grassangel | (no subject)

Title: A misaligned piece

Day/Theme: Nov. 15, 'old maid in the garret'
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Character/Pairing: If you squint Winry/Rose, RoyEd & AlRiza OR Elricest by implication.
Rating: PG

She was happy for them, she truly was. Though they were living wretchedly, she was certain they were happy.
It was the reason they were living like that anyway.

And it wasn't exactly if she were alone and had no-one to comfort her, because she was there too, so it wasn't really loneliness that made her cry sometimes but the fact that there was a part of her missing.
It was because they were a part of her, what made her unique and herself.

They were still there, just not a part of her and part of someone else.
Oh, she still loved them but the fact they didn't love her back equal...

There was something wrong in that equivalency.

There weren't enough parts to make a whole and it made her head (and heart) hurt trying to figure out how. She wasn't missing any pieces and she wasn't ignoring any was she?

"Winry? There's tea and cake waiting for you." A pink and umber head poked past the workshop door.

"I'm coming!" She tossed the piece she was working on carelessly to the work bench, letting it roll alongside the others as she striped her hands of their workgloves.

It fell alongside another, almost connecting, as she walked out the door to take tea.
All it needed was a simple twist... and then it would fit in with the rest.