A/N: This drabble was dedicated to Valen-sama on AnimeSpiral (known as Valen aka Backstreet here), and it's still dedicated to her! Eh… read and review! Okay, so this really isn't Hughes x Riza, but I really like that "x", so… ya know… whatever.

25. Hughes x Riza – Pictures

"And this is Elysia raking the leaves with her cute little toy rake… And this is Elysia dancing to the radio… And this is Elysia tying her shoes! Look! She's so good at tying shoes! Isn't she just great?"

Maes Hughes smiled, showing Roy Mustang his collection of that weekend's pictures. He had a whole pile of photographs still on his desk, waiting to be shown. Excitedly, Hughes pocketed one set of pictures and proceeded to spill out another set's contents all over the desktop.

Roy looked less than pleased. His chin was in his hand, his fingers drumming the tiny piece of desk surface that wasn't covered by Hughes's photos. He wasn't even really looking at the pictures. He had seen Elysia a hundred times in Hughes's photo albums, and she looked the same in each picture – cute and adorable. There would be nothing different about these twelve-thousand other photos…

But one snapshot caught his eyes. It was hidden beneath five pictures of Elysia grinning crazily and waving at the camera, but it was there – a picture of Riza Hawkeye.

Picking it up carefully with his gloved hand, Roy held the picture up and stared at it while Hughes babbled on and on about another picture of his daughter doing something cute.

"Maes, what is this?"

Roy held up the picture. It was Hughes and Hawkeye, smiling as they kissed in front of the camera. An automail finger that looked suspiciously like Ed's had been covering the lens and appeared up in the picture's right-hand corner, showing that it was he who took the picture.

Hughes stopped his speech and looked up at the photograph. Grinning, he looked Roy in the eye and said, "If you don't get yourself a wife soon, Roy, there are gonna be people who are more than willing to take your girl right out from under your nose." He pushed the picture back into Roy's hand. "You keep that in mind before she walks away." Leaning forward, he whispered, " 'Cuz you know, Riza's pretty hot." He winked and walked away, scooping up his Elysia pictures and leaving Roy fuming over the picture of Riza.

A/N: And before anybody starts flaming me, yes, that was a setup, and no, Hughes is not cheating on his wife. Thank you.

Reviewer Responses!

Fading wind: Whew, well I'm glad I didn't cause you nightmares… Wish I could say the same for myself… :glares at a certain somebody we'll call Catie… grr…: She is the cause of it all! SHE IS EVIL! EVIL, I TELL YOU! Buuuut anyyywaaaay… Thanks for the review!

Valen aka Backstreet: Lol, my dirty, corrupted mind comes from my friend Mary. It's all her fault. She and her damn hot dogs… She circumsized the goddamn wiener at the lunch table (this was back in 6th grade, after our Bible lesson on circumcision… yes, we did have those… Ha ha, what a wholesome Catholic school I attended! XD) and from that point on, I was a dirty… corrupted… thing. O.o Anyway, thanks for the review (and thanks for the reviews on AS :D )

Blackrose Kitsune: Yep. I enjoy making people wait, so… heh… well, the "sequel" to the last drabble will be coming up. So you think you know what Hughes was gonna tell Roy-chan? Hmm, I don't know about that. Unless you are psychic. Which wouldn't surprise me because a lot of my fanfic readers are smart… o.o Anyway, thanks for the review!

Miss DarkRose: You'll find out what Hughes was trying to say… later. :) Thanks for the review!

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