He was made to serve.
She remembered the first time she saw him in uniform. He had looked awkward and out of place, but his voice rang in her head-
"I'll do great things, Riza!"
-and she believed he would, and so she believed that stiff blue wool would do great things too.
Time passed, and then came Ishval, and blue wool was a burden that marked him as a killer.
"Why are soldiers, who are meant to protect people, killing them instead?"
He didn't know. There were so many things he didn't know, so many cruelties he was too naive to expect, and so, so much death. But one thing was certain...
This was not what it means to serve.
And this was not what he was meant to do.
It wasn't. And after it was all over, and he was still alive, and the scorched desert sands only visited at night, he knew what was.
Roy Mustang was going to be Fuhrer. Some might call it a lofty goal, but with a little help-
"I'll follow you into hell if you ask me to,"
With a little help and a glimpse of her smile, and his firm resolution that one day, she would live in the world that they'd dreamed up together, a world where everyone could live in peace, he can accomplish his goals.
And he did.
"So...you won,"
"No, Hawkeye," He grabs her by the shoulders and pulls her against his chest, wraps his arms around her and hugs her as tightly as he can. At first she is stiff with surprise, but then lets her body relax and melt into his embrace.
"We won."
He rests his chin on her shoulder, and smiles, because it was all worth it in the end, because it wasn't truly the end at all, it was a new beginning.
He finally releases her from his embrace, and she steps back and smiles with all her teeth and salutes him with a energetic happiness that is bursting at the seams.
As she watches him walk away, tall and proud, through the empty halls of Central Headquarters, she remembers the awkward boyish cadet he used to be, and marvels at how he has grown into his stiff blue uniform, at the man he has become.
And she thinks to herself...
He was made to serve.
AN: I'm so excited for this! The fans who came up with the themes are geniuses. I cant say this first one is my best writing, but I'm about to post the second one after this, and that I'm proud of.