[challenge] Sentence Prompt

[ajremix]

Back from a nice vacation and in the process of trying to get back into my daily routine- which will start tomorrow with a prompt visit to the grocery store...

So, as I resettle we're going to do another challenge with a twist. Pick a series from the list:

Transformers
MLP: Friendship is Magic
Mass Effect
JLI
Bat-family
Birds of Prey
Young Justice (comics)
General DCU
Ultimate Spider-Man
Slam Dunk
One Piece
Invader Zim
Fullmetal Alchemist
Red vs Blue
Discworld
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Skip Tracers
human!Wreckers

Series only, please NO CHARACTERS. This is will probably be challenging enough as it.

Pick up a book- preferably the closest one on hand. Go to page 42 and type the 6th sentence. I'll have to make a drabble in your chosen series that uses that sentence.

Let's see how long it takes me to rue this challenge.

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[okamichan.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist - "Would you really have been mad at me if I hadn't told you?"

[idiosyn.livejournal.com]

Aaaaand another novel lengths...
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She worried. She was their friend and she couldn't be there, actively helping them so of course she worried and between Al getting himself torn up by a homunculus and Ed being gone doing something, Winry couldn't help but worry more.

Which was why, when she realized Al was missing, Winry was kind of freaking out. She searched all over the hotel, went through every open door (and a couple locked ones), searched every alley in an eight block radius and even asked if a one-armed suit of armor had been seen around (which got her a lot of funny looks she just ignored).

And when he returned... when he finally returned... Winry just wanted to beat on his chest and yell at him for making her feel so scared and helpless- just like he did when he came back the other night, claws gouging into his body.

"Where were you," she demanded, trying to keep her voice from quavering.

Al looked down and away. "...out."

"Where?"

"Just taking care of some things."

"Idiot!" She snapped. "You couldn't tell me about it? You couldn't ask me to take care of it? I'm your friend, aren't I? But you never let me help!"

Al shrunk back more, "It wasn't important-"

"Then why couldn't you say anything?"

"It's... a little embarrassing."

Winry lifted her head up, arms crossed over her chest and said, "Tell me. Tell me or I'll get mad."

And Al could tell when she was being serious. "I... I have to regularly clean my armor. Sometimes dirt gets in the joints and make it hard to move or I have to make sure there's no water, rusting parts up..."

Winry stared at him. "Is that all?"

"Um... yeah?"

"You couldn't ask me to help clean you?"

"I didn't want to impose-"

"Idiot!" She cried again, this time with relief that it was something so simple. She went to her bag to grab her polishing kit. "That's part of my job as an automail mechanic and a friend, you know! Sit!"

Al- easily cowed by her presence -did as he was told and Winry took him apart, piece by piece, and meticulously cleaned and checked every inch of metal.

Eventually Al asked, "Would you really have been mad at me if I hadn't told you?"

"Maybe," she said quietly, running a swab through the little interlocking bits of the ankle. "Sometimes I'm afraid that you and Ed worry so much about protecting me, you'll forget t o tell me the simple things I can do to help. Like this."

A heavy finger touched Winry's hair where it rested against her back. "I'm sorry. It won't happen again."

[okamichan.livejournal.com]

That is so sweet. I love little moments like that. Even sweeter between Al and Winry. <3

Thank you!