Sparking Interest

Chapter 14

Riza's foot tapped rapidly against the headboard of the bed. Hayate was curled up at the foot of the bed, next to her head. Roy had spent the entire morning 'convincing' her to stay home today.

It had taken three times of her getting up and him picking her up and setting her back in bed for her to give up. She laid in bed until nine trying to get herself to fall asleep once again in utter failure. She was just to use to her schedule. She had fidgeted in bed, playing with Black Hayate. Her mind raced suddenly remembering something, Speaking of schedules, she had been late for the past week.

Her hand found her stomach gently rubbing the soft skin. If she had been pregnant the doctor who did her check up back at the beginning of the whole Collins fiasco would have said something right? Were they ready for a baby? He hadn't even purposed yet. Her mind raced, she certainly didn't want to wear her wedding dress while she was showing baby weight, would that mean they would have to make the wedding a rush? Or put it off till after the baby was born? She closed her eyes and shook her head, ridding her mind of the thoughts. "I'm not anyway right? So I shouldn't worry myself…" she agreed to herself before a hand reached out, lifted her shirt up to just under her chest, and all of a sudden he lowered his head and began blowing on her stomach.

Curling into a ball as she laughed, clutching Roy's head with her hands and with her thighs as he blew a raspberry on her tummy. She laughed as he pulled back and smiled, taking advantage of her open mouth to slide his tongue inside. She flattened so he could lay between her open legs still giggling as he messaged her tongue with his.

"Well hello to you to" She laughed as he pulled up. He immediately fell back down and nipped her neck. "What are you doing home so soon? when did you get here I didn't even hear you come in?" She asked.

"Your grandfather sent me home. I've been here for ten minutes now" He answered. She gasped and lifted his head to look at her. "He didn't get mad at you for the whole Collins thing did he? That wasn't your fault! I'm so sick of telling you people this! Or was it about something else? He's not hussling you for anything is he? Because if he's…." She rambled and quieted as he smiled at her.

She looked at his reaction and decided to just shut up and let him tell her what it was about. He brushed a hair behind her ear. "You're so cute." He said. She sighed and stared at him and crossed her arms. He laughed.

"He wanted to make sure you were okay. You weren't there after all, I told him that I wanted you to rest a day or two before coming back to work." He answered

"Oh that's it?" She asked as though she were disappointed. He looked down at her, her hair tied loosely up, dressed in a button down shirt of his that was way to big on her. She looked so relaxed and cute. He smirked; his attention drawn to the red mark he had made when he had attacked her stomach as she brought her arm up to run her fingers threw her hair.

He rolled his finger along the rim of the red mark, "Can I go back to work tomorrow? I get really bored." She muttered. "I can tell, you've never been one to sleep upside down." He said. "I couldn't even fall back asleep" she sighed.

"You didn't sleep? You woke up at five thirty!" He gaped. "I always wake up at five thirty." She replied. He sighed. "You can't even sleep in right."

"Yeah your right, I should become more like you. Set my alarm till eight because I know I have to be at work at seven thirty, avoid paper work at all costs till the last possible moment, flirt with all of the girls at the office, steal them all from under Havocs nose, take on missions for my own reasons and not just because the higher ups told me to." She grumbled.

Roy stared at her, smiling a perverted smile that almost made her uncomfortable. "I completely encourage you to flirt with the girls at the office honey, in fact feel free to" He said.

She rolled her eyes. "You know what I meant," She grumbled.

"So what do you want to do today?" He asked kissing her lovingly. "What do you mean you're going back to work."? She said. He pouted. "Naw uhh!" he whined. She laughed and shook her head. "We've already missed enough paper work you need to catch up." She said. He made a stubborn face and shook his head. "Remember I told Havoc and Breda to take care of all of that, plus you were supposed to be more like me remember, plus I had the day planned" he rambled and kissed her again.

"Well then what do you have planned?" She asked and gasped as his hand slid into her cotton panties. "It'sa surprise" he muttered against her lips and pressed his thumb against her clit. He stood, removing his hand and grabbing hers to lift her from the bed.

"Waite! What should I wear?" She asked.

He turned and smiled "what you have on now is perfect" He said. She looked down at herself and then back at him, suddenly worried over what he had planned.

00

She calmed as she found he only dragged her into the pitch-black living room. She looked around but couldn't see anything; he must have lowered the curtains to blow the sun.

"Roy?" She asked and set her hand on his back. He smirked. All she heard was his finger snap together four or five times, and her eyes widened as four candles lit on the floor, illuminating a blanket, some pillows, a bottle of wine, and of course chocolate strawberries.

"Roy!" She gapped. "You like it?" He asked. She smiled "I love it"

"When did you do this?" she asked. "I told you, I got here ten minutes before I came to wake you." He answered. He snapped once again and the fireplace blazed with fire.

