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What Happened After Conqueror Of Shambala

Chapter 3: Reunited

Inside the Rockbell household Pinako was cooking lunch while Winry 'perfected' one of automail arms that she had spare. When there was a knock on the door.

"Winry could you get that! I'm in the middle of something!" Pinako called. "Why do I have to get it! I'm in the middle of something too!" Winry yelled not wanting to leave her arm she was 'perfecting'.

"Yes!" Pinako replied in annoyance. Winry got to her feet and stomped off to the front door. She was NOT happy about being disturbed. It had better be important or she was going to...ok Winry doesn't know what she's going to do but it will cause then person/thing a lot of pain!

Winry opened the door to see Ed and Al. "ED!" She screamed and hugged him.

Ed returned the hug with one arm. "What did you do to your arm now!" Winry yelled angrily.

"One second back and you two are all ready fighting." Al sighed. Winry turned around.

"AL!" Winry screamed and hugged Al. Who returned the hug with two arms.

"Ed how did you manage to shatter another of my excellent automail arms?" Winry yelled angrily.

"It..er..shattered when we came back through the gate...I guess it couldn't take the pressure." Ed explained nervously. Winry looked murderous.

"...Sorry..." Ed apologized. Winry just stood there fuming for a few moments.

"Well then we'll just have to make you another one!" Winry exclaimed happily and skipped inside.

"We come all this way just to see Winry and her damn mood swings." Ed muttered to himself and walked inside. Al suppressed a laugh and walked inside behind Ed.

Well the arm that Winry had been 'perfecting' turned out to be Ed's size. And it was made so that it was extremely light.

"Winry can I ask why you just happened to be making an arm that just, you know, happens to fit me?" Ed asked curiously.

Him and Winry were in her workshop by themselves. Pinako was doing the dishes. And...they don't know where Al was.

"Uh..I was bored..." Winry replied nervously. She put a nervous smile on her face.

"Mmmhmm..." Ed wasn't buyin' it but he decided to leave it. "Well you have one ready for me so we can get back to the military quicker than last time." Ed pointed out.

"Right!" Winry agreed. Although she wasn't so sure that was such a good thing. "So when do you want to attach it?" Winry asked.

"Um..Is tomorrow before lunch good?" Ed asked. "Yeah perfect!" Winry agreed.

"Ok then...Wait hold still!" Ed demanded slightly scaring Winry. He leaned forwards, and considering how close they already were it would look romantic to anyone else.

Ed reached out his hand and touched Winry's cheek. "He isn't...Don't even think about it Ed! AH! What am I going to do! He's-He's gonna-" Winry silently screamed. Then Ed pulled his hand back. "Eyelash." He said and showed it to her.

"Phew!...I got all worked up over an eyelash.."Winry thought. "Make a wish." Ed suggested. "Um.." Winry closed her eyes. Thought about her wish then blew the eyelash away.

"What did you wish for?" Ed asked looking into Winry's beautiful blue eyes.

"I can't tell you that or else it won't come true!" Winry replied looking away from his golden eyes. She will tell him anything if she's looking into them.

"It will still come true." Ed persisted. He moved so Winry was looking into his eyes again.

"No it won't! It will change the way you..."Winry began, still determinedly avoiding Ed's eyes. "...nevermind.."

So Ed was silent. "So who's this Noah girl Al told me about?" Winry asked with a tinge of jealousy in her voice.

Ed stiffened. "She's just a girl I met in the other world." Ed replied nervously.

"What did she do with you?" Winry asked sternly. "Nothing like that!" Ed assured her quickly. "Well...come on tell me more about her!" Winry insisted.

"She's just a fortune teller..." Ed explained. Winry raised an eyebrow. "Who stole information from my head." Ed continued. Winry giggled a little at the way he was explaining it.

"Shut up this is hard to explain!...Well the information helped that lady come through the gate...and uh..yeah.." Ed finished.

