A/N: Me: Well hello there :D How are you?
Leo: *hits me over the head* Shut up and start the story!
Me: But I have to do the disclaimer, and thank the reviewers, and...
Ed: ElricFan0731 does not own FullMetal Alchemist or any of the characters other than Leo.
Leo:... what was that about her owning me? *glares at Ed*
Ed: She owns you
Leo: RAGHH! *attacks Ed*
Me: *sweatdrop* Anyways I would like to thank White Hair and Violet Eyes, and SA Homunculus for their reviews.
~Dreamscape~
Golden eyes were wide with shock. To armor arms lifted and clapped together as the eyes widened more. Leo's own eyes widened in shock and she yelled for him to stop. "!" A bright light flashed and tears streamed down Leo's face.
"NOOOOOOOO!"
Leo sat up in fear, sweaty tears rolling down her face. Her throat burned as she fought back the scream tearing at her throat. She grabbed her pillow and sobbed silently into it. "What was that?" She choked out, pulling the pillow away and starring at the soaked spots on the white cloth.
She looked around, "Better yet, when did I get into bed?" The last thing she could remember was sitting beside Al and… "Oh." She said as her cheeks flushed bright red against her usually pale skin. She sighed and sat her pillow down, the previous dream temporarily forgotten.
She stood up and straitened her twisted clothes. "Damn, I must have been thrashing around on the bed to get this tangled up." She muttered, pulling her arm back through its sleeve. She yawned and rubbed her eyes and walked out the door.
Her eyes twinkled when she saw a door cracked and a light on. She poked her head in and saw Winry working on Ed's arm. She walked up and sat next to her, staring at the work curiously. Winry sighed and stopped, looking over at her. "Can I help you?" She asked the red-head.
Leo shook her head and continued to look at the blonde's work. "Couldn't sleep. I saw your light on and decided to see what you were doing. But now I'm thirsty, so I'm going to get a drink." Was the choppy reply as Leo got up and waved at Winry, leaving the blonde wondering what she just said.
Leo stumbled tiredly down the hall with a half-closed eye. Her knuckles turned white as she went down the stairs, due to the fact she was trying to keep her balance. She almost tripped three times over her own feet as she walked down the final hallway and into the kitchen.
Al looked up when he saw a light turn on and saw a figure come out of the kitchen with a half-drunken glass of water. The red-head sat down in the chair and sipped more of her water. Her visible eye was clouded with sleep. Al chuckled lightly and watched as Leo fought the falling of her eyelid.
A sudden snore made her jump and she turned her head. Al noticed her shocked expression when she saw Ed sleeping with his blanket half on and one hand under his shirt, and his legs flailed about. She laughed and coughed as water went down her throat.
"Damn and I thought I slept weird." Al heard her mutter aloud. She then looked up and stared directly into his eyes. He winced slightly at the gaze. He watched as she got up and scooted the chair over to him. The chair made a quiet scrapping noise as she pushed it over and Al looked over at Ed to make sure he wouldn't wake up.
"Why did you bring the chair over here?" Al asked quietly to Leo, who was curled up in the chair with her head near him. She turned slightly to look at him, "Cause I didn't wanna sit on the floor to talk to you." She yawned. Al nodded his helmet, making a creaking sound, "Say, Leo? Why aren't you freaking out about me not having a body?" He asked looking up at the girl.
She froze and looked back at him; sleep still heavy in her eyes. Her eyes looked over him, stopping on the bandage and the fact that there really was no body in the armor. "Wow, I can't believe I didn't notice that..." She trailed off then brought her eye back to Al's face, "Ne, still couldn't care though." She said, closing her eye and lying back down.
"Thank you." Al whispered, Leo smiled and shifted her body so that it faced him, "No problem Al. Until you want to tell me, I won't ask. But for now, I'm going back to sleep. G'night." She yawned again and Al noticed something odd about her teeth, but he shook it off. She closed her mouth and curled back into the chair, slipping easily into sleep and softly snoring.
Al sighed and frowned when his brother's blanket slipped off completely. If he wasn't in pieces, he would have picked it up and put it back on him, but he didn't so he sat there watching Ed snore. His attention was brought back to the chair when Leo's hand fell from the chair and touched the blanket, unconsciously tightening around it and turning over to cover her body up. Al chuckled.
