Fanfiction: Saturday Night (Fullmetal Alchemist)

[nebroadwe]

Title: Drabble: Saturday Night
Fandom: FMA (manga version)
Character(s): Winry, Ed and Al
Pairing(s): None.
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Warnings: None.
A/N: I may be sprouting a new drabble series about Winry Rockbell, working girl -- you can consider this piece a sequel to this other one, both of them occurring in a postseries imagined future. Concrit welcomed with Calgon. Crossposted from nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e. hagaren_manga, fm_alchemist, fma_gen, fma_writers, fma_fiction and winrylovers).
Dedication: For evil_little_dog, who is too noble a soul to consider replacing someone's bath salts with something else. Probably.

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world,
the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "On Friendship"

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      The boardinghouse is stuffy in summer, chilly in winter, and smells of cabbage in all seasons, but since Winry only sleeps and stores her clothes there, these defects hardly signify. She reserves her ire for the cramped washroom, complaining relentlessly to the Elric brothers about its lack of a tub. Ed replies that baths are for babies and even Al wonders whether showering isn't more efficient. She always knew they were idiots.

      Trudging home from work Saturday night, she barks her shins on the big tin basin and box of bath foam sitting outside her door and revises her opinion.

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[Acknowledgments: Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) was created by Arakawa Hiromu and is serialized monthly in Shonen Gangan (Square Enix). Copyright for these properties is held by Arakawa Hiromu and Square Enix. All rights reserved.]

Comments

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

aw sweet (yeah you don't have to worry about ELD. i'm another story)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I'm all talk. I threaten my adversaries with dire fates, but I never follow through. (If I ever need someone's house tp'd, can I call on you?)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

haha i never have done that one. have stuck nair into the hair conditioner of a dorm mate I didn't like

[syolen.livejournal.com]

Very sweet. :-)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered if that would actually work. My one experience with Nair led me to believe the stuff was so odiferous you'd have to notice that something was amiss before you got far enough into the process to depilate yourself.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Thanks! They do have some redeeming traits, our boys.

[syolen.livejournal.com]

Definitely. And Winry certainly is good at bringing the good out of someone (especially an Elric)!

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oooo...I wonder what I could replace the bath salts with...*bright, shiny eyes*

Those Elric Boys - they can be sooo sweet.

And thank you. That was a pick me up I desperately needed tonight.

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

How cute. Ed does need to learn more about the ways of girls.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

there used to be in the 80's a scentless one. It did work too especially hidden in a floral conditioner

i don't think they make it any more...probably too toxic

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Oooo...I wonder what I could replace the bath salts with...*bright, shiny eyes*

See upcomment ... though I don't think that would work quite as spectacularly in bubble bath as it does in shampoo. [whistles innocently]

Those Elric Boys - they can be sooo sweet.

All gesturally, of course. Shounen does it with subtext.

And thank you. That was a pick me up I desperately needed tonight.

You're welcome! I'm in a block, so this was a helpful exercise for me -- win-win! :-)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- he gets a hint when it's thrown right at his head, but that's about it. I suspect Al is responsible for the bath foam.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

And Winry certainly is good at bringing the good out of someone (especially an Elric)!

At wrench-point, if necessary. :-)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

there used to be in the 80's a scentless one. It did work too especially hidden in a floral conditioner

Oh, dear. Did you leave a calling card or just snicker wickedly as your victim rampaged about?

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

See upcomment ... though I don't think that would work quite as spectacularly in bubble bath as it does in shampoo.

No, probably not - or be appreciated. *shudder*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the latter

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

We can definitely always count on him.

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

Very sweet :) I can totally see Ed's eyes lighting up in that kind of "OH!" moment. And maybe Winry's eyes lighting up when she realizes the boys were actually listening. (Dumb boys have a habit of doing that once in a while...)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

And a good thing, too, or the human race would have died out long ago.