Because it's easier to follow and understand with this, I'm now including a prologue that's actually a brief timeline for Sunrise.
This is what I get for running off to AU land with my fandom.
The Prologue; So You Know What's Going On.
Edward Elric was twenty-one years old before he and Alphonse finally succeeded in restoring their original bodies. The first thing the contented brothers did was return home, where they were greeted with much celebration and warmth. When Ed returned to Central the following week, he promptly threw away his silver watch and the title that came with it.
While at Central Ed went to see Roy Mustang, his lover of two years. His stay with Roy turned out two months longer than what he had planned, so he decided to stay even longer and move in with his boyfriend. They dated for another two years before Roy proposed to him, an offer the Ed readily took.
The both of them took on new habits after marriage. Ed always wore his hair down; it was rare for him to pull it back into a ponytail and even rarer to put it in a braid. Roy was much more careful around appliances now and a lot less of a womanizer. In fact, he was a little afraid to look at a woman longer than a minute in fear Ed would smack him and oh-so-kindly remind him that he was married and most certainly gay.
Four years into their marriage, Ed suddenly proposed they adopt a child. Roy was a bit skeptical about the whole idea at first. Them, parents? Likely chance. But that energetic lover of his just would not give up.
And so, they ended up adopting a little girl named April who was only one year old. She was an Ishbalan orphan that Roy had chosen himself, and this was his peace offering to the people he so regrettably destroyed in his younger years.
Now at thirty years of age, Ed is still as active and hyper as ever. Roy is forty-four years of age and Ed loves to tease him about being an old man, but Roy is all too used to the childish banter between them both to care much at this point.
Meanwhile, Roy continues to climb towards the top. At the rank of General, he's doing a lovely job of supporting his family and keeping Ed happy with feather pillows, April with stuffed animals and Sugar, the family cat, with luxurious cat food.
Their lives are simply perfect and couldn't be happier, especially when Roy's career takes an unexpected but wondrous turn. However, there is a dark cloud looming overhead that threatens their perfect world – a world that Edward is willing to do anything to protect.