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"That Time"

THEME TWENTY-FIVE

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Winry nudged Ed while she thought Pinako's back was turned and whispered into the boys ear.

"Why are you packing stuff?" She inquired innocently.

"No Reason." Was Ed's muffled reply. Al glanced up with worry that was directed at Ed for a second only to be shut down as Ed leered at him. Winry could clearly tell that Edward had given Al a special type of look. Perhaps a 'don't you dare' type look. She leaned back against the wall and let her uncontrollable rejection sink in as she crossed her arms frantically over her chest. Her angry face slowly turned into one of defeat as she pouted and wrinkled her eyes in frustration.

"If you don't tell me, I'll tell Pinako that you two are planning to go somewhere tonight!" She added in simply.

Dead silence.

Al and Ed seemed to have a conference conducted with eye contact all within two seconds. Ed didn't seem like he was going to give in, until the panic in Al's eyes caused a sigh to emerge from Ed's lips.

"We've been saving for a long time after we came back from training for some ingredients." Ed whispered to Winry. He glanced up at Pinako who was busy tightening a screw and opened up his backpack to show a curious Winry who did her best to peek in between suspicious glances from Pinako.

"Sodium, carbonate?" Winry frowned in puzzlement. "What are those?" She screwed her face up with dissatisfaction. "Is that all your doing? Going to throw some white powder or something? How boring."

Ed puffed his chest and felt the heat rise to his cheeks in embarrassment.

"You don't know what it is because you're a girl and your dumb! Besides we aren't boring we aren't going to do anything with this that you think, cooking is girl's stuff!" He grinned after experiencing the look of utter disbelief on the young girls face. She tried to reach out for Ed's short hair to pull it backwards, but she couldn't reach, so instead she threw her half eaten apple at his face. Her intentions might have been for his face; however the apple smashed on the wall right behind him. Al, whom had been smart enough to keep to himself and his book the whole time easily avoided the wrath of Pinako. Then again he always did. Pinako headed straight for the two culprits and held them up by their ears.

"That's it, who threw that?" Pinako inquired calmly. No matter how angry she was the children had never seen her break a sweat about it.

They both pointed at each other, resulting in a horrified look from Edward who couldn't believe that Winry could be so malicious. Pinako turned to Al.

"I'm sorry I was reading my book, I didn't see." Al replied meekly. He wanted to stand up for this brother, but he had decided that Winry's wrath could be ten times worse and had therefore opted to blame neither.

"Right, time out for you two."

After virtually being thrown into Pinako's bedroom the two children turned away from each other in disgust.

"Bumhead!" Winry shouted sticking up her nose.

"Girl!" Edward poked fun of back.

Winry felt tears well in her eyes but didn't let them win. "If I'm such a girl how come I can fix things better than you!" She smiled to herself, feeling like she made a pretty good argument. After all, she had fixed cars, and some toys with her own bare hands, she didn't have to rely on alchemy like he did.

"That's cause you're a freak."

Winry turned around swiftly, her dress catching the wind flying through the window.

"Look!" She yelled, unable to keep her tears inside this time. She sniffled and watched as Edward started to overcome with guilt. She wiped her eyes and pointed firmly at the door. "Tell me what you're doing or I'm going to tell Granny right now!" Her strong words were backed up with her tiny feet making small, yet firm stomps towards the door.

"We are going to get mum back!" Edward shouted desperately in reply.

Winry froze. But wasn't that the one thing... he should never do in alchemy? Wasn't that what his training was teaching him? That there were just some things you couldn't change.

"Tonight. It will work Winry; we have Dad's old formula!" Edward started to rustle through his backpack to find the theory to back it up. "We got all the ingredients for a body, it will work Winry!" Edward seemed to have a light in his voice. But Winry knew how quickly that light would fade when he made this mistake.

"No..." Her tears came again and she ran to Ed's side to grab a tight hold of him. "No Ed you can't do that!" It was bad. It was bad. She didn't know why, but she just knew it was bad.

"Shut up Winry" He replied, shaking himself away from the girl's tight grasp on his arm.

"Ed! Do you know what's going to happen! It won't work! You could bring some monster back from hell!" She cried desperately feeling the room grow cold.

'I know what I'm doing! What the hell would you know? You're nothing but a stupid girl!' He had replied heartlessly. This had almost been enough reason for the Winry to run from the room in tears. But she didn't. She took on the upcoming sadness as anger and furrowed her eyebrows.

'Don't say I'm a stupid girl! Cause then you are a stupid boy!' She replied heatedly, clenching her fists at her side. She had nothing better to say to him. Nothing could make him change his mind.

"Don't talk to me." He countered harshly. She looked down at her clenched hands and decided to use them. So quickly, she threw a weak punch. Her tiny fists never collided with his cheek. He had snapped around at the sudden movement and tried to defend himself but the result had been terrible, his own fist coming into contact with her fragile cheek.

She had been stunned for that second his fist came into solid contact with her cheek. She had then fallen backwards, hitting her head against the wall with a sharp cry of pain.

She couldn't look into his eyes. She just let her hair fall down over her tear stained face. She sobbed quietly, trying to hide her tears from him. She didn't want to prove that she was just worthless girl.

But when she had struggled to get up, due to the weakness in her legs, she heard someone else's tears. She attempted standing again only to fall back down with a sharp pain in her ankle. She had sprained her ankle...

"I know you're angry at me… but could you please help me up." The young girl sobbed. She was worthless after all, relied on him for something, had let him hit and hurt her so easily.

When she finally looked up at the boy, tears heavier than her own were streaming down his face. His eyes were wide with disbelief and guilt. He couldn't believe what he had done. They remained that way for a while. Just looking at each other, and crying helplessly together. All she had for an apology were the hot tears that fell onto her leg. She had the warm tears that fell from his eyes.

The effects could still be seen today. When they fought he never brought a finger down on her. The thought didn't even cross his mind. Not even to grab her shoulders, not to get back at her for a wrench to the head. Not even when she humiliated him in front of everyone, because he had learnt his lesson the first time. He was never going to hurt Winry Rockbell again.

That time Edward had told her what he was going to do. Winry watched for the two brother's on the road. She never saw them, and never told Pinako. She regrets it to this day; she regretted it the moment al had showed up at the doorstep with Ed's limbless form in his hands.

From that time on, she had pretended like she never knew.

Saturn Stars

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