Author Note: Until I finish the other Royai story I am working on, this one will receive no more updates after this one. But since there is only one more chapter left, it should only be about a week and a half until it is finished. R&R please!
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It was 8:30 in the morning and Roy Mustang had just woken up. As he opened his eyes and stretched his arms, he listened for the familiar sound of the phone ringing. But he couldn't her it and he blinked a few times in confusion.
Riza usually called every day at 8:30 to wake him up. For some reason, she hadn't yet, but he woke up anyway.
After a few more moments of rest, he pulled himself out of bed; he was already awake, so he might as well get up. He changed into his uniform at 8:35 and wondered, once again, why Riza hadn't called.
Maybe she wasn't near a telephone or maybe she had slept in for once. At 8:48, Roy ate a bowl of cereal and his list of reasons for the absent call grew. Maybe she was in an early meeting or she was walking Black Hayate.
At 8:55 Roy climbed into his car; after finishing his cereal he had quickly brushed his hair and teeth before deciding to head to work early. He was worried about Riza; she may have been attacked or been incapacitated in some way. He knew he was being illogical, but there had to be a reason she hadn't called.
Roy's drive to headquarters, a drive which should have taken him 15 minutes, only took five. He had worked himself into a slightly panicked frenzy, deathly afraid something terrible had happened to his favorite subordinate.
He kept his expression level after he parked his car and strode briskly towards his office. A few lower ranked soldiers saluted as he passed, but he ignored them.
When Roy arrived at the office his subordinates worked in, he threw the doors open hastily. Nobody in the room even looked up as he entered the room and glanced over its occupants.
Fuery was tinkering with a radio in one corner, Breda was near him eating a bagel, and Havoc, Falman, and Riza were all huddled around her desk. Roy's heart rate immediately slowed as he laid eyes on Riza, glancing her over quickly for any blatant injuries.
Slightly surprised nobody had noticed his presence yet, even though the whole office had their back to him, Roy approached the group of three; he still had to ask Riza why she hadn't called.
He was only a few feet away from the group when Riza turned around to face him.
"Good morning Colonel," she greeted him. It was 9:03.
Roy responded, failing to notice Havoc's astonished glare, "Morning Lieutenant. What time did you get here today?"
"Hmm," Riza thought about it for a moment, "8 o-clock as usual sir."
"Really," Roy deadpanned, "Any reason you didn't call me this morning, since you were at the office and all?"
"Just a little test sir, though it wasn't my idea," Riza said as she glanced pointedly at Havoc. "Though it has seemed to work out, since you arrived to work two hours earlier than you normally do." She grinned subtly, rather amused with the situation.
Roy, on the other hand, was not amused. "Well don't do it again. I was… never mind." He glared at Havoc as if stumbling over his words was the other man's fault. "Get back to work, all of you!" Roy growled out at the slight crowd of his subordinates, and the command was quickly and efficiently followed.
A few seconds later, only Riza remained within five feet of Roy.
She was the only one who picked up on what he was trying to say with his fumbled words.
"You know sir," she said quietly, "If you were worried, you could have just called."
Sometime in the future, in an incident when Roy felt an unnerving chill up his spine and bought a ton of flowers, he would do just that.
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End Note: This took forever to type up, mostly because finals were in the middle of it. But I passed, so yay. I have officially survived my first semester of college. And am 30% of the way through this challenge!
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