This is a response to my own challenge at: http: // www dot fanfiction dot net / forum / Fully_Combustive_Material_For_the_Fanfic_Author / 65591 / Please do visit.

This was easy to write. Does that mean I didn't work hard enough? Does it mean that I was slacking off and didn't do as well as I should've? Damn. Effortlessness makes me suspicious of quality.

I Think the Pie is Burning

- "What are you doing?"

"Baking a pie."

- "What for? Shouldn't you be working on my automail?"

"Shouldn't you be..."

- "You should try harder to finish your sentences."

"I couldn't think of a good comeback."

- "Aw, come on! Where'd your endless wit disappear to?"

"I'm sorry. Really, I am. But I'm not a poet. Keep that in mind." (1)

- "You don't have to be a poet to be witty. I'M not a poet."

"You aren't witty, either."

- "...A man shouldn't be measured by his wit."

"Then what should he be measured by?"

- "...Would you get mad if I said something dirty?"

"Yes. Yes, I would."

- "Then I got nothin'. Hey, when's that pie gonna be done?"

"Soon."

- "How soon is soon?"

"'Soon' would have been half an hour ago if you hadn't interrupted me."

- "I've only been here for a minute, Winry."

"Your mere presence in this house is extremely distracting."

- "Really? I'll be sure to use that to my advantage."

"Don't."

- "Don't what?"

"Don't lean over my shoulder like that. Your hair is getting in my face."

- "Sorry. Do you have a rubber band?"

"You need a haircut."

- "I don't want a haircut."

"Get a haircut."

- "Get a boyfriend."

"Get a girlfriend."

- "...This could work out rather nicely."

"Only if you get a haircut."

- "When's the pie gonna be done?"

"SOON."

- "I think it's burning."

"It's not burning."

- "It's burning, Winry. I can sense it."

"It's not burning! It's not even in the oven yet!"

- "The air is burning it."

"It's October."

- "What does that mean?"

"It means that it's cold outside, genius."

- "Well, it's nice and warm in here."

"Not warm enough to burn a pie."

- "You just don't want to admit that I'm right."

"You just don't want to admit that you're wrong."

- "I hold firm with my previous accusation."

"I think you're an idiot."

- "I think the pie is burning."

"Don't you have anything better to do?"

- "Better than what?"

"Annoying me?"

- "Nah. I can't do much without my automail. Which reminds me; shouldn't you be working on that right now?"

"How about you fix your own automail? Here's my wrench. Knock yourself out."

- "As opposed to you knocking me out?"

"Of course."

- "I think that wrench makes contact with my head more often than it makes contact with metal."

"Your head is made of metal."

- "Are you calling me thick-skulled?"

"If your skull weren't so thick, you would already know the answer."

- "Winry, the pie is burning. The pie is definitely burning."

"I'm starting to think that you have short-term memory loss."

- "Don't call me short!"

"You never change."

- "What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means you're still exactly the same as you were when you were six years old."

- "That's not true, Winry."

"Prove it."

- "...My hair is longer than it used to be."

"Get a haircut!"

- "I'd rather not."

"We all have to do things that we'd rather not do, Ed. Deal with it."

- "Okay. Fix my automail so I can leave."

"I'd rather not."

- "Hypocrite."

"Shrimp."

- "I'M NOT-"

"Not what?"

- "...Not six years old anymore." (2)

"You're right. You aren't."

- "Winry?"

"Yeah?"

- "I think the pie is burning."

I'm simply practicing dialogue. I'm trying to make it good enough that you can get a vague idea of what's happening even without description.

(1) A pathetic attempt to incorporate part of my challenge.

(2) Ed listened to Winry! He did! Is that OOC?

Is there any 'plot' or 'point' to this piece? Not really. But, really, what good fanfic author doesn't have a dialogue-only fic in which Ed visits Winry? I think the answer is fairly obvious. (This doesn't apply if you write yaoi)