Staring off into the distance. It was their first trip to Central. Kyoko was silently reading a basic book on Metallic and Pyro-Alchemic relations. Once in a while the young girl would tug on her mother's sleeve and ask a question about the confusing scientific book. Kyo sat on the left of their mother near the window.

He was bored stiff and sighed constantly, which was getting on his sister's nerves. Kyoko twitched visibly as Kyo sighed once more. "Will you stop it?" Kyoko huffed and growled at her brother. "Stop what?" Kyo replied innocently. "Sighing like a dork!" Kyoko blinked as her mother started giggling. "Mommy? Are you okay?" The two little kids asked with concern in their voices. "Yes, Mommy's fine." Edward smiled at her children.

"Mommy's fine..."

Distant

Edward looked at her 15-year-old son, who glared at her like she did when she was younger at Roy. Edward sighed and scratched the back of her head. Goddamn. This isn't going to work out for me. Hell if anything ever did. "Mom. You promised." Kyo said in a stern and demanding voice that one was not suppose to use towards their mother. "Alright. Where would you like me to start?" Edward asked flustered and rubbed her temples. "The beginning, of course." Edward let out a stiff laugh.

"The beginning...There are many beginnings...Well I guess this would be a good start. When I was 15 or maybe 16, there was an accident in a lab I was investigating. And -" Kyo closed his eyes and reopened them. "Mom. I really don't see what is the point in this story." Edward arched a brow and smirked. "I was a guy then. When I woke up from the accident, I was like this. A female." Kyo's eyes widen and his mouth gaped open like a fish. "You're telling me that the guy in those pictures is you?" Edward nodded, not really liking the reaction she was getting from her son.

"I knew your father then too. He was my boss. I thought he was a bastard of a Colonel at that time." Edward was thinking about what she wanted to tell her son, who was clueless to most of the facts. "Well things changed. And I never changed back. I really didn't think your father as a bastard all of the time. My feelings were confused at the time, really. I've made tons of mistakes at that point in my life, I attempted Human Transmutation, and I nearly killed my brother because of it. I became a State Alchemist and I became famous. I created a homunculus, not even realizing it." Kyo frowned, he felt lost, very lost.

Parents are supposed to be perfect, they weren't supposed to tell their children their mistakes. Here, he asked his mother her mistakes and she was telling. No. He didn't asked. He demanded. "Mom..." Ed shook her head and continued. "Everything seemed to fix it self after I had you and your sister. You were the best thing that happened to me. Hell, when I was 15 I wasn't thinking that I'd be a father anytime soon, let alone a mother."

Kyo smiled sadly and looked at his mother from his seat. Looking at her in the dying sun revealed to him just how old she looked. God, if she looks old, damn poor pops. The thought was quickly entered with the many other concern thoughts in his brain. "So, why did those people take Kyoko?" Kyo noticed how his mother's eyes narrowed in thought and then she seemed to frown with undying concern for her only daughter. "Kyoko. She did something she shouldn't have. Hell. She's sort of following in the same footsteps as me. But what she did was worst. She did it for experimentation..." "Human Transmutation?" Ed nodded and could feel her son's anger. "Why didn't you tell me?"

Ed let her head hit the back of the rough train seat. "We promised her. She didn't want you to think of her as a freak. Her punishment from the truth was a set of bat wings. Whenever someone she cares about is hurt they come out and open. Those wings enhance her alchemic abilities. " Kyo's brows frown in thought. "But I'm better then her in alchemy." Ed nodded. "Yes, that's because when the wings are closed it lowers her abilities greatly." Kyo felt like an idiot, no not just an idiot, a fucking stupid idiot. How could I've missed all of this? How?

"Brother do you hate me?"

Kyo looked at his sister like she was an alien. "Why would I hate you?" Kyo was no older then 12 and was quite small for his age. "Ummm. I don't know." Kyoko mumbled looking at her stocking feet. "Your so weird." Kyo mumbled and rolled his eyes, but noticed that his sister was crying. "Ahh I didn't mean it!" He said awkwardly, waving his arms around but ended up falling flat on his face and made his sister laugh. "I love you, Kyo! Your the best brother!"

Kyo smiled a toothy grin at his twin sister.

Kyoko found herself hanging upside down in some room. She was blindfolded and couldn't see a thing, which she was glad for cause of the smell. It was a foul, ugly stench. Her empty stomach could barely stand the stench. What did I do to deserve this? She screamed in her head. She heard harsh breathing that was near her but yet seemed so far away. Under her maybe? She shuttered at the thought of some kind of monster, drooling, awaiting for her to fall into his giant vicious jaws. "Shivering? Kyo-Chan?"

