Fanfiction: Envied of the Bees (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Title: Envied of the Bees
Fandom: FMA (manga version)
Character(s): Ed, Winry
Pairing(s): Ed/Winry.
Rating: PG (for language)
Word Count: ~3750
Warnings: Spoilers for events through chapter 72.
A/N: Written for the 2007 EdWinry "Fire and Ice" Challenge to the prompt "bee sting" (and wherein it won "Best Use of Prompt" and took first runner-up for "Audience Favorite". Woohoo! Thank you!) This story takes place in an imagined future after the events of chapter 72; it's already slightly AU, but I trust that won't dampen anyone's enjoyment. I was pretty proud of this piece even before my peers weighed in with their opinions -- I'm still feeling my way into writing romance and this is the first story I've written in which the POV character actually gets a little action. :-) Crossposted from nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e. hagaren_manga, fm_alchemist, fullservicefma, ed_winry, winrylovers, fma_het, fma_writers, and fma_fiction).
Dedication: For Denise, who read it first and giggled in all the right places.

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"Love is ... a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties.
There must be a sting and a smart in it."
-- Montaigne, Essays
      Ed walked out under the wide eaves of the disused tobacco barn, trying not to limp visibly. ( Read more... )