The final chapter. Hope you enjoy it.


Aaron, holding a sleeping Lily, and Edward walked the dirt road leading to their house. Edward fumbled for the house key.

"Aaron?" Came a drowsy voice. Winry walked out into the living room to see her children and husband. Her eyes grew wide. "You're…back?" Tears pooled in her eyes. "I'm so glad," She chocked.

Edward pulled his wife into a hug. "Yeah, Win, we're back."

Winry sobbed happily into Edward's chest. "Don't cry," Edward said soothingly. "Look, we have Lily, too."

Winry looked up to find that what Edward said was true. "L—Lily?" She left Edward's embrace to look at her daughter. "She looks so different." The bandage on Lily's left shoulder alarmed her further. "What has she been through!"

"Long story," Says Aaron.

The evening found Edward and Aaron on the front porch. They sat there, talking.

"So what's going to happen now, father?"

"Well, Alphons figured out a way to separate chimera into their original materials, human and wolf in Lily's case, I told him has a lotta' work coming his way," Edward said, chuckling lightly.

Aaron nodded. "Father, I still feel terrible, having shot her."

Edward patted his son's head. "It had to be done, if not she would have ended her life right there without hesitation; I'm sure she more than forgives you, Aaron."

"I suppose you're right."

"Now, about the military—"

"Say no more, I sent my resignation last week after the incident," Aaron interrupted. "Though…I don't think I can hate them, not as I did before."

"Yeah? Why's that?"

"Well…were it not fore them, the possibility of Lily being reunited with us would have been slim to none. Father…I—I'm sorry for all the nasty things I said to you and mother prior to now, it was uncalled for."

Edward smiled warmly. "We all say things in the heat of the moment. And hey, you wouldn't be my son if you didn't do something hasty every once in a while." Edward ruffled Aaron's hair. "Don't worry about it, kiddo."

"Boys, get in this house, you'll catch your death by could out there!"

The Elric men laughed in unison.

Life would be back to normal.