Once again, I'm sorry this took so long in the posting. Hurricane Ike, the first hurricane ever to hit Ohio that I know of, swept through and knocked out our power for a week. It's taken me the better part of a month to get used to writing on a computer again.
As always, I am still not Hiromu Arakawa, and I still do not own Fullmetal Alchemist or any of the characters or situations associated with it.
This couple is purely manga-based, and only had two scenes and a comic strip in the back of Volume 17 devoted to them (so far). Reviews are welcome, and, once again, all flames will be directed to the appropriate alchemist. If you're good and tell me what you think, I'll even do a bonus chapter.
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Jean Havoc and Lust
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#01 – Ring
The ring he'd been planning to give her had been living in the bottom of his coat pocket for weeks the day she nearly killed him; he'd been planning to ask her to marry him.
#02 – Hero
She always liked his stories; he was no hero, but he always made her laugh.
#03 – Memory
Being with him triggered memories of her past life, of having truly loved and been loved before, only to have lost that love to illness and death.
#04 – Box
Envy found the black velvet jewelry box that the lieutenant had dropped in the fight and kept it, even though the significance escaped him.
#05 – Run
Before he realized she actually liked his stories, he was afraid he was boring her silly; she probably had better things to do with her time than listen to a down-at-heels army lieutenant let his mouth run.
#06 – Hurricane
His story of the inland hurricane that had hit in the East had to be a tall tale; if he was telling the truth, the wind had been strong enough to uproot trees, bring down power lines, and nearly carry away a miniature alchemist with a mouth like an open sewer.
#07 – Wings
When Colonel Mustang heard that his second lieutenant had been seen around town with a beautiful brunette, his first instinct was to start looking for pig-bird hybrids in the trees.
#08 – Cold
She didn't feel the cold the way humans did, so she was more surprised than grateful when he took his jacket off and draped it around her shoulders to protect her from the chill of the night air.
#09 – Red
Black was her signature color, but he always thought that she would look good in red
#10 – Drink
The relationship had started casually enough when he met a pretty girl at a cafe and offered to buy her a drink; if he'd known what would happen, he might have had second thoughts.
#11 – Midnight
He hadn't noticed how long they'd talked until he noticed the bartender wiping down the bar and putting chairs up on the tables; he'd never stayed up until the wee hours of the morning just trading stories with someone before, and neither had she.
#12 – Temptation
When he asked about her parents and if she had brothers or sisters, she was more than tempted to take him to meet the other homonculi, but instead told him that she was an oprhan, and had no living family.
#13 – View
His shock at seeing the ouroborous tattoo on her left breast was genuine, and Roy was amazed that his subordinate had never seen her naked before.
#14 – Music
His story about the girl who lifted pianos as a hobby rather than playing them was hilarious; she laughed, but at the same time, she couldn't help but feel sorry for him.
#15 – Silk
He knew she was a lady of quality when he first set eyes on her; the price of the silk her dress was made of would have bought his groceries for a month.
#16 – Cover
She always wore high-necked dresses when she went to see him; they hid her mark, and she didn't want him to know what she was.
#17 – Promise
When his mother realized that he was truly serious about this new girl he was seeing, she made him promse to bring her home with him the next time he was on leave.
#18 – Dream
What he really wanted was the same thing his parents had, and Lt. Colonel Hughes had had – an adoring wife and children to come home to.
#19 – Candle
Sciezka watched with envy as he left headquarters to meet the mystery woman he'd been seeing; she sounded like a heroine in a cheesy romance novel, and she knew there was no way she could ever hold a candle to her.
#20 – Talent
Envy had watched her pull the wool over dozens of people's eyes since she'd joined them; only this time, he had to wonder if she wasn't fooling herself this time, too.
#21 – Silence
He knew she was the one when even the silences between them were comfortable.
#22 – Journey
When he looked into her eyes for the first time, the long trip from Eastern to Central suddenly seemed worth it.
#23 – Fire
Hawkeye was grateful that he'd lost consciousness after the colonel seared his wounds closed; he didn't need to witness his commanding officer killing the woman he loved over and over again until she stayed dead.
