A/N: You know sometimes when I go over to look at my story on the list I feel a sort of remorse when I see other fics having over 100 reviews at the eighth chapter… then I remember that not that many people know what happens in the movie so they really can't read this fic. So I guess I'm stuck with the readers I got but I LUV YA ANYWAY ! So then I wondered "hey why am I doing this fic again?" and then I remembered "Because you wanted to be one of the first writers to write a post CoS Royai." And then I remembered that by the time of the third and final volume of the story everyone who luvs FmA will have seen the movie. That was just my Blab of the day now onto the STORY!(that was a bit too blunt?)

Passing Time

Riza sat in anticipation as she waited to hear what the doctor would say, she had been at the small town of Eureka for almost five months now and Riza was ready to go home. Doctor Warren wasn't helping her anxious mood any by staring at his clipboard and making random notes. Riza could almost swear that when she once peeked at his paper there was a badly drawn doodle of a dog on it.

She was getting quite tired of this since she had to get back to the Smith's house and help Molly with dinner. Not to mention she said she would pick up their mail and grab a few things from the market.

"Warren could you hurry up?" Riza asked.

"Oh yes," He said looking up snapping into the situation and he grinned, "You know Riza you're easy to annoy."

"Actually I think you'd be surprised with what I can stand, I did baby-sit my superior officer for about six years."

"Yes, the Colonel right," he said raising an eyebrow.

"Would you stop with that," Riza said scowling slightly.

"Okay right I just thought we could have a conversation, I get lonely here sometimes you know," Warren tried to say melodramatically.

"Warren, number one I came here for a check up and number two you see me practically everyday when I go and walk." She did in fact see him constantly since he had been filling in for the old resident doctor, and being the town doctor meant lots of house calls.

"Alright you win," he said sighing "As far as I can tell you're out of the woods with healing."

"Really?" Riza said slightly smiling.

"Now I don't suggest you go running a marathon or starting a downtown Central brawl, but I if you want to start jogging a bit I think that type of work is okay."

"Thank you Warren," Riza said getting up and Hayate, who was with her, yipped. "Good day" she said before they walked out of the hospital.

Since Riza had come there five months ago she could never remember a time when the hospital was busy. It wasn't really even a hospital, maybe every now and then a child would break something while playing or a farmer would get hurt on his harvesting equipment. Still though, the hospital and its staff had a different feeling than the ones at Central, it seemed more homely and personal, the Central hospital's always seemed like an assembly line and the doctors never remembered you if you saw them on the street a few weeks later.

The walk from the hospital to the post office to the market wasn't far for Riza to go. Since she had been walking everyday she could go almost five miles before feeling even a bit tired. She walked up the steps to the porch to the post office and told Hayate to sit at the door while she was inside.

"Hawkeye and Smith's mail please," she said to the man in the window and he went into the back of post office to their mailboxes. Ever since she was sent to Eureka she got a box there for her mail.

"Well here you go Miss Riza," he said handing her the mail, "Feeling well I hope."

"Thank you for your concern," She brightened her smile for the old postman, "I'm feeling very well," she said a quick goodbye and went off to the market. When she was looking at the mail that the post man gave her was a few letters for the smith's family and one for her. Looking at the handwriting she could tell it was General Grumman's handwriting.

After Riza got the groceries she and Hayate started to walk the mile back to the Smith's house. "Want a ride Miss Riza?" asked a farmer she knew who was going the same direction as she was.

"Yes Sir thank you," she said hopping into the back of his wagon with Hayate, the farmer seemed to be hauling bags of seeds.

After dinner Riza went up to the study to read her letter. Usually she went there in the evenings to read and the boys went there to do whatever homework they had. Sometimes they were joined by Geoffrey who had some work to do.

As Riza walked into the study she heard Tommy talking to Ben "No, 7+4 isn't 13 Ben!" she smiled at Tommy's frustration. It seemed that arithmetic wasn't Ben's strong point.

"Then it's 3?"

"NO! Think Ben, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11!" he said using his fingers to show the digits.

"Tommy, now don't lose patience with your brother." Geoffrey said from a table.

"Yes dad," he said reluctantly and then turned back to Ben's paper, "Okay Ben what's 4+7."

"13?"

"ARGGG!"

Riza almost felt like laughing at the funny sight as she sat down on a chair in the room and started to read the letter. It basically covered what was happening in Central and how the recovery efforts were going. They finally completed the reconstruction of the trolley system throughout the city. Also the city was basically all rebuilt, now they were fixing the political control of the country. Who was going to take control of the country was a general named Harold who was unanimously voted to be the next leader of the country. Her grandfather had denied wanting to become Fuhrer but supported Harold. He seemed to be completely opposite from Bradley and wanted this to be an age of peace for the country.

Riza finished the letter and got up to find a book to read during the evening but was disturbed by Molly running into the room, clutching a letter Riza had given to her after dinner . "Guess what everybody," she said joyously.

"What dear," Geoffrey said not looking up from his papers.

"Well I just got a letter from Aunt Caroline," Riza remembered her mentioning her pregnant sister in the city every now and then, "Well she just had her baby and it's a healthy girl!"

"That's wonderful dear," Geoffrey said now paying attention.

"The bad news though is that she's quite tired from the ordeal and has asked me to stay and help her."

"For how long?"

"About three weeks."

"I don't know how we're going to do it," Geoffrey said furrowing his brow "We have a big inspection coming up at the fort in four weeks. I'm going to be doing a lot of overtime."

"Oh," Molly said her happy face dropping, "then I guess I'll have to take the boys with me."

"But Mom, I want to finish the school year!" Tommy whined.

"Honey you can't live by your—,"

"The boys won't be living by their self;" Riza interrupted "I'm here."

"Riza we possibly couldn't ask you." Molly said.

"I insist, you've taken me in and let me live here, the least I could do is watch over the house while your gone," Riza said smiling. Molly looked unsurely at Geoffrey. "And it's like I've been your apprentice Molly, I have been helping you with all of your duties."

Geoffrey nodded, "All right sounds like a good deal so when are you leaving?"

When Riza was preparing for bed she was trying to imagine how her life used to be. The only thing that mattered was the Colonel, the rest of their military colleagues and how close her shot was to the bullseye. Her life had been totally selfless. The life she was leading now was also since everything she did revolved around the Smith household. But still it was hard to change from life being a team effort to how was she feeling today, what was she going to do to make her stronger. Life had changed for Riza Hawkeye.

A/N: I don't know where that came from…any of it…it was like a brain barf…. I just typed out my mind. Umm isn't Warren a bad doctor? And also with the farmer I was like "what would a farmer be hauling in May?" and I thought "seeds?" Sorry about not updating on Tuesday, I have been super busy but unfortunately I'm going to get busier! Fairs up next week and so I'm going to try to finish Eureka by then. I think it's going to be about 17 chapters, I'm still trying to think of the next story's name Eureka was just soooo perfect for this story.

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