Fanfiction: Wildered With Reading (FMA)

[nebroadwe]

Title: Drabble: Wildered With Reading
Fandom: FMA (manga version)
Character(s): Ed, Winry
Pairing(s): None. For reasons that will become obvious ...
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Warnings: None.
A/N: The title for this one comes from Henry Augustin Beers's sappy poem, "On a Miniature" and the inspiration from rereading the slightly overwrought prose of Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel (though the heroine thereof is less inclined to faint than rush off to save the hero, thank goodness). Concrit welcomed with vouchers for Almack's. Crossposted from nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e. hagaren_manga, fm_alchemist, fma_gen, fma_writers and fma_fiction).

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      "You actually read that stuff?" Ed asks, noticing the dime romance peeking out of Winry's bag. "It's so ... girly."

      "I'm a girl," Winry reminds him. (Sometimes she has to.)

      "Yeah, but those girls are all helpless and frilly." He pokes the frilly, willowy figure illustrated on the cover and grimaces. "Screaming 'Unhand me!' at the villain and fainting onto the hero -- you wonder why anyone wants 'em." Looking Winry up and down, he adds, "Not like you. You'd throw wrenches."

      And he wonders why she reads romances. "How do you know so much about these things, Edward?" she inquires sweetly.

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[Acknowledgments: Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) was created by Arakawa Hiromu and was serialized monthly in Shonen Gangan (Square Enix); two anime of the same title were produced by Studio Bones. Copyright for these properties is held by Arakawa Hiromu, Square Enix, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Aniplex, Bones, and dentsu.]

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

"I'll have to take you there." Ed grins. "Don't worry, I'll get you on your train." And if she isn't there on time, Ed will make sure to pay for another ticket and...groan...call Garfiel himself to let the man know Winry might be a day late getting back to Rush Valley.

...of course, if she's a day late...she could spend the night...and...

He blushes hard and breezes ahead of Winry to hide it. "C'mon!" he squeaks.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Winry catches a glimpse of Ed's face, as red as his jacket, as he brushes past her. Maybe the best-friends thing makes him uncomfortable because he's ... nah. Oh, well; she'll just have to wait until he develops a crush on some completely inappropriate bimbo who won't give him the time of day. The girl next door always wins in those stories, right?

And who knows? Maybe he will pick up a few pointers from that book.

"Wait up, Ed!" she calls, and hurries after him.

[ooc: This last bit has felt like falling action to me ... you planning anything further? (Sorry for delay; choir rehearsal ran looooong last night.)]

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

[Not really? I think it's over...Ed's distracted Winry enough. And vice versa. XD]

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

[Heh. Yes. That was fun!]

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

[Yes, yes, it was. XD]