A/N- This short one-shot was written for the LJ fma_fic_contest prompt where we focused on a specific page of the manga or a scene from the animes. I chose Volume 15, Chapter 59, Page 72 (bottom). It takes place early in Riza's tour of duty in Ishbal. She's just saved Roy and Maes with her sharpshooting and has Roy in her cross hairs. I've always had a creepy feeling that she thought about eliminating flame alchemy then and there.(Arakawa owns all.)
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Her first glimpse of him came as a shock, even though she had known that he was there. Everyone knew that he was there; he was nearly all anybody talked about. In truth, he was the reason that she was there. She just hadn't seen him until now, looking through her scope, from her aerie, as one of the other snipers called the tower.
He had just finished … doing what he did with what she had given him. She felt sick and shivered in the heat. He was in a field of debris and destruction, talking with another officer, and he looked like but a shadow of the boy who had been her father's apprentice.
Her vision snagged on movement in the rubble! Blaaaam. Death. She saw Mister- Major Mustang and the other man startle. The bespectacled officer pointed in her direction, and she finally saw her old friend face on. The face of the monster that she had helped create was in her cross hairs. She could snuff out flame alchemy. But it was also the face of the man she loved. And up there, with her rifle, she knew that he was not the only monster. She wondered if he, like she, wished that he had the strength to defy the orders that perverted their skills, their selves. Her scope revealed…something in his dark eyes, and she moved her rifle a bit to her right.
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A/N- I really wish that I knew if Arakawa intended anything remotely like what I wrote. A couple of people on LJ had had similar thoughts, but a lot hadn't. I'd love to hear YOUR opinions.
Thanks for reading, and take care.