Hey guys, here is the last chapter before the epilogue. I am bummed this ended, but the good news is that there will be a prequel. I hope you enjoyed it.

In this chapter, I had to begin the closure. I wanted to start off with the time because Truth said something about being lucky if she survived twelve hours. You'll see if she lives or dies.

Songs: "Lullabuy" by Nickelback
"Think I'm Fallin' For You" by Colbie Callet
"Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls
"Can't Forget You" by My Darkest Days

Ten hours, thirty seven minutes.

Nothing seemed to have changed with Andi. Nothing but her breathing getting stronger. Ed had managed to stay awake the entire time, thinking that if he fell asleep that he'd miss something. There was no way he was going to miss something when it pertained to his wife. Ed stood up and kissed her forehead, refusing all the nurses and the doctor's pleas to eat or sleep. He wanted to stay by her side.

"I love you, Andi. Please wake up so I can show you how much I love you."

Ten hours, fifty-eight minutes.

No change, which was beginning to worry Ed. She should be awake now. She should be waking up. But, no. Apparently, Truth likes fucking with him. Like always.

Ed sat back in his seat, his hand still under Andi's. He hadn't seen Lust since he had left her and the doctor in the waiting room. He gently rubbed his thumb against the back of her hand, hoping, praying that there would be some sort of life coming from Andi.

Eleven hours, twenty-five minutes since she passed through the gate.

Ed was growing concerned more by the minute. He wanted to hear her voice now. It had been too long. He looked to her face, looking for some way that she was alive besides her breathing. A movement in her hand. A twitch in her face. Something.

Eleven hours, forty-two minutes.

Andi's brow furrowed a little, showing Ed there was recovery. Almost twelve hours since Andi came back through the gate. Ed sat on the edge of her bed, holding her hand in a firmer grasp. He smiled to her, kissing her lips, which seemed less pale and cracked.

"Come on, Andi, keep fighting. You still have to surprise Roy and Al and Mick. You remember Mick, don't you?"

There was nothing. Ed couldn't help but to smile, still feeling like there was more hope than before. Maybe the odds were decreasing that she was going to die.

"Mick performed her first transmutation in front of Al. She made a bracelet. When you see her, she might give it to you." Ed smiled, feeling the sudden need to catch Andi up on what she missed with her daughter over the last year and a half or so. "Nothing's changes much between Mick and I. She had gotten Riza to do her hair like hers. It was really cute. Maes took a picture of it when Riza was done. Though," Ed chuckled, "Mick said that she was you. It was the cutest thing ever."

There wasn't anything responsive from Andi, but Ed went on after a few more minutes of waiting for something to tell him he was there. "You know, I couldn't get you outta my head. It was like we were dating again. Well, we kinda were when you were Angel, but still. Any girl I looked at, I had to find something that would turn me away from her. She had to be you." Ed smiled, remembering when he first saw Andi as Angel. "To my surprise, she was you. I am glad I got to fall in love with you again, Andi."

Andi moved her head slightly, furrowing her eyebrows. "M-Me...too," she managed out in a dry, cracked, whisper of a voice.

Ed jumped, looking to her face. "Andi!"

Andi stirred her head a little more, getting movement and feeling back into her body. "Shh...head...hurt."

Ed smiled, just waiting to see her eyes. To see her smile. To hold her. He didn't care that she was still hurt or that she might not be able to hold him, but he was going to hold her. Kiss her. Show her how much he truely loved her.

Ed whispered excitedly, "Andi, can you open your eyes for me?"

Andi stirred her head a little more, trying to muster the small amount of energy to open them. When she had her head tilted toward him and his chair, she slowly opened them, letting her eyes get slowly used to the daylight. She blinked when she saw him almost in her face.

"Welcome to the land of the living," he said with a smile.

Andi mustered half a smile, feeling more energy come back. "You...said...that...when...I...was...here before."

Ed nodded, remembering that. "Yeah, I know."

Ed took in her blue-green eyes that he had missed. They still showed the passion, the love, and everything from before. It seemed like she was never dead. Like she was never a homunculous to begin with. He pushed some of her blonde, side-swept bangs with the tip of his fingers.

"How big...did...Mick get...without me?"

"Pretty big," he said with a few nods. He smiled as he added, "She's going to school here in Central. At Central Academy."

Andi let out a breathy snicker, her way of laughing for now. She didn't feel any pain from her chest wound. She was just tired and sore from her fight with Envy and maybe from the transformation. "Why there?"

Ed smiled. "Someones let it slip that her mother attended there."

"Let me...guess."

Ed nodded. "Yeah, Roy, Riza, Maes, Havoc, Breda, Fuery, and me." He chuckled, seeing her reaction that simply was saying, "I should have known." He smiled as he added, "Mick's still got Roy and his crew wrapped around her finger."

