All isfair in Love and War

Part One

Edward: age 17

Hawkeye: age 23

The train arrived at Central station 20 minutes late, only 2 other people were on the train but by the looks of it they weren't going to stay at all. The sound of explosions and gun fire rang fresh in the air. The air was cloudy, and the sky could not be seen. There was a lot of tension in the air.

"Sir, I am here to escort you to base safely." An officer said, saluting.

"No thanks, I can find my own way."

"You know Colonel Mustang wouldn't like you getting hurt, Edward." A woman said walking into the station.

"Lieutenant Hawkeye, I can handle myself, I'm not a little boy."

"With all due respect . . . Sir, we are at war, this is not a game, so if you don't follow willingly and except the escort than I will see to it that you are unconscious and carried to base . . . Sir." Hawkeye said the threat was evident in her voice.

Edward opened his mouth to argue about her decision but mentally decided that it would be better to comply with the Lieutenant instead of faring the consequences that she had threatened him with.

"Fine, I'll go along with your escort, Ma'am." Edward replied smartly.

"Good choice Sir." Hawkeye nodded her head at the officer and started walking ahead, Edward in the middle and the officer assigned to him trailing a few feet behind.

Two bullets whizzed by Hawkeye's and Edwards head. Hawkeye automatically got her gun out and started to fire in the direction the bullets came from. Edward turned around and saw the officer lying dead on his back, fresh blood pouring out of the open wounds on his chest.

"Damn." Hawkeye said and pulled Edward behind the cover of a wall, "They must be up on the roof of a building ahead." Hawkeye said while reloading her weapon, clicking it in place she whiled out from the cover of the wall and started firing shots in different areas on different roof tops.

"What are you doing? Are you insane?" Edward yelled at her.

Hawkeye returned to the safety of the wall and reloaded once more, dropping the empty clip on the ground and putting a fresh one in, she cocked the gun.

"I know where he is now."

Hawkeye whirled back out in to the line of fire not listening to Edwards "orders."

And I thought I was reckless, Edward thought.

One last shot rang through the air.

"I got him."

"How do you know?"

"Besides the fact that his body just fell out the window, no one is shooting anymore."

"Smart-ass."

Hawkeye returned the gun to the holster and came out from behind the wall.

"Come along Sir, you won't get to the base hiding behind the wall." Hawkeye walked away.

"I am not hiding, you pulled me behind here."

"And if I hadn't you would be dead."

"I do no how to use alchemy you know."

"Yes Edward, you title and pocket watch is enough to know what and who you are."

Edward snorted.

He ignored the sarcasm that was directed at him and turned to look back in the direction where the officer had fallen.

"Is someone going to go back for that officer?" Edward asked.

"Once this war is over, every dead officer and soldier will be buried like a hero, and there families will be informed once they are found."

"I hope so."

30 minutes had gone by and they had passed downed soldiers, buildings that had fallen due to different circumstances, and a few bodies of the enemy were lying dead on the ground. Some weren't even older than Edward.

"So . . . when are you going to get married to Colonel Mustang?" Edward asked.

Hawkeye turned toward Edward and asked, "What makes you think I want to get married to him?" Turned back around and continued walking, Edward still trailing behind.

"You're always jealous when other women are around, plus I've seen the way you look at him, you like him."

"Colonel Mustang is not the marrying type, more of flirtatious bastard that likes to play with women's hearts, and then drop them the first opportunity he gets."

"That's true; but it sounds like you've had some experience with him in that department."

"A little, he took me to dinner ONCE and that was it, I'll never go out with him again,"

"He's that bad? Stupid question, of course he's that bad."

"When we got to the restaurant, he automatically started flirting with the waitress, and I'm pretty sure he chose that place because of the low cut skirts and to much bare legs."

"I'm sorry."

"For what, you didn't do anything."

"I'm sorry that you have to deal with a jerk like him everyday, I don't . . ."

An explosion went off directly in front of them and bullets started to fly past Edward and Hawkeye. They both ducked down into a ditch and Hawkeye fired back at where the shots were coming from.

"I don't think I'm hitting them." Hawkeye yelled.

"You noticed." Edward yelled back.

A grenade came rolling toward the ditch they were in. Edward clapped his hands and slammed them to the ground, transmuting a wall directly in front of them, the explosive went off but the wall held.

"Is there another way around?" Edward asked.

"Possibly, but the roads are most likely blocked with explosives."

"Did you forget that I'm an alchemist?"

Hawkeye glared daggers at Edward but said, "It will take awhile going around and I can't exactly pin point anything that's bad in the road."

"We will just have to take our chances, let's go."

They turned to the right and proceeded to travel along the destroyed road, holes in several place, bodies littered the ground and the smell was enough to throw up with, there were also hundreds of flies flying over the dead and rotting corpses. They kept walking though avoiding every body and trap laid out for them.

Edward used alchemy to take out all the traps that were set making the roads they walked on "safe." They continued doing this for 10 minutes, when an explosive was set off directly under there feet.

It went off sending them both in the sewers 15 meters below ground. They fell to the ground, ruble and debris falling on and around them and rendering Hawkeye unconscious and leaving Edward dazed and in pain.

Edward had a large piece of concrete on his legs, so he was unable to move, his auto mail arm was twisted behind his back, and he had hit his head on something hard so he was now bleeding.

Edward laid there trying to regain his senses; pain was going through his body and his head felt like it would explode, he squeezed his eyes shut hoping the pain would go away.

15 minutes passed and most of the pain had stopped enough for Edward to get his arm out from under himself, he stopped and took a 30 second breather. He examined his auto mail arm seeing that the metal was badly dented and 2 of the bolts had come out so he didn't have any movement in the arm.

"Damn it all to Hell." Edward cursed under his breath.

After regaining some strength he tried to remove the object from his legs but got a searing bolt of pain from his leg, now Edward knew it had been broken in the fall. His vision started to spin and get blurry, his eye lids closed and he blacked out.

Up top the enemy had heard the explosion and had come running, they saw the hole and looked in, although they couldn't see if anyone was down because of the dust in the air, they assumed someone had fallen in so they threw a grenade which exploded right on top of the 2 military personal that were lying unconscious below.