Ed woke up freezing, "The fuck?" He muttered, reaching for his blanket, only to come up empty. He looked over to where Al was and saw him chuckling at him. "What are you laughing at Al?" He questioned, confused to why the chair was over near him.
He stumbled over and looked, stifling his own laughter when he saw the position Leo was in. Her head was almost falling off the edge of the cushion and one of her legs was hooked over the back of the chair while the other was hooked on the armrest. Leo's mouth was slightly open and she was snoring quietly.
Ed's eyes narrowed when he saw his blanket twisted around her. He walked over, grinning evilly and jerked it off her, effectively waking her up by throwing her on the cold floor. She yelped and jumped back into the chair. "What the hell was that for?!" She said, glaring from her seat at Ed. He was almost rolling on the floor laughing his head off.
Leo huffed and stormed out of the room, coming back with a bottle of white liquid. Ed cringed and backed away. Leo was chuckling evilly as she approached him. "What? Don't like milk?" When Ed nodded she snorted and took a drink, "Hmmm, must be why you're so short." Ed lunged at her and Leo sidestepped, turning the bottle upside down as he went by, pouring the milk on top of his head.
"There, maybe it'll soak in and make you taller." She smiled and ran out of the room. Ed stood there frozen for a second and growled in anger. "DAMMIT! WHO THE HELL ARE YOU CALLING SO SHORT HE NEEDS TO DRINK MORE MILK?!" He shouted, charging after her, milk flying from his golden locks as he ran.
Leo yelped from where she was and slammed the bathroom door closed, and locked it. "Ha! I'm saved by the glorious thing called a LOCK!" She shouted, Ed glared through the door at her, and surprisingly didn't burn a whole with his eyes. "You are lucky I'm missing an arm or I would transmute this door and kill you!" He growled, not missing the fact that his little brother was laughing downstairs. Neither did he miss the fact that Leo was chuckling inside the bathroom.
"Well hurry up and get out so I can get this devil liquid off me." He said, huffing and walking down the hallway to see where Winry was with his automail.
Leo held her stomach and coughed as she laughed. "Didn't expect him to try to kill me." She said smiling. She looked at herself in the mirror and her eyes widened when she saw the grin on her face. "Wow, it's been so long since I have grinned, I forgot how I looked with one on." The smile faltered then grew as she chuckled happily. "Who knew that going to a different world would change me so much."
She stripped the shirt off and looked down at the purple mark on her hip, "That still confuses me though." She muttered, poking it. Leo hissed in pain as a shock went through her side. Her hands gripped the sides of the counter as she steadied herself from the waves of pain.
Tears pooled in both eyes and started falling before the pain finally stopped. She gasped and stood up, pulling the bandage off her eye as she went. Her left eye widened when she saw more blood on the eyelashes. She looked down at the bandage and saw the underside of it stained red.
Leo sighed, "What, now I'm crying blood?" She shook her head and quickly got in the shower.
Al continued to laugh until Ed came back to glare at him. "It wasn't funny Al." He muttered, milk still dripping from his bangs. Al chuckled again, "Yes it was Brother. If it was anyone else, you would have laughed." He pointed out, and Ed sweat dropped. "Point taken."
They both looked up when a shower started. "So she hid in the bathroom from you?" Al asked, looking back at his brother, who nodded and narrowed his eyes. "Yes, and now I have to wait until she's done to get this… liquid off of me." He growled, mumbling threats underneath his breath.
Al sighed, "So," Ed started, drawing out the 'o' and looking at Al, "Why did I have to move Leo off of you last night? Hmmm? What did you do to make her fall asleep on you?" He asked, raising his eyebrows at his little brother. If Al would have had a body, he would have blushed crimson.
"We were just talking. She found an old picture of us and Winry and asked about it. Then I told her about Mom." Al said, watching Ed frown. "Then she told me to be happy for the memories we had with her because at least we can remember her." Ed's face blanked and he nodded.
"That's right; she did tell me that she couldn't remember her parents." He muttered. A sigh caught their attention, "It's not polite to talk about those who are not around." The red-head said from the doorway in the kitchen. Al shifted slightly in shock and stared at the girl who had seemingly appeared out of air. "You're already done?" Ed asked, slightly shocked.
