I wasn't planning on posting this chapter until Thursday or Friday, but it's my brithday and so I'm updating early! Also; I made a poll to see which of my fanfictions the readers enjoyed most.

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It had been two days after his breakdown and he was now strolling along Fort Briggs like nothing had happened. He had gotten Sloth back to work, made sure that the Elric didn't spill any information to Briggs on what he knew about the homunculi- he was still a little unsure on that as he had a feeling they knew something was up- and all he had to do now was carve the blood crest into the mountain.

Which he was having a block on all his creativity. It was more annoying then being around humans!

For some reason- he was going to blame Al for it if it kept up- he wasn't able to come up with any ways to spark a battle that would carve a blood crest without raising supicions. He could use his shapeshifting abilities to cross into the Drachma border, but when he tried it, as a bear, he got shot at by both Drachma and Briggs soldiers! So inflitration was out of the picture.

The only ideas he had left was to have Kimblees chimera body guards go traitor, join Drachma and get Drachma to launch an attack but these chimeras would refuse the idea, he just knew it. Hell, they'd be shot before they made it to the border by one side or the other anyway. They probably wouldn't even make it out of sight of Fort Briggs before being shot if he went with that plan!

What made matters worse was these small bits of memories that kept coming back to him that was from the old Envy. He was starting to believe Al more and more about him being the same Envy as the old Envy. He hated having to admit that, but he wasn't going to let Al know, nor was he going to give up on refusing to be the same Envy as the previous one.

Then there was also the Fullmetal Pipsqueak who looked like he wanted to rip Envy apart, Als body or not, and that Winry girl who seemed determined to make him her new BFF or something like that. He was pretty sure that Edward wanted to kill him because of jealousy, which was why he would go along with whatever Winry was trying to make him do when Ed was around. It was amusing seeing him so pissed off.

Alphonse also seemed intent on making him become a good guy. Like hell he was betraying Father, he didn't want his family trying to kill him. Not that he couldn't take them...well Sloth and Pride and Father he would never be able to beat, all for various and obvious reasons, but the others he sure could.

He stopped walking and glanced backwards, letting out a sigh, "Can I help you with something?" He asked, looking at Winry who was following him with a smile. Edward wasn't around so he wasn't going to go and be nice to her like he was to piss Ed off.

"Nope, your doing just fine," She said with a smile, waving him off, and Envy just raised an eyebrow at her before continuing to walk, Winry following closely behind.

That was another thing, whenever she was free, she would follow Envy around like a puppy. Some of the soldiers here even started calling her his 'puppy', and called her when she wasn't near by his 'bitch'. For some reason that pissed him off when they called her that. It shouldn't but it did and brought bouts of confusion to his mind. It was becoming more and more like a spiders web- he was going to blame that on Al too.

What scared him though, well not scared but made him a little anxious, was the fact that she knew he was a homunculus, knew that he was Envy. She even knew about the others, more then Fullmetal Pipsqueak did too! Some mechanic he had, knew more then him about his enemies. He'd have to warn Father about this when he got back to Central. She could prove dangerous, as it seemed the only thing she didn't know was what the Nation Wide Transmutation Circle was going to do.

He continued walking, trying to ignore Winrys cheerful presense behind him. He couldn't really discuss any ways to carve a blood crest with Kimblee if she was following him, and the longer it took to come up with the idea and create the blood crest, the more annoyed Father and Pride would be. He didn't really want to piss them off, especially after the memory of the old Envy being killed. He actually felt the pain of his death! It was not pleasent.

Thinking of that memory brought back another one, the reason why the old En-...the hell with it. The reason he had been killed before. He had liked a human girl more then he should have and dated her. He had a memory of a date with her, but the name and face continued to escape him. Though he knew Alphonse knew who it was, with how he avoided the subject like it was poison. Hell, he had a feeling both the mechanic and the Fullmetal Brat knew.

But then he started thinking about how familiar Winry seemed to be. She had said they had been friends, but, had they actually been friends? Closer? Every time he tried to think about what she might have been to him, his thoughts are sent into a crazed scramble, darting everywhere as though his mind just didn't want to know what she was to him.

"So, Alfonse," Winry said and looked around, there wasn't anyone near by in the empty hall, "Envy, what's it like having Alphonse in your head?" She asked innocently.

Envy rolled his eyes, "It's like having an annoying voice in your head scolding you and talking to you that never shuts up," He explained and glared at her, "Sort of like you."

Winry returned the glare and turned around, "Sorry for trying to get you to open up," She said, crossing her arms over her chest and a pout forming. Envy had to resist the urge to gag.

Envy just started walking, "Why don't you just go bother your boyfriend Fullmetal and not me?" He offered and didn't see the pained look in her eye as he walked.

"He's not my boyfriend," She explained as she sped up to catch up to him, "I don't like Ed that way. He's like a brother to me...I can't imagine myself ever being with him without it feeling all weird and awkward. Sort of like imagining you and Lust together."

Envy shuddered. The idea of him and Lust together was wrong because she was his sister! And her figure just disgusted Envy. He didn't understand what men saw in her.

The Sin rolled his eyes after he recovered from the thought of him and Lust, "Good for you then. The one guy who probably has the most chance of liking an idiot like you, and you don't even like him," He said, not caring that he was being a complete jerk to her, he was Envy, why should he care? "I guess you'll die living alone all your life."

Winry stopped walking and hit him on the head with a wrench. Envy fell to his knees from the blow and glared up at her.

"What the hell?" He yelled but his anger seemed to dissapear when he saw the tears start to well up in her eyes.

