Small bits of fics about the friendship between Hughes, Roy and Hawkeye.
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Memory, Then, and News
Three Friendship Ficlets by Maaya

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Memory

They're eighteen and sharing a university dorm room in East City.

They have a silent agreement, Roy brings home girls, Maes will try to stay away and Roy won't say a word about how Maes most often "stays away" at Gracia's place. (Girls' dorms, just as forbidden as Roy bringing girls to the males' dorms.)

Not many nights are spent alone. When they're not with someone else, they're with each other. It's hard to avoid--really--when they share room and all, but no matter how much Roy complains and Maes laughs, they don't mind. It's nice.

They don't drink very often. Beer is expensive, wine a bit worse and liqueur shamelessly. Maes doesn't even like alcohol much. They still drink at times, something to do when they are alone together a weekend and feeling like they should do something interesting. Drinking isn't important to them but when they do, they do it with style. Expensive whisky, fine glasses, gluttony and greed and pride and going to hell in a fast moving car.

Fun. Not ideal, especially not the day after, waking up with headaches and nausea. But it's something they do together. Yet another thing they remember fondly after graduation.

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Then

Roy doesn't remember the first time he killed. He thinks he should, it should be a traumatic experience that he has heard most soldiers tend to remember. It's unsure whether the last thing is merely a rumour or not, though.

He still doesn't remember a first time ever having occurred.

A tent in Ishvar is probably not the best place to ponder it; far away from anything he would have called safety. He rubs his temples and wonders why it matters. Hawkeye shifts beside him, putting a hand over the weapon in her lap. She is carrying a rifle twenty-four hours a day, things are chaotic now and she is a good markswoman.

"Sir," she says quietly. "Don't think about it."

It sounds like an order, somehow not absurd even if she is a lower rank. Roy finds himself trying to obey. There's not much else to do, anyway.

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News

The first person Hughes tells about his wife's pregnancy is Hawkeye, simply because he knows her and she is the first person he meets after having received the news. He sees her on the street, wearing civilian clothes and carrying a paper bag, has probably just been to a grocery store.

Hughes has always been a brave man. He doesn't hesitate. He hugs her--paper bag and all--hard and long and warm and he talks quickly and it is really amazing she can pick out enough words to understand what he is trying to say.

Hawkeye steps out of his embrace. "Congratulations."

The fact she doesn't add his military title and that her voice is warm, are enough signs of affection.

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