This chapter will answer many questions including:
·How Ed and Al got back.
·How Winry learned alchemy.
·When Winry learned alchemy.
·How Winry's inner body was messed up.
·How she can do it without a circle.
·Why the child surprised her.
·Women's Natural Alchemic Talent
·How she came across Will Alchemy and Airlité Alchemy. (Airlité Alchemy is Alchemy that involves Air.)
Chapter 24: The Answer of All Good Things
Winry tried to stay calm; but she honestly couldn't when the doctor said she was loosing her child. Winry began to cry, and then she felt a hand in hers. "It's okay Winry," Ed said holding her hand. She opened her eyes and he wiped her tears. "Sh, it's okay Winry, you'll be alright."
"I know it will be." She said. She moved her hand onto her stomach. "Please be okay, little one." She said to it.
"Come on, you'll be alright. I know how you feel Winry." He laid his hand on her stomach and she could feel her body feeling healthier. She centered her alchemic power and used it to help the baby, Ed's touch would help with her Will Alchemy.
"Ah!!!!" Winry screamed, she was feeling the baby coming out of her.
"She's going into labor." A doctor said watching her.
"What, she's three months pregnant; she can't give birth."
"She's in labor, we don't know what else to do. Should we let her have the baby?"
"We have to, or she'll get complications with it. Let it be." Ed suggested, she nodded faintly and she winced in pain.
"It'll be alright." She said before her heart went so low he could not see or sense her breathing or heart.
"Winry!" He yelled, but she could not here him, it was an empty call. Soon after, my amazing ability, a child was born.
Edward sat next to Winry's body holding their newly born child, it didn't make sense. He just didn't know, was she dead or not. She gave birth after they lost her signal, and her body had healed up and recoiled everything was normal but she wouldn't respond.
"Mr. Elric, do you have a name for your daughter?" The doctor asked.
"I can't name it without Winry, sorry." He answered to them. "Also, any news?"
"No, sorry, she's alive but why she won't respond is anyone's guess; she's not in a coma."
"That's good, I want her back soon."
(VP: Edward) Three Months, she only carried the child, three months. She had so many problems with her body, but she could give birth in three months, and the child was extremely happy. I held my child in my arms smiled at her. She was beautiful beyond so many aspects, she was a part of us and I loved her.
I need you back Winry, you may have been able to be pregnant with her without more for the three months, but I can't raise her for many years. I just can't. Soon Al and Molly along with Pinako walked in. "Winry gave birth in three months?" Molly asked as surprised as I was.
"Yeah, it seems so; as much as proof is in my hands."
"Is Winry okay brother?" Al asked looking at Winry's body.
"I don't know Al, she told me she would be but I don't know if she was saying that just to comfort me while she was dying slowly or she meant it." Pinako looked at me, holding her great grandchild. Most don't live to see their grandchildren but I don't have a doubt in my mind that she knew she'd live to see at least one of hers. She's still healthy; maybe she'll make it to see the next, if Winry comes out of this. Please return to me, Winry.
Hello Edward, long time no see.
Gatekeeper?
The one and only; worried?
About Winry, yes; and about seeing you, yes.
I'm not only the gatekeeper Edward, I'm the Alchemic Nature. I know all there is to know about alchemy. I have given to all of 60 of the population, that is.
The alchemy count is 1 what are you talking about?
You haven't figured it out yet, well then I'll give you more time, she knows the answer, but you don't. It's strange like that. I'm all knowing yet I knew always.
If you're all knowing, will Winry be alright?
But of course Edward, she along with you and your brother are the ultimate gifted ones, I'd never let one as talented as her die because of her alchemic talent.
Alchemic Talent? It made no sense, she gave birth; what did that have to do with alchemy, nothing at all, nothing, that is what I'm sure of.
You seem unsure, when she awakes you must talk to her about the many alchemic abilities she has, they are more numerous then you would believe. Women are a lot smarter and gifted beyond your wildest dreams.
I awoke and I was alone, and I couldn't find a child. I searched around and I heard the sound the sound of a giggling baby. "Morning Edward, you were so tired you fell asleep taking care of the child."
"Winry," I said smiling. She was smiling too. I kissed her on her cheek as she held the extremely happy baby in her arms. "What do you want to name her?"
"I don't know, what would you like Edward?"
"I asked you first, they asked me earlier and I didn't know."
