A/N: I apologize for this final chapter being so short and how long this took me to post. I actually nearly ended it with the last chapter, but I decided I owed you a little closure. I know it's a little vague but my intention is to allow your own imagination and desires to fill in the "ever after" part without me risking ruining what I believe to be pretty much done anyway. Ed and Winry forever.

Ed POV

The fire crackled in the distance as I walked back from the house. All our friends had come and tomorrow was the big day. The wedding that Al and I had argued over as a child was tomorrow. It seems I had won this time and Winry would be my bride, my wife. She is my most favorite person in the world, right next to Al. I would do anything for her, or him, but tonight is about us. It was inevitable that I would compare the two. Alphonse and Winry, my family and the two people I could trust with anything under the sun. But how do you compare to suns who shine equally bright?

Everyone had been looking at me funny lately, as if they were waiting for something. I imagine they expected more angry outbursts but I had lost the impulse. Though I know I am missing chunks of memory and that makes me curious from time to time, I also know to just be happy with my lot in life. I remember the uncertainty, the dread and the horror that surrounded my most recent years. I don't know what was horrible, but I know I was horrified.

In the weeks leading up to tonight, well to tomorrow really, the house had been completed. Teacher had been ecstatic about it being built without alchemy. I know the word should mean more to me than it does but all it brings back is the memory of the night that started all of this; A night that I know better than to try to bring back into clarity.

Al came back tonight, after having gone to pick up May. She was going to be staying with him on the other side of the house for a while. Winry and I were wondering if it might turn into forever.

Everyone who was coming was already here, sitting around a bonfire in our backyard. The Rockbell's home and our newly build home were full to capacity with those we love and trust. There were even a few tents dotting the countryside where people had opted to sleep outside and not bother with the cramped sleeping situation inside.

While I'd like to say that tomorrow will be the end of me and Winry living separately it would be a lie. That really happened the night I came home with Al carefully balanced in a sling. But tomorrow is the start of something all right. An official announcement to the world that we are beginning again and that this time, I will do it right. Tomorrow is the start of no more regrets or fuzzy memories. No more being horrified and no more waiting or searching.

:Fade to morning:

It was an interesting time of day for a wedding. Edward had insisted on a wedding while the sun rose. To be symbolic of everything starting over, happy and pure this time was his reasoning, to the great surprise of everyone who heard those words come out of his mouth. No one had said a word at having to wake up in the gray dawn and set up in front of the house. Ed deserved much more than he was getting so no one dared complain about waking up early. The alter was under the tree, where Ed would wait for Winry to come to him, for the first time ever. It wasn't going to be a fancy wedding. Everyone had brought folding chairs with them and lined them up in two separate sections so there was a little aisle to walk down. One of Izumi's new student's had sprinkled petals down the aisle and had had a blast doing it.

As the gray dawn was lightening almost everyone was ready and in place. Edward had vehemently refused to wear anything but what he always wore, and while outwardly Winry threatened him with a wrench to no avail, inwardly she thought it was kind of perfect. Winry had modified her normal white sundress to be strapless after much frustration and help from Pinako. It wasn't much, but all she wanted was waiting for her under the tree outside.

Everyone was in place as the gray dawn began to blush pink, Winry stepped out of the back door and started her walk around to the front, with Armstrong escorting her. She had contemplated asking someone else to do it, but when she had seen him again after all this time she just knew it should be him. She waited outside contemplating all the different paths her life could have taken until just before the sun was going to peak over the grass. Once the time arrived she turned the corner and appeared at the end of the aisle. Her eyes locked with Edwards', they smiled and then… she took a step towards her future.