Disclaimer - fma not mine. drabble mine. please dont steal drabble.
This was the request - "Make mention of Maes' chin when Roy first sizes him up! It is, you know, his most prevalent feature". Drabble the twenty-nineth is the response. dont read while drinking something. i have been informed that that results in said beverage being spewed directly onto the computer monitor.
Maes Hughes stared in the mirror, intent. He turned to the left, paused and gazed. Turned to the right and did the same. There was the usual stubble…but nothing seemed out of place…or odd…He peered over the rims of his glasses, trying to figure out just what had sparked that particular reaction from Mustang. Pushing his glasses back up the bridge of his nose he straightened and frowned.
It was the same face he had always had. Nothing presented itself as something that should have set the younger man off like that. They had met for a drink, which Maes had taken as a positive sign. He liked the Mustang, liked his drive, his intensity, his odd sense of humor. The man was interesting, a welcome distraction from the bogging soul numbing day-to-day reality of military life. Mustang obviously, at least to Maes, needed a friend…
But what in merry hell had prompted Roy to, after a few drinks, take a long look at Maes, and begin to laugh. He had laughed hard enough to snort once or twice, had bent over double, and when Maes had inquired, rather stiffly, what was wrong, all Roy could manage was to point. At Maes' face.
Which led to him staring at the mirror in the men's room of the pub, trying to figure out what the hell it was Roy found so damn amusing.
The door opened with a plaintive creak as the source of Maes' consternation let himself in, grinning from ear to ear in a way only good brandy could instigate. Maes rounded on him, slightly unsteady from fine drinks himself, and growled "Spit it out man! What is so damn funny?!"
Roy's grin stretched another half inch or so. "Your chin, Maes. It defies logic." Then, chuckling with the humor of his own apparent joke, Roy ambled out of the restroom.
"When I suggested you start smiling a little, I didn't mean like that at me." Maes griped at the other man's back.