Heya guys! Been a while, well, that's because I had two papers to do. I did them so I had time to update Angel! I'd also like to thank those who have reviewed as I've come out with my updates. You guys really push me to keep this going. You really do. KUDOS! -hugs-

In this chapter, I wanted a follow up and some skepticism. Yes, people become weary of other people! Angel begins to think about things. Oh yes, things are a little light, but the next chapter, since I've already started it, is getting a little fluffy and juicy. So stay tuned!

Songs: "When You Kiss Me Like This" by Toby Kieth (this song... yeah, both of them are thinking this)
"Trying Not To Love You" by Nickelback (I am beginning to think this is Ed's song when he thinks about Angel and then Andi or vice versa.)
"Beautiful Sinner" by Nicki Minaj (Homunculi are supposed to be sins and products of sins, that and Ed thinks about Angel and he calls her beatiful. I was listening to this song and thinking about Ed and Angel)


Ed looked into Angel's eyes, still seeing Andi's for some reason after he had blinked. He was speechless, being a man who usually knew what to say most of the time. He bit back the urge to ask Angel if she was Andi in hiding, but didn't. He couldn't ask some random girl he hardly knew if she was.

"Sorry," Ed uttered as he removed his hand from her hair, letting the strands of her hair slide easily from his hand yet linger for a moment.

Angel looked up and shook her head. "Why?"

Ed sighed, looking to the ground, somehow unable to look Angel in the eye. "It's complicated. I'm sorry, Angel. I didn't mean to kiss you."

"It's your wife, isn't it? The one that's gone."

Ed looked to her, shocked. "How would you know...?"

"Roy, your friend, told me at the bakery, remember?" When Ed didn't respond, Angel went on. Admittedly, she was disappointed that Edward had regretted kissing her, yet she couldn't bring herself to express it. "I understand why you said that. But," she took in a deep breath, "I don't regret kissing you back."

"You don't?" Ed sounded shocked, remembering when Andi had told him the same after Riza had caught them kissing in Roy's office when he wasn't in there. That was back when Roy had no idea Andi was interested in Ed, and Andi and Ed were merely pretending to despise each other.

Angel shook her head. "No," she smiled slightly, just like Andi had what seemed like a complete lifetime ago.

Ed smiled in spite of himself, feeling the warmth he felt as he kissed Angel spread. His mind started to reel with conflicting thoughts. Kiss her again, Ed, look at her, she's just like Andi, he thought at one point.

Don't do it, you're still married to Andi no matter what's happened to her. Dead or alive, Andi is still your wife. What are vows for when you're only going to break them, another thought ran through his head.

Angel had turned from Ed, focusing on the gardens. She looked around to the dimly lit lights and how they created an almost warm effect on the bloomed flowers and bushes. In some places, there was a flicker of fireflies. She liked the place.

"Angel, I..." Ed started before catching himself. He didn't know what he wanted to say to her. He already felt terrible about showing the regret in kissing her. "We should get back to the bar, you came with friends, right?"

Angel nodded, letting her distaste for going back show. If she went back, Envy and Greed would take her back to the mansion and would possibly not let her leave because she didn't tell them she was leaving with Ed.

"You don't want to go back, do you?"

Angel shook her head. "My reasons are complicated."

"Then let's keep walking. I'll think of somewhere you can go then," Ed said. He wondered why she didn't want to go back. What were those friends like? Or were they overprotective siblings?

Ed and Angel kept walking through the gardens. Angel looked to Ed as they walked and instantly, a flash went through her mind. It was nighttime and the blonde girl was looking to Ed. She knew it was Ed. That was unmistakable. But the blonde, she still couldn't make out. Ed was smiling to the girl under the dim, orange glow of the streetlights. He was wearing a black jacket as she wore a long, red coat with the alchemy flamel on the back. Angel could tell she was smiling back to him. Ed had grabbed her wrist, pulling her near him as she fought him. Something was off.

"No, Ed, Roy could see us at any moment," she said, concerned. "I'd hate to see you be burned to a crisp because Roy found out what's going on between us."

"Like I care what the bastard Colonel is going to do. You're a person with rational thoughts..." his voice blanked when he said the girl's name. He used his gloved finger to wrap under her chin and force the blonde to look at him. He gently kissed her lips in a quick kiss. "Besides, no matter what happens when I'm gone searching for the stone, I know you'll still be waiting for me at the station."

