A/N: I deserve no reviews for being so late. D:
Winry paced around continually thinking of what to write to Ed. She was agonizing over it and eventually she tried to convey her love and loneliness to him in a few short lines on a piece of paper. Marisol had been waiting patiently for her to finish, once she was Marisol quickly grabbed it.
"I'll see you later Winry." Marisol said joyfully as she left. Winry smiled and waved her goodbye and once she was out of sight she gave a long sigh.
Winry wanted to see Edward but in the current situation she knew that it would be difficult especially if she didn't want to endanger him. She looked out the window and noticed the orange of sunset and only hoped that Edward would send a letter back reflecting her own feelings.
"Brother, hurry up!" Alphonse yelled from the other room. The youngest Elric was busy packing a few things to take with him and trying to get his older sibling to come out of his room, which proved to be a difficult task. "If you don't come out here within the next minute I'm going to leave and whatever you want to give Winry you'll just have to keep here."
"Alright, alright, I'm done anyways." Edward said as he emerged from the bedroom.
"It's about time." Al complained.
"I just didn't know what to say…exactly." Ed said as he blushed slightly.
Alphonse simply chuckled and took the letter from Edward and put in his bag. "I'll be back home soon, don't forget to eat something okay?" Al said as he was walking towards the door. Edward waved his hand up to acknowledge the comment. Once he left Edward glanced at his clock and hoped that Winry would receive her letter quickly.
Marisol had already been waiting when Alphonse approached her. She smiled when she saw him and ran up to him and threw her arms around his neck pulling him into a hug. Alphonse froze at the gesture. Although he didn't completely dislike the embrace, which he didn't at all, he was utterly confused on why the hug was occurring. Marisol merely laughed and releasing him from her hold.
"It looks like your brother wasn't the only one who was missed." She smiled and then reached down into her bag and pulled out a letter from Winry. "Here, she's been miserable this entire week so hopefully this will help Ed because I'm sure he's the same way." She responded with a smile. Alphonse wasn't sure how to respond to her at first, but he smiled widely in return and handed her Edward's letter for Winry.
"Well you pegged Edward. He's been like the walking dead the past eight days." Alphonse laughed. He checked his watch quickly and gave an annoyed sigh. "Sorry I have to head out." He frowned and turned away as he a Marisol started walking in opposite directions he stopped for a moment. "Marisol!" He called out. She turned back to him to hear him reply, "I've missed you too." He smiled just before he turned away and continued on his path.
Marisol just smiled the entire way home. She entered the house only about thirty minutes since she had first left with Winry's letter in hand. Winry ran to the door expecting her and look excitedly at her Spanish friend. "Where's his letter?" She asked beaming.
"Here," she laughed at her friend's excitement as she handed her the letter. Winry swiftly grabbed it and headed into a different room to read her message in private. She saw her name written on the front of the envelope and already felt sad from seeing his hand writing but not the man behind the pen. She ripped the envelope to carefully pull out the letter to only see two lines of writing.
"Meet me half way at the dirt road behind the café we passed on our first day here.
I'll be waiting. –Edward"
She sat there staring at the words on the page. She should have felt happy, overjoyed, and completely and utterly ecstatic. All she could think about at the moment was how stupid Edward was and how much trouble he was going to be in when she meet up with him. She grabbed her coat as quickly as she had opened the letter and jolted towards the door.
"Where are you going Winry?" Marisol asked sounding concerned.
"Out to beat a certain boyfriend of mine." She snapped before slamming the door behind her.
"Brother, where are you going? I thought we were going to go to Stephan's tonight?" Alphonse pressed as he saw his brother getting up to leave.
"I told Marquez that I was ill and that we would go see tomorrow, one day won't hurt right? Edward replied nonchalantly. "I'll see you in a few." He said before he closed the door. He walked down the path that the group took entering the city and started walking in the opposite directions they had taken previously and ended up on a street with a row of shops and small restaurants. He strode down the street until he saw an opening that led to a small alley way behind the café that was well lit and clean which had surprised him the first time he saw it, it even had on looking houses on the other side allowing for better protection in case thing happened. He glanced around and didn't see Winry and it wasn't until his head was struck with a head metal object that he saw her.
