Author Note: Sorry it has been so long, but I have been busy. The football team at my school lost 7 to 35 tonight, and I am in the marching band. We did much better than the football team. This is theme 93: Shackles

Disclaimer: nothing has changed; I still own don't own anything.

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She was shackled to him.

As small children they were first cuffed together. He went to learn alchemy from her father and she was polite to him. Roy would walk Riza to school and she would keep him keep him company whenever he had free time. She was part of the reason Roy joined the army. He wanted to protect common people, like her.

Flame alchemy drew them closer together. After her father died, the shackles should have vanished, but they did not. Roy felt like he dragged her to Ishval. All he wanted was for Riza to be free from him. He wanted her to be safe.

But she was not safe. She fought in countless battles; all for Roy. He thought she felt like she had to. That, for some odd reason, Riza Hawkeye felt obligated to follow him to hell. Or she was cuffed to him. Yeah, that must be it.

There was another reason that the shackles had to go. Roy refused to drag her to hell with him. The thought was intolerable.

After the war, he burned her back. Roy expected Riza to vanish after that, but the shackles were still there. He was astonished when she showed up in his office.

They stayed together for numerous years after that. Their peace lasted until King Bradley sliced the cuffs in half.

Roy prayed, to a god he didn't believe in, that Riza would take the opportunity to escape. Not that she was free she could run away from the Homunclus. She did not run, she stayed and faced her problems head on. Riza went to work for King Bradley knowing that she was a hostage. Roy tried desperately to get her to leave, but she refused.

Even with her shackles destroyed, she still followed him.

Or maybe, there were no shackles to begin with.

It was all in his head.

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End Note: Roy is guilt tripping. He does a lot of that. One of my friends, Baxter54132, is also doing the Royai 100 themes challenge. You should check his stuff out.

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