Entry tags:

drabble, ed x riza, edward elric, fma, fma: alternate post-anime timeline, g-rated, het, riza hawkeye, z-21hearts, zanne, zanne-lj, zanne: fma

[ed/riza; g] When You Touch Me
Title: When You Touch Me
Author: kuchehexe
Theme: 11: Cold hands, warm heart (21_Hearts)
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing: Edward Elric/Riza Hawkeye
Rating: G
Wordcount: 200
Disclaimer: Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) is copyrighted by Hiromu Arakawa/Square Enix. This is a work of fanfiction for personal entertainment only. Unless outright stated otherwise, assume AU-ishness for all Ed/Riza fics by me, with Ed 17+ in age.
Notes: Not cutting this 'cause damn. This post is shorter than my last Ed/Riza fic's disclaimer.
Original LJ Post Date: June 29, 2006 @ Chaotic_Library

When You Touch Me

He knew his automail hand was cold. But he wore gloves so often, and Al had been the only person he was around regularly enough to touch without them that it was easy to forget. But Riza never flinched or jumped, even when he knew it had to be a shock. It was moments like those which made him love her all the more, just as she didn't flinch then when cold, metal fingers touched her face.

He watched her, that beautiful, lethal, loyal woman beside him on the bed. He wouldn't have blamed her if she did, if she protested to the heavier weight of his metal limbs, if she didn't want anything to do with him at all, fallen, damaged sinner that he was.

Ed wasn't prepared to fall in love all over again when she caught his hand and pressed her lips to the cool metal, knowing he couldn't feel it the way his other hand could. She accepted him as he was, without reservation, and he again felt luckier than he had any right to be that at the right moment in time, he'd caught that glimpse of a warm heart under that rigid military mask.

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