(Third Person)
Rismebool
2 years later.
Winry walked onto the porch of their home and sat down quietly next to Ed. They'd been back in Risembool for two years now, and life had never been better. Al had been transferred to Risembool shortly after the construction of the base. Ed grabbed Winry's hand and pulled her close. Today's date was January 11th. Spring was beginning to emerge in Risembool. A tiny flower bloomed at the bottom of the steps. A tiny red and black bird landed in an icy blue tree, singing a sweet song. Winry smiled. Ed squeezed her hand lightly. They sat in silence as the sun set. The sun was halfway over the horizon, the soft golden light rained upon them like a thousand angels stood round about them. "Edward." Winry said. "Yeah?" He asked. "How do you feel about starting a family?" he thought about this for a second. "I dunno, the concept of being a father scares me a little." She patted him on the back. "Well then man up Mr. Elric." She said standing up and beginning to walk inside. "Now I'm gonna make me some hot chocolate." It took Ed a while to process what she had just said. "Wait, are you saying…." His eyes opened wide in shock. He darted up and inside, into the kitchen. "Winry, you're not serious are you?" She looked at him with a questioning look. He gasped. Winry laughed. "And the infamous Fullmetal Alchemist has been caught off guard by a gear head like me." He pulled her into an embrace. To him this was the soul greatest moment of his life. A true, genuine smile crept onto his face.
October 11th
This date has so many meanings to The Elrics, but the most recent meaning was joy. Edward Elric sat in a corner of the tiny hospital room holding a tiny figure with deep topaz eyes. The little band on her tiny foot identified the child As his oldest daughter Edry Trisha Elric. The girl had thick yellow hair and a tiny, gummy, smile. He held the child close, across the room winry was fast asleep lying next to her was another tiny girl who had deep blue eyes and dirty blonde hair. But Ed was holding the one named for both him, winry, and also his mother. Somehow, he felt this strong need to protect this particular Child, that somehow, she would need him one day. He rocked the innocent infant in his arms knowing one day she would not be the innocent baby she was today. His brother Alphonse and his Wife Mei sat across from him, studying him, like he would at any moment spaz out and endanger the girl in his arms. He knew he wouldn't and they had no cause to worry, He was no longer the angsty teen he once was. He had changed, become a man. He sat there staring into a mirror copy of his eyes, nose, hair. Like god, whoever that was, had transplanted his face onto the body of this baby girl. He wondered how it was possible she'd come to be, why she was here. For the first time in his life Edward Elric was accepting true change and responsibility that he'd never faced before. This battle would be harder than any one he'd had before. But he didn't care. Edward Elric would be a better father for these children than that bastard had been for him and Alphonse. For the first time today Edward Elric Spoke calm words. "Hey, Al, how is this possible?" Al shot him a questioning look. "I think you know brot…" "Yes I know HOW Alphonse, I just don't get WHY me. I really don't deserve this." "Edward-kun, you deserve this more that you know. You will be the greatest father these children could ask for." Mei said with a smile. And with those words, for the first time in nine months, Edward Elric, relaxed.
2 years later
The patter of two small pairs of feet echoed around the Elric household. An electric noise came from the living room then the sound of crying. "D-d-d-d-daddy! Edry Make dolly SCARY!" "NOOOO! It SPIDER not SCARY! SPIDER Alice! SPIDER!" "B-b-b-but Spidar scary!" "NOOO!" Ed walked into the living room to see a pair of ill fitting gloves on his small daughters hands, and his other child crying next to a doll changed into a cartoonish looking spider. "Edry, where did you get those gloves?" "Well, I tell you where I not get 'em. Unca al's bag. I not get them there." She said nodding. "Change it back Edry-chan, I know you can." "But daddy! Sparky Magic COOLLL!" He gave the small child a questioning glare. She walked over to the spider, claped her tiny hands and placed them on the plush doll. It turned back into an elaborate doll that looked like a xingese princess. Ed patted the child on the head, and pulled the gloves off her tiny hands. Alphonse then walked into the room. "Ed have you seen my…" "Yeah, here, keep 'em away from edry, Kay?" Questioning and excitement played in his eyes like sparks in a fire. Ed smirked and walked hand in had with the two small girls into the kitchen. Little feet padded quickly back into the living room grabing onto Al's leg. "Sorry I stole magic gloves uncle Al. I liked sparky magic, so I took them and played with Alice's dolly, and um, sorry." Al picked up the little girl and squeezed her tightly in his arms. "Tell you what." "WHAT?" "I'll come back tomorrow and play with you kay? And you can wear the gloves again." The girl's eyes brightened and her face beaming she smiled widely. "YAY!" She hopped out of his arms and ran into the kitchen screaming "I GET TO USE UNCLE AL'S MAGIC GLOVES TO MAKE STUFF WITH SPARKY MAGIC TOMORROW! YAY YAY YAY!" Al smirked and walked out the front door. Tomorrow was the child's second birthday, and he still needed to get the older girl a gift. He had a pretty good idea of what to give her.
Edward sat on the porch watching the sunset, the yellow eyed girl in his lap, the blue eyed girl in her mothers. Together they sat, him, his wife, his normal child, and the family's next alchemic prodigy, together, for now, a normal family, with a complicated past, and a blank slate before them. The mustang family drove up in their fancy car, riza holding their three year old son, whom she set down on the grass. Edry bolted up and ran straight for him, knocking him over. "HUGHES!" She squeeled. "hiya Edry-chan." The boy beamed. Ed shot roy an evil glare. The two blonde women laughed. The two dogs barked circling the playing children. The sun set was like that one nearly 3 years ago, a shower of soft golden light illuminating the happiness of the past, and of that to come.
The End
A/N Sadly this is where our story ends. Thank you so much for sticking with us to the end. It means so much to me to have your support. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!
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