The Accident

The Accident is the second entry in the series and is the first in the timeline.

Summary
Two of Edward Elric's children lose their limbs in a construction accident. He decides, for their sake, to allow his automail to be studied and reworked into AMPs.

Story
Jean Stevens has brought her kids, their nannies, her father, and her uncle to a construction site in Berlin, Germany. Rose and Len were running around the construction site when a crane failed and brought steel beams falling on top of the two. At the hospital, their right legs had to be amputated along with Rose's left arm and Len's right arm.

After seeing the state of his grandchildren and getting encouragement from Alphonse, he worked with the doctors to create Advanced Metal Prosthetics (AMPs). Three months later, the two went through the painful surgery. After a year, they were able to play with the other children again and have a semi-normal life.

In the original Fanfiction version, this is all told in flashback by Rose to the other characters in The Subspace Emissary Continued. She then proceeds to explain a bit more about Automail, Len's current whereabouts, and that she knew about the existence of worlds outside the Real World long before the beginning of said story. This part of the story was cut out of the Archive of Our Own version.

Characters

 * Edward Elric
 * Alphonse Elric
 * Craig Stevens
 * Jean Stevens
 * Kevin Stevens
 * Rose Stevens
 * Len Stevens
 * Sam Stevens
 * unnamed doctors