IV. Home

Ed stood in the mirror, smiling at himself, it wasn't often he could be vain without wincing at a flash of metal. True, his skin wasn't unblemished, the scars from surgery still remained, but in a way, he was grateful, his scars spoke, telling him of his sins, but even then, he could hide them with a T-shirt and be like a normal person again, it sounded wonderful! Smiling cheerfully he slid on his shirt.

"Brother! Hurry up!"Al complained, still in the hospital pajamas.

"I'm coming!"Ed shouted, braiding his hair back, taking a moment to enjoy the softness of his hair in his once metallic palm. He walked out the bathroom feeling a bit proud and looked Al over in case he'd miraculously gotten an injury while he was in the bathroom.

"You better not have done something nasty in there!"Al complained as he walked in, Ed gagged.

"Don't say things like that!"

"Sh, brother, you'll wake up !"Ed sighed and rolled his eyes, Al sure was concerned but the lady who had the third bed in their room, but she never spoke, so Ed wasn't particularly curious about her.

"So we're meeting Winry at the train station?"Ed asked through the door.

"Yeah, but shouldn't you tell Colonel?"

"Why, I'll just turn in my watch later on."

"Brother! Won't you miss them?"

"What do you mean?"

"If you turn in your watch you won't be able to Colonel and the others."

"I...I guess not."

"Brother, don't quite the military because of me, I'll still follow you!"

"But Al! I don't want to put you in danger."

"Brother, even if you left me at home, I'd still be in danger with the Homunculi on the loose, it's better if we're together."

"Fine, I won't turn in my watch yet, but I swear if it gets to dangerous I'm sending you home!" whatever conversation might have come next was interrupted as Al came out dressed in his old clothes, Ed allowed himself a bit more pride.

"Thanks brother!"

"Jeez, you look to much like me Al, I swear I'm going to transmute your clothes to size as soon as we get back." Al nodded.

"Don't sell yourself short brother, remember Clara?"Ed grimaced.

"Which reminds me, maybe after we go to Rizembool we should head to Arquoya, Winry's always said she wanted to go to the beach, and you've never been either."Al blushed.

"Sounds good."Ed grinned.

"You still have a crush on Psiren don't you?"Al scowled.

"Nuh-uh!"He shouted, much to Ed's secret delight, he wanted to see all of Al's emotions.

"Heh, you do! I'm going to tell Winry!"he teased, Al scowled.

"Brother!"grabbing their suitcases they ran after each other and out of the hospital, not noticing three familiar homunculi appear from behind 's curtain.

"So, their headed back home, how predictable."Envy said, transforming back to human from a light bulb.

"I'm hungry!"Gluttony announced, chewing on a doctor's arm, that still clutched a clipboard. Rolling her eyes, Lust pulled the clipboard free, her eyes widening in surprise before settling into a smirk.

"How...interesting."Envy looked at her crossly.

"What is it Lust?"

"Look at this."she passed it to him as he looked it over carefully before bursting into laughter, maniacal laughter at that.

"This is rich! I'll get bastard blood and Dante will get the whore's baby!"Lust rolled her eyes.

"How do you figure that?"

"As I see it, with the fullmetal pipsqueak dying, his brother will do anything for him, even create the philosopher's stone if we have him in our as a sacrifice. I get to play with bastard blood, and Dante gets what she wants."Lust nodded.

"Have fun with that then. I'm going to go and check on the other stone resources."Envy smirked at her.

"Covering our asses, eh?"she scowled at him.

"I'd rather keep my ass covered and hopeful, thank you very much."

"Heh, well then I guess I'll head off, send any back up you want except for Wrath."Lust nodded and watched as he jumped out the window, laughing maniacally at the prospect of torturing his so called 'bastard blood' brother.

"Lust, is Envy a bad person?"Gluttony asked, poising his finger at his lip.

"No Gluttony, the military and those who get in our way are bad people."he grabbed the back of her dress as she continued to walk forward.

"Can I eat them?"he asked, his lustful face in place.

"If I say you can."she answered. Gluttony couldn't help but drool at the thought of his future meals, and Snuk a snack on his way out, he was pretty sure nobody would miss the nurse.

AN: More Homunculi! I kind of like Lust, you'll notice she sets off several of my plot points...okay one, but it was a major one! Oh, and hell yeah Lightbulb!Envy. I also like Gluttony's last little piece, it was just playing through my head head as I wrote it.

I am pretty pissed at this chapter though, but only Ed and Al's part, orginally I wrote a much, much better version, thought ti did have the plothole have never mentioning the third bed until Lust appeared, I'm so pissed at myself for not backing it up on my comp.