After the show, Claire noticed that, immediately, students started leaving in groups, gossiping about the rocket and how they would love to do what Mister Elric did. Speaking of which, Claire noted, "Where did Mister Elric and his brother go?" she asked her friends. They looked over to her, shrugging their shoulders. No one knew. They had disappeared. The four walked over to Lukas's professor, who was packing some of the machinery away and Sheska asked quizzically, "Professor, do you know where the Elrics went?"

The professor looked up to them and let out a ringing laughter, nudging his thumb towards the back room near the courtyard. "They just went in the back room. Mister Elric just needed a breather…he looked a little nervous, so I'm sure he'll be out in a minute. Why? Do you need to ask him a question?"

"Ummm…" began Sheska.

"Oh, most definitely!!" exclaimed Lukas, jumping out from the group, his eyes sparkling with excitement and awe at the performance he just saw. Anna laughed at her younger brother and smiled. Lukas had been enthralled with rocketry ever since he saw the mechanics behind it in a book a few years ago.

"I have so many questions to ask him!! How did he ever get so good at it at such a young age?! I have to know! There's so much I still need to learn about it!" Lukas rambled on and on, and the girls smiled at him. It was so good to have a passion like his.

They looked over to see the two brothers opening the door and walking out. Claire chuckled and Anna laughed out loud when Lukas practically pounced on Mister Elric, berating him with questions and curiosities that filled his head. Claire almost felt sorry for the poor man, getting himself into all this mess, especially when he was attacked by…umm…fans, to use the correct word in Lukas's case. She laughed though, when she saw the boy next to the great rocket scientist start laughing at him. The older one glared at him and lashed out at him with a sarcastic tone, "Thanks for the help, Al… you're a great pal… some brother."

Almost immediately, the younger brother seemed disheartened by his older brother's comment, giving him a sad puppy look and crying in his face, "What? Brother, you don't mean that!!"

They bickered for a couple minutes before they stopped and everything turned silent. They turned their heads to see the rest of the group staring at them blankly and their faces took a sort of reddish tinge. Anna was the first one to laugh loudly at their embarrassment. Claire and Sheska exchanged a nervous chuckle. The brothers decided to put their siblings quarrel aside for another time and go over to see their guests. Lukas went back to his sister's side as the Elrics walked over, regaining their former happiness and charm. Just as they got close, and the older brother held out his hand to Sheska, both brothers then stopped in their tracks and stared at her, a look of shock across their faces. Just when Sheska was about to ask them if something was wrong, the boys looked to each other, sighed with a laugh and nodded.

Confused, Sheska decided to ask them about it. "Umm…is there something wrong?" she gasped, "Is there something on my face?! That's it, isn't it!" At once, the both of them shook their heads and laughed nervously. "N-No no no, that's not it. It's just.." began the older one.

"It's just, you remind us of an old friend of ours." finished the younger one. Blinking curiously, Sheska reached out and took the older brother's and, as he had first offered. "Well, I should at least introduce myself then…I'm Sheska!"

"R-Right…Sheska." Answered Edward. Claire gave him a secret strange glance. They were acting awfully familiar with Sheska, as if he had seen her or met her before, but to her knowledge, she never remember Sheska talking about them, and the fact that she just introduced herself means that she hadn't. Claire took this into account. They were acting a little strange, even when Sheska said her name! What could this- "CLAIRE!"

Suddenly snapping out of her thoughts, she turned her head around to see Anna right in front of her face, and she nearly stumbled back. Anna was giving her a funny look, and hit Claire on the head a couple times to make sure the lights were on upstairs. "Earth to Claire!" she called, "Wake up, you dummy!"

Shooing her friend away, Claire sighed and turned to see the brother's looking over to her with skeptical looks. She laughed nervously, scratching the back of her head and gulped. She couldn't believe that she completely spaced out in front of everyone. How embarrassing. She looked to them with a shamed look and extended her hand to them. "I-I'm so sorry…I-I can't believe I actually did that, forgive my rudeness…I'm Claire, nice to meet you both."

The older brother took her hand and shook it in a friendly manner, smiling to her. "Nice to me you too, I'm Edward…and he" he nudged his thumb to the other boy, "is my little brother, Alphonse."

"Yeah, this is Claire, the space cadet!" Anna shouted in her ear, wrapping her arms around her shoulders and laughed. Blushing, Claire shoved Anna off her, barking at her about how her remarks were embarrassing, while the rest of the fray chuckled at their argument. After that, the twins introduced themselves to the brothers, who gave Lukas a wary look as he almost jumped on them again. The girls laughed at him and the six of them chatted and laughed for a good while, talking mostly of trivial things until…"Hey, which reminds me." began Sheska, "Do the two of you have some place to stay? If you don't, you're welcome to come to my place." she finished with a smile.

