FMA: 52 Flavours, Prompt 5
Title: Burn Away the Miles
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Theme no.: 5. entire orb of the satellite
Pairing: Ed/Winry
Rating: K+
Summary: Ed is realistic about his relationship with Winry.
Notes: A quickie, written for
52_flavours . Manga-verse only in that it mentions manga only characters. Can be intended as either pre- or post- series. And yes I unashamedly took the title from a t.A.T.u. song.
5. entire orb of the satellite
They're not one of those couples whose whole world revolves around the other. Never have been, and never will be.
Ed has his alchemy, and his job with the military, and his responsibility for Al - who, no matter how tall he gets, or how grown-up he acts, is still Ed's little brother, and Ed'll always feel responsible for him, whether Al wants him to or not.
Winry has her automail, and Mr. Garfield and her customers in Rush Valley, and her responsibility for Granny and Den, who are finally starting to slow down in their old age. No matter how many times Granny shoos Winry away, or tells Garfield not to give her so much vacation time, Winry knows, first and foremost, where she belongs.
That's not to say there isn't love - there is. When they come together there's an intense passion that used to confuse Ed and often leaves Winry breathless. There's love, and loyalty, and companionship and fierce devotion; all those things that add up to make a great love affair.
It's just that one is not always the other's top priority at any given time.
He ponders it in the library in Central, reading books on the stars and planets and how they move; Winry will never be the ultimate center of his universe, around which he revolves, nor will he ever be hers. It's easier for him to think that the both of them are a pair of satellite moons, moving together in orbit. Though occasionally one veers off into their own elliptical, they always return and fall back into that same rhythm, that same orbit, beside each other.
Ed much prefers it that way; after all, once, Hohenheim was the center of Trisha's life. Maes meant the world to Gracia and Elysia. All Ran Fan used to do was bounce around Ling.
No, Ed and Winry will never be one of those couples whose entire world revolves around the other.
Ed thinks it might be better that way.