25. "So I'm crying"
A/N: Song: "Never Gonna Be Alone" by Nickelback
Takes place sort of in the middle of 108, just after Riza's been stitched up, so I'm assuming Roy is still blind.
Riza Hawkeye hated painkillers. Absolutely loathed them. She didn't like the feeling of not having all her wits about her.
On the other hand, there was something to be said for their remarkable ability to, well, kill pain. She had no doubt that she would be in absolute agony at the moment if not for the drugs.
Not that he was trying to cause her pain, but Roy's arms encircling her, as careful as he was being, were definitely having an effect on the stitches.
"I thought I was going to lose you. Even though you refused to die, I had no idea how that wasn't going to happen," he murmured.
"Until that girl appeared, I didn't, either," she admitted, speaking slowly enough that she was able to keep the medicated slur out of her words.
After that, neither spoke for several minutes until Riza tried to brush something from her collarbone. When her hand located the annoyance, she found it was moisture. "Sir…" She pulled away just a little. "You're crying."
Roy nodded, but made no attempt to hide his tears. "So I'm crying. At least my eyes can still say how I feel."
A/N: Just like a lot of these, I started with the last line and a general summary and worked from the start to where it met the finish.
This one turned out pretty sappy, I have to say, but even Royai has its sappy moments, and there aren't enough of them in this collection. I will try to fix that, or at least not make it so angsty.
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