She blinked a few, times, wipped them away on her sleeve and glared at him, "Envy! Your such a jerk it's unbelievable!" She yelled and stormed off.

For the first time, Envy actually felt bad about what he did as he watched her walk away.

"You regret what you did?" Al asked and Envy did in fact regret what he said to her. It was uncalled for, and unprovoked, he had no right to say things like that to her-what the hell was he talking about!

Shaking his head, Envy continued to walk away, "Not at all," He said, lying calmly, "At least she's gone now. Now I can get back to work and finish my mission up, I can't wait to leave this cold wasteland."

If Alphonse saw through his lie, he didn't show it and Envy appreciated it alot. He didn't really know why he said something like that to her. But he had a feeling it was because of envy. Not himself, but the actually sin. The more he thought, the more he confirmed it. He was jealous, that's why he said something like that. He didn't know why or of who, but he was jealous. How he didn't notice the sin bubbling up inside him when he spat those hurtful things, he didn't know.

Envy sighed as he walked out of the base, letting the soldier know he was going for a small little walk. Of course the soldier questioned if he would be alright but he told him he would be fine. After all, it wasn't like he couldn't handle Briggs Mountain, it could throw it's worst blizzard and he'd be alright.

As he walked through the snow, hands in his pocket, he thought hard. What could he do to get rid of all this guilt he had...for making the girl cry? He didn't know why he felt guilty about doing something like it. But it didn't feel right to make her cry and seeing her cry felt like like Buccaneer punched him in the gut with his automail arm.

Why was he feeling guilt for his actions? He did not know. To be honest, he felt like he didn't understand anything anymore. Ever since he was put in Alphonse, it felt like he got to see things from a new perspective, sure he still love killing and tormenting humans, that felt right to him. But Fathers plan to be God and National Transmutation Circle just didn't seem right anymore.

He let out a sigh, giving up with this mental battle, "Alphonse," he started and paused, waiting to see if Al was going to respond and talk to him.

"What is it, Envy?" The polite response from the younger Elric echoed through his mind.

Drawing a deep breath, Envy looked for some way to say this, "How do you..." He could do this, he was Cobbled Together Envy, Envy the Jealous, A homunculus, the Sin of Envy! This was nothing compared to what he had done before! So why was this so hard to do? "How do you...ho-how do you apologize?" He asked.

There was a dreadful silence and he awaited Alphonse to start laughing at him. Oh how the mighty Envy had to drop his level just to apologize! How he had to ask a lowely human for advice and answers on how to ask forgivness. It was embarrassing enough that he had to ask Alphonse, but he knew that Al would laugh at him. Any of the other Homunculi would, so why wouldn't a human?

But no laughter came. Instead he heard Al let out a thoughtful hum in his head, contemplating how to answer the question.

"You want to apologize to Winry, for what you said to her, don't you?" He asked, but didn't laugh or mock him, just asked him a simple question.

The Homunculi ducked his head and nodded and he felt Alphonse nodding his head as well.

"It's simple," Al said and Envy had to raise an eyebrow, mentally asking him if it was so simple why he needed help. He could feel Al smile, "It is, just go up to her, say your sorry for saying those things, that's the basic."

Envy let out a bitter laugh, "A simple 'I'm sorry' will be enough?" He scoffed, he didn't believe it at all.

But he felt Alphonse nodding his head, "Yeah, though make sure you let her know you mean it, that you really are sorry. Don't say anything rude, just let her know your sorry and mean it."

He let out a sigh, "Worth a shot," He said, heading back to Fort Briggs, "But, if it doesn't work, I'm blaming you, Mini-Elric."

"Fair enough."

While he walked back to the base and through the halls to look for her, his mind thought about how to go about this. He couldn't remember actually apologizing to someone and meaning it, so how would he know if it would work?

He found her sitting in what he determined was the medical and automail center of the base. He took a deep breath before walking in, his eyes glancing between Winry and Edward who was sitting across from her.

Both glared at him, but Eds glare was more for hatred then Winrys who's just showed she was still upset over earlier.

"What do you want?" Winry demanded.

Envy froze but managed to calm a little to take a deep breath, trying to ignore the glares, "Winry..." He began, "I'm s-...I-I-I'm s-s-s-so..." He couldn't do it, he couldn't say those words with her glaring at him like that.

"You can do it, Envy!" Al encouraged, understanding that this would be difficult, saying 'I'm sorry' or anything along the lines was probably a completely unnatrual thing for Envy.

Envy nodded to himself and took a deep breath. He could do it, he could do it, he could do it, he chanted in his head, "Winry, I am sorry that your an oversensitive baby!" He cried out, he was surprised by what he had said, he wanted to say 'I'm sorry for what I said' but instead his voice said that. Would it work as an apology? Please let it work.

"..." Alphonse, Edward, and Winry didn't say anything.

Edward just stared at Envy, enraged that he'd called Winry an 'Oversensitive baby' as an apology. How was insulting her a suitable apology? It wasn't! Did Envy want a death wish? Because Ed would happily kill him if he did!

But Winry just stared in shock, eyes wide, mouth opened a little. Her gaze softened though, and her mouth formed a sad smile.

"Apology accepted, Palm Tree," She said smiling.

PALM TREE? Envy though, "I'M NOT A PALM TREE!" Envy snapped, so much liked Ed, Winry and Al thought.

Winry just laughed, as though sharing an inside joke, then nodded, "Thank you, Envy. I think I needed that," She said, walking away leaving three utterly confused boys in her wake.

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