(a/n) Back to the AlXMei. HELL YEAH

"Al, Don't push yourself. You should stay in bed."
"Ed, stop freaking out. I'm not gonna drop dead on my way to the writing desk."
Ed regarded the statement with resentment. "Just take it easy." He looked his still weak and scrawny brother up and down before being called downstairs by Winry. Al held the letter clasped in his hand. He was thankful and glad that the timid girl had attempted to contact him. But this meant he needed to be able to walk more that a few hundred feet before being out of breath. I'll have to cross the desert. That will be challenging for my body. While he carefully penned the letter with minimal shaking.
"Dear Mei,
Thank you for your letter. I'm glad to here of your Alkahestry master title. It must be exiting. Of course I would like to join you in Xing to learn Alkahestry. It may be a few months or so until I am physically ready to make such a journey, but I promise that I'll be in touch. Please give ling and Lan Fan my regards. I apologize for the short letter, but I must get to becoming stronger, yes?
See you soon"
Alphonse.

Mei dropped the letter to her desk in shock.

He's coming. He's coming here. He's actually coming!
"M'lady? Is something the matter?"
"N-no! Nothing is the matter!" She hastily picked up her pen. "All is well!" She found that she was screeching in Amestrian, in which her servant wasn't fluent.
"Mistress?"
"Oh, Sorry." She fell back into her formal Xingese with ease. "It's just, the letter I was reading was in Amestrian, so I was thinking in that language. Forgive me if I frightened you." I must have sounded possessed or something.
"No matter M'lady. Would you like me to return here to collect the reply in a while?"
"Yes, I'll leave it on my desk before I have to go to the meeting"
If I can even work up the confidence to reply to him.

"Dear.."

Oh no. Now I'm writing in Xingese. She almost decided to scrap it, when she decided to complete the phrase. Alphonse would probably be interested to see a little Xingese, and she wrote the Amestrian translation underneath.

"Dear Alphonse

I am so please to hear that you are interested in coming. When you are ready, I'll send an escort to meet you at the border. I would come myself, but the Journey is Long, and I am working with other Alkahestry Masters to creaty law and policy regarding the Practice and regulation of Alkahestry, similar to the laws in Amestris. This requires many meetings, But I will still have time to teach you. Worry not."

She saw that her handwriting worsened as she thought more and more about Alphonse, Here in Xing. With her. For her.

Where should he stay? Would he want to stay in my estate, or with Emperor Ling? Oh, I don't know. Oh dear. That doesn't matter. I'll deal with that when he gets here.

"I am looking foreword to seeing you again and wish you well in your recovery." Oh...I sound so formal, and ridged. What can I do to help lighten up. Oh!

She carefully penned a small heart after her name. She blushed, but he knew how much she admired him. It wasn't much of a stretch. She folded and post marked the letter for her servant to pick up and walked to the policy meeting with a spring in her step.

"Alphonse, what are you blushing about?" Edward craned his neck over his brother's shoulder with a sneer. Alphonse elbowed him out of the way while folding up the letter. "Is that a heart I see? Did bean girl send you a love letter?"

"Shut up Ed. She was just informing me of the logistics of traveling to Xing and what not." Alphonse still felt his ears burning. It was just a little heart, but his body wasn't ready for this. Not this soon. Trying to remember all those things he thought about when still in the armour. Trying to understand those feelings, that weren't really feelings. I just have to get better faster, so that I can see her, and try to understand.

He stood up to stretch, only to teeter and fall backwards with a yell, but Edward was there to catch him.

"Careful little bro. You're going to give me a heart attack."

"S-sorry. Brother."

"Don't be. Just be more careful. And know your limits."

"Alright Edward. But you too. For Winry's sake."

It was Edward's turn to blush.