A/N: Ok I know it's been almost 2 and a half years and there is no excuse for it to have taken me this long. So anyways on with the story and I will try to post more often but no guarantees.

The Storm

-On the Path-

Al ran frantically trying to catch up to Analie.

This is not good was all he could think about as he finally caught up to her.

"Analie wouldn't you really rather go to the river? I mean it would be nice to play in the water."

"I do love playing in the water, maybe we will go there after this, I mean this looks like it leads to a mysterious place under the trees in the forest."

That was when Al noted how many trees have grown around the path that was once a road. He remembered that him and Ed always enjoyed walking to their house because of forest and all the hiding spots they would use to scare each other, mainly for Ed to scare Al.

The path bent and Al knew they were getting close and his stomach started to knot up. He could only imagine what this was going to do to her. It was her house where she grew up in, and she freaked out from being in the burnt remains of his old home. Analie skipped down the path a step or two ahead of him.

Although he knew that this was going to be a bad day he couldn't help but notice how the little light that escaped the netting of the branches caught on her hair and how it shined as she bounced up and down. How her dressed flowed behind her making her seem like a ghost or an angel. The depression came back. It hurt to be so close but not ever going to be close enough.

Analie saw the house. Her mind was in amazement at how this gorgeous Victorian home looked in the middle of the forest surrounded by trees. She felt like it was one of the fairy tails that Raven use to tell her. She stopped her skipping and ran to the edge of the hill that lead right to the house. Something seemed very familiar and she couldn't quite put her fingers on it.

"Analie we're on some body's property we really should be going"

Analie looked at the house. It had vegetation growing around the house, vines covered the windows.

"Wow everything looks so green, Al I don't think anyone's here and hasn't been here for a while."

She started running down the hill and Al just though to him self this isn't going to be good.

Analie reached the door. Vines wrapped around the handle and covered the door. She twisted the handle snapping some of the vines. The door stuck at first but after a tug it creaked and vines snapped as the door opened. Al caught up to Analie right as she opened the door. The smell of dust and age filled his nose. Chills ran up his spine as he walked in and the cold, stale air hit his body. Dust covered everything to the point that everything was brown. Al watched as Analie gently touched the furniture. He was waiting for the moment when everything would flood back to Analie, and he was silently hoping that everything was buried deep inside her head.

Analie walked from room to room everything seemed vaguely familiar but it was all covered in dust. She finally came to a room that looked like a library. She started wiping some of the dust off the spines of some books reading their titles. Some looked interesting and others were written in other languages. She found some that caught her interest and she started pulling them off the shelves. She pulled 5 books down and before she could set the 5 down on the stack Al came walking in the room.

"Analie what are you doing?" Al said in a curious voice.

"I want to read these."

"Why?"

"They look interesting."

"Well it's getting late we should get going."

"Oh Al can't I read at least one?"

She gave him the puppy dog face, and Al was defenseless.

"I'm sure whoever was here wouldn't mind if we borrowed them for a couple days."

Analie smiled, "Ok," she picked up the books and tried to walk with them but it didn't work in her favor. After taking three steps she manages to trip and fall scattering the books around. Al laughed lightly as he grabbed the books and stood up at the same time as her.

Analie looked at him, "I can carry those, you don't have to"

Al laughed again, "it's alright, less chance of something happening to them or you if I carry them."

Analie smiled thankfully at him and they walked out of the house. Once outside Analie turned to close the door, when she did she saw what appeared to be a women standing in the kitchen, which could be seen from the entryway, and everything was clean there was no dust. The women had her back towards Analie but Analie had the feeling of wanting to touch the women. Analie blinked and then everything was gone, the women and the clean house. Analie shook her head thinking that maybe what Raven said was true and the rain had made her sick. She closed the door and then turned back to Al, who was looking at her worried, and she smiled at him and started walking to the house.

"Al can we not tell Raven about coming to this house or even going inside, she would kill me thinking that it was to dangerous and that I was being oblivious to myself care."

Al smiled and nodded. After that neither of them said anything, Al was too worried about Analie suddenly remembering something or bumping into something, which he did have to redirect her sometimes and Analie had started one of the books and her mind wasn't anywhere near her body.

They both reach the house and as they walked in they heard Raven teasing Ed about his size and Winry wasn't helping Ed out at all.

