Angsty little 10 minute RoyAi drabble thing that I did as a warm up for an essay. My first foray into the FMA fandom. Enjoy!
She was his everything. She was his motivation, his subordinate, his friend, his lover, his protector. There was nothing that she wasn't to him, which was why the memories that were flooding back were so hard to bear. The abandoned building, what was supposed to be a routine check on suspicious activity… Riza. Riza! He remembered it all now. Walking into the building, finding the sniper. The shots. Oh God, the shots. He recalled her telling him to run, to leave her there, then seeing the bullets hit her body, watching her slip from life's very fingers. She was dead, and he wasn't. He was alone now. And the colonel wept.