Title: Dirty Laundry
Pairing: Roy/Hughes
Warnings: Fluff and thievery.
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, never were mine, never will be mine. Thanks for rubbing that in, though.
Roy has been stealing his shirts.
Hughes thinks so, at least. It was Roy's idea to do their wash together, (something about 'maximized efficiency', or something like that) but now Hughes has begun to suspect that his roommate had other intentions, ones inexpressible (so far as he knows) in military jargon.
It is only his undershirts that vanish. Not his button-downs, or pieces of his uniform, or any of the cheerfully garish tee-shirts he spends what he can of his free time in. Just his plain white undershirts.
The loss is far more puzzling than tragic; Roy, for all of his faultless aptitude in all other areas, returns to the dorm at least once a month with a brisk account of dryers gone mad and one fewer tidily folded undershirt in Hughes' pile. On the one hand, Roy's stories are fairly believable; some say that the local laundromat is the best training young recruits can have to prepare for the battlefield. (Others claim it's the other way around.)
Nevertheless, after the sixth such tale, Hughes has begun to watch Roy carefully. Or, rather, even more carefully than he already has been (and with more focus on Roy's entire body, as opposed to certain areas of particular interest). His roommate is nothing less than immaculate by daylight, especially in terms of dress, but a few furtive nighttime glances (if a glance can last for more than an hour) have confirmed that the undershirts Roy sleeps in are much longer than those he wears during the day, far too long to have been issued by the least competent Supply Officer. The way Roy buries his face in the excess fabric and sighs deeply is, in Hughes opinion, the most endearing piece of corroborating evidence he's ever seen.
In spite of this discovery, Hughes hasn't taken to stealing Roy's shirts in return. He considers himself an honest man, far above revenge. If, however, Roy has noticed his supply of underwear dwindling lately, he hasn't said a thing.
-fin
A/N: 330 words. It's not about miniskirts, but please review it anyway.