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Steady - Fullmetal Alchemist

Roy/Hawkeye. Set during his apprentice days, so there are very mild spoilers (if you can call it that) for that part of the story, and mostly Hawkeye-centric. Written for 52_flavours (theme 1: Kan, ya ma kan).
Fullmetal Alchemist © Arakawa Hiromu, et al.


On afternoons when his lessons ended early she made him coffee - never tea - always less sweet than he preferred it to be, and always warm. There had been no dainty porcelain cups for her; since the first day she brought him his coffee in a pewter mug, and both her smile and his thanks were always genuine. Now and then she sat with him, but only when invited, a conscientiousness that was as artlessly endearing as the rest of her.

"A teacher, perhaps?" she replied, not doubtfully but pensively, when he asked. "I'm not entirely sure yet what I'd like to be."

"But not an alchemist," he said, without a trace of accusation.

"I wouldn't know how to be a competent one." She was not sarcastic by nature, and always open with him. "And alchemy does spiral out of comprehension sometimes. I'd rather handle something more reliable."

He never asked for a second helping of coffee, and she never offered. There would always be the next afternoon.