Happy Memories

When Mia woke up the day after the party she realized she must be the only one up because it was still dark out. It was weird she wasn;t usually up this early. She slid her glasses on her face and when she looked over at the clock on her nightstand she had to squint to see the numbers, it was only five thirty.

"Damn…" Mia mumbled as she sat up, shocked but oddly enough wide awake. "Why the hell am I up so early?" She asked herself.

She decided she would never be able to get back to sleep and left the room. She made her way to the bathroom to brush her teeth, they had that weird fuzzy feeling, and when she finished she headed down the stairs. When she got there she saw a figure at the kitchen table and walked over, as she got closer she realized it was Maes asleep on his paperwork.

When she got close enough to him for her steps to be heard she woke up, he seemed confused at first but after he adjusted his glasses he looked over at her and scratched his head.

"That can't be comfortable." She said smirking. "Did I wake you?"

"No… I was just resting my eyes." He said sitting up.

"Of course you were, what are ya wokin' on?" Mia said looking over at the papers after she started making some coffee.

He waved it off as nothing important. "Oh just some things about lab five… I want to know what happened it's just killing me."

"Anything new?" She asked.

He sighed and shook his head in defeat. "No, not really… I only have limited information. And I doubt they'll let me investigate it any further."

"What exactly are you looking for?" Mia asked sitting down with her cup of coffee handing him a cup.

"To be honest I don't know… Just what happened."

"Well I say, just forget it." Mia said letting out a long breath "You've looked through everything you have, there's nothing more you can do. Just leave it to the Fuhrer, you don't have to put all this stress on yourself."

"Guess I have to." Maes said. "Still it would have been nice to get it all figured out."

"It'll get figured out, s'not like they're abandoning the case or anything." She said.

"You're right… Hey wanna see the new pictures of Elycia from the party?" Maes squealed excitedly and ran out of the room in haste she wouldn't expect from someone who just woke up.

Mia shook her head and smiled. "There's the happy go lucky, knife throwing, freak we all know and love." She said to herself.

When he came back a few moments later he had a whole stack of pictures that he had to hold against his chest to keep them from falling. "Here they are, would be more but I ran out of film." He explained as if the amount of photos he had weren't enough.

"What a shame." Mia said sarcastically but Maes didn't seem to notice.

They stayed there for several more hours looking at pictures new and old. They found a lot in an old wooden box, filled with pictures of them when they were in there teens. There was one where Mia even had two flesh and bone arms.

"That's an old picture." Mia said pointing to one that had Maes, Roy and Mia in it. Roy and Maes had Mia hoisted up on there shoulders all of them were smiling. "I was six in this one." She said.

"How do you know?" Maes asked looking at the picture, not seeing how she could tell, there was no date.

"I have two real arms and I certainly don't look five."

"Yeah you're right that would make me eleven and Roy ten." Maes said thinking back to the old days. "I think I remember the day when this was taken. We were at our house climbing trees and we couldn't get to one and we wanted to see if we could – "

"- Hoist me up to the lowest branch and have me try and climb it." Mia finished smiling.

"Mom yelled at us for being reckless, but said we looked so cute she had to take a picture."

"Roy skinned his elbow." Mia said suppressing a grin.

"Didn't he cry?" Maes asked looking over to Mia who was now laughing.

"Yeah, he did…" Mia said. "That was a fun day."

"I gotta show him this, he'll probably try and pay me for it so he can go burn it or something." Maes said.

"He like's burning things…" She giggled. "Remember when he first figured out how to do that?"

"He was twelve and burned a tree down, his mom got soooo mad at him… Then when he was, what sixteen or seventeen he got the gloves?"

"Seventeen I think and why are you asking me I was young then!"

"You were thirteen." Maes pointed out

"Still you were eighteen! You should remember!"

Maes glared at her for a second before going back to the pictures. "That was when he became a State Alchemist at seventeen."

"And you enrolled in the military that year to." Mia said. "Right?"

"Yup, promised to help him get up to the top from below him." Maes said. "And I'm keeping that promise, one day he'll be Fuhrer and I'll be there to see it!" He finished smiling broadly.

"And I'll be there to." Mia said. "Hopefully by then he'll be over the miniskirt thing." She finished rolling her eyes, wearing a miniskirt to work wasn't exactly her idea of fun.

"I don't think he'll make you wear one, it would be like making his sister or something wear a miniskirt."

She nodded, with relief. "Let's just hope… Think he would try and make Laura wear one through…."

"Probably." Maes said laughing. "You started studying alchemy that year to right?"

"Well, serious studying, actually knowing what I wanted to do. Before that it was all just reading and playing around, but yeah, thirteen and by the time I was fourteen I was able to change into a wolf… a three legged wolf but a wolf none the less." A wolf always was her favorite animal so she already knew how it worked on the inside, all she had to do was learn about the human body.

"But you weren't three legged for long got your automail about a half a year later." .

"You guy's were so worried about me. I'm pretty sure you were more nervous then I was." Mia said laughing.

"Don't blame me I was scared for you! And besides Roy was nervous to, you should have seen him in that waiting room he was pacing all over, thought he'd put a hole in the floor."

"Really?" Mia asked.

"Oh yeah, he played it cool when you got out but he was terrified."

"Heh." At that moment Laura and Glacier came down the stairs both in bathrobes.

"What are you two doing up so early?" Laura asked yawning deeply as she went over to the coffee pot.

"Just woke up early and found our dear Maes sleeping over his work."

