Chapter 12: Shocked and Repaired

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Winry's eye twitches repeatedly as she fixes her eyes on his right arm. It was still hanging limply and his left hand was clutching it tightly as if it were going to fall off if he let go. If he was going that, it gave Winry an extremely good reason to be angry with him. Slowly, she walks towards them, her pant legs making quiet swooshing sounds since she was much more slender then the mechanic clothes she was wearing. Stopping in front of Ed, she grabs his right arm and tosses his left hand off of it so that she can examine the nuts and bolts. She keeps her gloves off as she does this, running her bare fingers over the metal of the auto mail. As she brings her hand up his arm, she reaches the joint. "Take your shirt off Edward…" she says quietly, in a demanding way. He obeys without any type of objection and pulls off his vest then his shirt. Her hand gradually moves upward to his shoulder where the auto mail was connected. It was hanging loosely and you can see some of the broken nerve connections. Ed was able to sense the feeling of nausea come over him as he saw his veins and thousands of broken nerves. Hardly any of those nerves were still connected to the auto mail circuits like they were supposed to be. "How did you get this busted up Edward?" She asks curiously, continuing to run her hand all around the auto mail's cool metal.

He gulps a couple times and looks at her indecisively for a short moment. "I…fell." He says flatly. Winry stares at him with a strongly questioning expression. Ed sighs and looks at Winry, meeting her eyes just barely, "I fell when I tried hitting this guy with my leg in order to exert the energy of the- of a transmutation circle into that person." Her expression lightens as she hears his explanation, but clearly, she wanted to hear more of what was going on while he was in Central City. "While we were there…. I found these…. documents," he says quietly, trying to find the correct word for the papers. "They were instructions ya know? For like…a new type of circle. It's called the Dorai Circle. And that's how-."

Winry cuts him off, "You brought your mother back." After saying this, the three Elric's stare at her quietly, slight saddened. "I'm right aren't I? You used the power of some kind of dark circle…. no… wait…some kind of forbidden circle and to bring your mother back to life!" She exclaims, slightly in outrage. "I can't believe you Edward! You could have created more Homunculi like that! How could you have done something so… so…so, so thoughtless as that? I mean, were you even thinking of possible consequences?" He opens his mouth to interject, but she just continues on, ignoring his attempt, "If you even so much as squeal, I'll cut your arms off!"

Ed swallows hard and so do Al and their mother. He opens his mouth now, after seeing Winry come up for air. "Winry…. you're overreacting! The paper said it couldn't do any harm! It was flawless! The worst it could have done is not work! That's it! You think I don't consider things! You think I don't that I'm grateful that I'm alive, do you. I am okay! I checked for consequences, I searched for any type of mistakes! There was none! And you're just mad that it actually worked! You're worr-."

Just before he gets the chance to say any more, Winry whips her hand around and slams it against Ed's cheek.

He falls to the side and hits the ground, landing on his damaged right arm. Ed lets out a loud scream of agony and rolls around on the ground.

"I'm not worried about you, Baka! I'm worried about your arm! It takes me a long time to make them! Custom, just for you! And look what you do! But them up over and over again. You come back, whine, and beg for another one, and I make it for you because it's my job. Am I even your friend anymore Ed?" She asks curiously, placing her foot at his neck.

Edward looks up at her and grasps her ankle, gasping for air now. "Of…course…you're my friend still..." he manages to say through his gasps for oxygen. Winry pulls her foot away from his neck and she looks at his brother and mom.

"Lets go Ed…. I'll repair your arm right here and now…I have a spare in the shed. Come on…" She grunts softly in disgust at the sight of Al wearing the state alchemist's uniform.

Dragging Edward along, Winry leaves Al and Trisha behind. She tosses Ed into the shed and closes the door, flipping the light switch up into the 'on' position. Propping him up in a chair, she kneels down to the right side of it, and carefully removes Ed's right arm. He yelps a couple of times and places his hand over the spot where his auto mail once was. "Look Ed, I'm sorry about earlier. I wasn't expecting you to come back so soon, Edward. I'm really happy to see you." She stands up and looks down at him. A small smile stretches across her lips. Suddenly, she goes behind him and puts her hands on his shoulders. "I…. didn't mean to accuse you of anything Edward…its just…I thought something else might have been wrong, you know? Seeing your mom alive end all…I just couldn't believe you when you said everything was okay…" her voice trails off and she bends forward, resting her head on top of his.

He glances up at her just barely, and looks forward. "I know…I understand why you said what you said, and why you did what you did. But…don't ever put your foot at my throat again…" she looks at him after putting her head on his shoulder, "Its hard to breath." He laughs with her quietly and she stands up fully, walking to a shelf. Pulling an auto mail arm off of it she walks back to Ed with a weak smile, and then grins.

"This is gonna hurt as always…" she whisper and places the arm close to his shoulder. Slowly, she connects the nerves. He yells loudly, and she quickly places her hand over his mouth to deaden the screaming. The nerves are slowly reconnected and completed. Within seconds, she was tightening some of the screws in the auto mail to keep it on him and to make sure that no pieces of the metal come undone in anyway.

Ed sighs and looks at Winry out of the corner of his pain. "Um…I think…someone's following us… because of our use of the circle." Winry drops her tools abruptly and she stares at Ed in a strange type of fear.

TBC!

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