::Wake up Soon::

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It seemed as if Edward had walked once again into the world he dreaded so much. Noises he knew hit his ears and stung his heart making it sink even lower and almost drowning him in panicked despair.

Edward approached a bed before him seeing a familiar person lay upon it. He approached the bedside quietly, his head hanging low as guilt tugged at his heart. Standing over her he hesitantly lifted his hand and stroked her forehead softly; he felt her clammy skin. Backing up he pulled away and grabbed a chair setting it at the side of her bed and sitting. Straining his obviously broken human arm and grasping her hand tightly. He gasped in pain as he moved, but once he had her hand in his he would not let go and did his best to relax. Sighing he sat holding her and watched her chest rise and fall.

"Wake up soon…Winry."

While the clocks ticking seemed almost hypnotic, he slowly began to loll asleep. The last horrible thought that came to his mind as he slept made him grip her hand more firmly.

"What if I lost you?"

Doctor Thomas walked into the patients room annoyed that the secretary or receptionist that had protested against him for taking Edward in against visiting hours snitched on him. The main office was not too happy about that. He walked in to the room where he left the boy, Edward in ready to have to fight him off and braving the chance that he might have to drag him out and into the waiting room. He turned around in the room taking a deep breath and paused at the room's entrance. He could not help but smiled at what he saw though; and yet the scene tore at his heart.

'A couple showing each other there true capacity of devotion thought thick or thin. You just did not see that anymore' he thought quietly to himself while watching the two fast asleep before him. He sighed remembering the feeling and walked quietly out of the room. He would leave them be. As long as he was not causing trouble Thomas was sure that the boy would be alright. Hopefully he could find a good enough excuse if the head director found out. Either was it didn't matter to him as he headed to the break room for once. He would get ready to go home for the night.

Winry woke, her eyes remaining closed as she began to return to consciousness. She heard sounds that seemed familiar to her. They made her eyes water as she remembered Edward's broken body sitting in the hospital bed. It took her a while to realize that it was not him in critical care now, it was her. She cringed as a wave of pain hit her and suddenly everything came back to her. She could hear Edward's screams and her pleadings as the big suite of armor that she once thought was a friend attacked them ruthlessly.

She shook in terror regaining the feel of her body. It seemed as if she could never open her eyes again until the feeling of something warm in her hand caught her curiosity and she slowly began to crack open her eyes.

She glanced at her hand and a small soft smile curved on her face. She looked fondly at the person who held her hand and knew right there that he would until the very end. Winry watched him sleep for a while. She caught site that his eyes moved behind his eyelids as if he was having a dream. Time seemed to pass by forever until a small itching bothered Winry's throat and she began to cough. The coughs shook her body and woke Edward immediately.

Edward woke up form his dream, the sound of coughing banging in his head. He cracked his eyes open and saw Winry before him. She sat up bit was slumped over and coughing loudly. It did not trigger in his mind that anything was wrong until he saw a mass amount of red liquid fall from her mouth into her free hand and on the white sheet. Not even a second took Edward to stand up in panic. He almost fell backwards dizzied by the sudden force of gravity as he staggered.

He regained his balance and leaned over the bed Winry sat in rubbing her back to help the coughs subside. It scared him to watch her suffer as she did. Soon Winry was able to take in deep breaths without coughing and she leaned back and closed her eyes in pain. She only opened them upon Edward's presence Tears reverted in her eyes.

Edward blinked noticing her unspoken tears. His face than darkened and he looked away as he felt a great dreading pain began to overwhelm him. He grasped her hand once again with him broken arm ignoring the pan that throbbed with his movements. He grasped her hand firmly before he faced her again. It was a great silence as time passed. She looked in his eyes as he glanced from his hand to hers, than to her eyes Edward seemed at a loss for words until she drew him closer to her while she sat up and three simple words explained her entire will to live at the time.

"I love you." She whispered into his ear.

Edward listened and looked surprised for a while than he smiled softly knowing the words where true and let his forehead touch hers.

"'Love you too." He said nearly choking on the words and kissed her lips softly. Once again the two wished they could stay as they were forever as Edward held Winry in his embrace. Winry smiled softly again as she was held and closed her eyes while letting her chin lean on his shoulder, but than a pain in her side made her cringe and triggered quite tears and she knew the moment could never last. She knew the moment could never last. She lifted herself up and Edward knew it was time to let her leave his embrace. Winry looked down at the blood on the bed sheets before she spoke.

"C-could I get a glass of water?"

Winry's weak sounding voice surprised Edward, but he knew better than to avoid her requests from pas experience. He smiled to her and nodded.

"Sure Win…"

He pulled away with one last firm grip of her hand, than he let go and walked to the sink of the bathroom filling up a glass of water and walked from the bathroom only to hear faint coughing that gradually became louder. He walked to the view of Winry's bed and his eyes widened. He dropped the glass of water in shock as he watched her, once again slumped over and coughing up blood, but this time more so than before.