She threw one of her wrenches directly at his head. He grabbed the back of his head and flipped around to see the blonde in obvious anger. She was so mad she was almost to the point of tears.
"Do you know how stupid you are!" She yelled at him. "I'd tried protecting you for once and you go out to come see me? What were you thi-", She was cut off by Edwards lips that had rushed to her the moment he saw her. He held her tightly like he never planned to let go of her. She couldn't help but kiss him back. She hadn't tasted his lips in eight days and she wasn't going to waste the few moments she had with him now. He pulled away first but still clung to her.
"I'm sorry for what I said. I was just being too protective and I realize I have to let you help more. "Ed whispered quietly in Winry's ear making her go weak in her knees.
Winry leaned her head onto his shoulder and held him even closer to her. "Thank you, but I understand what you're coming from. I mean because of that outburst I ended up seeing Isabel again." She sighed as she took in his smell.
"I'm also sorry that I made you come out here tonight. I really couldn't go another day without seeing you." Edward sighed as he felt relief wash over him with Winry in his arms.
"Don't be sorry. I know I was going to give you a hard time, but I really missed you too. I've wanted to see you this whole time." Winry responded looking straight into his golden eyes. She put her hands and cupped his face and bought his lips down to hers and began to kiss him deeply as her hands moved from his face to his hair. His hands gripped the small of her back and his flesh hand came up to touch her face. They continued to kiss until they had to breathe. After they had stopped kissing they rested his each other's forehead on one another. Ed looked deeply into her eyes once more.
"And now I don't want to let you go." He said quietly hugging her closer to him when he said it.
"Don't worry Ed. No matter what I'll always be with you. If you haven't realized we are rather inseparable." She smiled as she embraced him fully letting her head rest on his shoulder.
"You're right. Promise to never leave my sight once this whole mess is done with?" The former alchemist asked with a smirk on his face.
"I think I can do more than that." Winry responded with the same smirk. She kissed him lightly on the lips before saying, "Oh and when I said inseparable, I meant for life." She said smiling in Edward's arms.
"For life?" Ed smiled. "I think I like that idea." They kissed a few more times but realized they shouldn't be out much later. They stalled as much as possible but eventually gave in and walked their separate ways but content that despite the distance they would never be separated completely.
The next day Alphonse saw a great improvement in Edward's study habits. While studying had never been a problem for Ed or Al, Edward had been distracted by Winry's absence and wouldn't focus much. But today had been completely different he was sure that he and his brother were closer than ever to solving how to better rid of the bomb.
"I don't think we can completely disable the bomb." Stephan had announced that day after a few hours of the Elric brothers studying with him.
"Is if because of the chemical uranium or is the structure itself?" Alphonse asked.
"While the chemical itself I can aid in decreasing it's destructive force with some aid in radioactive decay, but the structure is rather complicated and I think that if we tried to hard in disassembling it that we may end up, well dead. And I think that is the result we are trying to avoid." Stephan said adding a smile at the end in a humorous kind of way despite the dark outcome that would befall them.
"Do you think we could set it off somewhere and have it be controlled and away from citizens? I just to get rid of this thing before we have something terrible will happen." Edward replied.
"That may be our best choice with how much talk is going around about the bomb. It may be best to find a place where we can just detonate the bomb and not cause harm to anyone. But I think that's all for now. You boys can go on home." Stephan said. Both brothers nodded and said their goodbyes for the day and quickly grabbed their things and left.
A knock was heard on the opposite door of the lab from which the Elric brother did not exit. Stephan opened the door to find Isabel standing there; she looked at him and asked, "Are the Elric boys gone?"
A/N: Oh my gosh, I'm a terrible person for not getting this story out sooner. I'm trying to punish myself! I hope to finish this story by the end of the week, so I mean I know it took me a long time but I'm closer to being done, that's good right? Either way I need to kick my own butt. Thanks to those who reviewed despite my not being consistent, I can't thank you enough!