During this hour of the night in central nearly everyone was sleeping, drooling on the papers they were working on. The sky was almost pitch black at this time, mist scurrying across the ground to give it a graveyard sort of look. Only the investigations department, Roy, Riza and Jean were up at this point, scraping pencils with a bored stare, orange shavings dropping soundlessly to the floor.

"Ok, so why are we staying late this time? Asked Havoc dismally, and yawning into his sleeve. He walked over to Roy's desk and sat down next to Riza, who was already there, her back against the side of the desk.

"Someone kidnapped Hughes… no wait that was…yawn" Hawkeye was out of it too, he looked up at the ceiling and sighed. Just another day in central headquarters, nothing he couldn't bear.

The fact was that there was no real reason they were staying overtime, Roy had told them Maes was kidnapped. The puzzling thing was that he had seen Maes with a camera just outside central. "Whatever…" he said closing his eyes for just a moment, he found it hard to keep them open.

All of a sudden Riza had toppled on to him for she had fallen asleep, it caused his hair to stand up for a moment but then he calmed down.

"shoui?" he said to Riza nudging her with his elbow softly. She didn't wake up but snuggled into Jean, who was inwardly panicking.

Havoc sighed and put his arm around her and…

Flash

Maes stood outside chuckling with the camera in his hand, and walked into the night.