Smile Like You Mean It

by Dailenna

Royai 100 Themes. Anything and everything from childhood, to alchemy, to Ishbal, to the coup, to parenthood. Roy Mustang, Riza Hawkeye, and the faithful comrades with them will stick together through it all.

3. Battlefield

Disclaimer: FMA belongs to Arakawa Hiromu

Notes: This one is set before the main FMA storyline, during the Ishbal war.

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Three: Battlefield

Two ashen-faced soldiers sat in the sand together; one with arms draped over his legs, the other's folded together on his knees, chin resting upon forearms. They sat in silence, each dwelling on his own thoughts, condemning himself and his actions.

A wince twisted at the bespectacled soldier's face before he spoke. "Y'know, Roy, love is a battlefield. This? This is a massacring grounds."

Somewhere not too far behind them, a weary sniper shouldered her rifle and stumbled away to her next duty.