Theme 10: Teach

Considering how important it was to him, Edward had never shown much interest in his automail (apart from that it moved and was light enough that it wasn't hard to move around). Then, one day, they'd come back to the Rockbell house for a repair and Winry had had a meltdown.

"Three in a month!" She screamed. "Two repairs and a completely new set in a month!" A wrench had been thrown, and he'd taken the hit like a man. "That's it Edward Elric! I refuse to help you on this one! Fix it yourself!" She then stormed out the room and stomped to her workshop, where she promptly locked herself in.

Ed, indignant and puffed up like an angry cat had plucked a screwdriver from a spare tool belt and secluded himself in the kitchen, refusing any and all help from both Alphonse and Pinako with an angry hiss and a grunted message to "Leave me the hell alone!"

After a while, Winry returned downstairs. Her anger gone and ready to get to work on Ed's automail, just to find that Ed had actually listened to her and had tried to fix the damage. All he'd done was give himself a nasty case of feedback and detach some wires. "Idiot" She muttered without heat as she grabbed the screwdriver from his hand and delved into the automail.

"I can do it myself." He grumbled as he leant back to give her better access.

"Sure you can." She deadpanned. She relented after a while and smiled at him a little. "I can teach you how to take care of it, if you want."

For a few minutes, only the sound of their breathing and the click of metal on metal could be heard. Quietly, so that Winry didn't notice till a few seconds later, Ed said, "Ok."

Pinako found the two of them the next morning asleep beside each other at the kitchen table, Ed's arm repaired to a beautiful finish.

The screwdriver was between them.

I am sooooo making this into a proper one shot. It's just such a great idea that i can't let it go to waste! I'm surprised i managed to keep it down to what it is! This is longer than any other piece so far.

It's also my last update for today (it's past midnight, but it's still teh same day dammit!). I'm on evens now! Hooray!

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