"Emily," Winry said looking at her, I don't know why Winry picked that name but it was a name that seemed so very important to both of us, by chance it was my mother's middle name and Winry's as well.
"It's perfect Winry, a perfect name for her."
"Edward…" She started.
"Yes?" I answered.
"She needs a middle name." I rubbed the back of my head.
"Forgot, sorry, how about Eliza?" I don't know why but that was a name that came to mind.
Winry smiled, it was a very important name of a person who had helped us get together, by lending her identity to Winry to become and alchemist, so I think it's the least we can do for her. "Very well, Ed. That's sounds good."
"Hello Emily Eliza Elric," It would be a hard name for her but for us it was easy, and important. "Winry, how did she live?" I asked.
"Alchemic Nature, the gate," She said not wanting to say more.
"But you can't use alchemy to cross the gate, make a life, you can't use on humans Winry, I know I've tried."
"You're wrong Ed, yes, almost every alchemist to date has been wrong when trying this but there are some who can."
"How long have you known this?"
"Since you left, Alchemic Nature was revealed to every person when you crossed to the other side."
"I was over there?" I asked.
"You don't remember but you were. I remember it all. I can help you remember too." She laid her hand on my head and sent all the memories back.
"How did you?"
"I told you, there are things, some people just can't do." She said plainly and then returned to watching her child.
"We were on the other side of the gate for a while, how did we get back?" I asked sternly.
"I refuse to tell you." I jumped up and walked over to her.
"Who was sacrificed, what was sacrificed, why and how and…" I was crying now, I was so confused. What was given up for me to come back to her? Who else died because of one mistake I made, and to fix it, what was given up to get it back.
"Edward, no one died, no one suffered, no one had to when it came to it. Remember Izumi, how many times did she have to give up something to go to the gate?"
"Once,"
"Why?" Winry asked.
"Because she was transmuting her baby back to life,"
"No Ed, because she was bringing back a soul that was on the fume of the gate."
"The Fume?"
"It's the in-between section of the gate, for souls without a body, and bodies without souls Aka Homunculi. They have access to anyone and anything that enters the fume of the gate. Such is why Wrath had your arm and leg." That got to Ed, they had his arm and leg because, he was in the fume of the gate.
"But, how did you get us back?" He asked.
"Alchemy," She answered.
"What did you give up, sacrifice to open the gate."
"I didn't need one."
"You didn't need one, what do you mean?"
"I used Will Alchemy, without really knowing it, I wished you were back, and you were. It was as simple as that Ed."
"But I thought you needed something, still there was some equality wasn't there."
"Of course there was some, like Izumi trying to get the lost soul back."
"She lost all of her internal organs."
"So did I." Winry answered closing her eyes, not wanting to face my reaction.
"Then how did you…? but the child… and everything… you're…"
"I'm fine Edward… somehow, I'm fine." She answered calming me. "If you were there, then I wouldn't have lost anything, I would be complete. I wouldn't have suffered the lost." I held Winry close to me.
"Just explain it,"
"I wish I knew, that's why for every last second of my life for the last three months, I doubted it entirely, how in the world, it didn't make sense! I yelled at myself Edward, I didn't understand, then the gate."
"The gate, what did it do to you?"
"At first I thought it took my inner organs and parts like it did to Izumi, but then I realized that I would have had a symptom of that. But it turns out it took some thing that I didn't need, that's why I thought that I couldn't produce a child."
"You didn't tell me that."
"What did you want me to tell you Edward; you never told me anything to trust me with it."
I grabbed Winry's shoulders firmly. "Winry, since the day I came back I've told you everything that went on, every little detail, and I don't plan to let you change because of my mistakes in the past. I love you and I want you to be able to tell me anything."
"Anything that I didn't 100 need, it took away from me, and there was a lot I didn't need that I was surprised I was allowed to keep Edward, and the one alchemy that Alchemic Nature told you about, I got to keep that as well."
"The Alchemy that the other 59 of the population can do what is it; I don't think I can do it." I said like when I was little and there was always something Winry could do that Al and I couldn't but we wanted to.
"Edward, of course you can't, trust me I'd have some real problems if you could. It would be extremely wrong if you could do the type of alchemy that they do." I was lost at this statement. What could be so wrong about Alchemy, I guess you could make it but it purity what could she have against it.
