Hi everyone! Here's the next chapter of Brotherhood for you! Thank you for everyone who left me a review last chapter. Sorry if the grammar kinda sucks,(I didn't edit this chapter like, at all.) I'm really tired and I just finished this chapter and I wanted to update it as soon as I could.

Please enjoy! :)

The only noise that could be heard in the small class room was the pounding of the heavy sheets of rain on the outside of the building. Ed held let his head fall slightly so that his long blond bangs would cover up most of his face. After some time had passed by, Ed dared to sneak a glance at his friends through his curtain of hair.

None of them appeared to have moved an inch; almost as if his words had frozen time itself. All except for, of course, Winry. She still continued to sit on top of the same desk as before but looked around at the others and tried to gain their eye but to no avail. Every eye was frozen in shock, directed at Edward, who was beginning to feel more and more awkward as time went on.

Finally, after he chased away the temptation to comically lap Sheska's gaping mouth shut, Edward spoke. But his voice sounded weird when he finally did, as if another, less certain and confident person was speaking for him.

"So, uh, yeah…" Ed muttered while he tried to search for the right words to say. "That's, um…right." Ed shoved his hands into his pockets before he stared longingly at the door that led to the hallway. "So I'm gonna go…"

Ed spun on his heal and made a bee-line for the door. Once out in the quiet and tensionless hall, Ed began to relax. He leaned against the wall and let himself slowly slid down until he was sitting down.

Well that was pleasant.

After bringing his legs to his chest and wrapping his arms around his knees, Ed let his head tilt back against the wall and closed his eyes.

Well how were you expecting it to go idiot? Ed asked himself.

"Not like this." Ed muttered to himself while he thought of the perfect scenario he would have had played out if he could chose.

He would have walked into the room, said what he said before, without the nerves of course, and then be done with it. They would quickly get over their astonishment and after a few questions were asked, they would all go back to normal. No big deal. Of course, Ed would then make a little clarification for those who weren't there when he had first found out about it all, but all in all, no biggie.

But then again, things never seem to happen as Ed wants them to, so why would he even try to pretend it would be fine?

Ed could begin to hear hurried whispers from inside the room. They had finally woken form their stupor and began to talk. After a quick debate in his mind, Ed got up from his seat on the floor and started to walk down the silent hallway, too lost in his thoughts to even realize where he was going.

"So…" Roy muttered as he rubbed the back of his head.

A brother…Ed has a brother…

The more and Roy thought about this new fact, it began to make more and more sense. When he had first met Ed, even with him being a cripple and alone, he still contained large quantities of brotherly love and protectiveness…if not over protectiveness. It made sense that Ed would have someone who he a lot about in his other life. So why, after ears of thinking and wondering if he had someone out there, now that they all knew the truth, why did it feel so…so weird?

Was this feeling merely a form of shock? Or was it more? Roy wasn't sure and he didn't feel like trying to figure out what was causing it right now. Not with this extreme awkward silence that was filling the room.

"So." Roy repeated when no one said anything. "Think we should go find Ed? Exams are starting up again in twenty minutes."

"So is that all we're going to do?" Sheska asked. "Make sure he doesn't miss the next exam? You don't want to ask him why the Hell he kept this from us?"

"No. At least, not right now." Roy said.

"But-."

"Roy's right." Riza said as she got up from here own seat and began moving towards the door. "We should just drop this for now until we get out of school."

Roy turned to star at Riza while giving her such a radiant smile that it appeared as if he was about to kiss her for saying he was right. Riza gave him an exasperated look before she opened the door and walked into the hall.

"So are you guys coming or what?"

Ed's feet seemed to be carrying his body throughout the deserted school grounds. He had no idea as to what time it was and why he was even outside now but instead of arguing with himself, Ed let myself slump against closest tree and drift back into his deep and unbreakable thoughts…

"Hello Edward!" said an unnecessarily loud and overly cheerful voice from behind him.

Ed didn't turn his head to look at who had come into the room. He didn't really care at all about who had come in and started yelling and talking so unbelievably, so obnoxiously loud.

A young lady, no older than twenty appeared before him with hair so vividly red, Ed thought he might need sun glasses just to stare at her. She wore a big and proud smile on her face that was already beginning to piss him off. Ed had an inkling as to who this strange and annoying lady might be, but he just hoped that he was wrong.

"Hello Edward! My name is Geneva and I am going to be you're new Psychiatrist-"

Crap. Ed thought to himself.

"-and you're counselor-"

Double crap.

"-and you're personal nurse once you are discharged."

Freaking triple crap sandwich! Ed screamed inside of his head.

"So we better get along now!"

