WARNING! This has got to be the corniest chapter I've written yet... in this story anyway... :shifty eyes:

It just a small peck, but it was on the lips and Edward blushed at the contact.

"You have to believe in me." Hazel repeated, her expression dead serious. Edward nodded, to stunned to say anything. But the reason he nodded wasn't because of the fact that he had just gotten kissed, it was because something within that kiss convinced him that maybe there was such a thing as psychic powers, that maybe physical possibilities weren't the only things that existed.

"Al? You're in this too." Hazel told him, gesturing that he should come closer.

"Um, okay." Al said, slightly taken aback about what the girl had just done to his brother.

"You want to see your mother. Well, I can't bring her back, but I can at least let you talk to her." Hazel grabbed the brothers' hands and closed her eyes. They stood there like that for awhile until they heard the girl gasp. Ed nearly let go of her hand, but she grabbed onto his tighter so that he couldn't.

Although the brothers didn't know it, Hazel was having another vision. She was seeing everything. Trisha Elric's death, her funeral, the brothers trying to bring her back through alchemy, Al's body disappearing, even Ed getting his automail for the first time. And then... darkness.

"Edward, Alphonse." Hazel's head shot up and she looked at the two. The Elric brothers stared at her in shock. She looked like their mother. She had already slightly resembled Trisha, but now... It was Hazel's body, nothing had physically changed in the teenager's appearance, but the boys knew that they were looking at their mother. Her voice even sounded the same.

"Mom?" Ed asked in a barely audible voice. The girl nodded her head, smiling.

"It's me boys."

"Mom!" Al exclaimed, his hand started to slip from her grasp.

"Al! No!" She commanded, causing Al to stop moving immediately. "If you let go of her hand, the connection is gone."

"Oh, mom, it's really you! We have so much to tell you!" Ed said, nearly in tears. He reached around and hugged her, careful not to let go of her hand.

"I know what's happened, my little state Alchemist. I've been watching you two. You're my boys, and I wanted to see you grow up." Her voice was soft and chocked, like Trisha wanted to cry but couldn't make Hazel's body do so.

"Mom, I'm glad you're so proud of Ed." Al spoke up, trying to get his mother to get the hint.

"I've been watching you too Alphonse." She laughed. "You've become quite an accomplished alchemist yourself. I'm so proud of my boys. But..." Her voice suddenly sounded sad.

"What is it mom?" the brothers asked in unison.

"What you two did... to try to bring me back... It wasn't worth it. You two should've never tried it. It's bad enough that you lost and arm and a leg Ed, but Al... My baby... you don't even have a body anymore. When you were born, I imagined what you'd look like as a teenager, but now that you are one..." Her voice trailed off as Hazel's eyes began to water. "Now look, you made Hazel cry." She scolded, obvious sobs in her voice.

"We're going to bring my body back mom, Ed promised me that a long time ago and he's going to keep it, I know he will." Al told her in a determined voice.

"Yeah mom, don't worry. Al's going to have his body back soon enough." Ed reassured her.

"Thank you." she said. "You keep to your promises Edward."

"I will." Ed told her smiling.

"Oh, and remember to drink your milk Ed. You haven't grown too much since I last saw you." She added.

"FROM MY OWN MOTHER NOW?" Ed shouted, but not letting go of her hand.

"Your temper hasn't changed either." She laughed.

"It gets embarrassing sometimes." Al admitted, smiling inside.

"Well boys, it was nice talking to you." She said suddenly.

"What?" Al asked in a confusing tone.

"What are to talking about?" Ed said at the same time.

"I wish I could stay here with you two forever, but I can't. I can't possess people for very long. Just remember I love you both." She told them, smiling pleasantly before falling forward. Ed and Al caught Hazel's body with their free hands.

"Mom? Mom?" Ed called in a frantic tone, shaking Hazel's body. "Mom are you there?" Hazel's eyes opened slowly.

"Mom?" Al asked quietly.

"Did you have a nice chat with your mother?" It was Hazel's voice. The brother's let her go and she stood up.

"Damn." Ed muttered. Hazel heard him and moved her hand to his shoulder.

"I know. You want to keep talking but you can't. It doesn't work that way. A spirit can only possess a human body for a certain length of time. I wish it worked differently too. I know that I hate having to say goodbye to my mother when I talk to her." She said, trying to comfort him.

"Yeah, but this is the first time I've talked to her in years. I miss her." Ed said, his eyes starting to tear up. Hazel gave him a sad smile.

