Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist or any of its characters; this is just a romance fan fiction for all Fullmetal Alchemist fans that love pairing Lt. Hawkeye and Colonel Mustang in fan fictions! ENJOY!

If she only knew

What I knew but couldn't say

If she could just see

The part of me that I hid away

If I could just hold in her in my arms again

And just say I love you

But she's gone away, maybe she'd stay

If she only knew

…If she could only see

What I see when I close my eyes

All that I dream

Surely she would realize

But like a fool I waited much too long

To let her know the truth

She's gone away, maybe she'd stay

If she only knew….

The rest of the day at headquarters was silent as a graveyard as the other officers in the Headquarters went about their ways as the day seemed to drag on without end. Mustang sat alone at his desk and admired the engagement ring for Lt. Hawkeye as it twinkled in the ring box; it seemed like his hopes were nothing more than dreams as he admired the ring. He wanted the date to be special that evening, but now it all seemed that it was preparing to go down the drain with all his dreams of marrying the one woman he had always admired from afar.

"Colonel Mustang, can I come in?" Ed asked through the door as he slightly opened the door.

"Who is it?" Mustang asked as he put the ring box back in his pocket.

"Edward Elric reporting from Central," Ed said as he opened the door and saluted the saddened Colonel.

"Good to have you back Edward, find what you were looking for?"

"Not really, nothing but a dead end like every other clue we've come across, but word on the street is your planning something special for Lt. Hawkeye," Ed said with a cocky tone to his voice as he sat in a chair backwards as he faced the Colonel.

Mustang froze as he heard those immortal words….does everyone know? It was all Havoc and Hughes' fault for talking about their plans on their way out as Havoc was dragging Hughes through the parade grounds to stop his chatting about the plan for the night.

"That is strictly confidential Edward, but yes, I'm planning something special," Mustang said as he started to loosen up a little.

"What is it Colonel Mustang?" Al asked from the back of the room.

Mustang was nervous to pull out the ring box and show it, but as his hand trembled in his pocket as he had it around the ring box, Ed noticed the Colonel getting tense as were his hands and knew right away that something was up and that there was something special in Mustang's pocket and he was going to find out what it was.

"As I said, it's strictly confidential," Mustang said as he placed the box back in the pocket and took his hands away from his pockets.

"Man, you and the Lieutenant seem to be quite an item Colonel Mustang….and I think you are hiding something from me," Ed said as he reached into the Colonel's pocket and retrieved the ring box and opened it.

"You are planning to propose to Lt. Hawkeye?" Al said as he admired the ring as he closed the box and handed it back to Mustang.

"If I can figure out the right moment on our date tonight…..I'm nervous, but I'm sure that she will accept."

Mustang moved towards his desk and rummaged around in the desk for an ancient photo album that held photos of the past of group shots of his fellow officers and close friends, there were photos of his youth mixed in from when he first entered the Military. One of them was of him and Hughes when they were younger, not one of their better shots.

But as he flipped through more pages, memories started to flood back as he saw the photos of his dates with Lt. Hawkeye. How happy they had been together during their dates, but as he flipped through them, he started to question whether or not she was truly happy with him or if she was playing with his emotions. The next page held items of confidentially, especially some pages from Mustang's day planner with calendar pages ripped out and placed in the book. One page of the calendar read, "Propose to Lt. Hawkeye," and as he looked to another page that was on the page of the book another month was circled on a day and the note was different then the first, "Wedding day; 1 year from this day."

Ed and Al stood in front of Mustang's desk as they waited for him to finish remembering the past and revisit his times with Lt. Hawkeye as Mustang closed the photo album and put it back in his desk away from prying eyes.

"So Edward, what do you have to report to me on your time in Central?" Mustang asked as he sat back at his desk to be the hardnosed Colonel that most hated him for.

"We went to the source of a clue we had received about the stone, but once we got there we found that it was nothing more than a dud, no real hard evidence to go off of it, but while we were there, there had been word going around a bounty being put out on the so called State Alchemist Killer, Scar. We tried our other sources to the clue, but Lt. Ross and Bloch wanted nothing more then to get out of Central in case Scar decided to show up," Ed said as he finished his report to the Colonel and saluted.

