FMA in a POTC!Verse! (Ed makes an extremely sexy pirate in my mind, mmm.) in which Winry makes a fiesty wealthy-man's-daughter-turned-mechanic and Ed makes a captain that's different from all the rest.
It's pretty much focused on EdWin. Obsession much? Why yes, yes it is. Anyway enjoy, and review you scally-wags! Virtual rum as a reward is included. Totally legal, of course.
O c e a n E y e s
Edward Elric will admit that being a pirate is a grand thing indeed.
For one, you get all the beer and women you want, no hassle. The only life goal you want to achieve to find a mass of buried treasure and god knows how long that will take, so why not have enjoy yourself along the way? You get constant parties and a free way to travel across the entire ocean to boot.
However, Edward Elric wasn't like the usual pirates. But he managed to hide it rather well.
He'd swear that whatever liquid swilling over the brim of his cup was the finest illegal rum around but the fact was, if you tasted it, it was satisfying minus the alcohol.
He insisted furiously that the scruffy little girl in the back-alley who he gave a whole hard-earned loaf of bread to that he was sure that it was a distant relative, his cousin-twice-removed's son's daughter or something like that.
And no matter how many ladies (and sometimes gentlemen, to his alarm) threw themselves at his feet, Edward would always insist that was tired, no wait busy, have to go you know, steal stuff! and flee from the scene as fast as his one-metal, one-perfectly-real legs would carry him.
His adversion to girls was embarrassing but he'd never admit it.
When confronted by the matter, his answer was always that his first and only love was the sea itself, all the way from the stormy parts of whatever-that-dreadful-place-was-called to that beautiful tropical beach which was always nursed in a secret place in his heart after that one glorious trip there.
If anything, this would at least partly satisfy his crew's curiosity. And who would question one of the most fearsome captains in the whole stormy sea itself of anything else otherwise?
Little did they - or Captain Elric himself - know a certain woman with blue eyes exactly like that one tropical sea would change Edward Elric's aversion to girls forever.
When faced with her, his first thought wasn't who is this woman? In fact, his first thought was that she was more of a girl than anything else.
For one, she was dressed in the kind of dress that females only usually worn at night (not that Ed had much experience in that area); white, long and floaty, splattered with mud and various levels of saltwater, just finishing before her satin-silk slippered ankles. Her blonde hair was pretty much bed-head as well, hanging loosely around her face and getting more knotted every second by the blowing wind.
But the Captain only noticed these things afterwards. The first thing he noticed - and well, it was pretty hard to miss - was the fact that she was hissing like a captured cat, struggling furiously with both members of his crew who were firmly holding her by the arms.
It wasn't everyday that he just happened to look up from his map and find this scene in his room. Sure, there'd been stowaways and other nasties lurking around his beloved ship, but never a girl before. Trust Havoc and Mustang to bring some bizarre scene involving a pretty blonde into his life.
"What?" was the only thing that Ed could muster as the two crew members' grins at finding such a find practically lit up his whole room with a sort of self-satisfied glee.
"Found her lurking around outside, Captain. What should we do with her?"
It was Mustang's can-we-have-her-to-ourselves tone that made the Captain's golden gaze snap to him. He'd never liked that arrogant dark-haired git ever since he'd attempted to run off with his ship once, crew and all. Luckily his crew were more loyal than that, but upon Ed's threatening to have the betrayer thrown overboard they showed their loyalty (and love of rum, which was one of Mustang's specialities) towards the traitor himself as well.
The struggling girl's angered yells made Ed snap out of his Mustang-hating train of thoughts and turn his attention to her.
"LET ME GO! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO THIS, I WASN'T ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR STUPID SHIP!"
The Captain's eyes narrowed. Oh sure, she could be dangerously near his ship and even insult his crew if she wanted to but, ever since he'd obtained The Alchemy due to a number of serious, rather violent debates, he'd been rather overprotective over his vessle.
His hand outstretched and he grabbed her chin, forcing her to look at him, ignoring Havoc's and Mustang's widening grins. "My ship is not stupid- give me a good reason not to throw you overboard right now for even saying such a thing."
Her shockingly-blue eyes widened- and then she bit him.
Unfortunately, she just happened to be held by his non-real arm- yes, the one that actually hurt when a whole mouthful of teeth was sunk into it, despite the white glove which, as Ed found, heeded no protection over his flesh at all.
He was about to yell out in pain when he realised that captains don't do that sort of thing. Ever. So he settled for yanking his hand back to his side and gritting his teeth, cursing this infernal girl for ever being caught by his crew and wishing that his stupid morals would let him throw her overboard.
Oh, she was seriously going to regret being dragged aboard Captain Elric's ship, blue eyes and all.
"You should have bitten the other hand." Ed muttered before bringing up his non-bitten hand, casually pulling the glove off to reveal mechanic fingers glinting in the low light of the cabin, the smirk on his face practically dripping with yeah, prepare to be shocked girlie.
She didn't even flinch.
In fact, her eyes did widen- but as Ed soon found out, it was for exactly the opposite of the effect he had wanted.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THAT AUTOMAIL? IT'S WRECKED! YOU MORON!"
The outburst made even Havoc and Mustang jump and for a second they let her go, glancing at their captain which a what-the-heck-do-we-do! expressions on their faces.
They were met with even more surprise as, for the first time in his whole sea-bearing pirate life, Captain Edward Elric actually didn't have a clue what to do.
This girl was more different than any other person he'd ever met. For one, she was certainly fiesty, something he rarely saw in a woman, especially if they'd been captured by muscley pirates who were threatening to throw her overboard- but she also knew what his arm was, and was seemingly... angry by the condition of it.
Okay, so a captain had better things to do than spend all day tending to his fake arms and legs. And what did it matter if it got a bit rusty and salt-incrusted? It still worked. Kind of.
An idea suddenly rung out in Ed's mind and he grinned at his genius. He knew how to solve this.
"Keep her on the ship. Put her in the bedroom across from mine- and lock the door. Understood?" His sharp command was met by two nods and a protesting yell from the girl, who kicked her legs furiously as she began to get dragged off.
"YOU CAN'T DO THIS!" She shouted, desperately attempting to kick the two men holding her, preferably in places that would give her freedom at once.
The Captain turned around with a smirk once again gracing his face, adjusting the replaced glove on his hand.
"I'm Captain Edward Elric and I just did, savvy?"