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Home Alone: Part II

Riza was forced awake from the yips screaming in her ears. The outbursts, she noticed were coming from Hayate was throwing the barks towards the door behind the couch she lay on.

Groaning she sat up and awkwardly got to her feet walking almost dysfunctionally to the door. She opened the door without bothering to look through the peephole. You could call that a mistake. Riza gasped when she met a head full of black hair slightly shielding black orbs. She didn't know what to do or say. Riza stood there unable to do anything. The silence that surrounded the two was very awkward.

"Hi lieutenant." His voice broke through the thick nothingness. That certainly jerked Riza out of her daze.

"Hello, sir." She replied.

Again silence returned although this time not as thick.

"What are you doing here?" Riza asked. Although she didn't mean it as being rude her superior took it as an offense.

"I'm sorry I didn't know that-" Riza cut him off.

"Sorry sir it's just that I wasn't expecting any visitors and had fallen asleep and…" You're so stupid Riza. You're rambling on. He doesn't want to hear you babble on about unimportant nothings! Just figure out what he wants and go back to sleep. She absentmindedly stepped aside and ushered Roy Mustang into her living room where Black Hayate lie by the fire. His head popped up at the sight of Roy and pranced his way to his legs. Roy sat on the couch where moments before Riza had been sleeping.

Riza sighed. She was about to speak but Roy bet her to it.

"I didn't see you at the ball tonight." He stated.

"I didn't go." Riza answered nonchalantly.

A moment of noiselessness occurred.

"Oh." was all Roy could say. He looked over at Riza. His eyes reflected the flames from fireplace. He sighed and looked away reluctantly. He couldn't tell her. He wanted to so bad. One thing, one stupid thing caused his only love to stay at arm's length away. He wanted to break down and cry but he was a grown man not to mention a military man. God how he hated the military just now.

Then a thought struck his brain. Why should you care about the goddamn military? What has it done to you? Cause you nothing but pain, nightmares and unwanted duties, that's what. Why should the damn military keep you from the one thing that could make your life better, complete? Just go for it! Then you'll know if she loves you in return.

"Riza…" Roy whispered softly turning his body toward her. Riza looked at him with confused eyes. He almost never said her first name.

"At first I didn't know where I was walking to when I left the ball. I don't even remember half of what happened, the only thing I remember is that I left there incomplete. I wandered the streets and I noticed your house. Riza I've been meaning to tell you something for a long time. It's just that every time I've wanted to something got in the way. Whether it was fear of rejection or the military I wouldn't know. The only thing I know is that…" he paused looking into Riza's glistening chocolate eyes, "… is that I… I love you…" Roy croaked out the last part.

As if just know noticing where he was and what he did he jumped to his feet muttering to himself.

"Roy you're the most idiotic man on the face of this planet… how could you even think such a thing would happen? … stupid…"

Riza sat there still on the couch in shock, what did he just confess?

"Roy wait!" she shouted absentmindedly. He stopped dead in his tracks feeling that Riza was behind him. He turned around and in fact there she was standing. How gorgeous she looks and she doesn't even know it…

"Roy… don't go… you don't know how long I've been waiting to hear those words come from your lips… don't go." She finished. He looked at her stunned for many reasons. One, she called him by his first name. Second, she wanted me to say those words?

She came closer to him put a hand on his cheek, looking into his eyes.

"I love you too… I have for a long time…" Riza whispered to Roy.

"How long have you been sitting here by yourself?" Roy broke out of his trance.

"It doesn't really matter now does it?" she said smiling slightly, "it only matters that I'm not home alone now."

Rizahawkeye21

A/N: Hey! I got this last piece to the Home Alone section up finally. Took some concentration on my part and trust me when I say that it's hard to keep my attention on one thing for a long period of time. I always have to fidget with something. In any case I hope you liked the ending kinda abrupt I know. Review please!