Fullmetal Alchemist belongs to Hiromu Arakawa. No touchy "

Roy was sitting by the fireplace looking into the flames. Once he was known as the Flame Alchemist, but in this world no one seemed to even believe in alchemy. And if they did, they ended up being burned for heresy.

One single flame seemed to take a shape. Firstly it looked like a bird, trying to spread its wings. Soon it changed into a small kitten. And then it took human shape…

A smirk. A wave of golden hair. A glister in a pair of magnificent golden eyes boring into him. A silent whisper…

'Colonel… Roy…'

Mustang shook his head. Great, now he was hallucinating.

'Oh, Edward, how much longer will I have to suffer? Isn't it enough already?' cried Roy, once more looking at the flames.

In front of the fireplace sat a young blond boy. He was smirking.

'Missed me?' asked the boy and stood up. He looked straight into Roy's eye…

A muffled laughter woke him up. Damn. It was another of these dreams of him.

'You know what, Roy?' said Anna trying not to laugh. He mumbled something incoherent and she continued. 'You're lucky my parents are in a different compartment, otherwise you'd have a hard time explaining that'. She pointed in the direction of his mid-section. Mustang looked down and slapped himself mentally. He obviously had a hard on. Of all the places it had to be in a train, sitting next to Anna! He growled and crossed his legs, making it impossible for the girl to see hisproblem. She giggled and looked out through the window.

'Roy, I was always wondering… Who do you dream about? You always mumble something in your dreams, call someone… I just cannot catch the name!' She complained, waving her hands in the air. He felt a huge head-ache coming… The colonel touched the band on his eye and rubbed his temples with the thumb. He growled.

'Awww, come on! Tell me!' she pressed onto him.

'Trust me, you don't want to know…' he said premonitorily. She rolled her eyes again.

'What, is it me or what? Teeeeeeeeeel meeeee!' she kept on begging and she even began dragging his sleeve.

'Okay! Just… Be quiet.'

'Yaaaay!' Anna cheered and sat on her seat happily. She kept on grinning looking at him. 'Who's the lucky lady? Eh? EH?'

'You don't…'

'Don't 'you don't' me now! You promised me you'd tell me!'

Roy growled again. When exactly did I promise her?

'The problem is…' he sighed. 'It's not a lady.'

'O-oh, so you've fallen for some married woman? Older than you? Already taken? Aww, so romantic! A forbidden relationship! How…'

'Anna.' He cut her monologue. 'It's… not a woman.'

'Eeeh…?' She made huge eyes and looked at him not believing.

'So it's…' She started.

'…a boy.' He ended the sentence and sighed again. 'In fact, a boy your age…'

'So cuuuute!' She shouted in his mid-sentence. It was his turn to make huge eyes. 'I mean, a, you know, relationship like that, it's just soooo cute! Ah, even more forbidden! Two lovebirds that cannot be together! Thorn apart by the fear of being discovered…!'

He sighed. Oh God. A yaoi fan-girl…

'However cute it might seem to you, it will never work… I haven't seen him in a long time and have absolutely no idea where he could be… So I might as well just give up on him and continue this life…'

'No!' Anna shouted standing suddenly from her seat. 'You will be together! I know it! Don't forget my grandma was a Gypsy and a fortune-teller! I know you will find him!'

She had an angry face and one of her eyebrows was twitching dangerously. He sighed and smiled gently and sadly.

'If you say so…'

It was already 1 AM when they arrived at Munich. It had taken them several hours to get to Warsaw, then to Berlin and then to Munich. Roy could hardly remember when he had been so tired. They went out onto the cold streets in front of the station and looked for some kind of transport. After a few minutes of waiting an old, hardly working car rolled through the street and stopped next to them. A man went out of the car…

'Hughes!' Roy shouted surprised.

The man looked at him, amused. Yes, he looked exactly like the Maes Hughes he knew. However, the Hughes he knew was already dead…

'Excuse me, sir, do I know you? How come you know my name?' asked the man.

The raven haired looked at the ground.

'Sorry, you just looked like my friend… The name must be a coincidence.'

The man hummed.

'Ah, I guess…' He laughed lightly. 'It reminds me of a friend too. He said exactly the same thing!' The man continued laughing and looked at Anna and her parents, who were obviously confused. 'Oh… Do you need a drive somewhere? I'm done with my work today, so I could help you…'

'Thanks a lot!' exclaimed Anna and grinned at the man. The man, surprised at first, also smiled. Anna's father explained where they wanted to get to. It turned out that they were to live next door to Hughes and his family. They all got into the car.

'Oh, have I told you about my daughter yet…?' asked Hughes and grinned. Roy felt his brow twitch.

Normally the ride wouldn't even take half hour, but Hughes insisted on driving very slowly and talking on and on about his daughter – Elicia. After they had finally arrived, they thanked him for the drive home and went inside the building to see their new apartment.

It wasn't big, nor was it small. It was smaller than their previous house, but it was a flat apartment, so they were expecting that. Roy wanted to ask Hughes a question about who was that friends of his that said the same thing as Mustang did, but he had enough of this man talking about his daughter all the time. However, it was a great feeling seeing his best-friend, even if he wasn't the same man. He looked and behaved like Maes he knew, but it wasn't him. He felt a pleasant nostalgia remembering the time he had spent with Hughes. It was sad but pleasant at the same time. It just felt… nostalgic.