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Crime and Punishment

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He was procrastinating again. The pile of paperwork that had been dumped on his neat desk that morning still sat there. He had been glaring at the files, willing them to be singed and disappear for about an hour before deciding that that would never work. Abandoning his attempts there, he began to doodle on a corner of a piece of paper a transmutation circle that would burn his name on each document. A line there, a scribble here, he continued to adjust his work until at last he believed he had found the perfect circle. At last, a quick way to accomplish his paperwork with out procrastinating, as easy as snapping his fingers. Literally.

Roy stood up suddenly, pushing his chair back behind him. The other members of the office turned to look at him because of the sudden movement. Roy let his gaze sweep the room to make sure Hawkeye was still out getting her coffee. Good. He raised his fingers to snap and test the new transmutation circle just as the door opened.

Needless to say, it was an absolute disaster. The papers exploded off of his desk all over the room, some singed in the corners, others raining balls of fire. The four officers at their desks ducked for cover, and Riza shut the door quickly. When the hurricane subsided, Riza reopened the door and glared at the bewildered colonel, who stood with pieces of charred paper clinging to his uniform.

She sighed and reached into her holster, pulled out her handgun. Roy cringed as a bullet singed past his left ear. Glancing nervously at the dent in the wall, he turned to face the fury of his only female subordinate. "Sir, I suggest you get this cleaned up and then get replacement papers from the files department," She said, sitting down at her own desk, brushing charred papers from the corner and setting her coffee down.

Roy immediately escaped the room, his mind still trying to comprehend how he was the superior and yet was still punished by his lieutenant.