Late post! Well blame college. But here's my fic for the first day of FMA 2015. XD

As for the title of the collection of one shots, I don't know why, I am not in the right thinking today. XD

Disclaimer: FMA not mine. :( XD


Riza Hawkeye's trust is very hard to earn. She guards herself, as if the world is a very dangerous place. Well, it is. At a young age, she had tasted the bitterness of life when her mother left them. Why did she leave? She keeps on asking herself every day. The first person she trusted and loved, disappearing into thin air without leaving an explanation. That was when she started building brick walls around herself.

It is hard, truth to be told. She is a young girl, and carrying bricks isn't something that one should do at an early age. But even though she kept on building these walls, she was also hoping for someone to be brave enough to break it. She wanted her father to be the one. Unfortunately, life didn't work the way she wanted. Her father built walls too – taller, sturdier ones. Her trust in him got lost in mixtures of cement. So instead of picking up what remained in the trust, she built and built.

Then Roy Mustang waltzed into her life.

He was armed – with wrecking balls and sledgehammers. And she was not prepared. Just when she was about to finish building the four walls, he wrecked one. She tried building it again, but there he was, swinging those wrecking balls and sledgehammers. Little by little, she gave up, and allowed him to break into her walls.

Her father had this knock of playing the role of the antagonist in her life. Just when Roy could fit into the hole he made in her wall, her father cemented it again by making her a human notepad. For flame alchemy. For his apprentice, who at the moment is the one tearing her walls down. It was uncalled for, but she blamed Roy. And then Riza started building again, but this time her walls are sturdier than before. One that even he can't break.

When Roy told her about his dream, Riza's wall deteriorated. She could trust his dreams, at least. And to his shock, Riza was the one who broke the walls for him to enter. She showed him her back, and he told her that tearing down her own walls will be worth it.

She regretted believing him. Regretted letting him inside her wall of trust.

Now, as she sees her trust being thrown away in the Ishvalan sands, she builds those walls again.


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