"I knew it."

Ed chuckled quietly, rubbing the back of his fingers against her cheek, watching her move into his touch slighty. Her eyes were closed as she let out a soft noise, letting him know she liked this. He soon stopped, watching her eyes slowly open. They stared into each other's eyes for a while before Andi spoke up.

"Where's Lust?"

Ed shrugged. "I've no idea. I never got to stick around long enough to find out. I heard the doctor was doen with you and rushed."

Andi let out a hum of agreement and to prove she was listening. "She won't stay in Central."

Ed gave her a look.

"Lust always said that as soon as Envy and Greed were done in Central, she'd part ways from them. To get out of Central and see the rest of Amestris," Andi said slowly. She thought for a moment before adding just as slowly, "She was going to take me if I didn't have a reason to stay."

Ed cupped her cheek, realizing Lust cared about Andi. "I think she'll be alright."

Andi nodded once. "Me too," she whispered lightly with a slight yawn.

Ed smiled lightly. "Get some rest, I'll be right here when you wake up again."

Andi shook her head a little, lightly patting the mattress under her. Ed gave her a look, wondering why she wanted to be moved so quickly. "Lay with me. You need to rest too," she started in the same slow, tired tone. "You look like shit."

Ed nodded, chuckling to himself a little. "I probably do," he said as he kicked off his shoes and got in bed with her. He was careful of her wounds and of moving her too much as he wrapped his arms around her and watched her close her eyes. He kisses her head. "Sweet dreams, Andi."

Andi held onto this shirt as she sighed happily, already slowly drifting to sleep. "You too, Ed."

"Andi, you're pacing again," Ed said as he watched Andi, who made a fully recovery in a day or two. All that was left was a scar, like she had gotten it two years ago. The lines were faint and like she had already gone through the trauma of surgery and the attempt to save her life, not just a couple days ago. It baffled the doctors, but it was only Ed and Andi who understood.

"I know, I know," she said. She looked to Ed. "I'm just...nervous.

"Nervous about what? It's your daughter."

"That's why I am nervous. Sometimes unfortunately for me, my daughter has my husband's personality."

"When is that a bad thing?"

"When it comes to parents who disappeared without a good-bye or a trace for a long period of time."

Ed saw her point. He still had a sore spot where his thoughts of his father should be. He'd still feel angry that he left. Though he couldn't imagine his life without Mick and Andi in it, he saw were Andi was coming from. She spent the last couple years disappeared with none of her loved ones even close to knowing where she had gone.

She's worried Mick will hate her, Ed thought when he saw her conclusion.

Ed wrapped his arms around Andi, pulling her close to him. "You keep forgetting that she's your daughter, too. You're more forgiving than I am."

Andi smiled as she muttered, "Let's hope she inherited fogiveness from me."

Ed smiled, remembering his daughter. "She did. She misses you. You'd be surprised, but she's inherited Al's sense of forgiveness."

Andi smiled. "How is Al and Win?"

"Fine," Ed said plainly. "But you can ask him yourself, because he's here."

Andi gave him a questioning look, wondering what he meant. That was until she heard a familiar voice.

"Hey, Ed, who'd you bring with you? You said it was urgent that I-"

"Mommy!" Mick yelled, cutting off her uncle and running from him to Andi without seeing her face.

Andi jumped and gasped, hearing Mick. She turned around and saw her daughter. "Mickaela!" she yelled as she met her daughter halfway and wrapped her arms around her, swinging her around. "I missed you so much, Mick!"

Mick hugged her mom around her neck, making her it was her mom before she let the woman kiss her all over her face like Andi would when she'd get back from missions. When Andi started the kisses, Mick knew for sure.

"I missed you too, Mommy."

Andi felt tears of happiness run down her cheeks as she hugged Mick tightly, still trying to wrap her mind around the fact that it was still her. That her daughter had grown, almost six, and in her arms. Andi looked to her with a smile. She still saw Mick as Ed's daughter, with the same gold eyes as him. But she saw more of her hair color. It darkened a little.

"You've gotten so big," Andi noted. "Where did the time go?"

"In the past," Mick said smartly as she slid down her mother to her father.

"She has a point," Al's voice said as it cut through their conversation.

Andi turned around and smiled to Al, giving him a hug in the process. "Good to see you, Al."

Al hugged her back with a smile, having the feeling of being reunitied with a long-lost sister. "Good to see you too, Andi."

Ed smiled, watching his brother and his wife, holding onto Mick's hand. Ed smiled down to her. "Remember her, Mick?"

Mick nodded with a smile. "Mhm, it's my mommy."

