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CHAPTER 16 – A New Discovery
"Sir, Lieutenant." A man with blonde hair and a cigarette stick out of his mouth poked his head around the corner of the door. It was none other than Jean Havoc.
"Yes Havoc?" Roy replied.
"The guys and I are going to a bar you comin'?" Havoc calmly stated. Riza found this oddly disturbing. I can feel something going on. Havoc usually doesn't have this air around him. He's scheming something. I just know it.
"Nah got work to finish," he cast a weary glance at Riza and scooted closer to Havoc to whisper, "if I left with you, which I desperately want to do, Hawkeye would have my head. You guys go on without me. I'll go another time." Havoc nodded his head at the Colonel in understanding.
"Night Colonel, night Hawkeye!" Voices from the room a wall away shouted for them to hear.
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"Night have fun." Roy replied equally loud. Riza merely nodded her head to Havoc. On that note Havoc closed the door. As the two superior officers heard heavy footsteps stomping across the wood floor in the other room and the click of the other door Riza let out a breath she hadn't realized she was holding. Roy smirked at this.
"What do you find so funny?" Riza asked him curiously.
"Oh nothing, nothing at all my dear Hawkeye… my dear Riza." A small tint of pink began to brush itself across Riza's cheeks at the last three words.
"Since I'm done with my work, would you like me to… walk you home?" Roy inquired. Riza looked at him funny. Roy looked down at his uniform, perhaps there was a stain of coffee or, he shuddered, blood. Now that, he thought, would not be a big surprise.
He was suddenly ripped out of his ravine from the flick of Riza's finger on his nose. He snapped his eyes up to hers and stared at her questionably.
"What was that for?" Roy asked. Riza smiled.
"Oh nothing… just seeing if you were still here." Riza replied sarcastically nonchalantly. Roy pulled her into him, so that they were chest to chest, stomach to stomach, and thigh to thigh. Just the closeness of his body made Riza's breath catch in her throat. Roy smirked a cute smile. He nuzzled against her throat with his nose, warming it up, as it was a slight bit cold.
"Well, I am…" Roy whispered into her ear. Riza smiled at him lightly.
"Of course you are." Riza replied, just to reply.
Suddenly she felt something totally weird. She felt as if eyes were following their every move. She broke apart from Roy abruptly leaving him confused to scan the room for anything out of place. She walked over to the bookcase that leaned against the north wall. The street lights beaming in from the street outside the window on the west wall to the closed door on the east wall.
Placing her slender hand on the third shelf from the floor, she ran her hand along the length of it. About two-thirds of the way across the wood she felt a slight ridge in the wood. An abnormal ridge, mind you. She stooped down low to see what she felt. To her surprise it was a cable of some sort. Someone was wiring their office.
Unnoticed to her, Roy had crossed the room to stand beside her to see what was so much more interesting than he was. Of course he knew nothing was. My ego is becoming way too big. Roy thought smugly. He bent down to where she was looking. He too saw the cable and followed it behind the books on the shelf.
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Riza glanced at Roy to find that he was doing the same. The two of them both pulled the books off that shelf quickly but soundlessly. They crouched lower to find what someone had hidden behind the books. The dusty blackness melted into the darkness while one part stood out.
Riza cautiously reached her hand in between the two wooden shelves. Retracting her hands a surprise came to both of them. It was a camera. A plain, ordinary video camera by the looks of it. She turned it in her hands. The red light was on. It was recording something. From its position on the shelf, it was taping… she gasped. It was recording them, Roy and her. She saw Roy look at her in confusion and she pointed to the red light on its front. His eyes widened a bit. He understood.
Riza pushed stop and the red light switched off. Before she did anything else she picked up the gun she had in her hand from their investigation. Clicking the safety back on, Riza holstered the gun and sat criss-cross on the floor pressing the rewind button. From what she observed, Riza found that it had pretty much recorded EVERY intimate interaction they had had that day.
The weird thing about this whole situation is nobody knew about the two of them. Why would anyone want to record anything that happened in the colonel's office unless they knew about Riza and Roy breaking military code? Finally Riza spoke up.
"Roy… what are we going to do?" Roy took the camera from her. Watching his former self, kissing the back of his subordinate that was sitting beside him. He glanced sideways at her.
"The only thing we can do… burn it." Turning off the camera and pulling out the tape he pocketed the recording.
"But, sir, what if you accidentally lose the tape while you walk home? What if some one finds it? What if-" Riza was cut off by a kiss from Roy. It was passionate but not fierce, gentle as if to reassure her nothing was going to go wrong, that everything was going to be okay.
Roy slowly pulled away, tugging her bottom lips with his teeth. He looked straight into her chocolate brown eyes with his black orbs.
"It'll be okay. I promise no one besides us will ever see this tape. Don't worry you can trust me." Roy kissed her forehead in another act of reassurance. Riza nodded slowly, agreeing with him but obviously reluctantly.
Then something strange popped into Riza's head.
"Don't you have work to finish sir? That's what you told Havoc." Roy smiled at her comment.
"I've been done with my work for quite sometime now. I just told him that I had work so he would leave us alone…"
Riza felt like breaking away from the norm.
"Riiiight. Uh huh… you just wanted to be alone? All right, good night." She began to walk away with an unfamiliar smirk, almost like Roy's. He's rubbing off on me. That's not good. Riza almost laughed.
Expectedly she felt a hand enclose around her wrist wrenching her around to face who pulled her, Roy Mustang. He pulled her close as possible and leaned down to her left ear, brushing his lips across the skin on her earlobe. Riza gasped. That was her soft spot and he knew that before she had.
"I hadn't meant for me to be alone," he whispered all but seductively in her ear. His hot breath warming her cold ear, tickling the skin beneath her earlobe, "I meant for us to be alone…" With his last word he captured her earlobe in his mouth, pulling down slightly, gently, causing Riza to gasped at an overwhelming feeling.
"Roy… not here… we're still at work…" Riza managed to say as Roy was leading her to the couch in their office. Roy pulled away from her ear but kept his arms circled around her thin waist.
"All right… how about I walk you home?" Roy offered.
"That would be lovely of you to do for me." Riza replied sarcastically.
"Anything for you dear." Roy replied with the same amount of sarcasm as she used.
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Heading out the door, Roy grabbed both his coat and Riza's. Opening the door for her (seeing her nod in thanks) he stepped outside into the unit offices. Taking one look into the room where they were currently in, he reached inside and flipped the lights off. He closed the door. Locking both their office door and the unit office door, he replaced his keys in his uniform pant's pocket and jogged down the hallway to catch up with his 'beloved' Riza.
Rizahawkeye21A/N: Hey! I hope everyone liked this chapter. I personally think it still needs some work but that's for you to judge. I hope to update a lot seeing as Christmas or 'Holiday' rolls eyes break starts in less than 5 days! WOO HOO! Anyways keep lookin for this story cause it's bound to show up at least every 2 to 3 days till the 3rd of Jan. Well one last thing to say, please review!