He didn't like. Not one bit. Something definitely felt off, and not a good off. He didn't want an 'off,' he wanted the normal, happy, loving feeling he always got from enjoying his time with Winry.

When Ed reached the docks, his eyes automatically searched for the blonde female. At first, his heart began racing when he couldn't find her, but slowly calmed to a almost normal pace when he landed his eyes on the usual locks.

Ed let out a large sigh of relief and slowly made his way down the hill and over to Winry who was slightly trembling. His height taking a disadvantage on him by a little, Ed looked slightly up to catch Winry's face. The tear stains rather noticeable.

"I couldn't do it," she whispered, new tears taking track of the old. "I was a coward. I couldn't jump. I just...couldn't."

Ed let out a breath and laced his hand in her's. He let silence slowly invade before he spoke. And when he did, it was a soft voice. "Winry. You'd be a coward if you jumped."

Wintry's body shook under Ed's touch, and she slowly shook his head. "I just couldn't do it. But I don't want to live with all this stress anymore. My body just can't take it. I'm breaking. But my body just wouldn't let the water touch it."

Ed closed his eyes for a few seconds and nodded. He slipped his hand out of hers and let it dangle for a few seconds before it snapped up and smacked the female on the head with much force.

Winry grabbed his head and gave Ed a surprised face, but new tears just formed.

"You don't get it, do you? Winry, if you jumped, you would have been the biggest coward of all time. I'd be ashamed to call you my wife. You're standing here because you're braver than that. Your body couldn't jump because you knew that even when the world gave you one hundred reasons to cry, you had to flip off the world and show it one thousand reasons to smile."

Winry slowly leaned into Ed's arms, her tears growing more. "Why is life just so hard?"

"You weren't mean to carry all of the burden, Winry. Al and I have been through a lot, too. We can carry more. And God, I wished you never had to carry more than you could hold. It's not your responsibility to take everything on by yourself. And I'm so sorry that you thought that way."

Ed's arms wrapped around Winry tightly, his grip secure and reassuring that he wasn't going anywhere.

"Winry, don't you ever think about doing this again, because just thinking about you killing yourself, or harming yourself hurt so much more than physical pain. I love you, and You'll never know just how important you are to me."

A/N:

So, it's finally up. I know it's short, but it was just an alternate ending. And I wasn't going to make you reread the whole story just to get to it.

In this one, if you notice...actually in both, I changed the positions. Winry is actually the one who jumps, or didn't, in this ending. Only because a lot of people, and myself, thought that Winry should be the one jumping. Now, I know, I know. I made a fan fic where Ed was the one who jumped, but that's only because I based this off of a yaoi fan fic I wrote a while ago, where the more masculine one jumped. And, since Ed is obviously more masculine than Winry, I just placed them as the other roles.

I hope you guys like this. I got a few requests to make an alternate ending, and I figured "What the hell. I'm bored out of my mind."

And then Tumblr captured me. This actually wasn't difficult to write. No. What was difficult to do, was pull away from Tumblr and all it's glory.

All right, I'll quit spamming this A/N up, though it's actually fun to write these things in situations like this.

Review, favorite. Do what you'd like. IDRGAF...kekeke.

Thanks for reading these. You guys are really nice or complete idiots to open up one of my stories.