A/N My cruelty paid of i never thought i would get so much feed back so fast. thankyou all for your lovely comments. Here is the next chapter i hope you like it. and before you read further, remember if you want the next chapter you have to review. Ill update when i have a total of 20 reviews ;) enjoy. Karin x

10 years later

"Alex, if you want a lift hurry up" yelled Ed up the stairs, he was eating a piece of toast and wearing his state alchemist uniform. In the 10 years since Alexa first arrived many things had happened. For starters Roy and Juliet finally got married. Ed had been accepted as a state alchemist at 17 and Alexa had been trained by the military to use and control the sound frequency alchemy. She was their secret weapon. Ed was now 24 and Alexa or Alex as she was now known was 16.

"I'm coming!" she said running down the stairs; she was wearing tight leggings and a small tank top which showed off the transmutation tattoos on her arms and neck, the ones on her face she had covered with makeup.

She ran past Ed into the kitchen and grabbed an apple from the side.

"Right I'm ready!"

"Are you really going to just wear flip flops?" asked Juliet from the table, looking up from her paper.

"Mum it's not like I keep my shoes on anyway"

"Ok, if you're sure, but at least take a jumper if only for decency's sake" Alex rolled her eyes.

"I've got one in my bag, Ed you ready?"

Ed shoved the rest of his toast in his mouth and grabbed a bottle from the inside of the fridge with one hand while he read his mail with the other.

"Wrong bottle love" said Juliet

"Huh? Oh thanks" said Ed realising he had picked up Juliet's chocolate milk rather than his apple juice "I could have sworn they are normally the other way round"

"Don't look at me" said Alex biting into her apple as she left the room.

Later that day Ed and Alex were walking down the stairs from the 4th floor.

"Honestly Ed I think I've almost got it, a bit more practise and I think I'll be able to connect my soul with the sound waves!"

"That sounds really cool but be careful, don't hurt yourself. Are you coming home?"

"No I've got a report due, ah crap my jumpers gone!" Ed looked at her fumbling in her bag.

"Gah I must have left it upstairs"

"Do you need it?" said Ed looking outside, it was still quite hot.

"No, but mum will want me to have it in the morning and I'm gonna be late. You couldn't get it and take it home for me could you?"

Ed sighed by nodded, but Alex smiled and kissed him on the cheek

"Thank you" and skipped off. Ed turned on his heels shaking his head, once again he had let his little sister convince him to do something, sighing again he

started walking back up the stairs when he neared the 4th floor he heard something "Hey is anyone there?" and then smelt a strange smell. It was almost like almonds.

The world started spinning, he couldn't keep his balance and soon he felt his legs buckle, with the sensation of falling and the pain as he hit every step.

Falling down 4 flights of steps. It seemed to take forever but still happened to fast to do anything about it.

At the bottom, Ed felt his head slam harder than ever on the floor and the red stars burst over his eyes before it went dark.

"Alex!" Furey rounded the corner of the book case to find Alex finishing up on her report.

"Oh hey, what's the rush" she said smiling, she liked Furey he was quirky and fun unlike some of the others who seemed to be either uptight and cranky or just plain weird...Armstrong for instance.

"You've got to come with me, it's Ed" the panic in his voice was contagious.

"What's happened?" she said following him and as they approached where Alex had last seen Ed she saw there were a lot of people gathered as well as an ambulance.

Pushing past some of the people in the crowd she got to the front to see some paramedics lifting Ed on a stretcher, they had a oxygen mask over his face, a bracer around his nick and were checking his eyes. He was deathly still.

"What happened?" Alex repeated quietly trying to walk towards Ed but was stopped by a pair of strong arms.

"Alex, come on, this way"

"No, I have to go with him, he hates doctors!" Alex tried to pull against the arms but they pull her away until she collapsed in defeat in Roy's arms.

"Dad he's going to be alright isn't he?" Roy helped her out of the building and into the car.

"Dad!"

"Yeh sure he is honey, we need to get your mother and then go to the hospital".

Alex looked at him in despair, the tone of voice he had used, the frequency of the beats. She always knew when someone was lying and that was what Roy was doing when he said "Yes".

Alex brought her knees up to her face, feeling so vaunerable, Ed had been the first friend she had ever had the first person she had ever trusted.

What would she do without Ed?

A/N Thanks for reading. I hope you like Alex's character, and i swear i'm not torturing Ed there is a point to him always ending up in pain ;) please review (total of 20 and i'll update) until next time. Karin x