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

Oh and I know that this is supposed to be a femEd story so why was the last chapter focused on Hughes? It was because what happens to him shapes the story and spoiler he makes it to the hospital, so the story is a bit different. And besides Mustang is my favourite character and I love seeing put in difficult situation.

POV ED

"What made you suddenly want to see your sensei?" Winston asked I was wondering on whether or not I should tell him the truth. 'What's the worse that can happen?'

"We've got two reasons. We've been on a losing streak lately. So anyway we want to get stronger that's one." I was about to say the second reason when Winston cut me off.

"What? You're going because you want to get stronger? Are you obsessed with fighting? Why can't you be like most girls and be obsessed with shopping and boys?" Winston said. I gave him my best I'm going to kill you look.

"You idiot! It's not as simple as that!" I took a breath to calm me down. "I mean I don't want to just get stronger at fighting. I want to get stronger on the inside. I want to get even stronger then before." I finished

"Yeah! I feel that if we go see sensei, we'll get stronger." Al said

"And the second one?" I could tell that he almost didn't want to ask.

"To ask sensei about human transmutation." I answered

"Even though we were trained by her she never told us about the philosopher's stone or human transmutation." Al explained.

"Yeah because getting involved with the philosopher's stone means getting involved in dangerous business. I thought we could try asking directly about restoring our bodies." I took a breath "I can't worry about how we do things any more. I'm ready to get killed by sensei, so I can ask... It was such a short life wasn't it Al?"

"I wanted to get a girlfriend at least sister." The panic was present in the cab now.

"oh I almost forgot. I have something that'll cheer you up!" Winston reached into one of his bags that he brought on. "Look apple pie!"

"How did you get this?" I asked him It was big enough for three people.

"Mrs Hughes said I should take something for the trip and made this for me."

"Sis have my share." Al said.

"Are you trying to apologise for what happen at the hospital?" I glared at him "I'm over that Al." Winston was sick of my talking and shoved a piece into my face. "Crap man this is good."

"Mrs Hughes is really good at cooking! And don't worry Al she gave me the recipe so you can have Ed make it for you when you get your body back."

"Like hell I'm cooking for anyone! I'm not some house wife!" I was mad but that wouldn't make me stop eating the great pie.

"Mr and Mrs Hughes were really nice."

"Lieutenant Colonel Hughes is a stupid parent, a buttinsky and over all annoying guy." I said pointing out everyone of his flaws.

"He always came and visited you in the hospital, and he handled the news about you being a girl fairly well."

"Everyone has so far Al and that makes me worried. I keep waiting for the one person who wont accept me any more."

"Well when you do find that person Hughes will be on your side."

"Yeah when we get back to Central I'll have to thank him." I said only a few more hours and we'll be in Rush Valley.

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POV ROY

If you asked my opinion it was to early in the morning to be up let alone be getting off of a train, but I asked Hawkeye for the earliest train and this is what I got. I made straight for the hospital after we got the bags off of the train. I didn't look for anyone in the waiting room I went right up the front desk and asked.

"I need to know which room Lt. Colonel Hughes is in." I was lucky I was still wearing my uniform so I didn't need to show any form of identity.

"Lt. Colonel Hughes hasn't left surgery yet, when he is out you are going to need to wait until he is out of recovery. We'll have someone inform you when you can see him. Please sit down while you wait." The nurse went back to her work completely ignoring me if I had any other questions. I turned to walk back to the waiting room where I saw Grecia sitting down with Elicia sleeping on her lap. When I got closer I could see the tear tracks on her face. I sat down besides her.

"How long have you been here Grecia?" She looked at me as if she just realised that I was there. She wiped tears from her face.

"About three hours." She answered. It wasn't more then a whisper.

"Any news?" I asked. I leaned forward to rest my elbows on my knees.

"About an hour ago a nurse informed me that there was a complication because the bullet didn't exit so they had to remove it instead of just patch it up." She was full out sobbing. Elicia started to wake up.

