For Stephanie Brown

[armoured]

He still isn't quite sure how they managed to make it home.

All he knows is that one moment he was standing in the snow, listening to his tablet blare out a warning about being in a 'RESTRICTED ZONE', and the next thing-- he's standing at the bottom of the dirt path in Resembool that leads up to Winry's home. He would have thought this another hallucination, a cruel trick of Norfinbury such as they had dealt with in the past, if it weren't for the person standing next to him who definitely doesn't fit the scene.

"S-Steph--?!"

She looks ridiculous in her thick coat and scarf out here in the summer sun, and he can't stop staring at her. This doesn't seem real, it can't be real.

Can it?

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The light is so sudden and different that for a moment Steph is blinded. She's on guard, ready for an attack... that never comes. Blinking away spots, she pulls her mask down and breathes in the suddenly warm and grassy-smelling air. Then she pulls down her hood, and unwraps her scarf. They're way too warm in this weather.

Finally one of the spots resolves itself into something resembling an actual shape.

"Al? Where is everyone?"