(A/N: Mkay…. I could be totally wrong on the whole Ed/Al stuff I'm putting in this one. I dunno if I said it already, but I've seen all the tv episodes…. But not the movie -tear-. I'm looking for it… but I dunno where it is. Damn. I kinda had fun with this one…. More fluff… but I'm adding a lil plot in there…. Even tho I don't even kno wut the plot's gonna be yet neway. -oops-.)

Jessie sat in her bedroom in silence. Riza was making dinner, Roy was teaching Black Hayate some new tricks, although the dog only listened to Riza. Jessie was sitting on her bed, looking at her room with curiosity. She knew this was her room, it looked so familiar, yet, like everything else, it wasn't right. This feeling the kept rising in her was driving her mad, so Jessie stood and left the room. The house Roy had bought for the three of them was pretty simple. There was a basement for storage and the ground level. On the first floor was the kitchen, living room, dining room, everything they needed. There was a small set of stairs that led up to a bathroom on the right, a small hallway ahead and another set of stairs jammed in between. If you kept walking, you'd go down the hall and find Roy and Riza's room, along with a small room for Black Hayate. The second set of stairs lead the way to a single door, Jessie's room.

As Jessie walked swiftly down the stairs, she could hear Roy grumbling about the dog, who seemed content with just watching Roy try to teach him. In the kitchen, Jessie could hear Riza humming as she cooked. It was a soft lullaby Riza used to hum to Jessie as a child, when she couldn't get to sleep. Jessie shook her head, how the hell did she know that? She couldn't even remember being a child in this house, or any other that included Riza and Roy. So how could she remember a lullaby?

Roy looked up at Jessie, who entered the living room. He was sitting on the floor, bent over at eyelevel with Black Hayate, trying to teach him the trick. He straightened and sighed, "For the life of me I can't get this dog to roll over."

Jessie laughed, "Didn't Riza teach him that when I was still here?"

Roy nodded dully, "But he won't do it."

Jessie sat next to Roy and looked down at Black Hayate, who tilted his head to the right, looking at Jessie. Jessie looked the dog in the eyes and commanded, "Roll over." Black Hayate lay down and rolled over to the left, then again to the right. He sat up and was once again looking at Jessie. She smiled and looked over at Roy, "He can roll over. See?"

First, Roy was astonished, then he became determined, "Roll over." He commanded, taking on a military tone. Black Hayate looked at Roy, tilting his head again, his ears perked, but didn't move other than that. "Roll over." He said again, but Black Hayate didn't do anything. "Roll over, Damnit." Roy said, losing his temper slightly. Black Hayate yawned, lay down, then rolled on his side and mocked going to sleep.

Riza laughed at Roy's attempts, standing behind them and leaning against the door frame of the kitchen. "Dinner's ready." She said once Roy had stood up and Jessie turned half way around to look at her. Roy helped Jessie up and the two followed Riza into the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Riza had put three plates with food on them on a small counter in the center of the room. Riza picked up her own plate and lead the way through the door to the left; the dining room. The dining room was simple: a table, six chairs, and shelves against the walls with trinkets and decoration. One wall was dedicated to the Military, with awards and medals Riza and Roy had earned on the field. Newly added was an award that stated Jessie was apart of the State Alchemists now. The three sat at one end of the table and Black Hayate came into the room to beg.

"Go in your corner," Riza commanded, pointing to a small corner of the room with a blanket dedicated to the dog. Black Hayate did as he was told and lay down in the corner. Riza nodded with satisfaction and the three dug into the meal.

The conversation at the table consisted mostly of Riza and Roy being proud of Jessie. They warned her about things she needed to know, told her about members of the military, Roy's personal guard (mostly just soldiers that reported directly to him): Alex Louis Armstrong, a soldier overly proud of his strength, Jean Havoc, a smoker who was confident and let down often, Kain Fuery, a young man who followed Roy's direction without thought, and Heymans Breda, the trickster with a horrible sense of humor.

Roy also assured Jessie that these four would always be available to help her if she ever needed it. Then the conversation switched to Edward Elric, the FullMetal Alchemist. He joined the State to learn about the Philosopher's Stone. He and his brother had paid a hefty price to bring their mother back from the dead, and failed at it. Al, his brother, lost his whole body. Ed had sealed his soul to a suit of armor. Ed lost one of his arms and one of his legs. (Roy made a joke about how some things really did cost an arm and a leg… but Riza didn't seem to think it was funny, so he moved on.) But now Alphonse had his body back and Ed had his arm and leg back. The story behind it all was either a mystery, or Roy refused to tell anybody about it. Either way, Ed was now the FullMetal Alchemist for no reason and nobody knew how he became not-metal.

After dinner, Jessie helped Riza with the dishes while Roy sat in his study doing… whatever he did in his study. Jessie went to her room and fell asleep soon afterwards.

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Dreams are a wonderful thing to have. Memories aren't always. When somebody has a past they don't want to remember, they repress the memories. But those memories don't go away, they come back as dreams. There are many people in the world that are haunted by their memories. Jessie didn't know when it began, but they were now. Her sleep was disturbed by memories that didn't make sense and images that couldn't possibly be true.

Jessie was walking home from school, happy it was finally out. She wished she didn't have to go to school. She wished it could be like in television shows where students are exceptional and some how manage to be genius without going to school. Geniuses like Edward Elric in her new favorite show. It had just started airing that month, and Jessie was already in love with it. Something in it told her everything she wanted to know. She had always known that there was more in the world. She had always thought that alchemy really wasn't a lost cause or a hoax. But nobody believed her.

Now a show was out that confirmed everything she had thought to be true. All over her binder she had scribbled alchemy circles, knowing exactly what they all meant. But kids just stared at them with a blank face and asked her what the hell was wrong with her. They thought she was insane for believing in alchemy. Then the show came out. Some kid that had laughed at her a few months before saw the circle and smiled, telling her she did a pretty good job and that he liked the show, too. She told him she didn't get it from the show, but that just made him laugh and turn away. He never talked to her after that.

School was horrible. It made her miserable. And her two friends didn't even believe her. Silver had said the show was cool, but alchemy couldn't be real. Isabel didn't like 'that kind of TV', and turned away the subject immediately. Jessie went home to two people she barely knew. Some people called them Mom and Dad. She called them Katie and Dan. They weren't her real parents. Her real dad had been killed in a war and her mom, trying to avenge him, also got killed. War was horrible, yet everywhere she turned. Why did everybody have to fight? Why were they always at war? It didn't make any sense. Why did everybody have to die for no reason at all?