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A/N: Wow…I can't believe it's been so long since I've updated. It's been busy over the holidays, so I couldn't exactly get to the story. Anyways, enjoy this chapter and I will REALLY try to update more than I have been.

The Chosen One

Ch.10

I kept running. For how long, who knows? All I know is that I'm broken. My life has shattered into tiny little pieces that like to poke into you when you step on them. I found myself surrounded by metal walls. I punched them with my knuckles, causing them to bleed. I cried out, but not because of my knuckles, but because I felt lost and confused. I didn't know where I was, what direction my life turned. I just wanted to fix things. But this metal wall was blocking my way.

As I continued punching, the walls shifted, and started to move closer together. They were going to crush me. I screamed.

"Wait!" I screamed. The walls didn't stop.

"Please!" I begged. "I need to go back home, go back to Edward, fix things between us!"

The walls slowed down.

"I've done this to Ed, made his life miserable, just because I didn't believe in him. But then I realized how much life he has, and how much he cares for it…how much he cares for me. He put himself together, now I need to do the same for me! Just please, I beg of you, let me continue on. Let me be with Edward! Let me believe him! Let me trust him!"

The walls stopped. The top wall started to open, and there he was. He lent his hand to me, and I gratefully took it.

"Thank you," I said.

"No, thank you," he said in a whisper.

"For what?" I asked in the same tone.

"For believing in me."

I slowly opened my eyes, being awoken by the bright sun shining between my blinds. Then I smiled.

No longer was I confused. No longer was I locked up in a room surrounded by metal walls. No longer was I blocked out from the light. No longer was I going to lay here and do nothing!

I sat up and ran to Rose's room.

I needed to say sorry to Edward. I needed him to know how I feel, how tortured I feel, and that without him I feel so empty. But I needed to know how to say it. I mean, I can't just walk in and say "Oh yeah, sorry about the other night. Let's just forget about it and move on, ok?"

Yeah right.

"Come in!" Rose called after I knocked like, a dozen times.

"What are you doing?" I asked, finding her sitting on her bed with papers and pictures spread out on the comforter.

"Making a scrapbook," she answered while gluing on a picture of Rose and I at a festival. Those were the good old days.

"Umm…I really need your help."

Rose looked up from her project and raised her eyebrow.

"You have my attention."

I went and sat at a clear spot on her bed and sighed, "So how…do you say sorry?"

Rose tapped her chin, indicating that her romance thinking cap was on.

"You need to describe the situation," she said.

I practically fell, "ARE YOU SAYING THAT ED WAS PART OF THIS? I NEVER SAID THAT!"

"Umm, I never said anything about Edward, Winry. Are you saying he's a part of this?" She smirked. I give you one word.

Evil.

"Ok, look, I love Ed. You know that, I know that. Can we move on?" I shortly put it.

"Well, tell me how you feel about him."

"Before I met him, I was Princess Winry. I was friends with no one outside the castle, I was told what to wear and what to do all the time, and I had no time to myself. My life was planned out. I was going to live happily ever after with Prince Jin." I laughed to myself. "What a load of that. When I met Edward though, I felt as if life had more meaning and…just different things changed in my life, in a good way. No longer do I feel as if I'm Princess Winry, but that I'm Winry Rockbell. The best part is…I fell in love. I would smell the air and actually notice what it smelled like. Every time I see him, my hearts melts and I can't think straight, I can only think of how much I love him. And if he left my life, it would become even worse than what it once was. He saved me from a meaningless life, a life without love. I love Edward. Life without him is unimaginable."

Rose smiled. She grabbed a picture of Ed and me sitting on a bench smiling to each other with the sunlight reflecting off our hair. She glued it on and wrote under it "with the shining sun and beautiful hearts, a true love was born."

"Now go tell him that."

I looked at his front porch. It was nice and cute, with a welcome sign on the door, and a bench swing next to it. It was a two story house, and had nicely cut lawn in the front with lilies and lavenders outlining it. I breathed in slowly, knowing that this had to be done, so I rang the doorbell.

It took a few minutes and few more knocks until the door finally opened. With a sort of relief, it was Al.

"Hello Winry, it's nice to see you again," he greeted.

"You too," I slightly grinned.

"You here to see my brother?"

