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Epilogue

In Resembool

"Where's Ed?" Pinako asks Winry when she returns home.

"Gone," Winry replies. "He couldn't stay." Then she burst into tears, hugging Den.

Major Armstrong and the others exchange glances. Why did Ed return to the world beyond the gates? They needed him here to help rebuild the country. Even if he wasn't a state alchemist anymore, he shouldn't have dumped them all without a proper farewell.

Then Lieutenant Hawkeye arrives. "Where's the Colonel?" she asks.

Winry stops crying to answer. "He and Al went to tear down the gate, so no one would ever be able to pass through them again."

"B-but what about Ed?" stutters Hawkeye. "How will he get back?"

"He's not coming back, the idiot!" Winry bawls. "The baka's out trying to be a hero again by going back beyond the gates and demolishing it on the other side. He's never coming back. I hate him, I hate him, I hate him!"

All the while she is ranting, Roy, Ed and Al who appear at the door, stop at her outburst. Everybody turns towards them and gasp when they see Ed. Winry finally looks up when she notices the silence and her eyes make contact with Ed's.

Magically, time seems to stop as Winry registers that what was going on in front of her isn't a dream. Hastily, she wipes her tears away and stands up.

"Well, it's nice to see you back, Ed," she starts calmly, before her features darken. "Why the hell did you try and leave and make me all worried that you were never going to come back?" She conjures a wrench out of nowhere and smacks him with it square on the head.

As Ed falls backwards, everyone watches as she runs and hugs him, knocking them both back. "Don't ever do that to me again, okay?"

Everyone sweatdrops, as Ed nods numbly, blushing. When they detect everyone's prying eyes upon them, Ed and Winry jump back from each other, blushing furiously.

Lieutenant Hawkeye steps in to divert everyone's attention from the blushing pair. She approaches Roy and salutes him. "Glad to have you back, Colonel."

"Glad to be back, Lieutenant," Roy answers promptly. Suddenly Major Armstrong shoves in front of Hawkeye and crushes Roy in a bone-breaking hug in all of his sparkling glory.

"We must celebrate your return to the military immediately!" he chortles.

"Hear, hear," the others yell. They all jump on top of the Colonel. However, they immediately jump back and run behind Lieutenant Hawkeye when he raises his gloved hand, threateningly.

"That's better," Roy says after lowering his hand and flexing his sore muscles.

After safely seeking shelter behind Hawkeye, they seized their only opportunity to play cupid and proclaimed that Hawkeye would be the event co-ordinator of the celebration. Roy, knowing he didn't stand a ghost of a chance rejecting Hawkeye, eventually gave in.

Though not before Hawkeye took charge by shooting Havoc's cigarette straight off his mouth and into the wall, stating, "Never, ever tell me what to do and not to do."

Everyone nodded, afraid of what she would do if they did not agree. Roy was even scared for his life as he vowed to himself, I will never ever get on your bad side, Riza.

"Ahem," Everyone turns around to stare at Ed as he clears his throat, "Now that everyone is happy and all pleasantries have been exchanged, may we–"

"Now don't be a bad boy, Edward, just because I am getting all the attention. Little kids like you should not be butting into adult's business." Roy tells him.

"Who would want to butt into your business? Your business stinks, and who do you think you are calling little? Edward shouts, ready to pound the Colonel.

While Al holds Ed down, the Colonel shrugs and resumes his conversation with his subordinates, or more precisely listening to First Lieutenant Hawkeye take charge, ordering their comrades to make preparations.

When Ed calms down, he and Al start to talk about their separate adventures without each other, the different obstacles they passed and their hopes of meeting again that were finally realised. As the sun starts to set over Resembool, Ed and Al feel they are at home again, at last.