Fanfiction: The First Lesson (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Title: The First Lesson
Fandom: FMA (manga version, but probably also works if you've only seen the anime)
Character(s): Riza and her grandfather
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Word Count: ~2525
Warnings: None. Set exceedingly pre-story (even before the flashback sequences), this piece is AU to the extent that it ignores one of Riza's comments about her family in the opening panels of chapter 60.
A/N: This story owes its existence to lyric_nonsense's fifteen-minute 'fic "To Serve and Protect", which prodded several latent ideas about Riza Hawkeye into closer proximity in my head. I had planned to write it as a fifteen-minute 'fic, too, but after the first three hours I gave that idea up. I should also mention the more distant inspiration of this story, with its piquant meditation on what young women really want. Many thanks to nateprentice for the weapons beta. Concrit welcomed with plum-cake, or perhaps a lunch box of my own invention. Crossposted from nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e. hagaren_manga, fm_alchemist, _rizahawkeye_, fullservicefma, fma_gen, fma_writers and fma_fiction).
Dedication: For cornerofmadness as YA early birthday present. (Hey, it's cheaper than booze and not half as fattening.) Many happy returns!

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