She hated that voice. Envy. "Damn you. What do you want?" She could feel him smirk as she hanged a good 10 ft off the ground, blindfolded, tied up...helpless. "Hmm what do I want... well...I want to kill your "mother", your brother, your uncle, and then you! How about that? I'll save your ass for later!" Envy mocked as he pushed the tied up blonde causing her to swing back and forth.

"You FUCKING BASTARD!" Kyoko screamed as she was pushed back and forth. She then heard the sound from earlier. "This fella will make sure you don't go running off again, If you get untied. " Kyoko sighed as she heard the Homunculus leave. That bastard... I won't let him kill us off like dolls.

"Al...There was something I meant to ask you...but I never got the chance."

"Do you hate me for doing this to you?"

"Roy, things are different now. Calmer. But that doesn't mean we can let our guard down!"

"I love you, Roy."

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry... please forgive me."

"Forgive me."

"Please..."

"I know I don't deserve it."

Edward cursed under her breath, yet again shocking her son that day. "Looks like your father knows me to well." Kyo smirked and saw the familiar form of the state alchemist Alex Armstrong, the Strong-Arm Alchemist. I guess this means Roy wants to help out. Edward sighed and then smirked, as she saw absolutely no clear openings to the muscular man. "This way..." she muttered to her son, before grabbing on to his wrist and dragging him through the crowd away from Alex Armstrong. Well I won't let him get messed up into this... I shouldn't have let Kyo get messed up into this. Edward stopped running as soon as she reached the main street and was certain that the Strong-Armed Alchemist wouldn't be able to find them. I'm sorry, Roy. Just be safe.

Kyoko...

"I'm sorry Daddy! I didn't mean the transmutation to go that way!"

Kyoko...

"Daddy, Why is Kyoko-Chan acting so weird?"

Kyo...

"I'm sorry Roy... It feels like I'm cursed..."

Ed...

"Hey Colonel Bastard!"

Ed...

"I love you Roy..."

Ed...

"Help me, Roy..."

Edward!

"Nii-san is always like that Roy. He's always running off on his own. Trying to fix mistakes, that other people could help him with..."

Ed...No... I'm sorry...let me help

"Roy. I'll find Kyoko. Don't worry, after all it's my fault."

No Edo...It's not your fault. It's no one's fault.

"Daddy, Why does Mommy seem so distant?"

Ed don't leave me.

"Some days I feel like I'm someone else, and this isn't my life."

Ed no...

"It feels like I've disappeared, and here's this new person who's so kind and loving. So unlike me."

Ed... You are kind and loving! Don't say that!

"Like I've disappeared off into the distance. Off into the space of darkness..."

"No Ed!" Roy loudly stuttered as he woke up from sleeping in the back of a long black limo type car. "Furher Mustang, are you okay?" The driver asked Roy as he stopped the car and looked back from the loud shout. "Yes, please hurry to Central." Roy said in a Superior voice and the driver nodded and continued their journey in the car. Roy felt a little jolt as the car moved and he looked out of the window, noticing how close he was to Central. I love the country. Roy sighed. He felt a bit over stressed, with his only daughter getting kidnapped, his wife running off with their son, and then rumors of homunculus. Damn. Maybe Ed's right. We are cursed.

Roy didn't like the silence with only the sounds of the car and the passing cars. I feel so useless when you do this, Ed. The silence caused Roy to relive and think about the current events. Some days it was good and okay, but on stressful and long days it was the worst. He'd remember Ishabal. He remembered the site of the 10-11 year old Edward that lying on the white bed, covered in bandages, breathing rapidly, as if he couldn't catch his breath. He remembered the day Ed got his State Alchemist Watch. He remembered Ed fainting at the site of a woman, who, he guessed, reminded him of his mother, cut up...no butchered and bleeding on the cold cement.

He remembered too much. He remembered his sad past. Things he didn't want to remember. The reason why he was Furher today and how he was going to change the country piece by dying piece. He remembered his family and the troubles that being a Furher brought. This kidnapping was one of them. What is the last thing I remember ever saying to Kyoko? She asked me... When I was coming home...I lied and said soon. It was always soon... I'm such a worthless father... Roy sighed and banged his head against the car seat. I wonder if sorry still cuts it?

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