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"My Knight; My Princess"
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
"Hurry it up kid! Your little princess is here!"
Princess? Mei? I wonder how she'd grown…wait…what am I thinking?
Grown? She's probably as tall as he is. After all it was only two years ago that he saw her last…being carried off by Ling and all that…tears streaming down her sweet face.
I hope those two have gotten along well.
I wonder if her family is alright…
I wonder if she's doing alrigh-
"Huh?"
He had run out the train door and onto the sandy cement platform so quickly he had almost tripped. He kept twirling his head around excitedly, thinking that she was in the distance, but Mei wasn't anywhere to be found. Come to think of it, he didn't even tell her he was coming to Xing…
Oh, he could hear the snickering behind his back. Even though they turned their heads. They thought he couldn't hear them! But oh he could…
He, unusually for him, grabbed his bag and coat with such violence he frightened the other passengers around him. Embarrassed, he hurriedly huffed through the small bamboo gate with the same confusing squiggles inked on them, and climbed the steep stairs on the cliff side.
Was his face red? No, it must just be warm from the climate change. Yea, that's the right answer.
And why? Why in all of Amestres would they snicker just because he ran off the train thinking Mei was there?
And why was he getting so excited? It's not like it was with brother and Winry.
No, it couldn't be.
Brother came back from his very short journey to go and see the "Mr.-Brigadier-General-I-now-have-a-mustache Roy god-he-pisses-me-off-Mustang" and then Mrs. Hughes and Elicia, just like Alphonse, but Al didn't get to see the new General.
I bet the Colonel, I mean, Brigadier General is doing well…ha-ha…I bet he kept teasing him about the money he owed, not to mention the teasing the Colonel gave brother about not being useless on rainy days anymore…Ack! I did it again! Ah well, it's not like he's around. I'll have to remember to call him Brigadier. General when I see him next…Brother, said that he looked tired but accomplished. Same could go for brother after that battle with the homunculus called Father…it was a smart idea to work on a train system over there first, it makes a quicker, safer distance from Xerxes to Amestres, not to mention the one going towards Xing. But because of the trains that Colon-Brigadier General Mustang put down with Lin-grr…Emperor Lings' cooperation, he was able to come to Xing. To learn alkahestry.
Brother and Winry finally got married when he returned. He had told his little brother that the journey of marriage would be the greatest step he could take. Without alchemy he has his friends; and aside from He, Alphonse, Winry was his greatest.
And then Winry got pregnant…
Ignoring the hilarious explanation his brother gave him about their wedding night,
he couldn't imagine it until it was a reality.
Winry…the girl I'd known since I was a baby. Having a baby herself…it's so…so…mind boggling! Winry, who had not too long ago helped deliver a baby herself, is now having one! She was going to get big…REAL big. And moody too, more than usual of course. Poor brother. It's too bad I won't be there to help calm them down. Come to think of it…I always…calm them down…
Not good. He was getting sad again.
But the sad thoughts seemed to dissolve over the beautiful mountains and trees in the distance.
It was like being back home…
Ah crap now he was sad again. He would have to talk himself into happy thoughts again. What was there to think of now? He felt like running so he could feel the wind some more, but then he knew he would get tired and have to rest. And that would mean to breathe and use his lungs to…it happened again. Thinking nonsense all the time…nonsense…nothing but…silly black braided hair….
He stopped and turned around, not realizing he had run all the way to the top while Zampano and Jerso were struggling to walk up the steep mountain of thin stairs. As he waited for them to catch up he pondered…
Come to think of it. Do I like Mei? Why shouldn't I? She's a very nice girl.
Suddenly he felt a small tug at his pant leg, looking down, he happily picked up the kitty cat by his feet, nudged the area under her tiny mouth with his finger, and looked ahead to see where her sweet owner could be.