I nodded. Al opened the door wide, indicating for me to go inside. It was a normal house. A few pictures on the walls here and there, though I've noticed a lot of them with a woman holding two little boys. Then I realized it was Al and Ed, and their mom.

A whole flow of questions entered my brain, but before I could even go through them, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I hesitated from turning around; pretty much knowing it was Edward by his scent. I slowly rotated my body, more like forcing it, and finally met Ed's gaze. A long moment passed.

I was trying to say to Edward what I said to Rose. I even rehearsed it a few times. But the words didn't want to come out. All I really wanted to do was stare at Ed and hope that this would fix things somehow.

The next thing I know I'm tearing up and Ed is hugging me, repeating "it's ok" every five seconds.

"Edward…" More tears came down. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean all those things that I said, how this wasn't worth it, because it means more than anything to me. I should have trusted you Ed! This is so embarrassing, I mean, how that should just solve all our problems. I owe way more to you then a simple sorry, not after all that's happened. I just felt so confused, my mind was being tossed around and mixed up, and…I just didn't know what to do." I cried silently, waiting for Ed's answer.

"All you owe me is your love and trust, Winry. That's all I want from you…and don't feel embarrassed, because I can understand why you felt mixed up. I love you." He squeezed me tighter. Happiness spread through my body like a plague, except a good one.

After hugging and saying sorry several more times, we went into the kitchen and made some hot cocoa. We sat in his living room, which had an elegant theme. A gorgeous, marble fireplace was set up on one wall, with a dark brown, antique coffee table in the middle of the room. There were also more pictures of his family.

It was silent for a long time. I took a quick peek at Ed and saw him looking down at his cocoa, so I did the same.

"So how've you been?" Ed asked in a soft whisper.

I sighed, "Eh."

"Me too," he answered.

Another long silence.

"Is that your mom?" I asked pointing towards a picture of who I think is her, hugging Ed.

He looked down, "Yeah."

I knew this seemed like a delicate subject, but I really needed to know.

"What happened?" I looked at him considerately.

Ed stayed silent. I decided not to go further into the subject, regretting for bringing it up.

Al walked in the room, "She died a while ago." So he's been listening. I guess that's natural for little brothers to do. It was hard to get use to the fact of him being the little brother since of his present body. The two brothers looked at each other intently. I was greatly confused.

"There is more to this, isn't there?" I asked. This wasn't my business, but like I said before, I needed to know.

"Winry, there is more reason to so much more than you know," Ed sternly said. He sounded really serious. "I didn't join the tournament to marry you…at first."

I stayed quiet.

"Al and I are here to stop a man named Scar." Oh, the mysterious guy. "He's planning to make the philosophers stone, and to create one you need to sacrifice live humans." I felt as if I was going to throw up in my mouth. I mean, live humans? "He's trying to get to the last round of the tournament, because he knows most of the military will be here to watch. He's going to make a large transformation circle around the whole stadium, and try to get as many civilians out as possible, though I'm still wondering how he's going to do that without causing suspicion. Then during the match he'll put his plan into work. Even if he doesn't make it to the last round, he'll still find a way."

It was hard to gather all this in. I knew he was in the tournament for another reason. I didn't know there was so much involved though, so many human lives. This whole plan was being set up right under our noses.

"How did you know all this?" I asked.

"He told me…he also wants me to help out, even though he knows I am absolutely against all of this. So I have to do something to stop him."

"Well, we just need to make sure he doesn't draw the circle, or…whatever that thing is," I suggested. He frowned.

"He already drew it." I laid my head back and looked at the ceiling. I couldn't believe this was happening. How are we supposed to stop him now? And what if his plan works? There is no way my parents are leaving, and there's no way that they're going to let me leave. What if he did it when my family was there? I started to cry.

Ed came and gently laid me against him and he stroked my hair, trying to comfort me. It wasn't doing any good this time.

"You have to stop him Ed. If he sets off the circle…my family will…" More tears formed.

"Don't worry, I'll stop him. I'll save your family…I'll save you." I nodded and closed my eyes.

"I believe you."

A/N: I was going to continue on from here, but I really needed to update. I'm too anxious XD Hope you enjoyed this chapter and hopefully I can update more since the holidays are over. Make sure to review! Oh, and sorry if there are mistakes in this chapter.