Once again, the characters and situations associated with Fullmetal Alchemist are owned by Hiromu Arakawa. If they were mine, Hughes would have lived.
Maes and Gracia Hughes
#01 - Walking
It felt like they had walked five miles around the park before he finally got up the nerve to ask her out, but he felt like he could fly when she accepeted.
#02 - Waltz
He had never had a desire to learn how to dance, but for her and their first dance together, he was willing to learn.
#03 - Wishes
Her mother was a steady and stablizing influence through her entire life, but Elysia always wished she could have gotten to know her father.
#04 - Wonder
The wonder on his face as she presented him with their new daughter was well worth the hours of labor.
#05 - Worry
She could feel the sheathes he kept strapped to his forearms under his sleeves when she hugged and kissed him goodbye, and she knew it would be a very bad night.
#06 - Whimsy
His sense of whimsy, she soon learned, belied the sneaky bastard that lurked just beneath the surface.
#07 - Waste/Wasteland
As she looked at the human wreckage that had once been her fiance and his best friend, it occurred to her that she could be in for more trouble than she thought.
#08 - Whiskey and rum
When he came to see her that night Roy first came back from the war, he was sporting a black eye and a bruised jaw, and when he kissed her, he tasted of whiskey.
#09 - War
The one thing that kept him going when he was at the Ishbal front was the picture he carried of the girl he was going to come home to.
#10 - Weddings
The bride and groom were making out in a corner every chance they got, the maid of honor was armed to the teeth, and the usher had ducked out of rehearsal for a smoke break five times already; Roy had to wonder if all weddings were like this, or if this one was an exception.
#11 - Birthday
Edward would always associate them with his birthday; he and Al had found in them the closest thing to a stable family they'd had since they left home.
#12 - Blessing
His parents were dead, and hers lived on the other side of the country; they married without anyone's blessing but their own and their friends.
#13 - Bias
He would always think that she and Elysia were the two most beautiful girls in the world, but then, he was and would always be biased.
#14 - Burning
She thought it was amusing that Roy always threatened to torch the photographs of Elysia; after all, he'd taken a fair number of them.
#15 - Breathing
A few days after he proposed, he said something about wanting to still be breathing for their fiftieth anniversary and told her he was going to give up smoking.
#16 - Breaking
As Elysia pleaded with her to know why they were burying her daddy, she could feel her heart breaking all over again.
#17 - Belief
After the war, he'd lost whatever faith he'd had in a supreme being, but when Elysia was born, he liked to think he got some of it back.
#18 - Balloon
If her mother had had her way, the wedding would have gone from a cozy affair with just their friends there to witness, to a full-blown society wedding with all the pomp and circumstanced that went with it..
#19 - Balcony
When he climbed the drainpipe to the balcony of her third-floor apartment so that he could apologize, she wasn't sure whether she was going to kill him or marry him; he was always grateful she chose the latter.
#20 - Bane
"She's as bad as he was," Roy groused when Elysia found her father's old camera and started taking pictures.
#21 - Quiet
As Elysia grew older, when she asked questions about how her father had died, her mother would look sad, and her Uncle Roy would just go quiet, but neither of them would explain.
#22 - Quirks
Sciezska had met him before she came to work for him, but she hadn't realized who he was at the time; one of his lesser-known quirks was a love of old books.
#23 - Question
He pulled a black velvet jewelry box out of his pocket, went down on one knee, and asked the question he'd been working up the nerve to ask all evening: "Will you marry me?"
#24 - Quarrel
She knew that he and Roy had fought over girls in the past, when they were both single, and that they had even fought over her as well, but as charming as the Flame Alchemist was, he was most definitely not her type, and she hadn't hesitated to say so.
#25 - Quitting
He had loved her since they were little; twenty years and half a dozen refusals of marriage had never stopped him from hoping she'd say yes someday.
#26 - Jump
Havoc nearly hit the ceiling as the knife neatly cut his cigarette in half and embedded itself in the wall, and he was informed that there would be no smoking around the baby.
#27 - Jester
He played the clown at work as a way to hide in plain sight; when people assumed he was crazy, they were more likely to talk openly in front of him.
#28 - Jousting
There were times when she thought that Riza had the right idea; when they started bickering, a well-placed shot from a pistol would always stop them both dead in their tracks.
#29 - Jewel
The diamond in the engagement ring shone as brightly as the tears in her eyes as she threw herself into his arms, knocking both of them to the floor, and said yes.
#30 - Just
Years later, Elysia would reflect that if there had been any justice in the world, her parents would have had as long and happy a life together as she and her own husband had.
#31 - Smirk
He would always have a smirk on his face when Roy insisted that he didn't want a wife; he'd found one in Riza, but just didn't know it yet.
#32 - Sorrow
He didn't say two words to her at the funeral, but she knew Roy Mustang shared her grief; she was burying a husband, and he was burying a brother.
#33 - Stupidity
"Do they ever grow up?" Riza asked as they watched him and Roy play keepaway with his camera and Roy's gloves.
#34 - Serenade
She slammed the window closed, thus blocking out his drunken singing from the street outside her apartment building.
#35 - Sarcasm
As often as Roy sneered when his best friend told him to find a wife, there were still times when he was jealous.
#36 - Sordid
The more he learned about the conspiracy, the uglier the world seemed; all that kept him going by the end was the thought of his wife and daughter waiting for him at home.
#37 - Soliloquy
The preacher's sermon could have been a Shakespeare soliloquy for all they could care; they only had eyes for each other.
#38 - Sojourn
"I don't know how I let you talk me into this," she hissed as she and Roy snuck into the hospital after hours to see him.
#39 - Share
If everything had gone well, their second child would have shared a name with his best friend; instead, their son would share a name with the father he would never meet.
#40 - Solitary
She had never thought that she would be on her own again after she married him, and to lose him after only a few short years together was more than she though she could bear.
#41 - Nowhere
One of his rare nightmares about the war woke them both up, and she spent the next hour holding him until he stopped shaking and reassuring him that she wasn't going anywhere.
#42 - Neutral
He was positive the baby would be a girl, and she was sure it was a boy; they ended up painting the nursery in a nice neutral color.
#43 - Nuance
"I'm fine," had many shades of meaning with him; he used the phrase to dismiss everything from paper cuts to stab wounds because he didn't want her to worry.
#44 - Near
Even years after he was dead and buried, there were times she could swear she could hear his laugh, smell his aftershave, or feel his arms around her, and she would know he was still with her.
#45 - Natural
His job required an exacting attention to detail and the ability to remember vast quantities of information; it was no wonder he never forgot her birthday or their anniversary, or to tell her he loved her.
#46 - Horizon
Whole new worlds had opened up for him when he married her, and they opened again when Elysia was born; he just wished the two of them had more time to explore them.
#47 - Valiant
Keeping up with him and Roy required a heroic effort on her part; he was the idea man, Roy was the strategist, and she was the one who provided material support, alibis and bail money.
#48 - Virtuous
He loved his family and friends dearly, and was willing to go to his grave to protect them if he had to; he prayed that would never have to happen.
#49 - Victory
When he grabbed her and kissed her, it pretty much killed the arguement they'd been having; as far as he was concerned, he could chalk it up as a win.
#50 - Defeat
She used the same tactic against him during an arguement a few months later, and when he could think again, he decided he didn't mind losing after all.