Full Metal Alchemist
This is placed before Hughes dies so just a warning all. I know that it was the worst and best scene in the series.
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If I did I wouldn't be writing fan fics.
Roses, Guns and Fire
Report Four
"Colonel what are you doing back so soon?" Her face was as stern as always. "Shouldn't you be at work?" Roy gripped the end of the bed. Not wanting to look at her face. It would just be harder. Droplets fell to the bed.
"Riza do you love him?" Her face paled so that it was the white of the sheets. "Do you love him?"
"Yes. I love Miles." Roy shot up to her face. Ever emotionless ever beautiful. "Is that what you wanted to hear?"
"What?"
"I have no time for love. I admit that I do have feeling for him but I don't love any man." The general mad a scrunched up face. "I love you grandpa." Was she convincing enough? "I shall be released in the morning. The doctor said that I would be fin to go back to work by Friday. For now can I get some rest?"
"Riza I am not playing games." Games? "If you don't love him and he had something to do with his accident then I am going to beat the living tar out of him. If you love or even like him I will not lay a finger."
"Roy Mustang, you leave the poor man alone. Yes I like him I am sleeping with the man after all." Riza jumped from her bed. "I don't beat up any of your women? What did Miles do to you?"
"I know that he is the reason you are in this bed. I know in my soul that you are lying about something. I just pray to god you are not protecting him." Roy took hold of her shoulders. "Tell me once and for all. Do you love him?" For a long while their eyes met digging out the meaning to this whole conversation. "Riza-"
"If I was?"
She saw the emotional Roy pull away from her and become that battle hard man that made her fear for is sanity. "Then I will have the boys take him back to his shop. I will pay for all the lost sales and I will wish you well."
"You will leaves us be and never speak of this again?"
"You have my word."
"Then yes I care deeply for him. Yes he was the cause to my fall last night but it was more my fault than his. I forgot to tell him the tub leaks so he didn't know there would be water all over the floor." Roy was not satisfied though she had answered all the questions he didn't ask.
"Fine I will see you at work on Friday." Then Roy left. When she heard that he was gone she fell to her knees. Her grandfather was right there in a second to comfort her.
"When he becomes Fuhrer I will not have to watch you hurt any more." Grumman let his only grandchild cry in his arms until she was too tired to talk. "Come now child rest. You have to be at the top of your game for Friday. No doubt Miles will have some questions as well." That was the last thing that Riza needed to be reminded of.
On the way home Roy's only thought was what was he going to do with her? Maybe he should call Hughes. Hughes! Havoc told him to come but there was nothing for Maes to do here. Seeing a phone near a flower vendor Roy stop calling his friend's home phone.
"Hello Hughes Residence." The female answered. Glacia always great to hear her calm warm voice. Roy smiled.
"Hey Glacia, it's Roy is Maes around?"
"Roy no heavens something is happening at work right now so he won't be home until late. He did tell me that he will not able to help you. "Just don't flame someone." Was his message for you." Roy laughed.
"Don't worry. I will send him back Ross and Brosh asap. You might want to send some little cakes like Riza likes though." He turned to the flower vendor.
"What happened Roy? This is not like you." Out came the worried mom. Maes had snagged a good wife. "Did something happened to Riza?"
"This morning I found her bleeding all over her bathroom. She swears to me she fell but I am worried."
"Well if she said she fell she fell. I can't see the toughest woman I know this far south falling prey to some vandal in her own home. Not with Hayate there." That was just the reassurance that Roy needed. Riza was not the delicate flower. Riza is a hard as nails career soldier. She has been through war and that has made her stronger. "How did Miles take it?"
"He is the one that I thought attacked her."
"Miles never. He loves her with all his heart. He hates you by the by and he has never met you." Glacia laughed. "I think you should start letting her have a life of her own. It will let her know what is important."
"Unlike some she knows what is important." Roy looked at the back of his glove. The lesser symbol to the one that was on her back. He would never forget her asking him to erase it. "Unlike me."
"I don't see that as true. You found her hurt and did everything you could to find out what happened. That tells me that you think that she is important."
"Glacia I love her. I always have. I probably always will. Even if I have to give up my commission and crash her wedding one day I will prove it to her."
"Now there is the dashing young Roy Mustang the girls all love. Make it up to her."
"Make what up to her?" There was a stirring in the back ground. "Glacia?"
"Sorry Roy my baby girl just woke up. I will have to let you go."
"Have a good night and kiss her for me." Glacia laughed saying goodnight. Roy hung up the phone. Those flowers were calling his name. Riza's favorite yellow roses were begging to be bought. Two dozen roses should be enough to say sorry. Would she forgive him though? Only time would tell.
That night when Riza woke to have her vitals checked there were two bundles of Lilacs and 2 dozen yellow roses. The lilacs had to have come first. Miles would have thrown out the flowers she was allergic to. Then she realized she wasn't sneezing. Reaching to touch them she found they were fake. Silk roses to match her hair. That is what she was told on her 16th birthday. If only that night didn't go that well maybe she would love him now.
"Riza are you okay?" Miles walked back in the door with coffee in his hands.
"Yeah I was just trying to each the card for the flowers." Miles put the cup down.
"I think that your grandfather brought these. Who else would know that you are allergic?" Riza smiled in the dark. Her dark prince, that was probably still here somewhere watching. Waiting to see if she rejected them.
"Miles can you go get me more water?" He kissed her forehead and left. "I know you are here. I don't have to read the card. I know what it says and I forgive you. Now go to work. If I have a pile as tell as me when I get back I will shoot you myself." There was the rumble of Roy's laughing. "Just go now before Miles gets back." There was a rustling in the dark. "Oh and Roy, we are not teenagers anymore. If you want to say sorry say it to my face."
"Then I would have to kiss you too." He said it so low that normal people would not be able to hear. It was the softness that made her heart race. Just as it did when they were kids fooling around when her father wasn't around.