A/N: I don't own FMA.


Edward is a realist.

He finds comfort in the explanations for natural phenomena, reading scientific journals before bed instead of writing in his own. Winry doesn't mind, though. That's just the way he is.

She doesn't think twice when Ed emerges from their basement in boxer shorts and a lab coat carrying test tubes of his latest alchemic venture, or when she is woken up by a boom crash and a string of muffled curse words. It's become her alarm clock, her lullaby. She smiles whenever he walks into the room, even if he's sporting dorky safety glasses and a sloppy braid.

Winry has known Edward since she was born – she knows him better than anyone else. When they were 4, Ed was fascinated by water's surface tension (even though he didn't know the terminology at the time) and performed numerous experiments to figure out what exactly gave water its seemingly magical properties. When they were 6, his interests turned towards alchemy, and when they were seven Winry watched him make small little trinkets for her.

Winry, on the other hand, is a romantic – not in the lovey-dovey sense, but in the way she views life.

She doesn't mind remaining ignorant in why birds can fly such long distances during migration. She sees the mysteries of life as whimsical riddles, not questions demanding to be answered. Winry is Edward's opposite. Their love is unconventional, perhaps, but it is theirs.

So when Edward looks into Winry's eyes and sees the depths of the world, he does not consult his scientific reasoning or his alchemic journals, for this is one miracle he wants to remain unexplained.