It's the end of Royai week! I had fun reading all the stories on tumblr and here on ffn, and it is all good! Thank you for reading mine as well. :)
Disclaimer: I don't owwwwwn FMA.
Their story isn't what one can call ordinary. Their lives are intricately woven into the other, that they have become inseparable. In Roy Mustang's past, she was there. In the present, she was also there. In the future, he will make sure that she is there. Although her role in his future is probably not like what he had dreamed of, as long as she is still with him, he'd be the happiest man alive.
In his past, she started to make her way into his life. He first met Riza Hawkeye when he was a teenager. She was three years younger than him. He was intimidated at first. What a very pretty girl, smart even. Back at Central, all the girls he meets are very, very dumb. And flirty. Riza was not any of those. She does not like talking to him, and she would rather spend her company with books than people. Roy almost ignored her. Almost. That small smile of hers told him not to.
She started to read The Tales of Woodrow City, Roy's favorite fictional book. He told her at breakfast how much he loved that book, and that he idolized the book's main character, Jay Reyes. She warned him no to spoil her. When she finished that book, she cried. Jay ended up with his childhood friend, Marie Ingrid. She loved Marie Ingrid. Roy almost told her that he wanted her to be his own Marie. They talked and talked about other books, and they become friends.
He could tell that time that Riza was already warming up to him. She knew all of his favorite food, and cooks them for him every Sunday. She insists that he accompany her to the market every week, and whenever guys their age tries to flirt with her, he would hold her and would intertwine their fingers. It was like they both knew that something was going on between them, but they would rather not acknowledge it. It does not need to be acknowledged. They both had become each other's Jay and Marie.
If Roy would be completely honest with himself, he missed their past. It was simple, ordinary. Unlike now, simple things like holding her hand would be hard to achieve. It all changed when he had to leave. She accompanied him to the train station. Riza looked normal, but Roy can see the sadness in her eyes. He did not know where did he gather the courage to cup her face and kiss her on that train station, but he did, and she kissed him back. It was euphoria.
On the second half of their past, he returned back to her home. Her father died in front of his eyes, and they buried him. They did not talk about the kiss, and when he saw her tattooed back, he felt like he had wronged her. She did not think of him that way though. For her, he was still Jay Reyes, and she was his Marie Ingrid. She told him that she trusted him.
Even during Ishval, she trusted him. Their reunion was very sickening; both of them became murderers of innocent people, and they saw each other on the battlefield. Riza saw what he did with the flame alchemy that she entrusted him, and yet she still believed in him. She asked him to burn her back, he did. That is one of the many reasons why their story is not ordinary.
Their present is mostly filled with forbidden long glances, their fingers touching even when it wasn't necessary, and their unspoken feelings. His love for her still exists, and it will never disappear. Roy knew that her love for him was just the same. Strong. Undeniable. Powerful.
He has dreams about them, of course. He dreamed of them being together in the open, going out in real dates rather than undercover ones. He dreamed long walks in the park with Black Hayate, with fingers intertwined. He dreamed of asking for her hand in marriage, and she would say yes. He dreamed of her walking down the aisle wearing white, and he would be waiting in the altar with tears in his eyes because finally, he would be able to marry his Marie. He dreamed of them having a little girl; she would have his hair and her mother's eyes.
If could wish for anything in the world, he wanted his dreams to become his future.
Roy knew that it would be impossible, though. He would never be able to hold her hand in public. He would never be able to ask her hand in marriage. They would never be able to have their own wedding photo, and they would never have their own kid. The anti-fraternization law exists for a reason, and in the future he would never remove that law just so they could be together. It's fine for Roy, though. As long as she stills stay by his side, he's still happy.
Riza is the only woman he wanted to achieve those dreams with, and if he cannot have her, then he wouldn't go looking for another. She is his only Marie Ingrid, and he wouldn't have it any other way.
Let me know your thoughts, please. :)
