MIA
Chapter 2
Suspicions
Riza Hawkeye opened the door to Roy Mustang's office, and was suprised that he wasn't there. "Lieutenant," She stopped outside of Jean Havoc's office. "Where's the Colonel?" When Havoc shrugged, Riza sighed. "What do you mean, you don't know? You must have been the last person he spoke to right?"
Jean nodded. "Yeah, but he should have either arrived by now, or at least called. But I haven't seen him or heard from him yet." He then glanced down at his desk drawer and opened it. "Here." He pulled out the papers that Mustang had given him earlier that morning. "The colonel told me to give this to you when I saw you, Lieutenant." Havoc pushed them towards Riza.
Placing down the new stack, Riza picked up the recently signed papers. "Thank you, Havoc." She then turned and walked out. "Be sure to give the other stack to him, alright, Lieutenant?"
Havoc got up and ran out. "What am I! You're message boy! I am no one's message boy! Got it? NO ONE'S!" He stopped and glanced around and noticed that the other soldiers and wandering State Alchemists had stopped what they were doing and stared at the crazed Second Lieutenant. "Umm...Ignore that." He turned and started to walk back into his office. "And get back to work!"
Riza unlocked the door to her office and walked in, closing the door behind her. He's never been this late before. She walked over to her desk and placed the stack of papers down and picked up her phone. After dialing out Roy's number and letting it ring a few minutes, she hung up and sighed. After taking a seat in her desk chair, Riza started sorting out the papers, according to the most importance. After a few minutes, she placed her head down on her desk. I can't believe this shit. He's late, and I'll get most of the blame if the Fuhrer finds out. She sat up as a knock sounded at her door. "Enter." She hurried to straightened her desk out.
"First Lieutenant Hawkeye," Fuhrer King Bradley walked in, followed by his secretary, Juliet Douglas. "I hear that Colonel Mustang has yet to arrive. Is that true, Lieutenant?" Riza nodded slowly, unsure of the consequences. "I see." He then looked over at Juliet and nodded. "If he does come in, please have him come down to my office, alright?" Riza nodded once more and saluted as Bradley walked out, Juliet following him.
Roy...Riza sighed and retook her seat, glancing at a picture of the Colonel and her dog, Black Hayate, who had just turned 2 the day the picture was taken. Where are you?
Noon arrived and Riza left her office to go eat, but took a quick detour and knocked on Havoc's door. After a muffled "Enter," she opened the door and peered in. "Havoc? Has the Colonel arrived yet?"
"No." Havoc shook his blonde head, and lighted up a cigarette. He sighed and glanced over at Riza. "But, I did just got off the phone with him. He's on his way here."
"Thank you, Havoc." She nodded and shut the door, and headed back to her office. Lunch can wait for awhile. She continued to her office, and stopped as she caught a quick flash that reminded her of a transmutation. She then shook her head and smiled slightly. "You're just seeing things, Riza." She took one last glance out the window and continued down the hall. ""At least he's alright." She opened her door and entered, sighing with relief. Walking over to her desk, she placed down her things, and took her seat behind the desk. Taking one last glance at the picture, she lowered her head and fell asleep...
I'm...Dreaming? I have to be...But..Why am I asleep? I don't understand this. I should be working or something. Not sleeping.
Two figures appeared and seemed to be talking about someone, or something, of importance. One was a woman with long black hair, and a strapless, low-cut, black dress. The other was a guy with long, green-black hair, and wore a midriff bearing black shirt and a skirt of some sort. Both had the identical symbol of a snake biting it's own tail.
Didn't Edward mention something about these people? That symbol...Didn't Edward call it the ouroborus?
"Envy," The woman spoke. "Why choose to disguise yourself as the Fullmetal brat? Why not someone within the military?"
Envy, the other one, smirked. "I wanted to, but Sloth said that it would cause more problems, especially after the death of a certain individual. She said that it would cause Colonel Flame into such a scare that he probably would have died right there. So, Fullmetal was the only other choice."
Are they talking about Brigidier General Hughes? How do they know about his death? Who are these people?
Lust laughed. "Especially since you killed him." Envy nodded in agreement. "Well, it's about time that Greed and Juliet should be coming back."
Juliet? Isn't that Fuhrer Bradley's secretary's name?
Riza didn't get to see the rest of the dream as she was awaken by her phone ringing. "Hello?" She sat up as she heard the voice on the other line. "Yes, sir. I just heard from Second Lieutenant Havoc that he's on his way." She hung up and headed out of her office, paying no attention to the other officer that she ran into. "Hey! Watch-" She glanced up and saw who it was. "Colonel."
Roy nodded. "Yeah. Sorry I'm late. I guess that I was even more tired than I thought."
Riza straightened her uniform. "Come with me, sir. The Fuhrer has requested to see you as soon as you got in." She turned and headed down the hall towards the Fuhrer's office. " Stopping outside the doors, she knocked and entered after hearing Juliet's voice, Roy following behind. "Ms. Douglas, I brought the Colonel as the Fuhrer had requested."
Sloth glanced up and nodded. "One second." She picked up the phone and dialed out the Fuhrer's number. "Sir, the Colonel's just arrived." She glanced over at Riza and Roy. "Of course, sir." She hung up the phone. "Follow me please." She stood up and headed over to the doors heading into the Fuhrer's office. "He's ready to see you," Sloth then glanced over at Riza. "Both." Opening the door, she bowed and shut it after Roy stepped in.
They both rendered a salute as they reached Bradley's desk, who nodded. "At ease."
Roy moved ahead. "Sir, you wanted to see me?"
Bradley nodded. "Yes Colonel. You were late today, if I remember." Roy nodded. "Why is that? There must be a logical reason, right?" Roy nodded once more. "Then explain."
Riza glanced between the two and sighed. "Sir, Colonel Mustang had told me that he wasn't feeling well when he got home last night, and didn't feel well earlier this morning." She stopped and glanced over at Roy, who stared at her in complete shock. "And he couldn't call this morning to let us know, since he wasn't all that well. He then told me that he didn't wake up until he called Havoc to let him know that he was on his way." She shook her head as Roy tried to stop her.
"Colonel?"
"Yes, sir?"
"Is this true?" Bradley eyed both of them, as if he didn't trust them both. "Were you not feeling well?"
Roy nodded. "Yes..Sir. I wasn't. I know that I should have called earlier. I apologize deeply for that, sir."
Bradley glared at both of them a bit longer, then laughed. "There's no need to apologize, Mustang. As long as this doesn't happen again. You may go now." Riza and Roy saluted and turned to leave. "Wait, Mustang.There's actually something that I have to discuss with you. Hawkeye, you're free to continue on with your day."
"Yes, sir." She saluted once more and left the office. She closed the door behind her and ignored Juliet as she left.
Sloth glanced up from her writting and picked up the phone reciever.
On the paper she had written: The Flame is dying.
A/N: I hope you all enjoy this chapter! A special thanks to Kellen, a fellow Mustang fangirl! And to the others that reviewed: Shadow Dreamer 27, ooOAnimeChildOoo, wicked-omen, and the anonomyous reviewer, rizanroy4ever. Thank you all! Enjoy!-Kagome
