I recently rewatched Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and a fun story popped into my head. Once again as it's typical for me I'm making the main character a girl only thing gender wise that changes is Edward Elric is now Edith Elric she still goes by Ed and Winry Rockbell is now a man called Wynn. Everything else is the same Edith has a younger brother named Al they lost their mother at a young age of 7. Al was 6. She joined the military at the age of 12 years old missing her left arm and right leg. Wynns mother and father lose their lives in Ishval. This story takes place a Month before the Promise day. Everything beforehand goes according to the Anime. Except of course Ed's gender. Along with Wynns. Oh and Rose is now Ross since she seemed to have a little crush on Ed XD. The fight when the Elrics were kids was about Edith wanting to marry Wynn but Al didn't think she could because they were like family so they fought over it. Edith still has a short complexe and she also has body issues; she has trouble thinking herself pretty because of her missing limbs which is why she dresses as she does, which is exactly as the anime shows. Wynn is a lot calmer than Winry, more level headed most of the time unless it comes to Ed breaking her automail. Ed is about 5'4 and Wynn is about 5'7 here.

Where this starts as stated above a month before the promise day. The anime isn't clear about the timeline here so for this story's sake; Edith has arrived home in Resembool to get her Automail tuned up by Granny. She is now 16 years old. (figured out from the fact it's stated Ed is 18 at the very end and the show ends 2 years after the promise day) Granny needed parts so she headed out to get the parts leaving Ed and company hiding out at the house. Greed and the 2 chimeras are playing with Den too loud for Ed's tastes so she sneaks off to Wynn's room to eat. And that's where it starts here. And no, my readers, I am not giving up on Jackie Frost or save me. I just have a bit of a writer's block for the 2 of them. They will be finished i promise :D

Wynn sighs as he walks through the house he grew up in. Granny is nowhere to be found. She must be out. He tells the Briggs soldiers to not touch much so as to not ruin anything, he heads upstairs to shower and change. It seemed like forever since the last time he had a shower or was able to relax. He headed up to his room rubbing his neck. He hoped Edith was ok, he hadn't seen her since they were up north and since she was reported missing. He reached his room and opened the door. Not really paying attention he walked to his closet grabbing some fresh clothes. He shook them out, coughing from the dust.

"God, it's musty in here." he tossed the clothes on his bed and unbuttoned his top shirt and tossed it on the bed and reached down and took his tank top off and was about to toss it when he heard a throat clear behind him. He whirled around and and saw Edith at his desk, her face bright red, holding a sandwich, her eyes wide open frozen.

They stared at each other for a moment, faces both beat red.

"E-ed?" he breathed, that seemed to wake her up and she unfrozen her eyes slamming shut her face still beat red.

"H-hey Wynn." she turns her head back towards the desk, her heart pounding. There's a rush of footsteps toward her and she winces expecting to get it by his wrench but instead she is yanked out of her chair and engulfed in a hug. Her sandwich fell to the ground.
"Oh god Edith I was so scared. We were told you went missing along with 2 of Kimblee's men. And that they found blood where you guys were last seen, a lot of blood. And you never tried to contact us. I was scared that you were…" Wynn words come tumbling out of his mouth like a river, like a dam had burst. Ed just sat there shocked for a moment as he speaks then she hugs him back.

"I'm sorry Wynn. i couldnt contact anyone, i could risk anyone getting hurt because of me….!" she cut herself off tears springing into her golden eyes. Wynn pulls away and holds her face in his hands. Her face is pink and her eyes are wide and full of tears. His mind goes blank, she looked so beautiful and he's reminded of how much he loves her.

Meanwhile Ed's mind is racing; his face is so close to hers she can feel his heart pounding against her body. Throat suddenly she gulps, she watches as he leans closer to her face. Oh god is he going to… kiss me? She doesn't move, weighing her options. Ed knows that she loves Wynn, she also knows that the promise day is coming and that she might not make it out alive, or that she might not be able save everyone. She knows that this could be her last chance to be with the man she loves. He closes the distance and his lips touch hers, she gasps and presses herself closer to him; her hands flying up to his short hair to hold him to her. He wraps his arms around her waist, not letting her go. The kiss quickly turns passionate as the two become more frantic, unable to stop. Running out of breath they pull back breathing heavily.

