Edward heard someone knocking on his door loudly. It was quite surprising at such an hour, it was already 9 p.m., Sarah was sleeping in her room. He went to the door to see what it was about.

When he opened the door, he was in a battle stance, just in case. Even though nobody was currently trying to attack him, he was always on his guard. But as soon as he saw who was on the other side of the door, he dropped his battle posture, he didn't know what to say to her.

Why had she came to see him? As far as he knew, she never wanted to talk to him again. Though that wasn't the only thing surprising him, her face seemed desperate and in great shock, and her body was covered in bruises. His concern for her won over his surprise of seeing her here.

- Winry, what happened to you? What are you doing here?

- I-I don't know, I didn't know where to go, please, can I stay, just for a few days?

- Yes, of course, come in, you're gonna tell me what happened, okay?

- Okay

- Just be careful not to make too much noise, Sarah's already asleep

- Who is Sarah?

- Oh sorry, I forgot you didn't know, she's a two years old girl I adopted.

- Oh, okay

- I'll explain you all about that later, but for now, you have to give me a few explanation.

- Why-why are you so nice with me?

- What do you mean?

- Weren't you mad at me? If you weren't, why wouldn't you call me at least?

- What! I called, just the day after I arrived in Central, but your boyfriend answered and told me you never wanted to talk to me again!

- He said that?

- Yeah, why? Wasn't it what you told him?

- No, I hadn't told him that, I really wanted to talk to you, I wanted to still be at least friends.

- I thought the same thing, and look at us now, due to an idiot who was worried about me taking you from him, we haven't talked to each other for nearly seven months.

- Yeah, I guess we've been quite idiots.

- So, why did you came here? You must have a good reason, and what's with all your bruises?

- Well, Josh sometimes hit me a little bit harder than he wants I guess.

- WHAT? HE HIT YOU?

- Yeah, but he's not wanting to hurt me, I guess. He's just angry, it's my fault most of the time.

- What do you mean? It's not your fault, he should never hit you, even if he's angry. When did he start?

- A few days after you left, I was wondering why you hadn't contacted me, and he thought I preferred you to him, so he slapped me. I can't blame him for that, it wasn't really clear I guess.

- Even if it wasn't clear, he should have trusted you, not hit you. I'm surprised you haven't just thrown your wrench at him.

- I hadn't my wrench with me

- You always have it usually

- He doesn't want me to work on automails anymore, he doesn't trust me with my clients.

- Winry, he shouldn't prevent you from doing what you want.

- But, if I don't, he would leave, and… I would be alone…

- You could find some guy who really cares for you Winry, I'm sure about it.

- Maybe…

- But I'm quite sure that's not why you came here as you don't seem to care a lot about it. So now, you should tell me what brings you here if you want me to help you.

- Well, I hadn't told you, but since five months, I was pregnant.

He chocked hearing what she said

- You were pregnant! But, you always told me you wanted to wait until you got married to have sex.

- I wanted to wait, but he didn't.

- You mean that… he forced you to have… sex? She could see the anger building up in Edward as he was saying these words.

- If I didn't he would leave me.

- This is too much now, I think next time I'll see him I'll either kill him or get him arrested and sent to jail for the rest of his life!

- Then, in the beginning of the afternoon, we had an argument because I was too tired to prepare lunch-

- He shouldn't make you prepare lunch when you're five month pregnant!

- Yes well, that's what I told him, and he didn't like it, he pushed me, and I fell down the stairs.

- Oh shit, he really pushed you in the stairs! He's just an asshole!

- And so, I went to the doctor to check that I was alright, and… and…

Tears were starting to leak of her eyes. Edward instantly wrapped his arms around her.

- Shhh, it's okay, I'm here, he won't hurt you anymore… So, tell me what the doctor said.

- The… the… baby didn't survive the fall, she said between sobs

Edward wrapped his arms tighter around her. He didn't know what to say, so he said nothing, he just stroked her back in circles gently to reassure her, the same way he does when Sarah had a nightmare and he had to reassure her.

It was working, slowly, her sobs stopped, and she was only sniffling.

- Winry, you need to rest, I have a spare bedroom left empty, you can sleep there at least for tonight, we'll talk more in the morning, but right now you need to sleep ok?

- Ok

- Good night Winry, he said, guiding her to her room

- Good night Ed

And so he also went to bed, just after checking one last time on Sarah to be sure that he and Winry's discussion hadn't woken her up.

She was still sleeping peacefully.

After seeing her, he went to his room and fell asleep quickly.