"Hawkeye take Elicia and go get something to eat okay?" I asked, but it really wasn't a request. When they left Grecia threw herself on me and cried into my shoulder. "We aren't going to lose him after all of that Grecia. It's okay he's going to be okay." I was rubbing her back in soothing motions I'm not sure how long we stayed like that before a nurse walked up to us.

"Hughes family?" She asked. We both stood up.

"How is my husband?" Grecia asked afraid of the answer.

"We just wheeled him into recovery. Would you like to be with him when he wakes up?" She asked. Grecia nodded in response. It was pure luck that at that time Hawkeye and Elicia came back.

"Come on sweetie let's go see Daddy." She carried her daughter to the recovery wing. I grabbed the nurse before she could walk away.

"When will Hughes be out of of recovery?"

"Depending on when he wakes up and how he's reacting to the treatment, earliest I could say would be this afternoon."

"Thank you could you contact us at the Hughes residence when he is moved?"

"Yes we will do that. See you later then."

"You can count on that." I told her and she walked off. "Come on Hawkeye let's go get some sleep, I'll let you have the spare bed and everything." I said as I ushered my Lieutenant out of the hospital. "Great now let's go cheek out the crime scene."

It was late afternoon before we got any kind of lead on the murder attempt. Armstrong of all people tipped us off. I looked at Hawkeye to give her my plan. "I'm sticking onto the brass. Will you follow me?"

"You're asking me that now sir?" She mocked "Now let's go see your best friend."

When we arrived to the hospital the same nurse as earlier that morning greeted us.

"I was just about to call you, Lt. Colonel Hughes has just been moved to a regular room you are aloud to visit him if you want but don't overwhelm him. When he first woke up he had a panic attack." She said leading us to the room. 'Panic attack, Hughes you don't have time for this you need to get better.' I was lost in thought when we finally reached the room. Hughes looked pale, he had two ivs in his arm one with antibiotics and the other with most likely morphine or any other pain killers, a nasal canal passed under his nose and he was missing a the top of his gown, so all of his bandages were visible, his entire right side was covered in bandages it took my breath from me. Grecia and Elicia turned to look at us but Hughes remained still.

"I'll give you a moment together." Grecia said and pulled Elicia and Hawkeye out with her. I moved to the seat beside the hospital bed and grabbed his right hand one of the only parts of his right side that wasn't covered in bandages.

"You idiot." I hung my head low "this wouldn't have happened if I would have shown up at that stupid birthday party, I'm sorry Maes, I'm sorry." The radio was playing a song in the background that fit the mood of this situation. I sat listening to the radio for a bit when I felt him move. I wanted to run to go get Grecia but Maes gripped my hand tightly. He didn't have his glasses on so I didn't know how much he could really see. "Maes, you awake?" I asked him

"Hey Roy-boy." He smiled at me "You made it." He still sounded completely tiered they must have given him some pretty good stuff.

"Of course I told you I would be here when you woke up." I smiled at him. He started to drift back to sleep "You look like crap Maes." I told him

"And yet I have a wife and a daughter and you're still single." He roughly said he started to drift again.

"Go to sleep Maes I'll be here when you wake up."

So if you want to know what song Roy was listening to, it was Stand By Me, by Ben E. King and the Drifters.

For those of you not liking the focus on Maes instead of Ed feel free to skip over it Ed is going to come back. And don't worry this wont mess up with the plot line of anything because I have a plan. And if you like Hughes not dying and want more on that I could make it an individual fic to explain why he is alive and go more into depth on that. I think I'll call it Saving Colonel Hughes. It will have my go to expatiation on why Hughes didn't tell anyone about Fathers plan and the homunculus.

I want to have Ed kidnapped by Barry but if I do it will be a flashback so you guys can skip that too if you don't want to read that it should mess with the plot line too much.

And like always feel free to comment and suggest things. See you next time in Rush Valley.