You.
Everyone fell back into silence.
Inside the packages, was pictures.
Photos.
Photos that they had never seen or known about before. And photos that they had not seen inside of the book.
Each frame was different and each photo was different. But there was two things each photo had in common with each other's.
At the top each frame was a golden emblem, each one different, but the thing carved out in each was the same. The word You.
And the second thing was the fact that while Edward wasn't usually in the center of attention in each photo, he was still present in each.
Everyone could tell that the frames where handmade and crafted with great expertise. But they could not even begin to think of when he could have possibly have gotten a chance to make these.
Edward's children shared a look with each other's before they turned back to their photos.
The final gift from their father.
So that was what he was working on every time he was in the workshop whenever he had any free time and mom was out. Was a thought that crossed the four's mind.
Dan's frame was made to look like feathers and the emblems were also feathers.
The photo was of him, Edward and his father with his father looking angrily at him. Dan remembered that Edward had been snickering moments before Riza had snapped the picture.
But the Edward in the picture was no snickering. He was smiling. A proud and warm smile.
Dan quickly looked up from the photo and looked at Edward.
Maya's frame looked like the scales of a lizard. The emblems were inside of lizards.
The picture was from a few years back. It had been taken during the summer of that year during one of the group family's whole family picnics.
In the picture was her, her brother, her father, her mother, Edward, Winry, Edwin, Trisha, Nina and a rather young Maes in his mother's arms.
She had shown off that she had caught on her father's flame alchemy that day.
Her father looked surprised, Winry had looked amazed and her mother had looked worried. But Edward, he just looked proud….But with a warm smile.
Maya looked up from the photo and at Edward.
Riza's frame was shaped like hawk wings. The emblems were the silhouettes of a hawk.
In the picture was her, Roy, Edward and Winry. It was their wedding, so of course the two had to be there. Edward had been the best man. And while the photo had been taken at an unimportant moment of the wedding,, it did not take long for Riza to notice Edward's smile and almost immediately look up from her picture and then at the passed man.
Roy's frame was shaped like flames and the emblems were smaller flames.
In the picture was him and Riza, Edward and Winry. It was when he had finally proposed to Riza…..At Edward's and Winry's wedding.
Roy still remembered that day.
Because the moment after the picture had been taken, the crowd at Awwwed at them and both Edward and Winry had beaten the two up for stealing the spotlight.
Not that it was his fault that Riza had caught the bridal bouquet.
Then he noticed just how Edward was smiling and he immediately looked at his friend.
A raindrop hit the glass protecting the moment.
Mia's frame was shaped like the waves of the ocean and the emblems were small islands.
Edward knew that she liked to swim and to travel over water.
The picture was taken in Xing and it had herself, her sister, her mother, her father and her uncle and her aunt in it.
She was holding a bird that her mother had healed with Alkestry in her hands.
The bird had been hurt by some other animals and instead of chasing the hungry animals of, she had given them some food from the palace while her mother had healed the bird.
Then she saw her uncle's smile and she looked up at him.
Clara's frame looked like the mountains of Xing and the emblems looked like her favorite place to be in the mountains. The hot springs.
The picture was of her, her mother and her father, Edward and Winry. The day memories in the photo was nothing special, other than she had said she understood why Edward's children loved him so much. He was always so sweet and caring.
Then she noticed how he was smiling in the picture and looked up at her uncle.
Mei's frame was shaped like bamboo shoots and the emblems looked like Chao Mei.
A tear left her eyes, she remembered her old friend.
She glanced over at her husband to try and see what his picture was since it was making him cry so much. Then she turned back to her own.
The picture was of her, her husband and of course, of Edward and Winry. It was one of the happiest days of her life. The day she had married Alphonse. Nothing more, nothing less.
Then she saw how her brother in law was smiling. She made a light gasp and quickly looked up at Edward. Had she had the ability to save him, she would have given her all for sure. Especially after this.
Maes' frames looked like the sides of a book and the emblems were of open books.
His father knew that his love for reading books had gone to him and that whenever they were alone how the two of them could have been completely lost in the world of books for hours on end.
A tear hit the protective glass of the moment inside.
Maes was really going to miss having those moments now.
The picture was of him, his father and the fuhrer in his office when they had visited him a while back.
Maes was furious and screaming towards a shocked Roy who looked like he was seeing an army of ghosts or something.
Then he noticed his father and he had looked up from the picture.
Another tear hit the glass.
Nina's frame looked like several different dog types and the emblems were paw prints.
