And so the adventures continue on! Thank you so much for the reviews and such! I love reading and responding to them! :D In this chapter, I wanted things to move forward some in Angel's life, hence Envy and Greed. I also wanted to explain, somewhat, what had happened to Angel when she was developing. At the time, I was thinking of Wrath in the 2003 version of FMA when he ate the stones. All I kept thinking was: what if his body rejected them?

So onto Ed, everyone seems to feel for the guy. To be honest, I do too! The more I write him, the more I am thinking "Oh my God, I am a terrible person for putting Ed through this." I also wanted to bring up Mickaela's blanket again. That thing is a literal security blanket to her. I also wanted to show a little more of the relationship between more of the characters. I hope I did it.

Songs: "In My Head" by Jason Derulo
"Because the Night" by Cascada (This song seemed to be a song I was thinking of when I was writing when Envy and Greed came in and asked Angel if she would go with them)
"My Little Girl" by Tim McGraw (An Ed-Mick song. I was listening to this, thinking about Mick's blanket and when Ed goes to pick her up from Maes' house.)

Ed looked to Roy a couple hours after he had seen the girl. He was glad that Roy had a chance to finally look at the girl who definitely reminded Ed of Andi. It almost thrilled Edward that Roy thought the same after talking with her.

God, did that girl with the red coat sound like Andi, Ed casually thought. She talked like Andi and everything. It should have bothered Ed, but, for some reason, it didn't. When Ed was around her, everything around him faded. Just like he had felt with Andi.

"Ed, you're day dreaming," Roy said with the same tone he used to use on the former Fullmetal Alchemist, when he performed the science and was the treasure of the military. He'd also use the tone with his adopted daughter as some would call her.

Ed shook his head. "Sorry, Roy," Ed said softly, trying to ease that girl's image to the back of his mind for now. "I was thinking."

"About?"

"Her. That girl we saw by the bakery."

"It's been two hours since you've seen her, and you're acting like you see her every day."

"I know it's odd," Ed said quickly with a slight annoyance. "But...there is something about this girl. She..."

"Reminds you of Andi?"

Ed gave him a hard look. "Don't say her name," he said as he finished in his head, because it still hurts to think about her.

Roy raised both gloved hands into the air. "Fine," he said. "Just so you know, it still hurts for me too."

Ed gave Roy a look. "What?"

"Binding told me to watch her, protect her like she was mine." He scratched the back of his head as he thought about the little girl he took in after he was released from the Ishval War to become a legal guardian for an eight-year old little girl, who was the Binding Alchemist's pride and joy. He remembered the day clearly when he went to get her from the orphanage the state had placed her in until a legal guardian could get her. "In a way, she was. All of us on my team, and a couple others, helped raise her. It wasn't just you who lost someone important in their lives."

Ed sighed, looking out to the city. He knew what Roy said was true. At least the flaming bastard could say her name. Ed couldn't. He tried so many times, but couldn't. There was no way he could say his wife's name without feeling the bile rise in his throat and resisting the urge to release all contents of his stomach into the nearest toilet or trash can.

"Roy, I know. But...For me...She was my reason to stay," Ed said.

"What do you think would have happened if you and her didn't have Mickaela?" When Roy was met with a glare, he chuckled. "Settle down, Ed, asking a hypothetical."

Ed sighed, thinking about it. "I would have traveled more. Maybe married Winry, then divorce her." He sighed again. "I guess I wouldn't have been as happy. What about you? What would you be doing..."

"What? If I didn't follow a dying man's wish?" Ed nodded. Roy thought about it, then he finally shook his head. "I don't think I could think about it. Since I pretty much adopted her, I can see why Binding was so about her."

Ed growled. "Cheater."

When the silence was long enough of not takling to each other, Roy got back to work on the paperwork. Ed sighed as he glanced down at the papers that seemed miraculously in his what he thought were empty hands. He read one of the lines, furrowing his eyebrows.

"Roy, one question," Ed said as he reread the words about twenty times.

"What, Ed?"

"Where can I find information about the mission the night she went missing?"

