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The sweet smell of cinnamon filled the kitchen as the sounds of the other men stumbling through the door reached the three. The four sleepy looking men looked up to see their Colonel at the stove, turning blobs of dough over and their First Lieutenant talking quietly with Elysia. The sweet smell their of breakfast filled their noses. Apple pancakes. They immediately grabbed chairs and sat down, waiting to endulge. Soon they dug into the delicious, fluffy goodness.

"Mmph, where'd you guys find the batter for these?" Breda asked through a mouthful.

"Riza, Elysia and I made them." Roy answered as he cut his own.

"And you didn't burn them Roy?" Havoc joked, letting up some laughter. Apparently, they had the same idea about off duty names as Mustang did.

"I pealed the apples!" Elysia exclaimed proudly.

"You did a damn good job too, kid." he said.

"Havoc, no profanity." Riza insisted.

Silence plagued the room as the ate, too interested in the food that had been prepared. Riza poked at her pancake, having only eaten half. She was starting to get a bad feeling about being there. The window to the mess hall showed nothing but darkness, the back-up lights having been shut off there for some reason. Her brows knit together in thought until a small hand tugged at her arm.

"Miss Riza? Can we go play now? I finished my pancake." Her attention turned down to the girl.

"Hmm? Oh, alright, let me put away the dishes first." she mumbled, picking up the plates to take them to the sink. She turned to the others. "I'm going to take Elysia to the library, we'll meet back here for lunch."

They men watched as the two exited. Sitting in the quiet, they looked back to their breakfast.

"She sure does have a way with kids, eh?" Breda mumbled, shoving another piece into his mouth.

"Yeah, but she isn't even dating anyone, is she? She is the right age to start a family so why wouldn't she?" Fuery asked.

"Its because she wont let herself." All eyes turned to their superior officer. He had his eyes turned onto a piece of his own pancake, which he was drowning in the small bit of syrup be had left on his plate. "Hawkeye has no intentions of settling down. Ever. She's all too dedicated to her work to have time to even think about finding her own 'Mr. Right' and starting a family. You guys have seen how she deceplins Hayate right? She's even worse with herself, even though no one sees it. That woman will do anything to keep herself in line." he told them, finality in his voice as he bit into the small piece.

The library was so quiet and...dark? Only a few of the many back-up lights had been turned on. Dropping her bag of toys, Elysia plopped down onto the floor and began digging through the bag. As Riza sat down in front of her, she pulled out many small, stuffed toy animals.

"These are my animals, Daddy gave me them before he left me and Mommy. I named them after Daddy's friends when he showed me pictures." Elysia told her, setting all of them out. Picking up one of them, Riza looked in over in the dim light, a small tawny feathered bird. A hawk. "That one is is you! I named her Hawkeye. Daddy said you had eyes like a bird one time, I don't know what he meant though..."

"He just meant to say that I have good eye sight." she laughed. "Can you show me the others?" she asked.

"Sure! This one is Mr. Havoc." She pulled up a small yellowish dog. "Mr. Breda, Daddy said he was scared of dogs." An orange cat. "Mr. Furey." A black mouse. "Mr. Falman." A grey rabbit. "And Uncle Roy!" A black horse.

"Very nice naming, Elysia. Are those their homes?" Riza asked as other things were taken out.

"Yep."

The two played with the tiny animals, making up little stories, laughing together. It was a sweet sight. Too sweet for the deep eyes on one of the dark tops of a high bookshelf. Just a few seconds more of this and her accomplice would throw up. He looked over at her, a signal. She raised her hand then flung it forward, nails extending whipping the into the side of the hand of the woman below and the floor beside the two, sending up a frightful scream from the child. The blonde woman below immediately whirled around, gun in now bleeding hand.

No one was there.

Looking back at Elysia, Riza noticed the floor. The carpet had been cut through down passed the concrete. She had seen this kind of slash before. That homunculus, Lust, had those long, destroying nails, they made those marks. She quickly, yet some what painfully, shoved the toys into the bag and picked up the crying girl, rushing out of the library, running toward the office.

The male sighed bored from his new perch on another bookshelf then turned to his partner.

"I think that'll start this off nicely."

A/N: a faster update for you guys. Even though I haven't been crushed by Mt. IHateMath, I've lost an assignment thats due tomorrow. Ack. Keep reviewing, the more you do, the better I write.♥

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