knew what it was like to lose a part of your body or that she just seemed so…so…kind. He stared down over her sleeping form, in one of Winry's old sets of pajamas, and he couldn't help himself. He reached down pulling the sheet she'd thrown off back up over her shoulder where her missing arm was. Her other hand was up by her face resting on the pillow as she breathed in and out lightly. Her hair was tangled and spread across the pillow and over her neck.

"You had so better n-o-t even think about it brother." Alphonse said standing in the doorframe. Ed stiffened glancing back at his brother red in the face.

"I didn't do anything Al!" he snapped. "I don't know what you're talking about." And with that the brothers left the room arguing.