7. Kind of a fight
"Winry, what the hell?"
"What do you mean 'what the hell?'"
"I told you to get out of the country!"
"I told you there's no way in hell you two are doing this alone!"
"We're not alone! Did you miss all the chimeras and the rogue homunculus?"
"And which of them is going to fix your arm when you inevitably render yourself useless?"
"What?"
Al shook his head, They'll never quit.
"What's going on?" asked Henkel, coming up behind him
"Well, it's kind of a fight," explained Al. "Brother wants Winry to go somewhere safe, but she wants to help."
Henkel leaned casually on the wall. A crash sounded from Ed and Winry's general direction ("Obviously your little brain can't-" "Who are you calling so short he can stand under a cocktail umbrella?"). Al sighed a long-suffering sigh.
"How is that just 'kind of' a fight?" asked Henkel.
Al grinned, or at least he would have grinned if he could. "Well, I haven't figured out if it's actually fighting, or just fifteen years of foreplay," he whispered.
"WHAT did you say, Alphonse?"
"Gotta go!" he called, and the suit of armor took off running, Ed and Winry in fast pursuit. The chimeras heard the tell-tale clap and the clang of wrench on armor from somewhere in the distance.
A/N: Just to be clear, this one a few other chapters/drabbles to come take place in a sort of... alternate manga-verse, if you will. I read a few other stories that played around with the idea of Winry somehow tagging along with Ed after chapter 84/episode 46, and it was just too much fun to elaborate on the Ed/Win seeds that were already planted (if you haven't read Playing the Hero by please-knock, go do that RTFN).