Disclaimer: I don't own FMA or anything in it. I just like to make up stories.

Foreward: This is basicly a dream scene. Enjoy.

Of Dreams... (Part 2!)

She was afraid to turn around and look, even in a dream. To hear the voice and not see him was something she didn't want to go through. Yet part of her wanted to turn around, deep down in her heart she knew she had to. She turned slowly, afraid that it wouldn't be Edward, just a whisper on the wind. He was laying there on the hill, his hazel eyes carefully watching the starry night sky. He was totally oblivious to her presence, in the same state as when he read his books.

She walked slowly over to him, not making a sound but for the grass moving beneath her feet. He stirred as she neared him, the sound breaking his daydream like state. His eyes widened in surprise as he saw Winry. She had a small smile on her face.

"Hello alchemy freak." She said softly. Edward sat up where he was, half surprised, half afraid to break the dream. Carefully he raised his flesh and blood hand to rub his eyes, as to rub away the disbelief.

"Winry?" His voice broke when he spoke her name, still not believing his eyes in this dream world.

"Are you truly here Ed?" she said as she sat down by Ed. "Or is it just a dream?"

Ed himself wasn't sure. "I don't know and I really don't care, you're here." He reached up and pulled a stray hair back into place with his automail arm.

Winry grabbed it before he could bring it back to himself, holding it in her hand not wanting to let go. The metal felt cold in her hands, as it did in the real world. Ed squeezed her hand, reciprocating the feeling. Winry had to ask the question that had burned her mind since his brief return.

"Why did you have to leave Ed?"

Ed looked at the ground, his hair fell down around his face to provide a curtain between him and Winry. "To finish something Al and I started during our search for the stone. We never told you many things about what happened on our journey and for good reason. Hess was one of them. Hess was a scientist or more specifically a Physicist. He had a weapon that he wanted me to bring to the military, a bomb of unequal power he said. I didn't know then what I do now. I have to at least find the bomb he carried when he tried human alchemy."

"You mean he…"

"Yes he did. He didn't survive but the bomb went through the gate and ended up on the other side."

Winry rolled the dates around in her head, if it happened while they where traveling, then the bomb was there for 8 years. "But Ed if its been that long, then how do you think your going to find it?"

Ed chuckled softly. "True I don't know where it is exactly, but I have a pretty good idea." It was true, it should be in the Thule Society. There wasn't a guaranty, but there was a chance. "Originally I was going to run, but I remembered what I saw in the gate. This world will make their own in time. This one isn't supposed to be here, it has to be destroyed. God, listen to me. Always trying to fix things."

Winry smiled at that, he had always tried to make things better, even in the worse of times. It was one of the things she loved about him. She brushed the hair back behind his shoulders and turned his head to face her.

"That's one of the things I love about you."

The word love, made Ed eyes widen, his lips smile, and his skin feel tingly all at the same time. "What do…" She interrupted him before he said anything else.

"I love you Edward."

The stars were starting to wink out in the sky above, as the dawn came. Edward didn't notice anything else but Winry's face at the moment. She had told him she loved him. He leaned in and kissed her on the lips. He whispered in her ear, "I love you too."

The dream started to fade, the world falling into darkness. Edward started to cry, watching this world fade. "I swear I'll come back to you. Someday I will see you again." He swore as the dream ended, all Winry did was whisper with tears in her eyes, "I know."

Ed woke with a start, the sky above him was on fire with the coming dawn, yet he didn't care. He still felt where Winry's lips had touched his. The tears were on his face from his crying. It had been real. He would honor what he swore, somehow someday.
Winry awoke at the same time, the dawn hidden by a storm clouds rolling into Risembool. Her tears coursed down her face, they had been there when she had woken up. She knew in her heart that the dream had been real. Ed would return someday and she would be waiting.

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(A/N)- Hey sorry about the time it took to update this chapter, part of it was spur of the moment so, sorry if it doesnt make much sense. Also I am gonna try for another chapter tonight, but cant say I'll get it up. Hey we can dream cant we. Oh and that 8 years is an estimate, the movie shows it as 1914 when Huss opened the gate. The movie takes place 1923 so I guessed.