A Thousand and One Drabbles

by BlossomsintheMist

A collection of Fullmetal Alchemist drabbles on everything under the sun, from Winry to Envy and everyone in between. I'll just keeping writing them until there's a thousand and one.

14. Chapter 14

Disclaimer: I still don't own it, and I'm still not making any money, off this or anything else.

A/N: Title from a poem by Wilfred Owen. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori means "it is a sweet and fitting thing to die for your country."

Dulce Et Decorum Est

Few people know that Roy Mustang was decorated for his actions in the Ishbal Rebellion. It's something the usually ambitious Colonel actually goes out of his way to conceal, but Mäes Hughes knows because he was there at the ceremony where it was awarded. Though he never talks about it, it's forever etched into his memory, every last detail from the contrast between the pallor of Roy's skin and the blackness of his hair to the Fuhrer's benign smile as he pinned the medal to Roy's uniform.

What Mäes remembers most vividly is the bleak emptiness in Roy's eyes afterwards.