A/N: YUUUUURIIIIIII:D :D :D Funny thing, I thought of this one in church a while ago… Most of my thoughts in church run along the lines of yaoi or yuri… O.o;; hee hee. Please review!

22. Riza x Ross – Hurt

I hated it when she talked to Mustang. Sargeant Brosh keeps trying to tell me that they're a "match made in heaven", but I don't believe it. Roy is disgusting. He's lazy, immature, and he can't do his own paperwork without being held at gunpoint. I honestly don't know what Riza Hawkeye sees in him.

It's awful, really, what that girl has to go through just to get his attention. No matter what Sargeant Brosh says about them having wedding plans (I want to kill him when he says that!), the colonel just isn't interested. Too many times I've passed by Riza's half-open office door and heard her crying.

I want to comfort her and try to steer her away of a life of misery and degradation, but I always falter, my hand wavering in front of her doorknob then rather spinelessly lowering back down to my side again as I walk away.

I'm a coward. I know that. I can serve in the military and fulfill my missions dutifully and without hesitation, but I cannot admit to one woman that I love her.

She's crying again. As I slowly pass by her door, I can hear her. Vaguely, I wonder what Roy Mustang did to her this time, and I find myself wishing that she would just stop fooling herself into believing that he could ever love her and live a good life, a happy life, with me.

"She's quite the drama queen, eh?" Denny Brosh nudged me in the ribs, grinning. I turned to look at him, my own eyes sad and teary. I shook my head. "Sargeant, those are real tears of a sad woman," I told him. "She's been hurt too many times to even think of faking it."

Brosh gave me a look. He didn't understand. No one would. I sighed, feeling weak and guilty as I walked away from Riza's office and made my way home.

Reviewer Responses!

Mint Pizza Queen: XD I love the inanimate object plot too. Lmao, dish and spoon, phone and paperwork, 'tis all the same… Now I have this mental image of the phone and the paperwork riding on a cow jumping over the moon… u.u Thanks for the review!

Fading wind:D I'm glad you like these drabbles! I thought, ya know, when I started this, that it wouldn't be popular 'cuz there's so many other drabblefics out there, but I think I'm doing okay. Yay for me, huh? Heh. I still want to ride a train though… And a subway. I've only ridden a subway once, and it wasn't even a subway, it was a shuttle bus, and the track went for about a mile and that was it. It didn't help that I was riding the shuttle to go to the hospital and get surgery done… O.o Anyway, thanks for the review!

MetalWing Alchemist: Yep… :snigger: poor phone… Poor, poor phone… hee hee. Oh, poor you, you have seen the horrors of Armstrong x Pinako! I'll never look at Armstrong the same way again…. T.T Or Pinako. Then again, I never trusted that old lady… heh Thanks for the review!

Blackrose Kitsune: Hey, desk phones have stories that need to be told too. :-P Thanks for the review!

Valen aka Backstreet: Hey now, don't be giving away any spoilers here:) Not that you would, hee hee. Anyway, ya know what, I was reading this magazine today, and it had Nick Carter in it, and I gotta say, I'm not much of a BSB fan, but he's gotten pretty hot… I thought of you, though, when I saw the picture. :-P Later, Valen-sama!

TheBlondeWriter: Desk phone x paperwork – scandalous indeed! Somebody needs to alert the National Enquirer… :gossip gossip: Lol, and no problem, the word "naughty" sends me into giggle-fits too… just the words "panties", "scrotum", "jiggly", and "grope". :sweatdrop: Thanks for the review!

inu's gothic ravyn: Hey, what you're saying is basically logic. If cruelty to phones is a crime, and Roy is cruel to phones, therefore, Roy is committing a crime. Logical logicness! XD Thanks for the review!

Kari Williams:smirk: How did you know a pairing was in the making? Psychic one, you are… :-P Lol, thanks for the review!

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