Dear Readers,
Thank you so much for hanging around so long.
When I initially wrote "Two Drinks For One", I never intended for it to extend for so long. I actually started this fan fiction over one year ago after watching an episode of Full Metal Alchemist. Every time I saw Riza and Roy in that series, I would always feel the need to read some fan fiction in order to satisfy my urge to want them together. It was one evening where I figured I would try to make a story, and I did. This produced about six chapters.
I actually intended to keep writing it after that point. The only thing was, I couldn't really think of what direction to go after chapter six. I kept trying to write the next chapter, but nothing ever came to me. In time, I eventually dropped the fan fiction and forgot about it. From that point on, I had proceeded to write others, letting this one collect dust.
However, a strange thing happened. Over this year I kept getting reviews and favorites as well as people begging me to continue. I honestly didn't understand it. I just figured it was something stupid that I whipped together one evening just to satisfy how much I shipped these two. However, seeing all of this made me debate as to whether or not I wanted to try and finish it.
This being so, I reread the chapters I already had written. I never before had realized just how cute of stories I wrote. I was always told that I did, but I never realized it. I saw my chapters and realized that I loved the story. I was debating rewriting them, but I feared that I couldn't capture those same sweet moments that I initially intended.
But I realized something: I focus more on the emotional side of their love.
I thought about letting them take it to a physical level, but I just couldn't do that. I knew I wanted to imply it in the story, but I never wanted to write it out. I felt that I couldn't grasp the concept of their love in text through a physical fling as much as I could just taking those moments where they were simply together and extending them into something magical.
Their love was beautiful the way I wrote it, and I didn't want to change that.
I honestly never wanted to stop writing this. If I could, I would have extending this story on forever. I loved it more than anything I have ever written in my lifetime. However, I knew that I couldn't keep this on forever. As much as I hated to end it, I couldn't let the feelings of this story die through an endless tale. I cried as I wrote this last chapter. There were tear drops flowing down my cheeks as I ended it. I never thought I would see it come, but I was both happy and sad about the way I ended this. I wanted it to continue forever, but I know that good things always have to end somewhere.
And you know, I am happy about that. I hope that this story allows people to feel those same emotions that I felt while writing this. I laughed, I cried, I felt all of these emotions throughout the story and I loved it. I hated to be dragged away from my laptop because I wanted to keep writing. I loved the emotional connection that I created with these words. I would sit in public, smiling stupidly as I thought about how I would write the next chapter. I would hug my pillows at night, giggling as I thought about "What can I write tomorrow?". It was exciting, I loved it. It instilled emotions that I wanted to keep.
Plus, I have always been a Royai fan. I can't deny that they have, for as long as I have watched Full Metal Alchemist, been my one true pairing, my OTP if you will. From the days back in fifth grade when I began the series, to seeing Brotherhood now, over six years later, coming to an end in America, I have always itched for those two to be together. I always wished that it would happen, and I still secretly do. I don't know if the creator ever wanted them to be together truly, but I know that their relationship is one that I always admired and adored.
Either way, as emotional as this is for me, I must say goodbye to you all and this story. I will be continuing my others now that I dropped specifically so that I could finish this. I hope that maybe one day I can write another Royai fan fiction, but I never will know if I can make it as emotional for me as this one here.
As a bonus though, I have decided that I wanted to write an epilogue for all of you that stayed around for so long. I hope that you enjoy it and it satisfies to the ending of this story.
With much love and tears,
WinryMarellie.