"Garcia said that you called it magic when the baby was born, correct?" Winry asked me.
"Yeah, so?" I answered.
"What do most people think alchemy is?"
"…magic, you don't mean. Giving Birth is Alchemy?" She nodded; she had lost me now.
"All females that have given birth can do alchemy without a circle, because giving birth requires going through the gate."
"It does?"
"Yes, of course it does; Women have the ability to reach within the gate and bring a soul back and implant it in the body of the child they have created. It's not called alchemy but alchemy is just playing around with things, isn't it Ed?" Winry asked. Now it made sense, why it would be wrong if I could do it, it was a female alchemy. I wouldn't see it fit for me to do it either.
"So how did you do it before?"
"Women have to be able to have access to the gate at any time, so they could start creating the child and prepare it for the soul."
"Ah," I answered, I had more questions, but I'd rather not ask them, or ever find out. This was one thing I didn't want answered.
"But… how did you get me back, Winry?" I asked her honestly. She looked at the child.
"That's for me to know and you to not find out, how to cross the gate without a sacrifice, how to retrieve things in there without a sacrifice, how to keep things across the gate alive, all stuff that I'm not going to share with you."
"Winry, this is the most amazing discovery of all time, and you won't share it with me." She looked at the child again, like every other time, she smiled at it. I could see why, it reminded her of happy things, me and her, it was a part of us and I like her was happy but why was she with holding this.
"How did you get Will and Airlité Alchemy?"
"Will Alchemy is something that is caused my high levels of alchemic energy and soul energy which are needed in response but there are a lot of conditions to meet to make it work, someone close to them must release their held power, they must die, they must be separated. Once Al's body was on the other side, then the power and ability was released, and when you were so close yet so far I used my Airlité Alchemy to charge the Will Alchemy and bring you back."
"Airlité Alchemy is alchemy that is revealed to one who has suffered the loses of many people, they have lost so much that their heart holds a bit of emptiness within their soul and alchemic energy so they are able to bend something that is full yet so empty, which is air. It's a rare talent, it's defensive alchemy because it can't hurt someone without being fused with another element which requires a lot of alchemic study and practice, fusing two elements, colliding through them."
"Yeah, even I can barely go through a metal wall and a wood door, because it takes a different energy generation, so I have to generate it twice."
"I don't you see, I use the air which is a almost empty substance, and fuse it with the surrounding substance, and then able to control it like that, it's a useful skill."
"That's amazing Winry," I said.
"Yeah I know, but it's because you guys hurt me is why I can do it which makes me sad to know that I wouldn't have it if you didn't leave."
"So there in lies, equivalent exchange." I said sighing, did equivalent exchange exist or not, both Dante and Izumi had said it didn't but did it or not. "Do you believe in Equivalent Exchange?"
"Of course, because it's always been there, it is a trade with promise."
"That's what I thought but Dante and Izumi proved that it didn't exist."
"Wither it's fair or not, it's equal exchange, all things are."
"What about Female Alchemy?" Winry laughed at this. "I mean you can create a body, and then mend a soul to it why men can't and men suffer for trying to create souls and bodies, how is that equal."
"Because we have to suffer to bear the child, to create it, 9 months of it. 3 in my case but it's because we give that time and pain to cross it's like a percent of the price a male has to pay because what we're doing is only a percent."
"Okay but what about Izumi's and Dante's thoughts; what about them?"
"In both instances they were using a child to justify their feelings, a child has no value until the soul has developed, and it can't change the destiny of the world, only if you give it value. If anyone dies, the world moves on, like the child."
"But where was the equivalency for Izumi's child or Rose's if it was killed by Dante?" I thought hurting myself.
"Izumi, she couldn't accept it but similar to me, her body couldn't take it, they took the child for her chance at life, her life was spared and saved to allow that child to die and leave her."
"And Rose's," I asked trying to see, it seemed that today, Winry held all the answers to the questions for I had searched for years.
"Ed, I could kill our child and one might think that it would alter destiny a lot but truly it wouldn't, destiny predetermined wither the child would live or die, we can't go against that. It was just a trade for Dante's evil being spread. All those souls that are killed in exchange for more evil, thirst and power are left needing more. All the souls that are traded for evil are left in the fume, because their bodies' energy is transferred to the evil person, and sadly, in theory in create a stone; you could open the gate and use all the souls that lay in the fume but it would cost you a tiny bit of course."
