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Anonymous J: haha Really? Me too! And Nickelback too! In the recent years I've started to really like country music for some reason ^^ Yeah but Skillet was always my favorite :3 Well, I've been in something of a FMA-high recently, though I feel bad for neglecting my other stories, I just have sort of writers block for Final Fantasy 7 lately . Hope you enjoy this one shot!

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R.I.P Maes Hughes, doting father, lovely husband and the best friend a certain Roy Mustang could ever have.

The Day my world changed

"Hughes…you've shown me the same picture at least eighty times in the last three minutes…" Roy rested his head on his hands against the desk, sighing heavily.

"Oh no, no, no, no, no! This one's a different picture! See? Look! Alicia is wearing a differently colored ribbon! See!? Isn't she absolutely adorable? Oh and did I show you this picture of my beloved Gracia? She is so beautiful isn't she? The most beautiful woman I've ever laid eyes on!" Maes Hughes kissed the photo of his two most important women in his life, fawning over them.

Roy shook his head, sighing in exasperation as his trusted Lieutenant strolled into the room, files tucked securely under her arm.

"Colonel," she nodded, depositing the files on his desk in front of him, "I have the files you requested-"

"Ah! Riza! Look! Look! Isn't she cute?! Look at her cute little button nose! And those small fingers! Look here, in this picture, I bought her this dress! Alicia was so happy! And look! Here, Alicia and Gracia wear the same dress! I also bought one for the most wonderful wife and mother in the whole world! Aren't they sweet?! Look at them! LOOK AT THEM!" Hughes pressed the different photos of his family closer and closer to Riza, nearly blinding her.

She sighed with a smile, gently prying his hands away, "They are very beautiful, Hughes." She smiled warmly, taking the time to look at the pictures the over eccentric male was fawning over so fondly.

Roy rested his chin on his palm, "I think I memorized all of these pictures by date." Riza shot her superior a stern look and he immediately straightened in his seat at her glare.

"Oh Roy, you're just jealous you don't have such a lovely wife and daughter! Look at little green you! Such a jealous man!" Hughes teased playfully, presenting Roy with another array of pictures of his wife and child.

"Hughes…" Roy tried very hard not to threaten his friend to burn his butt off again and chase him around with his flames.

"Nawww, look at them! Such cuuutiiess!"

"Same as ever I see, Major," Edward Elric and his brother Alphonse strolled into the room, smiling.

"Hello Edward, Alphonse," Riza nodded to them and Ed nodded back.

"Fullmetal," Roy smirked, nodding to both brothers, they nodded back.

"Ah! Ed! Say, where's your cute little mechanic? Winry, was it?" Hughes wiggled his eyebrows, slinging an arm around Edward's shoulders.

The reaction was immediate.

"SHE'S JUST MY MECHANIC DAMN TI!" Al had to hold his brother back from jumping on Hughes and physically harming him.

After he calmed down, Hughes showed him the various pictures of Gracia and Alicia.

"Say Major," Hughes turned to look at Ed, "How did you even meet Mrs. Hughes?" Hughes blinked before a fond look crossed his face, his expression soft and unburdened.

"Ah…how I met my darling Gracia…it was on a sunny day..."

"Please shoot me now Lieutenant," Roy droned, slapping a hand to his face in exasperation. Riza ignored him, smiling at Hughes and listening eagerly for his story.

"Well, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by the little green monster…" Hughes shot Roy a pointed look over the rim of his glasses before he cleared his throat, "Right, well, I met my beloved Gracia when Roy and I were just appointed as rookies here in Central…"

"Going to the marketplace again Hughes?" Roy Mustang smirked, watching with a smug grin as his friend fixed his hair neatly and straightened his blue uniform.

"Ugh…Roy…do we have to go through this again? I just like going to the marketplace, knock it off with your crazy theories!" Maes Hughes, twenty-five years of age, shouted to his best friend.

"Right…and I love reading geography books in my spare time, who do you wanna convince here anyway?" Hughes sighed heavily and suddenly he was in his friend's face on the desk, staring at him with narrowed, unreadable eyes.

"We both know you read porn magazines in your spare time, stop being a smartass with me." Hughes sighed, running a hand through his hair nervously with a small, soft smile, "She…she goes to the marketplace every Tuesday and Friday…the last few times I was there by chance, we talked a bit. She's really nice and very beautiful."

"Ah, now we are getting somewhere, now who's that lovely lady if I may ask? Or is it perhaps a certain gentleman you don't want me to know about hmm?" Roy's eyes were twinkling in mirth as his best friend nearly gave him a black eye.

