Yeah...when I said "Chapter 7" preview...I imagine you figured out that it MEANT chapter 8...oh well. You get the point. And yes, if you want to know what happened at the banquette, read "Misunderstanding" You don't have to, it poses no significance, it's just a funny side story. 4 Chapters, like "Promise".
And no one got the refrence! The picnic? No one caught that? From the sixth DVD case there's a picture of Ed and Winry sitting in a tree and behind there everyone having a picnic and Havoc is pulling on that long strand of...what ever it is, coming off of Al's helmet. They're all loaded. And Riza is not having fun. It's one of my favourite pics.
I'm taking some advice form Caitlin, she gave me a good example of how to fix my problem of who's speaking. I'm going to do my best this time and try to correct the error, if I do, I will have grown a little in my writings! Thanks for the reviews guys, they really help.
And once more...no spell check...sorry. :(
Chapter 8 - Re-Unite
"Hey Ed..." Winry said as she walked through the bedroom door, she saw him laying there with his left hand behind his head and his automail resting on his stomach. She laid her toolbox down next to him. "I need to get you to straighten your arm out and keep your back flat." Ed took his arm from behind his head dragging the pillow behind. Winry thought for a moment.
Ed lifted his head and looked at her. "Is there a problem?"
Winry shook her head. "What?" As if distracted. "No..it's jsut going to be awkward to get at where the clip is. Scoot over." Ed looked over and moved to the center of the bed. "I should be able to do this." She took out her screwdriver and sat on the bed next to Edward. Unacrewing the outer plating she got at the main skeleton on the inside of the automail.
Ed watched her carefully, to see if she had any altereior motives. "How long will this take?" He questioned her as she poked around inside his arm.
"Well," She began. "It all depends on if I find that other broken piece or not. The actual repairs will take all of five minutes." She squinted. "I can't see a damn thing." She slid off the bed onto the floor; searcing through her toolbox she found a small pen flashlight and a pair of needle nose plyers. Jumping back up to the bed she held the flashlight in one hand and the plyers in the other; she searched the shoulder area for the broken clip. "Here we go. Now let's see...Ed, rotate your shoulder." As he did soething metalic could be heard clinking.
"Was that it?" Ed asked. "Because that felt a little weird."
She nodded. "Yeah...I think I see it." She jumped over to the other side of him and laid across his chest. An enevitable blush crept up on Ed's face. "Almost...almost..." She fished very carefully on the inside. "Got it!" She exclaimed.
Ed was relieved. 'Mind out of the gutter, mind out of the gutter.' He thought to himself. Ed had never been that close to Winry before, it was hard to keep his concentration.
Winry took the new waterproof clip out of her pocket and made sure it wasn't damaged. "Alright Ed, it's almost inside your shoulder, so your going to have to pardon my intrusion a little longer...you don't mind do you?" Ed shook his head. "Good then." She looked inside once more then laid completly on top of him. Winry looked up at Ed's face, he was red as a beat and trying not to make eye contact; she was afraid he was going to stare a dent in the celing. "You ok with this?"
Ed nodded once more. "Yeah." he tried his hardest not to think, if he accidently start moving in on Winry she more than likely would wrench him right in the head. All she had on hand was a pair of shapr needle nose plyers, so this made Ed worry.
"I won't be too long..." She leaned down close and allowed her entire weight lay on top of him. Ed swallowed hard. "Just get this here..." She undid the grip on the rusted clip and tossed it in her toolbox and then placing the new clip around the attachment at the end of the cord, she tightened it with the plyers. Giving it a tug she smiled. "There, now that should hold for a good long while." She took the hook on the end in the grip of her plyers and leaned in closer, she had the flashlight positioned on the bed in such a way that it lit just where she needed to see.
Ed gave a sigh. "I thought you said this wasn't going to take long." He said rather emotionlessly.
Winry nodded. "Just give me a second." Without even realizing, Ed's free hand rested on Winry's right leg. His thumb rubbed over her skin.
'So soft and warm...nice.' He caught himself in what he was doing and removed the offending hand. 'She'll kill me...damn her and her short skirt!' Remaining silent he felt Winry at the hook attachemt in his arm.
She tapped his shoulder. "Move this part down a little and bend your arm." She said without looking up, Ed obeyed. "There we go, I thought that would help." She finally managed to get the little clip around the hook. "I'm just going to check the to make sure no others are rusted, alright?"
Ed nodded. "Sure." Winry scratched at the connector for his index finger, and nothing. The middle finger, nothing. She proceeded to check the rest and when she was almost done, she looked up at Ed who was very intently staring at the celing.
"Um Ed?" Winry asked with a rather bland tone.
He looked in her direction. "What?"