"I think I need a break Winry, I think I've learned enough." She smiled.
"I thought there was a day when I'd never know as much as you, and knowing more would be amazing Ed. There was also a day I waited to teach you and you to tell me to stop because you had learned too much." I smiled and sat next to her in the bed and looking at our child.
"So why were you able to give birth in 3 months?"
"Because, I couldn't have lived the whole 3 months, plus to take a soul I had to give up a piece to be able to do it without paying the full price to take something out of the fume, it was equal. I would have died without the payment."
"You able to have another child, normally?"
"I don't know, when I recover, maybe in a few years if we want to and we are able to fully take care of the one we have, maybe I'll be gifted to get the gift to cross the gate back, but for now, I only need one side of the gate."
"Wait a minute, if having a child means borrowing a soul and all women can do it, then there is alchemy on the other side of the gate."
"Of course, it's a blood sacrifice either way, you play an important part of the sacrifice for the child you remember all the things the human body is made up of?" I nodded. "Well half of that is what you gave me to make a child out of, that's why it take two people to have a child. On either side of the gate there is alchemy, it just one doesn't allow men to do alchemy, alchemy requires blood a lot of it. In our alchemy here we just use the deaths over there and they have less conection to reach us but they could."
"Well now I'm as confused as ever, and I want to sleep, like her." I said looking at my baby daughter. 'You're 6 months early little one but I thank you for being here with Winry, and waiting for me.' I said to it, whither it could hear me or not.
Edward, I can sense that you are finally happy and complete, what has changed? –Noah asked me.
I'm back with the women I love, Al's happy and my wife just had a baby and all my questions have been answered; I just wish you were here, to stay with me.
No, I don't want to be in your world, for I have found my place in this one that I live in. I don't need your connection bond anymore but it was nice to say good-bye. I'm glad I got to. I'll say by to AL as well. –Noah said to me.
No, keep it with Al, so that if you ever need us you have a way but I can't talk to you anymore, my wife can tune into me as well, and chating with you would off set her level.
I would love to talk to her though, could I once before I leave? –Noah asked.
I'll ask.
"Winry, would you like to have a chat with my friend Noah from the other side of the gate?" I asked Winry before she fell asleep.
"Sure, how?"
"Alchemic bond, between us." Winry smiled at this.
Winry touched me like Noah did and she was talking with Noah, I sat by and listened.
"Hello Noah, I'm Winry."
"Winry, that was your name. I remember you." Noah responded.
"How?" Winry asked.
"When Ed was here, all he dreampt about was you, you and what the future would be like, and returning and enjoying life with you. It went on and on. I guess he forgot."
"He seems to do that a lot." Winry responded.
"You remind me of Rose; she must be you counterpart."
"Yes, she is. So you two are married?" Noah asked.
"Yes, and we have a daughter named Emily Eliza Elric."
"That's such a beautiful name. I hope I don't get to meet her, I want her to stay alive in that world and stay with you two."
"Me too, but one day we'll find a way to let you see her through the bond." Winry said.
"I'm severing my bond with Ed, to allow him mind to finally be free, if you need to talk to me, find Al. He has always had a spot for me. He never knew a world without me, at not one for any longer."
"Well, good-bye; it was nice to meet you."
"Congratulations on your marriage and child both of you. Winry take care of Ed, and Ed if you hurt her I will make sure Al gets you back." Noah said and then there was no one else there.
Bye, I thought to her. "Winry, is there a way to bring her back?"
"No Ed,"
"But you brought me back, couldn't bring her?" Winry looked a bit sad.
"Ed, I would need to sacrifice almost all of myself to do that, Rose is her reflection and as that, we'd mess up this world if we did." I nodded.
"I understand, I was just asking."
"Why would you want her here?"
"Well, she wanted a place to belong to so much, and she felt that she could here."
"I think she would work well in Lior. From what you tell me about her if Rose fits in there then so would she." Ed nodded.
"I just want to help."
"So does the whole world Ed, everyone wants to help someone, but we can't all help someone. You've helped enough people for one lifetime. Just relax okay?" Winry said looking at me and smiling.
"I guess I would do good to take care my family first. Right?" I asked her.
"Yep, you have a brother, a wife, and a daughter as well as a grandma-in-law so you should start with them, and then move on to the world but only after the rest of your life is in order." Winry said.
