After a Fall

A/N: Chapter two! Which is really chapter one, the other was a preview… oh, well. Thanks to RenyaXXI, my first reviewer!

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN FMA. I got a package that looked like the rights for Christmas, but it wasn't…

Riza Hawkeye was falling, and falling fast. And Roy Mustang could do nothing to help her.

"Lieutenant! Lieutenant! Hawkeye! Riza!"

There was nothing but abandoned warehouses and concrete beneath them, and if nothing happened soon, Riza was going to become a concrete pancake. And once again, Roy was useless. If he cut his own parachute, they would both die, and Riza would kill him. Well, not that she could if they were both dead, then it wouldn't matter.

"RIZA!"

She was falling fast, and he still couldn't do anything.

100 feet.

80 feet.

50.

25.

10.

And then, miraculously, someone was there. Wait, there were two of them.

And one of them was frighteningly short.

The two people down below formed a basket with their hands, and caught Hawkeye, before dropping her out of sheer pressure. At this point, the Colonel was getting closer and closer to the ground, before finally landing and cutting his parachute with a knife he had on his person. He started running to find the Lieutenant and the people who had caught her, shouting for her all the while.

"Hawkeye! Hawkeye! First Lieutenant! Lieutenant! Hawkeye!"

He heard a faint groan, and began sprinting towards it. "Hawkeye! Hawkeye!"

When he finally found Riza, he couldn't believe who was standing next to her.

It was the Elric brothers.

"Edward? Alphonse?"

"Colonel Bastard?"

Alphonse smacked Ed.

"Brother!"

A weak cough from Hawkeye halted the reunion. She weakly opened her eyes.

"Colonel?"

Roy was immediately by her side, clutching her to his chest.

"Hawkeye, are you alright?"

"I'll be fine. Are you okay, sir?"

"Hawkeye, I wasn't the one with the broken parachute."

She gave a weak attempt at an eye roll. "Colonel, nobody cares about a First Lieutenant who died after a plane crash in the middle of Germany. A Colonel, on the other hand…"

She trailed off, and spit some blood out of her mouth. It was then that Colonel Mustang noticed the piece of metal in her stomach.

"Fulllmetal! A doctor! I need a doctor!"

"… I don't know any trustworthy doctors, but Gracia has some nursing experience, so we could take the Lieutenant to her."

"Alright, let's move!"

Riza gave a small sound of protest before trying to get up and having her legs collapse beneath her. Roy picked her up bridal style (A/N: Never thought I'd use that phrase…), following the Elrics deeper into the city, heading to their small apartment.

"Stay with me, Riza. I don't know what I'll do if you die…"