She sighed. "Why are you rubbing my leg?" Ed looked down at his hand, once again it had found it's way to her leg.
"Gah! Sorry." He blushed a rather deep shade of red. Quickly he took hold of the blanket as to avoid any further embarassment.
Al just stood there in a sweet embrace with the young Aria in his arms. "What in the world are you doing in Central? It thought you lived in Lush?"
She nodded as she backed away from the hug. "Well I do...It's just that Felix and I just got married yesterday." She looked down at her ring with remorse. Al feigned a smile, he knew that Aria didnt want this arranged marraige to go over.
Resting a reasuring hand on her shoulder he smiled. "I'm sure you'll make the best of it."
Aria smiled back. "Thanks Al, that means a lot coming from you." She demurely played with a strand of hair.
"So, are you guys in Central on your honey moon." Al was a little confused as to why she would take a honey moon here.
Aria rubbed the back of her head. "Well, I knew that on our honeymoon he would expect me to sleep with him, so I took off. We got married, but the contract said nothing about me having to stay there. It also said nothing about sleeping with him." She laughed a little.
Al was in shock, he couldn't believe his ears. "So where are you staying then?"
She shrugged. "An inn...but they're all booked up right now, I'm having trouble finding a place."
He took her hand and smiled a big toothy grin. "Well, we're babysitting for the Hughes, I imagine you could crash there tonight till you find somewhere else to go."
Aria's eyes brightened. "Really! Thank you so much Al." The two of them began the walk back to the house, Kale walking around them and intertwinig himself between their legs.
Winry checked the last clip and then she sat up, still balancing herself on his chest and she stretched.
"That was a little more dificult than it needed to be. You should have just let me take the arm off...huh?" She looked behind her down to Edward's automail leg. "Hey Ed." She leaned back and then turned her head to look at him. "Move your ankle."
His mind raced. 'Nothing good can come from this.' He thought. "Sure." He flexed his ankle up and down, now to him, nothing seemed wrong.However, this was Winry, she could hear things that no one else could. "Is there soemthing wrong?"
She turned around and sat backward while still on top of him. "There's something jammed in there...a rock maybe." She leaned in almost giving Ed a rather good view right up her skirt.
'Must not look...it's not right.' He bit his lip and slowly tilted his head to the side.
"Ed?"
Ed quickly snapped his head into an upright position. "What?" 'She noticed I was trying to peek, I'm a dead man!'
"I need to get this out of here or I'll go crazy" She looked in the joint of the ankle and grabbed ahold of the rock with her needle nosed plyers, she pulled but it was wedged in there good. "Alright Ed, hold me still." With that, Ed, very carefully, placed his hands on her hips and held her in place. With all her might she tried to pull that little rock free. "Hmmm." She gritted her teeth and went back to a resting state. "Try again." She pulled harder, this time, she leaned backwards.
"Maybe you could just take the leg off." Ed chimmed in.
Winry shook her head. "Oh don't you worry, I'll get it." She pulled again and Ed shut his eyes. He couldn't even begin to imagine how wrong this looked.
"It's a shame the baby's asleep, he's really cute." Al opened the front door and looked around. Aria followed closely beind him. "That's weird, I figured they'd wait up for me." Al folded his arms. "Oh well, no sense in just standing here."
Aria shut the door behind her. "They? Is there someone else here?"
Al nodded. "Yeah, our friend Winry...I wonder where they could be at."
Aria gave a sweet smile. "Maybe they're spendig some alone time together." Al laughed. "What?"
He brushed it off. "Oh no, Ed isn't dating Winry, he likes her, but they're only friends." Just then Al could hear a noise coming from upstairs. "What was that?" He listened harder. "I think they're upstairs...sounds like an argument." He smiled and turned to Aria who had her kitty in toe. "I'd better go break it up."
"Alright, is it ok if I wait in the living room?" She pointe to the coach.
Al nodded. "Yeah, just make yourslef at home." With that said he headed upstairs. The sound was coming in from the bedroom. The door was opened slightly so Al pushed it open only to find Winry perched on top of his brother and making a rather prodominant humping motion.
"GAH!" He closed his eyes and slammed the door. "For crying out loud Ed! You could have at least shut the door!" He raised his hands as if to say 'Don't want to go there' and then left back downstairs.
Yea! Another chapter finished! I hope you liked it.
I decided not to put and Ed and Winry stuff in here right now, this time is for Al and Aria, but as soon as I'm done with them I'll be sure to give you guys a good helping of EdxWin goodness!
Chapter 9 - Aria tells her story to Ed, Al and Winry. They try to come up with a plan to break the contract.
See you guys soon...and maybe by then, I'll have a spell checking program. (dies)