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Hughes was able to find Lieutenant Anderson and the other soldier that was following him. Hughes and Armstrong arrest the soldiers and took them to HQ to question them. They put them all in different cells and questioned them all separately. A couple of soldiers came to Anderson's cell and escorted him to a interrogation room. In the room was Hughes and Armstrong was sitting at the table that was in the middle of the small room.

"Lieutenant Anderson, I am General Hughes and this is my second in command Colonel Armstrong. Now before we begin our questioning we are to inform you that anything that is said in this room will be written down and recorded in case it needs to be used in court. Do you understand" Hughes said staring at the man who was sitting in front of them. "Yes."

"OK can you confirm your name for us." Hughes asked.

"My name is Kiran Anderson."

"Thank you. Have you been following Colonel Alison Drake?"

"Ha-ha, Colonel Drake now is it?" Anderson laughed.

"Answer the question, have you been following her?" Hughes said annoyed with the man in front of him.

"Yes I have." Anderson replied with a straight face. "Why?"

"Because she betrayed General Hakuro, she deserves to be punished for her betrayal."

"How did she betray Hakuro?" Armstrong asked. This caused Anderson to become angry. "That is General Hakuro to you." He shouted standing up from his chair.

"SIT DOWN NOW!" Hughes shouted back. Anderson sat back down and tried to calm himself down. "Another out burst like that and I will have you restrained. Do you understand Lieutenant?" Anderson just nodded his head. "OK will you please answer the Colonel's question."

"She betrayed us by siding with the Xinginese and Mustang." Anderson replied saying Roy's name like it was poison.

"Did you know that Hakuro had two soldiers killed so that he could put the blame on the Xinginese who where looking for the stolen idol?"

"No I did not know that. Nor do I believe it. General Hakuro cared for his men and wouldn't have any of them killed for any reason."

"Really? So how do you explain the fact that the two soldiers that where found dead at the river bank near the farm happened three days before the Xinginese people arrived?" Hughes asked reading the report that he had received from the investigation department at Western Command.

"I can't explain that Sir." Anderson said bowing his head. Anderson was questioned for two hours before they took him back to his cell. He had confessed two trying to kill Alison along with the men who had been following him and had been charged with attempting to murder a superior officer.

Hughes rang Roy to tell him about what had happened. "Thank you Hughes I'm sure that this will make Colonel Drake more comfortable with being on her own." Roy said happy that the matter had been resolved. He thanked his best friend again and hung up to tell Alison the good news.

"Really? They confessed to trying to kill me?" She asked surprised that Anderson had confessed so easily. Yea, so you will be able to go back to Western Command and take your place as the Commanding officer there." Roy said smiling at her. He escorted her to the hotel that she had been staying at so that she could get anything that she had brought with her, before escorting her to the train station. When they arrived outside the station Alison gave Roy a hug to thank him for everything that he had done for her.

"Thank you Roy, if you ever need anything please let me know." She said as she hugged him. Just as Roy was being hugged by Alison, Lisa was walking by on the other side of the street with her friend Matthew who was the person that Roy had spoken to the other day whilst she was in the shower. Mat as she calls him noticed the look on her face as they walk and asked her what was wrong.

"Nothing I just thought I saw someone that I know. Come on lets go to the moon beam café that Riza recommended to us." She said, they carried on walking to the café.

At the station Roy turned around and saw Lisa walking with Mat, he had tried to ring her and explain that it wasn't like she thought but she wouldn't pick up the phone and if someone did pick up the phone it was Mat. Roy didn't like Mat he didn't listen to him neither saying that her father was right about him and that he should leave her alone. That had made Roy furious, who was he to tell Roy that he could see Lisa. He hadn't even slept with Alison. Was it because Lisa had a guilty conscious? Had she slept with Mat and was hoping that Roy had slept with Alison so that she could put the blame on him? Roy wasn't sure what to think but he would get to the bottom of it.

"I'm sorry if I have caused you problems with your girlfriend. If you want I could talk to her for you, tell her that nothing happened and that she has nothing to worry about." Alison offered but Roy shook his head. "It all right, I'm sure that after a few days everything will be OK again." Roy reassured. "Besides you need to get back to West City." Just as Roy said that Alison's train arrived at the station, she said goodbye to Roy and got on the train. Roy waved goodbye to his new friend then headed back to Central HQ, he had called in to say that he would be late in but he didn't want to push his luck.

When he arrived at his office he was welcomed by icy glares from everyone. "Hi sorry I'm late, I took Alison to the train station to see her off." Roy said in explanation. No-one said anything they just continued doing there work as if he hadn't said anything. Roy was confused, he had no idea what he had done to upset them all. He walked into his office and found Riza putting a pile of papers onto his desk.

