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"Come on Edward, now is not the time to give up her. Give her some credit. Winry is a strong girl, you know that." The Lieutenant said trying to comfort him. "Let's keep loo..." She was cut short by the ear-splitting scream that came from down the alleyway.

"WINRY!" Ed yelled scrambling to his feet and bolting down the street.

Chapter 6

Winry lifted her head, did she just hear Ed calling her name?

"It seems we have been found honey." The man whispered, holding her face and glancing at the door. "Your name is Winry? That's nice. It suits you."

"ED! ED HERE. I'M IN HERE!" She shouted, trying to wriggle away from the man's hold.

"Shut up girl!" He shushed, placing a hand over her mouth.

"Mmmfmnnff!" Winry yelled, trying to get out of the chair that bound her down.

"I'm going to have to speed this up..." The man mumbled to himself.

Winry's teary eyes widened as he took out the knife again. She cringed as the man slashed her cheek. Then her chest, then multiple times down her arms. The tears spilt over once again, combining with the blood from her cheek. Her shoulder and stomach ached the most, as those were the worst damaged areas.

'Ed! Please Ed look in here!' She screamed in her head. Dread washed over her, what if he misses this building? Or what if this man kills me before Ed gets here? Winry felt guilty after thinking that, Ed won't miss it, and I'll just have to try to stay alive until he comes. She didn't want to die, she was too young, she hadn't even had a boyfriend yet! Sure people had confessed their interest for her, but she had always replied –politely of course – that she liked someone else. Which she did...but he didn't know it yet. She was determined not to die, at least not today. She would stay alive for him, for Edward she would not lose hope.

The man's hand slipped slightly from her mouth, seeing an opportunity Winry moved her head up and bit the side of his palm. The man swore and used his other hand to push her forehead back in an attempt to pry his hand away from her mouth. But she didn't let go. The man slashed his knife around her face trying to get her off. Her face was covered in little cuts, but only when she tasted the man's blood in her mouth did she let go.

"EDDD!" She screamed as loud as she could.

"SHUT UP!" He yelled, slapping her face.

Winry heard Ed yell her name again. It was closer this time.

"You're in trouble now." She grinned up at him.

Without thinking the man stabbed her other shoulder, a little too close to her chest for her liking. When he pulled the knife he didn't wait around before plunging it back into her stomach, just below her ribcage. Winry doubled over in pain, the man jumped back when she started throwing up blood. She cursed herself when her eyes glazed over and eyelids drooped. She couldn't pass out now! She couldn't fight death if she was unconscious! 'I'm not giving up, when I wake up I will not be dead. I won't.' She told herself as everything went black for what had to be at least the 20th time today.

"Winry?" Ed yelled again, in panic. He knew it was her that screamed. He didn't know how he knew, but he did. Maybe it was because her scream had become imprinted in his mind from all the nightmares she had stared in.

"ED! ED HERE. I'M IN HERE!" Winry had shouted again.

Her voice trailed down the alleyway. Ed sprinted down to where he thought her screams were coming from. He clapped his hands together, he was going to use alchemy to open the door, - which he found out was deadlocked – but he suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Edward wait!" The Lieutenant warned him. "We don't know what were dealing with here. We need to make a plan."

"But, we don't have any time! Winry's in there getting hurt, and were just sitting around deciding what to do! He could be killing her! Screw a plan!" He turned back around and faced the door again.

Ed's face crumpled up in either anger or worry (Riza wasn't sure which) when he heard Winry scream Ed's name again.

"Winry!" He responded, letting her know that he was coming.

"Edward, please be careful, and think about things before you act. Ill cover your back." Hawkeye offered.

Ed just nodded. He clapped his hands together once again and placed them on the door. There was a bright blue light as the wooden door moulded away.

The man turned around to see Ed standing in front of the now non - existent door an angered expression on his face.

"Hahaha! A kid? Seriously?" The man laughed.

Before he could say anything else Ed clapped his hands and touched the ground. A thick rope made from the cement rose from the ground and wrapped itself around the man's legs and stomach, pinning him to the spot.

"An alchemist eh? But not even you can save her now, human transmutation is forbidden right?" He smirked, pointing to the hardly recognizable girl in the middle of the room.

Her blonde hair was half falling out of its ponytail and was draped over her shoulder covered in blood. The white dress was now red, with only little sections that revealed its normal colour. There were three bleeding wounds on either shoulder and one on her lower stomach. Ed couldn't see her face, as her head was down. But what surprised Ed most was the knife sticking out of her stomach, just below her chest. The man had stabbed her and left it in!

"YOU SICK BASTARD!" Ed yelled lunging at the suspended man, punching him in the face. How could he do that to her? She was so innocent, what did she ever do to deserve that?

"HOW!" punch "COULD!" punch "YOU!" kick

When Ed stopped the man answered.

"It was too easy. The stupid girl was walking alone at night. She asked for it. Although she did put up a good fight." He said raising up his hand showing him the bite marks and the blood. "The little bitch bit me...And kneed me."

"Did you kill her? Is she dead?" Ed yelled at him, planting another kick into his abdomen.

"I dunno."He shrugged "She's not moving is she?" The man smiled.

Ed gasped, tears rolled down his face, they could have been tears of anger, or misery. Not even Ed knew. All he wanted to do was beat the shit out of the man that did this to the girl he loved.

It took about 2minutes for the man to beg for mercy. But Ed wouldn't stop now. He wanted the man to feel the same pain that Winry would have felt.

"Edward STOP!" The lieutenant pleaded. "You need to see to Winry. I'll deal with him."

