I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist or Brotherhood. But there will be some direct lines from the story.

This story deals with a gender-swapped Ed.

And please feel free to comment and or give suggestions

POV HUHES

I was walking down the streets of Central carrying presents for my little angle Elicia when Winston asked beside me carrying a huge teddy bear that was perfect for my little girl.

"Mr Hughes? What is this for." He asked from behind the bear.

"I'm glad you asked! Today is my daughters 3rd birthday." I told him speeding up my pace so I could get home and see my little girl sooner.

"Are you sure it would be all right if I stayed at your house I mean I don't want to crash her birthday party."

"Nonsense the more the merrier!" I told him. When we got to my front yard, my front door opened to my beautiful wife and adorable daughter.

"Papa, welcome home!" Elicia said to me running to come and get me.

"What a handsome guest." Grecia said looking at Winston with a bit of concern.

"Elicia, I wanted to see you all day!" I picked her up and hugged her as tight as I could.

"Papa your beard is tickling me." she giggled .

"I told you about the Elric brothers right? Well this is their childhood friend Winston. He was looking for a place to stay so I brought him." I told Grecia about Winston. "Winston, this is my wife Grecia and my daughter Elicia."

"Thank you for letting me stay here Mrs Hughes."

"It's no problem Winston and please it's Grecia." My lovely wife shook his hand and greeted him into our home.

"Elicia how old are you?" Winston bent down to be eye height with my little girl

"Two...Thwee!" Awww that's so cute, I held my face. The party went on fairly smoothly and I started chatting up Winston to see what kind of a man he was.

"So you're his mechanic?"

"Yes. We were all born in Resembool and our houses were close. When we were kids we used to always be together like brothers."

"Must have cause a lot of trouble because of that." I said I couldn't wait before Grecia and I had more kids to fill the house with. And maybe when I finally found Roy a wife Elicia could have some friends too.

"I guess you could say it did, but I only get worried. And just when I think they come back, it turns out he totally busted his arm." He started talking about how worried he was about the brothers. "I wonder if I was really their brother, would they have told me about leaving home, and also about those wounds I saw today. It's not that they didn't ask for advice it's that they didn't need any advice."

"They are going to be all right, those brothers are tough but when they start giving up at that exact time, you stop them, isn't that fine enough?" Winston looked like he was thinking about what I just said.

POV ED

I woke up to a nurse prodding at me.

"Oh sorry I didn't mean to wake you, sweetie I was just checking your bandages."

"Well I'm awake now. How are they looking?" I asked

"They are looking better and your ribs should be healed in no time." She smiled at me. 'Yeah in six weeks, I know this drill.' I smiled back at her.

"I'll let you get on with your day then." She left the room after pushing the moving tray beside my bed with my breakfast on it. There was a glass of milk sitting on it. 'Dammit I thought I told them no milk.' I thought to myself.

"So we meet again old friend." I glared at the milk. "I've had enough of this why do they keep giving me milk? I'm defiantly not drinking this." I looked to Al sitting in the conner of the room "Hey Al why don't you drink this, oh wait you can't not with that body."

"Sister you have a real body why don't you just drink it." I started eating the rest of my breakfast.

"I don't like stuff I don't like." I took a bite of the scrambled eggs they gave me. "It's not like I'm going to die from not drinking milk." I kept eating the food it wasn't that bad for hospital food. "And even though I look like this I'm still growing, but everyone keeps saying I'm small! Al you're lucky since your body is huge." I took a bite from the bread.

"I didn't want this body!" Al stood up and the chair was knocked over by force. He screamed at me and it just confirmed my theory, he does hate me. Al was shaking with rage.

"Al... I'm sorry." I gulped "It's my fault that everything got screwed up... That's why I wanted to restore your body as soon as possible..."

"And what proof is there that you're really going to restore my body?"

Al of course I'll restore you, you just have to trust me." I could feel myself tearing up, no I was not going to cry.

"Trust? You're telling me to trust what with this hollow body. In alchemy they say a human being is made up of mind, flesh and soul. But was there every a person that proved that in an experiment?!If you think about it logically all memory is just information, so it ought to be possible to artificially create one." Al yelled at me I was too focused on him I didn't notice when Winston and Hughes walked in.

"What are you talking about Al?" I asked afraid of the answer.

"Sister you said there was something you wanted to tell me something you were too scared to say. Could that have been something like my soul and memories were totally fake? How do you prove I even existed? Isn't it possible that everybody is tricking me? Well is it sister?" I threw my fist down on the table. My automail hand dented it. My throat felt dry and my face red.

"Is that what you had been holding in you the whole time?, Is that everything you wanted to say?" I took a deep breath my voice was shaky. "I see then." I stood up and walked out of the hospital room with tears in my eyes, my everything hurt, emotionally and physically. 'my little brother thinks he isn't real.' I went to the roof looking for some place quiet to let go of my emotions.

POV WINSTON

I called for Ed as she walked down the hallway but I could tell she wanted to be alone. I grabbed my trusty wrench the one I always carried with me and hit Al on the head.

"Jackass!" I yelled at him, the hit knocked him down.

"What was that for?" he asked shocked that I would hit him.

"Al you moron you don't know how she feels!" I hit him again. "That thing that she wanted to tell you, the thing Ed was to scared to ask you was if you blamed her for what happened." I hit him again "She cried every night while moaning about the pain and the fever that came with the automail surgery." I dropped down so I was eye level with him I kept hitting him less and less hard with each hit. "In what world would an idiot be willing to throw away her own life to make a fake little brother?" I stopped hitting him "Isn't she your only sister?" I pointed to the door "Go after her and apologise." He ran out of the room and I watched him from the doorway.