"You are both excused, but Edward, if I found you anywhere near my dinner date with the Lieutenant tonight, you will be closer to the ground then you are now if you screw this up! I mean it Edward, I'll make you see stars if you mess this up for me," Mustang said as he warned Ed as he made his way out into the hall.

"Sure thing Colonel…." Ed said as he and Al made their way out into the hall.

In the hall, Ed pondered what he was going to do to ruin the date, but have some fun with Mustang in the process without getting caught as well and as they walked the hall towards the Mess Hall, Ed started throwing out ideas to Al, but Al was against all thoughts of how to ruin the Colonel's date.

"Brother, what you are saying about doing is mean and spiteful," Al said as they turned around a corner.
"Come on Al, he needs to be taken down a peg after all the short jokes and meaningless jobs that he has sent us on after I received my State Certification to be a State Alchemist," Ed said as the walked down the hall as they passed Lt. Breda and Fury.

"I wonder what that kid is plotting," Lt. Breda asked out loud as he walked beside Fury.

"I don't know, but from what the Fullmetal Alchemist's track record with the Colonel, he's going to try and ruin the Colonel's date tonight," Lt. Fury said as the two officers passed Mustang's office.

"Whatever it is, I'm sure that someone is going to stop Edward before he does some damage to the Colonel's pride."
"You ready for tonight's shift at the theater Lt. Fury?" Lt. Breda asked as the two walked out of the Headquarters and headed towards their dorms to get ready for their part-time night job.

"Yeah, but recently when the Colonel and the Lieutenant go on a date, the Colonel's taken her to the recent romance movies, theirs a possibility that he will do that tonight," Lt. Fury said as he started to get excited.

"That's right!" Lt. Breda said as he started to get excited as well.

"We can make sure that Edward doesn't ruin the date by working tonight as the Colonel and the Lieutenant are sitting in the theater."

The two officers went to their separate dorms to prepare for their job that night that would help the Colonel sinks his chance at proposing to Lt. Hawkeye, but in the shadows of all plans hides a slight inkling of disaster and in this case it has come in the form of the State Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist; Edward Elric. Mustang was sitting in his office as the sun seemed to hang high in the sky still but was going to slowly but surely set on the small town.

Mustang was sitting alone fingering the ring box in his hand as he pondered all the possible scenarios of what could go wrong during the date from his approach to her at her door, to the movie and the final fear was ruining the dinner by not telling her the words he had so hoped to say to propose. The fears seemed to spill over his mind, but he pushed those from his mind as he finally left the silent office and headed to his dorm to be alone with his thoughts as he started to realize what a chaotic tornado he had created by allowing Havoc and Hughes to help him decide what to do and then seeking Armstrong for advice. All of those things seemed like a recipe for disaster with the hint of shrimp after taste to make this tasteless recipe perfect, but were all his fears just of his own imagination? It had to be as Mustang made his way into his dorm and locked himself away for the rest of the day until nightfall.

The Elrics had been sitting in the Mess Hall eating a bite of lunch as Lt. Ross and Bloch finally made their appearance into the Mess Hall and as the two officers sat at an adjacent table to the boys they sat in silence to eat their lunch, but what they heard next stopped them from what they were doing.

"Al, I plan on making the Colonel eat his words about all this short jokes that he has made in the past by making him feel so small in comparison to Lt. Hawkeye tonight with what I have planned," Ed said as he shoveled his lunch into his mouth.

"What are you going to do?" Al asked as he sat by and watched his brother eating his lunch to fast and never touching his milk.

"I plan on following the two of them to wherever they go to tonight such as the movies and dinner, at the movies I'm going to try and make the Colonel lose his cool and dinner, well, that's a secret," Ed said as he finished his lunch and was moving towards a trash can as the full milk carton sat on his tray.

"Brother….you didn't drink your milk," Al started to say.

"I don't want it Al," Ed said with an angry tone to his voice.

"You know you should drink it."

"I HATE WHAT I HATE!"
"IF YOU DON'T YOU'LL BE NOTHING MORE THEN A BEAN THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!"

"A BEAN?"