Leo looked at him blankly, one eye closed without a bandage, "I have short hair, and therefore I can get done faster." She deadpanned, straightening the white shirt that was over the black tank from the day before. But unlike then, Winry had found some pants and Leo had switched to those, with a belt to keep the slightly too big pants from falling down.
"So are you going to take a shower? To like, get the 'devil liquid' off of you?" Leo joked, poking Ed in his arm. Ed jerked away and glared at her. She backed off and put her hands up, still smirking. Ed huffed and stormed upstairs and soon after the shower was heard.
Al noticed Leo still smirking slyly and turned his helmet towards her, "What did you do?" He asked. Her smirk dropped and her head turned slightly to him. Her smile then widened, "How do you know I did anything?" She asked. She watched Al just shake his head, "Because I only see that look on Brother's face when he's done something 'evil'." He stated.
"Well, I didn't do anything. This time at least. I was just thinking about his expression when I dumped that milk on his head." She chuckled, remembering his shocked expression. A second later she was rolling on the floor laughing, holding her sides from the pain. Al himself was chuckling loudly, which also soon turned into laughter.
Pinako and Armstrong stood at the door, watching the two teens have their laugh fest. Pinako took her pipe out of her mouth and sighed, gaining Leo's attention. She hopped up and made her way towards Pinako. The older woman looked up at Leo with a serious expression. Leo bowed her head respectfully, "Thank you for taking care of me while I was unconscious, Miss Pinako." She stated shyly.
Pinako starred at the girl for a second then smiled, "Don't worry about it dear." That was when she noticed Leo's eye was uncovered. "Can you still not see out of it?" She asked motioning to Leo's closed eye. Leo looked confused momentarily, and then her eye filled with recognition, "Oh, I can see out of it, but it's not used to the light and I don't feel like blinding myself before it readjusts. That and for some strange it randomly starts bleeding." The last part she mumbled under her breath.
Suddenly sparkles appeared near her and she shrunk back away from them. "MISS LEO! I HAVE HEARD YOUR STORY FROM MRS ROCKBELL! HOW THEY FOUND YOU WOUNDED AND ALONE! ALLOW ME TO USE MY WONDEROUS ALCHEMY TO MAKE YOU SOMETHING TO COVER YOUR EYE!" Armstrong exclaimed from his place, pink sparkles surrounding his crying face.
"…ok." Leo said in a tiny voice, Al chuckled from his spot on the floor and watched as Leo sweat dropped and put her hands out in front of her while backing away slowly. "Thanks." Her voice sounded a little stronger. Armstrong then ran off to find something to transmute. With his exit her figure wavered. "That… man can drain your energy." She muttered, collapsing into the chair.
Al chuckled again along with Pinako. A few minutes later Ed walked in, hair already in a braid and his coat on, "I'll be back later." He muttered disappearing through the door with a sad look on his face. Leo titled her head and watched him go.
"Hey Al," She started looking over at the suit of armor, "What was that about?" Confusion filled her eyes. She couldn't really remember this episode; it was a little boring now that the funny part was over. Al looked up at her and then back down, "He's going to visit our mother's grave." Leo's eyes widened involuntarily and she sucked in a quick breath, "I'm so sorry." She whispered.
Before Al could reply Armstrong rushed in with a piece of black cloth in his hand. "Miss Leo, I have completed your eye patch!" He said, albeit quieter than the first time. Though there were still a ton of pink sparkles. "Thank you Mr. Armstrong." She said, taking the patch while sweat-dropping. She quickly tied it around her closed eye.
It was black with two thick black strings that tied through her hair and one thin one that went over her nose to secure the patch over her eye. She then looked over at Al, "How's it look?" She asked, gesturing towards the newly placed eye patch. He used his remaining arm to give her a thumb up.
Leo grinned widely and gave him two thumbs up.
The sun sank lower and Ed still wasn't back. "Where could he be?" Leo asked Al as she helped Pinako out by sweeping. "He's probably still visiting Mom's grave." Al replied looking at the red head. "Oh." She sighed and finished her assigned task.
"Hey, Leo?" Al looked up at the girl who was leaning on the broom lazily. She peered over at him. "Could you go and find him? Usually I go, but well…" Leo smiled as he gestured at his half destroyed body. "Course I can Al. Don't worry, I'll find him."
