On a sleepless summer night Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist lye's awake in bed. The heat was bothering him as well as the fact he couldn't sleep. Trying to think of anything that would make him feel more tired, he decided to go for a walk.

Hopping out of bed he quietly slipped out of the house and walked on the path heading for the forest.

Mean while…

Winry Rockbell, childhood friend of the Elric brothers and Ed's auto-mail mechanic, was at a river not too far from the house. Taking advantage of the refreshing water to cool herself off. She wondered multiple times, weather or not to take a short swim. She was pretty sure no one was around to see and who would be at this time of night?

She took off her cloths and carelessly tossed them to the side of the shore. Slowly getting in, she shivered when her heated body touched the cold liquid, though it felt good after a while.

She dove under the water shortly and came back up, with only her head out of the water. She treaded the water in the middle of the slowly moving flow of the river and swam back to a shallower area. Feeling some security and safety that the trees gave, giving her cover from the walking trails and the house on the hill.

Comfortly sitting herself against the rocks, she let herself relax. She was off in her own world, so far off she didn't notice the faint sound of bushes rustling. Leaning her head back to feel the contrast of the water on her naked body she screamed in surprise and fear when she was roughly grabbed and pulled out of the water.

"Wow boss what a catch." She heard the voice of an older man.

"What are we going to do to her?" she heard another.

"She's all mine. Oh stop you're screaming!" The man who grabbed her yelled.

She never got to see the man on a count of she wouldn't stop screaming, but when she heard the harshness in his voice she stopped. Bringing her free arm up to cover her chest "Let go!" She started to yell "Let me go!" Winry demanded, struggling against his mightier strength. "Now!" her voice grew angrier with every useless attempt she made to free herself.

"Feisty. I like that." The man, without warning slapped her ass and grabbed her cheek with his hard grip. He wasn't showing any sign of playfulness but hearing her scream in pain excided him and wanted her to cry out even more.

"Someone help me!!" She cried but knew it wouldn't do much, she was to far from the house it be heard.

"That's it, scream… heh heh." The bandits seem to be aware that there was no one to help her. Winry started beating her free fist against the man's chest with weak hits that didn't make a difference.

Suddenly the rumbling of the ground alerted them all. An earthquake? They all thought. They waited for it to stop but out of no where fists made from the dirt popped out of the ground. The bandits watched in horror as they're fellow comrades where getting knocked into the air until every last one was on the ground in pain. All except their captain. He released her and Winry fell to the ground and crawled away quickly.

"Who dares to attack my men?" The captain said gazing around to try and find the source of the attack.

"Who dares assault my friend in such a manner?" Winry peeked around the rock she hid behind. Edward…?

"Damn brat!"

"Fuck you! You better leave if you know what's good for ya!" Ed threatened. Clapping his hands and brought the fists back into the ground.

"Ah… an alchemist." The tall man sneered. "Such a little one to, leave kid, your playing with the big boys." Ed felt the temples in his forehead thump in anger at the word little.

Winry didn't know what was going on now. She was too scared to look as Ed stepped forwards to take on the bandits alone. She heard the sounds of kicks and punches, bodies hitting the floor and moans of pain, she couldn't tell who was winning until the bandits decided to get the heck out of there.

"Winry… it's ok, you can come out now." The sound of Ed soft voice gave her encouragement to look out from her hiding place. Looking around the rock she was happy to see he was ok, though she remembered she was still naked and didn't go anywhere.

It took Edward a while to wake himself up. Winry, the centre of Ed's secrete erotic fantasies was before him wearing absolutely nothing. After finding the common sense to picked up her towel and throw it over to her, thinking it would be good to give her privacy to let her properly cover herself, by turning around and he sat on the ground.

Winry didn't know where he came from or how he got here but couldn't be happier to see him. She rapped the towel around her and tied a knot to keep it there. Ed didn't say anything to her, not until she was covered. He figured she might not want to talk and maybe still scared since she was moments away from being raped.

He waited till she gave him a sign that she was done but instead she walked up and knelt down behind him. Slipping her hands around his middle and placed her face on his shoulder in a tight hug from behind. "Ed, thank you… you saved me."

"It was nothing… Winry, I was just passing by-"

"No, it wasn't nothing! I was so scared, who knows what they where going to do to me…" She whimpered and silently sobbed. Ed couldn't think of any other way to comfort her since she wore nothing but a towel and didn't what her to feel uncomfortable. So he reached his hand back and stroked her head. "Ed I owe you."

"No Win, you don't." He said. "Listen, do you think you need me to stick around or-"

"Please. Don't leave, what if they come back?" she asked tightening her hug.

"Don't worry I think it's safe to say they won't come back." He said with a little laugh. "but if it makes you feel better I'll stay."

"thank you… and Ed?" Winry asked shyly. "W-would… would you think it's strange… if I asked you to… join me? I never got to finish my swim…"

Ed felt his face turn red, her question left him unable to reply for a moment or two. Until he was able to say "Would you think it was even stranger… if I said yes?"

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A/N: well there ya go, you just wasted 5 boobless minutes of you life. I'll update more soon.