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Chapter 3

Ed's vision was obscured by blue and white stripes. "Where these for now, and get over how

"good" your body looks now, you don't have to be running around naked" Aunt Pinako said. Ed

blushingly put the boxers on "Just boxers?" he asked, almost immediately his vision was once again

obscured and he continued to dress. Black leather pants and black boots with a white muscle tee.

"You've grown a bit so we're having adjustments made to your favorite red coat" Aunt Pinako said.

Ed vision finally un-obscured looked to Aunt Pinako, and almost recoiled in surprise. Aunt Pinako

who always seemed to be full of energy was in a steam power wheel chair, both her legs heavily

bandaged. "OBABA YOU'RE GETTING AUTOMAIL!?!?!?!!!!" Ed screamed. A dark shadow

passed over Aunt Pinakos face, a glint in her eye….

Ed felt his body crash through the window a wrench flipping away in a ricochet angle. "WHO ARE

YOU CALLING OBABA (old lady)!!!!" Aunt pinako screamed. luckily I'm on the first floor Ed

thought, he quickly did a one handed flip dodging 2 wrenches landing on his feet. Ducked under the

kitchen sink which almost took off his head, and quickly ran as he saw a barrage of wrenches flying

out the whole. Unluckily there Rockbells' always have those damn wrenches , speaking of

Rockbells' I need to find Winry Ed thought. As he turned the corner of a building he slows to a

walk. Now where to find her…Ed thought. As he walked down the street lost in thought, he failed to

notice quite a few girls looking his way….

I can't believe ED!!!!! Winry angrily thought. He thinks he looks sooo good now with the muscles

and the height! He thinks he can jump me when he's naked he has another thing

coming……"BAKA!!!" Winry yelled. "Whats wrong Winry?" a voice called out. Winry had been

angrily walking down the street she hadn't even noticed where she had been going. The one that had

called her was her friend, Kim, current waitress to the Resembool Café. "Nothing a wrench couldn't

fix…" Winry said with a frown. "Are you sure?" Kim asked carefully to her friend. Although they

are friends, they are not what you would call very close friends, but Kim knew her friend well

enough not to set off her ahem family quirk. "Of course I'm sure!" Winry a little too quickly replied.

"Ummmm whatever you say, Winry…" Kim said, quickly trying to think of something to change the

subject. When suddenly she knew, well actually saw, the perfect thing. "Well why don't you take

your mind off of things and look over there, mmm because he could definitely take a lot of things

off of me.." Kim said with a wink, continuing to look down the street Winry confused turned to look

down the street. First thing she noticed was that there were a lot more girls looking down the street.

Her curiosity thoroughly teased, she turned her sights further down the road to see what everyone

was looking at, actually from the looks of it, drooling at. Then Winry noticed a man walking up the

street, thoroughly engrossing the female populations attention. Actually it seemed like he was deep in

thought and didn't notice it, but…well..that fact seemed to elude Winry at the moment. Kim broke

the silence with her friend "I know your going to get married girl, but now he has a body that makes

you want to.." Kim never finished her sentence for she was quickly cut off by Winry "Sorry Kim

gotta go!" and with that Winry was dashing down the street towards the mysterious blonde man.

Kim was left in the wake confused by her friends actions. "KIM I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO

SWEEP THE FRONT, I DON'T SEE YOU SWEEPING!!!!" a loud voice bellowed from the

depths of the shop. "YES SIR!!!!" Kim yelled, and began her job in earnest.

Ed looked up in time to catch a glance of Winry "Winry…" he said before said girl

unceremoniously grabbed his hand dragging him down the street. Maybe now is not the best time to

apologize to Winry Ed thought to himself as he "allowed" himself to get dragged along. Winry in her

anger, dragged Ed back to her house throwing him back onto the guest bed. So angry was she, that

the simple thought of WHY she is angry eluded her….that or the denial is strong in this one…

(author shrugs). Winry didn't know what to say so she opted to glare very angrily at the young man

that currently encompassed her thoughts. She finally said to Ed "Care to tell me why your parading

half naked around town…."

Ed quickly considered that benefits of turning himself into a statue for hiding……hmmm I guess

that really wouldn't work when the person you are trying to hide from is right in front of you Ed

thought to himself. Well I guess I have no reason not to tell her the truth….. Ed mustered up his

courage, why he had to he could not admit it yet to himself but he did, and begin "jus because?"

umm when did Winry get that REALLY large wrench? "OK OK it just seemed more important that

I apologized to you, although I don't know why it just seemed like it was. Which I'm …sorry….by

the way. I just didn't want you to think that I was trying to molest you, I was just caught up in the

fact that I wasn't short any more…" Ed finished trying to look as tough as he possibly could.

