Everything's Not Lost
Chapter.8 -滴いっぱいの記憶 (A Drop Filled With Memories)
'What was the wedding like?"
Riza turned around, looking at Winry. They'd been busy making more automail to coincide with a shipment for next week. Riza scratched her head. She hadn't thought about her wedding for a long while.
'My wedding?' she said, 'Jeez… Such a long time ago…'
Winry watched as Riza put down her hammer and walked over to the table, sitting down. She seemed deep in thought. Winry approached her.
'Something wrong?' she asked, 'was it something I said?'
'No, no…' replied Riza, 'it's fine… I just haven't thought about it in such a long while it's… odd'
She stayed silent again, and Winry shuffled uncomfortable.
'Let's walk…' Riza said, standing up and walking out of the house. Winry looked around, confused as to Riza's motive. In the end she shrugged her shoulders, putting down her spanner in her pocket and walking out of the house. The weather was cold and grey, forcing Winry to rush back inside and take her sweater. She slipped it on, rushing back outside and looking around for Riza. She had walked quite a distance, and Winry found herself running in order to catch up. In no time at all, she found herself by Riza's side. During their journey, they said nothing. Winry wanted to break the silence, but couldn't ever find the right moment. Eventually, they found themselves by a small stream, and Riza crouched down, looking at the water as it flowed through, in and over rocks and constantly wearing away at the muddy banks of the shore.
'Soon it will be a river," Riza said, pondering, "By then though, I will be long gone…''
Winry stood behind her, looking at the stream and seeing nothing more than a stream. To Riza, it meant something more symbolic. Winry knew this, and therefore stayed quiet.
'We got married 4 years ago… 2 years before this darned war… I told you how Roy proposed, and 7 months later of being engaged, it was our wedding day. There was quite a fiasco about it all. Havoc, his best man was supposed to be driving him there, but along the way, his car broke down. After being his typical annoyed self, Roy just got out of the car, along with Havoc, and they both ran towards the church, where I was anxiously waiting. Half an hour of standing at the alter, Roy runs in, just literally, runs into the church, right down the aisle and stands right next to me, where he just turns to the priest and says 'start'. The whole church laughed, including the priest, who chuckled for a moment before starting the whole ceremony. It was wonderful. The reception was amazing as well. Everyone was there, Havoc, Furey, Falman, and Breada… Even Roy's mother, who's an interesting women I might add. Lots of stories under her belt. It was a beautiful memory… But now, that's all it is. A memory.'
She turned around, and Winry watched as Riza walked over to her, putting her hand on her shoulder.
'Don't fall in love…' Riza said, 'No matter what happens, you'll only get hurt, even when he loves you back… All love wants to do is hurt us, and it usually always finds a way'
Riza walked away, right back up to the house, leaving Winry standing by the stream to contemplate everything Riza had just told her. After a long while of standing and thinking, Winry shook her head, snapping out of her stupor. She turned around, looking for Riza but couldn't find her. She rushed back to the house, finding Riza slowly walking up to the house on her own. Winry rushed to her side.
'Everything ok?' she asked, feeling dumb cause of the question. Riza smiled though, oddly appreciating the question.
'I'm okay Winry,' she answered, walking up to the house. Winry sighed, feeling as though something was wrong. They walked up to the house, and up to the front door. Winry stopped Riza in her tracks, noticing something was wrong.
'What is it?' Riza asked.
'Door's open…' Winry said, still not moving. Riza guessed Winry must have closed the door on her way out. There was a sudden clanging of metal from inside the house, and Winry put one foot across the threshold. Riza followed her, trying to stay as quiet as possible as to not alert the intruder. Winry reached over to the table, picking up her spanner. She had a feeling she may need to use it. She could she the intruder now, it had it's back to her, and was busy fiddling around with the automail. Winry crept up behind it, Riza quietly following behind. With a sudden burst of fury, Winry screamed, bringing down her spanner with all her might onto the intruder's head. The intruder fell to the floor, bleeding and moaning all the way. It grabbed its head, turning around and facing Winry.
'Jeez Winry, what are you trying to do, kill me?' Edward screamed.