#24 – Strength
When she first chose to go after him, she'd figured that he would cave to her wishes like a house of cards, but he had a strength of personality that she hadn't expected.
#25 – Mask
She hoped that after they found the Philosopher's Stone, she could face him as a human woman, rather than as a homonculous playing dress-up.
#26 – Ice
He took her ice-skating the first winter he was in Central; his arms around her as she wobbled around the ring for the first time was well worth the bruises she'd have in the morning.
#27 – Fall
She'd planned on using him to get information about the Elric brothers and Mustang and his men; she hadn't planned on falling for him.
#28 – Forgotten
He reminded her of someone she had known a long time ago, in another time and place, but for the life of her she had no idea who it could have been.
#29 – Dance
They went dancing on their second date; he didn't know a waltz from a foxtrot and stepped on her feet several times in the course of the evening, but they both still had fun.
#30 – Body
She was everything he wanted in a girl – smart, cute, funny, a good personality, and a body that just wouldn't quit.
#31 – Sacred
The idea of a home and family seemed almost sacred to him at times; she never had the heart to tell him that she could never bear a child.
#32 – Farewells
Stabbing him in the gut was a lousy way for her to tell him goodbye; he preferred it when she kissed him.
#33 – World
He would have given her the world if she had asked for it, and if she'd been human, she'd have accepted.
#34 – Formal
She always thought it was cute the way he would stand up when she arrived, or always bring her fresh flowers; it was the old-fashioned, formal touches that made their relationship.
#35 – Fever
In the worst of his fever, after he'd been rushed to the hospital, he was still calling out for her; Hawkeye had no idea how he would cope once he was back in his right mind.
#36 – Laugh
He always played up the humor when he told her about the people he worked with; he loved to hear her laugh.
#37 – Lies
She'd been trying to figure out how to break it off with him for a while now; she was tired of lying to him, but didn't think he could handle the truth.
#38 – Forever
He had hoped to spend the rest of his life with her; instead he was going to spend it in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down and living on a government pension.
#39 – Overwhelmed
The first time he said he loved her, she didn't know what to think; usually, the only time a man ever said that to her was when he was in the throes of passion, not having lunch with her at an outdoor cafe.
#40 – Whisper
They weren't really rumors – just whispers, really – of inhuman monsters lurking in the background and killing people who got too close to finding out what they were, but when he warned her to be careful of them, she laughed and said she had nothing to worry about.
#41 – Wait
Gluttony knew that her interest in the human couldn't last forever; he couldn't wait much longer for her to let him eat him.
#42 – Talk
Unlike her previous relationships, long talks about about their hopes and dreams for the future outweighed the physical aspects; oddly, though, she really didn't mind...much.
#43 – Search
The quest for the Philosopher's Stone had indirectly brought them together; she'd hoped it would let them stay together, too.
#44 – Hope
The one thing he really hoped for in their relationship was that she would not let herself be stolen away from him by Colonel Mustang.
#45 – Eclipse
Colonel Mustang always bragged about the beautiful women he went out with, but in his eyes, she eclipsed and surpassed every one of them, including the lovely but lethal Lieutenant Hawkeye.
#46 – Gravity
She remembers, barely, a white-haired man making jokes about gravity catching up with her eventually, but in the time she'd known him, he never made a comment like that in her presence.
#47 – Highway
Whenever she said she had to travel, he always worried about her; there were a hundred things, none of them good, that could have happened to a single woman on the road by herself.
#48 – Unknown
As he remembered more and more of their conversations, he realized that she'd never told him anything about herself; she'd let him make assumptions and had never bothered to correct them.
#49 – Lock
Even after he'd been married for ten years, he'd never told his wife about her; he'd kept that set of memories locked away in the back of his mind for all that time, and rarely touched them if he didn't have to.
#50 – Breathe
The first time she kissed him, he nearly forgot how to breathe; fortunately, instinct and common sense took over and saved him any potential embarassment.