"Sure thing Winry," I said holding her body near me. I still saw it amazing that she barely showed any signs of being pregnant while she even was pregnant, and she looked the same to me, as beautiful as ever.
I sat in the waiting room, waiting for Winry to come out so we could return home. I looked at the book Winry had handed to me. Female, Airlité, and Will Alchemy: The Ancient Alchemys. I hadn't ever seen or heard of this book. But this must have been where all the philosophies of hers came from.
I opened to the first page.
Female, Airlité, and Will Alchemy: The Ancient Alchemies
By: Winry and Edward Elric
With assistance by Izumi Curtis, Alphonse Elric, and Nolan Kensai.
This book is a book composed of all the knowledge Winry learned of the years, a book on all the amazing alchemy that Winry can perform. This book had Three Sections each divided into smaller segments which were information each person added to the theory.
In Dedication to all those who have been hurt by alchemy, know this, all alchemy isn't bad, Female, Airlité, and Will Alchemy only have one purpose to help. All alchemy can be good but it just takes a lover, not a fighter to truly find the ability inside of them to find it. –Winry Elric
"You like it?" Winry asked.
"It's amazing, but I didn't write this, it's all your work."
"It should be able to answer any questions you've ever had. I decided to make it in honor of everyone who had ever helped us. Like Izumi and Nolan." Winry added.
"But I didn't write it."
"Yeah you did, I wrote down word for word of what you've been saying to me all along, you wrote it with your words." Winry explained. I opened it and read, the book included my philosophy on homunculi, human alchemy, and the gate. It included everything everyone learned.
"This is definitely going to be the finest book in our collection Winry." I said to her hugging her.
"Wait, where's the child?" I jumped and ran around crazily waiting for it. She sighed and leaned against the wall. "Where is she!"
"Ed!" Winry yelled.
"What, I'm trying to find our daughter, where is she!" I yelled, I couldn't take this.
"The doctors are making sure she's at top physical condition to leave." She answered me, pulling me to sit in the chair.
"Winry, I'm sorry I'm stressed. I've never been a father before; I don't know what to do or how to act." He answered.
"If you didn't know, this is my first time being a mother before as well."
"Yeah it is but…" Winry kissed him on the lips.
"You'll be fine Winry; you're always calm and collected. I don't understand how you can be." I said to be worried.
"Edward, I remember how it was to be a child, I've read books on parenting, I like you when I need to know something I read about it and prepare, you should see the house." Somehow I felt that I didn't need to, I knew she'd take care of it. I pulled her close to me and hugged her.
"Thank you so much Winry, you know I don't think I'd be able to live on without you." I said hugging her and smiling.
"Yeah you could, it would just be harder then you expected. I'm prepared, unlike you. But I also knew before you so it's okay. Just be calmer, if you can't manage complete calm." She said resting her head on my chest.
"The child's part of us, Ed. There isn't anything to worry about, we'll be fine." She said, her words everyone made me feel better.
A nurse came in with the teenie tiny child in her arms and set her on Winry's lap. "The child is at full health and for a premature baby she is fully developed, perfectly healthy, her body is clean and ready to be used. She's safe to be taken home. And Mr. Elric your wife is at full health as well, of course and she's free to leave as well." I stood up and turned around and looked at Winry.
"Thanks for your help nurse. We'll take care of everything from here." I said wrapping my arm around her and walking out of the hospital.
"Winry, you ready to finally go home." She nodded and smiled at our child as she carried it out of the hospital and to the car which was brought from the hospital to take us home.
We returned home and there was Riza, Roy, Al, Molly, Izumi, Rose, Garcia, Pinako, and little Elicia and Eliza sitting in our living room. "Welcome home Elrics," Roy greeted us.
"Thanks," Winry answered to him.
"Winry, is that a baby?" Eliza said surprised. Winry nodded happily. I stepped out of the while and let Winry sit on the couch next to me so she could relax.
"What's its name?" Al asked excitedly, Al always did love kid. I'm sure between Al and Den that she'll have too much fun to deal with as well and Winry and I not to mention her family.
"Her name is Emily Eliza Elric." I corrected Al for Winry. Winry nodded.
"Wow that's a pretty name for her. You picked a wonderful name." Al complimented her. Winry smiled and I just put my head behind my head and listened while Winry chatted. I seemed to be more out of it then she was but seeing as using Will Alchemy to help the child along used my energy not hers, it's obvious I would be but she was doing a lot of alchemy too.