Roy sighed, muttering under his breath about Ed's focus on his wife's case being like his determination on finding the Philosopher's Stone to get Al's body back. "You can ask Maes. He is in investigations," he said. Then he looked at the clock. "You can ask him when he's back in the office tomorrow. He's gone to be with his family and Mickaela, his adopted niece."

Ed gave Roy another look. "Ha. Ha; very funny, Roy, you old bastard."

It wasn't too long after that, that Ed packed up and left for Maes's house, intending on picking up Mickaela and heading home for more snuggle time with her. It was the most he was thankful for after all this time with her: that Mick still wanted to snuggle with her father and act like her mother the most.

"Ed, what are you doing here?" Maes asked at the door of his house.

"To get my daughter," Ed said. Then he smirked a little. "You know, she's about yay-high," he measured about her height on his leg. His smirk grew a little wider as he continued, "She has gold-blonde hair with gold eyes and is the spitting image of her mother with the intelligence of both parents?"

Maes chuckled, catching all the sarcasm. "Ed," he said in the fatherly tone he's used so many times on both Edward and Andi. "Go out for once. Let Elicia have some time with her little sister for once. They are having a sleep over at the moment with dress-up." Ed smiled at the thought of his little girl playing dress-up. "Besides, Mick was already intending on spending the night."

Ed gave him a questioning look. "How would you know that?"

Maes chuckled. "She called me at work to stop by her room to get her red blanket."

Ed felt both the pang of hearing that and the warmth that came when he heard the words. Mick couldn't sleep without Ed there or her red blanket that Andi wanted for her. He smiled when he heard her laughing in the background and at the thought of Mick calling Maes while he was at work to pick up what could be such a trivial item to most, but the world to a five-year-old and her father.

"Come on in, Ed," Maes said as he practically hauled the twenty-something man into the building. He closed the door behind him, watching Ed smile as he heard Mick squeal with delight. "Hey, Mick! Someone is here to see you!"

Ed and Maes chuckled when they heard the young five-year old gasp and yell something inaudible, followed by hurried footsteps toward the front of the house from the back. Mick stopped when she saw who was at the Hughes house to see her.

She gasped when Ed smiled to her. "Daddy!" Mick squealed as she ran to her dad, nearly tripping on the red thing she was wearing.

Ed caught her just in time. "Hey, Princess," he said as he hugged her tightly. " Are you having fun with Elicia?"

Mick nodded a couple times with a smile.

"Do you want to stay the night with her?"

Maes smiled as he watched Ed hold his daughter close as she nodded again.

"Yes, Daddy," she said. Her gaze fell from her father to the red thing around her body. She flipped the corner of the thing back to reveal the flamel she always had close to her face as she slept. "I had Maes get my blankie."

Ed smiled, looking at the flamel that was once on most of his jackets, especially the ones that Andi wore as a housecoat, as something to wear with her clothes, and something she held tightly when she missed Ed. Ed even remembered when one of those red coats was something Andi wore all the time when she was pregnant.

"I see that, Princess," he said. Then gold-eyes met gold-eyes. "Are you sure you want to stay?"

Maes could hear the hesitation in her voice, but Mick nodded. "I'm sure, Daddy."

Ed kissed her forehead. "Alright then," he said with a soft smile. He kissed her forehead again, his hand in her silky hair. Hair that looked and felt like her mother's. "I'll pick you up tomorrow, Princess."

Mick nodded as she wrapped her tiny arms around his neck in her own hug. She whispered into his ear, "I love you, Daddy."

Ed felt the stab in his heart and the tears well in his eyes as he hugged her back. "I love you, too, Mickaela."

Angel had made it back to the mansion just before she was supposed to. Lust was waiting for her pretty much at the front door. She was in front of her just as Angel closed the door. Lust smiled to her as Angel smiled. She had been thinking about the two she had met in front of that bakery. That handsome blonde, and the slightly older black-haired one. Ed and Roy, as she remembered.

"Did you have a good time?"

Angel nodded. "Yeah," she said as she thought about the bakery. "I felt hungry again."

Lust looked suprised. "You did? You haven't been hungry in a very long time."

Angel nodded again. "I know. I had stopped in front of his bakery, and my stomach growled."

