Disclaimer: FMA belongs to Arakawa Hiromu
Notes: And what's to say it wasn't his plan all along? Ohohohoho!
Sixty-three: Special Seat
"Sir, what is that?"
Mustang, grinning widely, took the time to farewell the men who had just delivered a giant box into the office. "Unless I'm mistaken – and I'm not," he said, with a predatory stride leading him to the box, "this is my new desk chair."
"New chair, boss?" Havoc, having taken the time to stop gaping, looked over at the chair sitting behind Mustang's old desk. "What's wrong with your old one?"
By this time, Mustang had opened the top of the box, and was pulling the dismantled chair out, piece by piece. "It's become stiff. It doesn't swivel any more, and barely leans back."
One by one, the other occupants of the room looked at the old chair disbelievingly. Just the other day, Mustang had had it leant back far enough to have his boots up on the desk. They remembered, because Hawkeye had made a fuss about the documents beneath his feet that he had unintentionally wrinkled and dirtied.
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It was just a little accident, really. No-one was hurt much. The guys had been throwing pencils into the ceiling while finishing up at work, just to pass the time until Feury completed his paperwork and they could all leave for the bar they'd been planning on visiting. They had the sense to know that before they left they should remove the pencils still dangling from the ceiling, so Havoc had grabbed the nearest empty chair at the time – Hawkeye's – and used it to reach the pencils. It wasn't until an ominous creak sounded that they remembered that the reason Hawkeye was the one who used this seat was because the others in the office couldn't sit lightly enough on it for it to be considered safe. Without further ado, the chair collapsed, and Havoc was left sprawled on the ground, uninjured, besides a slightly bruised ego. No-one was hurt much – other than the chair.
They left a note of apology, and Havoc was fully ready to forfeit his chair until they'd found a proper replacement for Hawkeye to use. Somehow, though, they weren't entirely surprised when they returned to work the next week to find Colonel Mustang in his old chair, completely content with the fact that Hawkeye was using his new one.