Title: Stuck Waiting
Author: Sofipitch
Series: brotherhood
Word Count: Shorter than imagined? No, 465
Rating: G
Characters: Winry Rockbell
Summary: Waiting for them to come home was brutal.
Warnings: spoilers
Even as she got older, whenever she recalled it, she could never believe she could've had so much patience. Winry Rockbell was well known to not have any patience or tolerance to having to wait, and that's partially why she is known to be such a great engineer. She liked to get things done as fast and as soon as possible, and at the same time she always wanted to present the best quality work possible. She hated waiting, it felt like she had done it her entire life; it got tiring after a while. So once the promised day had ended, it had been brutal for her to sit back and wait for those idiots to come home, rather than to simply run to Central and make sure everything was okay herself.
And honestly, she had tried to do just that the day after the promised day, only to be let down at the news that the trains weren't running. So she waited, believing that once the trains were up and running again she would head straight to Central, first thing. Well, that was until Ed called her just a day before the trains began moving again.
"Just wait there in Risenbool. We'll come to you." Ed didn't provide any more information other than that, and simply hung up on her when he finished giving her that information. She swore she was going beat good manners into him if she had to.
But even though she wanted to do just the opposite, she decided to abide to Ed's wishes. She told herself that Ed had said "we'll", implying that both he and Alphonse were safe, so she let her mind satisfy itself with that little reassurance. But she couldn't help but constantly clean the house, making sure that if they came at any given moment, the house they would be coming home to were clean, or feeling a jolt of excitement stop her heart for the slightest second as she heard the distant whistle of a train making its way down the tracks towards the small town's station.
At least she knew they were coming, she would remind herself over and over again. He called, they were okay.
Some little girls from town had asked her to help them with a charity drive they were going to hold at their school to raise money for classroom supplies. The girls asked her to make some pies, apple pie was included in the list of pies they had asked her to make for the fundraiser. Incidentally, the same day she decided to cook up her pies, was the same day the boys finally returned home to her.
Winry didn't mind having to cook a second apple pie, even though they ended up eating that one too.