*gasp* a reasonably sized update? What is this witchcraft?! ...Yeah. So, a longer one this week, woo! As soon as I saw the ending credits for ep. 64, I knew I would have to write something like this eventually.
Warnings: Mild post-series spoilers, general silliness, and dorky Mustang (as per usual, ^_^)
Timeline: Post Brotherhood
11) Rejection
The office was busy. Not that there was anything unusual about this, especially since the team had returned from overseeing the Ishval restoration. Once again, Roy Mustang and his loyal team were placed at Eastern Command Center, though the once-Colonel was now a Brigadier General and as such was the highest ranking officer in the East.
So, life went on, with the occasional hurricane (aka one of the Elrics, though these visits were beginning to grow less frequent) passing through along with the other crazy day-to-day occurrences on base to mix things up. Luckily, though, nothing too extreme had happened in the three or so years since the Promised Day. Until...
"Morning." with a nod to his team, Mustang began walking into his office, only to stop when he noticed that the entire office had frozen in its tracks. "What?"
"Uh... Boss? What exactly is that? On your face?" a silly smirk crossed Roy's face as he took in his team's reaction.
"A mustache. Surely you've seen one before." He drawled, and then chuckled to himself. "I thought it made me look more distinguished." Fuery was making a strange choking noise, and was it just him or did Havoc look a little too red in the face?
As luck would have it, Riza entered just then, stopping confused in the door at the scene. Roy looked at her with glee. Surely she wouldn't turn on him!
"Sir..." she said when she noticed the rather distinct dark hair on his upper lip.
"Like it?" again with the laughter-disguised-as-coughing-fits from his men, but Roy chose to focus on Riza's reaction.
But, to everyone's surprise, she just moved on, taking her seat at her desk as usual, looking completely nonchalant about the ridiculous facial hair her superior had suddenly grown. Roy frowned at her lack of response. He thought the mustache was a good touch. Ladies liked dashing, distinguished men, right?
"Shave it off, sir." she said finally, tone final.
"But-"Roy wisely shut up as her hand drifted towards her gun and she looked hard into his eyes, speaking with the same no-nonsense voice.
"Off."
Not even sorry. I don't know how he kept that thing long enough to have that pic taken before Hawkeye made him shave XD
Dfire: Woah, calm down there! Hopefully this Doom Stache chapter will calm your rage. Enjoy!
lotrprincess: Yeah, I think they could have done more with it, but honestly there was enough going on already! There was actually supposed to be a scene with the two of them at the end of the Shamballa movie. I don't know why they deleted it :/
TheWalkingGnome: It was understandable at first, but eventually it almost started to seem petty, especially when he was actually helping them.
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