Glacier looked at him with disapproval. "Oh, honey you have to stop working so hard and stressing. It's not good for the heart." She said kissing him on the forehead.

"I should be the one saying that to Roy." He said. "Except maybe without the 'honey' part."

"Let's hope." Mia said.

"So you guy's were looking at pictures all morning." Laura said leaning over Mia's shoulder to get a better look.

"Yeah." Mia said. "Wanna see a young Roy?"

"Sure." Laura said and looked at a picture of Roy when he was about fourteen. "Cute." She said blushing. "If only I had met him sooner."

Mia raised an eyebrow at her and cocked her head to the side. "You were ten at the time...and I didn't know you yet."

Laura just shrugged and sat down across from them with her coffee in hand.

"Here's one." Glacier said. "Me, Maes, Mia and your boyfriend going on a double date."

"I still don't know what possessed me to go out on a double date with two teenagers." Maes said rolling his eyes, Mia wasn't exactly the most mature teen, and the men she picked were even worse.

"Hey, we were young adults." Mia said holding her finger up in her own defense.

"Feh, young adults…" Maes murmured. "You were two horny teenagers."

Mia rolled her eyes. "No we were not."

"Yes, you were." Maes said. "I'm glad you didn't stay with him though, didn't like that kid much."

Mia banged her head on the table and grunted, ever since she was a kid sha hated it when people dabbled into her relationships, when they talked about them it was even worse. "Can we not get into my love life?"

"No." Laura joked.

They all heard a noise coming from the stairs and when they turned there heads over there, they saw Elycia walk down the stairs holding a teddy bear and rubbing the sleepies out of her eyes.

"Hey Angel, why are you up so early?" Maes said walking over to his daughter and picking her up, sitting her on his hip.

"I dunno, I heard people up, and it's not that early." The little girl said.

Maes looked over at the clock on the wall. "Well what d'ya know it's not."

"Oh geez! We gotta get to HQ!" Mia said getting up in a comical way. "It's almost ten!"

"Oh man!" Laura said and both girls got up and ran up the stairs to get changed into their uniforms.

"Maes, shouldn't you be getting ready for work too?" Glacier said taking Elycia away from her husband who looked upset at his little girl being removied from his arms.

"I guess I gotta…" He said and trudged up the stairs slwoly.

Fifteen minutes later the three of them came down the stairs in quite a rush. Maes gave a quick kiss to Glacier and Elycia before he left, Mia and Laura just said bye.The three of them walked down the road to HQ, or ran was more like it, and on the way they spotted Winry running around the street.

"Oh! Mia, Laura, Mr. Hughes!" Winry yelled as she ran over with worry written all over her face. "Have you guy's seen Al? He ran of and we can't find him."

"Don't think so, why'd he run off?" Maes asked.

"Don't ask." Winry said waving her hand. "But can you tell me if you do see him? Or tell him to come back, we're all real worried."

"Sure." Mia said and Winry ran off in the other direction calling his name over and over again.

"Wonder what's going on." Laura said looking after her.

"Nothing serious I'm sure." Maes said as he continued to walk. "Their kids, and kids will be kids and over react to things, but I'm sure if it gets any worse we'll hear about it and we'll be out looking for him as well."

The girls seemed to accept this answer, and whey wouldn't they? He was always good at giving advice on things, he was a smart man. Theya rrived HQ in a matter of minutes and the second they walked through the doors they were approched by a lower ranking officer.

"Kami you have a phone call from Colonel Mustang." He said. "Follow me."

"Oh... okay." Laura said with a shrug. "See you guys."

"Wonder why Roy's calling, didn't she just talk to him yesterday evening?" Mia asked as Laura walked off with the man and the other two continued to walk down the hall.

"Yeah, and with a military line, must be business talk." Maes said, even though he always used business lines and it was almost never about work, sually babbling to someone, mostly Roy, about his lovely daughter.

Thirty minutes later Mia and Maes were in two chairs outside the room both board out of there minds when Laura stepped out.

"Finally." Mia said as she got up and stretched.

"What?" Laura asked.

"Thought you were on a military line with business." Maes said as he got up.

"We were, but it dragged a little with some… personal stuff. But anyway wanna hear the big news?"

"Better be big." Mia said to herself as she crossed her arms. "Been waitin' out here long enough."

"I Laura Kami have been promoted to Warrent Officer!" Laura said in a very dramatic way spreading her arms out and spinning around in a circle.

"Congrats but why did you do to get promoted?" Mia asked.

"Apparently for my extra hard work out here in Central." Laura cried happily.

"Then how come I'm not being promoted to Major?" Mia asked. "I'm doing just as much extra work as she is."

"Because you're expected to do the work and besides, you just got promoted not to long ago." Maes said giving her a light slap on the shoulder.

"That was months ago, hardly not to long!"

"But anyway back to me!" Laura said pointing to herself. "I have to go get my new ranks, coming?"

"Of course." Mia said.

"Sorry ladies but this is where we split up, I have to get back to my office and get some stupid work done." Maes said waving and then walking away to his office.

"See ya." Mia and Laura said.

"Well come on!" Laura said as she bounced down the hall in excitement.

AN: Hey people! Due to a request I have decided to make a kinda prequel thing to this story about how exactly Mia got her automail and how Laura and Mia met. There will also be many appearances of young Maes and Roy. But that won't start until this story is finished. But anyway the nice people who reviewed are… drum roll please… Strgazer, Day Dreamerz Rule and slade1021. Thanks guy's you made my day! Well I bid you all good day! Heh two sentences that end in day in a row… I'm so easily amused it's sad…