"Ha ha, very funny. Her name is Gracia and she is definitely not the kind of woman you usually…trifle with," he shot his friend a pointed look, who was known as a womanizer and charmer.

Roy crossed his arms, "Well, I beg your pardon, but when have I-"

"Sir," Riza Hawkeye strolled into the room, wearing the same blue uniform as her friends and colleagues.

"R-Riza, what a nice surprise," Roy cleared his throat, straightening in his chair. Hughes had a devilish grin on his face as he headed for the door.

"Well then kids, I'll leave you to yourselves! Riza, watch where his hands go, god knows he may not wash them after he's sulking alone in the dark!" Hughes quickly shut the door before he was hit on the head by a stapler, Roy's enraged shouts carrying well over the corridor as his best friend kept grinning all the way to the market.

Teasing Roy was one of his favorite hobbies and sometimes, Hughes had the hunch it was his only hobby.

As Hughes was looking at a few apples by the stand he spotted Gracia just a few stands away, sorting out her groceries in her bags.

Hughes smiled like a fool, quickly combing through his hair again and straightening his uniform for the umpteenth time before he was confident enough to meet her.

Gracia had already spotted him by the time he reached her, she smiled in delight and waved, "Oh, Maes!" Hughes felt like he would burst into colorful confetti at her beautiful, angelic voice.

He almost froze when she ran to hug him, uh…

What was he supposed to do?!

Mayday! Mayday! The bird was falling! The bird was falling!

MAYDAY!

Hughes blinked, not knowing what to do with his arms as he awkwardly wrapped them around her shoulders, "H-hey there Gracia, long time no see huh?"

He had a feeling like the bird was long dead because of his awkward stuttering.

"Yes, where were you? I…I was worried when I didn't see you at the marketplace anymore, I thought something happened," worried eyes glanced up at him and Hughes's expression softened as his nerves eased.

Aaaaand the bird was alive like a flying phoenix.

They broke apart slowly and Hughes had to smile down at her, "I'm sorry for worrying you Gracia, I was sent to a mission and there were some delays, but now I'm back." He smiled down at her tenderly, feeling his heart beat furiously in his chest.

"Would you like to eat something? I haven't eaten anything yet…" Gracia blushed as she asked him and Hughes found it to be so very cute.

"Sure, I've got time," he offered her his arm and took the heavy bags from her, Gracia smiled and wound her arm with his.

Hughes felt like jumping up and down in excitement, but refrained from doing so, instead he opted to smile like an idiot as he and Gracia talked about many things, learning to get to know each-other as well.

The months Hughes spent with her were the happiest he ever experienced, they grew closer as well, so close, that Hughes was confident to tell her about his dark past, the war, the people he killed, everything.

To his surprise, she understood and stood by his side, helping him fending off his demons.

The first time they shared a bed, it had been a year after they've started to date since Hughes didn't want to rush anything at all with her, from then on it was just beautiful.

He may be working for the military but when he was with her, his whole world did a back flip, his stomach still felt like it had those butterflies in it, his heart still beat furiously when he gazed upon her beauty and kind nature.

Gracia was like a ray of sunshine in his previously dark, cold world where the dark clouds had ruled and fogged his mind. But she made everything better.

And years later, they had Alicia.

Hughes had a lot to fight for, his friends, his family…everything.

"Wow…so that's how you met Mrs. Hughes?" Al asked amazed, resting his head against his gloved, metal hands.

"Mhm, that's how I met the love of my life…" Hughes wiped away a tear from his eye happily.

Roy was snoring on the desk and Hughes draped himself over his superior, crying waterfall tears on his back, "Rooooyy! Oh why are you so cruel to meee?!"

Riza sighed, a calm, warm look on her face as she turned to the two brothers, "Apologies, Edward, Alphonse. Would you like to eat something? My treat," she smiled as the two boys cheered happily.

"Really? Thanks Lieutenant! We're actually pretty hungry…" Ed patted his belly, growling noises emitting from them as Al scratched the back of his helmet and thanked Riza sincerely.

Roy and Hughes were still grappling with each-other by the time they left.

"Hughes! Knock it off! I won't look at those pictures again! I've looked at them for at least a hundred times!" Roy shoved Hughes' face out his personal space, trying to pry his insistent hands away holding various pictures of his darling daughter and his loving wife.

Some things never changed.

It was a good thing that Hughes never would, because his presence changed so many lives of all his friends, for the better.

Roy smiled despite his playful bickering with his best friend, a soft look crossing his face as he sighed and played along.

The end! I really hope it was good!