A/N: THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS! I FEEL LOVED! Thank-you… Here's chapter seven and I hope you like…WARNING: Roy may get kind of sappy…POOR RIZA!

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Chapter Seven: Hughes' Revenge

The office Roy had recently been transferred to was now in a state of disarray. Riza would be leaving soon and hadn't been in for quite some time. Three days and it already looks like a tornado hit it. At least she went through those papers from the first day we arrived. He thought to himself. What did she do with those keys? He asked himself trying to open one locked drawer in the desk. Finally he fiddled with it enough to pop the drawer open and find a notebook inside. Why is this here and what is it for? He opened it and looked at its contents.

Shot at Roy today. It's so funny watching him run, but I'm only doing it for his own good…MEN MAKE ME SO SICK! Is it not enough that I lay my life down for him, but have him trod on my emotions! I just wish he would understand. I must see the swans today. They bring me hope. However false.

Again today is just as yesterday. There were more holes in the wall than yesterday. I have to go and calm down at Uncle Charley's again. I just wish he knew.

Mustang skipped to the last note and read it.

Why can't I tell him I love him? Why do I have to be so stubborn and full of hate when I know he's only trying to liven up the mood, but there is so much pain there? My heart can't take this anymore. I can't stand this hurt. The swans don't seem to do any good. Oh. I wish he would read these words. My tears drop before me as I write. I can not seem to not love him and let my heart break every time. I still love him even when he makes me mad. I want him to know I love him, but I can't tell him.

Mustang closed the notebook. She couldn't tell him that she loved him. She could only shoot at him for his well being. He knew that the words she had written were true and that she would lay down her life for his own. Finally he got the reason she had given up hope when Lust had tried to kill him. She knew there would be no life without him there to shoot at and guide.

"Riza you are complicated." He whispered. His vision drifted around the room as he contemplated what to do. While he was his eye caught something. It looked like Hughes' shirt. He got up and went to investigate. Sure enough it truly was. "Wonder how that got there." He said aloud picking it up and looking at it. Suddenly something was beamed off his head and as he fell he heard a snigger.

"STRIKE ONE!" It cried. That sounds too much like Hughes. He thought looking down at himself. Blue and white paint covered him. It was what had been leftover from the painting job Riza had made them do. Roy felt a sharp pang where his heart should have been.

"Damn it Riza. Why is this?" He looked over behind his desk and there Hughes sat.

"Hello Colonel Mustang."

"You are cleaning this mess up now!" He yelled throwing a paintbrush at him. Hughes ducked and the brush hit the wall smearing white paint on it.

"I'll be going now." Quicker than Roy could stop him; Hughes was out the door. After the slamming of the door Roy lobbed a paintbrush at it. He kicked his desk and cursed at not being able to know where Riza would end up next.

In the middle of nowhere:

Riza drove up the drive for a second time that week. The swans were beyond her reach now, but at least she could say goodbye to them.

"Elizabeth!" Her uncle called from the doorway.

"Hey Uncle Charley!" She called back.

"Why did you storm out of here like that yesterday?"

"I needed away from him uncle."

"Why?"

"He made me mad and I was liable to whip my pistol out and shoot him."

"You didn't have it on you."

"Oh. I seem to have forgotten that detail." Her uncle laughed and led her into the living room.

"Come to say goodbye?" He asked.

"Yes, but only because I've transferred."

"Didn't you two at least talk it out?" Her uncle asked.

"Yes, a little, but there is no use trying to get him to see anything."

"He was trying to compromise Riza. You of all people should know that."

"How did you and Aunt Mary get along so well?"

"Oh, we fought just like you and the Colonel do."

"Really?"

"Yes. We were in some what of the same position. Though she out ranked me not the other way around."

"What were you to her?"

"I was a Captain and she was Major. It was great. Even though she was secretary to the Colonel at the time; I was her secretary. It was usually for insurance reasons. Just the same as you and the Colonel we fought. I protected her when she was protecting the Colonel. I saw her in a light one day that I will never forget."

"Is this how you two fell in love?"

"Yes child it is!"

"Then tell me already! The suspense is killing me."

"As you know my brother; your father; was the Colonel. Your Aunt Mary had fallen in love with him in the beginning, but your father had eyes for no one, but Major Christine." Riza giggled. " So she was disappointed when she couldn't be with him and then there is a bombing at headquarters and instead of protecting your father she protected me. It turned into me shoving her to the floor and covering her for falling debris, but she was the first to initiate it."

"Mother helped father right?"

"Yes."

"Then you and Aunt Mary sort of hit it off, but one of you two was cruel to the other?"

"Not really, but we used to bash each other all the time."

"Maybe that's why you two were together so long,"

"Your mother died in war Riza. It's not like she and your father split."

"I know."

"So are you going to work things out with him?"

"From a distance. I've already put in that transfer."

"Go say goodbye to Duchess and Duke. They missed you when you left."

"Thanks Uncle Charley."

"You're welcome Elizabeth." Riza got up and went out to the pond calling for the swans.

"Duke! Duchess!" She whistled and they flapped in. Duchess' ducklings swam behind her. "Hey." She sat down by the edge and the two came up.

"WOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNKKKKK" They honked.

"I'm going to be leaving. I want you two to look after Uncle Charley and make sure he stays away from here." She pet them and the ducklings too. Duchess pecked at her hand lightly and waddled towards the pond. "What is it?" She asked.

"Wonk."

"What?"

"WOOONNNK!" Duchess cried angrily.

"Alright. Give me a moment." Riza drug the boat out and followed Duchess and Duke to an alcove she'd never been to. There she found Mustang sitting. When Riza turned to go back Duchess bit her on the butt. "Ow." She said as softly as she could. "That hurt."

"Wonk." Riza could have sworn the two were trying to pair them up.

"No. Not now. Later Duchess. Take care of him here for me. If he comes back."

"Wonk?" Duchess sounded sad. Riza could feel the sadness around the two Swans.

"I know." Duchess hung her head and called to her ducklings. "I have to go Duchess. I can't stay here."

"Wonk." Duchess honked sadly. Riza waved goodbye and paddled away from the alcove.

Back at Mustang's office:

"Just a little further." Hughes whispered behind the desk. Fury, Falman, Breda, and Havoc were walking into the door. On the floor he'd laid his trap. A piece of his shirt under a chair that had a rope tied to the leg that was tied to buckets of paint. Havoc bent to tilt the chair back and caused the rope to pull the paint from the shelf.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" They cried as paint spilled all over them. Hughes jumped up from behind the Colonel's desk and laughed at them.

"AHAHAHAHH! GOT YOU!" He cried.

"HUHGES!" They cried trying not to laugh. Pay backs were a bitch and Hughes had finally extracted his revenge.

A/N: Not totally a cliff hanger…kind of weird…I think also kind of stupid as well, but what the hey. It's humor. At its' worst…meh..

P.S. CHAPPIE SEVEN! ENJOY! -- X! 0