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

It was a few days after the sedating incident before the nurse took most of the stitches. Winston came into my room that afternoon with the train tickets.

"I bought the tickets you asked me to get. And your suitcase"

"Thanks Winston." I grabbed the suitcase from her and started fishing out my usual black and red ensemble.

"You can't leave now your wounds haven't healed yet." Armstrong told me.

"I can't stay in a place that smells like antiseptics forever, besides the longer I stay here the more likely people are to find out about my secret." I told Armstrong "I'm leaving Central tomorrow."

"Where are you going this time?" Maes asked Winston showed him the tickets "Dublith?"

"Where's that?" Winston asked

"Right in the middle of the south area." Al showed them on the map. I left the room quickly to change into my clothes. When I came back in Winston ambushed me

"Take me, take me, take me, take me!" Winston begged. Looked to Al and he showed me Rush Valley on the map.

"Go by yourself." I told him

"Who's paying for the trip?" He asked me

"Are you trying to threaten me?"

"Sister isn't it okay? Plus it's on the way." Al put in.

"Whatever, sure." Winston jumped and spun around the room.

"I planned to go back home, but I'll call Granny to tell her there was a change of plans."

"He's pretty happy." Al commented

"He would make a good husband, though not as good as me." Maes said leaning on my shoulder with his arm.

"Don't say that to me! And don't sneak something in about your own love life!"

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When we were boarding the train Armstrong, Brosh, Ross, and Mrs Hughes saw us off. When the train left the station we started talking.

"Why did you guys what to go to Dublith?" Winston asked

"We wanted to talk to our sensei." Al told him

"We're defiantly going to be killed." I said

"Killed what kind of a person is your sensei?" Winston asked concerned. Al didn't hear him and said

"I knew it! I'm scared Sister."

"Be strong little brother, I mean maybe she wont kill us both. Just me, probably just me, Crap I'm a dead woman walking." I hung my head low this wasn't going to be fun.

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POV ROY

It was late I walked back into my office because I forgot something, I was supposed to be in and out within a minute but the phone rang. I answered it.

"You have a phone call from a normal line from Lieutenant Colonel Hughes of Central"

"Hughes again? Put him through." I waited I cold hear a woman talking faintly on the other end of the line, then a gunshot. "Hughes! Hughes! Maes answer me!" I yelled into the line.

"Roy? Is it you?" Maes asked me, his voice sound weak.

"Yeah buddy it's me. Where are you?" I asked trying to keep him talking. Hawkeye walked back into the room looking to see what was taking me so long. I kept the phone to my ear and held the mouth piece away. "Hughes has been shot. Go get him an ambulance." I ordered, but it was more of a croak. Before she looked at me.

"Where is he?"

"Roy you still there?" Maes asked

"Of course I'm still here, just tell me where you are so I can get help."

"I'm in a phone both right outside of the big park in central. The one I proposed to Grecia in." He told me. I gave the information to Hawkeye and she ran out of the room.

"That's great buddy, help is on the way. Just keep talking to me." My throat tightened "Tell me about Elicia, how was her party?"

"I must be bad if you're asking me about Elicia." He joked

"Maes, please tell me." I begged him I just wanted to get his mind off of what was happening to him.

"It was great Roy. You should have been there, Ed and Al's friend came, what was his name? Winston? Yeah it was Winston, he came and stayed at our place."

"What was Winston doing in Central? Was there an automail convention going on?" I tried to keep the conversation going. I tried to follow his train of thought.

"No, Ed needed repair work done on her automail." His words were starting to slur together.

"Edward is a boy Maes, not a girl."

"Shit." He swore at me, which was rare because after he had Elicia he almost stopped swearing altogether. "They told me you knew, you can't tell anyone Roy, she needs to fix her body and her little brother's." If Maes wasn't shot I wouldn't have given him an excuse to be so sappy with me and begging me not to tell on Edelle.

"Shh, Maes it's okay I knew I didn't know you knew."

"Yeah I over heard them arguing. You know it explains why some one her age is so short."

"That's what I said." I was crying and laughing at the same time, I was going to loses my best friend. "Hows Grecia? How is your lovely wife." I could hear his breath quicken, almost like a panic attack

"Grecia she was here." He said. He was hallucinating, how much blood had he lost?

"Maes, she safe at home, with your daughter, and you need to stay with me so you can get home to them." I ordered him. After all we've been through I wasn't losing him now.

"Of course, if I go who's going to find you a wife?" Maes joked I could hear the smile on his face.

"Maes, where were you shot?" I had to know if it was in the gut he had a pretty good chance of surviving.

"Collarbone," He took a few breaths, "And I was stabbed in my shoulder and my side." He told me. This wasn't by chance someone wanted him dead.

"You've had worse." I lied to him. Maes went through all of the Ishval civil war without so much as a paper cut.

"Yeah remember my Bachelor party?" He asked me "I feel better now then I did the morning after."

"You've always been a light weight."

"Ross, Ross was here. Wasn't she. I don't now it was really dark I could've been seeing things." He sounded confused.

"Hey eyes on the prize Maes. How about I let you hook me up on a date when you get better?" I told him, I was willing to do anything for him if he lived.

"Even General Armstrong?" He asked

"Yes Maes even her." I hung to the phone like a life line

"Man I must be dying if you're willing to go out with her again."

"Don't remind me." I cringed at the memory of our first date. "Maes why are you calling from the park?" I asked if he was in Central command he would have been helped by now.

"She attacked me in the records archive."

"Who? Do you know her?" I questioned. I didn't want him talking about the attack, but I wanted him talking.

"She had dark hair, and pale skin." His breathing got ragged.

"It's okay Maes, calm down, don't think about it. Tell me about your wife." His breath quickened

"She... She saw Ed off at the train station today." He said to me.

"Great so Ed is coming home soon?" I questioned

"No... They are... They're going to the South."

"Good because I won't be here when they get back."

"Where are you going?"

"Central to see my best friend." I told him. Maes sounded confused at first, the lack of blood must really be getting to him. There was a long silence.

"Roy-boy? You still there?"

"I'm not leaving yet Maes, trains don't run at this hour." Then it dawned upon me, what happened to the guy that shout Hughes. "Maes, what happened to the man that shot you?"

"Um...he...she...she ran off." I could hear him swallow something, it was probably his own blood. Hawkeye walked back into the room.

"They say that they have arrived on scene Sir." She reported

"Roy, you still there right?" Maes asked.

"I didn't leave you in Ishval I'm not leaving you here." I waited a few seconds. "Maes the ambulance should be there soon do you see it?" I asked. I heard a grunt of pain followed by some quick breathes. "Maes stay still, don't move just tell me if you can see them or not."

"I can hear people." His breath was very laboured now.

"That's great. Hold on buddy help is going to be there soon." I heard the phone drop and the sounds of bodies moving on the other side.

"Who is this?" I heard a strange man ask on the other line."

"Colonel Mustang, from East headquarters. I'm a personal friend of Lieutenant Colonel Hughes." I told them

"I'm one of the paramedics responding on site, and we are about to take him to the military hospital in Central. He just lost conciousness" He responded

"I'll be there in the morning." I hung up the phone and looked at Hawkeye "Book my the earliest train to Central." I put my hat and coat back on and left the room. 'Hang in there buddy you can't die I still need you.'

Hey guys! Long time no see, if you made it to the end of this I'm sorry. I really felt like this should have been in the manga/anime so I put it in. Don't think Maes is out of danger just yet... See you next time and please feel free to comment .