A/N: One more sad one, folks. The next one won't be so bad, though.

I would like to thank Mint Pizza Queen for being my beta.

Ghosts

There was one day that Hawkeye stopped at Hughes' house after work, and I told her that it was much scarier dealing with the living. "Give me a ghost to talk to any day," I had said.

I was wrong.

I didn't know how much I would miss you if anything ever happened and you never came back. Now I'm stuck here, a corporal doing nothing but freezing his ass off.

And it's here that I realize just how much of my life revolved around you. My work, my thoughts, my research…

Everything.

God, I miss you, Fullmetal—no, Edward.