"Winry! I'm going out on a walk!" yelled Alphonse at the front door. "I'll be back!"
"Okay Alphonse, don't be gone for too long!" I yell back in response. "Be careful"
"I will" he retorts and closes the door with a soft clicking sound. It was just me and Edward in the house, him in his room doing god knows what and my in my room working on his auto mail structure. I'm going for a more practical approach to things instead of over complicating it with an extra layer of metal like I did last time which, even thought make the arm a bit stronger, It was too heavy for the rest of his body weight... Im hungry. I set down my automail blue-prints and head outside of the room. As I pass Edward's room I hear muffled, what sounds to be, like sobs coming from the room. I got worried so I opened the door a crack.
"Edward? Are you ok?" I walk into the room to see him hunched over holding his head in his hands and his elbows dug into his knees, tears falling from his eyes like rain drops from his clouded head.
"Winry?" Edward picks up his golden head and slums over to me. He looks up at me with sad puffy, red eyes. " Winry it's-it's all crashing down... Why-Why am I still alive?". All of the hope and love and happiness is gone from his voice. It's almost like when... When he and Alphonse attempted human transmutation.
"Edward, Edward look at me" he looks into my eyes and I can feel the tears at the bottom of my eyes, catching on to my eyelashes. So much pain and sadness swirling around in his eyes.
"Winry, please... Please kill me" his words stab my heart like a sharp knife that was on fire. "Kill him? How could I do that. How could he say that?" I think chaotically in my head.
"I can't keep this in my mind any longer, I'm a complete failure." He's... given up? No he can't do that.
"Edward. No, this isn't how things will end. Do you truly think that it should end here?" I give him a stern look even though tears are falling down my pale cheeks.
"...Yes. I-I don't think I can handle much more" don't think he can handle anymore? At that moment something took over me, anger and lots of it. That's when I raise my quickly and contact Edward's face. He looks up at me with a look of confusion.
"W-Winry?" he says holding his cheek.
"Edward. Do you realize that your being selfish right now? Don't you realize that its not just about you and that other people are hurting not just you? Look at Alphonse, it's his burden too... And me"
"Winry I-" I go to him and wrap my arms tightly around him.
"Your not in this alone. I will be beside you forever and always nothing could ever change that Edward. He pulls away from me, the hope slowly returning to his eyes. "you can't change the past, but you can shape the future. You can't give up now we are way too close". He buries his face into my neck for a little and then raises his head so that his lips were tracing my ear lobe making my ear turn red and making me blush slightly.
"Thank you Winry... I love you" he whispers.
"I love you too Edward, please don't ever think like that ever again" More tears spill out from my now red eyes. I'm just glad that I get to see him again. His soft lips kiss me on my forehead, the warmth warming the whole room from the cold sadness and hugs me again.
"I promise I won't. I promise..."
