Just a little drabble I wrote after reading the Manga.
Disclaimer: I don't know enough about FMA to say I own it…
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"Oh, no. It's raining."
That statement threw Riza for a loop. Sure, there was it was cold but,
"It isn't raining."
A single tear fell from the colonel's eye. "No, it's raining."
Any of the Roy's most resent girlfriends would have seen this as a macho-man way of hiding his tears. At first Riza thought the same thing but…
The incident with Scar came to her.
"You know that I am the Flame Alchemist and yet you dare to fight me! You fool!"
Riza watched as Roy shifted his weight. "Col-" The idiot! She barely had enough time to trip him and fire off her guns at Scar before he (Scar) could get into a fight with the Flame Alchemist.
"What are you doing?" Roy sputtered indignantly at her.
"Please stand back, Sir. You're quite useless in the rain." She answered. By the look on his face he hadn't even noticed that it was raining.
When it came to saving the life of Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes; the Flame Alchemist, Colonel Roy Mustang's best friend.
"Yes, it's raining."
FIN
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For the people who are confused: When Roy says it's raining, he's basically is saying, "I'm useless". Riza agrees because there was nothing he could do to save Hughes.
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