10. Promise
A/N: Song: "Everybody's Fool" by Evanescence.
She'd promised she'd shoot him. And Riza Hawkeye always kept her promises, or tried to. Those who couldn't keep the promises they made—whether they knew it from the start or not—could never truly help those who committed themselves to keeping their promises, no matter the cost.
Riza had always been able to keep the promises she'd made in the past. It was something of a point of pride, even if they weren't promises she'd been happy to keep, but it was part of why people looked up to her. If only they knew all the things she'd agreed to. Sometimes, she hardly knew, herself.
As she gazed into the mirror, she couldn't help the jolt of anger that passed through every nerve. By promising to shoot him, she'd betrayed him, her father, and herself.
He'd warned me this would happen. Riza grinned sardonically. He'd promised. And my father always had a way of keeping his promises.
There was no way she could save Roy or herself this time, and there never would be, as long as she intended to keep her promise. If she ever had intended to in the first place. So, to keep the promise, or not?
This was one battle Riza Hawkeye knew she wasn't going to win.