From the Outside
This, I am sorry to say, is my first piece of fanfiction. I wrote it just for fun originally. Then I decided to post it. What do I have to loose. If people start throwing things at me, I'll leave.
Diaclaimer: I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist.
#1: That Office Down the Hall (Corporal Mary Englow)
She sighed. They drew straws to see went down there. Cpl. Englow lost. She slowly shuffled down the hall with a small folder of papers under her arm. None of her colleges particularly enjoyed going to visit Col. Mustang. Something bad always happened to the unlucky messenger. Just last week Jack Fuller had returned soaking wet and covered in burns from scolding hot coffee. He had refused to talk about it.
Trying to delay opening the door for as long as possible, Mary stopped for a drink of water at the water fountain. She sighed again. She should just get it over with, go in and out as quickly as possible. Slowly, she turned the handle and swung the door open. Cautiously peeking around it, Cpl. Englow was surprised to see that the room was deserted. The desks marked Sergeant Cain Fuery, Warrant Officer Falman, and Second Lt. Breda were covered in paperwork, but their was no sign of the men who were supposed to be doing it.
Mary considered setting the folder on the floor in lieu of venturing any further into the room, but she did not want to get in trouble for it later. Walking across the outer office, she knocked on Mustang's door. There was no answer. Mary knocked again as she glanced around nervously.
"Hello," she said in a half-whisper, not really expecting and answer. Mary stood their for a moment, unsure what to do. Finally, she decided that it would be best to return later. She was about to open the door to the hallway when it burst open I front of her.
"Well, good morning Corporal," exclaimed a cheery voice. It was Maes Hughes.
"Good morning, Lt. Col." Mary stammered back saluting, quite surprised.
"I was just looking for Roy, he absolutely has to see the new pictures of Elysia!"
"Um, he doesn't seem to be here right now, Sir,"
"Awww, that's too bad," Hughes blazed on, "but at least you were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time!" Hughes pulled out a packet of photographs.
It took all of the Corporal's self-control not to scream. She had been so close to escaping unscathed.
"And this is Elysia sitting in the yard, and this is Elysia sitting in the yard thirty seconds later…."
"Does this guy ever stop talking?" Mary thought to herself, "There has got to be some way to cheat at drawing straws!"
When Hughes finally finished with his stack of pictures half an hour later, Corporal Englow had decided that -maybe- a lot worse could have happened to her, remembering Jack from last week.
Maes made his exit as abruptly as he had come. Mary was left standing in the middle of the room, folder still in hand.
Suddenly, she heard a voice, "I think he's gone!" A closet door that Mary had failed to notice swung open and Havoc, Breda, Falman, and Fuery tumbled out.
"That wasn't much better than having to look at the pictures, we still had to listen to him!" Breda complained.
"One of you idiots was stepping on my hand," Falman commented. "And now we all smell like smoke from Jean!"
"At least we don't smell like coffee last week. The coffee fight was fun though?" said Havoc.
Mary wished that she had a pair of gloves like Col. Mustang.
Col. Mustang choose that moment to enter the room, "I trust you fine fellows took care of everything while I was gone." He received four glares.
" You always leave us to fend for ourselves," Havoc accused.
"From what?" asked Roy innocently.
"Col., I went to get those papers for you, but they said that Corporal Englow had brought them down," said First Lt. Hawkeye as she entered the room," Oh, there you are, Corporal, they were starting to worry about you."
"I'll be going back right now," said Mary saluting and handing Riza the folder and left. She realized that she didn't even know what was in it. She sighed.