She smiled as he took her hand, brining her to the blanket. They sat down, and he removed his jacket and the skirt around his pants. She smiled at him as she set her hands near the fire, warming up.

He watched the glow of the fire spread over her. Her face and legs radiating bronze. Her eyes closed and she hummed in pleasure as the fire warmed her body. He poured two glasses, handing her one of them. She smiled and happily took it.

"I've got to say you scared me when you said I was dressed right for the occasion." She laughed. He smirked and leaned close into her neck. "I think you're a little over dressed actually" He replied. She looked down, and giggled.

"Very funny." She replied. He glanced down at the blanket beneath them. He cleared his throat and sighed.

"When I woke up without you next to me; at first I thought that you were just in the kitchen or in the living room because you couldn't sleep." He began. She watched him, his eyes not looking up from the floor beneath them. She sat up, folding her legs to her side and leaning on her left arm.

"Then I saw the open door and the mess in the kitchen. I panicked. Today you're grandfather warned me that if something happened to you and I went screaming blindly into another crime scene, that I would lose my poison. I had never understood why it was so bad to be in a relationship with a co-worker here until you were in danger." He rambled.

Riza looked at him sadly. "Are you saying we shouldn't be together?" She asked. "No! No." He said rather loudly. She leaned back and he sighed.

"I'm saying that I could never stand the thought of loosing you." He said soothingly as he brushed his hand on the side of her neck, She turned her head to nuzzle her cheek in his palm.

" I want to protect you, fall asleep next to you, and wake up with you smiling next to me. I want you by my side forever. Marry Me," he asked sliding the velvet box from his pants pocket.

Riza smiled as he opened the box for her. Her eyes widened and she couldn't help but wonder if he had the kind of money for a ring that size. Pushing all rational thought from her head she leapt into his arms with a loud "yes!"

He smiled as his arms encircled her body. She had taken all by five seconds to answer and toss herself into his embrace. He pulled her back just far away enough to attack her lips with his. After a while he pulled away enjoying her protesting grunts, but as she realized he was slipping the ring on her finger she didn't fuss, and looked down at the rock on her finger, as he slid it on and then laced his fingers with hers.

She smiled. "Riza Mustang." She mumbled with a giddy look. "That's right Mrs. Mustang." He smirked and kissed her lovingly. She wrapped her arms around his neck, bringing her hands up to run threw his hair. He shifted her, and she lifted one of her legs so she could easily straddle his hips. He leaned up against the couch as she forced his head back, gripping his hair and moving his head to her will as she roughly kissed him.

While one hand went to grip and message her bottom, the other slid up her back and swiftly unhooked her bra. She groaned as she felt her chest set free, her ragged breaths that had once been constricted by the bondage, was now loose and her heated body flushed with the release. She groaned aloud, as Roy slid his hand under her shirt and attacked her chest. She rested her head on his shoulder as he gripped her breast. She brought her hand up to her face again and smiled.

She couldn't believe this was all happening. He had purposed. She hadn't first found out about his plans in the way she had expected, or hoped, but it was all okay now. She was with Roy, he had asked, she said yes, and now he was enjoying his territories as her fiancée. Everything was better now. She was home. With the man she loved.

000

Riza blinked her eyes open, yawning and stretching her arms above her head, having no idea what the action was allowing her perverted soon to be husband to see. After a long night, and I mean LONG night of him getting excited, he had finally let her fall asleep next to him.

She moved her soar and tired legs, noting that she was still lying on the soft blanket he had set down, and apparently after she had fallen asleep he had covered them with the red blanket from the couch. It was thin, but just enough to cover her chest, falling just enough to show some cleavage. Roy had turned to his side watching her sleep there for god knows how long, he smirked as he laced her left hand with his, fingering the ring on her finger.

"Morning Mrs. Mustang" he said happily leaning down and kissing her. He lifted his lips only far enough for her to reply "Good Morning Mr. Mustang" and slid her hand around his head, pulling him down for another kiss.

"You want pancakes?" he asked, his hand moving to her side and rubbing his thumb over the side of her breast. "Yeah" she smiled. He leaned down, kissing his way down her chest. She moaned, rocking her body side to side as her lower stomach began to tighten.

His leg forced open hers, and slid between them opening her legs. They immediately clamped on his leg, making him smirk. 'What's the matter doll? Scared of what I might do?" He asked, staring down all knowingly into her eyes. She blushed and looked to the side. He smirked.

"You still not fully awake yet? Or are you just still to 'soar' from last night?" He asked with a cocky grin. She rolled her eyes. "Make the pancake so we can get to work" She grumbled. He pouted and kissed her lovingly before getting up and walking into the kitchen.

