*Thank for the follows and favourites, even though its only one on each... It gives me hope! I'm trying so hard to write but I had loads of exams I had to revise for... T.T sorry!*
Mustang's office.
When Riza knocks on the door, Mustang opens the door with his normal grim face and looks down at me.
"Riza, who's this young lady?" He asks.
"This is Nika, Sir. She wanted to see you." Riza says walking into the office beside the Colonel.
"Oh really? Why?"
"M... My mother told me to go to you if anything happened to her... She said you would help me..." I say rubbing my arm.
"Really? Well I guess I could help." Roy says, slightly smiling and pats me on the head.
Smiling lightly I clentch my fists, "What is this a petting zoo?! Don't do that!" I accidentally strike out and punch Roy Mustang hard on the arm.
"Ow... Why you!" He says grabbing his gloves, screening I run behind Riza.
"Don't burn me to ashes please!" I exclaim shivering as Riza puts a reasurring hand on my shoulder.
Putting his gloves down, Roy sits at his desk, "So what was it that you wanted to talk to me about?" He says calmly placing his hands in front of him on the desk.
I step forwards away from Riza, "I want you to adopt me!" I grin hopefully and sure of myself.
"Huh?!" He says with a shocked look on his face, "OK, I don't know the first thing about being a dad, so what makes you think I'm OK with it?!"
"I know you'll make a great dad. And my mother even said to defiantly be adopted by you and you alone." I say nodding. 'I'm way too easy lie now...' I think to myself frowning.
"Urm... OK then... As long as you don't get in my way and can you cook?" Roy asks.
"I think I can make pasta... Soup?" I say thinking hard, "I can also clean, but not very well."
He perks up, "Really?! That's great! I'll adopt you then. I'll get the files ready, which orphanage are you in?"
"Urm... I ran away from it, when they found out I was already long gone I expect." I say whincing and rub the back of my head.
Oh, all right then, I guess well have to make some then." Roy says, "Riza get resource base to draw up some adoption forms for her so its fully legal." Roy says and Riza bows and heads off to Resource.
"Really?! You'll adopt me?" I say running round his desk and I flop hug him, almost making him fall over, "Oh, um sorry." Standing up I walk back around the desk before I get pat on the head again. Roy laughs, "Its OK sprout, you can hug me whenever since I'm your dad now." He looks down at me with a smile on his face.
"Urm Mhn!" I nod and grin up at my new Dad, smoothing down my dress I sit down in the chair opposite to Roy's desk.
We wait around, getting to know each other for around 3 hours when Riza comes back with a pile of forms.
"Riza!" Roy says smiling and taking the papers off her, "Where do I sign for these?" He asks sitting down at his desk.
"Why, aren't you chipper?" Riza says smiling walking round to point out where he had to sign, "All the ones with X's on. And you need to fill out her data. Date of birth, name, age, etc etc."
"Okay!" He says scribbling down his signature a load of times and goes on to fill out the data he knew about me.
"When's your birthday? I never asked!" Roysays.
"Urm... 16th of October." I say looking over the desk to see what he was writing, "I'm fourteen this year."
"OK." Roy scribbles down some extra stuff and passes the forms back to Riza, "Take these back down to resource, so they can send them off." Roy says getting up, "Well, its pretty late I shout head on home. Come on Nika. Time to go."
"Hold on sir, I think you can come with me to resource since you're leaving anyway and its on the way." Riza says grabbing Roy by the scruff of his shirt and dragging him down the hall way with me in tow.
"Slow down you guys!" I shout down the hall as they turn a corner. I accidentally knock into someone and I rub my head, "S... Sorry."
"No, its OK. You shouldn't be running though." A man says, I look up and see a man with an eye patch. My eyes widen and I stumble backwards a little, "H... Homun..."
"Hm? What was that?" Fuhrer Bradley says smiling.
"Nika! What are you doing back here?" Roy asks walking towards us, "Oh! Fuhrer!" He bows and pulls me towards him, "Sorry if she said anything rude Sir."
"No, not at all. Now I must leave see you all around, bye Nikka. I hope we meet again!" He says and walks away. We run down the hall to resource with Riza and hand in the forms, then we all head home.
"This way, Nika." my new dad Roy Mustang says pulling my lightly up the steps on the front porch of his small house. Its quite well looked after, he provably has a gardener, the paint is pale in contrast to the dark night and I find myself smiling at the sight of my new home.
" O... OK, Dad." The word feels stiff on my tongue, I never even called my real dad, dad, that often.
Roy stops for a second and turns around, smiling, "I'll have to get used to that." He walks to the door and opens it, the prominent stench of rotting food wafts through the air. Gaging slightly I walk into the house.
"The hell is that rotten smel!" I say waving my hand in the air above my face.
Grinning sheepishly, Roy walks in behind me, "I... Its not that bad is it?" He says guiltily.
"Yes it is." I say coldly staring my foul stare at the man who doesn't clean.
"Heh... Heh..." Roy says knocking a few bits across the room, "I don't have anywhere for you to stay so you can stay in my room, I'll sleep on the sofa." He says walking upstairs, manoeuvring around the piles of luck in the hall.
"Urm... OK." I say following Roy up to his room where I'll be sleeping.
"Here you go." He says, opening a door to a semi clean room. My breath catches and I sit on the half-made bed, yawing I lie down and shuffle under the covers and drift off the sleep.