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Plot: Sometimes you just need to unwind after a long day's work. Roy and Hughes enjoying some of that sweet nectar known as alcohol.



Roy sat across from Hughes at one of the tables away from the bar thinking momentary about the day's when he worked as a bartender for madam wile he was home from the military academy. Their was one year also where he had gotten Hughes a job working with him at the bar. As they sat at the table he tried to recall what they used to call the brass who always sat away from the bar. Table sitters, Roy thought to himself, the name wasn't very clever but at the time it seemed to amuse him. Now he and Hughes were the ones siting away from the nosy bar off by the juke box so that he wouldn't have to go far to play a relaxing song. "So how's work in the investigations department been?" Asked Roy as he tipped back his beer taking a swig of the cold bitter liquid. "Was it everything you ever dreamed of?" Roy ask with a smirk, Hughes always was a good detective, he wondered if the military was really letting him live up to his skills.

Roy leaned back in his chair and looked down at his drink. "I'm not sure....I want to say no but I can't be so sure." Roy thought back remembering the celebration after the war and the group of five men who came and thanked him. "Did you know I didn't even recognize the people in my own party an alchemists role on the battle field isn't like that of a regular soldier they role you in to the front like they would a weapon made of iron I didn't fight with anyone to my right or to my left they were all so far behind I never met those people until after the war. We aren't necessarily alone their are snipers who watched our backs but we had very little direct contact with other troops...at least in my case anyway. I was sent to clear out towns and villages and when I came down the road all other troops where instructed to get the hell out of the way.." Roy held his glass up to his lips and took a quick sip of the cold alcohol. "I when your by your self you can't help but think about what your doing, theirs no comrades to serve as a distraction from those thoughts....But at the end I had people thanking me for protecting them, and because of that I don't know how to answer your question..." Roy looked back over at Hughes knowing it was unlike him to bring up the war. Hughes usually avoided the subject, it seemed unusual that he would be the one to bring it up, Roy wondered if any of those feelings that he had decided to bottle up had been getting to him lately. "Sometimes I have nightmares but over months and years I've started sleeping more soundly.....You know I find it a bit odd for you to be bringing this up.... Usually I'm the one to ask questions like that......Have you been all right lately?"