Chapter 2! Yay! I'm thinking that there will be a letter from every single one of the Full Metal Alchemist characters but I'm not sure yet. Of course the most letters are from Winry! Please enjoy and review if you have time.

Ed sat in silence looking mournfully at the next letter. This letter had arrived shortly after Winry's first letter. It bought up a depressing aura at the loss of the letter's author. Still Ed couldn't push it aside. He needed to be reminded of the happy carefree guy everyone in a while.

Yo Ed!

Whats up kid? How you doin'? It seems Roy keeps sending you on far away missions, so I'm unable to show you the new pictures of Elysia that I took! Don't worry I placed a couple in this letter for you! Isn't she adorable? Doesn't she look exactly like her beautiful mom? Guess what! She said her first word that other day, she's so cute! Guess what it was Ed! It was "dada"! I was so proud of her! Of course she hasn't said it since then, but she will again I know it! I've been meaning to ask if you have made any progress on the you-know-what stone? There seems to be a lot of chatter about it between the higher ups for some reason. That's odd since most of them don't believe it exists. The Fuhrer seems to be encouraging this talk for some reason. I don't know if he believes in it or not. I'll try to find out some more and contact you about it as soon as possible. By the way be careful out there! The both of you! Some weird villager might mistake you for being a little kid (even though technically compared to the rest of the military you are) so don't let them drag you back to school! When you have time you should come visit us! Elysia is getting bigger everyday! I'm afraid of what will happen when she gets too old and wont let me hug her anymore! What a horrible thought! I hope that never happens!

See you soon,

Maes Hughes

Poor Hughes. He never got to see his daughter grow up like most fathers did. Ed frowned at the letter, hating the feeling of sadness that curled itself into his cold stone heart when ever thinking about carefree Maes. Ed missed Hughes, he made the military a place like home whenever he was there chattering happily about his wonderful family.

Ed still had no idea why someone like Hughes would never join the military, and he never would until he died. That would be the first question he would ask Hughes when he got to see him again. Hughes didn't deserve to die that horrible death, it should have been someone else.

"No," Ed shook his head sending his blonde and white hair flying around him. "I cant think like that. That's not a good thought, to wish death upon someone else. Hughes wouldn't want anyone to think like that."

Ed thought about how he wasn't at the funeral, leaving poor Gracia and Elysia alone. Of course he went to go apologize after finding out, but that still didn't cut not being at a friend's funeral. Hughes had been his friend, in some crazy odd sort of way. Just like how all the other friendly military personal were his friends also. Yet Ed left them like Hughes left them. Just in different senses.

Hughes hadn't decided if he should leave or not. His life was ripped out of him. Ed on the other hand decided to leave them all. That was the most horrible part of it. He knew that if Hughes was still alive he would be saying how it wasn't right to leave his friends and family. Hughes would have believed that Ed should have stayed with his family when he could not. That was the kind of person that Hughes was.

Ed looked through the box again and found the pictures that had been mentioned in the letter. There were three aging pictures that made Ed smile despite his melancholy mood at thinking about Hughes. The pictures all contained a brightly smiling tiny girl with her short dark blonde hair pulled into little pigtails. Ed smiled at the memory of Elysia being born, that had been a exciting frightening day for him, but he would never forget it.

Nor would he forget seeing Elysia's small little body as she was being held safety in Gracia's arms. Elysia was an innocent soul who was born in this world loved completely by her mother and father. She may have lost her father at a young age, but Hughes gave her enough love that would probably last even when she reached an old age like Edward. Ed wished that he could see the little girl who was so much like a younger sister to him, just one more time to make sure she was happy. In Ed's heart he knew that Elysia was most likely exactly like her dad which meant that no matter what happen she would try to approach things with a smile on her face.

Even to this day Ed marveled at the fact that woman were able to give birth. When his wife had given birth to their first child, he had gotten a flash back to the cold winter's night when Elysia was born. Ed had looked over to his brother Al and saw that Al had that same faraway look that adorned his face as well. No matter what they did in this world it somehow always made them think of their home and their friends.

"There cant be this many similarities between the worlds," Al spoke one day after swearing that he saw the face of Scar on the street one evening. "Can there brother?"

"I don't know," Ed shrugged. "It doesn't make sense if there is so many similarities, because then these worlds would be one not separate."

"It was him brother. I swear. He even had that scar on his face," Al shook his head, his dark blonde short hair moving slightly. "It always makes me still think we are in Amestris. Doesn't it to you brother?"

"Some what," Ed mutter sipping some coffee as they watch more people pass the window of the small warm coffee shop. "This isn't Amestris, Al. These people arent people from there who can control alchemy."

Al had remained silent for a few moments before he pointed out the window. "Look! Brother that boy! He looks like he could be the son of Mustang and Miss Riza!"

Despite everything single cell in his body crying out that there couldn't be a person, Ed had turned to look at that kid. Al had been right. The kid had dark shaggy black hair that got in the way of his bright hazel eyes. The kid had a smirk on his face as he played with his friends. Mustang's kid would look exactly like that kid across the street.

Ed snorted. "Like Mustang and Hawkeye would ever have a child."

"That's not the point brother," Al frowned.

Ed remember the memory like it had only been yesterday when in fact it had been decades ago. There were many similarities between the two worlds that made them almost seem alike at most times. Ed could nearly forget that he was not in Amestris once in a while. Nearly.

There were two things that this world did not have. One was of course alchemy, the thing that Ed missed studying and creating. The second was Winry.

Ed pushed the letter aside not wanting to think any more about how the world's were similar. And what and who didn't occupy this lonely world. He reached for the next letter before he realized it. It brought pain to the old man every time he read a word written by his friends, but he just couldn't help himself. He had to read them. He was clutching the letters like a fish would to water.