Transmuting Love ~ (edXwinry FMAB fanfic)

Part 27 - The Pain of Loving and Being Loved ~ 1

[Winry's View]

"I – I just wanted... to say... To ask why you didn't call all those 6 years" I couldn't say it. I couldn't tell him how I felt. I couldn't face my fears. I just couldn't.

"Do you really want to know?" He asked. Ed stared at the ground.

"Yes." Either way, I wanted to know this. I had to know.

"Okay, but don't tell Al I told you."

I nodded in agreement.

"Some homunculi have been after us. We don't know why but we do know they're dangerous. They've been tracking us in any way they can, they might still be tracking us, I don't know. They might even be working with the man who killed your parents..."

Flashbacks of my mother soothing voice and my father's laugh whispered through my mind.

"Well, if we called you, then they could easily trace the call to our location, or your location. They might use you against us or find us. We couldn't take the risk of you getting hurt, so Al and I agreed not to use the phone, especially to call you"

I took a couple seconds to take this all in.

Tears started to form on the brim of my eye lids and Ed's voice seemed to just echo throughout my head. The seconds passing by were silent ones; Ed just stared at the window, the moons light shining on his guilty face. I was deceived all this time, I wasn't told anything. I'm in love with a boy I can't even trust. How could I fall for him?!

I stared at Ed in hurt and anger. He looked back at me and read my face.

He stared into my eyes in guilt and regret, as I stare into his eyes in sorrow and desolation. Those golden eyes of his... The same eyes I fell in love with.

"Ed... How could you hide this from me for so long?" Warm tears streamed down my face.

"Winry, I'm so sorry... We should've told you..."

"I know, but... Why Ed? After all the years I've known you and Al and then you – " In a sudden flash his lips were on my mine and his eyes were closed.

My eyes were open and the tears came down even harder, but no matter how cruel he was, no matter how secretive, I couldn't fall out of love with Edward Elric, The Full Metal Alchemist.