A/N: So, I know that I promised some EdWin, but I had a problem... the EdWin fics I thought I wrote are MIA. One drabble I hadn't realised that I'd already posted, and I'll have to look for the other one... but I'll try to get one up soon. This is actually the last of the fics that I wrote that Saturday night... two weeks ago? (Gosh, it seems like forever) when I went on a writing spree while babysitting. Now I can't rely on my reserve of stories when I'm in a hurry, and a need to find an idea for tomorrow's... anyway, I'll get on that, never fear (I really wanted to say that phrase) So, yeah, enjoy some AlWin:
-Title: Waiting- -Word Count: 257- -Warnings: AU-ish, because Ed and Al have their bodies back-
Sometimes it seemed that Winry's whole life simply consisted of waiting. Waiting until Ed or Al remembered to call, waiting until the next time Ed broke his automail, waiting until the brothers finally got their bodies back.
Every time, Ed and Al eventually left again, leaving her alone to wait and worry and wonder if they would ever even come back home alive.
It could only last so long. She was only human; she could not wait forever. They had gotten their bodies back, finally, but Ed was already gone again, off on some mission from the state. It was then she realized that she was tired of waiting. Ed was halfway across the continent, and no one knew when he would be home, but Al was here, and he cared, and he was so very real, unlike the Ed whom she hardly ever saw. Winry knew that Al would never make her wait like this, not unless he absolutely had to.
She stared at the window with a sigh. She had never wanted to be forced to chose, choose between the two boys who were the closest to her heart. 'I'm sorry, Ed,' she thought, 'I love you, but I can't take waiting any longer.' Her heart was aching at the decision she had never wanted to make, but she had to continue. She couldn't wait for him any longer.
She stood slowly and walked back down to the kitchen, where Alphonse was waiting for her. She wouldn't be the one left waiting anymore.