Chapter 4: The Smiling Blonde
There is no doubt that in a drinking contest with Riza, Roy would lose.
He would never admit it, but he learned this the hard way at last year's Christmas party, an event he still hasn't quite remembered in its entirety.
All he knows is that Maes Hughes has a picture of this occasion, and he'll never live it down.
All he knows is blackmail is imminent.
(*FMA*)
"Aww, come on Riza!" Roy moans, already partially intoxicated. "Loosen up a bit! Have a drink!"
Riza wishes she hadn't come. The dress she had on was not tactically sound—how was she supposed to move effectively in this lacey contraption? Few people of importance had come as it was supposed to be a family party, so she didn't think this highly formal event really needed be so formal. A simple uniform would have been fine. But no. Roy had been ogling her since his first drink, and everything went down hill from there
"Riiiiiiiizzaaaaaaaa," A drunken Roy coos out loudly andobnoxiously. She decides that it's not all bad—the long gown was long enough to conceal the two pistols strapped to her thighs well enough not to be noticed. And that may come in handy if she decides to shoot the boistorous colonel where he stands-
Speaking of which, he's standing on a table. Riza lets out sigh- it would be unswise to shoot her superior now that he was so close to his goal...
"I got passion in mah pants and I ain't afraid to show it-."
Maybe she would need her guns after all.
"I'm sexy and I know it!"
(*FMA*)
Agreeing to a drinking contest was the only way to get Roy off the table and make him also stop his terrible (although not untrue, Riza admits) rendition of 'Sexy and I Know It'.
Riza sits at the table with her hands folded in her lap, her back as straight as an aroow.
On the other side of the table, Roy slumps over in his chair grinning like an idiot. Maes Hughes hangs on his shoulder, whispering in his ear the trick to beating a woman in a drinking contest.
"One shot for you, two for me," He says, smiling stupidly.
Riza holds back another sigh. "If you say so sir..."
Two to one wasn't Roys best idea.
After one three drinks on Riza's part (six for Roy) Roy is on the ground mumbling to himself something about losing his wallet.
His first victim to ask was a little girl with pigtails and an elf costume.
"Hey you!" Roy half yells. "Where's my wallet?"
The girl squeaks and runs to hide behind her father-.
Maes Hughes.
"Don't be harrassing my little girl!" Maes yells picking up Elysia and hugging her tightly. "I know where you live!"
"No...Maes, that elf stole my wallet!"
Said elf grabs at the camera around her fathers neck and starts pressing buttons, unsure of what shes doing, but knowing it was one of her daddy's favorite things ( besides her of course).
"Look!" Roy yelps weakly, his head spinning from the alcohol "Now she's trying to take that camera I got you for Christmas last year! Why Santa? WHY?"
Thunk. Roy had passed out- that's Riza's cue.
"I'll take him home now." Riza says dully. After Riza drags Roy up and starts walking away with him, Hughes goes through his camera settings that had been displaced and comes across gold.
Maes and his little girl giggle at the photo she had accidently captured.
It wasn't till nearly two hours later Roy jerked awake from an alcohol induced nightmare.
He was in an unfamiliar place, with quite familiar scents.
His muddled mind was still too out of it to recognize the light lavender mixed with gunpowder, though he would come to the conclusion eventually.
He stumbles out of the fluffy bed, using the door way as support. Roy walks out into a small hallway and connected to that is a living room, where Riza herself had curled up on the couch and fallen asleep with a book still in hand.
Still mostly plastered, Roy grins and makes his way over to her. He takes the book out of her hands and sets it aside before sitting next to her and revelling in her warmth. He hadn't always known Riza as the cold woman people see her as nowadays. Before there had been a sweet, caring girl who had the most beautiful smile in the world, and he had the privilage of living with her.
Roy snuggles closer to Riza and smiles sleepily. She wouldn't mind in the morning when she woke up that he had snuck in to be with her. But she would pretend it never happened.
But for now, Roy doesn't mind either.
Riza smiles in her sleep.
(*FMA*)
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