Loose Screw
"Hey Al! Try and block this!" Ed screamed as he came at Al and tried to cut him from the left. Al blocked, and threw him down on the ground. "Watch this big brother!" Al pinned Ed to the floor and stopped. "Big brother, I think you have a loose screw." Ed and Al sat up, and stared at his substituted metal arm. "Nah, I think its fine. Let's keep going, I think I just figured out a new attack." Ed went back into a battle stance and stepped back. "You know, Winry's going to be really mad if you break that automail. She just gave you a new one last month." Ed imagined the consequences that would take place in the event of another broken automail, and it ended with a wrench to his head. "Yeah, okay, I'll have her check it out. One sec."
Winry didn't like to admit it, but on the days that the weather was nice, she would go out and sit on the balcony and watch Ed and Al sprawl. Of course, her will to watch them had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Edward was shirtless. No, absolutely not. They were both eighteen now, and they had made a lot of memories together. Her feelings for Ed were unconditional, and she soon realized that they were also mutual. She hated his crazy lifestyle of coming and going, not knowing when she'd see him again, but she loved taking care of him, and she wouldn't have had it any other way. Winry was sitting on the balcony again, pretending to work on the new automail she had designed for Ed, but in reality she was completely distracted. She had noticed that Ed would look up every now and then to see if she was still there, and she was. He liked being watched.
Edward ran up to the balcony to get his screw tightened. Winry just sat there working away, when Ed came up and knocked on the wall beside her. "Hey, Win, I think one of my screws came loose. Mind tightening it up for me?" Winry smiled. "Oh, Sure! Come on in." Ed and Winry walked into her room, and Winry sat him down on her bed. Winry grabbed the wrench from the table, and searched for the loose screw. "Sometimes I wonder how you and Al manage to bang up and eventually break every single automail that I design for you." Winry said jokingly, shaking her head and tightening at the same time. "Oh, yeah. Sorry about that. We just do what we gotta do, you know?" Ed's behavior was strange. Winry expected him to get angry, and give her a lecture about how important being a state alchemist is. They did just get back from a trip of theirs, maybe something made him change. "Uh, Winry?" Ed said, starring at his knees. Winry didn't look up from her work. "Yeah." "I like you a lot." Wow. He didn't fool around. Winry stopped wrenching. She wasn't expecting this to happen this way at all. She saw it in so many ways in her head played over and over again, but not like this. She didn't know what to say, so she said what she knew. "I like you too." Ed smiled. Winry finished tightening the screw. "Okay, you're done." Winry looked up, and they made eye contact. Ed smiled at her. "Thanks Win." "S-sure." Winry, so completely confused, followed and beat Edward to the door, to close it. She put her back to the door to face Ed. "W-what are you doing?" Edward said with a smile, knowing exactly what she was doing. He'd wanted her to do it. He wanted this for a long time. This was okay, right? I mean, we're all adults here. Before she changed her mind, Edward leaned in and kissed her once. Softly. To make sure it was okay. Winry grabbed his face and pulled him in and he melted where he stood.
Ed pinned her to the door, and pushed his lips to hers. He wanted this so bad, and so did she. She loved him so much, and for so long, and she wondered how long it would take. Ed came to terms with the fact that this was probably all he was going to get today. Ed accepted that, and thought of pulling away. Wait… was she giving him tongue? Oh my god. He was enjoying this. Ed slid his right arm up her back, in the hope of taking off her shirt, but then shying away from it and disguising it as running his fingertips down the contours of her spine. Winry pushed Ed across the room without leaving his lips, and threw him on the bed. Winry stratled his waist and Ed pushed her on her side. Winry reached down to feel the rock in his pants. It was a really big rock. She didn't move her hand as she kissed him even more. Edward got on top of Winry, and pulled off her shirt. He wasn't sure how far Winry was going to go with this, but it sure looked like this meant all the way. It had been years and years of wishing and imagining this. It was crazy that it was all happening at once. He loved it. Edward put his right hand on her breast and loved her more. Winry stopped. "No." Ed took his hands off of her. "Oh okay, sorry, I guess I got a little carried away there…" "No, with this hand." Winry grabbed Ed's automail arm, and put it to her breast. Edward gave her a hungry smile, and she returned it. Winry loved the feel of that cool metal all over her body at once. He hated it. He thought it was ugly, and it reminded him everyday of the mistake he had made that had cost Ed his limbs, but Al his body. They're hearts beat together, and the ecstasy they felt in that moment was something that neither of them had ever known before. As the rhythm slowed, and as their bodies grew tired, they lay in bed together grinning ear to ear. This was awesome. For Ed, this only made him love her more. How would he tell her that? "You're one of the strongest people I've ever known, and you're one of the best friends I've ever had. I just wanted you to know that. I love you, you know." Winry turned in Ed's direction. "I know." Winry smiled and kissed him again. They both heard footsteps down the hall, and suddenly the door flew open. "Hey Winry, have you seen big brother, he disappear—Oh! I, uh, sorry." Al quickly closed the door and walked away, completely disturbed by what he saw, but secretly pleased at the same time. Ed thought he heard an "I knew it" from Al as he walked away, but he wasn't sure. Edward and Winry lay in bed, traumatized just by the fact that he knew. "I should probably go talk to him." Winry laughed. "Yeah, okay." Ed pulled himself out of bed, shoved his legs into his pants, kissed Winry and left. Winry sat up and smiled a grin of satisfaction. Ed couldn't believe what he had just done. Winry wasn't just a girl to him. She didn't need him. She was strong and independent. But she still belonged to him. Wow. Ed didn't see himself as strong. No, not at all. Just lucky. He was the luckiest guy in the world.