Thank you, DarkAngelDreams13!! The ever-so-supportive reviewer. =] See? I love my reviewers. And if you review enough, I'll mention you. =D Song is Sparks Fly, by Taylor Swift, and it isn't mine. She never released a recorded studio version. The only way to listen to it is the live concert version, but it still rocks. Sorry if you don't like Taylor Swift. I'll probably use a few of her songs. Read anyway?

WARNING: there's a bit of fluff in here! just a cottonball, but still fluff!!

The way you move is like a full on rainstorm
and I'm a house of cards
You say my name for the first time, baby, and I
Fall in love in an empty bar

After her bath the next morning, she recalled last night's up-chuck and skipped on breakfast. Her hair was brushed, her eyeliner on, and she did feel much better, but she wasn't up to eating right then. She looked in Wrath's bedside table and found an alchemy book. It was covered with a layer of dust, and she could tell no one had picked it up in ages. She took it from the drawer, closed the drawer, and sat on her bed, her back pressed against the wall. Her heels just barely touched the edge of the bed. She sighed, wishing she'd just grow taller. Now I know how Ed must feel. She laughed lightly.

After blowing the dust off the cover of the book and coughing as it found its way up her nose, she discovered the book was How To Draw A Transmutation Circle. She'd read this so many times with Sal. He'd been so skilled. He fixed everything. Everything that was wrong. He made everything all better. He'd raised her more than her own father had. She sighed, opened the book, and started to read the first page.

And you stood there in front of me just
Close enough to touch
Close enough to hope you couldn't see
What I was thinking of

She heard the door creak open, finished her sentence, and glanced up. Ed was there, a smile on his adorable face. "Why'd you miss breakfast? Is your stomach bothering you?" He had a wooden cup in his hand, and she set the book aside so she could take it. It was filled with green tea. and mint. Sal had told her once that tea with mint soothed stomach aches. How thoughtful. Her heart swelled; does he like me? It's so hard to read his eyes.

Ironically, nearly the same thing was running through Ed's mind. He didn't know why, but he wanted her to be happy, and he was willing to do just about anything to make her so. Awww!! :D She patted the bed next to herself, and he sat down beside her, their back against the walls, an inch seperating them.

Drop everything now
Meet me in the pouring rain
Kiss me on the sidewalk
Take away the pain
Cuz I see, Sparks Fly, whenever you smile

"What are you looking at?" He reached over her lap, where her hands cupped the hot tea, and picked up the faded brown leather book. The pages were yellow and it looked like at some point someone had spilled water on it, because the print was a little blurry and there were water stains on the second half of the book.

"How To Draw A Transmutation Circle," she laughed. "Who knew you needed a whole book on that?"

"Yeah." He paused. "You know how yesterday you showed Teacher how you could fix the toothbrush container with alchemy?" She nodded and took a sip out of her cup. The book was in Ed's lap and she was staring at the strange circle in the book. "Well, it was really good."

"Thanks."

"You just... didn't use a Transmutation Circle. That surprises me, because not very many people... do it that way."

"I never learned how to draw a Transmutation Circle. Sal tried to teach me, but I could never grasp it." She took another sip.

"But do you know why you don't need one?"

Get me with those green eyes, baby

As the lights go down

Something that'll haunt me when

You're not around

Cuz I see, Sparks Fly, whenever you smile

"Sal didn't know why. He was confused about it... for so long." She looked down at the liquid. Her mind wandered off, wondering why they called it green tea when it was really a shade of yellow, or maybe brown.

"How exactly did your parents die?"

She didn't want to answer it, but one look at his bright-yet-determined amber eyes and she knew she would tell him anything he wanted to know. "Mommy died when I was four. She fell down the stairs, and I was home alone for two days with her. I thought she was sleeping." She took another small drink of the tea. Ed made it well. For a boy, anyway. "Dad died trying to bring her back."

"How did you live? You don't even have a scratch!" Ed looked at her incredulously.

"I don't know how it really happened, down to the technical science- terms. I was just about to go through these huge wooden doors, and he grabbed my foot and threw me back."

"That was it? He died, and you almost did?"

"I already told you, I'm not sure." She curled her legs underneath her body. She hated talking about it. Especially to him. It was so...awkward.

So reach out open handed
And lead me out to that floor
I don't need more paper lanterns
Take me down, baby bring on the movie star

"Well, I wasn't planning on openly showing you this, but..." He took off his red overcoat, revealing his metal arm. "It's my leg, too. I just... people get kind of freaked out when they see it."

She held the tea in her left hand and touched his metal fingers in the other. " Ow?"

She said it so innocently, they both laughed. She looked him right in the eye for a minute, then blushed and looked away. Ugh. I hate blushing. My face gets all hot and prickly and I hate it. Why does he have to make me blush? They were silent for a moment, and she snuck a glance at him. Ohmigod. He had a determined, almost angry face on, but at the same time she could tell he wasn't quite angry. And he was blushing.

Cause my heart is beating fast
And you are beautiful
I could wait patiently but
I really wish you would

"So what's with you and Wrath? Everytime I try to talk to the kid, he lashes out, and he follows you around like a lost dog."

"Oh, that." She giggled and finished her tea, setting it on the bedside table. "It could have something to do with all the times you've attacked the poor little kid."

