13: Ice skating at Central and the hot headed feud
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The next day Leo's already in my office.
"Morning Colonel!" He greets as I set my stuff down.
"Morning Leo. You're up and early today. How long have you been here?" I question as I sit down. I pull my drawer open and set the paper work I didn't finish yesterday.
"Oh Laura! I finished the work from yesterday for us. I managed to work on some for today." He informs me as he sets down a big stack of paperwork in front of me.
"Oh thanks." I thank him because it would have token us awhile to get them done. He smiles and scratches his head and I notice all the ink on his arms
"Are those notes?" I ask pointing to his arm. He gives a weak smile
"It's a list of what I wanted to get done. I was awake until 3 and slept for a couple of hours then I came in here."
"Oh well Leo you can sleep if you want instead!" I suggest and he shakes his head
"No. I'm fine! I've been drinking energy stuff so I'll be fine!" He ensures so I nod
"Whatever you say..." I look down at my paperwork trying to focus but he's bouncing all around the room. "Leo!" I bark and he looks at me
"Oh Laura! I have an idea what we can do! We're like 2 days ahead of our paperwork so let's have some fun!" He drags me outside into the courtyard where there's sparring matches. He blows ice all over the place and looks at me. "Ice skating!" He pulls me onto the ice but I scrim under his grip.
"No! Leo!" I scream as I slide when he throws me. I fall onto my butt and I'm still sliding. I try to get back to my feet when he glides next to me and pushes me again. I face plant myself into the ice and my tongue gets stuck. I pull trying to free myself when I hear some other footsteps get on the ice.
Armstrong pulls me up getting me free. He sets me on his shoulder and we start sliding along with Leo and Armstrong's lieutenants. Armstrong sets me down so I manage to somewhat ice skate. Leo and I skate together laughing and Armstrong throws us into the air and we're having fun when we hear
"What's going on here?" We all stop and try re composing ourselves but it doesn't help when we're slowly drifting. Fuhrer Bradley comes onto the ice with us. "I don't want to see my best officers dilly dallying on the job. This is a military facility and I expect you to be working for the greater good. So may I know why you're all slacking?" He asks so Leo answers
"Sir we're all advanced on our work and we thought to have some fun sir." Bradley gets in Leo's face
"You're not paid to have fun. You're paid to protect this country and do as I say. If I say you can have fun then you can. If I don't you can't. And I'm very disappointed in you Anderson. You out of all people should know better." Bradley looks over at me. "And you Colonel Fang; if Stone saw you know imagine how disappointed he would be. He certainly wouldn't want his legacy to be carried out this way. You already have one strike against you from your conduct with Colonel Mustang in the streets. Now if you reach 3 you're dishonorably discharged. And we know that the State has been your life for the past 19 years so do not make me do this. And control your company. Do I make myself clear?" He demands as he gets in my face.
"Clear as crystal sir." I mumble so he nods and leaves.
"Get rid of the ice." He orders and finally leaves. Leo comes over to me.
"I'm sorry. I should have thought better about it. I tend to forget that you're my boss and you get the blame if I act up." He apologizes so I shrug
"It's fine. C'mon let's go see if Colonel Mustang's still here." we go to find him because he's the Flame Alchemist meaning he can melt the ice and all we have to do if broom it away. I knock on his temporary office and he lets me in.
"Hey. I have a favor to ask you." I start as I walk in. He doesn't say anything so I look at him confused. "Something's wrong Roy?" I tilt my head down to give a sincere look. His eyes narrow a bit
"I don't like your Lieutenant Laura." He blurts out so I snap back
"Why the hell not? You first tried getting me to hook up with the guy but now all of a sudden you don't like him?" I demand and he clenches his jaw.
"Look I just don't. Something about him doesn't sit well with me." He explains trying to get me off of his case. I cross my arms
"I don't like your Lieutenant either Roy but I didn't have to be a little bitch about it. Now tell me why you don't like Leo." he laughs
"Ha as if I didn't know already. And you're even calling him by his first name aren't you?" he raises his voice at me.
"As if you don't address Hawkeye by her first name!" he gets in my face
"I don't. Because you know why? Because I'm not mixing pleasure with business Laura." He says flatly.
"What the hell gave you that idea Roy?! You out if all people should know that I'm not like that!" I punch him on his jaw. He grabs it and pops it back into place.
"Really? Don't think Anderson was randomly assigned to you; he asked if he could be. And really Laura? You don't see the damn signs? He took you out yesterday for food; he got you to dance; and now the ice skating? He's trying to hit on you." He blurts out. I nod my head and give a "I see," face.
"Roy, I didn't tell you about all of that." I state and he realizes his mistake. I shake ma head annoyed at him. "I can't believe you. You finally see that it's not always you who I can have a good time and you act like a jealous ex boyfriend! And why do you care?! You and Hawkeye are in a relationship!" I throw out in there to see how he reacts against the rumor. The reason why Eliza and I had always had a rivalry. We both like him so it's like we're waiting to see who he hits on first. When him and I were assigned different companies and she got placed under him it's when we really started hating each other's asses.
"Laura I'm not in an intimate relationship with Hawkeye. Now are you in one with Anderson?" He demands so I throw my hands in the air.
"I don't have anything to tell you." I'm about to leave when he grabs my wrist. I turn around and jerk my wrist out of his grasp. "Don't. And I hope you and your company return to Eastern Head Quarters safely." And I leave before he can stop me; so I just stirred up conflicts with him, I should have probably asked if he could melt the ice before I left. Ugh.