Don't Call Me Short!

"Nah, I don't body jump. See, my abilities where I'm from have kept me alive for a whole lotta years. I'm eternally young and I can heal super quick. Death just can't seem to catch up with me," he chuckled as he scuffed his boot against the ground.

"Wow..." Ed said softly as he studied his friend, his curious mind wanted to find out how it was possible that he could do that. He smiled, "Wow, I've never heard of someone being able to do that before. Not even with alchemy..." Ed rubbed his metal arm, looking lost in dark thoughts. "Human alchemy is forbidden and for a good reason... Not that stopped a very foolish child..."

"It's not that great a power," Logan replied with a shrug. It was fact: over the years he had seen a lot of friends die because of old age and sickness. He wished that he could join some of them but overall, he was glad that he was able to be a hero.

"You tried human alchemy?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Y-Yeah..." Ed said softly looking away, "I was eleven... My brother and I... We... We did it... To see our mother again... We thought we knew what we were doing... I thought we would be able to do it... I was wrong, so damn wrong... And I lost my leg to bring back a monster that wasn't our mother and Al lost everything... So I gave up my arm to bring back my brother... I cost my brother everything trying to bring back the one person we needed..." Ed looked sad and held onto his metal arm tightly.

"Hey now, you have to forget all of that," replied Logan, stopping his friend for a moment to try and calm him down. "You're in a new place and it's a chance to start all over."

Ed sighed, "I don't deserve to start over...Not after everything... Al should of been the one to get a chance to start over, not me... I don't even know why I was sent here..."

"Because there's some good you can do here, at least that's how I look at it," shrugged Logan. "I have to stop in at work and get something but you're more than welcome to join me."

Ed didn't know if he believed he could do any good in this world. But he sighed and nodded when Logan invivited him to join him on his walk to his work, "Sure, I'd like that."

Logan smiled and walked with him, a smile across his face. Taking him by the arm, he lead him to the bike shop.

Ed smiled as he managed to keep up with the easy pace that Logan set. He felt very at ease with his new friend, he knew how he felt most of the time and it was good to have someone to talk too again.

"Well here it is," Logan smiled as they entered the run down little bike shop. If he had more money, he'd try to make it look better. "This is where I work."

Ed smiles as he looked around the small shop. "Its nice, my friend Winry would love all the tools you have here. She's great at fixing and making stuff." He smiled thoughtfully, his childhood friend would make sure to take care of Al.

Logan smiled, "I've always loved tools and fixing things. I've been good at it almost all my life, though I will say that times have changed since I was little. I remember a time when cars weren't even invented."

"Wow really?" Ed asked in awe, "We have some things like cars and phones in my world, but not everything they have here." He said with a smile as he looked at a wench like Winry owned.

Logan grinned, "Oh yeah? Well I bet you're world has so much this world could never dream of having. They say the grass is always greener on the other side and that we don't quite grasp what we got til it's gone."

"We had achemy... And things were much much simpler... I miss it... Hell I even miss that damn Mustang..." Ed said thoughtfully, giving a soft sigh as he thought about his home.

"A mustang? Car or horse? Dunno much about horses myself," chuckled Logan as he shut the lights to the office off before turning to walk back. "Where we headed to now?"

Ed let out a laugh at Mustang bring called a horse, "No, Mustang isn't a horse or a car, he's a Colonel and State Alchemist like me. He sort of looked after me and my brother..." Ed filled in as he forward Logan. "You wanna see the place I'm staying?"

"Oh, a colonel, eh? Me and Colonel's don't really get along," Logan remembered the last time he had ran into one, the adamantium in his veins starting to burn. "Sure, I'll see the place you're staying."

Ed nodded, "Well follow me then." He gave a small smile before he started walking down the side walk towards the boarding house.

Logan smiled and took hold of his leather jacket, fixing the collar before pulling a cigar out of his pocket. "Want one?" he offered, not knowing his new friends habits.

Ed slipped back on his red jacket as he shook his head with a smile, "No thank you, don't smoke." He replied before starting the walk to the house.

Logan nodded and lit a cigar, "Nasty habit, I shouldn't smoke myself but I do."

"I don't think it's that bad, I just don't smoke. I've only known a few people that smoke, though it seems that people do it a lot more in this world." Ed said with a small smile.

Logan shrugged, "Still a nasty habit. Shortens the life span or so they tell me. I wouldn't know..."