The Sun

Part II


He couldn't believe his eyes when he entered their bedroom. She was there, lying on the floor, her hand outstretched like she wanted to grab into some kind of safety... and blood oozing from between her legs.

He screamed in fear, but a part of him, cold, rational, emotionless, took the place inside his mind and grabbing her, ran to his car, driving the quickest possible to the closest hospital, without noticing his bodyguards running behind the car.


It took too long for someone to talk to him. He couldn't stop his hands from pulling his hair, his tears running freely through his face, no worry for his public image permeating through his personnel hell. He couldn't make himself got up and clean his bloodied hands, so, when his friends appeared and saw that, they couldn't stop the pitying looks and sorrowful ones. In that moment Roy hated them all.

When finally a doctor appeared he jumped to his feet, his hair looking like a bird's nest, his eyes red and his face pale and sweaty.

"Congratulations, you have a very healthy boy..." the man said, but Roy couldn't understand what was being said because the words wife or Riza didn't entered the sentence.

The doctor expected a reaction, but when Roy kept his fearful expression he understood his confusion.

"Your wife is sleeping, it was miracle that you found her so soon. When she wakes you can present her boy to her" the doctor said with a smile and Roy felt like his body was unfreezing. He felt his knees shake and if it wasn't for a blonde man, that knew all too well how your legs could deceive you, he would have fallen.

"So, are you ready to see your son?" the doctor asked and Roy shook his head, surprising the people watching him.

"I will wait for Riza to wake up. I want to share that moment with her, please." he said and the other man nodded knowledgeably.


It was almost sunset when she stirred. Her eyelids fluttered and her irises slowly appeared. He jumped to his feet to watch her closely.

"Hi!" she croaked, smiling tiredly.

"Hey..." he replied softly, his voice too embargoed to say anything else.

"I'm sorry for worrying you" she said, noticing his tense posture.

"You idiotic woman!" he said, before burying his face in her hair. "Thank you for giving me a son" he said and he felt her smile grow.

"Where is he?" she asked, looking around, like Roy could be hiding him.

"I wanted to wait for you to wake up..." he confessed and he saw her brows furrow.

"You waited for me..." she pondered, noticing how his eyes changed while saying those words, like it always happened when he tried to hide something from her. And he saw with surprise her face darken. "I'm really touched that you wanted to wait for me, but what if I didn't wake up?" she asked and he looked surprised.

"But you did!" he replied hotly.

"Yes, I did, but what if something went wrong? What if the doctors were too late? I know you love me, but you have to promise me if anything happens to me you won't let our son grow up without a mother and a father!" she said, with her tone turning harsh. "You don't have the right to stop your life because I'm no longer here..." she could remember one of his nightly conversations about fearing his quality as a father and about losing her and the baby, the fear of being alone once again, of burying another loved one…

"But it was you who said that you wouldn't live in a world without the flame alchemist, how can you be so hypocrite?" Roy replied, remembering the pain of hearing her words all those years ago, while the madness made him act ruthlessly.

"In that time I didn't have a reason to live without you, you were the one that my life revolved around, but right now, I can't think only about myself... We have someone that needs our protection, our love, now he is our world!" she said and smiled when Roy's eyes fell, shame written over his features.

"Hey" she said, touching his face and making him look at her. "Everything is fine now, we are fine! All I want now is to see our son!" and Roy smiled his old smile.

"I bet he is handsome just like his old man!" and Riza laughed at his antics.

The baby was a carbon copy of his father, with a mane of black hair and Riza's golden eyes. And when the father looked at him he knew his world no longer gravitated around Riza, he had now another sun to protect and to love, until his last breathe. He was only a satellite and those two golden eyed angels were the suns he always wanted to have, warming his heart.


Such a cheesy ending, but I couldn't stop myself... I hope you like it! Please, comment, it always illuminates my day!