Riza walked in to work the next day, her standard issue uniform, her routine hair-style, that oh-so austere attitude that got her a date with Roy Mustang in the first place, but today, there was something different about her. A smile. Riza Hawkeye looked for all the world like a kid in a candy shop. A broad grin, a polite wave to the other military personnel, even a kind "Good morning" to a totally wasted Second Lieutenant Jean Havoc.
Havoc, Breda, Fuery, and Falman stared at her as she walked passed them, humming to herself.
"Think Mustang spiked her punch or somethin' last night?" Breda whispered to the others.
"I don't know. I highly doubt it. Lieutenant Hawkeye's too smart for that," Fuery answered.
"Well, something happened last night. Who's going to go find out?" Falman asked.
"If it'll get you guys to shut up so I can sleep, I'll do it!" Havoc volunteered, half-asleep. He stood, pulling himself up and out of the chair he was sitting on, and dragged himself to Riza's office. The other three men jumped up and pushed their ears against the door. They heard huffled talking, then a loud slap. Havoc walked out of the room completely dazed, a red mark on his face in the form a hand.
"That's a 'no,' you guys…" He stumbled back to the desk, plopped in to the chair, and let his head fall on to the desk. Breda, Fuery, and Falman looked inside Riza's office to see her face bright red and her body shaking with rage. They moved over towards Havoc, shutting the office door.
"What'd you ask her?" Breda demanded.
"Well," Havoc's speech came out muffled, "first, I asked her if Mustang spiked her punch last night. She thought that was funny."
"And then?" Breda egged him on to continue.
"I asked her if Mustang banged her." The hands of many men in the office simultaneously hit their foreheads, and the hung-over man blinked cluelessly. "Was that a bad idea?"
"Gee, Havoc. Does that slap on your face still hurt?" Maes Hughes asked, seeming as though he had suddenly appeared out of no where. Before the other men could laugh, Havoc was already snoring.
"Not enough to keep him awake, I guess," Breda joked. Roy appeared behind Breda and slapped him upside the head.
"What did you do to Lieutenant Hawkeye?" The stout man turned around.
"I didn't do anything! It was Havoc!" The Flame Alchemist was now pulling his gloves tighter.
"Someone tell him that he's got five seconds to run before I fry his ass."
"Uh…Havoc…" Breda tried. He shoved the other man, who promptly snorted and woke up.
"Wha?" He pointed to Roy. Amazingly full of energy, the hung-over Havoc ran out of the building. Unfortunately for him, he didn't run fast enough and Roy got him as he tried to go through the doors. Roy now sighed.
"Now I have to find a way to cheer up the Lieutenant," he mumbled, walking in to his office. A few minutes later, the sub-ordinates saw their commander walk out of his office, holding what looked like a modern-day iPod, which Roy always showed off, calling it the Flame's Muse. Apparently, as he had once told Fuery, it gave him ideas. And it had just given him an ingenius one.
He walked in to Riza's office without even knocking. Her smile had long since faded and she sat cleaning her gun.
"Sir, I would prefer it if you knocked next time," she told him.
"I just want you to listen to this, Hawkeye. It's a good song." Roy took the ear-phones and stuck them in Riza's ears. He restarted the song and Riza listened. For about fifteen seconds. Her eyes widened, then slowly closed as she pulled the phones out of her ears.
"That's…very nice, sir." She was blushing.
"You liked it?" Roy asked, smirking.
"I have paperwork I must attend to now, sir."
"It's a good song, isn't it?"
"Yes, sir. Now if you don't mind." She gestured to the small stack of paperwork.
"Right. I should probably get back to work, too…" He turned around and sighed, beginning to exit the office. Before he could open the door, he felt arms around his waist and a face against his back.
"Lieutenant?" Roy asked, rather surprised. "Is something wrong?" He felt the face move.
"No, sir."
"Then what are you doing?"
"I just…need to make sure you know how much I appreciate you." Roy blushed slightly, clearing his throat, but even though, his voice cracked slightly.
"I-it's not a problem, Lieutenant. Weren't you saying you had paperwork to finish…or something?" He felt the face nod.
"Yes, sir." However, Riza still held tightly.
"Do you need some motivation to get it done?" One more nod. "How about another date? Tomorrow night?"
"I would like that, sir." She let go and Roy opened the door, gave a small wave, and left. Riza's smile returned as she closed the door and proceeded to her chair.
Riza's lesson of the day: Everything comes to full circle.
Roy's lesson of the day: "Give It Up" by the Peppers is a damn good song.
(Hope you guys liked it. Personally, I think it's a little lamer than the others, but I've had this idea for forever. Originally, it was gonna be Roy making Ed listen to the song, but I didn't want all these Roy/Ed Yaoi imbeciles to read it and go "ZOMG, thts gr8!" Besides, I needed another chapter for Paperwork anyways. So, uh, review please!)