He could have stopped her. But he didn't.
Shortly after their little talk in the hall way Lin grabbed the blanket from Ed's bed, wrapped her in it and carried her outside and deposted her on the wooden swing hanging outside on the porch. After which Lin busied himself in the kitchen, making something for himself and Ed to eat.
He made a few things of lightly buttered and sugared toast for Ed and a sandwhich for him then made his way back outside and handed the plate of toast to Ed while pulling a small bottle of apple juice from from his pants pocket and handed it to the woman too before taking the small area on the swing next to her.
"Eat as much of that as you can. And make sure that you drink the juice slowly or it might upset your stomach." Lin said as he took a bite of his food. Ed gave him a duh look that made the prince wish to smack her upside the head, but instead he chose to ignore his usual habit in leu of his recent discovery of Ed's femeninity and slowly ate his food while monitoring Ed as she ate.
He finished his food long before Ed did and was only half content that she had eaten two pieces out of the five pieces of toast that he had made and she had finished off the juice and was working on another. If Ed managed to finish the second juice off then Lin would give her some water to help her hydrate further. But she fell asleep after drinking half of her second juice.
Lin sighed and took the juice bottle from Ed's slackened grip and set it aside then carefully shifted his position a little bit and sat back and settled Ed's head on his upper leg and combed his fingers through her hair as he used one foot to rock the swing gently back and forth.
He must have dozed off at some point without realizing it. Because one second he was swinging, and getting a little bit drowsy. And the next Al was in his face, startling him wide awake with a scream.
Ed jerked upright nailing Al in the underside of his chin with her head, knocking him over as Lin more or less grabbed the back of the swing and flipped himself over it and disappeared over the porch railing a foot or so behind the swing.
Al groaned and blinked back tears as he rubbed the underside of his chin with one hand as Ed stopped the swing from moving. "Al? Are you okay?"
Al looked at his sister and nodded his head. "I'm fine brother. But what were you and Greed doing?"
Ed blinked her golden eyes, a puzzled expression crossing her face. "Doing?"
"Yeah. You had your head on his leg, and he had his hand in your hair doing this-" Al demonstrated with an stroking motion and Ed flushed as Lin came walking up the steps and used his foot to quickly swipe at Al, forcing the younger boy to lay flat on the porch to avoid being kicked before he stormed into the house as he said.
"Tag. You're it."
Al shivered at the slightly ominous sounding words as Lin disappeared into the house mentally cursing Al's rotten timing. He made his way up to Ed's bedroom as granny Pinako and Winry helped Ed inside and into the dining room so that they could give her the medicine that they had gone to get.
Giving Lin the chance he needed to steal the pair of panties he'd found so fascinating earlier then slipped out the bedroom window.
The next day Ed's fever had broken and things were more or less back to normal.
Greed had once again taken control of Lin's body yet couldn't recall much of what Lin had done yesterday before they had switched back again.
Which left him in a little bit of a bind.
He'd found a very sexy little pair of black lace panties with a cute little black silk bow stuffed in his pants pocket and had no fucking idea where they had come from. Or even who they had belonged too. He stared at the lace a little harder wondering if maybe the Xing prince had done some raiding around the small town.
Which gave him the impression that some tight assed little lady was probably running around without her panties.
He scowled a little bit as Winry passed under his tree with a load of laundry piled high in the basket that she was carrying. "Could they be hers?" He muttered with a slight frown while wondering why Lin would steal Winry's panties. Surely he knew better. The girl was almost as much a hellion as Ed was. Not only that but she'd bash their collective head in if she caught them with her things.
He could slip them back into her room he supposed. It would be safer. But Greed needed conformation before doing anything else. He sighed and pocketed the panties and then dropped out of the tree and hurried after Winry.
