Chapter 4:- Lost Heart
When you fall in love, it's like heaven on earth. When your love is lost then there is nothing you can do or anything you want to do but cry. It's like that for girls but may different for boys.
Mustang is a strong man who fought many battles in his lifetime to rise to the top. He had always been a ladies-man but he also secretly dated about three men before knowing love.
It was his first true love and lucky for him, the men love him back. He didn't keep this boyfriend a secret, holding hands as they walked down the corridor of work with staring eyes lock on them. Like Mustang care, he was happier than anything and everything.
After a week or two the whole thing calm down and they went out for food which ended the same way for a while, Roy saying goodnight and a peck on the cheek at his love's flat door.
Roy didn't want to scary his beloved so took it slower than normal. In the end the boyfriend made the first move and he will never forget their first time together- together even if that person can't remember.
Life was heaven for the old men and his paperwork was finish in a record time but it had to go sour at some time because it was too perfect. The sour lemon is that his boyfriend went missing.
The morning after it happen, Roy was out looking all day and night. The next afternoon on the 2nd day, Mustang went into work with his head down and a dark look about him. It was an 'I will kill you' look but an emo look of wanting to die a little.
He sat down at his deck; everyone in the office looking towards him. His head dropped like a puppet losing its string. Hawkeye quick marched herself to his aid, asking "It anything wrong Sir."
Everyone already knew of what happen but she was being formal to someone higher up than herself. If they were outside then she would have put it differently.
He lifted his face up to see her with blood falling for the cut the appeared on his forehead. You shouldn't hit a wood table with your head; it's a stupid thing to do.
Riza clean him up but it didn't help his mood. He layer out on the deck with his hands over the side. His head down and eyes watching the black night on the deck in front of them.
His team were being busy bees around the office, working hard so their leader didn't have to. They complete work after work as the clock pasted through the hours and their General layer there, died.
"~~~~~" a sound came for –what everyone thought- was a dying Mustang. Hawkeye stepped to stand beside him then he fall, sort of. He moved along the table quickly. Stilling on his seat, he dropped from the table and wrapping his arms around his Lieutenant. His head press against her stomach.
"Sir is everything ok," Riza asked hoping that he wouldn't mumble the answer.
He rubbed his head across her belly before she kneeled down. She hugged him as Havoc started cleaning up for the end of the day.
Havoc said goodnight as the King and Queen were still there with Roy's head against Riza's stomach. Mustang hadn't spoken until Havoc leaved, "Why?"
She looked down with her hands on his head, she wonder what he was thinking. He continued, "Why would he leave his brother behind? Why would he leave his friends? Why would he leave me?"
"Roy, it's not you" Riza answered as a friend with her hand lifting his chin up to face any other. She smiled gently and sweetly, "He loves you and you him so please don't pin this on yourself, you silly old men."
"Hey, I'm only in my 30's," He reply getting his fire burning again.
To continue that flame, Hawkeye answer that with "Nine years more than Edward."
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A knock on the Elric's flat door, three times, before Alphonse finally answered it. He saw Mustang standing there, wet from the nights rain. He had a bag in his right hand like a shopping bag. The younger Elric let him in and sat him next to himself on the couch. Taking the bag and putting it aside as he rubbed Roy's back, "its fine."
The cat person hugged the dog person as they both shared pain, the pain of losing the person closest to other. The two stay there all night and the next morning, good thing that the blonde didn't have work.
That was the night when Roy started sleeping on the Elric's sofa and waiting for his love to return to his home, to his brother and to Mustang himself.
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