"Dwarf," Raven said with a teasing smile on her face.

"Psycho," Ed was red with fury.

"Well Ed you are only like 2 cm taller then the legal midget," Winry added.

"See that proves my point, midget"

"I'M NOT A MIDGET"

Al started laughing. Everyone stopped and looked at Analie first then Al. Analie was laughing quietly behind Al. Raven spotted one of the books Al was carrying.

Her eyes narrowed as she spoke, "So, you guys went to the library?"

Analie smiled, "yeah the path was a dead end so we went to the library"

Al nodded in agreement. He knew that Raven knew it was a lie but he would explain later.

Analie smiled, "Well I'm going to put these up then go out to the porch to read this one a bit more" she held up the book she was reading while they walked home. She toke the 4 books from Al and went to put them in her room.

Raven turned to Al but before she could ask him a question he answered, "She didn't remember a thing cause everything was covered in dust and letting her bring the books was the quickest way to get her out."

Raven nodded. A few moments passed before Analie walked back in and grabbed the books she was reading. She opened it up and was reading it while trying to make it outside. She almost bumped into a wall except for Al ran up and redirected her. After that Al just followed her out to the porch.

Once Al and Analie left Raven let out a sigh.

"What don't you want her to remember about her childhood," Winry asked out of curiosity.

"Some children don't have the childhoods that they show on T.V. actually it never works that way but Analie had it bad. I wish I didn't even remember what all happened but it wasn't nearly as bad for me as it was for her and lets just leave it at that. I don't want to chance her hearing us," Raven said while looking down. Ed and Winry just nodded.

-On the porch-

The porch was set up simply. If you were facing the front of the house then the step were on the left hand side of the porch and on the right corner was a lounge chair with the back leaning against the wall of the house. Then against the railing that was perpendicular to the house was a love seat and then there was a stack of little white lawn chairs that came along with the table that was on the dirt in front of the porch. Analie was sitting on the lounge chair and Alphonse sat on the love seat, the side that was closest to Analie. Al looked at her and was stunned. Her blonde hair was golden under the falling sun, her skin glowed and her eyes were playfully serious, and her face showed that she was concentrating on her book. He watched her lips form the words from the book. He wanted so badly to kiss her but he knew that it may harm her if he did. Also, he knew that they would have to leave soon; Raven explained that they couldn't stay. Al looked away as two tears slid down his cheek.

Analie looked up from her book to see Al watching her lips. She saw him turn away quickly, even though she couldn't see his face she knew something was wrong. She closed her book and silently got up from her seat and sat on the love seat beside him, facing him. She noticed the tears sliding down his cheek and with a gently motion she wiped them from his face.

"What's wrong Al?"

Al blushed and shook his head.

"Al you can tell me. I'm a good listener and I'll help if I can."

Al sighed and figured it couldn't do any harm, "Have you ever liked somebody but you couldn't be with them. Well that's what I'm going through."

"Is it Winry?"

Al thought about it. If he said no then that leaves her to wonder, which may not turn out good, and if he said yes he would be lying to her, but its for her own good.

"Yeah it is Winry"

"Oh, well honestly maybe if you talk to her about it but in the end maybe it would be best to move on," Analie said the last part quietly trying not to offend Al or to hurt him.

Al sat there for a moment thinking about her words, could he let her go? He didn't want to but it would help her. There was no way he could talk to her about it. What was he thinking he could still be friends with her at least while she was still here and with him. Once they left he would have to let her go. He would have to try his hardest to never think about her again and to try not to contact her. He looked down sadly.

"Its much more complicated then that," was his only response.

"Only if you let it," was all that Analie said and then she gave him a big hug and Raven came out and announced that it was dinner time. They both went inside and had dinner with everyone. There were a few laughs but mostly everyone was quiet. They all had something on their minds, Winry and Ed both were thinking about earlier that day, Raven was worried about Analie going back to their house, Al was thinking about the day Raven and Analie had to leave and Analie was upset that Al liked Winry when she liked him. It was one busy day for all of them but only if they knew that the day was not over.

A/N: Dun Dun DUNNNNN. I'm going to start the next chapter tonight and I'm going try to have it up tomorrow but no promises. And if it wasn't for Mangafreak3 I wouldn't have made this chapter because she inspired me to actually sit down and type this up.