Sunday, April 24, 2005

More fic
Just keeps comin don't it?

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That night Ed dreamt of being back at home. Al was there, young as Winry as described. Riza and Roy had a child, Sensei was still temperamental and Winry…
He searched all over for her. No-one would tell him anything about her. He looked all over the country in a desperate hunt for her. Not a clue was to be found. In his dream years passed with no sign of her.
Then one night she appeared. On her hand sparkled a wedding ring. Behind a door stood her husband. As Ed pushed the door away he thought he looked into a mirror. But then he realised this was no mirror, it was him.
Snapping awake in a cold sweat he grabbed his chest. Was this a warning to him? He tried not to believe dreams meant anything. But this scene was scarily familiar.

Winry was having just as bad a night. She tossed and turned but sleep eluded her. Sighing she went to the window and looked out onto a navy sky. The stars were beautiful and it had been a long time since she noticed. Why would anyone want to leave this world? Some aspects of it were perfect.
She knew deep down she wanted to keep hold of Ed. She tried to fight this feeling but in truth it had been brewing since he told his tale. She had also been contemplating a way of making sure he couldn’t ever go back.

She was cold. She was desperately cold but she did not care. Her reckless side just kept pushing her forward. Her silk nightdress blew around her slim figure as she walked under the midnight sky. The moon cast a glow across the world but she did not notice its beauty. Every so often a sob would escape her throat. A confused, pain filled noise that burst from her very being.
A voice called her name but she was unaware. Her only focus was directly ahead of her. Barefoot she strolled across the grass in a trance.
The voice called again and still she made no sign she had heard them. She only stopped when she was physically held still. Voices talked around her as she still tried to walk forward.
‘What are you doing? You are going to catch your death out here. Winry can you hear me?’
‘He called to me again Al. You hear him to I know you do.’
‘Winry, it’s just your imagination…’
‘NO! I know I hear him. Every so often I know he says my name…and I swear I can see him.’
Al began to cry as he was prone to. He did see his brother everywhere but he knew better then to hope anything of it. Learning alchemy was the only way he might get his brother back; dreaming would lead him no-where.
When Winry lay down in her bed she could still hear his voice in her ears. She tried to block them out before the whole village believed she was mad.


She tugged at the cleavage on her top. Her sisters had dressed her up in rather a revealing dress. Like a fool she had asked them how they keep a man. Apparently she was not too young to be told the plain truth. A man must lust after a woman if she is ever to keep him. She felt uncomfortable showing so much, but then she remembered the day she and Ed had first met. A small hidden smirk spread across her lips, but just as soon disappeared.
Today was to be a surprise visit. Ed had no idea she was coming and she wanted it to remain that way. Her sisters, desperate for her to be in some form of a scandal, had told her how to reach him. After all, she was unconscious when she first travelled there.
Father was out so now was the perfect time to make her getaway. She seldom left the house, only to attend parties where it was important to show her face. She had dared to shop only a couple of times simply to find she was not keen.
Nervous, she stepped out into a world of beauty and hate. The war had been such an awful thing and she knew what was happening to the Jews. She pushed such things to the back of her mind. She could ignore all of that because she was safe. Father was a wealthy man.
Taking in her surroundings she didn’t look where she was going and bumped into someone.
‘Oh I’m so…Winry? What are you doing out?’
Als handsome face looked quizzically at her. His eyes were pretty, not intense like Edwards.
‘I was just…coming to see you and Edward,’ she laughed nervously.
‘Oh, that’s wonderful. But if you don’t mind me saying it’s a surprise. Does your father know you’re here?’
She pulled a sheepish face as an answer.
Al sighed, ‘I don’t want you to get in trouble just to come and visit. We can just as easily come to you.’
‘Oh, but you a researching so hard. It would be unfair of me to take you away from it for no reason.’
‘You are no reason Winry, it’s nice to see you,’ he said as they began to walk.
She smiled at how sweet he was. As they strolled through Munich he explained their research to her. Still didn’t mean a whole lot to her…something about a rocket. To some degree she wanted to laugh at such a ridiculous idea. What they were attempting sounded impossible. She doubted they would ever manage it. But the glint in his eye kept her quiet. What would be the point in spoiling a dream?
‘Ed will be happy to see your face,’ he said.
‘Oh why is that?’
‘Because you remind him so much of his Winry back at home. Although I’m not his brother it’s nice to think I can keep his memory alive, don’t you agree?’
She made some form of a sound, but she did not agree. It was strange but she was sure she was beginning to feel jealous of this girl. But then what was she worrying about? After thinking it over many a time, she now disbelieved her dreams. A dream was a fantasy created in your head to stop you going mad, that was all. So what if she had dreamt of them, surely that only meant that they were destined to be with each other.
Stop it! She mentally scolded herself. She was beginning to sound far too envious of this other girl. For now she would sit back and let things flow, but in a direction she aided.
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