Oops. Forgot the disclaimer---sorry! 8D

I do not--REPEAT--do not own anything related to Fullmetal Alchemist. Please don't sue me. T__T

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Two hours have passed since Ed "informed" Roy about his mysterious mission. If you did not notice Ed sulking in his room or Roy looking into space, you'd think this was a normal day. Unfortunately, people here in the military are not that stupid. Even Hughes, who repeatedly shows everyone his pictures of his family every minute of time, noticed when he tried to shove one into Roy's face. The action that Roy took was this: he continued staring out into space. He truthfully didn't even notice reality or Hughes's photo, since he had spent nearly two whole stinkin' hours thinking about Ed, or more specifically, who sent him the mission.

Hm…well it has to be someone in the military, since the stamp was officially the military's. But there was an endless set of people in here! What am I suppose to do?! Interview every one of them?

Bad choice, since he did not have either the time, nor patience to do that. Nor the courage, either.

When Roy unbelievably finished the endless stack of paperwork (in which he really did not recall doing) early for the first time in his life, he had finally thought of a reasonable way to solve our little mystery. The first step was to...talk to Edward. Yes, talk. That shouldn't be too hard. After he closed the door, the whole group immediately gathered together and began to gossip about Roy and Ed's undoubtedly strange behavior ever since this morning. Riza was having a half-day off, so she did not attend.

"I say that Edward's jealous because of Roy's new girlfriend or something and they're trying to sort this out without telling us." Suggested Havoc, who knew the pain of having many girls taken away by Roy.

"No way! Roy doesn't even have a girlfriend right now, idiot!" countered Lieutenant Ross, trying to squeeze into the bunch.

"Well, it could be a coincidence." Hughes added, nodding his head.

"Maybe Roy's just pissed off with his paper work and Edward's just mad cuz he can't find the philosopher's stone." Agreed Kain.

"No way, it's way to suspicious!"

"I'm telling you they're in love!"

"Then what about Riza?! I thought Roy liked her!"

"Yeah, liked her as a friend and officer!"

"No, he told me that she wanted to go out with him, but he turned her down."

Suddenly, peculiar footsteps were heard and the doorknob started to turn slightly. Everyone froze and a second later, a loud mixture of noise was heard as everyone scrambled to return to what they were doing before the colonial left. The door started to open. Roy's head popped through the space.

"Man, I forgot my keys in here...has everyone seen them?" his head turned left and right to observe what everyone was doing.

Roy raised an eyebrow and a puzzled expression.

Everyone seemed to be normal…except for their faces. They were blank, mostly because of the shock and panic they took on before he had arrived.

And their necks...there was unusual amount of sweat dripping into their uniforms.

Ross looked like she was about to laugh. Havoc looked like he was holding his breath and suffocating himself with the lack of oxygen. Hughes was pretending to read a book, only he didn't take any note that he was holding it upside-down. Well to conclude this, everything was a mess.

"U-Um…I think it's in the drawer by the window, sir." Kain bravely responded.

Still bewildered, Roy went and took his keys.

"So, are you guys okay? You seem a little awkward." He said as he approached the door.

---Gulp.

Havoc quickly thought of an idea and kicked Hughes leg across from him. "OW--" He began, but covered his mouth just in time to stop the words from coming out. He turned to Havoc with a questioning glare. Havoc mouthed the words 'It's time to do your stuff!'.

Hughes immediately understood and nodded inconspicuously. He stood up and took a handful of photographs of his family from his pocket and began to show Roy each and every one of them.

"And this is the one where Elicia was eating cake at her first birthday, and oh--this one was where all of us, that's me in the back, went to dinner together. Aww! You know you should hurry up and get a wife, Mustang, and have an adorable family just like mine. I was just showing everyone these five new pictures that I just took yesterday while…" And that was all Roy heard before he was annoyed out of mind.

The door shut with a squeak and his footsteps echoed until nothing was heard.

Everyone sighed of relief.

"Oh god, that was close."

"Wow, Hughes and his pictures actually did something good, for once."

They bunched up together again and the conversation continued.

"Hey, did you know that blond girl that Ed was with like…a month ago?"

"Yea, that's Winry."

"Do you think they'll end up together because they're childhood friends?"

"Hmm...not sure, but I don't necessarily think that. Just because they were childhood friends doesn't mean that they will end up together, you know what I mean?"

"So it's just one-sided love or what?!"

"Not sure."

"What the heck, we're off of topic, people!

"Unless they really are in love, we Need. To. Stay. On. Topic!"

"Hey have you noticed that Ed's hair got longer?"

"WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE!?"

"Aww, c'mon, it's not like it's illegal to be off topic! Geez, your sorta like my language arts teacher back in 6th grade."

"Wow Havoc, I feel your pain. Language arts is a total prison chamber!"

"But I like reading!"

"Well I hate it! I'd much rather do math!"

"Math, oh c'mon man, that is just plain idiotic!"

"Well it's hard! Why don't you try going through all those brain-killing equations!"

"Hey you guys, I have an idea!"

"We should start a rebellion to ban math forever from every school in the universe?"

"No!"

"I mean maybe we could ask Ed's little brother, since they're together all the time, he's bound to know something!"

"Oh yeah, talk about obvious."

And that was the whole afternoon for Roy's group. While they were busy chatting, Roy was heading through the halls to go talk to Ed about his little plan to solve this mystery.

END CHAPTER

A/N: Maybe I should've added Riza coming in through the window and telling them "Wow, you guys really don't have anything better to do..." Because it's true. They have no lives. But we all love them anyways. Lulz...