Ed kept his mouth shut firmly. He didn't have much to say to this…woman. All he wanted to know was where and when he was going to be shipped off to some other home full of lonely children. It wasn't as if he was really excited about the prospect of most likely sharing a room with a bunch of snot-nosed brats who would probably gape and gawk at him and asked stupid questions that dissevered beatings, because he wasn't, not one bit. Ed just wanted to know when the Hell he could start trying to get his lost life back into order.

"So Edward-."

Why does she have to keep calling me that?

"I'm very pleased to say that we have found you a lovely home to move into."

She paused, probably expecting some gushing emotion from him, but when Ed said nothing to this, she readjusted he overly white smile and continued.

"You'll be moving in about a week. It's not too far from here to I should be able to make weekly visits to you. Now, do you have any questions for me? Any at all. I'll be happy to answer."

The two sat in their chairs for some time, neither of them spoke. Geneva continued to hold her bright and perky smile while Ed stared at his lap, where his one remaining hand remained. But as he sat there, a question did come to his attention.

It was a question that had bothered him since the second he had woken up in that damned hospital room without a clue as to where he was or even who he was. The only problem was, Ed didn't seem sure if he would be able to ask it. This was where his damn pride got in the way, but if he wanted to know, he had to man up and spit it out already.

"Um."

"Yes?" she sounded much too excited for his liking, but Ed realized it was just one of the things he was going to have to get used to.

"I was wondering…do I have…"

This is stupid, he thought, just forget it. I'm sure they would have said something if they had known. Why wouldn't they? Don't ask!

"Uh, do I have any…well, family?"

Ed quickly felt heat travel to his face as he said the 'F' word to the dye-job nurse. He knew he shouldn't have asked. It made him feel disgusting when he noticed the pitying expression she was giving him. What really annoyed him was that it just looked so…so damn rehearsed and apathetic. She didn't really care about him, so why should he have to make an effort with her?

"Oh sweetie…I'm sorry but we haven't been able to find any relatives. We've checked every place anywhere near our jurisdiction and there was no mention of a single Elric in the area."

Ed wanted to fight with her. He wanted to say that maybe, if he had any siblings to speak of, they had been moved to another hospital or something outside of the jurisdiction. He wanted to say that she was an idiot if all she did was look into local accounts. He wanted to say that maybe he had extended family somewhere far away and they at least could maybe tell him a little about himself if nothing else. Ed wanted to, but he didn't. Instead, he looked back at his hands and nodded.

"Well, now that this is over, I'll help you to your room. You look exhausted. Are you tired?"

Ed gave a small shrug of the shoulders in answer.

"I'm sure you are. Physical therapy can be a toughie."

Ed allowed the women to talk to herself as she wheeled him down the long white hallway to his room, feeling worse than he did before he had met her. Now that he had asked that stupid question, that one little question that gave him a little thing to hope and hold onto, he felt more alone than ever before…

"Ed…?" said a voice over him.

Ed let out a small noise of displeasure before he curled up tighter into a ball on the cool, soft grass.

"Ed."

"mnghh…"

SLAP!

Ed's eyes flew open as a soft hand made contact with the side of his face. Ed looked up to see Riza standing over him, her hand still raised slightly. Ed quickly rubbed his eyes with the palm of his hand before he looked up again.

Standing over him were all of his friends who had just been left in a state of shock. But now they all looked focused and were all smiling slightly.

"Uh, hey guys."

"Hey." Jean said to Ed.

"What are you guys doing out here?"

More importantly, what the Hell am I doing out here?

"Well first of all we came out here to find you because exams are starting up again in about ten minutes." Sheska said.

"But more importantly we wanted to say that we're happy you've found out that you have some sort of blood relation out there." Maes said while holding out his hand to help Ed up from the grass as he wore a large grin.

"Thanks…" Ed said, suddenly feeling very embarrassed with all of this.

"So where does he live?"

"How old is he?"

"Does he know about you too?"

"How far away does he live?"

"When can we go and see him?"

Once the barrage of questions had ended, Ed looked hopefully to Winry for a little help with the situation. She gave him a small smile before she nodded to him and spoke up.

"Alright, alright everyone! Let the kid breath. We can discuss this all later. First we have to go and finish our exams."

Everyone made a noise of agreement before they turned and began walking towards the school, while Ed tried his best to answer the simple questions that he knew the answers to.

Happy ending :)

So I hope you liked this chapter! It was a little difficult to write just because I wasn't sure how I should have his friends react and what would happen afterwards.

*Announcement* I have a goofy little one-shot that I recently put up. I would really appreciate it if you guys could check it out and leave me a review. Long story short, it involves Havoc, booze, and ridiculousness.

-FSK