Many people wanted a continuation of my fic "Can You Hear Me" and I wasn't going to continue it, but this could maybe, kinda be considered a continuation. Written as a prompt drabble for onceandalwaysenglishmajor on Tumblr for the prompt Defy.

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How long had she been asleep? Roy couldn't remember. Four months? Five? The time seemed to blur with her gone.

He had been a wreck since the incident. Riza protected him once again, but this time, he was uncertain if she would ever come back to him. When the doctors first told him she had fallen into a coma and might never wake up, Roy felt numb. He couldn't imagine life without her in it. It was hard enough moving on without Hughes. If he were to lose Riza too, he didn't think he could handle it.

Roy released her hand and stood to leave at the end of his nightly visit. He looked down at her somberly and placed a chaste kiss to her forehead before sighing and walking toward the door of her tiny hospital room. As he reached for the door handle, he paused when something faint reached his ears. Something that sounded an awful lot like Riza's voice saying the word "Colonel." He briefly wondered if he was hearing things again until he slowly turned back to her and was met with Riza's tired yet strong gaze.

Defying the odds, Riza woke up and Roy couldn't have been more thankful for her stubbornness.