Here's chapter two! Hope you like it as much as you did chapter one!

WARNING: Minor spoilers!

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It was weird having another person at the house all the time. After Pinako died, Winry thought she would be living alone, at least for a long time. But she had to keep telling herself this wasn't permanent. As …attractive… as he was, he was only here for Automail repairs. She had to repeated that to herself almost every time she saw him.

He was nice enough, though. He helped with cooking and cleaning and such, and when she told him she would have to redo his whole leg because she didn't recognize the structure, and for her to make a foreign automail leg two inches taller there was almost a certain chance that it wouldn't work correctly. He had even insisted on paying her more for it, but she refused.

In the less than 24 hours he had been there, Winry learned that he was a State Alchemist, and i thee /i FullMetal Alchemist, child (Well, practically adult now) prodigy no less. She also learned he had a brother. i Had /i a brother. When he said that, he sounded rather sad, she didn't push the subject (well, much anyway.) She learned that his mother was dead and his father was as good as dead, and he left it at that.

She didn't know why, but she could just… tell that his past was not something she had dealt with before, and she could almost say she pitied him, but she could also tell he wasn't the type of person to accept pity. She knew when he looked at her that he could sense it, and didn't like it. She held her ground, er, mostly.

"Hey Winry! Who's this?" Edward's voice called from downstairs. She finished washing her hands (Her hands and cloths had been covered with oil, so she went to change) and came downstairs. Edward was looking quizzically at a small light brown, almost blond puppy on her kitchen floor. Winry smiled sadly.

"Oh, that's Nina. We got her when my old dog, Den, died. She's only about a year old, and I guess her growth is stunted, or something. We named her Nina after an incident happened with a friend of mine." After she had finished, she looked to Edward, who she had been trying to avoid gazing at. He looked at her strange.

"What... er, what friend of yours would that be, if I may ask?"

Winry was confused, but she decided to answer anyway. "Er, I don't remember his last name, but his first name was Alphonse, and he told me this story of this little girl and his older brother- Something the matter, Edward?" Edward had drained of color, and was looking at Winry in a way that made her terrified of him. "E-Ed? Whats wrong?"

(A/N- I would've ended it here, but that would be to short, wouldn't it? X3)

"You knew... Al?" Winry nodded, backing up slightly, still confused. What was going on? Why was Edward acting this way? Sure, she hadn't known him long, but still he didn't seem like this time of person to her, that would just freak out without explaining even the littlest thing.

Seeing the look on her face, Edward sighed, and flopped into a chair, head in his hands. He had to think. He wasn't sure what this ment- according to Mustang, before Al died, he didn't remember anything of the three years they spent together! So what did this mean...? When would he of had time to go visit ANYBODY? Especially some automail engineer that they'd never met. "When... when did you meet Al?" Edward started slowly, Winry still looked scared.

"A long time ago... about a year, maybe. He said he had lost his memory and was looking for his brother, something about another world, I didn't follow, but he said he remembered one thing, a little girl named Nina, a chimera, and his older brother... why-?" She halted, and set a piercing gaze onto Edward. "Are you him? Are you his older brother...? I thought he said you had died...! He said you had gone to another world or something! I thought he was crazy, but if you are..." She lapsed herself into silence, and just stood there quietly watching Edward. He had his long blonde bangs covering most of his face, so Winry couldn't make out what his expression was.

"Is it alright if I go to bed? I need to think..." Winry flinched, Edward sounded so sad... She looked down. If he didn't want to tell her, why would she care? She hadn't known him long, anyway. But this whole brother thing was just... eating at her. If he didn't answer... does that mean he really was Alphonse's brother? And what if he WAS? Is there something more to this "magic" called Alchemy? With extreme difficulty, Winry held her tongue.

She was rapped out of her thoughts by a firm hand on her shoulder. She looked around to see Edward next to her, facing straight ahead, "Don't worry about it, okay?" He said firmly, before walking away towards the upstairs. Winry had had it, her pity turned into anger.

"What do you mean 'don't worry about it'? You asked! Im sorry if the topic made you sad or something, but I don't know, I still think I have a right to know whats going on..." She huffed, and her hand lingered on her belt, right next to her wrench. She did it almost like she didn't even realize what she was doing. The longer she waited, the close her subconscious hand went further and further towards the wrench, until she had a firm grasp on it...

"OW! WHAT THE HELL?" Edward was on the floor, and that only seemed to register to her. Ed was holding his head angrily, and glaring at Winry. "What the HELL was that for?" And without really meaning to say, Winry blurted out.

"For being an arrogant, and rather short, Alchemy freak without any decency to tell a girl something she wants to know!" Winry yelled loudly, and then smirked at the dumbfounded look on his face.

"At least I'm not some violent automail-freak tomboy! And I'M NOT SHORT!" He yelled back angrily, and Winry's smirk quickly turned to one of astonishment. Here they were, almost twenty years old, and bickering like elementary school children! Edward seemed to realize this, too, and both blushing they muttered rather rude apologies.

Dinner was silent, but it no longer had the 'mad' atmosphere, it was back to the awkward silences that happened more when Edward first showed up. Winry cleared her throat.

"Um, so Edward, I wanted to apologize for taking so long on your automail, its hard without Granny around..." Ed just nodded, and looked at her a little sadly, which made Winry even more confused.

"Its no real problem, Winry. I'm just glad I have a place to stay and nice company. Not to mention I'll finally have limbs that work."

Winry's heart skipped a beat. Nice company...? She tried to hide her blush, but she doubted that Edward saw it anyway. She nodded. "What will you do when I finish...?

He shrugged, and after a moment of silence he said rather quietly. "I don't really know what I'm going to do now that I'm back- er, I mean, from a journey that is" He hurriedly explained, noting the weird look on Winry's face. "I guess I'll head back to Cental, get my rank as FullMetal back, or look for a job, or something."

Winry's mind lingered on 'or something' a little longer then it should have, but she didn't say anything, and for the rest of dinner, they once again remained in just awkward silence.

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Well, another chapter done! I would really like it if maybe someone would like to be my Beta, but only if it's not trouble... (yay summer!)

I'm sorry if there a little OOC, it –is- AU, however. Im trying to get them to the point where I can make them act a little more like they do in the show. (note, the short talk and automail-freak, etc)

Hope you enjoyed, please R+R!