Hello everyone!!!! I'm so happy!! Last chapter I got my 100th review!!! I was so excited when I saw the triple digits.
Okay, so yesterday I wanted to update but stupid fanfiction wasn't working for me! Oh well, I'm just glad it's working today.
Thank you for everyone who reviewed last chapter! Please enjoy this one!
"Granny! We're back!" Winry shouted as she opened her front door. Her dog, Den, quickly ran over to the two to great them.
"Hello Winry, hello Edward." They heard Pinako's voice say from a room upstairs.
"You hungry?" Winry asked as she dropped her bag onto the nearby couch.
"What kind of question is that Winry?" Ed asked while kicking off his sneakers.
"Oh right. Why should I have asked the bottomless pit if he was hungry?"
As Winry disappeared into the kitchen, Ed's eyes drifted to the staircase that led to the upper level of the house.
"Hey Win."
"What Ed?"
"Can I go and use your computer?"
"Yeah go right ahead."
"Thanks."
Ed turned and ran up the stairs. As he walked down the hall, Pinako poked her head out into the hallway from one of the rooms and glared at him.
"Do you think you could make anymore noise Ed?"
"Sorry."
Pinako moved back into the room while grumbling something about making a ruckus in her house while she was trying to work. Ed shook his head as he passed the door and went into Winry's room, where she kept her computer.
Ed grabbed the comfy computer chair and sat down on it. The computer was already turned on but not logged on.
"Hmm…If I were Winry…what would my password be?" Ed muttered as he stared around her room for some sort of hint or clue to her password. But her walls were practically bare. The only things that covered her wall were a few blueprints to newer sets of automail and a bulletin board that was covered in pictures of her friends and family tacked up to it.
Having no clue at all, Ed clicked onto the 'forgot your password' button. A bubble popped onto the screen with the words 'What year was The Year?'
"'The Year'? What could that be…?"
Sure, Ed could have just walked down stairs and asked Winry to log him in but that wouldn't have been nearly as fun. He at least wanted to try before he gave up completely.
Plenty of years that had passed had been significant. This year Winry had gotten her drivers license…but this year wasn't over yet. And Winry wasn't the kind of person that would make this year big just because of that.
Ed's eyes drifted back to the board covered in pictures. After closer inspection, Ed noticed that the pictures weren't all recent; some were of several years ago. Ed glanced over his shoulder before he moved closer to it and stared at one picture in particular that caught his attention.
He remembered the exact day they had taken that picture and staring at it made a smile appear on his face. It was of him, Winry, and Roy with the then puppy Den sitting on Winry's lap as it tried to lick Ed's face. The four of them were sitting on the front steps of Winry's old house and the more Ed stared at the old picture, the more he seemed to remember of that day.
"Come on Ed! We have to take a picture." Winry yelled gleefully as she waved around her old Polaroid camera up in the air.
"Why do we have to take a picture?" Ed asked grumpily as he rubbed his right shoulder; it was still extremely soar and it still stung a little bit when he moved it too fast. "What's so important about today?"
"What's important?! Ed you dolt! It's important because-well, look at you. You have two arms and two legs! You can walk and play around like any other normal kid now! Why shouldn't we take a picture?"
"Correction: I have two limbs of flesh and two limbs that are made of steel. What's so normal about me?"
"Aww, quite your belly-aching Elric." Roy mumbled as he placed his head on top of his arm that were resting on the handle bars of his bike. "Just hurry up and let her take the picture. We're burning daylight here and I want to go to the park before it gets too dark."
"Well go then." Ed said from his spot on the porch. "No one's stoppin' ya'."
Roy glared at him for a second before he buried his head into his arms and mumbled something about not wanting to go by himself.
"Come on Ed. Just one tiny picture and then we can go. I just want to take a picture of it. Ya' known, before you wreck it and get it all dirty like I know you will."
"What are you kids doing out here?"
Ed turned to see Winry's mother Sara standing in the front doorway. Her long wavy blond hair was pulled back into a clip like always and she was carrying a large cardboard box in her hands.
"Mom! Ed won't let me take a picture of him!"
"Tattle-tale." Ed muttered as he folded his harms across his chest.
"Now Edward, I think it's a lovely idea to take a picture." Sara said as she set the box down on the porch.
"I don't."
"Why not?"
"'Cause I don't want to."
"Ed!" Winry yelled before she was cut off by her mother's raised hand.
"Edward." She said in a softer tone that Edward knew meant that she only wanted him to hear. "You know that Winry's father and I are leaving tomorrow right?"
"Yeah."
"Well then you should know that Winry is really upset right?"
"Yeah."
"Well then why won't you do something that will make her happy?"
Ed opened his mouth to speak before his quickly closed it to form a thin line with his lips.
"Why don't you just let her take the picture and then you and Roy can go and play with her so that she can take her mind off everything?"
"Well…shouldn't she be spending time with you since you're leaving?" Ed replied smartly, causing Sara to smile at him.
"Well she can spend time with us afterwards since right now we have to finish packing. But before that I think you should just make her happy. Alright?"
"…fine."
"Okay Winry, hand me the camera please." Sara said as she walked down the steps.
Winry ran to her mother and handed her the camera.