Leo slipped through the door and looked around. A sigh slipped through her mouth as gloom fell down around her shoulder, "Why couldn't I have watched this episode fully, instead of skipping through it. Where the hell could that alchemist be?!" She said, walking down the road a little ways.
She kept going until she heard a dog bark in the distance. She looked up at the hill and saw Den barking up at Ed, who was gazing at the burnt remains of a house. She gave a sad smile and walked up towards Ed. "Ne, Ed? You were here the whole time? You've got Alphonse all worried about you." Ed turned to see the red head looking at him.
"So Al sent you to find me?" He asked watching as Leo walked up to stand beside him, slightly taller than him. "Yep! You probably need to get back before he gets more worried." She looked down at him with a smile. He nodded, "You're right, come on Den, there are people waiting for us." As the two walked off, Leo stopped and looked back at the house.
"To start anew without anything to come back to, what were those two thinking?" She sighed and hurried after the blonde.
"Ready Ed?" Winry asked, holding the wrench at the ready. Pinako was ready at his leg. Ed nodded and braced himself as the counted down and jerked the automail back into their ports. Leo flinched as Ed gritted his teeth in pain.
Leo giggled as Winry told him about the new stuff she did to his automail, but he didn't listen. Instead he took off outside to fix Al. Winry yelled after him and then turned on the red head that was still laughing. "What are you laughing at!?" She growled, blue eyes flashing. "Oh nothing…" She trailed off with a sly grin. "Just that you didn't take a picture of Ed in his boxers." Leo's eyebrows raised and a sly look entered her visible eye. Winry's cheeks grew hot and she quickly looked away.
Leo suddenly stopped laughing and a frown appeared on her face. Winry looked over at her, "What's wrong Leo?" Leo sighed and sat in the chair behind her. "Winry, I want to thank you for 'saving' me again, but I should probably try to find a way home." Winry looked at her confused. "What do you mean by that?"
Leo looked up with her visible eye narrowed, "I'm going to have to leave Reisembul." Winry sucked in a breath, "Why? Can't you search from here?" Leo shook her head, "No I can't." Winry sighed and looked at the girl who had appeared in her life out of the blue and somehow became her friend, "When are you leaving?" She asked.
Leo closed her eye and grimaced, "In the morning." She disappeared through the back door.
Al finished his fight with Ed and looked over towards the house. Leo sat leaning against the wall with her eye glazed over. "What's wrong?" He asked, sitting next to her. She jerked away in surprise. "Oh, hey Al, I was just thinking about where to go when I leave tomorrow."
"You're leaving? Have you told Winry?" Leo nodded and looked up at him, "I have to leave, and I have to figure out a way to get those memories back." She clenched her fist. Al nodded, "Well, then how about you travel with Brother and me?" She looked up at him in shock. "You would let me do that? Why?"
"Because you're like us. You're trying to get something that was taken from you back. It's the least we can do." Leo nodded and then her face grew grim, "But your brother will probably say no…" Al shook his head, "I won't let him. I want to help you figure this out and find your family. Now get up and help me ask him!" Al grabbed her arm and dragged her into the house.
"Al! Let go please!" Was heard when the door shut. Al continued to drag the red head until they were in front of Ed, who was sipping some coffee. "Brother! We should take Leo with us!" With that, coffee sprayedcomically from his mouth. Leo took this time to pipe up with, "Just to be clear, I didn't come up with this plan! It was all Alphonse!" She called from her sitting position on the floor.
Ed glared at Al for a second then Al pulled him away to whisper in his ear. Leo glanced curiously over at them and titled her head. When they came back over, Ed had a defeated look on his face, "Fine, you can come with us to Central." He muttered quietly.
'Holy Hell! I'm going to Central!' Was Leo's only thought as the brothers left to tell Armstrong the changes. As quietly as she could, Leo had a major freak out in her room which consisted of jumping up and down in excitement and shouting out quiet hoorays'.
End Note: Me: And they're still at it...
Ed: Why are you coming with us!
Leo: Cause Al convinced you to let me, as I said before, it WASN'T MY IDEA!
Me: Oh boy, CUT! BEFORE THEY DESTROY EVERTHING!