Just like that, as soon as the vision began, it ended, leaving Angel even more confused. She hoped Edward didn't see. Damn visions, she thought as she looked to the ground in horror. Angel wanted to know why she was seeing Ed and who the hell that blonde was. She was sick of being in the dark like she had a feeling Envy kept her in.

Angel felt the cool day breeze sweep through. On the ground, where the rest of the world was, it was probably warmer, but she wasn't on the ground. She didn't want to be on the same level as Envy or Greed. Hell, she hardly told Lust that she was heading to the roof. Angel had her knees to her chest with her arms crossed on top of her knees. She had been thinking about Ed since that night when she went to the bar. What she was thinking about more than Ed was the kiss they shared. She didn't want that night to end, but it had to. Envy and Greed had found her.

"Angel, come on, time to get you home," Envy called in the same disguise he was using for the night.

Angel bit her lip and looked down, still standing near Ed. She wondered how they managed to find her. Surely they didn't follow her as she walked around Central City with Ed and into Central Gardens, which she wanted to go back to.

"Alright," she called to him, hoping Envy would keep his distance from her and Ed, "I'll be there in a minute."

Angel looked to Ed. They were silent for a second before Ed spoke up. "Looks like you have to leave."

Angel nodded, disappointed. "Yeah, looks like it." She looked up to Ed with a soft smile, easily melting Ed's heart. "Thanks for taking a walk with me, Ed. I, um, really enjoyed it."

"Come on, Angel!" That was Greed, standing among the shadows so Ed wouldn't recognize him.

"I'm coming!" She looked to Ed. "Sorry, Ed." He nodded in response, remembering when he had ran into her not too long ago when he saw her for the first time. "I'll see you around."

Ed watched her walk away, catching a glimpse of a tattoo over her heart. He shrugged inwardly, thinking it was nothing. Angel reached Envy and Greed, trying to avoid Greed's arm as he tried to wrap it around her neck. She was already sick of being around them.


Angel sighed, still thinking about the small smile on Ed's face when their lips had parted from the kiss in Central Gardens. She smiled smally, burying her face into her arms, letting her thoughts drift to that vision, the first one she's had with sound. Angel bit her lip hard with frustration.

"Who the hell is that girl?" she asked, letting her teeth pierce the skin of her lip.

Red sparks formed a minute or so after she let her teeth up. Angel shut her eyes tightly. She hated being a homunculous for that reason: healing quickly. She wanted to be human again. Angel wanted to be something so insignificant that it didn't matter. She wanted to feel deep emotions, since homunculi can't totally feel emotions. Well most humonculi; she was an exception.

"Oh Angel, we need you!" Greed sang from the ground below her. "You're gonna come with us to Central City!"

Angel made no attempt to move. She wanted to spend some time with Lust, think some more, and perhaps read more on Ed. After all, he was the Fullmetal Alchemist.

"Envy, you liar, she's not out here!" Greed called to someone by the door.

"Did you look everywhere?"

"Why would she move outside the confines of the property?"

"I don't know. I'm not a former blonde."

Angel widened her eyes.

"Yeah you were. Weren't you..."

"Finsh that sentence and I will kill you with my bare hands, Greed," Envy warned in a low voice that only meant certain death.

Angel relaxed slightly, knowing that they'd never find her on the roof.

"Let's just go, Greed. Angel might already be in town," Envy said as they started walking down the driveway of the property the mansion was on.

Angel watched them leave, thankful that they were gone so she could think more. Thinking, seemed as if that is all she ever did these days since her trip to the bar. She was thinking about Ed, that vision with sound, about why she didn't like being around Envy or Greed anymore, and about who this Andi Elric was and why she was so important to people.

"Angel, are you out here?" Lust's voice seemed to cut through her thoughts of what she was thinking about and made mer focus.

Angel looked around, then down to the ground where Lust was looking for the young homunculous. She eventually looked up when Angel wasn't on ground-leven view.

"Angel, what are you doing up there?"

"Thinking," she called back, making no motion to move from where she was sitting.

"Come down, I want to talk to you."

"Did Envy make you?"

"No," she said dryly. "Why would I listen to him anyway? I am worried about you. Now come down for a little while, please."