"It's okay Ed." She told him softly, hugging him. "You alright Al?" she asked the younger brother, looking over her shoulder. What she saw surprised her a little. She could've sworn that he was grinning.

"Wow." He gasped in awe. "That really was our mother."

"Well yeah. I told you I could let you talk to her." She laughed, letting go of Ed.

"That was so cool. You really are psychic! Even Ed has to believe it now. Don't you Ed?" Al said everything in one breath, except for the last sentence.

"Well..." Ed wiped his eyes on his left sleeve and thought about it for a moment. He was positive that he had spoken to his mother, there was no way Hazel could have imitated her voice that perfectly. And there was no way she could've known how the two lost everything. "I guess you were right. I'm sorry for not believing in you."

"Damn straight shorty." Hazel mumbled smugly.

"WHAT WAS THAT? I HEARD SHORT!" Ed screamed, all sadness gone. Al chuckled at his brother.

MEANWHILE!

"Where is that bitch?" screamed Michael. He had come into Hazel's room to spit more word venom at her when he found that her bed was empty. He had practically beaten every maid in the house when they told her that they had no clue where she was. Now he was in her room again, tearing up everything that he could find.

"When I find her..." He didn't finish his sentence but rather continued searching every nook and cranny in the room.

One maid stood by the doorway just outside the room, hidden by the shadows.She was young, only appeared to be about 17. She had a rather painful black eye forming from Michael's rage. Silently, she slipped away.

MEANWHILE! (again!)

Hazel and Ed were lying on the ground, looking up at the stars as Al sat next to them.

"You can't see much." Ed pointed out.

"Well duh, we're in a forest you idiot." Hazel reminded him.

"Well, it's not exactly a forest." Al spoke up.

"Eh, it's close enough." Hazel said. A smile suddenly came to her face. "You know, every night, I usually sneak out of my room to climb up on the roof and stargaze. My room's on the top floor and there's a tiny balcony with a ledge that you can just grab and heave yourself onto. From there it's only a small step to the roof top. I've gotten quite a few scars that way." She laughed at the last sentence. "But you know, it's the only thing my stepfather will let me do. Maybe because my mom used to do it."

"Do you and your mother have a lot in common?" Al asked. "You sure make it sound that way."

"I think so. When I read her diary for the first time, I saw a picture of her in there. We looked a lot alike. Mr. Miller always said I was her spitting image. And we do share a lot of the same interests..." Hazel was cut off by a rather loud snore from Ed. He was lying on his back with one arm across his stomach and the other one off to the side. His metal leg was kicking the air while the foot on the other twitched a few times. Hazel and Al glanced at each other before bursting into giggles.

"MISS HAZEL!" a figure came running towards the three. Ed was suddenly awoken by the cry and he sat up, eyes still half closed.

"May?" Hazel asked as the figure came closer. It was the maid.

"Miss Hazel, your father is looking for you. He's tearing up the house and-"

"May, what happened to your eye?" Hazel asked her, touching it lightly.

"It was your father, but that's not important." She said quickly.

"My father did this?" Hazel sounded disgusted.

"Yes, but that doesn't matter, miss Hazel. What matters now is that your father is tearing up the mansion. If you don't get home soon, who knows what he'll do." May was talking a mile a minute.

"I'm not going back May. Not this time." Hazel told the maid defiantly.

"But miss Hazel," she pleaded.

"NO!" Hazel shouted.

May stomped on Hazel's foot. Not too hard, in fact it didn't really seem like a stomp at all. But Hazel was howling in pain.

"Damn! That hurt!" Hazel was jumping up and down on one foot, holding the other in her hands. The brothers puzzled at it for a moment before noticing a metallic gleam coming from the girl's shoe.

Everyone has automail around here. Ed thought.

"Now come on miss Hazel." May grabbed the girl by her wrist and dragged her off. Hazel glanced over her shoulder to look at the brothers one last time before being dragged off into the night by the maid.

After a few minutes, Ed got to his feet and started walking in the direction where the girls had gone.

"Again Ed?" Al sighed.

"I don't want to let her get hurt." Ed told his brother and continued walking. Al smiled inwardly at this and followed his older brother.

See? Told ya it was corny.

GAH! I'm so sorry that this took so long (my computer's been rather screwy lately).

Note to all: There's only going to be one or two (maybe three) more chapters after this one in this story. But I may make a sequel (I gotta bunch of ideas). If you want me to make a sequel, please let me know in your reviews (at least three needed). THANK YOU!