She had always liked dogs and while Den was gone, she was taking care of her three puppies. Sadly, both her own dog and the puppies were at the vet so that it wouldn't be a repetition of what had happened a few years back when Roy had brought with him his ignition gloves.
She remembered the day in the picture fondly.
She was in her father's arm as he was walking with her uncle on his side, both of them giving warm looks at each other's and at Nina. Her mother, Edwin and Trisha was seen in the distance.
Her father's eyes were a bit redden by the tears he had shed that day.
She really did not mean to scare her father and uncle like that, she just wanted to play with the dogs she had found.
Then she noticed her father's affection filled smile and she immediately looked up at him.
Trisha's frame was looked like wood and the emblems looked like a house.
Trisha did not know if that was meant for her or for her father's mother. Either way, knowing how lovingly her grandmother had raised her father and how that had made him turn out to be made her respect the choice.
In the picture was just her and her father, sitting by her bed side as the sun was rising through the windows.
She remembered it very clearly.
She had gotten a nasty fever and both her father and uncle had hurried to her side and both stayed there. Maybe it was because of Sara, or maybe it was because of their mother.
But the first thing she had seen when she had woken up when her fever had broken was her father by her side. Watching her.
And how he had smiled when she had woken up.
Then she realized exactly how her father had been smiling at her when she had woken up and in the picture and immediately looked up at her father.
Edwin's frame looked like lightning and the emblems looked like thunder clouds.
Edwin had always liked thunderstorms for some reason. But Edwin knew his father. And Edwin knew himself. Those weren't thunder lightning's. Those were alchemy lightning.
The photo was just him and his father at the entrance to Risembool school on a bright spring day.
Edwin had asked that day why his father was so proud that he went to school that day.
His father had answered with an embarrassed voice and a big grin and that after the day before in his own years, he had not been going to school since then. So it was like Edwin would continue were Edward had left off.
Winry was crying as she kept looking at the picture within the frame made out of old automail bits of Edward's own automail and the emblem wrenches.
The moment in the picture felt like it had only been yesterday, but it was so many years ago.
It was their wedding day and the two were dancing in the in the picture with Al and Mei in the background together with Roy and Riza and many more of their friends and familiars.
There were MANY pictures taken of them during that day, many of them when they had been dancing, but none of them had shown the two like this picture did.
They were both completely calm, happy and proud. They were both smiling.
Winry did not even to look up to see it to know it, yet she looked up just to get her eyes of the picture.
Alphonse was crying even worse than Winry as his shacking hands were holding the picture made to look like it was made from pieces of the old armor. The golden emblems was of that which many had considered his face for the years he had been inside of that armor.
The picture was of the two of them.
Alphonse Elric and Edward Elric.
The Elric Brothers.
Both in the hospital.
Alphonse was still in bed, but he looked a lot better than he had during The Promised Day.
Alphonse remembered the day clearly.
It was the day he said he was ready and healthy enough to get up and stand for himself and stop being locked inside the hospital walls.
There was another picture in the book that was taken a few moments before this picture. Edward had been grinning madly and hugged his brother tightly.
Here thou, he was sitting relaxed and smiling.
They were both smiling.
Alphonse nearly dropped the memory on the floor.
But he managed to control himself enough to put it on the table before he could not handle the grief anymore.
Everyone came to his side and supported him.
Winry was the first of the two who stopped crying and she made Alphonse stop crying by saying what she said next.
- Surrounded by those whom he loved. Winry said and looked up.
Alphonse looked up at her.
- Winry…..Alphonse said a bit shocked.
- Surrounded by those who he loved and that loved him. That was how he was born and that was how he died. He dies surrounded by those who he loved. Winry said with her strength returned to her.
- Winry…?Alphonse said a bit puzzled.
- This wasn't Edward's final request. This was his final gift to us. Winry said determined as she stood up and everyone looked at her.
- That is Edward for you. Always other's first, then himself, if even that. Roy said trying to hide how happy he was by sounding flat. He failed.
- Winry…Alphonse said as he tried to get back up.
- Come on. He is already smiling. Let's do it. His final request. That it ends like it started. With him surrounded by those that he loved.
- Mm-Hmm! Everyone said in unison and nodded firmly.
A few minutes later and everyone was ready, all of them standing behind the chair Edward was in.
Everyone was happy and smiling, but they weren't too happy.
They were all giving away a proud and warm smile as the camera flashed and became an immortalized moment that would last forever.
And so the books final picture was added.
Edward sitting in his chair, surrounded by both friends and family, all of those whom loved him.
Everyone looked happy, but also proud.
In the picture, it was more the obvious that the flame of determination and the fullmetal hearts would live on.