Angel sighed, even if she didn't want to, she was going. When she had climbed down, jumping when she had two feet left in her descent, she jumped. Angel looked to Lust, who was looking at her with concerned eyes.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"Liar, you're quiet, even around me. What happened?"

Angel sighed, turning her gaze from Lust's almost soul-piercing eyes. "Nothing."

"Bull shit."

Angel jumped, looking to what she considered a big sister.

"Tell me, please."

Angel sighed once more; this time in defeat. "I kissed Edward that night at the bar," she confessed, but didn't feel better about anything.

"You did what?"

"You heard me."

Lust wasn't surprised, having a feeling that they would meet and would be drawn to each other. Ed because Angel was the homunculous version of Andi and Angel because she truly was in love with Edward. Though, she'd never tell Envy or Greed that tidbit of information.

"How...?" For once Lust was at a loss for words.

Angel shrugged. "We were walking and then it just...happend." A small, dreamy smile spread across Angel's face as she thought about the scene and how he kissed her. It was so passionate, so fiery, so... right.


"Ed, woohoo, focus, shrimpy," Roy called, knocking Ed out of a daze for the fifth time in an hour. It seemed like no matter what Roy did, Ed's thoughts would make him slow his work to an almost complete stop and then put a glaze in his eyes. Roy hadn't seen that glaze or look on Ed since he found out him and Andi were together.

Ed glared at Roy. "I grew you know."

"Yeah, into an even more royal pain in my ass."

"I've always been a royal pain in your ass."

"At least we agree on something," Roy said as he looked over some papers and signed a few of them while stamping others.

Ed went back to reading the paper, looking for any clues on Andi with thoughts and images of Angel plaguing his mind. Not that Ed hated himself for it. He hadn't felt that warmth and happiness since he last kissed Andi when she left on that mission nearly eighteen months ago.

Fuck, had it really been that long?

Ed shook himself from how long it had been since Andi was in his arms with that loving smile on her face and her deep gold hair shining. Instead, his mind wandered to Angel. Smiling, beautiful Angel with her hair like dark chocolate. Part of him really regretted kissing Angel. One part of that regret was thinking he was cheating on his MIA wife, while the other part regretted it because he kissed her thinking about Andi. Angel deserved better than that. After seeing her move away from the arm of a drunk friend, Ed figured that she only welcomed people who she felt comfortable with. For reasons Ed didn't know, he had a feeling that Angel wasn't comfortable around those guys she claimed as friends.

Besides, most of Ed, his mind, soul, and body, loved being kissed by Angel. It may have reminded him of Andi; her pinning him to the ground and kissing him, or the innocent, yet not-so-innocent kisses she'd give him when their relationship had first started, but Angel was Angel. She acted like an angel-much like Andi who claimed that she wasn't an angel- and each time Ed saw her, it would make him want to see Angel even more.

"Ed, where did you go the other night?"

"Central Gardens," he said casually and with a light smile.

Roy took note of the smile, coming up with his own conclusion on the spot. "She must've kissed pretty damn good, then."

The smile widened, Ed wasn't paying attention. "Yeah, she did." Then he realized what was said. "You're a fucking bastard."

Ed got up from his seat, still having no office since somene had tore it up a few weeks ago during the middle of the night. No one else's office was damaged but his. Ed figured it was because he had made quite a few enemies as the Fullmetal Alchemist.

"I'm going to see Maes about seeing Andi's file."

Roy watched as Ed left, leaving him alone in his office with Riza.

"His demeanor's changed."

Roy nodded. "Yeah, and he's smiling a little more."

Riza smiled, thinking about how Ed hadn't been so depressed, only pretending to be alright for the sake of Mick.

"Who did he meet?"

"Some girl named Angel." Roy looked up to the blonde with a half smile. "She looks a lot like Andi. Personality is a little sweeter, her hair is dark like her eyes, but her name's Angel."

Sounds a lot like Andi's personality, but this mystery person known as Angel is on my radar, Riza thought, remembering the adopted niece Roy, her, and the rest of the team had watched grow up and raise. If Ed was suddenly thinking about this Angel girl and not Andi as much as before, of course it would raise an alarm to the woman with an aim better than most men.

"Do you trust her, Roy?"

Roy looked to her. "There's something about her that makes me wonder more about what happened to Andi. The coincidences are just too much for them to be just that."