If you did not watch episode 25, do not read this author's note. Skip past it please.

Wait for it…

Wait for it…

I thought about 25, and realized that Hughes would have not wanted us to be sad. At all. He would have wanted us to be happy. Because that is who he is, and who he will always be. So I write a happy Hughes fic. However, a part of me does wish to mourn him properly, so keep reading after the first one. Thank you.


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After All

She has known Hughes for a long time now. Of course, it was hard not to know him, since it seemed to be they man's goal to show every soldier every single picture of Elysia, Gracia, or both.

Down to the last one. Of course, there never was a last one.

Once or twice he'd risk the fury of her pistol to show a picture or four, of his darling family, because after all, "he couldn't leave her out of all the cuteness". The love for his family won against the fear of her aim, most likely.

Then again, sometimes when they're off duty, or just about to get off, she really doesn't feel like taking her gun out when he pulls out a new stack of photos to show to her and Roy, and some of the others.

The man did love his family, after all. All of it.

Owari


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Useless

Hawkeye's explanation made perfect sense, just as he expected it to be.

But perhaps if Hughes had told him about the Elric brothers, he might have gone up to Central sooner. He might have been with Hughes at the time he was being attacked. He might have been able to save that camera-happy fool… his friend.

Hughes, what's going on?

All the might haves and what ifs were building up and things were becoming unbearable. Asking things like that wasn't going to change the fact that Maes Hughes was dead.

He felt… useless. Not being able to help at all. Not being able to stop this.

Maes… what happened?

The only time he could ever really feel useless was in the rain, when his spark gloves were dampened, obstructing his use of alchemy.

Itmade sense, rather morbidly,that rain would hide his useless tears.

"Its, it's going to rain today."

Owari, We'll Miss You

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Yes, I know that it did not rain that day, and from what we saw, he only let out one tear.

(Salutes Brigadier General Maes Hughes.)