Loving reunions
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Rei looked at Ed and then up at Alphonse. She went to look back at Ed, but he had dropped the bags he was carrying and ran up to his brother, taking him in a loving hug, "Al...I thought you were dead," He managed to say as tears ran down his face. "I thought I was too," Al replied, crying as well. Winry and Rei managed to carry the bags up to the house as Ed and Al stayed together in a hug. "There's so much I've wanted to tell you, Al." "Same here." They both pulled away and went inside. Winry sat down on the porch, "They haven't seen each other in almost 2 years. We should give them some time alone together." Rei sat down as well, "Its nice here. I've been in so much my whole life this place makes me happy. I don't have to worry about someone killing me some night out here." "You must have had a rough life." "I did. That's why Roy and Ed are the best things that happened to me." A brown haired girl walked up to the house out of nowhere and went to Winry, "Hey Winry! Is Alphonse home?" "Yeah, but he's inside with his brother." "His brother came back?" "Yeah. Apparently Ed's been too busy in Central to check his mail." Rei looked at Winry, "The last thing you think about is mail when a gun is pointed at you." The brunette looked at Rei and back at Winry, "Who's she?" "She's Ed's Girlfriend." Rei looked at The girl, "Nah. More like his house mate. Him Roy and Me live together in Roy's Mansion." "So what's your name?" "Rei. Yours?" "Asuka." Rei held out her hand as Asuka shook it, "Nice to meet you." Winry looked at Rei, "So why'd you two travel out here then?" Rei pulled off the jacket she had on to look like she had an arm she didn't have and showed them the remains of her shoulder. Winry looked at it, "Its extremely painful to have automail surgery. Are you sure you really wanna go through with it?" "Yes. I have to be able to protect myself in times of need. One arm wouldn't cut it." Ed came out laughing with Alphonse as he looked at Winry, "Oh hey, Rei wants you and granny here to work your magic on her. Me and Al are going out to the town to hang out together." Rei and winry nodded as they let the boys through. The women all walked inside, but Rei went in behind them all. Asuka looked at Rei, "You ok back there?" Rei didn't answer. Winry looked at her, "He convinced you to have the surgery and you want him there to care for you while your in pain from the surgery huh?" Rei nodded, "I know he wants to catch up with his brother, but I don't wanna go through this without someone there to comfort me in pain, because going through pain without comfort is the cruelest thing ever." The three sat down on the couch and hunkered down to wait for the brothers to return.
It was almost dawn the next day when the brothers returned. Fortunately for them, the girls were asleep when they walked in, but unfortunately, Asuka could hear their footsteps and woke up, "Nice night boys?" The two froze and turned around, "Ummmm...yes?" Winry and Rei woke up too. " We need to talk with you Ed," Winry said, wrench in hand. "Hey if this is about something stupid I did, then sorry. Just let me go upstairs to sleep." "Oh no your not! We're going to do Rei's operation today and you know how painful that is. We would have done it yesterday, but we wanted to wait for you to come home so you could help her through the pain since you talked her into it." Ed looked at Winry and then Rei and back at winry, "surgeries can wait. Family can't." "If I'm not family, or something very close to it, then what am I? A toy?" Rei said as she stood up, "That kiss I gave you I said was a present from Roy? It wasn't. Roy kissed me to get me to go to sleep. I did that so I wouldn't feel guilty about trying to interfere with your relationship. It doesn't matter how much pain this surgery will put me through as long as you can catch up with your brother? I guess you think about relationships as nothing then." Ed looked at her as a tear rolled down her cheek and felt its heat of betrayal, except hers was warmer. Roy loved him and that's why he told Ed what he did as soon as he saw him, but that was nothing compared to Rei's pain. She had trusted him to be there for her when she needed him, but he ran off with more important things he could do after she was better. He walked over to Rei and wiped the tear away, "I'm a fool Rei. I put what I wanted before everything else I should have put first," He took Winry's wrench and handed it to Rei, "Hit me as hard as you want with it and I won't yell. I deserve it." Rei lifted the wrench up and slammed it hard into his head, knocking him down on the sofa. She handed Winry her wrench back as her and Asuka left for Rei and Ed to be alone. She dropped down on top of him crying. He pulled her close to him, "Don't be scared Rei. I'll be as close as I can be the whole time." He picked her up and carried her to the room where they were going to attach the limb to her body. It was going to be a long day for all of them.
Ed waited outside the door with Al as he paced around for Winry to come out and let him go be with Rei. After hours of waiting, the door opened, "Come on in Ed." Ed walked in and walked over to Rei as Pinako exited the room. She was still crying in pain from the surgery. Ed ran his fingers through her hair, "I'm right here Rei." He wiped her cheeks dry and walked over to her left side. He gently held her hand as she tried to sleep off the pain, glad that he was there to comfort her.