Winry woke slowly with her mind going through the events and traumas of the previous night. She sighed before she realized that arms were weakly wrapped around her. She looked down to see Edward leaning towards her, peacefully resting and no signs of more re-opened wounds or a second nightmare. She smiled softly as she glanced at her watch.
"Eight o'clock huh?" she thought while she took his long blond hair and braided it for him with a rubber band in her pocket "I should try and do what I can for his broken automail so he'll have a spare set."
Gently she laid Ed back down onto the hospital bed, pulled the blankets up and placed her lips on his. She got up and reached for the handle, but before she could turn it, she jumped when she heard a raspy voice from behind her say "Thank-you". She turned around and there was Ed looking at her with half-opened golden eyes.
"You're welcome Ed." She replied and noticed Ed's eyes were full of sadness.
"Are you leaving?" he asked sadly
She came back over to his bed and smiled "Yes Ed, I am. But only for a while. I'm going back to Central Inn to try and repair your broken limbs. I know that they said it was beyond repair but nothing is beyond repair for me. Besides, it'll be good for you to have an extra set."
"…A-Alright Winry. Just hurry back, okay?"
"I'll come back soon don't worry. Okay Ed?" she looked at him for a long time until he finally nodded
"Okay. I'm going now. I'll bring the others when I come back." She said with a smile
"Okay. Be back soon." As she left the room he laid back down and let out a sigh and a few tears. "I will see her again. What am I worried about?" He fell asleep shortly after.
"Lieutenant?" Winry called into the payphone
"Yes Winry, I'm here." Came the voice of Riza from the other line "So is Roy and Alphonse showed up a little while ago too. Hold on, I'll put you on speaker."
"Oh. Okay." She waited till she heard the greetings of Roy and Al
"Hi everyone. Listen, I'm leaving the hospital to go work on Ed's busted limbs and I was wondering if you guys wanted meet up to go see him after."
"Wait!" Roy shouted "You said he shouldn't be alone!"
"You can't leave brother now! He needs you Winry!" Al exclaimed
"Agreed," Riza replied "Winry, The only reason that Edward is getting better is because you're there. Think what's going through his mind now that you're gone." okay
Winry remembered the look on Ed's face when she was leaving. "Okay, Okay. I see everyone's point. I'll go pick up the repair gear and the automail, go to your place and we'll all go see him. I'll stay at the hospital and work there. Okay?
"Yes." Came the sound of three different voices
"Okay. I'll be there shortly." She said as she hung up.
Six men dressed in white overcoats came into the hospital. The found and entered Ed's room. One locked the door and then they all circled around the sleeping teen, pulling on black ski masks and pulling of the overcoats revealing all black clothes and guns. They quickly placed restraints attached on his bed around his arms and legs. He began to stir and opened his eyes, they immediately went wide in a state of fear.
"Hello Edward. Remember us?" The big man said with his ghostly familiar voice as he clapped his hand over the teen's mouth, preventing any sound from their hostage.
"Open it." He said and the smallest one from before opened the ports of his automail arm and leg. He brandished a small taster-like device and turned it on, creating a powerful stream of blue electricity. He inserted it into the ports and with a muffled cry of pain, Ed lost the ability to move his automail.
"And now the finishing touch." The big man said as he brandished a small needle that Ed recognized as the sedative needle that Doctor Richards had used on him "We had a hard time prying this from the cold, dead hands of the honourable Doctor Richards. Enjoy." He stabbed the teen's shoulder a tremendous amount of force, injected the fluid and pointed his gun at the head of his drowsy hostage.
"Move out." He commanded. They filed on each side of the bed, carrying the medical devices hooked up to the teen. The small one was in the back pushing the hospital bed out of the room.
"MOVE OUT OF THE WAY OR HE DIES! CLEAR THE WAY TO THE ELEVATOR!!!!" The big man screamed out at everyone and they all moved out of the way, terrified looks on their faces. The abductors were half-way to the elevator when its doors opened and inside was a blue-eyed girl, a red-eyed suit of armour carrying two large suitcases, an onyx-eyed man and an older cinnamon-eyed woman.
"ED!" Winry screamed as they all rushed out of the elevator, Roy pulling on his gloves.
"Move to the rear elevator!" the big man instructed and they flanked back, the samller one opening the elevator doors and they all moved back with the bed and Ed still in it.
"I don't think so!" Roy screamed, preparing to snap.
"Wrong Mustang, I don't think so!" the big man pulled a fire alarm next to him, activating the sprinklers and soaking Roy and the gloves.
Edward, fighting the sedative to stay awake even through all the commotion of water on his face and being moved into an elevator. For a split second, his half- open golden eyes met Winry's teary blue ones and he stretched out his flesh arm to her and fell unconscious while the elevator doors shut tightly.
