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.

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"Hohenheim." I said the names tasting like ash in my mouth. He gave me a look like he was trying to remember who I was. "Van Hohenhiem!" I yelled at him, that douche showing up after all o those years.

"Ed...elle?" He said with a questioning tone. I growled at him, of course he forgot about us it's the only way to explain why he never came back. "You've gotten taller."

"No shit, I was a toddler the last time you saw me." I snapped at him.

"You've gotten quite the reputation in Central. Edward Elric the Fullmetal Alchemist. Why are you parading around as a boy?"

"I have a promise to keep to someone, and I need to be a boy to make that happen."

"What did you promise?"

"None of your damned business!" I yelled and stalked out of the graveyard. I felt a tug at my automail arm, stopping me from moving. I turned to face him and he pushed up my sleeve to see my automail. I looked to see his face, his eyebrows were arched and eyes full of shock. I tried to pull my arm away but he held on. I looked down shoulders tensing.

"What happened?" He asked his voice was full of concern. I still looked away from him not meeting his eyes. He grabbed my shoulders his had digging into my flesh shoulder. He was trying to look me in the eyes but I locked them onto the ground. I could feel his eyes scan me as if to see if I was missing anything else. His armed moved down my flesh arm then he let go and I saw his head in my eye sight, he was feeling my legs when he reached the automail on the left one. "Pinako was right." He said still kneeling on the ground. "You did a human transmutation." I backed away from him.

"You bastard have no right to show up like this." I growled at him

"What right do you have to call me a bastard?" He asked with a sort of innocence in his voice.

"You aren't just any bastard you are the bastard and if you weren't in front of my mothers grave right now I would clock you." I stood and looked back to mom's grave. "You came back to late, you have no place to stay why did you come back?!" I yelled at him.

"You lost your limbs in the transmutation, where's Alphonse what did he lose?" He asked not even on the same page as me.

"Al isn't here." I said. He whipped his head to look at me.

"He's gone? My poor son."

"What no you bastard he's in Central waiting for me to get back." I yelled at him.

"Do you live in Central now?" He asked changing the subject again.

"I go where I'm needed." I responded. He looked up to the hill side where our house was.

"Why did you burn down my home?" His condescending voice hitting me like a punch.

"It's a symbol of our decision to move on from our mistake." I told him

"You're wrong. You aren't moving on from it you are running from it. You are trying to hide your mistake from the world like a little kid who wet her bed at night and hides her sheets." I felt my face get hot with anger and my breathing ragged. "You are running away." He finished. No one spoke I could feel my chest rise and fall very heavily. "Edelle-" He tried to start again.

"What would a bastard like you understand about this!"

"Edelle as your father I-"

"You can't speak to me like that!"

"Why because you are a girl because if your stories say anything you want to be treated like a boy-"

"You can come back after everything and try to know me!" I yelled and started walking back to Granny's place, I heard footsteps following me. "Why the hell are you following me!?"

"You burnt down my house I'm staying at Pinako's." I growled.

When we got back to Granny's she was talking on the phone to someone, was it Al? I fully walked in and slammed the door on the bastard. Granny heard that and looked at me.

"She just walked in." Yeah she was talking to Al. Bastard opened the door behind me. "You want to talk to her?" I walked to the phone. "It's Colonel Mustang, he wants to know if you are okay." I grabbed the phone from Granny.

"Hello?"

"Fullmetal, how was the trip?" He asked on the other side of the line.

"Great, um I don't know if he told you but Breda knows about me, but he does."

"Okay when he comes and visits I'll talk to him about it, did he take it well."

"He doesn't really trust me but he's not going to tell anyone so I guess that's good enough for me." My voice sounded hurt.

"Ed what's wrong what aren't you telling me." I looked over my shoulder to look at Granny and the bastard.

"Hohenheim is here."

"Do you want me to talk to him or..." He left the sentence hang there.

"No, but um would it be alright if I didn't come back tomorrow?"

"It will be fine take as long as you want, do you want me to tell Al?" He asked.

"Yeah could you stop by the hotel one night after work if it isn't to much trouble."

"Uh yeah it might be more of the next time that he comes and visits."

"You said visits twice now what's wrong are you in the hospital?"

"It's just a burn."

"Oh the Flame Alchemist burns himself." I started laughing at that it felt good to smile.

"Laugh it up Ed." he said, you could hear the smile on his face. "Have fun getting your automail fixed and please try not to kill your father."

"Have fun dealing with the nurses." I countered. I hung up the phone and looked directly at Granny ignoring the bastard besides her. "So what's for lunch I'm starved."

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POV HOHENHIEM

Edelle went to bed right after she finished her lunch claiming that she has been up for a whole day. Pinako told her where Winston's old clothes were and sent her off.

"Why do you encourage her?" I asked once I heard the bedroom door shut.