"I did not attack him!"

"Well, I don't believe you'd really try and kill someone, Ed. But in his eyes, you were attacking him. Little kids aren't that trusting."

"But he was attached at your side ten minutes after you woke up!"

"Because I hadn't attacked him."

"That's not the point!" He covered half his face with his hand, in a meager attempt to hide the redness.

"Are you blushing?" She pretended to be incredulous, and pulled his hand away from his face.

"No! Don't look at me!"

"I'm loooooooking," she giggled again.

"I said don't look at me!" He rolled away.

Drop everything now
Meet me in the pouring rain
Kiss me on the sidewalk
Take away the pain
Cuz I see, Sparks Fly, whenever you smile

"Ed, you are just too... cute." She said it the same way she would if she were talking to a dog. "But just a little on the short side."

He got that familiar look of indignance. "I. Am. Not. Short. Never say that again and I won't have any problems with you."

"Yeah, sure." She rolled her eyes again. Her hand found its way to the tattoo on her arm.

Ed leaned over and took her arm gently by his good hand. "Do you remember what it means?"

"No," she replied. "But I wanted it done. I begged someone to do it for me. I just can't remember why." She stared down at the cold, cruel, black letters. Serenity. It could mean so many things.

Hit me with those green eyes, baby
As the lights go down
Something that'll haunt me when you're not around

Cuz I see, Sparks Fly whenever you smile

"When did you get it?"

"It was after Sal died."

"Do you remember anything about that guy that was here?"

"Kayle?" She moved her gaze from the tattoo to Ed's face. His golden eyes were curious. "I told him I'd go back with him. I don't know when I should go though." She paused, closing her eyes, picturing it. "There was a lot of people. Living in a house, just half a mile away from the road. There's a sort of... lake, a quarter of a mile away, with a waterfall. We went swimming there." She frowned, her eyes still closed. "I can't swim."

"You're leaving?" Ed answered casually, but inside he was disappointed. After he and Al had their fun, he thought it might've been nice to come back and have her there

Her eyes opened. "Maybe in a few days. I don't know what I'm going to tell Wrath."

"Yeah, he might not take that so well." Ed rubbed the back of his neck. "Remember anything else?" He wanted to say Remember anything useful? But he didn't want to be too harsh.

I run my fingers through your hair
And watch the lights go wild

Keep your beautiful eyes on me
Gonna strike this match tonight
Lead me up the staircase
Won't you whisper soft and slow
I'd love to hate it
But you make it like a fireworks show

"I just..." She closed her eyes and rubbed her temples. "I keep thinking someone beat me up or something. It could've been when I got hurt- like when Izumi found me. But it's different every time I remember it. Like it happened more than once. A lot more than once. And every time I'm just scared. I think that's why I left, but I can't remember."

"Someone was hitting you?" Ed looked a little suprised. Why would someone want to hit her? Of all people.

"I think. I'm not sure." She stood up and picked up the book. Closing it, she set it gently back in its drawer and closed it. The drawer was creaky. "It doesn't matter."

"Are you sure?" He looked at her doubtfully. "Because it would be a little bit of a big deal to me if I were in your situation." She may have been good at lying, but she knew he didn't believe her for a second. She was going to have to distract him from that.

"Really, Ed. It's sweet of you to ask, but I was probably imagining it."She gave him a hug, stood on her tip-toes, and kissed him on the cheek. "I have a big imagination." She turned and skipped from the room before he could see her blush.

Drop everything now

Meet me in the pouring rain

Kiss me on the sidewalk

Take away the pain

Cuz I see, Sparks Fly, whenever you smile

As soon as she was outside, Wrath's big eyes were in her face. "Did I hear you kiss him?" His innocent, childish face was disbelieving.

"Only on the cheek." She took a step back.

"But you like him! So that makes it ten times worser!"

"I know, I know, Wrath." She covered her eyes with her hands and laughed. "Let's go sit outside." The pair turned and walked down the hall.

Hit me with those green eyes, baby

As the lights go down

Something that'll haunt me when you're not around

Cuz I see, Sparks Fly, whenever you smile

Edward had a smile on his face as he exited Kairi and Wrath's room, the cup in his hand. He'd pressed his ear to the door and heard every word.

Sparks fly

Yeah, baby, smile

Sparks fly

That night...

Ed left his coat in her room, but didn't realize it until shortly after he and Al had headed off to bed, which was much later than Kairi and Wrath, who always seemed to go to sleep before them. She'd left it hanging on the doorknob outside of her room.

Remembering their conversation from earlier, he frowned. She may have believed the memories were just a figment of her imagination (which he still didn't believe), but he planned on taking them seriously. But then he blushed when he remembered how she'd departed. She's so... sweet. Who would want to hurt her? What could she have done so bad? He frowned, still blushing, then walked back to the room he and Al shared.

I love Ed. He so rocks. And I took the Mary Sue test on Kairi, (like two different tests) and the first one said she wasn't a Mary Sue and the second one said she was the worst kind of Mary Sue there is!! So what do you guys think she is? Mary Sue or not? Answer the poll on my profile. Being honest. But if you don't have an account and you're an anonymous reviewer, just review and tell me what you think. Thanks!