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Home Alone: Part I

First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye was at home cuddling on the couch at home. Tonight was just an ordinary day nothing going on at the military; just your average day.

The flames in the fireplace licked the logs she had put on a short while ago. She stared at the redness and watched as it devoured the wood. Suddenly she heard crackling noises from the fire which made her jump slightly. Sudden noises always made her jumpy especially since she was home alone.

Ok so she lied to herself when she said there wasn't anything going on at headquarters. There was a ball tonight. A ball where all the upper class military attended, including State Alchemists. Riza sighed at this thought. She would never speak aloud that she was disappointed. She wanted so much for him to ask her to the ball but she had just set herself up. So far up in fact that when she fell, she fell hard.

So who is this 'him' you ask? The 'him' is one of her co-workers. One of her friends, her 'family', her everything to put it so. He was everything she wasn't and he wasn't anything she was. Both of us put together make a whole. Riza thought as she stroked Black Hayate's jet-black fur.

Normally she would find this calming but the only thing that this gesture made Riza feel was sadness. She felt like she was losing her logic mind over 'him'. Hayate's fur reminded her of his jet-black hair. His handsome raven black hair, and his charcoal colored eyes seemed to penetrate her walls built of steel, melting around her. 'He' was her reason for staying in the military; the reason for seeing passed the insanity to see the beauty of it all. To see that not all of the State's military personal were corrupt.

'He' was Colonel Roy Mustang.

A tear accidentally slid down her fire lit cheek. There was disappointment she didn't want to feel anymore. All emotions were distractions from doing what is needed to be done and pain. Nothing more than pain.

She sat on the couch a fuzzy warm blanket draped around her body in her pajamas with Hayate. Sighing aloud she slouched into the comfy couch she closed her eyes watching the light dance across her eyelids. Not noticing she fell asleep.

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A/N: yey! Sorry I haven't update in awhile. School, plus finals are in 2 weeks! Ahhhh! I'm only a freshman and im going crazy, unsure of what to do… anyways enough bout me. Thanks so much for the reviews keep em coming! If there are any grammar mistakes or misspelled words please tell me so I can fix them. Hope to update soon!