Ed snapped out of the violent trance he was in. Winry. But she was dead. 'You arse Edward, you still need to look after her. Get her out of this place.' He told himself.

He turned around and looked at the girl still tied into the chair.

"Oh god I'm sorry." He told her, walking over to her body.

He untied her from the chair and carefully laid her on the floor, trying not to disturb the knife that was buried in her stomach.

"I'm sorry Winry. I should have looked after you better. This is all my fault." He mumbled, wiping away the tears that clung to his eyelashes. "I should have told you sooner, and now it's too late. But I'm going to tell you anyway, even though you can't hear me. Winry, I love you. I know, I'm so stupid for not telling you before. I'm an idiot. And now look." A tear fell and splashed onto her face. Ed placed his hand onto hers.

But he didn't notice that the hand was still warm.

She knew she was awake when she felt someone lift her from the chair. For a minute she thought she was dead, but then remembered, she had refused to die. She made a promise to herself that she wouldn't, because people needed her.

"I'm sorry Winry." She heard him say.

She wanted so desperately to open her eyes and show him she was ok. But she was hurting everywhere, especially her stomach. The pain was keeping them shut. If she opened them her strength would evaporate and she would break down into a screaming, crying mess. She would not do that and especially not in front of Ed.

"This is all my fault." He said.

Her head was screaming out to him 'CHECK MY PULSE IDIOT!' but words did not escape her.

"I should have told you sooner, and now it's too late. But I'm going to tell you anyway, even though you can't hear me." He was talking to her, even though he thought she was dead. Whatever he wants to say it must be important she thought.

"Winry, I love you." He had mumbled softly.

He said something else after that, but she couldn't him anymore. The words 'He loves me.' Was all that was going through her head.

She snapped out of it when she felt something warm splash on her face. He was crying? Ed never cry's. She felt his flesh hand against her own.

"Stop crying you idiot." She mumbled out loud, shocked that it didn't come out in screams. She was annoyed. Snapping her teary eyes open she was greeted by surprised gold ones.

"Winry! Oh god I'm so sorry I should have looked after you better.." He talked quickly blushing. He hoped she didn't hear what she said earlier.

"Ed Shut up. I'm annoyed at you." She growled scrunching her nose up in pain.

"I know! You have every right to be annoyed at me, it's my fault you like this." He said sadly.

"You moron, I'm not annoyed at you for that. I'm annoyed that you lost hope in me. I had hope in you, I told myself you would come for me. But then you believed that I was dead. Give me some credit. I'm not going to die that easily." She smiled up at him. Trying to fight away the pain.

"Oh sorry." He mumbled, blushing at what she had just told him.

"You should be." She huffed crinkling her eyes. Why did her stomach hurt so bad?

"Ed?"

"Yeah?" He replied curiously.

"Why the hell does my stomach hurt so much?" She frowned at him.

"That bastard stabbed you, and left the knife in." He said sorrowfully.

"So your saying I have a knife stuck in me?" I asked in shock, not wanting to look down.

"Well, um yes." He said, not looking in her eyes.

"Can you pull it out for me?" She asked quietly.

"Winry, I can't do that!" He said looking serious.

"Why not? You can seal it up with alchemy, that would work wouldn't it? It's only going to be doing worse while its still in me. So please?"

Ed sighed, she had a point. And he knew it would work, because he had unfortunately tried it out on himself, that time he was fighting Kimblee. "Ok. Let's do it quickly, you need to go to the hospital."

"Ok, I'm ready." She said gulping.

Ed twisted his fingers in between her own. He clutched the handle of the knife and as quickly as possible, started pulling it out.

Winry had told herself that she would not scream, as much as it hurt. She just screwed up her face and balled her hands into fists. – which was difficult with the one Ed was holding – But it was over quickly and in a blink of an eye Ed had dropped the knife next to her and let go of her hand so he could use his alchemy. He clapped his hands together and pressed them to her upper stomach, where it was bleeding heavily, she could feel it. She liked the feeling of Ed's cold automail hand on her stomach, it's temperature took away the pain. So when he was done she moved her hand – painfully because of the wound in her shoulder – and placed it on his metal one, holding it down where he had sealed up the stab wound. She sighed and closed her eyes. "Thanks Ed." She said.

"Yeah." He said simply.

"Edward, I've called for a car. So one should be here to pick up Winry and this sicko soon." The Lieutenant told him glancing at the bruised and battered man still tied on the spot by Ed's alchemy.

"Thanks Lieutenant." He said gratefully.

Winry caught the man's eye and childishly stuck her tongue out at him.

"Bitch..." He mumbled.

Ed glared at him, as if to say, 'you better watch yourself unless you want me to kill you, slowly.'

While they waited for the car Winry had some time to think. Should she tell Ed that she heard what he had said about the whole love thing? She wanted to, but she didn't have the courage. So she decided that she would leave it be for the moment. Maybe she would say something about it when they got the brothers got their bodies back, when things were back to normal. Then she could be in peace, but until that happened she would keep her feelings at bay and not worry Ed with any of that. She would continue to act as if nothing had changed. But she knew know. It made her happy.

"What are you smiling at?" Ed said frowning down at her.

"Nothing..." She said looking away, before he could find the answer in her eyes.

She twisted her fingers inbetween his, like he did to her earlier. She liked the fact that he blushed and looked away.

She smiled again, realizing she could use this new found weapon of making Ed uncomfortable (or a little too comfortable) against him. She was going to have fun with this.

DONE! :)

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