Chapter Three: New Recruits

Hawkeye stood around in black lace and leather with a whip controlling the men before her. Mustang stood in front of her giving the orders she gave him.

"At the ready men!" He called hearing the whip snap behind him. He loved a woman who could control a man the way she was controlling them. It was his own personal secret fantasy and all his. All his own! "It's mine!" He cried aloud. The others looked up from where they had been painting and snickered at the Colonel. He looked down at himself and noticed how small his pants felt at the moment. He looked back at the men and glared at them. They could be so cruel.

"On the double! PAINT!" Hawkeye yelled snapping her whip at Havoc who was slouching and trying to smoke a cigarette. Colonel Mustang looked up at his Lieutenant and smiled at her. She got down from the desk she was standing on and pushed the Colonel backwards onto his desk in a little corner of the room and proceeded to climb on top of him.

"Lieutenant we are not alone." He murmured seeing her face to face in all her glory.

"I know, but I figured you could use a little extra help with your problem Colonel. Sir." She replied.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" A voice was heard from the door.

"ED?" Hawkeye cried.

Suddenly Roy popped out of his fantasy and looked towards the door.

"What the hell is going on?" Ed asked surveying the room.

"Good you came. Get paintbrushes and start painting." Hawkeye ordered.

"We didn't come to paint." Ed trailed off.

"Oh? You and Al? OR is it someone else?" She asked cocking an eyebrow.

"No... it's no one. Really. It's no one."

"Ah… sure." She eyes him more and walked over to the door. "I will count to three."

"OK OK! It's Winry." He stepped aside and Hawkeye saw the blonde haired automail maker dressed in pink Capri pants and a matching tub top with a white coat over it all.

"Were we interrupting something?" Hawkeye asked holstering her pistol.

"Well, I wouldn't say interrupting. If anything we were, but I had been planning this for awhile." Ed explained; somewhat.

"Well, don't let us stop you." She replied.

"Oh give me that damn paint brush!" He yelled angrily setting the basket down.

"Don't yell at Lieutenant Hawkeye!" Winry yelled lobbing a wrench at him.

"Yes Winry." He bowed and shuffled up the wall with the other men to paint. Hawkeye high fived her and walked her back out of the way to talk. They climbed up on the desk the Colonel had been having his fantasy rendezvous with Hawkeye only moments before and began their talk.

"Why were you two coming here anyway?" Hawkeye asked softly in a girl to girl talking tone.

"Well, we were going to have a little picnic. Just the two of us here in this room. Boy am I glad we didn't get her earlier."

"Why is that?"

"I'd rather not discuss it." Hawkeye raised her eyebrow in perfect understanding.

'You two can wait till another time for that rendezvous Winry. There's always time to wait. Now why don't we both get up there and show those boys just what we are made of?" Winry smiled at her knowing she knew what the two had planned to do. "Don't worry. I won't tell anyone." Hawkeye said softly patting Winry on the shoulder.

"Move over!" Winry yelled grabbing a roller brush and rolling on the paint. Within ten minutes she had half a wall done and was specked just about everywhere.

"Uh...Winry…we unlike you would like to stay clean. Not specked like HENS!" Ed yelled at her.

"Don't you go yelling at me! While you guys have barely half of a half a wall done with six of you working on it I have one half of a wall done in ten minutes!" She grabbed a paint brush and slapped him with it.

"Oh you've done it now!" He yelled grabbing his own paint brush and hitting her with it. She screamed and fell backward with him on top of her. They fought to try and brush paint on each other for awhile until they had to stop or pee their paints. They'd ended up with brush marks here and there and were laughing the incident off.

"What are we?" She asked.

"Well, not two little kids." He responded. She tried to calm her racing breathing down for the moment, but couldn't seem to accomplish that task.

"Maybe we should get back to work." She murmured. He chuckled.

"Maybe, but I find I just can't." Winry smiled at him. They were just about to kiss when Colonel Mustang cleared his throat.

"Not in my office. Please." He begged. Ed glared at him and helped Winry to her feet.

"I suggest that you two head down to the personnel bathrooms and clean up. I expect to see you back here in a little over an hour." Hawkeye ordered.

"Thanks Lieutenant." Winry waved her bye from her side and walked out the door with Ed in tow.

"Alright. Show's over. Work now." The Colonel said grabbing his paint brush and painting some more. Hawkeye grabbed the roller that Winry had dropped in her fiasco with Ed and began to roll the paint on. Two hours passed and still no sign of the new recruits.

"I'm going to go check on those two. You guys keep working." She put her roller down and went to find them. Being a weekend the building was deserted for personnel going home to their families. She sighed. She really didn't have a family to go home to.

"Ed? Winry?" She called tapping on the bathroom door. She didn't want to walk in on the two making out or anything. She felt that would be too wrong. "Hello? Anyone in there?" She asked tapping again. Must have gone to another bathroom. She thought trying her best to remember exactly where the other bathrooms were. She was about to walk off when she heard a snicker from the bathroom she was about to leave. Then she knew what they had been doing. "Oh for Christ's sake! Get a room!" She cried stalking off from the bathroom. When she arrived back at the office she saw the men standing around.

"Find them?" The Colonel asked.

"I don't want to talk about it. I guess it's fine we take a break. It's about time we all went home anyway."

"What were they doing Lieutenant?" He asked.

"Nothing Colonel Sir." She answered.

"Nothing my ass! What were they doing?"

"Sir it's none of your business." She answered insubordinately.

"None of my business? Lieutenant you deliberately disobeyed the one rule I laid down when we first got stuck together." She rounded on him gun in hand.

"So we were just stuck together is that it? What happened to.." She trailed off and put her gun down. "I'm not going to stoop that low Colonel." She said holstering her weapon and walking out the office door.