Grogginess filled Ruby's head when she awoke. Ed was awake and she tried to sit up. She looked around her and saw people getting off the train. She sat up, leaning against the window. Ed looked at Ruby strangely as she went into a coughing fit.
"You okay?" He asked her. She shook her head, trying to breathe. Ed put his hand on her shoulder. "Calm down and try not to cough." She stopped coughing and fell onto Ed's shoulder. She was unconscious.
When Ruby awoke she found herself in a bed, the room lit up only by the glow of the moon from outside the window. She couldn't move her arms or legs; they felt like weights holding her down. She turned her head to the side, noticing she was in some sort of hospital. Beside her sat Ed, his head resting beside her arm on the bed. He was asleep. Ruby looked more closely at her surroundings. A large suit of armor was in the corner. She looked on her other side and saw Winry. She looked beyond Winry at another corner. A figure sat there, his eyes piercingly familiar. Ruby stared confused at the figure for a moment, then jumped as the armor spoke.
"You're awake!" It said. Ruby stared confused and frightened at it. Ed began to stir, soon followed by Winry. When she looked back the other figure had vanished.
"Ruby, you're okay!" Winry cried. Ruby propped herself up on pillows. "You've been out for three days, we were so worried!" Ruby smiled. The armor stood up, walking over to her.
"Keep away!" She cried. "Who are you?" Al seemed confused- at least, as confused as armor could seem.
"Don't you remember me?" He asked. Ed kissed her cheek, making her blush.
"Ed, Winry, you're, You're so much more grown up! And, Where's Alphonse?" She asked. Winry looked at Ed questioningly.
"Ruby, it's me, Al, I'm a suit of armor now, remember?" Al said. Ruby's eyes widened.
"What's going on here? All I remember is waiting for Ed and Al at home after they said they'd be back from their training and now I'm here. It seems like it's been three years, not days!" Ed put his hand on hers.
"You don't remember anything from your time as a homunculus?" He asked. Ruby stared awkwardly at him.
"Homunculus?" Ed stood up.
"You don't remember a thing. Well, I guess that's for the better, but still," he trailed off. "You're absolutely positive you don't remember anything?"
"Well," Ruby sighed, "a few minutes ago, someone was standing in the corner, they seemed familiar." They all looked puzzled. "But anyway, what's all this homunculus stuff?"
"You're one- were one." Ed said. "Dunno how it happened but you're one-hundred percent human, now." He sat on the edge of her bed, kissing her.
"Envy," Ruby muttered. "I remember someone named Envy." Ed brushed off the thought at why a kiss reminded her of Envy and instead told her about him.
Ed and Ruby walked, hand-in-hand, with Al and Winry. It was now later, in the day, and they were leaving the hospital. Ruby was slowly remembering things, but usually only small things like the meaning of the 'I'm Sorry' written on the back of her locket and the reason Al was a suit of armor.