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Not-so-secret secret, writing Hughes is obscenely fun, and every time I do it, I’m baffled that I don’t just shoehorn him into every single fic. X’D

PROBABLE CAUSE TO CRY UNCLE (PART I) (@DW)

Roy Mustang is a man of such innumerable talents that most of them don’t even receive any attention—which is a good thing these days, since lately one of his best-honed skills is surreptitiously ogling Edward Elric.

There are, of course, two primary problems with this incomparable aptitude: the first is that Riza sees it and knows exactly what he’s doing regardless of how covert he is at any given time; the second is that Ed doesn’t notice a damn thing, which means that absolutely nothing but a smidgeon of eye-strain has come of it thus far.

That’s all right.  Ed has found his feet now, after a bit of rest and a bit of traveling and a bit of auditing university courses and complaining vociferously to anyone who will listen about the content; he’s returned to Roy’s command of his own free will, and that in itself is a blessing past description.  He’s here, present and accounted for and much more inclined to respect hierarchical authority at least seventy percent of the time, and that’s more than Roy would have asked or could have hoped for.  It would be obscene to fish for more—hubris has hamstrung better men.  Roy is not in the business of cordially inviting his own destruction; it has a tendency to slam the door open and stroll on in without his assistance as it is.