Sacrifice [Edward Elric x Reader]

chapter 16

You sit in the darkness next to Ed, the silence only broken by the sound of the two of your breaths. Suddenly, Ed decides to change his position and jabs his left elbow into your injured abdomen. Pain shoots through your body and you yelp, bending over in pain. Ed's arm goes in front of you, holding you back. Your hand shoots to your pulsing stab injury and you you grit your teeth. As you bend over, you feel pain in your shoulder as well, and you hiss.

"Shoot! Are you alright!?" Ed worries. You don't reply, willing the pain to go away. It perceives, but gets better a bit.

"Y-yeah..." You say painfully. "It'll go away."

Ed jumps off the bed and turns the lights on.

When he turns to you, his eyes widen and he stumbles backwards against the wall, gasping.

"(Y/N)! Y-your-"

You turn your head to your shirt, chuckling lightly, careful not to hurt your stomach. "Yeah, I knew that."

Ed rushes to you, kneeling down in front of you, and lifts up your shirt so that the bandages showed. You inhale sharply, but allow him to look at your wound.

"You've bled through your bandages and your shirt. (Y/N)! Don't be so careless!" Ed sighs in exasperation, and you watch his gaze travel up to your shoulder. He sighs again in annoyance, before his eyes narrow suspiciously.

"Wait... What happened? Your wounds couldn't have opened randomly.... Could they?"

You press your lips together, debating over wether to tell him or not. You didn't want to worry him... Yet, but what you discovered was important.

You decided to tell him.

"Remember that story I told you about that other day? The one where I got stabbed"

"Yeah."

"Well, there was something that I didn't tell you guys about."

"What!? (Y/N)! You shouldn't have-"

"They told me to come back within a week, or else I'd be dead. Well, now that I think about it, I think the voice was my boss's voice... Anyways, I went back there with Al, and uh, we kinda got attacked. By a black portal. With black ribbon arm things that, uh, tried to grab us."

"Black arms..." Ed thinks, and he suddenly gasps. "Wait! Were they long, and squiggly, and-"

"Yeah, just like that!"

Ed's hand goes to his mouth and his eyes gain an unbelieving look to them. "But I thought we destroyed the gate..." He mutters.

You cock your head. "What?"

"Oh, it's nothing. This is a huge problem."

"Well, no dur." You say sarcastically.

Ed's golden eyes turn to your wounds again. "Anyways," he changes the subject, "let's fix those wounds of yours first. Wait here."

Ed gets up from his kneeling position and rushes out of your room, leaving you by yourself. You sit there and wait obediently.

After about a minute or so, Ed comes back with a roll of bandages and antibiotic ointments. He kneels down in front of you and reaches his hand out to lift your shirt up. You-

(Choose one and proceed to read the corresponding sections)

Section 1:
Allow Ed to bandage your wounds for you.

~or~

Section 2:
Refuse Ed's help and do your bandages by yourself.