"Do you want to see Uncle Roy?"

"Yeah!"

Andi and Al turned to Ed. "Where are we going, Ed?" Andi asked, worried for a moment.

"Roy's office. He's going to want to see you," Ed said.

Andi's face fell. She forgot temporarily about Roy in the heat of being reunited with her daughter. "Do I have to?"

Ed chuckled, hearing the same tone he used to give her. "Come on, it's not going to be that bad."

"You don't have to hear the lecture," Andi repeated in the same tone from the tome of Ed's lines and excuses of avoiding a trip to Roy Mustang's office.

Al laughed. "She sounds like you, Brother."

"Oh shut it, Al!"

Mick gasped, reannouncing her presence in the area. "Daddy, that's not very nice."

Andi and Al chuckled, hearing the little girl give her father a lecture about being nice to people or not saying anything at all-something her father had repeated to her after picking her up from school and hearing some of the things she's told her fellow classmates.

Andi sighed, staring in front of the same, darkly stained door she had been to times before the mission. She looked to Ed, nodding a little, and giving him the go ahead to open the door. Ed took her hand, giving the back of it a kiss before he turned the knob and opened the door. Andi stayed outside the door, waiting for the right time to surprise Roy.

"Hey, Mustang, tell Riza to get a defibulator ready because you're going to have a heart attack!" Ed called, uncaring of who he was bothering, just like he would when he was younger.

Roy sighed, unknowing of who was just outside the door. "Edward, you're seeming like your younger, much more stupid self again," he said without looking up from his paperwork.

"Fine then, can't say I didn't warn your ass," Ed said as he looked toward the door, waiting for Andi to step through.

Andi took in a deep breath and let it out before stepping into the door way. Everyone but Roy stopped what they were doing and looked up. They all had the same shocked expressions on their face, seeing someone, who was supposed to be dead, right in front of them. Andi smiled to them all, winking as if saying, "Watch this."

"Mustang, I'd look up if I were you," Ed said. He smirked, thinking of something that he should have thought of a long time ago. "Though you might shit yourself if you see this."

Roy sighed, finally looking up, giving him the same bored expression he'd always given him. "Ed, what are you babbling about...now?"

Roy had caught sight of someone that he thought was dead. His mouth hung open and his eyes were wide. If Ed didn't know better, he would have thought he did soil himself. Andi stepped forward, smiling and taking in the rare expression on Roy's face.

"Blink, Roy, it works for people," she said with a smile. "Well, so does breathing."

Roy shook his head. "Andi?"

Andi nodded. "Of course, who did you think it would be? Angel?"

Roy shook his head again. "How did you know...?"

"One in the same, Roy," she said softly with a slight smile.

Roy got up from his office chair, setting the papers down blindly, and walked up to her. His eyes didn't leave the girl he raised when her father died. When he reached her, he brought her into his arms in a tight hug.

"I missed you," he whispered.

Andi hugged him a little tighter, closing her eyes to push back the tears. "I missed you too, Roy."

Roy held her out at arm's length, scanning her. He saw the trace of a scar, but figured it was from her battle with whatever made her go missing. He smiled, seeing the same girl he helped raise and become a woman, who married one of his subordinates.

"Who else knows you're alive?"

"Everyone here, Mick, Lust, and Al."

"How long...?"

"Have I been back?"

Roy nodded.

"A couple days."

"Does Grumman know?"

Anid shook her head, knowing what she had to do. "I am going to see him after here."

Roy pushed some bangs back from her eyes, something he did when she was in Central Academy. "Go ahead. We'll be here when you get back."

Andi smiled, kissing his cheek, and heading out with Ed following her. She walked to the Fuhrer's office, taking in a deep breath and knocking on the door after looking for reassurance from Ed.

Ed nodded, seeing how nervous is wife was. His wife was hardly nervous. He knew this was big. At least for her.

"Come in," the gruff, yet kind voice called from the other side of the door.

Andi sighed and walked in, seeing one of Roy's mentors in front of her. She saluted him from second nature, and nodded her head once. "Fuhrer Grumman."

"Andi M-Elric," he said with a smile. "It's been a long time since I've heard your name or heard from you."

Andi nodded, her nerves slowly easing. "I know, which is why I am in front of you. I need to tell you what happened that night I went MIA.

Grumman's once slight dispassionate expression changed when he heard those words. Most don't want to explain when they come from nowhere. Andi sat down when he motioned, taking in a deep breath. She was ready for this. The worst that could happen is that she was going to be Court Marshalled for treason.

"When you're ready, Mrs. Elric," Grumman said.

There was no Major in that, just Mrs. Elric, Andi thought.

Andi began her story. "It was when we were chasing that subject near the southern border..."