"Ed i…. God I need to tell you that…" he takes a deep breath steadying himself he knew just as well as she did what was coming, the uncertainty of the future and how it was now or it could be never. She stared at him, her eyes wide, lips swollen from his lips. He placed his hand on the side of her face. Her heart raced as she stared at him. She cleared her throat not taking her eyes off of his blue eyes.

"Y-yes?" He looked down at her and rubbed his thumb on her cheek.

"We have known each other all our lives and I know what's coming…." she winces "that day is coming…. And i…. Just can't…. I have to let you know before it's too late…." he rambles. She giggles

"Spit it out gearhead." He huffs at her, and lowers his face to her laying his forehead on hers, their noses takes a deep breath and closes his eyes.

"I love you, Edith. I love you with all my heart." She gasps and unable to help herself she closes the small distance between their lips kissing him again. His hands grip her hips hard and he picks her up causing her to wrap her legs around his waist; he turns around and walks toward the bed and he tumbles onto it holding her tight he falls on top of her. He shifted so as to not put all his weight on top of her small 5'4 frame. They separate again, breathing heavily. " I take that as a good sign?" he breathes out. She laughs breathlessly.

"Stupid Gearhead of course it is. I love you too." She pulls him back to her, kissing him hard. She ran her hands down his bare chest. He shivered and pulled away from her again.

"Ed…." she shook her head and put her finger on his lips.

"Please Wynn, I have no idea what the future holds or if I'll be able to ever see you again after today. I'm scared. All I know is you are here right now in my arms, I can feel your heart pounding and the heat from your body. Let's not think about tomorrow, let's just focus on now and each other." He nods and dips his head and kisses her again.

~~4 weeks later~~

Edith huffs as they near Kanama. She was not looking forward to this. Tomorrow was the promise day, but today…. Today she would be seeing her dad again. It made her stomach roll just thinking about it.

"Fuck this Aniexty." she mumbles holding her stomach.

"Whoa there Ed, such dirty language for such a small girl." Greed stated, laughing his ass off. Ed glares at him.

"SHUT UP GREELING! DON'T CALL ME SMALL!" She screams at him and she turns to hit him but stops and winces. "Yea nope not doing that."

"You ok Ed?" Darius asks. Ed nods and waves him off Unconcerned.

"Yea I'm fine i just feel a tad sick, i feel a bit anxious about tomorrow and seeing Hohenheim again. I worry if I move too quickly I'll puke." Heinkel looks at her.

"This happen alot ed?" she nods

"I may not act like it but I have a lot of Anxiety and it leads to a lot of nausea. I tend to ignore it most of the time but sometimes I can't." She shrugs and takes a deep breath to settle her stomach. Slowly the nausea goes away. "Already feeling better." Darius and Heinkel shrug and keep walking. They reach the town and Ed walks up to some people working.

"Excuse me." the people stop and look at her " is this Kanama?" she asks.

"Yea" they reply she nods and takes a deep breath and asks

"Do you know where I can find Van Hohenheim?" They nod and gesture to the group to follow get led to the middle of the town where Van Hohenheimn can be seen cooking food.

The moment Edith saw her fathers back the anger which is always close to the surface bubbles over. Her hand balls into a fist.

"Mr. Ho? You got some company" one of the guys said. Hohenheim turns and sees his daughter; he puts down his food and slowly stands and starts to turn towards the group.

"Edith i didn't think…" he didn't get to finish before Edith shots forward and decks him as hard as she could with her automail left arm causing him to go flying several feet back. All those fights and sparring matches came in handy. She turned away gripping her automail

"Ah that felt good." she grinned

"You could have at least warned me you were about to slug me and with your metal hand too!" he huffs like a child. Ed puts her hands on her hips not looking at him. "I see you made a new group of friends."

"We're not" Darius starts to say

"It's more like we are all in the same sinking ship." Heinkel finishes for him looking at Hohenheim. Greed points to himself

"That's right and I guess you could say I'm the captain of that ship." Ed rolls her eyes and closes them, ignoring everyone not wanting to deal with this much longer. Hohenheim walks towards Greed. He stops close to greed and Ed.

"So you're the one in charge?" he bends over to be more level with greed. "Then I have to thank you for looking after my daughter." Ed opens her eyes and looks over at Hohenheim, her eyebrow raised. Greed's grin grows.

"Sure, but you know she can be a real pain in the ass."

"HEY!" Ed shouts anger. Hohenheim ignores his daughter's outburst.

"That's an interesting tattoo." Greed's grin fades and he looks sheepish. He stands up straight.

