Dumb
It was just another day in the office. Falman, Fuery, and Breda left for lunch and Roy was in a meeting. That left Havoc and Hawkeye alone in the office. Hawkeye decided that it was about time that she asked Havoc a question she'd been dying to ask.
"Why do you do it?" Hawkeye asked.
"Do what?" Havoc asked, playing dumb as usual.
"You know, act dumb around the office all the time." He laughed at her question then said,
"Why do you say that I act dumb?"
"Because you have to be smart if you have lived this long in the military. And to be a sniper, you have to be smarter than you act."
"And how do I act?"
"Well, for one thing, you take bets, even start bets, that are ridiculous-"
"I think that is called being a guy," he interrupted.
She sighed "Yes, but you're smarter than that. I've seen you in the office when you forget to act dumb. You think I don't know of the books that you read? My father was an alchemy teacher, I know that the books you read when you visited are possibly more advanced than the colonel. The colonel wouldn't even glace at those books."
"That doesn't keep you from dating him does it?" Havoc mumbled in a slightly jealous tone. Hawkeye caught the tone and frowned.
"I heard that and he's not stupid and you need to stop acting as if you are," she said choosing not to mention the tone he used. She loved him but not the way she did the colonel. At least not now, she still had feelings a bit, but they were waning the more she spent time with the colonel. "Why do you do it and give me a straight answer."
"Because it's fun."
She looked at him in shock "...fun?"
"Yeah, I always act stupid, because Falman, Fuery, and Bread think that they are the smartest group of people in central. So I just tag along, and have a blast. I was left a lot of money from my grandpa, so I don't lose that much with the five dollar bets that I make."
"Uh huh. But why do you let the colonel steal your girlfriends? I can think of at least one woman that would have liked to go out with you at one time."
"Who? Where?" Havoc said looking around.
"You know what? I take back what I said about you being smart." she said and walked away.
He thought about it for a moment. Riza and him???
"Oh damn." he ran off in her direction hoping that for once he could take the colonels girlfriend. He stopped in his tracks. Damn, he really was dumb.
