A/N: Okay just to let you know if your getting sick of not seeing Roy he is coming in 2 chapters! I seriously can't wait; things seem to move quicker when he's in the story. But unfortunately I must be all Riza-centric at the moment.

Recently I have been wondering, hey Warren reminds me of someone. Then I thought a bit and then I remembered that is exactly how I act. I am seriously pretty annoying and I bug people just to bug them. Like I poke people for no reason, I didn't mean for Warren to behave like me though.

House Call

It had been two weeks since Riza, Geoffrey, Ben and Tommy had said goodbye to the maternal figure in the Smith's household. Riza had no idea how parents did it, she had thought since she had been helping Molly with her duties doing them by herself would be just a little bit more difficult. Nope she was wrong they were ten times more difficult.

When they were at the train station Molly had handed Riza a list before she got on her train to the city.

"This is your to do list," she had said smiling.

"For the week?" Riza asked staring at the huge list.

"Actually that's for the day." Molly said still smiling.

"Day?" she stared at Molly shocked, there was no way one person could get so much work done within 24hrs.

"Oh do you hear that it sounds like the call to get on the train!" She said to Riza before saying farewell to the rest of the family.

Riza grabbed a laundry basket and headed out to the drying line with Hayate. She started putting all the clothes on the line with inexperienced hands. Never in her life had she thought a family used so much laundry in a day.

"I was in the Ishbal Rebellion Hayate," she said talking to the attentive dog sitting in the shade of the stone fence by the road. "I have been in the company of the greatest minds of out country, hell I've fought with them! And what am I doing now, what is First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye doing!" She said this while furiously hanging sheets up. "Housewife Hawkeye, that's what I am." She said in a sad tone. The runt Husky got up and trotted over to his mistress who seemed to be having an outburst and gave a yip to show his support. Riza sighed just once more and got back to business, "I guess this is only temporary." She was lifting up another sheet when a gust of wind pulled it from her hands and took it onto a car's windshield that happened to be traveling on the road next to the line.

The car started swerving violently and stopped in front of a tree. Riza thought it missed the collision but was proved wrong when she saw the smoke coming from under the hood. She hopped over the fence and ran over to the smoldering car. A man started getting out of the car coughing and waving his hands around trying to clear the smoke.

"Sir, are you okay?" Riza said stopping "I will compensate completely for any injury or harm to your vehicle."

"It's quite okay Riza," Said a familiar cheery voice, "I had heard you were playing nanny I just didn't think that you would be this bad," Doctor Warren bluntly said.

"Bad?" Riza asked appalled. She had thought she had been doing an okay job.

Warren pointed to her clumsily hung sheets and clothes, "When was the last time you hung up sheets to dry?"

"Well when I was staying in Central I had a little girl in my building hang my clothes, she had wanted a job." Warren sat down on a rock and nodded. " Why do you want to know how I hung my laundry in central? You just ran into a tree."

"Oh that," he said waving his hand nonchalantly, "I didn't run into the tree, that sheet just made my car overheat and smoke."

"Doctor?"

"Yes Miss Riza?"

"Has anyone ever told you that you have issues?"

"Actually quite a few people have," he paused and thought for a second "wait no more like a lot."

"Right if your okay then I'll grab my sheet," She walked over to the car and grabbed the bed sheet and started walking back to the clothesline "good day Doctor."

"Right See ya," He said waving to her turned back and then he walked over to the steaming car "now I just have to fix this car" he mumbled.

Riza was almost done dusting a shelf in the first floor hall when she heard the boys come into the house. "Hi Riza we're HOOOME!" Ben yelled as he ran up behind her. Ben and Tommy usually would greet her as soon as they got home and then go back outside.

"Well hello Ben how was school?" She said turning around and wiping the dust off of her hands.

"It was normal just a bunch of boring work," Ben said sighing.

"School can't always be exciting," Riza said smiling and noticed something different, "Where is Tommy, Ben?"

"Oh, he said he wasn't feeling good so" Ben said fiddling with the feather duster, "he went up to his bedroom, but I guess he couldn't wait to take a nap since he decided to sleep on the stairs."

"Sleeping?" she said confused and went to the stair case and saw Tommy laying down passed out. She quickly ran up the stairs to where the boy was resting and Ben was a step behind her. "Was he acting sick at school?"

"Umm he didn't go out at recess, but he likes to stay inside anyway and read, I don't know why he likes reading so much I would rather play!" Ben kept going on and on about his favorite games and Riza ignored him. She felt Tommy's forehead and it was hot.

She called the Eureka doctor after she put Tommy in his bed. After dialing she remembered who the Eureka doctor was.

"Hello Doctor Warren speaking."

"Oh hello Warren," she said apprehensively.

"Well, well, well if it isn't Riza Hawkeye, are you calling about the money you owe me for the car repair?"

"What?" she said surprised, "I thought the car was alright."

"Oh then what are you calling for?"

