9. Grief
Two years. He'd spent two years thinking the boy had died. It had been the hardest thing Roy had had to face since Maes's death and he was just so sick of the people around him dying before their times. The Rockbells, then Maes, and then Ed; he couldn't even comfort himself spending time with the younger Elric because he was back in Rizenbul with no memory Roy had even ever existed.
But Ed had remembered. And Ed had shown him just how much he had missed the man as well. And it really shouldn't have surprised Roy at all that, with all the blonde had accomplished, he would be able to overcome even death.