Title: Considerate
Author: Sofipitch
Series: Brotherhood
Word Count: 335
Rating: PG
Characters: Edward/Winry
Summary: He thought it would be considerate not to wake her up.
Warnings: none
A/N: This takes place during the two year Risenbool arc at the end of the series, in case anyone's wondering.
He had woken up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, but had gotten distracted when he saw that the night to the basement was still on. He had gone down there prepared to lecture her about the wonders sleeping could do to the human body, but had kept quiet when he discovered that her body had already beat him to the chase. She lay sleeping, her arms were crossed pillowing her head as she rested it on her workbench. An unfinished automail piece right next to her was testimony of how tired she must've been.
He thought about waking her up and telling her to go to bed, but looking at the clock she kept at the opposite end of the room, he figured disrupting someone at such hours would only be labeled as cruelty. He was about to turn off the oil lamp that rested beside her and go back to his bed when her saw her arms were lined with goose flesh. When he looked at his own arms, he only saw the same and realized the temperature of the dark underground room. He ran upstairs and fetched a blanket and draped it over her before finally going back to bed.
The next morning, when she asked who had been the one to give her the blanket, he had flushed and bashfully responded that it was him. She then proceeded to tell him that next time he should feel free to wake her up. She whined about her back hurting.
Ed decided that that was the last time he tried being "considerate" towards her and her sleeping habits. She pulled all-nighters all the time already, why should he care if she was lacking proper sleep? Of course when they got older he continued to keep her up all night, but that was for another reason entirely. At the moment tapping her shoulder and pointing towards the stairs would have to do as a way to wake her up.