"Yea you noticed" he holds up his hand with a small grin on his face "guess there's no point in hiding it." he puts his hand down "but let's make this honest thing mutual pops." Hohenheim looks over at Ed with a serious look on his face.

"Look, we need to talk, Promise day is tomorrow." Ed said looking him dead in the eyes. There is a beat of silence then Hohenheim says

"Fair enough." and looks away from his daughter's eyes "i'll tell you everything."

~~~~~timeskip~~~~~

Hours later after the sun has set they all sit around the fire Hohenheim was cooking at. The silence is deafening after Hohenheim finished his story. Everyone looks shocked while Hohenheim stares into the fire. Meanwhile Ed is breathing heavily clenching her fist tight while shaking her automail quietly clanking. She puts her good hand in her bangs and grips them shaking her head.

"I was worried this might be more difficult for you to accept than it was for Alphonse." As Hohenheim speaks Ed lets go of her hair and her head shoots up. Wide eyed she stares at him.

"Wait you told Al about this?!"

" I did," he answered Simply "I'm sure he has his own thoughts on the matter but he accepted it nonetheless." Edith stares at him in shock. Hohenheim looks up and points to himself. "If you want to use me to get your bodies back you can." Ed stands up upset. Leaning toward Hohenheim she shouts

"Are you crazy?! Maybe you are a living philosopher's stone but I'm not going to sacrifice innocent souls! It's our fault we lost our bodies!" Hohenheim Smiles at her and closes his eyes

"I'm proud my daughter feels that way." Ed lightly gasps, leans back and looks away from her father. Without missing a beat Hohenheim continues "there will be a solar eclipse tomorrow, he plans on harnessing it for his scheme."

"An eclipse?So that's his plan?" Ed asks. Hohenheim looks up at Ed.

"Listen Edith, he has to be stopped at all costs. I need you to help me." Greed snickers at the use of Ed's full name, Ed glares at Greed then turns back to her father

"Help you?!" she takes a step towards him "now look here! I'm gonna stop that bearded bastard but I'm not doing it because you want me to help you! Our best chance at beating this guy is to team up and that's the only reason I'm even talking to you right now!" Ed storms off filled with rage and feelings of abandonment. That bastard has no right to ask anything of me after just leaving us to deal with mom's death on our own! She thought pissed off to no end. She didn't notice her little group stood up and walked off with her leaving Hohenheim behind sitting by the fire by himself, with a small grin on his face.

"That's fine with me" he mumbled under his breath "it doesn't matter what your reasons are, as long as you'll still fight alongside me." Ed stopped having heard him. She chooses not to comment on that instead she says.

"Granny asked me. To give you mom's final words." Hohenheim gasps and looks up, Ed slowly turns toward him but doesn't look at him. She tenses, takes a deep breath and says "sorry i couldn't keep my promise, but i'm dying first." she hears Hohenheim take a sharp deep breath in. Ed turns closer to see him out of the corner of her eye. "So there I told you!" she then gasps upon seeing him and fully turns to see him crying. She had never seen her father cry besides in that one family photo they have of all of them. Ed has no idea what to think of it. All this time she figured he couldn't have loved her mom because he didn't even come back when she died, but these tears say had turned away from his daughter looking at the sky with tears pouring down his Ed, well she didn't know how she was supposed to feel about this.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~20 minutes later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ed is scarfing down food as fast as she can trying to ignore the raging feelings in her heart over what had just happened. That man has no right to cry over her mother! He's the one who left them! Who abandoned them! He didn't care about her or Al or even their mom he couldn't not after everything. She knew from when they ran into each other at her mom's grave that Hohenheim was fully aware of everything his children had done, fully aware of the pain and suffering they went through after she had died and he never once tried to reach out or help his kids. He didn't show that he cared then so why start now cuz they were about to go into a huge battle where they could die? No Ed refused to accept it. He has no right to any of them at this point. She was only 2 when he had left and mom had died when she was only 7 years old. He had years to come back and care for his family. He never did. Yes in the back of her mind she knows he thought himself as a monster and didn't want that to rub off on them but it's besides the point! The point of being a parent is putting your kids first! She knows when she finally can settle down and have kids they will come first always, they will always know that they are loved and never doubt it ever.

"That's not very ladylike," Darius states, breaking Ed out of her thoughts while looking down at where she is sitting. Ed flips him off but continues eating fast.

