As the sun dove down, before plummeting the day into darkness, Roy's arm rested across her shoulders. It was as if the whole world went quiet around them, and responsibilities that always kept them apart were faded for just another moment.
Riza's warm brown eyes met the dark eyes of her friend, who became her superior, and now was something a bit different than the both of those things, yet not quite where they were heading to.
The quiet around them rather than making them feel elsewhere instead of together, brought her mind fluttering back towards him, aware that emotions were not so simple with him. She'd understood when her feelings shifted from friendship to something a little more romantic, yet it had not really come as much of a surprise when they had.
It felt like their journey began all those years ago when her father marked her with his work, and when Roy listened to her and helped to destroy the mark and leave it in shatters across her back. Back then, it had definitely not been easy, but trust was all that was needed to go from marked to unreadable, trust on both sides.
Riza had never really looked back from that day onward. She trusted Roy with her life in the same way that she once had trusted her back to him, letting the alchemic formula do the talking when a voice would only get in the way. He'd been trustworthy then, and even now, past the beginnings, he was someone she could trust.
Right now, they teetered between everything they've been to each other throughout the years: friends, coworkers, superior, subordinate, and something a little newer than all of that. As the sun sunk below the horizon, beginning to coat darkness along the sky, she knew that it didn't cloak beginnings and yet couldn't erase their history.
Riza didn't want the scars erased, the memories forgotten, just as she didn't want the joys and the simple delights to be forgotten. Every moment together had made them into who they are, and molded them together against all odds.
So, tonight, the realizations could take a backseat, and instead let the present be all the beautiful they needed. It wouldn't be something unheard of for the two that survived the impossible by remaining side by side and trusting someone wholeheartedly to have their backs.