"You should take a bath Ed, it'll calm your nerves." Pinako knocked on the door, not sure whether he was changing or not, "And you should get some breakfast too or you'll never last the day."

Edward just lay in bed and didn't decide to move until he heard Alphonse leave the room first. He felt pathetic for acting the way he did, but just then he really didn't care because he was too worried about what was going on with Duo to act any other way. Of course he felt bad for how he was treating Alphonse, Winry, and Pinako, but he was also upset that none of them seemed as affected by what was going on as he was.

The blonde sat up and eased his way out of the bed, he went for his clothes which were folded neatly (more than likely Al's doing) on the dresser by the window. He looked out the window and over into the lush green hills where he had once enjoyed playing with Al and Winry on days like this. It was all in the distant past, but for some reason Ed always found himself stuck there.

"Ed, you better hurry up or all the hot water's gonna run out!" Winry called and knocked loudly on Edward's door before quickly going to her room.

"I'll be there in a minute!" He felt more like he was part of a normal family just then, but it all felt like just a game; just playing house to amuse him. "All you people just need to learn what a bit of patience is!"

Ed snatched his clothes and went towards the bathroom with only his boxers on, not really caring that there were two women in the house since he had known them for so long. As he slammed the door shut, the first thing he laid eyes on was one of Winry's bathing suits. His natural reaction was for his face to get flushed, but he ignored it and hurried on with his shower.

He unbraided his hair and let it hang loosely down his back before stripping down of his boxers. He turned the knob in the shower that was supposed to make the water hot, but instead was hit with a jet of cold water. Ed stepped out of the shower to let the water run for a while until it was warm and then stepped back in to finish his shower.

"I've got to figure out what happened to Duo, but there's no way to know unless I was psychic... But real psychics don't exist." Ed stared down at his hands and frowned as he watched the automail gleam in the sunlight.

"Hurry up, Ed. Auntie Pinako made you a homemade breakfast and even some of that coffee you like so much!" Al called through the door as he listened to some fabric rustle from behind the bathroom door and then Ed stepped out in his black tank top and blue boxers. "So are we staying for a while?"

"Yeah, until we find out whether or not Duo's still in Resembool or not. I can't let the homunculi get away from me, and right after breakfast I'm gonna go look."

"No brother, I'll go look. I promise not to do any fighting but you must be exhausted from the fight yesterday, and to have them taunt you by forcing you to fight Duo... Just stay home and rest while I go out and look." Alphonse started to leave once Edward turned to go into the kitchen thinking he'd follow.

"Al, wait-!" But before Edward could stop his younger brother, he was already gone. "Dammit! I have to go after him!"

"Just let Al go for a while, I'm sure he already feels guilty that you had to fight alone yesterday." Winry smiled and put a hand on Ed's shoulder, "I think he feels that he needs to show that he can help you too. Let's go have some breakfast."

Ed went into the kitchen with Winry and began to eat, but had Alphonse on his mind the whole time until Winry interrupted his thoughts.

"So you love this guy...? I mean, I was able to see him and I could kinda understand why you would like him since he's really cute, but... I thought you liked girls... I remember you calling us once and you mentioned that you had a lover and I thought you had a girlfriend." Winry bit her lip as she saw Ed's face look somewhat upset that she was being so nosy, but also showed some traces of regret.

"I can't really explain when I started liking guys, but that lover that I spoke of wasn't a girl either..." His golden eyes watched as Winry looked utterly heartbroken, but restrained herself from crying. "And when I first met Duo I had to explain everything to him and I always started noticing how cute he looked, but it was just like love at first sight."

"Oh, I understand..." Winry put on her best smile but stood up and hurried away back to her workshop where she could be alone for a while.

The blonde alchemist sat at the table confused by the sudden mood swing Winry had just gone through, but then stood up and started going towards the workshop knowing he had to apologize to Winry for just completely breaking her heart with one breath. That was another reason he thought he preferred men, was because they weren't nearly as complex as women were.

"What am I supposed to say?" Ed sighed feeling slightly irritated that Winry had to act the way she did, "Should I just say I'm sorry for falling in love? Or-"

He stopped as he came to the door of Winry's room and could hear her sobbing faintly. Then he realized he didn't have a need to reherse an apology anymore.

> > >

Duo was hunched over in a corner while Envy, Lust, and Gluttony just watched him throwing up. When he turned back around, the similar eyes that Envy had encountered when he had met the human Duo were there.

"So you can somehow change from Greed and then back to your normal self? Maybe it's just a side effect since you were originally a human... But Wrath never seemed to have that problem..." Envy smirked as he saw Duo use the wall to stand up straight and headed towards the couch.

At first the brunette was hesitant to sit because he could still see the traces of the woman they had murdered to hide out in her house. After a while, he realized he would faint if he didn't sit and was forced to even though he was now covering the bloodstains of an innocent woman. He felt sick again at the thought, but this time didn't have to throw up.

"You guys are sick..."

"Not like anyone's gonna miss her anyway. It'll be days before anyone notices she's missing and by then we'll be long gone." The green-haired homunculus shrugged and watched as Duo glared at him, "Is that your trademark look or something?"

"Shut up! You've already killed two people who had nothing to do with any of this... How can you be so calm? How can you show no remorse for what you've done?"

"Back there in the bathroom, you didn't seem to want to show remorse as you were about to shoot Roy Mustang... or actually me."

Duo struggled to sit up as he stared at Envy in a daze, "That was you? You tricked me into believing that the real Roy would actually do that to Ed? And... you did that to him?"

He suddenly found strength and stood up just as Envy was. He was swift and landed a kick right in Envy's head making the homunculus fall to the ground. Lust and Gluttony watched, but did nothing else to help. Though Envy, apparently, didn't take notice or care.

"You bastard! After all we've done for you and you're just ungrateful!" Envy was quick to return the kick to Duo along with a few extra punches. "Then again, I guess you wouldn't understand what an honor it is to join us!"

"What honor?" Lust finally spoke up for the first time, "All I want to do is be human again... I'm sure you do too even though you want to admit it."

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Thanks readers for all of your reviews! It's really urged me to keep on writing instead of being lazy! Also, I apologize for any spoilers these chapters have been bringing you readers of the FMA manga, and warn you now that you're going to have a lot more spoilers coming up.

P.S. The homunculus Wrath in this is actually the Fuhrer and not the boy from the anime version!