"You know Ed don't you think you should be a little nicer to your old man?" Heinkel saks her

"Yea really, you could at least refer to him as dad." Darius says

"It sounds like you have had a rocky past with him but he doesn't strike me as the type who'd abandon his wife you know?" Heinkel states.

"WELL YOU'RE WRONG!" Ed explodes at heinkel. Everyone around them froze at the loud outburst. Ed crutches the spoon tightly in her good hand to the point of pain shooting through her hand. She lowers her voice to a deadly quiet tone. "You shouldn't talk about things you know nothing about! Not only did he abandon his wife and kids when I was only 2, he didn't even bother to come back to her funeral!" Ed looked up at them, her eyes held a look of something Darius and Heinkel had no idea what it was. She continued "Then even after hearing what happened to his children after She died, that led to Al being in the suit of armor and me missing my left arm and right leg he still didn't even bother! He didn't even write! He had 4 years between mom dying and us making the worst mistake of our lives and he didn't even bother to show his face. As far as I'm concerned I have no father." Ed finishes her food and stands up, pain and abandonment etched in her eyes "Al doesnt get it he was too young to understand he didn't see it like i did, day after day watching mom try to smile and be happy around us seeing the pain in her eyes every time Al asked where he was. Then watching her fade away from that illness, all the time still worrying about me and Al and that bastard hoping he will come home and it never happening! I refuse to forgive that asswhole no matter what his reasons were"

Greed walks over and leans against the counter.

"Such a whirlwind of emotions over here. I can see why, and i don't blame you." he pauses.'' The guys is a walking talking philosopher's stone and to make it worse he also happens to be your father. I wonder how human that makes you and Al." Ed stiffens

"I'm human." she states, Darius and Heinkel look at each other.

"Yea kid you are but how human? Hell you used yourself as a philosopher's stone to heal a wound that by all means should have killed you!" Darius points out "you said it probably took years off of your life but are you even sure it did?" Eds hand her to where the scar from the pole sits.

"Well we will never know and I refuse to even think about it because I am human." she stated with such a hardened resolve, that the men said no more on the subject.

"And here you go." a lady hands Ed a section of blood red fabric.

"Thank you ma'am." Ed takes the fabric and heads toward a barrel with it.

"And what is that for?" Greed asks with confusion as Ed grins. She places it on the barrel, claps her hands and transmutes it into her signature red jacket.

"This could very well be our last ever battle and I'm not going into it without some type of… familiarity. This jacket, well this same looking jacket has been with me since i started this journey, it seems almost fitting i end it with the same jacket." She shakes the jacket out smiling. She folds the jacket over her arm and reaches back and pulls her hair out of the pony tail it's in. She proceeds to run her fingers through her hair untangling the knots and braids it then puts the holder back in.

She heads toward the edge of town with her hands behind her head, the rest of her crew following close behind her.

"Listen guys, you don't have to tag along with me you know? I'm thinking you'd be better off going your own way before things start to get too serious."

"Hey hold on!" Greed says looking over at Ed "that isnt your call to make pal, i'm the one in charge."

"I'm if it's just about trying to get your old bodies back." Ed said ignoring Greed looking over at Darius

"That's not it, these bodies do have their perks too to be honest I don't mind staying like this."Darius states. Greed bursts out laughing.

"Yeah! Now that's the spirit!" he laughs. Ed turns around and looks at Heinkel.

"So why stick with me then?" Ed asks.

"Well why wouldn't we? It's not like we have anything better to do." Heinkel says. Darius taps his forehead.

"My animal instincts tell me something good's coming, so i'll ride this thing out with you."

"Oh" Ed stated. Animal instincts huh? Hope this won't be a thing they keep repeating she shakes her head and looks over a Greed "so what's your story greed? You hoping to settle the score from the over homunculi for what they did to your friends?"

"Are you asking me why I've decided to return to central?" Greed turns towards the group while still walking "i'm not telling you kid."

Everyone keeps walking when suddenly Heinkel stops. Ed looks around him

"Hey what's the hold up?" she says then gasps at what she hears. Clanking…. She gasps and looks forward.

"AL!"

And that's chapter one. What do you guys all think? I sat down and wrote in like 2 days and I'm already going to work on the next chapter! Hope you guys love it!

~~~Alix~~~~~ (oh yea i changed my name from Kayla to alix what you guys think? I think it fits me better personally)