Anna's laugh rang through the air as she grabbed Sheska in a tight hug, messing up her hair. As Sheska tried in vain to escape her grip, Anna chuckled to her and spoke in a teasing voice. "Yeah right, of course you will Sheska! You just want to have them go to your place because you think they're handsome and you wouldn't mind spending some extra time with them."

Sheska's face turned beet red from embarrassment and both Claire and Lukas looked to Anna with shocked expressions as she laughed. Edward and Alphonse didn't know what to say and just looked awkwardly to each other. When Sheska finally found her voice, she spoke out against Anna's accusations. "Anna! How could you say something like that? That is most certainly not true! I was just trying to help a couple of people in need!" then whispered under her breath, "And trying to protect them from you because I know that is what YOU would do…"

"What was that?" asked Anna.

"Nothing! Nothing at all…"

Claire and Lukas chuckled playfully under their breath as Anna looked confusingly at both of them, not getting the joke. She shook and begged them to tell her what was so funny, but their lips were sealed.

Meanwhile, the brothers were having a tough time deciding what to do with Sheska's offer. While it was true that they didn't have a place to stay, they didn't want to burden Sheska with their stay either. After they debated it for a while, Sheska finally convinced them to accept her offer.

Claire smiled at her best friend, happy that she was always ready to help someone in need. Sheska knew that Edward and Alphonse wouldn't be welcome at Anna and Lukas's house because their mother was strict, and even if she wasn't, she didn't think it was safe for them to be their anyway with Anna's boy addiction and Lukas's ramblings. She certainly couldn't house the boys are her place either. Her mother never liked strangers coming into the house, even if they were nice. She was very paranoid.

As the sun rolled across the blue sky, Lukas looked to his watch and whistled. "It's getting late everyone. Sheska, if you want to be able to bring their things to your house, I suggest you get started."

Nodding to him, Sheska turned to the boys and asked, "I agree…where are your things? We can get them and then go to my place."

Edward and Alphonse nodded back and smiled to her. "Thank you so much for your hospitality Sheska. This means a lot to us…but are you sure it's all right with your folks at home?" asked Edward.

Claire and the twins coughed, and Sheska glared to them when they whistled innocently. Crossing her arms with a small huff, she turned to the boys. "Let's get going! They don't know what they're talking about!" before turning around and stomping away towards the direction that the brothers pointed to where their supplies were. Edward and Alphonse looked to each other, nervously gulping and wondering if they made the right choice by staying with her. She didn't seem like the type of person you wanted to get angry.

After Sheska left with her houseguest, the other three saw no reason to stay and decided to head home. As she walked in the direction of her house, Claire laughed when she heard Anna's voice behind her, "A shame you didn't let them go to your place Claire! I would have completely said yes to them coming to my house! They were both very handsome!"

"Cut that out sister! You're such a flirt!"

The three laughed before Claire finally walked away and she could no longer see the silhouettes of the twins on the horizon.

When she finally reached home, she said hello to her mother and brother, and spent a good twenty minutes trying to get Frederic off her case about the rocketry showing. After much yelling, complaining, whining, and French gibberish later, she finally got her brother to leave her alone as she entered her room and threw herself down on her small bed, sighing heavily. Today had been a big day, and she bet that Sheska was having an even more hectic day trying to explain why these boys wanted to spend the night at her house to her parents. Edward and Alphonse Elric…

Suddenly, she realized that she had heard that name before. Elric… where had she heard that name? It seemed so familiar to her…like she had read about it or heard of it in rumors. It dawned her then as she stumbled off her bad and ran into her closet, rummaging through the piles upon piles of newspapers and magazines that she collected to keep herself informed of all the little quirks going on in this crazed country since the end of the war. She chuckled when she remembered her friends telling her that she was such a pack rat for keeping all these things, but she felt they would come in handy one day. Now was a good example. Just as she was starting to lose faith in her search, she dug through the articles that held information of the failed Munich Insurrection. Glancing to them, her eyes widened when she quickly skimmed over one of the news articles, and read it to herself.

"Munich Insurrection, failed. Rebel force stops Thule Society plot of using massive weapons to aid Furher."

Staring at the article for a long time, she slowly turned the pages, reading every line carefully before she saw it at the end of the article. The name. It was unmistakably there, in black and white. There was one thing that made her sure that these were the same Elrics staying with Sheska. There, at the end of the article, was a picture of the inner factory previously ruled by the Thule Society, and a picture of a defeated Haushoffer, Furher Adolph Hitler's right hand man. There, in the back of the shot, with the same ponytail of golden hair that stuck out from his head, was Edward, and right next to him, it was Alphonse. They looked like they were taking something apart, something big, but what was it?

With questions filling her head, staring wide-eyed at the page in front of her, Claire slowly put the article down and tried processing what she had just found out. Edward and Alphonse were the same Elrics that stopped the Thule Society from aiding Hitler in his uprising? That was just…she didn't know whether to say incredibly brave or incredibly ridiculous. Only, now that she knew the truth, what was she suppose to do? And an even bigger question was…what were they doing here?