I probably should have said this in the first chapter, but all of the characters will hopefully stay in character except Ed… of course…

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Edward pushed open the golden doors. Winry had never before seen an elegant room such as this except for in storybooks children read. The tapestries, pillars, and other decorations were astonishing. Ed took a few steps behind Winry and lightly pushed her to start walking. Normally she would've protested the way he was forcing her to walk (more so wondering why), but not in the situation she is in now. Ed made her walk all the way up to a throne currently being occupied by a man who she assumed was 'king'. Ed walked away from her and stood next to Roy, who was standing next to the throne.

"I assume you are Winry, the one who flew that flying contraption," the man on the throne smiled.

Winry bowed, being courteous. "I am… uh, sir. I'm Winry Rockbell… your… highness," she stuttered. Ed grinned and managed to let a quiet laugh slip out, but Winry didn't hear.

The man waved his hands around. "Please don't bow and say such things. I am King Hohenheim, leader of Amestris. I assume you've already met those two?" He asked Winry, motioning towards Roy and Ed.

"Well, sadly I've already met Mr. Elric, but I don't know who the tall dark-haired man is," Winry truthfully stated. She could tell Edward was still bent about her calling him a jerk, but now she didn't mean it. She wrote a reminder to herself in her head that she would apologize later today.

Ed cocked an eyebrow. 'What is with the Mr. Elric crap? And 'sadly'… what the hell!?"

Mustang, however, was flattered by her defining him as a tall dark-haired man. He walked off the platform and over by Winry. He took her hand and kissed it. "I am Colonel Roy Mustang," he said sweetly, yet seductively. Edward's face turned beet red. He stomped off the platform, grabbed Roy's shirt and dragged him back to where they were first standing. Winry wasn't stupid. She could tell Ed was jealous for a second… and he was.

"Mustang, you are twice her age, and she doesn't like you," Ed sighed.

"Yeah, ok. But she is around your age, right?" Mustang winked at him.

Ed's face brightened even more. "That's not the point. After what you did, locking her up in the prison, with chains, and…"

Hohenheim cut off Edward, "My son, we can discuss this later. Let's stay on topic." He interrupted for Winry's sake when he saw her head bent down, with a mellow frown on her face. She could barely remember some of the events that happened during the crash and right after. Ed looked at his father, then at Winry. He frowned as well, realizing he went too far.

"Sorry, Winry," Ed said. When she looked up, she had a surprised look on her face.

"Wait a second, you two are related?" She pointed to Edward and Hohenheim.

"Why yes, he is my son," Hohenheim chuckled. Edward merely said nothing.

Winry freaked out. If this country runs the way other kingdoms do, she could get killed for the way she treated Edward. 'Prince Edward'. 'Another thing I'll have to apologize about later…'

"Anyway," Hohenheim continued, "Miss Winry, where are you from?"

"Well, I'm from Risembool which is… definitely far away from here."

"So you really came here in that metal flying contraption… in space? How did you build such a thing?" Hohenheim was fascinated about this, yet had to do it because it was mandatory. He had to find out as much as he could.

Winry hesitated at first, wondering if maybe no one believed her. "My grandma and I built it. It's really complicated, and I'm sure you don't want to know exactly how I built it. We were really surprised it worked, actually."

"How did you crash?"

Winry looked at the ground, almost ashamed that her grandma's magnum opus broke into pieces. "I…I honestly… don't know," she said softly.

Winry Rockbell was questioned for hours on end. Once it reached about noon, she was brought a chair. The conversation wasn't expected to last so long, but mostly Winry and Hohenheim did the talking. Roy said a few words, and Edward… said pretty much nothing. He was concentrating on only one thing in his mind, and the room, and that was Winry. A couple of times she looked at him and saw him staring at herself. She looked away quickly, her face becoming warm, wondering why he was looking at her. He was thinking about the dream he had almost 20 hours ago and how the woman in his dream looked just like Winry. He had convinced himself that the girl in his dream was Winry, even though he never knew she existed until now. Maybe he saw the future, or his dream may continue, or he just dreamed about some random girl. Either way, it didn't matter to him. He figured Winry didn't want to be here and that he should help find a way for her to go home, yet he wanted to find out more about her and talk to her.

Around 6 in the evening, Winry was done being questioned, and Edward and she left to eat some dinner. Roy and Hohenheim continued to talk.

"Did you see the way your son looked at her? I wonder why he didn't say anything either," Roy grinned.

Hohenheim actually slumped into his chair, feeling tired. He sighed, "I don't know. I don't know how to get her home either. Their world must be far more advanced than ours. I'm hoping that while she stays that she can help Edward lighten up a bit. After what happened to Alphonse, he has been so dark and isolated. However, I fear for this Winry. The Homunculi are still prowling about, trying to gather as much info as they can. This Winry girl seems to be intelligent in the mechanics field, and I fear they may hunt her down and use her. We should probably keep a close eye on her."

"Well, maybe with our alchemy and her smarts, we can rebuild her machine. Heh, she probably doesn't know what alchemy is. Hopefully General Elric doesn't do anything idiotic, and even if the Homunculi come here, the alarms will go off like usual," Roy assured Hohenheim.

Edward and Winry ate in the grand dining room by themselves. Not many words were said because Winry was exhausted from the questioning. After they finished eating, Edward pulled a key out of this pocket. "Let's go," he said as he got up and started walking away. Winry stood up and followed beside him.

After a while, she finally spoke. "That food was really delicious," she said.

Edward slightly smiled, not knowing how to respond. They were back in the hallway where Edward's room is at; however, he stopped in front of the door across from his. He handed the key to her. "This will be your room. Sorry it doesn't have its own showering room. It's down at the other end of the hall."

Winry hesitated for a moment, and then took the key. "I get to stay here? You don't even know me. Wouldn't you rather have me stay outside in a house with someone or something?" She asked.

Ed laughed, "Of course not! Trust me, you'll like it here. Besides, even though I don't know you, I'd like to." For the slightest moment, he felt his heart race. Winry's heart had done the same.

She smiled and unlocked the door. "Well, good night I guess," she said. Ed nodded and opened his door.

Right before she closed her door, Ed yelled, "Wait!" He would've yelled her name, but he forgot it for a second. Winry opened the door again and looked at him. "Winry, how about tomorrow… I'll take you around the city? You might as well get to know about this place since you'll probably be here for a while."

"Sounds like fun. I can't wait," Winry beamed.

Edward smirked and said his goodnights. Winry did the same, and they both closed their doors. Winry began to explore her room. First she opened the large wardrobe filled with a plethora of clothes. She couldn't wait to try some of them on eventually. She tried out her bed, which was as comfortable as Edward's but comfortable enough. Then she opened the doors to her own balcony and viewed the eye-catching sunset. All of a sudden she forgot about the whole crash and was excited to be in this world. She didn't know what was going to happen next, but that isn't always a good thing. Little did she know she was being watched…

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Sorry the update took so long! I have soooooo much crap to do it's not even funny. I would like to update again within a month because Spring Break is soon, but with my sucky schedule there are no promises as usual. Sorry if you thought this chapter was boring. Each one will get better. The next one will be good.