"Dinner's ready!" yelled Aura as she placed the last dish on the table. It had taken her a while but she made a full recovery, adjusting to the new automail that Winry had made her was fairly simple. Central had been calling to find out when she could start assisting them in their cases again, but she had been dodging them in favor of staying close to her family. She didn't want to be away when her brother's first child was born after all.
"Awesome, what do we have to look forward to tonight, sis?" asked Edward as he left his seat in the living room to head for the dinner table.
"Hey, a little help over here?" cried Winry, who had stranded herself on the couch. She was close to her due date, and her big belly made her as helpless as an upside-down turtle.
"Oops, sorry Winry, my stomach kinda carried me away there." He walked back over to his wife and held her hand as he pulled her to her feet gently, then walked back to the table with her. The three of them sat down to eat on their own. Granny had gone into town to pick up supplies, so Aura took the opportunity to cook while she was gone.
"Al should be home from Xing soon, so make sure you save some food for him. So how long do you think it'll be before Al pops the question to May?" Aura said as they ate.
"You're assuming that she isn't going to ask him first," replied Ed between bites of food, with Winry giggling at the thought.
Aura laughed at the thought, "Yeah that's true. I think they're a good match. I'm not too sure how her being a Xingese princess will come into play if he does ask her for her hand, but I guess they'll cross that desert when they get to it."
They finished their dinner with other small talk and joking around. Aura gathered the dishes to the sink and began washing them as Ed and Winry returned to their place on the couch. Ed helped ease Winry back down onto the couch and put her feet up, then sat on the floor next to her and put his ear against her stomach.
"So what do you think about Amelia? I think that's a nice name." said Winry, returning to a conversation about baby names they'd been having lately.
"Amelia? That sounds way too old fashioned. How about Erica? It's a strong sounding name, fairly modern."
From the kitchen, Aura could hear the two of them talking about baby names. Something seemed to be amusing her about it, because she couldn't stop smiling and laughing quietly to herself as their discussion went on.
"Erica Elric? What kind of tongue twister name are you trying to put on your child?" Winry thought for a moment, "Sophia is nice. I think it's an elegant and classy name."
"If you want her to be sniffing sour wine and snobbing it up with the socialites maybe..." Ed replied as he put his hand on his wife's stomach and felt their baby move and push against it. "See? She even kicked you over that one."
Aura finished the dishes, walked into the living room and sat down on the chair directly across from her brother and Winry, grinning as she looked at her pregnant belly while picking up the newspaper.
Ed noticed and asked, "So what's so funny, Aura? Think you can come up with any better names?"
"Girl names? Yeah, maybe. But I think you guys are wasting your time with that. I really hate to spoil the surprise, but you may want to consider boy names instead."
"WHAT?!" exclaimed Winry and Ed together. "Wait a minute... just how could you...you know it's a boy?!" asked Ed.
Aura could only smile and shrug her shoulders. She had her suspicions as to how, but still couldn't give him a straight answer. She just...knew.
The two siblings looked at each other and knew what his name should be. "Owen."