The Unknown Chap.9
Edward opened his eyes the next morning and jumped because Winry was awake and had her face inches from his just staring at him while he slept "Ahh, What the hell are you doing trying to give me a heart attack?" She giggled and smiled at him "I'm sorry you just looked so peaceful laying there." Edward sat up quickly trying to slow his heart beat down "Well my peacefulness is over now time to get back to business." Grabbing his arm she pulled him back down on the bed "Oh no you don't Edward Elric, you're going to tell me what's going on with you. I know you better than you know yourself and something's not right with you."
He laid there and turned his head to the side and he knew he had to tell her what had been bothering him. 'What if she thinks less of me?' He thought as he sighed and turned his head to look at her and as he looked into those beautiful big sapphire blue eyes he bit his lower lip some "I've been feeling a little incompetent lately Winry." She got a confused look "Ed you're the most competent person I know." He put his arm around her waist as she laid next to him "I don't think I can protect you very well without alchemy. I hate the unknown, the feeling of not being able to have control over a situation. " She thought about it for a minute then sighed "Is that all I thought maybe you were having second thoughts about telling me you loved me."
He was stunned for a minute then he looked away then looked at her again "IS THAT ALL? I THINK THAT'S A PRETTY BIG THING WINRY!" He got upset that she didn't understand but in actuality she did as she sat up too and took his hand in hers and looked in those amber eyes of his that had a look of defeat in them "I don't like to see that look in your eyes Edward. You have always been able to protect me and I know you always will. Alchemy has nothing to do with the man you have become, that was all you the way you turned out. You've grown up a lot these past few years not to mention taller." Blushing a little as she lowered her head she tightened her grip on his hand "I would rather have no one else looking after my wellbeing. I trust you, alchemy or no alchemy Edward and I love you with all my heart. Alchemy doesn't make the man Ed" putting her other hand to his heart "This does." He stared blankly at her for a minute 'God I do love her and I WILL protect her from anyone who tries to hurt her.' Before he knew it he leaned in and kissed her gently on the lips and leaning back "Thank you Winry you always know how to make me feel better."
She sat back and smiled "Great now can we go get some breakfast cause I'm starved." Standing up she pulled him to his feet as he chuckled and he followed her to the door and down the stairs to the kitchen where granny was cooking breakfast.
Christie was busy hatching her plan for 'Operation kill the blonde and take the golden haired prize.' She had told Prudence about this house and told her it was hers but that these people had moved in and kicked her out. She told her the blonde always kept the blonde rabbit with her so she might have to shoot her "YOU WANT ME TO KILL SOMEONE?" Prudence said stunned blankly staring at her. Then Christie turned into a very crazy scary person as she grabbed her by the front of the shirt "Look you little witch you're going to take her out or you can replace him and I can jam this broom somewhere." Prudence's eyes widened as she figured out where she wanted to shove it "Alright. Alright." She reluctantly said "I'll do it." Christie let her go and straightened her top "That's better" she said softly as she turned her attention to the plan again and went over it with Prudence.
Edward was beginning to get control of his feelings in the next few days. He didn't worry as much about the unknown he knew he would handle it when it came to it. Everyone noticed that he had went back to his old self he wasn't afraid that people were going to look at him different because he couldn't do alchemy and he had actually thrown himself into teaching Aslan everything he knew and she was getting really good. She had actually flipped him one day and it surprised the hell out of him. Winry and Granny were trying to figure out the best day for her surgery and how long it would take for rehabilitation.
It was a few weeks later and Winry was in the kitchen cleaning up after breakfast and Edward was relaxing sitting at the table with his legs resting on the corner of it he leaned back in the chair and put his hands behind his head while watching Winry clean as they talked about Aslan's surgery.
Prudence had positioned herself on the hill across from the house as she looked through her scope and found her blonde target in it. 'Crap I don't want to do this but I also don't want that broom stuck up my ass.' She moved the scope around and saw Edward leaning back in the chair and smiling. Then she saw his legs up on the table 'I could shoot him in the leg and tell her I missed the girl' she thought 'Her head, his leg, her head, his leg' that echoed through her mind for a few seconds as she closed her eyes 'Well I guess it's the-' she fired the rifle.
Winry turned around and looked at Edward's feet on the table raising her hand to smack them off there was 'Ting' sound then a burning feeling that shot through her arm "Ow Shit" she grabbed the upper part of her arm. Edward's eyes widened at the site of blood running down her arm "WINRY!" he jumped up and grabbed her and spun her around landing up against the wall with his body pressed to the back of her "Don't move" he whispered in her ear.
Just then Pinako and Al walked into the kitchen and Pinako cleared her throat "Are we interrupting something?" Edward turned around to see the hole in her dildo looking bun on her head and Al's head had a straight line buzzed down the middle of it and there was a hole in his paper "Uh Brother what the fuck was that?"
"GET DOWN SOMEONE'S SHOOTING AT THE HOUSE!" Edward yelled turning to grab a towel and wrap it around Winry's bleeding arm. Pinako's eyes widened at the site of blood coming from her grandaughter's arm. "WHHHHAAA, What's going on here Ed?" He wrapped Winry's arm tightly and pushed her softly towards Pinako "Watch her while Al and I go check."
