Fullmetal Rock chap.8

Ling came in the next day he had booked them a gig playing at a party. Edward agreed it would be good to play the party seeing how they knew the guy throwing it. So they set their day by practicing all sorts of different songs. Winry had showed up and Riza let her in when she heard someone playing a piano beautifully and when she walked in Edward was playing the piano and Ling was singing 'Tiny Dancer' by Elton John. Riza turned to her and smiled "I just love it when they do Elton John. Ling pulls it off so well." Then she walked over and sat down to listen while Winry stood there. She had to admit Ling was pretty good as he continued singing and Edward got caught up in the piano playing.

After they finished Roy walked in "Ed do my favorite song" Edward smiled as all the members got prepared to get funky. They began playing a funky beat and Winry had never heard this song but when Ed started singing she smiled because he sounded so sexy. The song was T-Rex's 'Bang a Gong' as Roy began to dance around and Riza told him to stop before he embarrassed himself or broke something. He laughed and danced around her "You're my girl baby" he said kissing her forehead and rubbing her stomach as she smacked his hand playfully "Roy that will be enough out of you." He kept dancing and he had absolutely no rhythm Winry thought but it was funny watching him try to dance as Edward kept singing and just shook his head.

When they were done Ed walked over to her "So ready to finish this project up so we can concentrate more on the music?" she nodded "Mmm hmm" he held his hand out to her and she took it this time without even thinking about it. She didn't mind touching him now and she felt more comfortable around him.

She wanted to do something and she was hoping he'd be on board about it. She just felt like she needed to let go of some of her anger. So she stopped walking and he turned around to face her, "What's up?" Noticing her body language he knew something was on her mind as she looked up at him "Ed I want to do an angry, let loose of my emotions song. I want to get some of the anger out and I want to just let it all go for once." The side of his mouth turned up as he smiled "Well then I guess we better find you something. I think I have something in mind. It's an angry, hard core, kick ass song that you'll probably love." She smiled knowing the songs he picked for her were good and they fit her situation. So he led her to the studio and put it on. When she heard it she freaked "Uhhhh, Ed I don't think I'm that angry." He turned to her "Just think of the dirtbag who did that to you. I'm sure you can find some anger there." She thought for a moment then smiled "Yeah your right I do feel angry now." She sat there and listened to the words and the more she listened the more she liked the song "Alright Ed I'll try it." He leaned back in the chair and put his hands behind his head "I have complete faith in you Winry." She tried a dry run and figured she needed a little more anger so she thought of her parents ignoring her when she tried to tell them. Her next try she nailed it and he smiled "See I knew you could do it." She walked out of the booth "Oh my God that felt great. I let go of such anger in there."

Before he could put his hand out for her to take she had already took it as he led her to the living room where they finished their project on standing waves. They would turn it in the next day. He wanted to take her to lunch so they got in the van and drove to a little pizza place he liked. But that unfortunately turned unwelcoming when Vickey and her bitch posse showed up. So they left and went to the park to finish their lunch. Edward got up and walked to the swings as she followed and he nodded for her to sit in one. When she sat down he began to swing her then after she was going he sat in the one next to it. Here he was going to go again and pry into her life "Winry I really think you should tell your parents about this." She sighed as she swung "Ed they are always too busy to even listen to me." He didn't understand how they couldn't have noticed the change in her attitude over the past year. Being so withdrawn and emotionless they really had to have their heads up their asses not to notice.

"Still I think you should tell them." He looked up as she stopped swinging "I mean they are your parents and they do love you."

Getting out of the swing she got frustrated "Can we not talk about this right now." Then she walked off and he knew he had pried too much so he got up and walked after her. Catching up to her he gently took her wrist to stop her as he turned her to face him. Lowering his head "I'm sorry I didn't mean to upset you."

She sighed and lifted her head "I know you're just trying to help but you don't understand my parents. They'd freak out and analyze me to death." Edward chuckled "Isn't that a little over kill." She got a serious look "No Ed it's what they do. They're doctors and they think anything that's wrong with me they can fix." Her head then lowered "But this is something they can't fix. It's something I'll carry with me forever." He understood now as he gently pulled her into a hug "I get it now Winry." She laid her head on his chest and it felt good to have his arms around her. She had been through so much this past year it was finally nice to be able to let someone actually hug her or even touch her.

