Forbidden But True A Roy Mustang Story Chapter 3 I Hate Telephones

Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!

That was all you had heard all morning…the ringing of that damn telephone that that bastard Mustang had left you in charge of answering.

Flashback to earlier that morning

"Hey Blaze!" said Mustang walking up to you as you got your usual cup of coffee.

"What?" you answered wonder what he could possibly want that was important he had to interrupt your morning coffee routine 1

"Hey the secretary that usually answers the phone is out today and well I wanted to know if you would fill in for her for the morning."

"Why should I?" you ask grumpily

"Well you get to sit at a desk and drink coffee instead of doing paperwork.."

End of flashback

"Damn it! He must of known that I have a weakness for coffee!!!" you mumble, "He tricked me!!!"

Meanwhile the stupid phone refused to stop ringing. And he also lied you didn't get to just sit there drinking coffee and answering the phone oh no...You also had to write down who called and if needed why they called. So it did involve paperwork! During one of the rare moments when the phone stopped ringing you skimmed down the list of the calls you had received.

Caller's Name Call Type Message

Gracia Hughes Personal Would like to talk to Col. Mustang regarding the condition

in which her husband (Lt. Col. Maes Hughes) came

home in earlier in the week.2

Cindy Lee Personal Wants to reschedule Friday night's date to Saturday with

Col. Mustang

Ashley Smith Personal Would like to change tonight's date to Friday with Col.

Mustang

Edward Elric Business Called to say Col. Mustang is a total bastard

Katie Brooks Personal Would like Col. Mustang to call her as soon as possible

Diana Riley Personal Needs to change Wednesday's date to Friday with Col.

Mustang

Cassy Sohma 1 Personal Called to confirm tonight's date with Col. Mustang

To name a few…

Well you could see few things about the calls that came in that day

99 of them were for Mustang

2. The majority of them were personal calls for the above named colonel &

3. Gracia wasn't happy with him!

Around noon when you were about to go to the mess to get lunch when none other than Roy himself decided to "Grace" you with his presence.

"Wow you've been busy" he said as he looked over your very long list.

"Uh huh" you said giving him an evil glare. "You know Roy you have bit of a problem"

"Yeah I know" he said looking as if he was thinking "Two girls want to go on a date on Friday"

You face palmed and say "No stupid I mean you get to many personal calls at work and if any of the higher-ups get a look at this sheet you could be in some trouble"

"Oh about that…" he said pausing for a moment as if he was searching for the right words.

But you already knew what he was probably going to say. He was going to tell you that normally the secretary doesn't write all of those calls down on the official report because she said they didn't have any importance anyway. You knew that it was more of a she wasn't going to write them down so she could earn some points with the Colonel…Well you were smarter than that, much smarter.

"Look I'm not going to send in the majority of the sheet, the majority being all those pointless calls, but if you EVER trick me into doing anything like this again Mustang you'll regret it…oh and I want double the coffee breaks for the rest of the week!"

He stared at you for a minute, probably trying to see if you were joking, then he said, "You drive a hard bargain but I'll go with it".

You smiled and said "You want to join me and the gang for lunch?"

He looked at you a little confused and asked "The gang?" "Oh its just Fuery, Havoc, Breda, and my friend 1st Lt. Jake Wilder 3"

"Ok then sure" he says with a small smile playing on his lips.

It was Tuesday; Black Jack Day, and all the normal players were accounted for with the addition of Roy.

"So we ready?" asked Jake, which was answered by random answers.

And so the game started, early on you took the lead with Jake right behind, that was until Breda seemed to have gone on a strange winning streak… and in the end claimed everyone's pocket change, which was quite the pile, with a victorious grin plastered onto his face.

"That was kinda weird," muttered Havoc, who was a little sore about losing his change.

"Yeah it was" you say agreeing,.

"Oh well" Havoc sighs.

"Well anyway good job Breda!" you say shaking his hand…bad idea.

The floor below his hand was suddenly covered with playing cards, and unless the 2nd Lt. had suddenly took up magic tricks it seemed that he hadn't won all the spare change fairly. So the remainder of the lunch break was spent giving the winnings back to their rightful owners.

"Well that was interesting to sat the very least" Roy said as you made your way back to your offices.

"Yeah well what else can you except from me?" you reply with a smile.

"Yeah you're interesting" he mutters to himself after you had entered your office " Pretty interesting".

1 I LOVE coffee!!!!!

2 Sorry but I just couldn't help but add that, even though it is pretty stupid

3 Yes for anyone who knows I got the name Lt. Jake Wilder out of the Chuck Norris movie Top Dog, which is a good movie.

1 Hey Cassy, revenge is sweet!!

Nikki