"EDWARD!" Winry pleaded as he turned around to face her and she saw how pissed off he was and that the fire had returned to his eyes "I told that bitch if she hurt you I would come after her." Giving her a reassuring look he turned to walk out as he yelled back over his shoulder "DON'T WORRY I WON'T KILL HER I'M JUST GOING TO MAME HER SOME." Al followed his pissed off brother out the door being pissed off himself at the way his hair looked.
Both brothers stopped at the bottom of the hill and stood there then as they looked up they saw someone tumbling down it yelling "OH MY GOD. OH. OH. OH MY GOD. OH. OH. OOOOH. OOOOH MYYYYY GOOOOD." She landed at Edward's feet as she reached out and put her hands on his feet "Oh shit the agony of De feet." She looked up to see him staring down at her "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?" he asked angrily "AND WHY IN THE HELL ARE YOU SHOOTING AT OUR HOUSE?"
"Please. Please." She began to pull herself up him by his clothes feeling his left leg "Your leg is automail?" she kept pulling herself up "You have to help me." Reaching Edward's shoulders she stood up and began babbling "She was going to shove a broom somewhere and to tell you the truth she's crazy as a loon. I tried to shoot you in the leg." Edward's eyebrows moved together in confusion "What the hell are you talking about? What broom? And why did you shoot my leg?" Al pointed to his head "Look what the hell you did to my hair." He sulked in a low voice "It looks awful now."
Edward shook his head staring at his brother than his attention went back to the girl as he said through gritted teeth "Where the hell is Christie?" she smiled a cheesy smile at him "Oh you mean the psychotic chick?" Edward nodded his head yes at her as she fidgeted with her hands turning towards town and then she pointed "She's there waiting for me to tell her the blonde rabbit is dead." Edward stared at her trying to figure out her babbling nonsense "Blonde rabbit?" Then he rolled his eyes and shook his head realizing she meant Winry.
"You're going to take me and show me where she is." Edward demanded as he pulled on her arm "No. No. She's crazy and she'll kill me for not shooting her." Edward wasn't taking no for an answer "She won't have a chance to kill you when I get a hold of her."
Reaching town Prudence showed Edward the place that Christie had rented. As he and Al searched around in it they found no trace of her. "We need to split up and look for her Al." Edward said turning to his younger sibling who really didn't think this was the best idea "We should stick together Ed." Edward wanted to find this lunatic and deal with her he wasn't in the mood to think rationally. "I just want to find her and kick her ass for trying to kill Winry Al." Al walked up and placed his hand on Edward's shoulder "I know brother but we have to be smart." Edward turned to walk out the door and said back over his shoulder "Smart went out the window when she got that girl to take that shot." He knew Prudence didn't want to make the shot and he also knew how psychotic Christie was so he decided to look for her himself.
Walking through the streets of Resembool he checked every place he could and in every nook and cranny but no sigh of Christie as he and Al ran back into each other. Al looked up at the sun going down "Brother let's wait till first light and start again."
Edward was determined to stop Christie and he wasn't giving up so soon "You go ahead home Al and check on Winry and granny I'll be along soon." Al reluctant to leave his brother "Are you sure you'll be okay?" Al turned to walk away "Don't do anything stupid Ed."
Smiling a cheesy smile at his younger sibling, "Yeah sure thing Al" giving him a thumbs up. Edward continued on his search as Al started home worrying about his brother Al figured that he would just give up and come home if he couldn't find her.
Starting to get annoyed at the cat and mouse game Edward just stood in a dark alley and spoke out loud "I KNOW YOU'RE HERE SOMEWHERE CHRISTIE AND I TOLD YOU I WOULD COME AFTER YOU. SO HERE I AM."
Christie was out of Edwards sight not more than twenty feet away from him in a dark corner 'I have seen you fight my love and I know your moves so I can't just sneak up behind you, you would know I was there.' She looked to her left and saw a lead pipe and bent down and picked it up then picked a huge rock up next to it. Knowing if she threw the rock in front of Edward he would move backwards away from it into a defense stance so she threw it. It landed in front of Edward and his head snapped to the side to look in the direction of the noise "What the hell was that?" He asked aloud as he did a one handed back flip and landed on his feet 'I don't like this.' He thought squinting his eyes to see in the dark 'I'll say this for her she's got me spooked' He tried to relax some as he turned to walk out of the alley he felt something smash into the front part of his head and he hit his knees 'What the fuck was that?' he thought as everything began to get blurry and blood trickled down his cheek and he saw the outline of a silhouette walk out of the shadows "Now look what you've gone and made me do my love." She bent down in front of him as he tried hard to steady himself on his knees "You've made me hurt you." He knew he was going to lose consciousness and all he could do was look her in the eyes and put his finger up to call her closer she thought he was going to kiss her but all he said was "Fuuuck you" then fell on his face and passed out from the blow to the head.
She stood up and smiled a devious smile "Now is that anyway to talk to your future wife and mother of your child?" She grabbed his leg and began to drag him down the alley. His eyes opened some and he could tell he was being dragged down the street from the gravel sticking into his back. His head hurt so fucking bad he wished he could chop it off right now but there was nothing he could do because he was disorientated and losing blood as his eyes drooped and he lost consciousness again.