"Yes, a bean brother," Al said measured his height to his brothers.

"THAT'S IT AL, NOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT!" Ed said as he chased his armored brother out of Headquarters.

Lt. Ross and Bloch were stunned as they saw the brothers running from the Mess Hall and as Lt. Bloch just watched in amazement, Lt. Ross sat and pondered how she and Lt. Bloch could stop Ed's plans before he ruined the date that evening.

"I never knew Fullmetal to get so angry over milk," Lt. Bloch said in amazement.

"That doesn't matter at the moment, Edward plans to ruin the Colonel and the Lieutenant's date this evening, we need to follow those boys and make sure that Edward doesn't go through with his plan," Lt. Ross said as she got out of her chair and got rid of her trash and headed to her dorm with Lt. Bloch soon following.

Lt. Hawkeye had spent most of her time standing in the shower in an attempt to get rid of the smell of the Mess Hall's lunch of the day out of her hair and even her uniform, she felt like she had ruined the Colonel's plans by listening in on gossip between two officers….it may have been a mistake. Lt. Hawkeye got in a terry cloth bathrobe and put a towel on top of her head after drying her hair as much as possible, Black Hayate sense his masters pains and as Lt. Hawkeye sat on a nearby chair in her kitchen, Black Hayate came over and placed his head in her lap.

"You know something is wrong, don't you Black Hayate?" Lt. Hawkeye said as she rubbed the dogs head, "maybe I should give the Colonel another chance, but I need to speak to someone about this."

Lt. Hawkeye moved over to her phone on an end table in her living room and started to dial a phone number that still rang true from her childhood as she called home to talk to some of motherly advice, her mother Sylvia Hawkeye.

"Hello?" asked Sylvia Hawkeye.

"Hello mother," Lt. Hawkeye said as she heard the familiar voice of her mother.

"Oh hello Riza, how are things in your life?"

"Not so good mother."

"Why, what's wrong?"

"You know that I've been dating Colonel Mustang for a few months to almost a year now…"

"Oh yes, how are things between you two?"

"They're fine, but today I overheard some people talking about the Colonel…"

"Yes, what happened?"
"I was listening in on their conversation and they mentioned that the Colonel is planning on proposing marriage to me soon…"

"Oh Riza, you should be happy, but no matter what you or Colonel Mustang decide, remember this, listen to your heart and it shall direct to what you feel is the right thing to do."
"Thanks mother."
"You're welcome sweetheart."
"Bye."
"Goodbye dear, and I want to hear from you if he does propose!"

"Mother…."

"I know, I know…bye, bye dear."

Lt. Hawkeye hung up the phone and as she did a sense of relief fell over as she decided that she would forget about hearing the gossip and the Colonel's plans and would go on the date without the knowledge of knowing that he planned to propose to her that evening.

I know there's something

In the wake of your smile

I get a notion from the look in your eyes

You've built a love, but that love falls apart

Little piece of heaven turns to dark

Chorus:

Listen to your heart

When he's calling for you

Listen to your heart

There's nothing else you can do

I don't where you're going and I don't know why

But listen to your heart

Before you tell him goodbye

Sometimes you wonder if this fight

Is worth while

The precious moments are all lost in the tide

Yeah, they're swept away

And nothing is what it seems

The feeling of belonging to your dreams

Repeat chorus

And there are voices that want to be heard

Some much to mention

But you can't find the words

The scent of magic, the beauty that's been

When love was wilder then the wind

Repeat chorus

Listen to your heart, um um um…

I don't know where you're going

And I don't know why

Listen to your heart

Before….you tell him goodbye

What a sweet song to end such a sweet chapter of Lt. Hawkeye getting over what she found out a lunch, up next, the big night has come for the Colonel, but will Edward destroy their date and their love? Find out in the next chapter of this romantic/ drama fan fiction! Read and Review and I want to thank the five reviews I've received! YOU GUYS RULE! The words above and the words at the beginning of this chapter are from D. H.T. featuring Edmee the song is called Listen to Your Heart and the one at the beginning is She's Out of my Life by 98 degrees! Just to add to a little fun and spice to the story so it isn't so dull! And I don't own the rights to any songs used in this story!