"Someone needs to support them." My old drinking buddy retorted. I picked up the dishes from the table and walked them over to the sink.

"She is how old, 14,15?" I asked setting the plates into the empty sink. Pinako chased me away before I could actually wash them. "You wouldn't be able to tell that by looking into her eyes, and that's if she lets you."

"She's been through a lot Van Hohenhiem. Her father took off with not even a word, her mother dies soon after, she basically started to take care of Al by herself at that point, I mean they lived here but the two of them grew very close together. Then after learning Alchemy from a professional, who isn't their parent, they attempt to revive their mother. I'm surprised they both lived after that." She grabbed wine from the cupboard and two glasses. "And she handled automail surgery better then most of my patients. Then she became the military's dog and has been ever since." She poured the wine into each of the glasses.

"She is reckless." I said and took a sip of the drink.

"She was desperate." Pinako countered.

"Why did you help her with her façade of being a boy." I asked trying to fully grasp the situation.

"They want to regain their bodies." Explained

"She's doing all of that so she can get two limbs back?" I asked, I forced myself to stay at the table and not run up the stairs to yell at my child.

"No, I don't think she is doing all of this for her, she wants to fix Alphonse more then anything."

"What's wrong with my son?" I was almost to afraid to ask.

"He lost everything, his whole body."

"Then how is he-" I started to ask but Pinako cut me off.

"Edelle bounded his soul to a suit of armour right after they failed to bring there mother back." Something like that would have cost something.

"What did she lose?"

"Apparently she lost her leg trying to resurrect her mother and her arm rescuing her brother." Two different payments, to different times witnessing the gate. We sat in silence sipping our wine, I was trying to understand what my daughter was thinking to make her do something like that. The sun melted into the sky painting it with beautiful colours as it disappeared on the horizon. I heard a faint whimper coming from upstairs, Pinako turned her head to the stairs hearing the noise as well. I waited before moving to see if it was really Edelle or just Den growling at me from outside. The whimper came again but this time a little louder. We both stood up and walked to the stairs, the whimpering becoming louder and closer together. I opened the door I heard the noise come from to be met with a pitch dark room. I walked into the room taking careful steps trying to be quiet. I reached the bed and Edelle was sprawled out onto the bed taking up as much space as she could. I could fully see her automail arm and the scars that came with it.

"Al...no...Nina..." She was muttering I looked at her face to see a frown on it. I grabbed her left shoulder and before I could do anything else her eyes were thrown open. She pushed me off of her then rolled over so her back was facing us. I slowly walked out of the room trying to remember the little girl who was scared of the monster under her bed and wanted Daddy to take care of it. I shut the door behind us and felt Pinako giving me a studious glance.

"Maybe I should get something stronger." And with that we went back to drinking.

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POV ED

I woke up for a second time that night when I heard the door open. I kept my eyes closed and my breathing normal. I could hear heavy footsteps walking towards me. I waited to see what the bastard would do. He didn't do anything he just left the room, maybe he was making sure that I was asleep. I got up after the door shut and walked down the stairs.

"You did a great job on her automail Pinako." I heard Hohenhiem say. I grabbed my right elbow.

"Some of Winston's best." Pinako corrected him. I sat down at the bottom of the stairs jst out of sight of the dinner table.

"The Human Transmutation, why didn't anyone scold those two?" He asked.

"Oh someone did." Pinako laughed. "Colonel Mustang came here looking for you and ended up finding your old house and that thing, let's just say that Edelle and Mustang have very similar personalities."

"It's good that someone scolded them about it."

"You're right it's good that they have a father figure in their lives." Pinako said. I part of me was happy that she was bitching him out, but she couldn't have been more wrong, Mustang wasn't a father figure was he?

"He was the one that called to check on her right? Does he do that often when she's in town?" he asked.

"Yes and no sometimes he comes with her, it's more of an effort then you've made these past years. Maybe if you were here they wouldn't have tried to make their mother." 'Drop the subject.' I prayed. The room was quite except for Den growling at the bastard.

"Make their mother." He whispered. I heard the clanking of automail and I looked to see that Den was standing besides me just out of eyesight of the kitchen.

"Pinako, you disposed of the results of the human transmutation right?" What was he playing at. "Was it really Trisha that they made?"

"It wasn't really a person, more of a thing by the time I saw it."

"That's not what I meant, did you notice the hair colour or the eye colour?"

"What are you talking about?" Pinako was getting mad. "Are you saying that those two went working on something totally unrelated to them and their current bodies was just a mistake?! Those are terrible words!" At that I froze I didn't know how to react.

"It's just a theory." I heard Hohenhiem say. I ran up the stairs as quietly as possible. 'What did we do? No that bastard can't be right can he.' I fell back to sleep only to be greeted by nightmares once more.

Hey guys hope you liked it, so next time we will be starting off with Ed just after the nightmare. Feel free to comment and suggest like always, and I'll see you next time.