Full Metal Alchemist
This is placed before Hughes dies so just a warning all. I know that it was the worst and best scene in the series.
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If I did I wouldn't be writing fan fics.
Roses, Guns and Fire
REPORT ONE
"It's two in the morning are you ever over to finish that paper work?" It was not like Elizabeth "Riza" Hawkeye to whine but this fight had been going on too long. The only reason the blond was not in bed is because her raven haired lazy dumb-ass boss went chasing girls all afternoon instead of getting the evaluations done. Roy Mustang was going to be the death of her.
"Riza please." The kindergartner came out of him when he was tired. She had been fighting letting him have his way for the better part of 4 hours. "I am tirrrrrrred and I didn't get my date tonight."
"You should have thought about that when you ran away to womanize." Riza put the last of her work away. "Dates come after you finish the work that is three weeks over due. The Führer is not going to like the fact that you kept him waiting. His secretary told me to do them myself and get you to sign them." To Riza this was her career. She put her heart and soul into the job. Roy was the flip side of that. He had been drafted because of his talent. Never had Riza seen him work so hard as when he found an alchemy problem that needed to be fixed. It was the flame alchemy that pulled men to him. It was his charms that brought women.
Expecting this night not to end Riza took off her coat and was about to take her blouse off when she noticed Roy staring. "Do you seriously want me to shoot you?"
"Help me then." Oh here it comes. "What are you going to do when I get done all this work?" Roy spun his chair to the window.
"Make coffee because it will be morning and you will be whining for it." Riza said flatly. It was the truth. Ever practical Riza. "What is it that you want sir?"
"You have 12 buttons on that blouse and I have 12 papers to finish." Sigh. Riza didn't like where this was going. Although she was a little shocked. It's been ten years since he showed an interest in her. Despite the womanizing and laziness she still loved him. Roy had stopped paying attention to her about the same time that her family found them in bed. "You have your black tank top under that. "For every paper I finish you undo a button of your choice." What harm can it do? At this point she give him almost anything if Roy finished the damn work.
Roy cleaned off a place on his desk for her to sit. "Just do the work sir." There was the pout. He really was 5 again. Riza just shook her head. Would this be what their kids would look like? She hoped not. Roy handed her the first paper. Riza read it to see that he signed all the right spots then put it in the Out box. Riza moved to unbutton the top but diverted to her left wrist, to boos from her audience. Then another paper came to her. Eager brown eyes stared at her as she undid the top button.
Time flew after that. Before she knew it Roy was done and reaching for her. "Well good night sir." Riza walked over to her desk grabbing her keys. "I will see you in the morning." She waved heading to the door.
"Riza we have been friends along time now." With her hand on the door nob. Sigh she wasn't going to get to bed.
"Yes sir we have." Her body tightened. Riza hoped this was not going to be one of his all night exhaustion questions.
"Why have we never gotten back together?" That really was the million dollar question. "I mean with a body like yours and a brain like mine, we would make beautiful babies." Riza stifled a laugh. Always the biological clock that man. Every year around her birthday Roy asks the same question. "Why don't we have sex?"
"Sir you are my commanding office, an alchemist and a womanizer. All things that my father told me to stay away from." She turned back to face him. "Or don't you remember that conversation?" Roy's mouth hung low. "Now good night sir." Every year, never fails. Just one year she would not have to repeat that conversation. Riza knew that she was going on 30 and still only a boyfriend. "Oh god Miles." Rushing to her car Riza wondered if her half live in boyfriend was still at the house. Stupid Roy was not the only one with a date tonight. Oh man was she tired though.
Riza put her forehead on the wheel and woke up with a gun to Roy's chest. "I just wanted to know if you wanted me to drive you." He could see her drop her guard after all it was his fault. "I don't want my sidekick to die on the road. You look exhausted."
"Could it be because I am?" Roy opened the door and Riza moved over. She wasn't going to argue with him on this. It was too late for a logical conversation. "Just take me home sir. You can pick me up in the morning."
"Yes. I had more coffee than you." It was true the getting a new cup ever 20 minutes and then the resulting escape attempts by going to the washroom. Riza knew all his tricks. Roy gave her one of his killer smiles. The smile that was for his toys not for her. He must be tired too. Riza thought. There was a spare room but again Miles might be there. Riza just didn't want Roy to met the Ishbal version of himself.
Black Hayate met her at the door. Her lights were on. Thank fully Roy didn't ask about them. He just watched from the car until she was pounced on by her dog then drove away. "Welcome home." Miles was here. Oh and he was everything Roy wasn't. Maria then Maes were the first to point out that Riza's current time killer looked just like Roy except with red eyes and brown skin. To put it plainly Riza didn't notice. This man was who she bought everything for Black Hayate from. They got talking and low and behold almost six months later he was staying over nights and watching the dog they both love.
"I started running a bath for you. Supper is in the fridge and a nasty letter is on the table that you should give to your boss tomorrow for my sake." Riza smiled. Miles just kissed her on the cheek. "I am going home. You look like transmuted death warmed over." Oh God did she look that bad? "Friday night for Phantom right?"
"Not going to miss it for the world." Miles left she alone with the only real male she could trust. "Alright Black Hayate let's get us to bed. The dog nodded then ran to the bedroom. Riza knew that she was too tired to take a bath so she headed to the bathroom to pull the plug.
A voice called her name in her dream. High pitched paniced yelling orders out to the person that did not answer. "Riza wake up!" She took in a breath. The voice calmed. "You have not been given leave to die on me Hawkeye." That voice. Roy? Why was he here? "Havoc how long?"
"Ten minutes sir." Roy groaned. "That is the best they can do. She does live on the other side of town." Someone lifted her now pained head to put something soft under it.
"Elizabeth Hawkeye, I order you yo open your eyes." Groaning herself she tightened her eyes shut before opening them. Why was she dreaming of Roy and Havoc? "Good girl you can do it." It was brighter in her bedroom than it should have been. The walls were also white. Roy's black eyes eased in relief. "Thank the gods."
"What are you-" Riza turned her head to see her white footed bathtub not so white. "What happened?"
"Havoc go watch the door. Tell me when the paramedics get here." Without a word the blond left. "Stay on the floor Riza you have had a nasty fall." What? "I called you to tell you I would be early and that Havoc was meeting us here but your dog knocked over the phone and barked in my ear." The training that she was putting Hayate through was working. "I got worried so I rushed over. I am sorry about the window I am going to fix it."
"What did you do to my house?" Roy held her down when she tried to sit up. "Sir I need to get up."
"No. You don't. You have a bump on your head and there is blood everywhere. I am not letting you out of my sight until the doctor has given the okay."
"Other than a headache I feel fine. I have to get ready for work." Roy gently pushed her back. Not since the war had she seen him look so strict. Was her fall really that bad? Fall? Wait she did remember loosing her balance but falling?
"I thought you were going to die on me Riza." Roy took her left hand and kissed it. "Until you are well I am staying here."
"Seriously sir I will be okay. As you said it is just a bump." That didn't sway him. He started to take off his jacket.
"Havoc!" Now why was he yelling? Why was he taking off his jacket. "She's going into shock." Shock? That could be why she was cold. It could also be because she was laying in water.
"They are just driving up now." Cursing in a language she didn't know Roy picked her up cradled in his arms. Black Hayate walking dutiful at their side. "You said not to move her, sir."
"I refuse to let my Riza die on me today." Was the last thing she heard before the sirens.