http://guardianed.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] guardianed.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] tampered2007-07-17 07:56 pm

Log; ongoing

When; July 17th, 7pm
Rating; PG?
Characters; Riza Hawkeye [[livejournal.com profile] guardianed] & Roy Mustang [[livejournal.com profile] flameroy]
Summary; After Hawkeye recovers from the aftermath of the Stupid Cupid curse, the Colonel asks the First Lieutenant to come talk to him over dinner.
Log;

Hawkeye stood outside the third building several minutes before the appointed time.

The aftermath of the curse had been really horrible. The documents she'd read upon her arrival had said, of course, that the curses were bad, but to experience one that was truly malevolent took the idea to a whole new level.

It was a level that cost the First Lieutenant the composure she prided herself on; the composure that kept her alive at home. At least she'd had the sense to avoid seeing people that day. The well-wishes and invitations for company she'd had to brush off- she'd done it rather more sharply than perhaps she'd needed.

But to do it to her superior officer- the one she'd respected and promised to follow, to say she couldn't come see him, that she didn't have the composure, the self-control, to quash down the raw emotions and anger coursing through her that day- that had stung.

Several days later, she'd finally dubbed herself able to carry a conversation without wanting to shoot something or break down in tears, and the Colonel had asked her to see him. She'd known he would, made the offer on the network. What right did she have to refuse his offer of dinner? Her apartment she could rule out as a meeting place. But she had no right to deny him the time to talk to her.

So she was several minutes early, standing at attention, the usual three pistols in their holsters. She had her composure; there was no reason to be unprepared.

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