FMA Pairing Machine Challenge: Weekend 2
Pairing/Character(s): Winry/Archer
Rating: G
To Include: park, cigarette, kids
Drabble:
As a young woman, albeit one of decidedly different tastes and talents from most, the bulk of Winry's time was occupied by mechanics and customers but every so often her thoughts did drift to fantasies about the future. When it happened she'd usually lean back in her chair and close her eyes for a moment, imagining what the rest of her life might be like.
The first thing that came to mind was thoughts of what her husband might be like. She wanted someone strong, brave, and smart; her perfect man, in truth, would be Edward, but she knew that getting to spend the rest of her life with him wasn't a very likely possibility. Her mind then turned elsewhere for inspiration and somehow a certain Lieutenant Colonel popped up; Archer might not have been an alchemist, but he was smart in his own way and was a man who could take care of himself – Winry liked that.
So as thoughts of the Colonel filled her head, she thought about the rest of their lives. She didn't want kids, that she knew for a fact, but she would like to be able to be around them. Winry wondered if he felt the same way. Having her own would be much too difficult with her line of work and with his too, she assumed, but she knew that she would have friends she could babysit for.
She could take them to the park and watch them run around, sitting on a bench with the man who made her house a home, leaning into him as she watched the children play. At that moment, the question "does he smoke" wormed its way into her brain, and mentally she shivered a little and hoped not; she hated cigarettes.
After a few minutes she would shake her head, straighten up, and get back to work. She shamed herself for having such girly thoughts, but couldn't manage to hide a little smile; so Archer seemed like a strange choice and maybe he really was, but he was handsome and smart and cunning; nothing attracted Winry to a man more than that.
