I do not own FMA.
Inspiration for this story come from chapter 12 of SaffireMoon21's Random Royai
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Riza walked into the office only to find the group of men all staring at the ceiling. It was one of those new ceileings, a kind of tile, but not quite tile, it was soft like cardboard, but much more durable, and it had holes of various sizes scattered on each tile. She often caught Roy counting them as he tried to fall asleep, but not taday.
Today he was standing up with his head bent all the way back and it seemed he was getting ready to launch an object into the tile over his head while his four other subordinates watched in fascination. It was almost a funny sight to see Colonel Roy Mustang with one eye squeezed closed, biting his tongue in concentration while the others stared from his hand to the ceiling engrossed in the moment.
She had to bite back a laugh when they jumped at the sharp sound of her voice, "I suppose this means everyone's work is done."
All it took was the familiar sound of her pulling her gun out of its holster for the sharpened pencils to drop to the floor as the men scrambled to their desks to complete some work before sneaking off to lunch.
When all of them had left the office she stood from her own desk and gathered up the neglected pencils. She looked from the bundle of pencils to the ceiling, checked around the room quickly, and took aim. It hit the ceiling at an odd angle then clattered to the floor. She plucked a different one from the bundle in her left hand and tried again. When this one didn't stick like the four pencils one of her co-workers had gotten stuck she became determined to add one to the collection.
She looked over to the clock and saw she still had twenty minutes alone, it would be more than enough. She almost had it last time. She picked up the pencils that had dropped to the floor and held one up again. It wasn't until she released the pencil that she heard the door close. She whipped around to see Roy with a mishcevious grin on his face. When he began to clap she looked to the ceiling and saw there were now five pencils protruding from the cardboard-like tiles.
"I suppose this means you work is done Lieutenant," he said in a playful tone.
"When it comes to you, Colonel, my work never seems to be done," she said and shot him a smile as placed the pencils in a mug sitting in the center of a group of desks, "But I am on my lunch break Sir."
"Well then Lieutenant, why don't you join me for lunch, I came back to see if you were ever going to take a break."
"I guess it wouldn't kill me to spend another half hour with you, but tell anyone about what you saw, and I will not hesitate to pull my gun on you."
It wasn't until years later and they were all retired with families that everyone else found out the mysterious shooter of the fifth pencil was Riza.
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a.n.- I don't know why but I could really picture Riza trying to do that after they all left.
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