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Chapter 8: Being so far, feeling so close

Winry's POV

I opened up my eyes, that somehow were not heavy with sleep, to find myself staring at the ceiling. A familiar, but not familiar ceiling... it was as though I've seen it before, but cannot remember when or how. I slowly got up from bed, feeling a strange thing all over my body, I could move, but somehow, in the back of my mind, something told me that the one that was moving was not me, like someone was controlling my actions and my movements.

Before I knew it, I was already changed into a simple, but pretty black dress, and I was putting on my shoes. When I finished with this task, I slowly walked towards the window.

And the feeling was of shock. I expected to see the green valleys of Rizembool, the beautiful sight of my home. But it wasn't that. I was so shocked to find another world, a dark one. The sky was grey, and so the city. It was full with buildings that had the same dull color. People here and there were walking on the street, some cars on the road, but nothing truly caught my attention. Everything, everyone was the same. Grey. It was as though watching the city in black and white.

Before my senses caught it, I was walking through the street, not even noticing when exactly I walked out the door.

It was such a strange feeling. I could feel the wind; I could hear the noise of the city. But somehow I felt different. Of course, I was distracted by everything, everything was new for me. Buildings with different styles of architecture, people with different faces and clothes. I felt like I was walking down a museum, watching things that I knew by words but not by looks.

And I reached my destination, a bar. But...did I know before where I was heading? Somehow my body seemed to know, but not my mind. I entered the place, only the find my senses twisting and colliding. I could smell liquor, cigarette, and dirt. I could see many tables full of people. I could hear laughter, chatter and even angry voices. And I could almost taste a feel of uneasiness on my mouth.

I walked up to the bar, and sat down on one of the tall chairs. I smiled without noticing. Somehow my mouth opened up and said with a cheerful, strange, not-me voice. "Hi Melissa! Am I late?".

And I talked more and more with this "Melissa". Who was she? Why was I talking to her? Was she my friend?... Why did I kept talking if I wasn't thinking about the talk?...

What the hell was going on?

I could hear my conversation with her, but everything that I said didn't seem to concord with my thoughts. It was as though I was listening to my own voice being played in a tape.

I got startled by a sudden angry voice from "Melissa".

"Winry Eberhardt! What on earth were you thinking when you married Edward? He has changed you! Why are you suddenly speaking of economics? That's not the Winry I know!"

Eberhardt? That was not my last name! My last name is Rockbell... and why did this strange girl knew my name?...

Wait a minute... Did she say I married Edward?

What on earth was happening? This had to be a dream!

The me that was sited in the bar laughed at "Melissa" and replied with a simple "Come on Mel. Edward is my husband, it is natural that I speak to him about all kind of things, do you truly expect me to talk with him about how to dress or how to comb my hair?"

Okay... this was getting away from the truth. I was sited in a bar, in a city that I didn't know, talking to "my friend Melissa"... whom, by the way... I DON'T KNOW!... speaking about me changing my topics in talks because of my husband... Edward.

Before I got the time to think over all this strange things, I stopped watching Melissa, only to turn my head the other side, to look at someone that had just came to sit there. As I watched the man's face, I felt as my heart came to a stop.

For the first time in the day I could see some color.

Golden hair, a pair of beautiful amber eyes. Skin a little pale but still a beautiful color.

I could only stare back in shock at an older, more mature looking Edward that was sitting by my side, looking at me straight in the face.

I smiled. And I could feel the body that somehow felt like it wasn't me, smile too. "I" suddenly said "Hi, I'm Winry Eberhardt", as I extended my hand towards him.

As he shook "my" hand I could feel him touch my hand. I felt as though my skin was burning, as though his touch sent an electrical pulse throughout my real body.

Suddenly this whole new world seemed like home, it all got the color that it should, and the surroundings seemed to reflect the light that was absent. The air seemed to get the push to blow stronger. The light seemed to appear from somewhere.

I felt myself floating, wanting the feeling to never end, but before I knew it, in the blink of an eye, he let go of my hand.

And everything came back. The colors that I once enjoyed where back to their usual grey. The wind that seemed to give wings to my soul could not be felt anymore. The light that for one moment illuminated his face, was now gone. And the feeling that I got throughout my body faded, making me feel again that strange feeling of being in there, but not in my body.

"I'm Edward Elric" he said.

That voice... that... voice.

I was so confused. I was in heaven one minute with his touch, then I came back to hell when it disappeared, and then I went back to heaven with his voice. These kind of feelings were killing me.

"Edward?" I heard myself... or better say, the body that supposedly was me... whisper.

"Edward.." I repeated now with my voice.

"Winry!"

I felt someone calling, someone saying my name.

"WINRY!"

I felt the world around me darkening; I could see his face starting to vanish.

I panicked, I couldn't... It shouldn't...

"IT CAN'T BE A DREAM!"

"WINRY! WAKE UP!"

I opened up my eyes. I could still sense his presence. I could still feel his hand in mine. I could still feel my body caught up in that electrical pulse. I could feel adrenaline rushing through my veins. And I felt my eyes begin to water, and my sight blurring. It was all a dream.

A dream... but it was so real...

"Winry! Winry!"

I heard again that voice, which was of no one else that Alphonse Elric.

I turned my head to look at him. He was beaming. Even if my room was dark, I could see his eyes full of a light that I recognized as hope.

Gathering my strength, and trying to contain my tears, I answered with a little voice.

"What's up Al?"

Before I even had the chance to say the entire phrase, he yelled at me.

"I FOUND IT! I FOUND IT!"

I could see tears in his eyes now.

"I FOUND THE WAY TO BRING BACK BROTHER!"

Without notice the tears that were in my eyes spilled at the simple mention of his brother.

I was begging to God that what I heard coming out from his mouth was not my imagination. I was praying that my senses were not failing me.

"I FOUND THE WAY TO BRING BACK BROTHER, WINRY!"

He repeated.

I found myself crying now.

I found myself remembering one phrase that once Edward said.

"A dream that comes truth, is not a dream anymore"

That was the thing I thought before I hugged Al.

I could feel hope.

I could feel excitement.

I thought to myself almost instantly.

I only hope this dream becomes reality.

To be continued...

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