Hello again~ I'm back, but this time with FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST! :D I've recently become obsessed with the series. It's so good! XD

This one-shot came about after our English teacher told the class to write a piece of free writing - anything we wanted - as long as it fitted the theme 'war'. I was stuck for ideas, so I wrote fanfiction. X) Riza and Roy reminiscing on the Ishbalan war. ;)

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist or any of its characters. (I also don't own Gakuen Alice, but I forgot to mention that on a lot of my other fanfics.)

"Reflecting on the war?"

Roy started at the sound of his subordinate's voice, shocking him out of his not-so-pleasant daydreams. "Yeah, I guess I was."

Riza sighed. "Don't think too much about it, Colonel. You'll get another migraine. Besides, you have a stack of paperwork due tomorrow that you haven't even started yet."

"I know," Roy sighed, gracelessly dropping his head into his calloused hands. "But I just can't help thinking about it lately. It won't leave my mind."

"It was a terrible war, wasn't it?" Riza whispered after a brief silence.

"You can't even call it a war, it was so one-sided. It was an extermination." Roy groaned, burying his face deeper into his palms and ruffling his short onyx hair. "Do you ever think about the war, Lieutenant?"

"Yes. We all do. But I imagine the thought must be worse for someone like you rather than someone like me. After all, you were known as... 'The hero of Ishbal'... right?" Riza murmured.

Roy chuckled, but it was a humourless laugh. "I guess you're right. That really improves my mood, Lieutenant."

"Sorry, Colonel. Forgive me, I wasn't thinking."

"It's all right. After all, that war hasn't really ended, has it?"

"... No. And I doubt that war will ever end in that sense, Colonel," Riza muttered, a pained look flitting across her face before quickly resuming its usual stern expression.

"Yeah," the Colonel agreed, showing a rare grimace himself. "The war may have died on the battlefield, but it is everlasting in our hearts."

I know it was short, but we only had twenty minutes T.T

Tell me how it was? Constructive critiscism and flames accepted. ;) I accept other nice reviews too, though. X)

My first FMA fanfic (and it's not even a proper fanfic at that), so I'm sorry if the characters are OOC~

P.S. I spelled 'Lieutenant' right, didn't I? ... Didn't I?