Title: Belief
Fandom: Full Metal Alchemist
Theme: 28. I didn't doubt you for a second
Character: Winry, Ed
A/N: Sorry that it's short.
Excerpt: She can trust him, at the very least.
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When it comes down to it, Winry can only believe in a few things. She realizes this as she plunges deeper and deeper into a world that isn't her own, a world where the very shadows can follow and there is nothing hidden.
Here, the word monster takes on a new meaning. It is no longer a scary being under the bed or a knife-wielding maniac ready to chop her up. Instead, it is a tension that fills the room and chokes her chest. Every step has to be done carefully and one false move can drop her into the jaws of a beast.
(And this beast looks normal, like someone she could be friends with. Someone she is friends with. )
Anyone can be the creature waiting to grab her in the bright sunlight and there is no time that is safe.
Winry tries to be calm, to work like usual, but it is hard. She's playing a game she doesn't know the rules to and one day she might land on the wrong square.
With all this doubt, with all this worry that shakes her fingers, Winry can only believe in a few things. She can believe in her family and friends, believe that they are who they say they are and that they will survive.
She also trusts Ed. He always keeps his promises and when he tells her he'll be back, she knows that's a fact. He'll come back, a grin on his face and a look of worry when his automail breaks.
(Or maybe, she dares to hope, his automail completely gone. Either way, she'll hit him with her wrench before hugging him.)
Winry is able to smile during the day, confidently keep working, because of this trust. Even if the tension is still there, she has someone who will get rid of that creature. One day, she'll be able to breathe and smell her sweat and oil instead of blood and death.
Ed is sometimes the only reason she can keep moving one day at a time.
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