"I have an idea. Why don't I take a picture of all three of you guys?"
Winry grinned greatly at the idea before bounding up the stairs and jumping into place next to Ed. Roy, however, made a face that you would usually associate with when you had to finish a diner that you really didn't like at all or had to kiss your great aunt who had a huge hairy mole.
"Come on Roy!" Winry exclaimed.
Roy made the face again before he dismounted his bike, let it fall to the concrete sidewalk, and walked, or more like stomped, next to Ed on the porch. Sara smiled at the three before she walked back a few stapes and held up the camera into position.
"Now you have to look happy. Sit down next to each other! And Roy, stop making that face."
As the three sat down on the stone steps, a small black blur whizzed across the three children's laps.
"Den!" Winry yelled as she got up and ran after the puppy.
"Oh God this is going to take forever." Roy moaned as he let his head fall back.
"Winry stop chasing after that silly pup and get back into the picture!" Sara yelled as Winry came running back towards them.
"Sorry! But Den was saying that he wanted to be in the picture too!" Winry exclaimed as she walked back with the puppy, who was desperate to get free, secure in her arms.
"He was not! Dogs don't talk, they bark, duh." Ed added in a condescending tone.
"Fine! Then he was barking to be in the picture."
"That doesn't make any sense!" Ed countered, causing both Roy and Sara to groan loudly.
"It so does make sense! You're just too-!"
"Winry, Ed, can you two just please sit back down so that we can take the picture and then you can go and play."
Ed and Winry stopped their point-less child argument and sat back into place.
"Ahh! Den! Quit lickin' me!" Ed giggled as the puppy made another move to lick his chin.
"Ed!" Winry squealed as her puppy continued to squirm. "Quit wiggling and let him lick you face!"
"Hey! Ed kicked me!" Roy yelled as he made to block one of Ed's sandals as they flew by Roy's face again.
"Okay!" Sara yelled over the three squirming kids. "On the count of three! One…two… three!"
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Sara stared at the picture as it came out of the bottom. Once the picture became clear, she let out a loud giggle at the ridiculousness of the picture.
"Okay here you go Winry." Sara said as she handed the picture and the camera back to Winry.
"Can you hold onto it until I come back?"
"Sure."
As Sara went back to the box she had abandoned, Winry began to fidget.
"Come on Win! We took the picture so let's get goin'!"
"Um…"
"What?!" Roy asked in an irritated tone as he picked up his bike from the ground.
Winry turned to Ed and tightened her grip on the camera.
"What?" Ed asked.
"Could you um…"
"What?"
"Could you take a picture of me and my mom?" Winry said in a voice that was almost a whisper.
"Fine." Ed said as he snatched the camera from Winry's hands. "Hey! Auntie! Win wants a picture with you!"
"Ed!" Winry scolded.
"What?! You told me you wanted a picture."
"Yeah but you don't have to scream it so loud that the whole neighbor hood can here it."
But it didn't matter how loud Ed said it because Sara walked over to Edward and Winry and smiled down at them.
"Where would you like to take the picture Winry?" she asked kindly.
"Uh…right here's fine."
Ed moved back a few steps as Sara crouched down so that Winry would be a little taller than her before she wrapped an arm around her waste and smiled.
"Okay! Say cheese!" Ed said as he looked through the camera.
"Cheese!" Sara and Winry shouted happily.
Ed put the picture back into its spot before he noticed the other picture that was tacked right next to it. It was the picture he had taken that same day. Ed noticed sadly that there appeared to be a few small water marks on the picture that could only be from tears. He then turned over the picture and read the date that was scribbled on to it.
"May, 12 2005."
2005 was an important year. He had gained mobility with his automail, Winry's parent's had left and died that year, and Winry had also learned about Kimblee's true nature. The year might not have been a very happy one, but it was important.
Ed walked back to the computer and typed in the correct password.
"Hey Ed!" Winry called as she walked down the hall. "Do you need my password to get in?"
"No, I figured it out."
"How did you…?" Winry began as she entered the room.
"Who do you think you're talking to Win?" Ed asked with a large grin.
"Right. Well, I brought you something to eat." She said as she sat down on her bedroom floor.
"Thanks!"
Ed reached down and grabbed his sandwich from off of the tray along with a can of cola.
"So how are you going to find him?" Winry asked as she munched on a handful of chips.
"I don't know. Type in his name and try to filter it all out."
"But what if he doesn't even go by your last name? I mean, did the sheet say Alphonse Elric of something else?"
"Well the sheet said Elric on it."
"Yeah but what if he doesn't go by that anymore?"
"Um…well we'll worry about that later. I mean, what if he doesgo by Elric? Why waste time worrying about something that we might not have had to worry about in the first place?"
"Alright."
Ed moved the cursor into the search bar, typed in 'Alphonse Elric', and then hit search.
So when I was re-reading the whole flashback, I was listening to the second ending song for FMA: Brotherhood and I don't know why but when I read the part with Winry and her Mom, I was seriously about to cry. I don't know why...but if you've heard that ending song, try and listen to it as you read that part and tell me if you felt the same or if I'm just crazy.
Well, thanks for reading and please leave me a review!
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-FSK