"Morning Major." Roy said walking up to his desk to start working, when Riza stopped him. She gave him the coldest stare he had ever seen her give anyone and slapped him right across the face.

"HOW COULD YOU?" She shouted at the top of her voice causing everyone in the outer office to hide under their desks. Roy stood in shock as Riza screamed at him, he had never seen her this angry before and wondered what he had done.

"You told me that you wasn't cheating on Lisa, that you had stopped your womanising ways." Roy rubbed his cheek as he listened to Riza. 'So this is why she is angry.' He thought to himself.

"I have, I haven't been on a date with anyone other than Lisa since we started dating."

"Then explain these." Riza said showing Roy the photos that Hakuro had tried to black mail him with.

"That bastard, I should have burned him and these when I had the chance." Roy said as he looked at the offending photos.

"So you admit it then? You have been sleeping with Colonel Drake behind Lisa's back." Riza said Alison's name with such hatred that it caused a chill to run down Roy's spine.

"No Alison may have kissed me, but I pushed her away and told her that I was seeing someone else." Roy said hoping that Riza would believed him.

"Is this the only time that you two have kissed?" Riza asked, Roy nodded.

"Yes and as I said she is the one that kissed me, you can even asked Havoc and Breada."

"I did and they told me that you didn't hesitate to kiss her back." She said in disappointment. "Stop lying to me."

"I'm not lying to you, I haven't kissed her." Roy said starting to get angry with her.

"Really? So you didn't kiss her last night in front of your fire place?" Roy paled, how did she know that...unless.

"I see, so Lisa wasn't lying. You BASTARD." Riza screeched.

"And HOW, does SHE know that's what I DID HUH? WAS SHE SPYING ON ME?" Roy shouted, he had had enough of people accusing him and not listening to his explanations.

"She told me that she went to your house so that she could talk to you, and when she got there she saw you and that whore locking lips in front of your fire place, that you didn't even resist her."

"Lisa is lying, it is true that she did try to kiss me again, but I pushed her away and told her that I was dating Lisa." Roy said in his defence.

"You mean like Marie lied? Face it Roy once a womaniser always a womaniser."

"HOW DARE YOU, YOU BITCH." Roy screamed, he raised his right hand and slapped Riza across the face causing her to fall to the floor. Just as Roy did this Ed walked in with Havoc and Breada. He saw Riza on the floor with Roy standing over her and ran to him with fists raised.

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER!" Ed shouted, he punched Roy with his auto-mail hand causing in to go flying into his desk, hitting the side of his chest which made him gasp.

"She is a treacherous bitch, I thought that we where friends. But I guess that I was wrong." Roy said standing up and suporting himself with the desk he'd just bumped into.

"She is my cousin, what do you expect me to do when I get a phone call and have to listening to her cry her eyes out because she saw you with another woman, another officer." Riza said trying to stop the tears from falling but failing to.

"Just get out of my office, before I have you both court marshalled for attacking an superior officer." Roy said sitting down in his chair. Everyone glared at Roy as Ed helped Riza to her feet.

"I have known you for fifteen years, and for ten of those years I have turned a blind eye at how you use and abuse every woman you dated, but not any more I..."

"I SAID GET OUT, OR SO HELP ME I WILL HAVE YOU ALL IN THE COURT MARSHALLS OFFICE AND I DON'T CARE WHO YOUR GRANDFATHER IS." Roy screamed. Everyone left the office, Ed and Breada helped Riza to the medical bay so that she could be checked over whilst Havoc went to Grumman's office to tell him what had happened. Roy sat in his office and wiped the blood from his mouth. He knew that he would possible get court marshalled himself for what he had done to Riza, but he didn't seem to care he would deal with that when it comes. In the medical bay the millatery doctor checked Riza over to make sure that she didn't have any more injuries from her fall.

"I told you I'm fine, I'm just a little shocked that's all." Riza said trying to reassure Ed who was still outraged with what Roy had done.

"I can't believe that bastard hit you, you wait till I see him again he'll regret the day he ever laid his hands on you." Ed said as he paced the floor. "I know Ed and I won't be forgetting it. And to think that I used to have feeling for him." Riza said rubbing her bruised cheek. The doctor finished his examination and found that Riza only had some bruising from when she hit the floor. As Riza was putting her uniform jacket on Grumman walked into the room, Everyone stood up to saluted him but he ignored it, he walked up to Riza and inspected the bruise on her cheek.

"Is it true? Did General Mustang do this?" He asked with anger in his voice. Riza just nodded her head.

