Ed looked down at his ragged old red coat. He loved that coat and needed to repair it. He thought back to the years that he virtually lived in that coat and smiled. Ed missed the ability to perform alchemy, but it was worth it to have Al's body back, and to have Winry as his wife.
Ed laid down the cloth in front of him and breathed deeply. He clapped his hands together, and placed them on the cloth. He waited. Nothing happened.
"Fuck!" Ed yelled. He looked around the room glad to see that Winry wasn't there to see him fail.
He went in the worship where his wife was working.
"Winry darling." Ed asked sweetly. Winry Elric looked up at her husband. She turned off the blow torch she was using and removed her goggles. We walked up to her and gave her a kiss on the lips.
"Have you seen the sewing kit?" He asked.
She gave him a sceptical look. "Yeah it's in the living room. Why do you need it?"
"Just need to repair something." He said, making a vague gesture with his hand.
Winry smiled. "Did you try to use alchemy again?"
Ed looked down. "No." he said quietly. Winry smirked and put her goggles back on. She shook her head and smiled. Ed was such an idiot sometimes.
Ed went and found the sewing. He looked at the contents of the kit and picked up a pin. He got some thread and tried put the thread through the pin. 'Why wasn't this working?' he though. He tried again.
After much swearing he went and got Winry. She smiled, she had had waited for this moment and had deliberately not continued with the automail that she was working on. She knew that Ed couldn't sew, but faked innocent to his request.
She sat next to her husband on their sofa 'this would be entertaining' she thought. Winry grabbed a needle and showed Ed how to thread and knot it. 'So that's what he did wrong' he thought. He frowned and focused intently of the tiny needle.
Ed grabbed his coat and went to sew, but Winry snatched it away before he could sew one stitch. He looked at her, a hurt expression in his gorgeous, amber eyes. She smiled.
"You have to pin it first." She explained calmly. Ed nodded and looked glum. He thought that sewing was simple, his mum and Winry had made it look so easy.
She gave him a peck on the cheek. "I'll show you." She said. "Like this." She showed Ed how to pin, and then guided his hands through it. Ed pinned the article and Winry then showed him what stitch to use.
After about an hour her sewing lesson with Ed was finished. She gave her husband a kiss and went back to the workshop. She had to finish her client's automail by the end of the week and if she didn't finish now, then she would have to pull an all-nighter later on.
After a few hours of Edward Elric swearing and Winry Elric calmly working in the silence of her workshop, his coat was finally repaired. It wasn't the prettiest of jobs, but Ed was proud of himself. When he finished he went up to Winry and proudly showed her his terrible handiwork, the way a child does a badly drawn picture. She smiled and gave her husband a kiss. "Well done honey. I'm so proud of you!" She said.
"What's my reward." He asked flirtily
"I think I can come up with something." She said. She whispered something in his eyes. Ed smiled dirtily and practically dragged Winry to their bedroom.
Later that evening when Edward was sound asleep, Winry Elric crept down the stairs and turned on a lamp. She then repaired Ed's old coat. By the time she had finished it looked like new. Looking at the coat, Winry was strongly reminded of her teenage self. She smiled at the thought of how short Ed used to be. She was so glad when Ed finally came home to her, she'd waited long enough for him.