"Ed is a girl?" Hughes asked almost to himself.

"Yep and if you tell anyone about Edelle, what I just did to Al would be nothing compared to what I would do to you." I threatened him. 'Great threatening a military man the things I wont do for Ed.' "Come on let's go get them." I said to the officers and followed Al up to the roof.

POV ED

I heard the door open and I wiped the tears from my face.

"Sis..."

"That reminds me I haven't sparred in a while so my body's gotten weak." I kicked off the slippers

"What are you talking about your wounds haven't healed yet." I charged him that'll show him for pretending to care about me. I was throwing kicks at him because I didn't want to mess up the arm that Winston just fixed. "Sister wait you'll open your wounds!" he wasn't hitting me back he was just blocking me. I grabbed a sheet of the clothes line and threw it over Al's head. The when he couldn't see I kicked him in his face. He fell with a clang.

"I won." I sat down I was a little buzzed so I couldn't feel my injuries, but I was pretty sure I popped a few stitches. "This is the first time I beat you Al."

"That's not fair Sister." He said taking off the sheet.

"A win's a win." I told him "We fought a lot when we were kids."

"Yeah"

"Now that I think about it we fought over a bunch of stupid things."

"Like who would get the top bed or the bottom bed."

"I lost that one." We started listing the things that we have fought over now that I think about it I lost a lot. Al started laughing.

"Remember when Winston and I cut your hair when you were sleeping? It was right before we tried to bring mom back."

"What no I cut my hair myself."

"No ask Winston we did it as a joke."

"And you're saying all of those memories are fake?"

"I'm sorry."

"weren't you the one that said this at east city "I want to restore my body no matter what"? Are you saying that's also an artificial feeling?"

"That wasn't artificial."

"We don't need any half-hearted hearts that are going to get shaken up by something as minor as this if we are going to restore are bodies. I'm going to get stronger both emotionally and physically. And drink as much milk as I can." I said that last part with a bit of regret.

"Let's get stronger" Al said and we fist bumped.

"Al you have to do me a favour for making me upset."

"What sister?"

"Help me up." Al stood and he reached down to help me off the ground. "Okay I might have hurt myself a little." I said trying to walk to the door without it hurting to much.

"I knew we shouldn't have done that." Al said. Hughes and Winston were waiting for us at the door. I looked at Hughes.

"So what's going to happen?"

"Nothing, I'm not your commanding officer." He said turning his back and walking down the stairs "I'll get a nurse to show up in your room okay?"

"Sure I probably pulled some stitches out."

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After the nurse fixed me back up again she re hooked the iv.

"Maybe that will keep you in here and not running around the hospital getting hurt." She scolded me and left. It left me felling a little light headed but on the plus side I couldn't feel any pain. Armstrong and Hughes were in my room with Brosh and Ross standing guard. I was filling them in on everything that happened in the 5th laboratory. Both Armstrong and Hughes promised to look into the tattoos and the subordinates that worked under Marcoh. The door opened and everyone looked to it.

"Excuse me." No other the the Fuhrer of Amestris.

"President King Bradley!" We all said together.

"Mr President why have you come to a place like this." Hughes asked

"Why to drop off a get well present do you hate melons?" He asked me. I did but I didn't tell him that. "It seems that you have been doing a bit of investigating on the military brass, Major."

"How did you?" Armstrong started

"Don't take my intelligence network lightly, and Edward Elric." Even though my mind was a bit fogey I jumped at my name

"The philosopher's stone was it? How much do you know? Depending on the situation." I gulped about to answer him when he started laughing.

"I was kidding! You don't have to be so defensive." He laughed at us But then he turned the situation serious in less then 5 seconds. "I will not permit you to involve any more people in this, nor will allow you to speak of this to any others, as we don't know who our enemies and allies are you must trust no one. Act if you believe everyone in the military is the enemy. But when the time comes be ready as I will have you work for me without restraint."

"Yes sir!" Hughes and Armstrong saluted at the same time, the medicine was making things slow so I just threw my right arm up.

"Now because I snuck out of work I have to sneak back in before anyone sees that I'm gone. Fare well we shall meet again." He said as he climbed out of the window. My eyes started to droop. Maybe I'll close my eyes for a few second.

POV AL

Sister fell asleep as soon as he eyes where closed. I decided to try and wake her since everyone was here to work on the 5th laboratory incident.

"Sis, sis? Ed? Wake up you can sleep later." I said rubbing her shoulder trying to get her to move.

"Don't bother Al I had the nurse put in something to help her sleep this off so she couldn't tear open her stitches again. To be honest I'm surprised it took this long to work."

"Oh she was tired as soon as the iv was put back in that's why she talked so much about what happened in the lab. When she doesn't want to sleep sister talks." I informed them.

"Speaking of sister who else know about this besides the major and myself?" Hughes asked

"The Colonel and First Lieutenant Hawkeye and Sergeant Brosh and 2n Lieutenant Ross." I told him

"Good try to keep it a small number of people you trust, the more people get wind of this the more likely she might get punished for lying to the military." I wanted to inform his that we didn't trust anyone in the military and I don't need help looking after Ed, but when I saw him pull the blankets up on her I decided to let it slide, maybe we should trust more people.