"OK I want you to tell me what happened." Grumman said pulling up a chair and sitting on it. Riza told her grandfather about the argument that they had had and how Roy blew his top and slapped her. Grumman was furious, he thought that Roy was an officer that could be trusted, but it looked like he had finally shown his true colours. After Riza had told him her side of the story, Grumman asked Ed if Riza could stay with him in his office. Ed agreed and said that she could stay with him whilst he trained his team. Ed and Riza left to continue the training that he had started that morning whilst Grumman went to talk to Roy.

Roy sat in his office thinking about what had happened. 'I shouldn't have hit her, she was only going on what she had been told. And it was true that Alison had kissed me. I should go and talk to her, apologise for what I did.' Roy was pulled out of his thoughts when Havoc opened the door and stood in the doorway.

"Fuhrer Grumman here to see you, Sir." He said with anger in his voice. Roy stood and saluted when Grumman walked in, he had a very serious look on his face as he stood in front of his desk.

"Fuhrer Grumman Sir, what can I do for yo-"

"Drop the act Mustang, you know exactly why I am here." Grumman said not allowing Roy to finish his sentence. Roy bowed his head, he knew that this was coming.

"I hear that you attacked one of your subordinates today, would you mind explaining to me why you did that."

"Well you see Sir, I came in after escorting Colonel Drake to the train station and was greeted with Major Hawkeye insulting me and attacking me for something that I had apparently done to Miss Swan."

"Yes I heard about that, I am disappointed in you."

"But I didn't do anything, I didn't kiss Colonel Drake." Roy said, trying to explain what had happened, but this only made Grumman angrier.

"Are you calling my granddaughter a liar?" He asked given Roy a look that could kill, Roy sighed. There was no way that he could win this, not with the Fuhrer being biased.

"I'm just saying that Lisa doesn't know the full story, and anyway she can talk she's got her "friend" staying at hers, I saw them together earlier and it looked like they where pretty close." Roy said getting fed up with everyone siding with her.

"So you are accusing Lisa of cheating on you is that it? Your pathetic."

"At least I'm not a coward, I haven't been able to get a hold of her, every time a ring she either doesn't answer or HE answers the phone and won't let me talk to her." Roy replied.

"That doesn't give you the excuse to hit Riza, I'm afraid that I will have to Court Marshall you." Grumman said, Roy frowned.

"What will happen to Fullmetal and Major Hawkeye? I hope that they will be punished for attacking me." Roy asked, he wasn't going to be punished when she had hit him first.

"Colonel Elric and Major Hawkeye will not be punished." Grumman replied causing Roy to slam his hands on his desk.

"But SHE hit me first, I demand something to be done about it. Look at what Fullmetal did to my face." Roy said trying to control his anger.

"You hit your female subordinate. I will not tolerate that kind of thing happening in the millatery, not whilst I'm in charge." Grumman said.

"Who is also your granddaughter, I wonder...what would the court marshals office have to say if the found out that you are abusing your power to protect you granddaughter who is also at fault here." Roy replied smirking, Grumman's face went red with anger.

"How dare you try and blackmail me, I am the Fuhrer."

"But it's true, and I won't stay quite about it." Grumman sighed, Roy did have a point. But he couldn't let Roy get away with what he did.

"OK I will transferee Riza to Colonel Elric's command, but you had better say away from her otherwise there will be trouble." Grumman warned.

"Can I at least apologise for what I did? I never meant to hurt her." Roy said with regret in his voice. Grumman agreed and escorted Roy to where Ed was showing his men some fighting moves. When Ed noticed Roy walking towards them he frowned, he stopped what he was doing and stood in front of Riza given Roy a glare that said 'don't you even think about it.'

"Don't worry Fullmetal, I have only come to apologise to the Major." He said, Riza moved Ed out of the way and looked Roy square in the eyes.

"Major I am sorry for the way I reacted, I shouldn't of hit you, can you forgive me?" Roy said bowing his head. Riza frowned he had hit her for no reason and now he expected her to forgive him.

"You broke Lisa's heart, hit me for confronting you about it and expect me to forgive you?" Riza replied, she wasn't going to forgive him that easily.

"And he just threatened to tell everyone about our ties if I reported him to the court marshals office." Grumman said not happy with being blacked mailed in that way, he had always feared that if people found out that they would use it against him but he never thought that Roy would be one on those people.

"So you have gone as far as black mail have you? You discussed me." Riza said she never thought that Roy would sink so low.