Arriving back at the house everyone was warming up and Edward wanted Rhea to work with Winry on being back ground vocals and he also wanted them to try a few Heart songs. So he took the girls into the studio and worked with them while the guys worked on their set songs for the party.

Rhea smiled as she looking at him "Hey Ed, are we going to do our favorite song at this party. You know the one where we get to bitch at each other like we dated once." He laughed "Yeah unfortunately though you went for my brother." She laughed too as Winry watched them kid around. She grabbed her boobs "Hey baby this all could have been your but Vickey got in the way." Edward cocked an eyebrow "As much as I admire your boobs Rhea I'm actually a leg man myself. Al's the boob one. Now give me a long pair of legs that go on forever and meet up with a nice ass and I'm happy." His head lowered back to the board as Rhea turned to Winry "Oh you have it in the bag girl. Your legs a really long and your ass is perfect so go for it." Winry blushed as Edward looked back up "Alright enough woman body talk time to get to work."

'He likes legs huh?' Winry thought as she looked down at her pants. She hadn't worn a skirt in a year because of what happened but now she found herself wanting to wear one again. Was it because of him and what he liked? Was she trying to get him to notice her? Well he'd already noticed her so that wasn't it. So did she just want to show him that she could pull off skirts as much as the next girl? She didn't know but she did know she wanted to wear a skirt to the party tonight.

Later that evening after they had packed the van they drove to pick Winry up. Edward walked to the door and her father answered it "Hello sir is Winry here?" Mr. Rockbell checked Edward out from head to toe. His long hair, black leather pants black t-shirt and combat boots. But hey he figured the kid did call him sir so he knew Edward had some manners "WINRY!" he yelled as she came down the stairs Edward almost passed out in the doorway when he saw her. She was wearing a black leather mini skirt with a spaghetti strapped tank top that was gold in color, knee high boots and her hair was done up real pretty. He had to stop and put his eyes back in their sockets as she walked up by her father.

"Wow!" Edward smiled "You look great!" Mr. Rockbell noticed his reaction as Winry introduced them "Dad this is Edward" Mr. Rockbell stuck his hand out and Edward didn't know how he found Mr. Rockbell's hand to shake it but he did "Nice to meet you Edward" Edward didn't say a word he just shook his head Mr. Rockbell looked at Winry "He's not much for words is he?" She smiled "You should hear him sing." He looked back to Ed "You'll bring her home safe right?" Edward shook his head again unable to take his eyes off this gorgeous creature in front of him then he looked at Mr. Rockbell "Uh, I mean yes sir I'll take very good care of her."

They arrived at the party and Rhea walked over to Al and nudged him "I think you brother is having a hard time concentrating." Al looked up to see Ed fumbling with wires as Winry tried to help him and he chuckled, "Boy she really pulled it out of the bag tonight." Rhea grabbed her guitar and put it on "I'll say she's got him tripping over everything."

Ling walked up next to them "Yeah he plugged the bass into the microphone plug I had to go switch it." They were all enjoying this watching him completely fascinated with someone besides Vickey and speaking of the bitch she was here. Rhea caught a glimpse of her watching Edward and Winry on the stage. Getting frustrated with himself Edward turned around 'God Ed pull it together you act like you've never seen a gorgeous woman before' he turned and grabbed his guitar as she went back to stand in her backup singing spot as she did she bent down to pick something up and he almost fell off the stage 'DAMN SHE'S FINE!' he knew she was fine before but this was over fine the way that mini skirt hugged her hips and perfectly round ass and those legs my God her legs were long and all he could think about was them wrapped around his waist. 'STOP THAT!' he screamed in his head 'She's not that kind of girl' shrugging his shoulders 'But a guy can dream right?' He snapped out of his Winry daze and walked up to the microphone and began their set with a Motley Crue song for the guys 'Girls, Girls, Girls' Only because that's where his mind was at this particular moment. Following that there was a few Led Zeppelin songs 'All of my Love' and 'Whole Lotta Love'. Al continued on with Bon Jovi's 'You Give Love a Bad Name'. Envy continued with White Zombie's 'Thunder Kiss 65' and 'More Human than a Human'. Then Rhea and Edward did a duet by Goyte featuring Kimbra 'Somebody that I used to know'. After that Winry walked up to Ed "I want to do that song Ed" she was staring at someone in the audience and as he put his hand up to see that's when he saw Joshua Greed. He sighed as he looked back at her but the fire in her eyes was enough for him to say "Okay" so he told the band what to play and she did a fabulous pissed off song by Alanis Morissette called 'You ought to know'. Pulling it off quite well Ed had to agree as she got more pissed singing it. Joshua Greed on the other hand didn't like it very much from what Edward saw as he stormed out of the room halfway through it. 'Hmmm Must not like to face his pissed off victims' Edward thought smiling to himself. After that song they finished their set and while everyone mingled Edward sat on the stage watching Rhea and Winry. He never liked parties it just gave guys a chance to really mess a girl up if they wanted so he always kept an eye on Rhea and now he did the same for Winry.