"So Winry, how are you feeling?" Eliza asked.
"I'm fine, how about you Ed?" Winry asked knowing that I was just as tired as he was.
Al laughed. "Winry, brother's not the one who just gave birth here, that would be you." Al said.
That was true but she used my energy since she couldn't use her own but she was the one doing the Will and Female Alchemy at the same time, along with Human Transmutation it would be a tiresome day.
"Well it's been a long day and I'd like to sleep and Winry and Emily both need their sleep so we have to go." Winry shrugged at my behavior and followed and the others understood that I needed to talk to her.
"Winry, so why and when did you actually learn alchemy?"
"Why would you ask?" She asked.
"I wanted know if it had any reason because, I wouldn't want you to do anything because I did, or you felt you needed to." She kissed me on the cheek and laid the baby in a crib.
"I learned it for many reasons, like I've explained all females can do alchemy, it's just a matter of using the ability to stretch it beyond that basic nature. I taught it to protect the ones I love, it also helped with things around the house, with automail if I needed a part smaller or bigger or something like that, I could protect myself, the assaults from that guy and I wanted to prove my worth. It wasn't just you."
"That's good because learning it because of me would be horrible, because it would have no value."
"I happen to believe to protect you and Al is an extremely valuable reason, and purposeful. I mean, if that isn't meaningful, protecting the ones I love, what is?" She asked.
"I guess that's completely true, but I learned it for power, skill and talent; curiosity also played a major role in it." I answered.
"When did you learn alchemy?" He asked.
"When you left the second time, when you returned to the opposite side again." She answered.
"Why would you start then?"
"I thought I could bring you back, but by then I had studied and learned enough to know that I couldn't so I decided to help others around central and when you mysteriously appeared I couldn't figure it out so I joined the military to gain your respect as a person, and help people there."
"You had a extremely selfless, selfish reason; it's really both. You didn't do it just to impress me or you wouldn't have joined knowing there would be stuff you'd have to."
"Yeah but how I could do all types of alchemy without a circle, and the new kind with air and defensive I don't know. When I was trying out on the defense attacks I just did, I was surprised that they let a girl in the first place but I had natural talent like someone else I knew." She said.
"Yeah, so what can you do with Airlité alchemy?" Ed asked.
"A lot, you've witnessed a lot of my ability, transmuting things out of air, a substance with little value, I can transmute force fields, heal people by hardening the air to form a protective bond around the skin that was damaged and there are a lot of other things."
"That's all I needed to know, I just wanted to ask you, to see your talent." I said smiling. "I love you Winry, you know what scared me so much?" I asked her.
"No, but I think I do."
"You probably could guess but it was the thought that I'd lose you or the child you carried within you, especially you. I never had met this child, as much as I love our child if it was gone I'd be sad but if you died, there was no way I could go on, because I know you, and I love you. I didn't have to chance the child that I hadn't met, but you were something I could never leave. I was so scared Winry." I said.
"Now you know how I felt every day for those long years." Winry retaliated.
"Yeah, I do. I'm also sorry for doing that to you Winry. I never understood it." I answered.
"I love you and our newly born child." I said smiling and resting back on the bed.
"I love both of you too, Ed." She said laying back with me.
"It's been a while since I've had you at my side, huh?" I asked her.
"Yeah it has, quite a long time actually." She said.
"I missed it, I was lonely and I needed to be with you; I was so empty. I felt so horrible without you, Winry." I said.
"That need and want for us to come back to each other, and Al's need to be with us as well; that's what honestly brought you back. It's the ultimate Will Alchemy; our will, need, want and desire to be back here together." Winry told me.
"Winry, if I ever try to leave you; I give you permission to hurt me extremely badly because I must be possessed, or out of my mind, insane or something that would cause my brain to do that." She answered.
"Okay, but let's just hope it never comes to that, huh?" She said to me.
"I've never felt so happy in my life as when I saw you and Emily together; the smile on your face and her small body and cuteness. It made me so happy. I can't believe she's our child."
"I can." Winry said.
"Really?" I asked.
"Yeah, she has your eyes, and my face; it's completely obvious Ed." She said playfully smacking me.
"Do you have a need to smack me or something?" I asked her.
"No, not really; but I have a need to love you forever."
"Me too."