"You are the one that started it, you didn't even try to talk to me about it. Not to mention that you brought Marie into this. You know what forget it, I thought that you understood but I guess I was wrong. Goodbye Major." Roy turned around and left before anyone could say anything, he went back to his office ignoring the stares that he received, shut the door behind him and found the hidden bottle of whiskey that he had stashed there in case he ever needed to drink his sorrows away. He had a pile of paperwork to do but he didn't care, why should he when no-one cared if he succeed or not?

In the courtyard Ed's team stood and watched the scene play out in front of them, it was obvious that Ed wasn't in a good mood and that would mean that their training would be made harder. Ed talked to the Fuhrer as his men stood and waited for their orders not daring to move in case it upset their superiors even more. Ed and Riza finished talking to the Fuhrer before he left.

"All right men I afraid that there will be a few changes, Major Hawkeye has by transferred to my command, I know that you all know about the relationship that the Major and I are in. Do any of you have any concerns with Major Hawkeye joining our team?" Ed asked wanting his teams input, he wanted them to trust him and didn't want to do anything that would upset or make them uncomfortable. They all looked at each other and then smiled.

"We have no problems with the Major joining the team, it will mean that Emily will have someone to talk about girlie things." Griffen said causing everyone to laugh. "Thank you." Riza said a little sad, she would miss Havoc and the others but she didn't want to have anything with that General bastard, he had crossed the line and it would take a lot for her to forgive him.

"OK I'm going to go and find Izumi and Emily to let them know what has happened, could you continue the training for me Riza, I'll try to be as quick as I can." Ed asked.

"Of course, I will have them show me what they have already learnt." Riza replied, Ed went to find Izumi as Ed's team showed of the skills that they thought could do quit well.

Back at Roy's office Hughes walked in and was worried with what he saw, Roy was leaning in his chair with a glass of whiskey in his right hand, the papers that he was supposed to be signing where all over the floor after Roy had knocked the stack and hadn't been bother to pick them up. Roy turned to the sound of someone entering the room and frowned when he saw Hughes, he knew that his best friend wouldn't approve with what he was doing and didn't what to have to listen to yet another lecture that day.

"Roy what are you doing? Are you completely out of your mind?" Maes asked, Roy didn't answer him, he just sat there and continued to drink his whiskey like he didn't have a care in the world.

"Roy what happened? Is it true that you hit Riza?" Hughes asked, Roy just stayed quite hoping that if he pretended that he wasn't there that maybe he would go away.

"Roy answer me, I just want to know what happened." Roy wasn't listening causing Hughes to become angry which was a rare sight.

"STOP IGNORING ME ROY I WANT TO HELP." He shouted hoping that that would cause a response from him. Roy sighed, Hughes wasn't going to leave him alone until he told him what happened.

"Yes it is true." He said draining his glass and pouring himself another, Hughes looked like he was in shock.

"Why? What did she do to deserve that?"

"She accused me of cheating on Lisa and when I said that Lisa was lying she said that it was no wonder that Marie left me." Roy said, Hughes shook his head.

"Maybe you should start from the beginning." Maes suggested, Roy told Hughes everything that had happened.

"So that's why you hit her, because she had hit you first with no explanation?"

"yes, I just lost it. And when I tried to apologise she just throw it back in my face. Lisa won't talk to me to allow me to explain what had happened and now after today I doubt she would want to have anything to do with me again. I don't know what to do Maes."

"Well first things first I think that you should stop drinking that stuff and apologise to Fuhrer Grumman for black mailing him like you did." Roy nodded, he put the bottle away and tried to stand up, Hughes saw him struggling and said that he would go down to the Führer's office and tell him that Roy had something that he wanted to talk to him about. He left the office and ordered Havoc to make sure that Roy didn't drink any more of that whiskey and headed to Grumman's office.

It took some convincing but Hughes managed to get Grumman to listen to what Roy had to say. They walked into the office causing Roy to jump up to salute and fall flat on his face, Hughes ran over and helped him back into his seat, Grumman just stood there and shook his head in disbelief.

"Fu...Fuh...rer Gru...Grumman S-Sir, I-I'm so sorry f-for what I d-did (Hick), p-please for-give me, I w-wasn't thinking when...I made t-that t-threat (Hick)." Roy said slurring his words.

"I know General, I'm not happy with what has happened today. But I am willing to give you another chance. Just don't mess up again." Grumman said, he had known Roy for a long time and knew that he was a good man though he could be impulsive sometimes.

"Oh t-thank you s-sir...I will n-not let y (Hick) you down a-again." Roy promised, Grumman told Roy that he could have the rest of the day off since he wasn't in any fit state to work and asked Hughes if he could drive him home. On the way to Roy's house Roy wouldn't stop going on about how much he loves Lisa and that he wanted to try to get her back.

"You really do love her don't you?" Hughes asked, Roy nodded.