He saw some guys walk over and start talking to them then he noticed their friend leave as he watched the guy get two drinks and drop something in them. Edward shook his head as he stood up and watched the guy give Rhea and Winry the drinks 'Stupid Fuckers' He thought jumping off the stage and walking over to them he saw the guys cheering the girls into chugging them so by the time he got there the drinks were gone. On his way he grabbed Al "You need to take Rhea home now Al." Al gave him a puzzled look "Why Brother?" There was a tone in Edward's voice that Al knew all too well "Just do it!" it meant something wasn't right. So Al followed Edward over to the guys and got Rhea and walked her out the door.

As the guys crowded around Winry Edward looked to the side and his eyes caught Envy's and he nodded for Envy to come over. On his way Envy grabbed Ling and they both walked up behind Edward.

Winry was starting to sway back and forth as she put her hand to her head and she wasn't feeling well as the room started to spin. Just then a guy pushed up on her "Hey baby let's go somewhere more private." He said grabbing her arm to pull her away to a door his other friend already had open. But to his surprise someone else grabbed her arm and pulled her out of his grasp. Turning the guy came face to face with Edward and his furious stare made the guy think twice about grabbing her back "This is not going to happen." Edward stated to him through gritted teeth. The guy laughed "And who the fuck are you?" Edward looked at Winry then back to the guy "Her boyfriend. Who the fuck are you to be putting your hands on my girl and from the looks of it drugging her?" The guy straightened up and looked in Vickey's direction and Edward shook his head "I see you a lap dog huh?" The guy turned back to Edward "What the fuck does that mean?' Stepping into the guys face Edward gave him a cold stare "Like I said this is not happening so why don't you go drug Vickey or maybe if it's long enough you won't have to." Turning around Ed went to walk off then stopped and looking over his shoulder "Stay the fuck away from the girls in my band or the last thing you'll be doing is picking your cock up off the ground from where I cut it off."

Envy put his arm around Winry and helped her away from the scene as the guy threw a punch at Edward's back but he swiftly moved to the side grabbed the guys arm and kicked his knee and pinned him to the floor. The rage in him built as he looked up at Vickey "Is this all you got? I told you not to fuck with her didn't I. So now you stoop to this. You're a real pitiful sight for a girl and I can't believe I ever liked you." He let the guy go and stood up as he walked over to Vickey and leaned into her face "You disgust me!"

Winry saw what Edward did to the guy but everything was a little blurry. Her eyes had widened when she saw the guy coming at Ed from behind but it was like Ed knew he was there and the move he did was awesome. Edward walked over to Ling and Envy "Can you pack the gear up while I take her home." Envy got a concerned look as he turned to Ed "You're not dropping her off at her house like that are you?" Ling put his two cents in as he handed Edward his car keys "Yeah I don't think her parents would like that."

Looking back at her as she spaced out on everything Edward realized after just meeting her father this was not the way he wanted her to go home. So he made a choice "Well I guess I'm taking her to my house then. I'll see you guys there later." As he walked her stumbling frame out he informed the guy he knew who through the party that Vickey's friends were drugging girls and taking them to rooms and doing things to them. The red eyed boy didn't like that when he heard it as he and some of his friends walked over to the guys after seeing Winry.