Sacrifice [Edward Elric x Reader]

chapter 36

"Wha...? How do you guys know each other?" You ask, confused. You see something flash in the girl's eyes.

"I... he was my doctor." She confesses. The annoying doctor grins, making you want to slap him.

Ed comes beside you. He leans down towards your face. "There's something fishy going on." He whispers to you. You nod in agreement.

"Yes, indeed, there is." The doctor consents. Ed jumps.

"H-how did you hear me from all the way there!?"

The doctor says nothing, and just grins, making you growl. He continues:

"Something very fishy."

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[December 24, 2016] (Huuuuge time gap)

It's Christmas Eve.

The light snow graces the surface of the ground as you look out the hotel lobby window. You are finally discharged from the hospital, after spending the last week and two days at the hospital. Ed, the girl, and Al came to visit you every once in a while, but it didn't satisfy your boredom. Now, you're finally out after days of begging and frustration at the annoying doctor wearing the green watch. He just wouldn't make up his mind. Is he on their side or your side? He never made it clear.

You watch as a small snowflake drifts down and lands on the ground, mingling with the thousands, probably millions of others that had already landed. It's a beautiful sight, the snow, and you're determined to go out and have a snowball fight later.

You step away from the window and head towards the main entrance, where the grand doors stood. The doors are tall and made of glass, embroidered by golden designs. There's a green and blue mat in front of the doors on the ground and there's a "Caution: Wet Floor" sign set up. You step past the sign, careful not to slip on the wet marble floor, and go outside.

The bitter wind greets your face instantly. You pull the coat tighter around you and shiver a bit, but the snow feels good. You can see your every breath in the air, forming little clouds of warm air which disappear after a few moments.

You hold out your pale hand to catch the snowflakes. Soon, there are small white dots of snow on your hand. You smile a bit and put both your hands back into your pockets. That's when you feel something. You grip and pull out some gloves — gloves you got from a fan but never used. You pull the gloves on and bend over to the snow.

Scooping up a handful, you feel the cold and already melted snow-water seep through your gloves. You pack the snow tightly in your hands, forming a sphere, or a snowball.

You grin happily and raise your arm, throwing the snowball as far as you could.

It lands far away in a puff of snow, creating a cloud of snow coming from the ground.

You watch and wait until the white disperses and quickly bend down, scooping up more snow into your hands. The cold sensation sends a shiver down your spine, but it's almost enjoyable.

You pack the snow tightly into a snowball and turn, throwing it against the building on the other side of the street. You can hear the crackle as the snowball collides with the wood and explodes, leaving a dark, wet mark on the side of the building.

You step forward onto the sidewalk, leaving dents of your footprints in the snow.

Bending over again, you pick up extra snow and pack it into an extra huge snowball. Suddenly hotel door behind you opens abruptly and before you can move, something hard is wrapped around your right arm. You jump and turn around to see Ed.

"(Y/N)!!" He growls at you, giving you his back. "What," he starts, starting to pull you back towards the hotel, "are you doing here by yourself!?"

Ed is dragging an unwilling you towards the building, and you don't say anything, but when your gaze falls down to the extra-huge snowball in your hand, you grin evilly.

"You just got discharged from the hospital! You need to keep yourself healthy. December 27 is comi-"

You launch the snowball, hard, at the back of his head. The snowball hit's him, hard, and he flinches as the snowball explodes, leaving small white marks of snow in his golden-blond hair. His hand lets goes of yours and he freezes. Uh-oh...

You quickly turn around and start running away from Ed, who looks angry.

When you're a safe distance away from Ed, you turn back around to see that Ed hasn't moved an inch. But then he slowly starts to turn around, and your heart starts beating fast. You find a very scary-faced Ed staring at you. You grin at him.

"(Y/N)!" He screams. "I'm getting you back for this!"

You giggle a bit as Ed bends down and scoops up a big handful of snow. He slowly makes it into a snowball, and raises left his hand, aiming at you.

You tease him like how a preschooler would've teased someone se, and start dancing around in mockery. Ed's face grows red in anger and he quickly throws the snowball as hard as he can at you.

You, being you, quickly dodge the attack by ducking under the snowball and tease him again. The snowball flies over your head harmlessly.

"Nah nah nah nah, you can't get me!" You sing-whisper.

Ed becomes angry and he scoops down again to collect snow. And so do you.

You use both of your hands to improvise and create two hard and thick snowballs.

While Ed is still forming his supposedly perfectly shaped snowball, you quickly aim  at him and throw, hitting him promptly in the chest. He yelps cutely, and you can't help but smile. He stares at you hard, giving you a look of contempt.

Suddenly, a snowball is flying at your face and you have no where to dodge. You attempt to duck but it's too late. It hits you square in the face, and suddenly, your nose and entire face is cold. You yelp as you stumble backwards from the impact of the thrown snowball but regain balance soon. You can hear Ed laugh from where you are and you quickly throw the other snowball at him. He dodges out of the way and smiles evilly.

You growl, bending over to collect more snow, packing it tighter and tighter with mote snow. It becomes heavy as more snow gets added in.

"Heh~!" Ed says. "You wanna go!?"

You give him a dirty look, but determined at the same time.

"Yeah, I'll fight you." You whisper. "And I'm gonna win."

Ed throws a weak snowball at you, and you dodge it easily.

"Oh," you say, "it's on."

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Who has the awesome but weird ios 10!? 🙋🏻🙋🏼🙋🏾

Ugh I'm so tired.

Also, next chapter will be focused more on your relationship with Ed and Al and the girl, especially Ed, than the upcoming [December 27].

Anyways, if you liked this chapter, be sure to vote, comment, share, and most importantly, ENJOY!!!

~Sky-chan

Uploaded September 15, 2016

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