Disclaimer - i freely admit i do not own fma, and am far too poor to sue.

Well, here is some loving for one of my favorite (non shonen ai!) anime pairings ever. for Exie, who wanted more Riza.

Drabble the Fifteenth!


It was awkward, getting dressed in something other than his familiar blue uniform. He lacked the familiar fluid motions that he usually carried out when getting dressed, the calm assurance he gained when he was fully in uniform and secure in his role, what was expected of him.

A suit was something completely different. He had a firm grasp on how to take a woman out to dinner and woo her in three easy steps. But this one was different- intelligent as well as beautiful, witty and self-assured…

He walked up the few steps to her door, attempting to gather some of his charismatic grace as he knocked. When that door opened, every practiced line and learned routine vanished in a blink and he blurted out the first thing that came to his mind.

"You look beautiful."

His almost adolescent reverence was greeted with a brilliant smile, and a hand placed gently on his offered arm. Roy Mustang might have no idea how to treat Riza Hawkeye outside of uniform, but he was off to a spectacular start.