Edward ran to help her when a series of doctors and nurses suddenly burst through the door and rushed towards Winry in a fumbled hurry. Doctor Thomas was among the ones to follow and got to Winry before the rest of the doctors and Edward. Blood flowed freely from her mouth as she continued to cough violently. The other nurses and doctors that had come in brought a stretcher and some others held Edward back who seemed to be loosing his mind.

Doctor Thomas was disturbed for not having a chance to go home or let alone sleep, but he knew better than to think so selfishly. He sat at the edge of Winry's bed avoiding the blood spill but only ended up getting blood on his arms as he held her still while shinning a flashlight into her eyes. He looked into them and saw them seeing them very far and almost beyond distances. She would not last for long and sadly he knew this. He knew what death looked like after all. He stood up signaling to a nearby doctor who he had in training and watched as that doctor directed the various nurses and other around. He watched them place the girl onto the stretcher and glanced at the boy that a few nurses and doctors held aback. He watched his wildly panicked and troubled expressions. Shaking his head Doctor Thomas sighed and walked from the room. He knew very well that this night would not brig happy memories and beckoned to himself that he should never mix with patient affairs again.

Edward watched in pure horror as he watched the assembled people lift Winry's body and place it on the stretcher. Her chest was saturated in fresh red blood and her coughing continued even if she wasn't thrashing. Somebody put a mask over her face that enabled her to breath. He watched her go completely still as he coughs subsided. Edward's eyes widened and he struggled more violently than before demanding they let him go.

"Let me the hell go damnit!!"

"No sir."

"Let's go!!"

"I would like it if you could please calm down sir!!" the doctors screamed back at his demands. Edward ignored them and watched Doctor Thomas glance at him than walk out with a word.

"Hey!!" He screamed at him trying t get the man's attention, but it was to late and the doctor had either not heard him or ignored him. He to far off when Edward finally broke free for him to catch his attention. Instead Edward turned back ad ran to the side of the stretcher where Winry lay.

"Winry!! Winry please wake up!!" he pleaded to her holding her hand and letting tears fall down his face. "Please!! Winry!!"

The doctors grabbed his arm pulling him away from her, but he would not leave so easily. He grasped her hand harder and tried to stay nearer to her as the nurses began to urgently push the stretcher to the emergency operation room. The two male doctors who were present finally had a tough hold on him and pulled him away as he struggled harder managing to hit one of the doctors who held him across the side of the head. That doctor lost his grip, but not for long. Edward held Winry's hand more so but than the stretcher moved away and a nurse came and pried Edward's hand from Winry's. He tried to grab Winry's hand once more as the nurse pulled it away, but the nurses who carted Winry away were to fast and he didn't have the chance again. He still felt the warmth of her hand as it burned like acid.

Edward ran out the door following them into the hallway until the doctor that Edward had hit managed to recover and grabbed him again holding him tightly back. Others helped that doctor as Edward continued to move forward best he could. It was a sight the staff had never seen before.

"WINRY!" he screamed out but knew his voice would not be heard.

Edward made the mistake to struggle again until the pain that hit his body became overwhelming. Before he was ignoring his broken arm but now he finally felt it. He screamed out in agony and cringed as his muscles became paralyzed and he fell limply to the floor. A once again sickening crack sounded as he landed signifying that the arm had broken out of alignment again. He shivered on the ground from the shock of his injury and the anxiety that came to his mind causing him to tear. Soon Edward had passed out from the screaming agony from his injury and his heart, feeling only the cooled tiled floor beneath him and the salty tears that ran down his face.

"..Winry…" came the last whisper of her name than all went dark.

The two doctors who held him and the nurses who had helped all sighed in unison and one doctor picked him up finding the boy surprisingly light. They would bring him to a room where he could receive the proper care and get his arm splinted. Of course they wondered how any insurance fund could pay for him judging how he had used up the militaries maximum fund on him and more for the hospital care. It was a wonder how he even survived such injuries. Perhaps the girl would too, they thought of discussing on the case, but hearing that high alert ser in around the emergency operation unit they gave up hope for the too, Winry and Edward's future and attended back to there working lives.

((Wow, the last paragraph sounds sort of like communism. Ah oh well. Well there are 2 more chapters coming up!! YAY!! Almost the end. I won't say I will not miss writing this story, but I also won't say that there is not a good ending coming up. Because there is!! I ended up mixing two of my stories into one though; I hope those who have viewed my previous stories won't feel out of place for reading the last chapter. Any way's I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

Will Winry survive? Will she not/ what is Edward's reaction? What will happen with Roy and Riza? Read more to find out in the upcoming two last chapters!! O h and please Review? Please? o.o ))