A/n: Edited chapter!
Music box: 5: Pained Eyes, The Confession and The Aftermath
Her eyes were the only thing of her that showed emotions. Her eyes were the best way to see her pain or happiness. Sometimes they were blank and lifeless like her cold face but sometimes they were different.
It was evening as Roy and Riza were sat staring at the sunset. Roy couldn't think of a better way to spend time with someone you secretly love than watching a pretty sunset.
"Roy…."
"Yes?"
"I love you." Riza murmured and Roy looked in great amazement.
'She loves me too?'
"Riza, you know we can't be together." Roy stopped and Riza turned and got up. She couldn't stand for this anymore.
"Good night, sir." Her coldness, even harder then before and her voice was blank but you could see her eyes, filling with tears and the pain that had flashed through them. She left him, to sit there as the fading sunlight turned to darkness.
It had been a month after the confession and it was like it never happen, things were normal again expect when Riza would fire bullets at him for no reason. She never strayed from her paperwork but buried herself in more. The feeling of loving someone who you swore to follow for your whole life and knowing that he didn't feel the same stabbed at Riza everyday.
"Flowers?"
"Someone send her flowers?" Voices of Roy's office whispered.
"What is going on? Why are you all at Hawkeye's desk?" Roy demanded and got up from his seat. When he saw the flowers on her desk his heart leaped to his throat and he was speechless.
"Wonderful, aren't they? I love roses." Riza's empty voice stated, she was standing behind Roy and was holding a vase. Roy turned around and their eyes met, her eyes were different. Her eyes were dull and blank like a clean sheet of paper unlike her usual safe guarded eyes that hinted amusement every now and then. His eyes filled surprise, rage, and sadness. He headed back to his desk and left the other female officers to question Hawkeye.
"Who sent them to you?" A voice asked and Riza slightly or rather pretended to smile.
"Rick."
"Are you guys dating?"
"We're engaged."
"Oh my god, when did this happen?"
"3 weeks ago."
"That stone is huge."
'Riza, I thought you loved me. I been wonder what happened to them, your feelings. What happened to those feelings? Now I know it's in a side of you, you don't ever want to touch again.' Roy thought bitterly and Riza was flashing her ring. She too had some thoughts of her own.
'I understand, sir why you never told me how you feel. You would lose your job and your chance to become fuhrer. But still it hurts, I'll never find out you ever really loved me."