"And...Come on there is more to the story than that!" Winry persisted. "Now she works in a coffee shop on the outskirts of Resembool. And I hate her." Ed added. Winry blinked at him. "Now that's a little harsh isn't it?"

"Not really. I decided this when she called me selfish because I wouldn't send her back to the other side. I can't send her there because the military won't let me." Ed explained.

Winry blinked at him again. "Well I guess it makes sense then..." Then there was an awkward silence.

Then Al poked his head through the door. "Dinner is ready guys."

After lunch the next day Winry sat Ed down on her work bench as they always do when he smashes his automail. Al was ready to watch this time, he was sitting on the arm of the couch.

"Ok ready Ed?" Winry asked with the automail arm at the ready. "I'm always ready to have my nerves reconnected." Ed replied sarcastically.

Winry was doing it by herself this time. "Ok well ready...NOW!" Winry warned. She began connecting the nerves and the automail. Ed winced, he was over screaming instead he preferred the soar throat from holding it in.

Winry finished up and stepped back from Ed. "Do you need to lie down Ed?" She asked concernedly.

Ed shook his head. "I'll be right in a minute...argh!...or two." "Mmokay then."

"You're sure you don't want to lie down brother?" Al asked. "I'm fine" Al started moving his hands to show off the couch. Ed smiled.

"You're sure your fine Ed?" Winry asked concernedly before she opened the door.

"Yes! I'm going to live!" Ed replied getting annoyed about being asked over and over again.

With that Winry left and closed the door behind her. Leaving Ed and Al alone...

Al started showing off the couch again. "GOD DAMN IT AL! I DON'T NEED TO LIE DOWN!" Ed yelled angrily.

"Lie down and I'll get Winry for you!" Al bargained. Ed again had to think about what Al had said.

While he did so he took a sip from the glass of water Winry left beside him...he took another sip...then realized what he meant and started choking.(again)

"Al cough you cough sick cough cough bascough turd cough" Ed yelled between coughs. Al was just pissing himself with laughter.

Then Winry came running in. "What happened!" She asked worriedly. Ed could no longer talk due to the coughing. Al couldn't talk because he was laughing to hard.

"What happened?" Winry asked again. Ed stopped coughing. "Al said something really cough sick." Ed explained. Then shot the evils at Al.

"Oh...okay then I don't want to know." Winry replied. "No! No you don't" Ed jumped in quickly before Al could say anything.

"In fact if it's ok by you Winry I'm going to leave with you." Ed added getting up from the bench, wincing as he hit the ground.

Then Al started laughing harder. "Shut up Al!" Ed yelled at his brother who was now lying in the couch holding his stomach.

Winry was confused...Well at least she looked confused, when in actual fact she knew what had happened, because she had

been eavesdropping.

"I'm glad to get away from him" Ed sighed. Glaring at the door(not that the person on the other side of it could tell but hey!).

"So...erm...do you want to go for a walk?" Winry asked nervously. Ed looked at her. "Ok just let me put on some shoes...and I'll try and get a shirt on." Ed replied then hurried of to the guest room.

"He's gonna need help getting his shirt on." Winry thought. And sure enough two minutes later..."WINRY!"

Winry walked into the guest room to find ed with his shirt on most of him but his automail arm had the hand sticking out the bottom.

She pulled the shirt off him. "Arms up." Winry ordered. Ed's flesh arm went up but the automail arm wouldn't move.

Winry pulled her wrench out of her pocket and gave it a good bang. Ed then moved it slowly...painfuly upward.

Winry slid the shirt over his arms and his head as quickly as she could so Ed wouldn't have to keep his arm up for too long. But she fell over and had to hold herself up by leaning on Ed's chest. She had put her hands against his chest too.

Ed looked down at her. At that moment she looked up into his eyes. After a second or two she realized she was still leaning on him, and moved away practically to the other side of the room, blushing, and looking away.

"So..um..Let's go!" Winry suggested nervously and headed out the door. If she had looked at Ed she would have seen that he was blushing too. "Uh..Right!" Ed agreed equally as nervous and followed her out of the door.