teamalphonse:

climbingonroofs:

Sorry for worrying you.

it literally just dawned on me that Pinako probably thought Winry was dead

Winry goes to Briggs to help with Ed’s automail, and that’s normal enough – but she never calls to check in. And maybe Pinako thought, oh, she’s growing up. She’s off in Rush Valley now, she’s not going to call me every time she goes somewhere – except Winry never calls. Weeks pass. She calls Garfiel, who says he hasn’t spoken to her since she left. She asks around other places and comes up with nothing. She even tries to contact the Briggs military, but it’s a mess and no one will talk to her. She tries to find Ed and Al, but no one knows where they are either.

Months pass.

She starts to wonder if she’s going to lose Winry the same way she lost her son – if Winry was going to leave home to go help someone and never return. She wonders why she keeps losing everyone she cares about. Her house felt emptier when Winry left for Rush Valley, but it feels like a graveyard for those six months, and she tries to fill the space with just herself and Den, and she tries not to imagine that Winry’s dead.

and then finally, after nearly half a year without word from anyone, Winry comes home.