Spirit Elma: hey, its down to 23degrees here! I would like to thank Orange Singer for pointing out my mistake last chapter, because I turned Al into a cherry...this chapter is also by request of Orange Singer. Sorry its kind of short...just turned out that way. sorry for the minor gore...red for christmas????

December 10th - Christmas Lust -

"Come now Ed, you can do better…" Lust taunted as she dodged another attack while sending out her nails. She hit Ed's lower right quadrant and pinned him to the wall. Edward growled and sliced her with his auto-mail blade-then stabbed her in the heart-or what passed for her heart…

"Yeah, I can." he took off running though the maze of a building before she could regenerate. He knew that at least Gluttony and Envy were with her and was keeping a sharp eye out. 'how the hell do I get into this stuff!' was his current thinking.

He found a room that looked secure and alchemized it shut. Then he slumped against the wall and fell to the ground. That wound did not look so great, he was losing a fair amount of blood. Where the hell was Mustang's 'backup' he said would be here…he knew Al was on the outside at least. He closed his eyes

There was a loud explosion.

His eyes opened. The ceiling had changed from dark and dirty to clean and white. Great. He was in the hospital, again! This was getting old… Al came in the room carrying food.

"Brother! You're awake!"

Ed stared, "How long have I been out?" he had a feeling that he didn't want to know.

"Umm," his brother started, "two weeks…its Christmas eve…see your wound got infected and you got a fever and wound up in a sorta…mini-coma-type-thingy? I wasn't really listening" he trailed off embarrassedly. Edward's jaw dropped.

He really didn't want to know.

So said the first thing that came to his shocked mind, "Merry Christmas Al?"

Al laughed and retuned the sentiment, "Oh, the colonel said to be more careful next time because you caused him a bunch of paperwork." A vain popped in the blond's forehead.

"That bastard!"

SE: Really any reasonable request will be written! if you suggest a pairing, try to suggest a main theme too, like 'they go shopping' or 'sitting in front of a fire' don't have to, but it helps my writting process and you get a better requested chapter!

Sember: warning: she gonna do another carol...oh and please review!