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Chapter 26

"Ugghhhmmmhmhm…." Ed jumbles out as he stretches.

"English please?" Winry says slightly annoyed, Ed rolls his eyes.

"Just tired." He mutters.

"Being spied on can do that." Al says cheerfully, Ed nods.

"Where is the young lord?" Fu asks appearing out of nowhere; we all look around and shake our heads.

"Beats me, we haven't seen him." Ed mutters in annoyance, both Lan Fan and Fu slink down in embarrassment.

"I can't take my eyes off him for second…" Fu huffs.

"Good riddance…" Ed sighs. "Let's go."

"Coming…" Al and Winry come running behind us, we begin walking towards the central military offices.

"We better check in with the military offices first." Ed says bored, Al nods.

"I think I'll go straight to the Hughes's, I can't wait to see little Elicia and Miss Gracia." Winry smiles, I bite my lip to keep from saying anything.

"Mmk, we'll be there real soon anyway." Ed smiles, Winry smiles and runs off.

"We should really go see the Lieutenant Colonel; we have a lot to tell him." Al says quietly, Ed nods.

"We have to tell him about the homunculus." Ed trails off; I taste the blood from biting my lip to hard. I have half crescent marks in the palm of my hand from how tightly my fists were curled up.

"I think his office is this way! Come on Al, Rose!" Ed smiles to me, I let them run ahead of me as I walk behind them. I watch as they run straight pass the phone booth but I freeze in front of it.

"Rose?" Al ask softly looking at me, I just stare at the phone booth. I can feel the dread fill my body as I walk towards it, my hand stops on the handle.

"What's wrong?" Ed whispers into my ear behind me, I blink back my tears and turn around shutting the door.

"Let's just go…"

"But Rose" Ed says softly.

"Just go." I snap walking away; Ed looks a little taken a back but walks beside me.

When we get inside I see Hawkeye right away, and so does Ed.

"Wait a minute if Hawkeye is here that means the…" Then Colonel Mustang appears.

"Thanks for waiting…" He grumbles than sees Ed. "Hello there Fullmetal." Ed looks extremely annoyed.

"Colonel Mustang…. What are you doing here?" He grumbles.

"Didn't you hear? I was transferred to central a while ago." The Colonel smiles, Ed fights back making a snide comment.

"Ohh great…" Al smiles at Ed.

"We're here to see the Colonel; we have so much to tell them." He chirps, I see the Lieutenant's eyes soften in sadness.

"He's not here; He retired to the country took his wife and daughter with him to take over the family business." Mustang says strongly, letting nothing be given away but I know every word is a lie. He looks at me, and I glare back at him. I let Al and Ed walk a little bit ahead before I speak to the Colonel.

"How dare you lie." I snarl at him, Mustang tenses up instantly. "You can lie to them, but I know Hughes is dead. How dare you." I hiss at him, Hawkeye looks from the Colonel to me. "You can't hide anything from me Mustang. I already know what's going to happen!" I want to shout at him, I want to scream at him. Wipe that cooled expression off his face. "Didn't I warn you about this Mustang!? Didn't I?! I told you to watch out for Hughes, unless you wanted it to be a horrible day for rain." That caught his attention.

"You… You knew?" He snarled, I feel my feet being lifted off the ground.

"Put her down Colonel." Hawkeye demands, the Colonel drops me to the ground.

"Who did it?!" he shouts at me, I shake my head and turn around.

"See you later Colonel." I say coldly and run to catch up with Ed and Al, but I hear shouting behind me.

"Get back here Rose. That's an order."

"I'm not a soldier Mustang." I shout and continue running, then stop when I see Ed talking to the second Lieutenant. I see his eyes fill with sadness, can see the tears welled up in his eyes. I grab his hand and he freezes.

"This is what you kept all to yourself?" his words were so saddening. "You held in what you couldn't fix? Why?" Ed demands now angry, I look into his eyes.

"Edward, I couldn't tell you… I couldn't tell anyone… Please Edward." I beg falling to my knees; he looks down at me then falls down beside me.

"This is my fault... I dragged him into this, it's my fault." I'm breaking at how pained he is.

"No Edward…It's…" I was cut off by his lips crushing mine, pain, broken, anger. Everything was there; I kiss him back for a few moments. I pull away slowly and look into the golden orbs flooding with tears, I feel his gloved hand wipe brush my face. Tears drip from my face; I hadn't even realized I was crying.

"Brother, what about Winry?" Al asks quietly, Ed shut his eyes tight.

"We better get to the Hughes's…" he says so small, he stands taking me with him.

Were all out the door in a flash running, speeding towards the Hughes's and when we get there time seems to stop.

"Miss Gracia, I need to tell you something. You too Winry." Ed says quietly.

"Is this about my husband?"

"Yea…" Ed trails off; he sits down and begins his story.

"My husband died trying to help you boys?" Gracia asks more to herself, Ed drops his head with what I can is disgust for himself.

"Yes, I dragged him into this… I'm so sorry." He clenches his fists. "I'm so sorry… I'm…" Ed's voice crackles in pain.

"It's just like him, to die trying to help someone else." She smiles, it catches Ed attention.

"My husband was a busy body and a meddler, and sometimes that got him into trouble. I want you to keep going, even if the stone is a dead end, keep going. Don't let my husband's sacrifice go to waste." She was with a determined look in her eyes; Ed nods look to Alphonse who also nods in agreement.

"Wait Miss Gracia, I have something you have to know as well." She gives me a soft smile. "Would you like to know you husbands last words?" I ask solemnly. Ed's eye widen and Winry puts a hand to cover her gasp, Gracia looks down at her hands I can see there shaking. She doesn't ask how I know what they are, she just nods.

"His last words were, Gracia I'm so sorry and Elicia daddy loves you." Tears are slipping down my cheeks and Gracia's as well. I get up to leave and she looks at me sadly.

"Thank you so much." She whispers and smiles a tiny smile. I nod and head towards the door with everyone trailing behind me. When Ed shuts the door, he looks at all of us with a smile; but then I hear it.

"Please don't cry mommy." I can see Ed breaking beside me, the words of little Elicia crashing a blow to me. Ed's head turns towards me, I can see the fire in his eyes.

"How could you have known his dying words?" I look down at the ground.

"It's just like how I know, who put the bullet in his chest…"