"A doctor."

"Yes, I see so what's the problem did you break something?'' he said with a teasing tone.

"No, Doctor I'm calling on behalf of Tommy Smith, he's running a high fever and has passed out. I have him in bed right now. I think you should come check him out."

"Right then," he said seriously, "I'll head over right away you just keep him in bed."

"Right," she said before hanging up.

Riza tried to keep busy while waiting for Doctor Warren arrived. When he got there he quickly asked her where he was and how long he had been asleep. She was surprised at how serious he was. She felt left out waiting for him to finish. When she heard the door slam she ran up the stairs anxious to hear the diagnosis.

"Well," he said shutting Tommy's door and the two started walking down the stairs, "It's nothing too serious, I gave him some medicine to help the fever come down. Keep him in bed for the rest of the evening and morning and keep him from school. If his temperature rises again, then call me but I just think it's a bug." Riza let out a relived sigh. "I'm actually quite surprised I haven't been called to see him for any illnesses yet, in our record he's had quite a lot of sicknesses but we think it's because he has a weak immune system." He grinned at her, "To bad it happened while you were here."

"To bad?" she said confused.

"Well I'm sure this is the first time you've had to care for someone who's sick."

"Actually I have cared for someone while they've been injured," she said feeling a smile tug at her lips.

"Really I took you as one of those who freak out when someone's injured, just like my wife." He said while making himself comfortable in one of the couches in the living room.

"I wouldn't be able to do my job if I "freaked out" I take it your wife wasn't in the military." Riza said sitting in another chair.

He shook his head, "Nope Melissa probably never even touched a gun she was so gentle."

"How did you two meet?" Riza asked, she had never heard Warren mention his wife before then.

"Well we both grew up here in Eureka together and we were always friends. I left for Medical School when I was eighteen after I finished I became a surgeon for the military and then came back to Eureka to work at the fort. And that's when we became more than friends and we got married simple as that." He said with a satisfied smile.

But there was still something Warren left out, "When did she…pass on" Riza said carefully. Warren stopped smiling and looked sadly at Riza.

Before Warren could start they heard the door slam "Hello is anyone here?" Geoffrey yelled. "There you are Hawkeye," he said walking into the room "and Warren. What are you doing here?" he said.

"Well my friend I am sad to report that your child is sick, but thanks to me he will live." Warren said dramatically.

"Right, I'm sure you saved him," Geoffrey said sarcastically.

"Yes I am quite the miracle maker, but I think I should leave."

"You don't want to stay for dinner?" Geoffrey offered.

"Whoops!" Riza exclaimed, "With all the excitement I haven't been able to fix the dinner."

"Oh darn I guess I'll have to miss out, oh well see you!" Warren said before exiting the Smith's house.

"What a weirdo," Geoffrey said.

"huh?"

Geoffrey started making his way to the kitchen. "He's always been that way; I think Melissa was the only one who could stand him 24/7."

"Yes, we were just talking about her," Riza said while Geoffrey pulled out the bread and cheese, she snapped back to reality, "Sir let me cook something."

"No, it's too late for that." He said taking a bite of cheese. "I'm surprised Jim even talked about his wife openly" he said with a full mouth.

"He told me about them, but we never got to how she died."

"Well that is a sore subject for Warren. He was a surgeon in the Ishballen Rebellion and was away for three years, but while he was away saving lives his wife was fighting Consumption." He paused and took another bite of bread and cheese. "She heard that if you have that disease then it is possible for it to infect those around you. She moved into the hills of Eureka and isolated herself from us. Even though she didn't wish it Molly would visit her every now and then since Molly was from the city and had few friends here. She lived with it for two months and then passed away. Warren was never informed until he returned; he had told me that he was sent to a region where no civilian mail could enter so he never knew she was dead."

He took a minute to catch his breath then continued "When Jim came back he became cold and took off never returning to Eureka except for her death day. Even then he came only to lay flowers on her grave. He became obsessed with medical research, he traveled across the country and I even heard he traveled to Creta and Arugo to research the disease."

"What happened? He seems so carefree."

"He was in the north at a different lab and became sick, I don't know if it was from overworking or malnutrition but he was sent to Central to work at their hospital and discouraged to research anymore." The kitchen stayed silent for a few minuets before Geoffrey continued, "As for becoming carefree I have no idea how that happened. I was surprised that he even returned to Eureka for over a day let alone six months."

"Well I think I've told you enough," Geoffrey said putting the bread out and starting to walk out of the kitchen, "You might want to get Tommy some soup or something, as for me I am tired!"

Riza had no idea what to think, how could this have happened to Warren? She would have never guessed. Being a doctor and having your wife die from an illness, the pain would be immense.

A/N: Poor Warren. Originally this chapter was a lot different it was actually Riza going to Tommy and Ben's school to talk about being a military officer. Like… bring your parent to work day. Any who fair's this week so it may be a bit till another update.