Chapter 2
Rose lay beside the sleeping Al. She stroked his brown hair out of his face. She sighed contently, and positioned her night gown's strap back on her shoulder from where it had fell slack.
(Nothing happened okay, Rose just climbed in bed with him). It was still night, she was cold as she lay beside Al. Her white silk night gown did nothing to help either. She got closer to him and got as close as possible to him.
Al sighed, and his eyes flicked open, he smiled at her. Rose smiled back. Al covered her up in seeing how cold she was. She put her back to him, and Al put his arm around her.
Rose snuggled down in the bed, and against Al, and fell asleep to Al's soft breathing.
Winry opened her eyes, immedialty awake, and alert. She realized an arm was around her middle, she looked and it was Edward. She blushed and jumped up quickly, amazingly still not waking him up.
She sighed, relieved. Breakfast: She thought. She started making breakfast, and then she remembered Al, and Rose.
Winry walked upstairs, she opened Rose's door, but she wasn't in there. Winry frowned, and opened Alphonse's door. There they both were, both of them in a ball. Al holding her, Winry's eye brows flew up, and she blushed in spite of her self.
"Oh My God" she whispered to herself. Winry went down stairs, and woke Ed.
"Is something wrong" he asked her.
"Ummm….maybe…I'm not sure" she answered.
"What do you mean you're not sure" Ed asked. Winry said nothing, but she grabbed Ed's hand and dragged him to Al's room.
Ed looked into the crack of the door. His eyes widened, and his mouth gaped open.
"I…cannot believe this" Ed said. He got dressed, and went outside sitting on the porch steps, waiting for his brother.
Al woke up, unwrapping his arm from around Rose and stretched. He smiled at the still sleeping Rose. Al kissed her on the forehead, before getting dressed in the bathroom. Al clomped down stairs, Winry laid him a plate of breakfast on the table. He smiled at her, but she didn't smile back.
Al shrugged his shoulders, and ate his breakfast quickly and quietly. When he was finished, Winry quickly cleaned it up.
"Where's Edward" Al asked.
"Outside" Winry answered shortly. Al winced at the coldness of her voice, but he got up and went out the front door.
Edward was sitting there, staring out at nothing.
"Morning Brother" Al said. Ed grunted in response. Al sat down beside him.
"Do you know what's wrong with Winry" he asked.
"Maybe she's mad" Ed answered.
"Why would she be mad" Al asked a little hurt. Ed sighed, and hesitated.
"What did you and Rose do last night" he asked.
"We just went to the coffee corner, had some coffee, and cake" Al replied. Ed's locked his jaw.
"No…I mean when you got home" Ed said irritated.
"Oh nothing" Al replied thinking that this ended the uncomfortable conversation.
"Then why was she in your bed" Ed asked. Al's eyes widened, as he realized why they were so mad at him.
"You think…I would never-but Al didn't finish his sentence. He started coughing, Ed ignored it. But when his coughing worsened, and didn't stop Ed turned to his brother.
Al was having trouble breathing; he had stood up, but had now fallen to his knees. He couldn't breath he was coughing so much now. Ed turned toward him again, and saw him on his knees.
"Al" Ed said, as he watched him younger brother try to catch his breath but failing. Then Al fell unconscious, finally Ed's brain told his legs to move.
He ran over to Al, his unconscious body was still trying to breath, but was trying in vain. Abruptly, Al stopped breathing all together. Ed moved so fast that (afterwards) he didn't remember how he had gotten Al in the house.
Ed picked Al's limp body up, and ran in the house. Winry dropped her wooden spoon.
"Call the doctor now Winry" Ed ordered. Winry shook her head, and picked up the receiver. Ed laid Al on the couch, he put his two fingers against his throat. He felt nothing, his fingers moved toward his lips, there it was.
A slight soft breathing. The air Ed had been holding in was let out, and he kept breathing deeply until Rose came down stairs. Fully dressed in a brown cotton dress.
"What's going on" she asked. Ed looked at her innocent eyes and he said nothing.
The doctor arrived an hour later. He put his stethoscope on Al's chest, and heard his raspy breathing. He woke Al up, and told him to cough. Al did so. The doctor looked into Ed's golden eyes.
"It's nothing more but a small cold" he said. "Just make sure he gets rest and plenty of liquids" he added and walked out the door. The two girls sighed in relief, but Ed still looked concerned.
They hadn't been there; they don't know how Al became unconscious. No….this was something much more than a common cold.
"Oh Ed, Izumi, and Sig are coming over for dinner tomorrow night. Won't it be fun" Winry said as Al sat up and she handed him some water.
"Yeah…it will be" he said not really hearing himself. He turned his gaze toward the window.
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