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An Interesting Year:
Chapter 3:
Edward gulped audibly and sat back down, ducking behind Harry's arm, praying to the God's that he didn't think existed for Winry not to see him. But since when has Edward ever been lucky?
"EDWARD ELRIC!" Winry screeched as she deftly marched in-between the house tables to where Edward was hiding.
"Hey Winry. So how are things going at home?" Ed asked standing up and laughing nervously, his voice shaking some.
Winry's hand sprang forward and Edward let out a grunt of pain as she yanked him down the aisle by his ear. "Things are going just wonderfully Edward. Except one of my annoying best friends neglected to tell me that he had decided to leave the country for a year. What? Did you think I wasn't going to find out? I bet you even told Alphonse to lie to me! You just wait until I get done with you…" She threatened angrily as she Edward through the double doors and into the hall, the doors closing behind them with a snap.
Winry released her death grip on Edward's ear in favor of beating her favorite wrench against her palm. "Mind telling me exactly what's going on?"
"Uh…" Edward began, holding his hands up and taking a stride back, "I'm here on a mission as a bodyguard this year. It was kinda urgent and I didn't really get a lot of time to pack and stuff much less write a letter or call. I didn't ask Al to lie either. He didn't know what to tell you. I'm only doing my job Winry, I promise you that!"
Winry sighed and let her hands fall to her side. "I guess I can't really blame you for that one. I don't ask for a lot Edward, but I do like knowing if you plan to leave the country okay?" Edward nodded, keeping a careful eye on the wrench. Winry perked up, "I brought you some new automail to try! If I can take your measurements today, I can have it adjusted to the correct size by tomorrow." Edward smiled.
"I think I can arrange that." Winry blushed and Ed turned his face away, feeling the blood rush to his cheeks.
"Well, well, well… what's this here? Two lovebirds?" Edward rolled his eyes as Mustang peeked his head through the door, raising an eyebrow suggestively. "Having a private moment with your mechanic Edward." Edward made a very rude hand gesture then provoking Winry to knock him in the head with her wrench. While Edward sat and muttered to himself and rubbed is knot, Winry turned to talk to Mustang who was noticeably giggling behind his hand.
"General Mustang! There's someone here to see you as well." Winry said in a buttery tone. Mustang smiled at her and opened his mouth only to have a bullet shoot by his head. Mustang turned to see Hawkeye standing at the doors of the school, two large cardboard boxes at her side. She didn't lower the gun even when she began to speak.
"You seem to have forgotten all of your paperwork, sir. Oddly enough, Havoc seems to have found every last piece in the dumpsters next to headquarters. Surely you didn't have anything to do with that, did you?" Hawkeye acknowledged the two boxes at her side and then looked back up at Mustang. "You're going to do it all tonight, and you won't be allowed to torch it either." Hawkeye cocked her gun, daring Mustang to defy her. Roy choose to, instead, shoot her a daring smile.
"I bet you just made all of that up just so that you could see me. Of course no one could blame you, why would anyone want to be away from me for very long?" Mustang ended with a extra charming smile and cocked eyebrow, something that would make most girls swoon…
…The next bullet proceeded to shoot in between the hairs on the very top of his head. Hawkeye sighed at him, clearly annoyed.
"Try again, sir." She replied in a monotone.
Edward snorted quietly as he stood up from the floor. Winry turned to him and offered a hand which Edward took with a smile. He had really forgotten just how great it was to have Winry around. He really had missed her. "Come on, Winry, let's go and grab some breakfast. I have some people I want to introduce you to, and you won't believe how good the food is here! Not as good as Granny's of course, but it runs a close second." Edward proceeded to tell Winry as they walked through the double doors, leaving Mustang behind with Hawkeye and Armstrong.
Winry marveled at the ceiling above, which depicted the bright morning sky while Edward told her all about the magic he had seen so far, clearly excited.
"I've been told they have an amazing library here. I'm going to make some time to go check it out soon, I really want to see if there are any books about the Philosopher's Stone. I've been thinking that I could use the magic I learn here to help make the stone, I already have a few theories, all I need to do is prove them…" Ed trailed off as they reached Harry, Ron and Hermione, all three of which looked up at him and Winry wit confused looks on their faces. Edward gestured for Winry to sit down and sat next to her, smiling hugely.
The golden trio exchanged quick glances, all three thinking almost the same thing. All wondering who Edward's mysterious new friend was and what about her had triggered this new side of Ed's personality.
A/N: Short chapter, I know! But it fit right. The next chapter is coming soon, I promise! Please continue to review, and don't forget about the poll! It's deciding whether this will be an EdWin story or not! Thanks for reading, and keep watch for new chapters!!
A/N: Here is the revised version of Chapter 3. Is not as good as I had hoped, but it suffices for now, I'll probably come back and rewrite it again sometime.
As of now, I'm not only going to work on Chapter 4 revisions, but also on Chapter 17. Chapter 4 should be posted by next week and Chapter 17 by the end of the month if all goes as planned. But I do have marching band and drum major auditions coming up this week, so these dates are tentative.
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