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CHAPTER 1: Morning Nightmares

The air smelt of rotting flesh. The stench filled her nostrils as she searched through the burning rubble looking for him. She would never forgive herself if she didn't find him. He was the only thing she had left.

Although he was the one who set the town up in flames she searched like mad for him. She trotted down what seemed to once be a market place, looking left and right.

Tears began to cloud her vision. She blinked them back. She couldn't cry, crying is a weakness. She was about to collapse onto the ash covered ground when she heard her name being called. Desperate as she was she ran towards the voice. Something shook her and the scene of a town burning and her name being called vanished.

Riza jerked awake. It was at least one in the morning. Her eyes were wide and sweat made her pajamas cling to her body. She looked around her room. Nothing was out of the ordinary. Her military uniform lay out for later; her covers were twisted around her body from the nightmare.

Letting out a sigh, Riza de-tangled herself from her bedspread. She pulled the covers over her body letting the edge of the blanket nestle under her chin. Another sigh escaped her lips as she turned onto her side and closed her eyes to sleep once again.

Roy awoke to cars rushing on the street outside his window. He had yet another nightmare from the past. He was used to these horrible dreams. The familiarity of these nightmares though didn't make them seem any less frightening.

Roy shook his head of the aftermath. He shuffled from his bed to the bathroom to take a shower.

After showering he walked to his room dripping wet from head to toe. His heart sank as he looked at his navy blue military uniform. How he despised it. Sighing he dried off with his fire red towel and with difficulty pulled it on. After grabbing his coat and locking the deadbolt on the apartment door he took off to the local café for some coffee.

Hours later Riza awoke this time to her alarm shouting at her that it was five in the morning. She slammed her fist on the snooze button. It was no use. She scrambled out of bed hurriedly picking up the clock and switching the alarm off. The beeping noise finally stopped ringing. Riza dropped the alarm clock back onto the bedside table and plopped down onto the bed. She sighed as she rubbed her tired eyes. Knowing there was much to do today she trudged to the bathroom and closed the door behind her.

Walking out of the bathroom with a yellow fluffy towel wrapped around her, Riza drug her uniform on without complaint. Grabbing a tea packet and her jacket she walked out the door to the office.

Riza arrived at headquarters with about a half an hour to spare. She marched up to her office dumping her things beside her desk. She looked around the room. The Colonel wasn't in yet. Of course he wasn't.

If he's late again my bullet won't get far from his head. Riza sighed. She knew that wasn't true. She could never shoot Roy. Not only was he her superior officer but she lo-. She cut herself off there. Even in her mind she couldn't, wouldn't say such things as that.

Riza turned to go to the break room when she noticed a certain Lieutenant Colonel stood in the doorway.

Roy Mustang was running late once again. He had stopped off at the café to get a coffee but sadly for him the line was terribly long. Then when he got up to the cash register they were out of his favorite coffee so he had to wait for at least fifteen minutes for them to tell him that they were out. He wasted his money on a crappy cup of coffee that tasted like sludge. Roy knew Riza was gonna kill him.

He ran up the steps of HQ (headquarters) bursting into the lobby making people look at him like he was crazy. Running for the stairs he climbed two or three at a time. Riza was definitely going to shoot bullets at him. She shoots him even over not doing his paperwork.

When Roy busted through the door to his commanding offices no one looked up. Not even Havoc who normally would bug him about something or other kept his head down scribbling notes down on a memo pad. Roy looked about the room. It was like he wasn't here.

Casually he walked into his office that was blocked off by walls and a door. Through the door he went. On the other side he saw Riza sitting at her desk scribbling as well. He looked to his desk and his jaw dropped to the floor. At least four huge stacks of paperwork littered his desk. Unwillingly, Roy waded through the papers to his desk where he sat down unable to figure out where to start first. Glancing over at Riza who had not once gazed up at him. A frown had appeared on his face and grimaced as he picked up a report on top of one of the stacks of deskwork.

The whole morning went on that way. It was dead silence instead of the normal chatting that came through the door from the other desks. Roy was going crazy. He could barely stand how quiet it was. He was about to get up to stretch his legs when a voice cut through the silence.

"Don't even think of getting up sir."

Roy glanced at Riza. She hadn't looked up nor showed any sign that she had spoken at all.

"I'm just going to stretch my legs Lieutenant. It's terribly cramped sitting here for over two hours not being able to move because of the worthless reports cluttering around my desk." Roy hissed annoyingly.

"I'm sorry sir but you are not allowed to leave this office until you finish your paperwork. By the look of it you still have plenty to go through." Riza was standing directly across from him with her hand on her gun at her waist. Roy sighed at plunked back down in his seat. How he hated being intimidated by her gun.

For the next hour Roy sat there writing and writing. For once he was getting something done. Riza had been nice in taking quite a bit of the paperwork. Roy could only sigh as he scribbled his signature or wrote a memo to an officer.

Finally after hardly any movement from outside Fury poked his head in.

"Sir?" he asked in a hushed tone.

"Yes, Fury?" Roy replied. His voiced cracked from not using it in awhile.

"Um, I was wondering if we could have lunch now."

"Huh? Oh yes of course you can. Tell the others while you're at it." Roy replied. Was that the only thing that his people asked from him anymore? Fury muttered a yes sir and withdrew his head from the room.

It was one in the afternoon when Roy decided to try getting up and going to eat lunch when Riza stopped him again.

"Sorry, sir. You still need to finish your paperwork and by the looks of it if you don't keep working at this rate I'll have to stay here after hours with you."

This sounded good to Roy. Staying after hours with his beautiful lieutenant. A small smiled began to stretch across his face. He began to daydream about what might happen later. He was abruptly was awoken by the ringing of bullets around his ears. He turned his head behind him to see bullet marks in the wall behind him. He gulped.

"Sir I will ask you to not think such things." Riza stated simply as she holstered her handgun. Roy was feeling a bit conceited right now after not having anything in his black hole of a stomach. He got up and strode to the door. He was only within a couple feet of the door when Roy felt a breeze next to his right ear. He spun around staring at Riza. She was standing right behind him; her gun was pointed directly at his nose.

"Sir please go back to finishing your paperwork. I'll go get you some food." Riza told him. She sheathed her gun and pointed to the chair with her left index finger. Like a dog running home with his tail between his legs, Roy slowly walked back behind his desk.

For the third time that day he dropped into his office chair and began on the stack of papers next to him.

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A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed/reviews my previous story! I was so happy! anyway what do you think of this story? I'll post more chapters when I get them done. Every kind of criticism accepted. Thanks again!