2. He leaned against her desk, waiting for her to look up from her paperwork.
"So, who's going to tell their story first?" he asked.
"I don't have a story to tell," she muttered without looking up.
"I think you do."
"The only one who has a story to tell is the one who ran off – again – without a word as to where he was going, just to return and not show up for a week." She finally looked up, though the look on her face made Roy wish she hadn't.
"I already told you why. And if you're not ready to tell me about your new friend yet, then I'll tell you about the Elrics."
"Winry Rockbell already told me. You remember her, don't you?"
Roy frowned, hoping that that hadn't been some sort of sick joke to get on his nerves. "So, you don't need me to tell you anything about what happened?"
"Nope." She wasn't looking at him anymore.
He paused before adding, "You seem different today."
"Do I?" she asked in a dry tone. "I wonder why that is?"
All her comments and snide remarks had him feeling as if he had done something wrong. He frowned. "What are you trying to get at, Hawkeye?"
She stood up from her desk, pushing back her chain roughly and snatching a few papers as she strode to the copy machine. "Nothing."
"Come on. I think I've known you long enough to know when I'm pissing you off."
She turned around quickly, flashing a glare at him from across the room. "What were you thinking in that moment when you left to go chase the Elrics?"
He wondered what this question had to do with anything. "What are you talking about? I was thinking that I had to bring them back-"
"Nothing else?" she verified. "Like that you should have told me where you were going instead of taking off in a hot air balloon, leaving me behind, again?"
"You just said that a second ago. Besides, I figured one of the others would tell you. I was in a rush."
"Of course." She grabbed her copies, but she didn't return to her desk, where he was standing. "For years I've been following you around, trying to help you gain your position as Fuhrer, and when you changed your mind, I was fine with that, too. We went through everything together and when it was over, we were finally given the opportunity to live semi normal lives. But then you left again to go hiding in the north. Suddenly, you decided to return, and I accepted you as if you hadn't left at all. Not long after, you went off to chase the Elrics, leaving me behind again. It's an unhealthy pattern and I had to break it."
"What do you mean by 'break it'?" he asked hesitantly, deciding not to comment on what he couldn't deny.
She smirked smugly at him, an expression he had never seen on her before. "I'm starting over anew. My first step is a new romance, and that would be with the man you spoke to last night. Matthew O'Brien."
She stapled the copies together and left the room.