Summary: Rated T for blood loss. "Sometimes the most amazing things can happen...sometimes, no matter how loosely or tightly you hold onto him or her, your love, your dream, he or she will slip right through your fingers."
Disclaimer: If I owned Full Metal Alchemist, I'd keep forgetting to put chapters out on time and everybody would hate me. Aren't we all glad I don't own it?
Isn't this world a crazy place? …
"And then he sucked up all the red water into the trees. He froze the trees and then shattered them. They said they're going to give up that kind of research and be normal kids."
"I'm glad." She liked when Ed's stories had happy endings.
"I wish that all our stories had happy endings," Al said.
"Yeah," Ed agreed. She wondered what they were talking about. Once again, there were things they hadn't been telling her. She sat sullenly for a full ten minutes before an idea came to her that she unintentionally voiced aloud. "What if alchemy weren't real?"
"What do you mean?" the boys chorused.
"What if alchemy weren't real?" she repeated. "What if you couldn't turn lead into gold and make flowers out of dirt?" she added, getting excited. "What if chimeras didn't exist? What if there was no Philosopher's Stone? What if people couldn't attempt human transmu…Uh…" She finally stopped to think about her train of thought. Neither Ed nor Al would look her in the eye. "What I meant to say," she continued in a softer voice, "is that if you believe in alternate universes, there is one where this never happened. I wonder what happened to us there. Do you?"
"That's an interesting theory, Winry," Al commented.
"Hmm" was all Ed would say.
Another world. Different, but would it be better? Well, there's no need dwelling on a theory. It's not like any of them would be crossing dimensions anytime soon.
(A/N: I love the people who have been sticking with me. The story will be over soon, but your reviews will stay in my heart forever.)