"B-but she will n-never listen to mm-me, what should I do?" Roy asked.

"I think the first thing you should do is concentrate with convincing Riza to forgive you, the Fuhrer has given you some leave because he thinks that you are working yourself to hard. I will talk to Ed and Riza tomorrow and explain to them what you have told me today, I'm sure that Riza will forgive you eventually just give her time." Hughes said he knew that Riza was upset about what had happened and wants to talk to her, she wasn't unreasonable and was bound to understand once she knew the full story. They got to Roy's house and Hughes unlocked the door and helped Roy inside. He made Roy a cup of coffee and searched the house for any more alcohol, the last thing they needed was Roy beginning completely drunk and going to Lisa's house to confess his love to her. He took any bottles of brandy or whiskey that he could find and confiscated them for the time being, to Roy's horror.

"Don't worry I will let you have them back when I know that I can trust you with them. And don't bother going to the bar, I'm going to tell the bartender that you are not to be served until I say so." Hughes said, Roy pouted. He sat down in his chair next to the fire and drank his coffee. Once Hughes thought that Roy would be all right he left to head back to work.

Back at HQ Izumi had been furious when Ed told her what Roy had do. It took everything that Ed had to stop her from going to his office and demonstrating some of her moves for Emily on Roy.

"I hope you hurt him Ed." Izumi said finally calming down.

"I punched him with my right fist." Ed replied. Izumi smirked. "Good, I hope that you made that woman hitter bleed." It was Friday afternoon and Emily and Michael had gone to their first aid class so Izumi and Ed had decided that Fridays would be the only day when they wouldn't be training all day. They all went back to Ed's office and talked about what their plans where for the wedding.

"Have you two decided where your going to get married?" Izumi asked.

"We have decided to get married in May, I'm going to ask Colonel Armstrong if we could get married in his family home." Ed replied he didn't have to read or sign an paperwork because the Fuhrer had said that he will give them to other people whilst he trains his men.

"You know we could go home since we don't have anything else to do." Riza said. Ed and Izumi agreed there was no point of them being in there office if they didn't have any work to do. They stood up and went to put on their coats when someone knocked on the door. Ed opened the door and found that it was Hughes.

"Ed, Riza I need to talk to you." He said walking in and sitting down on the couch.

"Let me guess, General Mustang went crying to you did he?" Riza said, Hughes gave her a worrying look, he had never heard her talk like this about anyone before. She must have picked up some of Ed's traits.

"He didn't come crying to me, I went to him. I heard about what had happened and wanted to know if it was true." Hughes replied. "He was sitting in his office drinking himself to death."

"Well that shows how pathetic he is." Izumi said getting ready to leave.

"He gets depressed easy, normally he can handle it a bit better because he has people to support him. But this time he was left on his own, I had to order Havoc to watch him whilst I went to talk to the Fuhrer about it." Hughes said looking directly at her.

"This isn't my fault, he was the one who cheated on my cousin." Riza said in her defence. "That is between Lisa and Roy, you are his subordinate any personal business must be left at home. You of all people should know this." Hughes replied.

"I know I shouldn't of reacted like I did, but don't forget that he was the one that had Colonel Drake at his house." Riza said angry with the fact that Roy had cheated on Lisa with Drake.

"Did you ask Roy why Colonel Drake was at his house?" Hughes asked, Riza shook her head. "Why else would she be there, we all know what that bastard is like with his woman." Riza replied bitterly.

"She was there because one of Hakuro's former men was trying to kill her. Roy never invited her over, she had invited herself." Riza was shocked.

"If that is the case then why didn't the General say something?" Ed asked in Riza's defence.

"He never said anything because he wasn't given the chance to, you and Riza was so convinced that he must have done what you had heard that you didn't want to hear what he had to say." Hughes replied. Seeing that this had nothing to do with her, Izumi stood up and left the office. Riza bowed her head in shame, maybe she did jump the gun a little.

"But look at what he did to her, you can't tell me that you condone what he did?" Ed said pointing to the bruise on her cheek.

"I do not condone the way he handled the situation and have already given him a lecture for it, but you have to admit that you are no better than him." Hughes replied.

"I don't go around hitting woman."

"No but you do go around attacking a superior officer, which is a court marshals offence. You are lucky that the Fuhrer saw it from your point of view otherwise you all could be in big trouble." Ed nodded in agreement, even he couldn't deny that logic.

"Just think about it, that's all I ask." Hughes said, he left the office to head back to his leaving them with there thoughts.

Will Riza be able to forgive Roy for what he had done? Find out in the next chapter. Hope you enjoyed. If you like or dislike then review.