Sappy

She found him rummaging through old papers when she came upstairs, mostly military documents and scratch-paper he'd scribbled research on and laid to rest in his suitcase - the graveyard for things he wrote down and forgot about.

(They'd spent a little while laughing at notes that Ed wrote to himself: one of which reading "don't forget about the cat!" accompanied by a poorly drawn kitten. He didn't remember what feline he was referring to, which made the reminder more ominous.)

Ed stopped abruptly on one letter, amber eyes trailing over the round cursive, and Winry leaned over to see what had him so interested. He shot her a sidelong smile as she moved to sit beside him, and he handed the letter over. "This one was about you, you know."

Winry furrowed her brows and took the letter from him. Seeing the name Rose, she brightened. "Rose sent you letters?"

"Mm-hmm." He'd gotten them months late each time. He didn't have a real address back then, just a military-issue postal box that he kept forgetting to check. He had ignored it enough times that Scheska had to hunt him down to give him mail.

Seeing Winry's excited look, Ed gestured to the stack of paper. "Only two though. One of them was to thank me, and this one was talking about how she met you."

Rose's neat penmanship went into detail about meeting Winry, and Ed watched as her face lit up. "'I see why you enjoy her company so much, she's very nice. I think we'll be good friends.'" Winry quoted, a smirk growing onto her face. "Ed! That's so sweet that you said nice things about me back then!"

Ed balked. "Wait- I don't remember that being a line in there!" He reached for the paper, and Winry handed it to him, glowing with accomplishment. Looking it over, he found the sentence in the last paragraph. He felt his face flush.

"I have no clue where she got the idea that I liked you."

"The proof is in the paper! You were just as sappy then as you are now!" Winry laughed, and Ed tossed the letter into the pile along with the others.

"Where did you get the idea that I'm sappy?"