Winry was lost in her thoughts Well I guess I can forgive him, it was sweet of him to think of

apologizing to me first…and he did say he was sorry…but…hold on a second…."How could you

be surprised you're not short? It's not like you can grow that tall over night.." Winry asked

confused. Ed looked pointedly away from her and out the window…. Silence ensued. Ed broke the

silence "But I did grow over night, I just don't know how or why it happened, actually I have a lot

of unanswered questions….the only thing I know for sure is that my father is dead" Ed said looking

at the ground fighting the tears that threatened to pour out I have to be strong he angrily thought. But

Ed was now being assaulted with his memory of a few hours. The loss of his father, the splintered

memory of fights, the feeling of power, the pain of losing his father reopening the wound of the loss

of his mother. Ed's resolve was quickly waning. Winry unknowingly walked up to Ed and pulled

him into a caring hug, moved by the usually stoic Edward Elric almost brought to tears. What could

of happened she thought to herself, but realized that Ed was just as confused as she was. Maybe

now isn't the right time to really push him to tell his story, they say patience is a virtue…Winry

thought to herself. She quickly forced Ed to turn away from her so that his back was facing her "Let

me braid your hair Ed-kun" she said trying to get his mind off of things. Ed sat impassively startled

by the quick change of subjects but relieved at the same time.

As Winry braided Ed's hair she took in the changes of his body to the bandages on his shoulder.

She had missed Ed, as much as she would deny it to any one else, she really did miss the hard

headed "chibi" although he isn't so small any more she thought to herself. I wonder if THAT has

grown too she thought to herself before quickly shaking those kind of thoughts out of her head. She

instead turned her thoughts to his automail that she put so much time and effort into, her

masterpiece, she smugly thought to herself while her hands worked automatically to braid Ed's hair.

Wait a second….. her startled thought passed through her mind. The flesh and metal were bound in

such a way she could only dream of. The design, the intricacies….it was a different arm. It wasn't

HER arm. But what was killing Winry the most was the fact that the arm was superb, a true work of

art. Two feelings waged through Winry, one being the need to take the arm apart and exam every

last inch, the second being the feeling of betrayal that Ed would have someone else work on her arm.

The latter feeling won out. "How could you cheat on me with another ED!!!!" Winry cried pulling

Ed's braids so tight that his eye's bulged out….Ed couldn't understand the sudden change until…

suddenly he felt Winry relax her grip…and he felt something warm and wet drip against the skin of

his back. Is that a…tear? Ed thought to himself. "How could you get another automail from

someone, wasn't mine good enough for you…" Winry said to Ed wasn't I good enough for you

she thought to herself. Ed finally put 2 and 2 together. He placed his hand on Winry's shoulder

causing her to look into his eyes "Winry, there is no other automail that I would want than

yours….it's just that something happened….I just don't know what…" Ed said to her. He expects

me to forgive him with an excuse like that? Winry angrily thought to herself but then she noticed the

fear and confusion in his eyes, he really doesn't know…she surprisingly thought. "It was like waking

up from a deep sleep, but as soon as I awoke I was already in the middle of a war. I didn't have

time to think about it then but it must of happened then. I just know that when I woke up I had this

new automail, new body, I…I just don't know, Winry. I feel an odd power coming from it Winry,

it…it….ok it scares me. Please you're the best automail technician I know, you maybe the only one

that can help me understand what's happened to me. Something tells me this arm holds the key to a

lot of questions.." He said with pleading eyes at Winry. He really is scared, god I was never able to

resist the puppy dog look any ways Winry thought. "Don't worry Ed, I'll help you however I can in

any way I can…" She said while gazing into his golden brown eyes. Almost unconsciously she tilted

her chin up towards Ed. "Thank you….Winry…" Ed said his body in autopilot slowly moving

towards Winry, lips slightly parted. He could feel her breath against his lips, in his mind was trying

to comprehend the fact that he was about to kiss Winry. Winry's mind on the other hand..well it too

was trying to comprehend the fact that she was about to kiss Ed..actually that brought up a nagging

thought…Ed…Ed…..EDDY!!!! How could she forget Eddy?

"Am I interrupting something?" Eddy's voice full of spite and anger, split the silence of the room,

causing Winry to fall on her posterior and Ed to quickly turn away to look out the window, both

turning quite red.

To be continued……

Next time…

"Ed?….Ed-kun? …" Winry asked curiously, poking the charred figure with a stick. "Well at least your arm is pretty resistant to electrical shock…."

A/N

Hmm dunno how long or short this one is. Lol to be honest I just write whatever comes to mind. But no worries I have a pretty clear idea of where this story is going. But ya I know I make it pretty clear I don't like "Eddy" , wich is sad since he's my creation lol, but im hoping to make the love triangle to still be a bit complicated despite my obvious bias for winryxed. But to jus get them together wouldn't be fun, lol gotta torture…I mean ummmm have them go through "trials of love" so that their love shows true…ya that's it…of course its not cus I think it's really funny this way…now why would you think that? 0:-)