Roy sighed and snapped his Alchemist watch open and shut. Truth is, he was bored. Sure, he had loads of papers to sign and look over, but he didn't want to do that. He was too bothered by Alphonse's journal and how it was possible that it was happening.

He spun around in his chair and looked out the window behind him. Central City was thriving well, the streets bustling once again after the attack from the other side of the gate. He watched the people gain confidence to walk on the sides of the streets, he watched them laugh and cry all the time. He was content with life in Central City and how it was going.

Except… Two of the best Alchemist's were gone. And they should have stayed here, to live on with Winry Rockbell and the Military, if they would have chose to serve.

Roy rubbed his eye patch, once again seeing all the grief and sorrow. He closed his one eye and covered his eyes with his hand. He needed to rest, for now.

"Führer Mustang," Riza said quietly, who had walked up to the desk to deliver some more beloved papers.

Roy swung around in his chair, putting on a smile. "Why, Riza, come to finally say you're going to wear a…"

Riza cleared her throat loudly. "Führer, what of Alphonse's diary?"

Roy folded his arms. "It's a journal."

"Same thing," Riza pointed out.

"Diary sounds… not manly," Roy said.

Riza rolled her eyes. "Fine, call it what you want, Mustang."

"Touché, aren't we?"

Roy opened the drawer and pulled out the journal. He cleared his throat. "Let's see if anything appeared." He flipped the pages to the spot where it would be, and sure enough, it was there. He grinned. "Alphonse Elric has a brilliant mind."

"Are you sure we should be reading this?" Riza asked.

"It's fine," Roy said and started to read, though Riza took the book from his hands. "I think Winry should be here to help us."

"I don't think…"

Riza shook her head. "Winry deeply misses those boys. She deserves this."

Roy nodded slowly. "Fine."

Riza walked over to a phone and called Winry. She hung up the phone a few moments later. "She's coming."

About a minute later, they heard a screech of tires outside. Riza and Roy walked to the window and watched a yellow flurry rush out of the car and run to the entrance of the Military.

Roy laughed. "Guess we won't have to wait long."

Winry was in the room in a matter of minutes. She walked over, breathing heavily. She was covered in grease and her hair was tied back, and she wiped her hands on her pants. "I'm here."

"And record time," Roy said. He handed the journal to Winry.

Winry took it slowly and ran her hands over the surface. She opened it and began reading.

"Another journal entry. Edward said diary was too girly, and now I agree with him."

"Ha! Even the shrimp agrees with me, Riza," Roy laughed.

"Hush," Riza shushed him.

"It is now two days after the incident with Edward's sickness. It must have been an extreme fever… that's all we could think of. Edward regained his energy in a day and said we should get going again. He was still a little pale, but I let him go any ways. I've been warning that Edward should start taking care of himself more. His body won't hold up.

Any ways, we got a telegram that Noa is coming to England to meet us here. She had been staying Gracia and Hughes. The police man Hughes has gained a respect for different races now; he didn't like Noa because she was a gypsy…"

"Wow, wow, wait," Roy shouted. "Read that again!"

Winry read it again, and when she finished, she stared at them in utter disbelief. "Mr. Hughes is… alive?"

Roy's shoulders slumped and he sat down in a chair. He put his head in his hands. "Read on."

"Though now he is very nice to Noa… and bragging about his pregnant wife. I had never imagined that the cold Hughes would be like his counter self in Amestris. Though… I am glad that I was able to meet him, if only for awhile. He isn't like the other Hughes in some ways, but still likeable.

"Like Noa. She's like Rose… Noa's race is like the Ishbalan's, though. Nowhere to go, not liked anywhere. Noa was extremely alone because she can read minds, even to the point where people feared her. And I know it's true, because she had read brother's mind before I had come here, and had tried to open the gate from what she had learned from Edward's head. But of course, that wouldn't work.

"Though Noa was under a lot of stress at that time. I couldn't blame her.

"We also met a doctor named Havic, resembling closing to Lieutenant Havoc in attitude and looks. He even smokes. As a doctor, I guess he wouldn't know the effects of smoking, but the world's medical knowledge haven't provided that information yet. Though he provided Edward with herbs to keep away the headaches.

"Today I asked if Edward met his counter part. Edward had shrugged and told me pieces of it.

"The Edward over here had been a little shorter (imagine that!) and no braid, and Edward had been sent through the gate by Honenheims lover 400 years ago, and Edward had landed in the counter part's body, and had met his father over here. He then had been caught in a stream of fire of a blimp being exploded, and caught in the falling mass of fire. He had tried to use Alchemy to get himself out… But Alchemy doesn't work in this world. The body died, and Edward was sent back in the gate, where he reclaimed his original body and pushed through the gate to our side to meet his death over there. I remember walking over to him, and me being the Philosopher's stone at that time, brought him back to life, and I remember going to the gate.

"Then I was brought back, and brother was gone.

"I look upon those days and think, wow, no one over here would believe that. Except for Homunculus Führer counter part, who believed in our world. Rather nice man, despite being the other self of the Homunculus Pride.

"Edward told me that Envy had made it over as a great serpent or dragon. He had been the sacrifice, as our father, to open the gate.

"I don't know if I regret opening the gate in the other world. My heart tells me yes, be sorry for causing the death of people in Central City, and I am. I also am sorry transmuting Wrath and Gluttony to open the gate, though I knew Wrath wanted to help me… and to get back to his mother in the gate. But I can't focus on the past. I must focus on the Uranium Bomb.

"Brother just walked in. He had news that the man had passed through here. We would soon follow after we met Noa at the train station. We think we are getting closer. We must not allow another gate to be created. It would risk to much, even though Edward and I would be happy to return to our world…

"It's amazing, also, how Edward admitted he missed Amestris. … I do too."

Roy rubbed his hand over his hair. They all sat down and didn't say anything… just stared at the book in amazement.

"I never realized what they went through," Winry murmured.

Roy and Riza both nodded.

"It's good to know that Edward is feeling better," Riza remarked.

Winry gave a small smile. "Yeah."