Just Like Me (Ed Elric x Reader)

Chapter 25

After about an hour of surgery, (That we don’t want to recount.), you had been fitted with the latest version of automail.

You lay in Ed’s bedroom once again. This time in less pain than before. Your shoulder was still numb from the pain killer Winry gave you.

You turn your head to find Ed holding your hand. He smiles and squeezes your hand. You smile back.

You try to sit up, it hurt, but you did it. Ed looked worried behind his smile. You asked him what was wrong.

There’s a long silence, “Why did you do it?” Ed asks.

You look down. You let go of his hand and play with the bed sheets. He puts his hand under your chin and holds your head up.

“Tell me, please. I need to know,” He said.

“I-I just wanted to see Brandon again. It was my fault he died and
I wanted to undo what I did,” You hold back tears.

Ed takes your hand again, “You know you can’t undo that. What were you thinking? How did you even come close? You were as good as we were back then.”

“E-Envy gave me a list of what to get to make his body. He also gave me the transmutation circle to do it,” You whisper.

“Envy,” Ed says loudly, “Envy? That bastard gave it to you?!” He yelled.

“I didn’t think he was telling the truth when he told me, but he gave me a list and it was all right. I trusted him and I’m sorry.”

“You trusted a homunculus? What the hell is wrong with you?!” Ed jumped up from his chair.

You can’t stop it, tears roll down your cheeks and you look back down at the sheets. Ed sits down and takes your hand in both his hands.

“I’m sorry I yelled. I don’t blame you for trusting him. You weren’t in your right mind,” Ed apologized.

You look to your left arm. It’s in a sling. You try to move it, but Winry hasn’t connected your nerves to it yet.

You hear a knock on the door, “Can I come in?” Winry asked.

“Yeah,” Ed says. Winry comes in with a glass of milk. Ed makes a face. You giggle.

“Want some milk?” Winry asks. You shake your head.

“You wanna be short forever?” Winry jokes. She sets the milk down on the dresser. She comes over to the side of the bed with your automail.

“I was thinking of connecting the nerves before I have to go. I’ve got an appointment in town with a customer,” She tells you.

She pulls up a chair and sits down. Winry looks at your automail. She removes the sling. She tightens a few screws and bolts. She moves it a little, then puts it back into the sling.

“Everything looks great. If you want to we can connect it right now,” Winry tells you.

“Sure. If we can. I wanna get used to it,” You tell her. She pulls out a wrench. You lay down.

“Ed, hold her down, this is gonna hurt. You know that.”

Ed puts his hand on your shoulder, the other holding your hand. Winry puts the wrench around a bolt.

“Ready. On three. One, two, three,” Winry turns the bolt. An enormous pain shoots through you shoulder and down your spine.

You try not to scream, but you let out a yelp, Ed squeezes your hand while pressing you down. It gets worse, then lessens. It eventually gets to almost nothing.

Winry pulls the wrench away. Ed takes his arm off your shoulder. You sit back up slowly. Winry pulls the sling off slowly.

Your arm slips out and rests on your lap.

“Try and move it,” Ed says to you.

You look down to your arm. You try to move your fingers. Your thumb twitches. You try again and all your fingers move. You try again and you can move your whole hand.

Ed smiles and you beam at him.

“My work is done here. I gotta get going. See ya!” Winry gets up and leaves the room for town.

You move your elbow, and you can bend your arm now.

“Awesome!” You say.

“Awesome,” Ed says.