"Let's stop by your place and get you some clothes." He suggested.

She smiled as she stood, wrapping the red blanket around her naked body, her hair falling over her shoulders and resting on the swell of her breasts and falling down her back.

"Yeah, It'll be good to see Kashi's dumb grin again. We didn't even tell him that I would be staying with you," She said as she walked to the kitchen and took the glass of water he handed her.

"Ill make breakfast, you hop in the shower and change into your uniform." He ordered. She nodded, and reached out. Gripping his shirts collar in her fist and pulled him so he leaned over the counter. Pressing her lips to his she smirked in satisfaction when she pulled back and he continued to lean over the counter in search for her lips.

Walking to the bathroom, she added a jaunt to her struts knowing he was watching the sway of her hips. As she walked into the bathroom door, She let the blanket loose, allowing it to slid down the curves of her body, her back facing him before she kicked the door slowly shut with her foot. She giggled after hearing Roy's whimper from across the apartment.

000

"WHAT!" Kashi yelled as he sat in front of Riza and Roy.

"We're getting married" Riza repeated, linking her fingers with Roys. She smiled as she stared happily into his eyes, before Kashi interrupted with a "No," causing her to look back at her old friend.

"No, I understand you two getting married so quickly. After all you've been secretly in love with the idiot for years," he muttered and with that Roy turned to smile at her blushing features. Kashi continued; "And once you saw her in the shower for the first time and realized she was more than an hard working subordinate, she was a hard working subordinate who also happened to be a smoking hot piece of ass underneath a uniform Of course you feel madly in love and decided to purpose!" Kashi explained.

Riza glared at him, then turned and smacked Roy's shoulder as he sat next to her slightly nodding in agreement as his mind dazed off into the picture Kashi had put in his head.

"And not only did you leave for about a week and a half without telling me you were leaving or where you were going, But what really blows my mind is that you two knew there was a wanted killer scooping out this apartment and didn't even think to tell me!" He rambled.

Riza rolled her eyes. He gapped at her. "I mean come on! There was a killer looking for you in this apartment, for all I knew he was in the closet watching me in my sleep waiting for you to come home!" He whimpered in mock fear.

"He only goes for women Kashi don't worry Im sure you were perfectly safe from being raped and killed in the middle of the night." She said sarcastically.

"Hey! I brought women here!" He snapped. "Are you sure it were women this time?" She teased. He made a face as he answered, "yes" in a high-pitched voice. He stood walking to the fridge and pulling out a bottle of Vodka.

"I know I lied to you and flaunted her in your face man, but can't you give a brother a break?" He whimpered as he poured himself a drink and shot it back easily. Roy laughed. "Don't worry Kashi, if you brought a girl here I'm sure she was safe. Collins had a grudge of all women who had power and control. When we first caught him, I was the one who put him in prison, and Riza here interrogated him, and showed her control and power as a government soldier. His mind was set on finding Riza." He sighed wrapping his arm around her waist and pulling her into his lap.

Riza wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him quickly. "I'm glad your okay, but to tell you the truth, I wouldn't be to worried. She can hold her own no matter what situation she's put in" Kashi muttered as he sat down and set his feet on the table, crossing them at the ankle.

"She scared me half to death, in one of the tapes he sent us, you could hear her in the background lobbing insults over his head and challenging his manhood since apparently he had to kidnap women, tie 'em up, and rape them." Roy sighed.

Riza shrugged like it was nothing. "Please, you think you can chide me for reckless behavior, I learned it from you!" She argued. "Me?" HE asked leaning back to look at her face as his arms slid around her waist. "If he doesn't like to be challenged taunt him, like you did with Ed in calling him short of the day of his first assessment." She countered. He leaned back and sighed. "Well the little bean sprout was hiding in the crowd, what else could I have done to get the mouse out of his whole?" He asked with a smirk.

Riza sighed rolling her eyes. "Come on, we still have to get to work. " She said standing up. She grabbed the bag she had filled her clothes with, and walked to the door. Roy motioned for the bottle, and Kashi handed it over to him.

"So, excited about the honeymoon?" Kashi asked as he downed his shot. Roy nodded his head up and down slowly. "Makes all the stress of thinking about a wedding go away." He muttered. "Roy, lets go hun!" She called from the doorway.

"Coming!" He called standing up and taking the rest of the alcohol down before setting the bottle on the table again. "Watch yourself with her, she's stubborn, and she's a spit fire. You may have worked with her for years, but you've only really lived with her for a week." Kashi warned.

Roy smirked. "Don't worry about me. I can handle her" He said and turned, leaving the kitchen and walking to the door where Riza was waiting. Kashi shook his head side to side with a smirk chuckling to him self.

"You just wait"

--Maddie Brown

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