Full Metal Alchemist

This is placed before Hughes dies so just a warning all. I know that it was the worst and best scene in the series. Okay well I am using the Manga too. I like the death better there.

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Roses, Guns and Fire

Report Fourteen

Havoc said putting out his smoke. "Riza what is going to happen now?"

"Now we make him fuhrer." Riza stood up straight. They all nodded. All of them had waited for this day. The day that they would get to really help. "Jean you and Kain go see Glacia. Heymans take on the of the cars to CC find out if there are anything in Maes' office that we can use. Vato call up all your allies. When the boss wakes us I am going to head to the scene."

"Riza don't you think that we should lay low. Whoever did this could be coming after the boss next." Kain had a point. In that case they could have used Hughes to get Roy to get to Central. Maybe they did by killing.

"You guys try to do this as low as you can. I am going to take care of the boss don't worry. Our fearless leading is not going to die on my watch." She cocked her gun dramatically so that she would get the point across and ease the tension that engulfed her.

"When are we meeting up here again?" Jean said standing up.

"It's 9 am so meet back up at 3 pm. We will report back to Roy at supper." The rest stood up. "Let's get you guys some cars."

Riza watched them all leave praying that they would all be safe. Back in the house she called up Maria at the hospital. "Riza thank god are you here?"

"Yeah? What is wrong?"

"I am being told that the funeral is tomorrow at 9am. Glacia will not see anyone. She is taking calls but that is because Denny is working out the funeral for her." At least she is getting help. This is going to be killing Glacia. Maes and Elysia are her life. "Don't let Roy go see her." Roy is always welcome at the Hughes. Riza and Roy have a standing Saturday Dinner date with them.

"Why?"

"She told Denny, in one of her angry fits, that this was Roy's fault for not being here. That Roy should have come years ago to help Maes. Denny tried to tell her that if they were going to finish this mission that he would have to be out at Eastern. That didn't help. Glacia just went off on Denny about Roy's conceit. I see where she is coming from but I don't know what she will do if she sees the man himself."

"Thanks for the warning."

"Another thing. You might not be able to call me for a while. People think that I killed Maes. Glacia knows that is not true but the brass think that I did it. I could become a scape goat." Maria didn't seem distracted. The threat of the death penalty wasn't breaking the cool calm Maria that Riza knew. At least not over the phone.

"I will never believe that Maria. Whoever did this is not part of our group."

"Thank you Riza. Oh I have to go. Talk to you later." Riza said bye turning back to Roy on the stairs. She had heard him coming down the stairs.

"They are going to use Maria as the fall guy."

"Is that so?" Riza tried to think of Denny and how that would kill him if Maria was found guilty. Maria would be killed for it. Denny would lose the only woman he has ever loved. "Don't worry Riza." He left her face to him. "When the times come I will act. Please don't make that face. I will think of something to save her friend." That meant that he didn't have a plan but he would do something.

Riza put her arms around Roy hiding her head in his shoulder. "Denny is planning the funeral for tomorrow." His Riza was upset. He Had to find a way to save Ross.

"I think that there is going to be rain tomorrow."

"I know." Riza headed up stairs to get the plate that she left him but that is not how far she got. At her door Roy pushed her side. "Roy what are you doing?" He put a finger to his lips and waved her over to her window. Was there someone outside?

"Before I went for a shower that blue car was there." Over on the street there was a blue newer make car with two men in it. Riza went to her dresser to get a scope from the gun kit below it. "I am not sure but they can only see directly into these two rooms."

"And one other." Coming back she went to her knees to get a better view. "A man and a woman. Both are in Central Police Uniforms." One looked straight up at Riza smiled and mouthed `I see you.` Riza pulled back.

"What? What happened?" She shook her head.

"No nothing." Going back to the window the car was gone. "It's gone."

"Okay." Roy sat on her bed. "What was Hughes up to?"

"I don't know sir." Riza sat on her bed with him. Her heart beat so fast. She couldn't figure out why she was acting like a school girl. She didn't do it when she was a school girl.

"Riza do you think that we are getting over our heads?"

"No Roy. I think that we are wading in unfamiliar waters but I don't see us drowning any time soon." Roy sighed. "Come hell or high water I will see you in that office Roy."

"I think that we are going to see both." Roy just sighed laying back. "Glacia will not see you so how will you get in the house to see Hughes' files?"

"He wouldn't have left them there. That is the safe haven for his family. They are in his office." Riza said nothing. "Riza what haven't you told me?"

"Things that you don't need to know. Things that would stand in your way."

"Like Ed and Al in the hospital?"

"No." Riza glanced out the window then sat on the bed. "First off you can not stop me ever."

"Scouts honor." And so Riza told him all the rumors that she had heard about everything. Including the ones about them being secretly married. Roy took all he hear with a grain of salt until that part. "Married?"

"Yes now hush."

"No I have to get my thoughts in on this one. Us married?"

"Yes sir."

"Riza please. Could you ever see yourself married to me? I would have to stop dating?" For that he got a fist to the face. "Owww."

"Sir. I have never once seriously thought of you as the marring kind."

"Liar." Then Roy kissed her. "You know all those times that I was day dreaming in the office while you wanted me to do work. Well I was thinking about how good it would be to have you for a wife. How adorable of three kids would be. First I have to become fuhrer to make that happen. It is motivation these last couple years."

"What about the mini skirts?"

"That is just going to be a perk." He said smiling. For that he got another fist in the face. "Riza the only reason I am like this is because I can't have you. I can't come home to find you and your dog cooking dinner for me. So I date in hopes that there will be someone to pass the time with until you are mine. However I never find anyone with your beauty, charm, skill or brains. "

"Shut up Roy." Then she kissed him. This was breaking all the protocols that she knew again. All the rules that she clung to again. She wanted nothing more than to be with Roy again as they had been a few days ago.