The damp and musty smell of the seldom used room,made the colonel wrinkle his nose.

'Just what had gone and died down here?' he asked into the darkness

He thought about using alchemy to light a candle.
Problem was,he didn't know where a candle was,nor if there were any combustible materials nearby.
No,his flames were not an option.

Sighing,he relized he would just have to find a light switch.

'Ouf!' He tripped on his lieutenant's annyoing pet.

Gritting his teeth he cursed silently at the animal,before seaching for the switch.

As luck would have it,he was having a hard time multi-tasking.
Using his left arm,he held Riza close to him;While his right searched for a switch along the walls.
All the while,he desperately tried not to step on,the now wimpering,Black Hayate beaneath his feet.

'Click'

A generator suddenly began to whir somewhere in the room.

He'd finally found the switch.
He sighed.
Roy was ready for this day to be over.

His now scuffed boots made a soft 'scrape'as he dragged his feet across the room.
There was a slighty moth-eaten bed there,and a small wooden stool beside it.

He gave a dry smirk.

Guess where he'd be staying?

Slowly he leaned down to place his lieutenant on the bed.
Her limp body rolled out of his arms,and onto the filthy rags in a sort of flowing motion.

His hands twitched several times as they wondered if they dare touch her.

'Now what?' he thought blankly to himself

Black swiftly jumped onto the bed,and gave Roy a little 'yip!'

'Come on you dummy!' he seemed to say,'Fix her!'

He sighed,clearly uncomfortable about the whole situation.

"It's not that easy pup" he countered the dog,and scratched his ears.

Shaking his head,he moved to remove her jacket and boots.

Black seemed mildly pleased with this.

In rough,jerking motions his fingers tore at the black laces that bound her boots to her feet.
In a matter of seconds they fell limply on the concrete floor.

He let out the breath he'd been holding.

Roy was going to have to move a lot faster if he didn't want Riza's wounds to become infected.

Quickly,he stole a glance at her.
She didn't appear to be doing well.

Her pale skin was even whiter than usual;and against the red flush on her cheeks she looked almost deathly.

Red flush?

He ran a hand over her forehead and sighed.
She had a feaver.

Gently his arm encircled her waist as he tried to take off her jacket.
He let it rest at the foot of the bed.

Without the jacket on,Roy could easily tell the severity of her wounds.
She had a fairly deep gash at her side,the stains on the shirt told him;and a few cuts and scrapes visible on her arms.
Other than that she was in ok shape.

Reaching for the medical kit,Roy racked his brain for information.
It had been quite a long time since he had needed to do a little patch job on someone.
He couldn't clearly remember how to treat a wound anymore.

Carfully,he opened a new packet of bandages,and pulled out a few ointments.

"Here we go"

He pushed her shirt up on her left side and made a face.
No wonder she was so tired.
With the amount of blood she'd lost,she was lucky she hadn't gone into shock by now.

Roy opened a small container and ran his finger through the gloopy medication.
Hesitently at first,he began to massage the ointment into Riza's cut.
He watched her face for any signs of pain as he applied the stuff.

To his relief though,she did not wake from her sleep.

He wrapped several feet on bandages around her waist before he was finally satisfied.
Then pulled her shirt back down,and covered her in the ragged blanket.

Idly,he let the medical kit fall to the ground,not bothering to pick it up.
Man,was he exausted His dark eyes scanned the room,finally falling on a clock.

11:03 mid-day

How long would it take for someone to bring help?

He yawned,leaning against his elbows that were sitting on the bed.
Riza couldn't hold out much longer,and he was begining to wonder if he could.

He sat silently,listing to his lieutenant and her pet breathe evenly in their sleep.
His mind,all the while,thinking.

Then,after a half hour later,fell asleep

Head nestled against Riza's right side,fingers laced in hers.