Fireflies (FullMetal Alchemist fanfiction)

A New Encounter, Halfmetal?

   The first few days of arriving in Resombool were a big change from what I was normally used to. For the past few years I didn't stay to have conversations or any communication with anyone because I was always going somewhere else and then changing again when I got close to being in trouble. Running from my problems didn't exactly help my social skills. I happened to realize that after settling into ,what I learned to be, Edwards and Aphonse's home,or at least second home.  I had only known so much about them from the tiny newspaper articles shown to me, with in the five days we had already stayed there I learned almost everything that could be learned of them. How they attempted human transmutation on their mother and failed horribly , resulting in Edwards arm and leg being lost and Alphonse returning with nothing but his soul. From there, their journey fighting the homunculi, learning about the philosophers stone, and getting stuck on the other side of the gate and having to live there for three years.  There was so much more to them than I had heard or known of, funny how you can look at a person and not know half of what their life has brought to them. The same went for Winry, when I met her she was cheery and happy, I would have never thought that she had gone through the excruciating truth of having to lose her parents to the Ishvalan war. Pain, pain was the feeling I got from all of this. It made me want to take any of the pity I had ever wished to be granted and throw it out because it wasn't as much as they had suffered and my eyes were much more open  to it now.  When I arrived, I was of no knowledge and now I learned much more than I ever expected to.

 I found it easy to settle into the Rockbells home, Winry's grandmother who ,might also be considered Edward and Alphonses as well, was so nice. They all were , which was not a lot of treatment I had ever been shown before. They didn't treat me differently because of the way I looked, or because of the red that stained my eyes. For the first time in a long while, I actually felt human and not like some crazy monster everyone was afraid to touch. Winry was generous enough to lend me clothes that she had extras of, since the ones that I was wearing before were practically rags. They even had an extra bed that they were going to let me sleep in, though their kind offer, I slept in the window seal where I could watch the outside. Even though they had not yet shown up , I was still  nervous the military might show up , and if they did I sure as hell wasn't going to let them come and ruin any of the Rockbells home or hurt them. So for the past few nights I had been staying up as late as I could keeping an eye on the outside. I felt this weird energy build up in me sometimes which made me prone to think someone was coming but it was just my body. Ever since I opened that weird portal my body was uneasy and I couldn't stand it. I was even startled one night when Winry opened the door to the room where I was sleeping. She creeped it open slowly which made me tense up at first. I stayed still until I turned my body to see her standing there in the door. Slowly my body relaxed as I realized who it was. ''Oh hi Winry..'' I whispered turning back towards the window looking up at the moon and then at the ground. I heard her close the door behind her as she entered softly and took her place on the floor. ''You know Kiomi I realized I never thanked you for bringing them back here or saving them back there. It must have been hard, but you did it.''

"You dont have to thank me , I only told Edward he should because he ticked me off a little but I didn't mean it.  The job was simple I guess you could say and now their home safe where they belong.. I just hope the kings personal chihuahuas aren't planning to come and attack them again.."

"Those two probably wont be staying long if their on the run from someone right now then huh?" Winry whispered with a sigh as she sat on the floor across from the window seal o had sat at. I looked at her confused before realizing what she was talking about, "I mean that's their decision if they wanna stay hear and possibly reveal themselves then get killed. " I spoke rather bluntly. Winry gave me this sad look afterwards which only made me regret being like this. I face palmed before shaking my hands to her. "Wait no I-uh I didnt mean it like that not at all its just that well um-" I pause trying to think of a way to put it before Winry spoke. "They just can't stay." I sighed before nodding my head , "It wouldn't be a good idea at least.. I'm sorry it must suck to have to see someone leave over and over again."