"Maybe we should let you eat something. The rest of us, like Greed, Envy, and me, we don't need food because-"

"Because your bodies have the red stones in them, and mine doesn't."

Lust's smile faded. "Do you know why your body doesn't have one?"

Angel shook her head. "No, Envy or Greed never told me, though, I have a pretty good idea."

Lust walked with her toward the kitchen, where they had a stock of canned peaches for the times when Angel complained of hunger. "You see, when us homunculi are made, we slowly develop, much like a child-only slightly quicker. When we are developed enough, we eat the red stones," Lust was careful about using the term Philosopher's Stone around Angel from when Envy had that alchemist bring her back; after all, in Angel's previous life, she heard that term all the time from her boyfriend. "However, when you were ready to eat them, your body instantly rejected them like they were poison."

Angel nodded, sitting on the counter as she watched Lust get out a quart-sized can of canned peaches and a spoon for her.

"None of us could figure out why your body would reject them like that. All homunculi's body take them, but yours didn't. It really couldn't."

"Did Envy or Greed know why?"

Lust shook her head as she handed the jar to her. "No, they have theories but no conclusions." Lust leaned against the counter as Angel ate her peaches. "Now, what did you think of going out into the city?"

Angel smiled as she thought about the two men again. She felt so comfortable around them, like she had known them in her previous life. The life before she was a homunculi. "It was nice."

Lust knew that look. She had often got it from guys who talked to her, much like one man from a village, Lujon. "You met someone."
Angel raised two fingers in the air, wiggling them. "Two of them. They talked to me." And they looked very familiar, Lust, she finished in her head. She never did like telling anyone how often she had those visions. She had about three of them about ten minutes after she had left the two men.

"Oh?" she said, interested. "Did you find out their names?"

"Edward, or Ed, and Roy," she said with a smile as she thought about mainly Ed. She had a feeling she knew that name from somewhere.

Maybe it was the name of the guy in her visions.

Lust tried to hide the fact that they were connected to Andi Elric and her with a smile. "So, what one did you like more?"
Angel smiled inspite of herself. "Ed," she said with a dreamy sigh. She snapped back into the Angel Lust knew in a matter of a mili-second. "I want to see him again. I don't know why, Lust, but I feel like I could tell him anything."

Lust thought in spite of herself: You used to tell him everything, Angel. You and Edward were inseperable, even before you two were married. Don't worry, Angel; hopefully soon, I can tell you everything, and I'll let you do what you please to those two who ruined everything.
Soon after, Envy walked in with Greed. By then, Angel was almost done with the entire jar of peaches. Greed walked in, almost ignoring Lust if it wasn't for the nod he gave her, and wrapped his arm around Angel's neck.

"Got hungry, eh?" he asked as he smirked to her

Angel, who had just been talking to Lust moments before, nodded silently. She sensed something off about both Envy and Greed and didn't like it much.

"When did you get hungry?" Envy asked as he sat on the counter opposite her, staring at her.

"Earlier today," she said, trying to keep it vague, wondering if it would be wise enough to tell Envy and Greed that went into the city. "I don't know what made me hungry."

Lust looked at Angel, knowing there was a debate in her head. "She was outside walking around the property with me. Nothing to worry about Envy."

Angel inwardly sighed, relieved that Lust had helped her out. Envy smirked with Greed as they looked to each other. Greed had nodded toward Envy, in some silent agreement before they returned their attention to Angel, who was finishing up another peach quarter.

"Well, it had been a long time since the last you ate," Envy said as he looked toward Angel.

Greed tightened his arm around her neck. "How would you like to go into the city at night? You might like it since you're into that kind of shit."

Lust and Envy had both walked up to Greed and slapped the back of his head, making Angel chuckle in amusement. Greed always said something like that, and it would always yield the same results.

Angel smiled, thinking about the guy named Ed immediately. She hoped she would see him again. She wanted to get to know him. "I'd love to."

Envy and Greed looked to each other over Angel, who was finishing her jar of peaches and drinking the natural syrup that it was canned with, and smirked. They were each thinking the same thing: Ed's not going to know what hit him.