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Summary: continues from the last chapter
Thanks goes to 'Thieving Alchemist' for checking out my story really appreciate it. (finally I have two readers, OH! THE EXCITEMENT)
Riza woke with the usual vigour which would be associated with old aged pensioners, slowly making her way to the toaster like a zombie. Her blonde locks pointing in all manner of directions and her eyes bloodshot like a baboon's backside. Riza was half asleep, half awake and extremely pissed off that she had to wake up so early to go to teach. When she was a kid she used to think teachers actually lived in the school, oh how she wishes that were true, you could simply roll out of bed and onto the desk and say 'good morning class'.
She opened the cupboard, sticking her hand in without looking and rummaging until she found the bread. Like a slack-jawed Luddite she smacked it into the toaster and waited until it sprang out which caused her to jump. She looked at the time realising she was late and immediately ate the toast whilst dressing, she ran all the way down the cave and into the school tent.
Riza went into the staff area and was joined by other adults in a similar disposition as her. Nobody spoke a word to each other as they were all too tired to even open their mouths except to take a bit out of an apple. Riza slinked with all her assignment sheets, which she had hurriedly prepared, to her classroom.
Looking around at the empty room she moaned to herself "Bloody lazy-ass kids with nowt better to do than sleep-in"
When Riza first started her job she didn't realise that it would be this tiring and now she was regretting ever even taking it. She pulled all the paperwork, slamming them on the desk when she looked into her bag again and saw the letter Roy had given her yesterday which made her smile immediately, she suddenly felt panic spread through as the realisation came to her that it was one day till Roy arrived.
Riza ran her fingers through her hair in worry thinking "Shit, I haven't even prepared anything, no sleeping arrangements, no gift and especially the fact that I haven't even got any new clothes too…..damn it Riza, you're doing it again, you're subconsciously trying to impress him with your cleavage" she smacked her head in frustration, thinking about what to do.
All her thinking had made her forget that there were kids already sitting in the classroom and she immediately regained her composure to start work, her day went off without a hitch as she ended the day teaching by waving goodbye to the last of the children.
She quickly grabbed her bag, ran out and dashed past rows of tents until she reached 18 year-old Amelie who was just dossing around as usual.
"Hey Amelie, I need your help right now!" said Riza as she panted heavily from the running.
"Oh yeah, come running back to me hey, well you'll have to beg me" retorted Amelie quite snootily.
Riza replied "it's to do with Roy"
"WHHHAAAA.." replied Amelie in excitement.
Riza knew the girl was hugely obsessed with Riza and Roy's relationship so a mention of him was sure to catch her attention.
"Yeah, I need to buy a few things before Roy comes to see me and I need you to…help me" said Riza rather begrudgingly.
"ahahahahaha, Riza Hawkeye needs my help well I'LL BE DAMNED" cooed Amelie.
"Give over, are you gonna come or not?" demanded Riza.
"Of course anything for you" exclaimed Amelie.
They both made their way out of the cave and down the valley to the nearby village at the foot of the mountain. The village was a picturesque leafy village with old Tudor period shops, cobbled streets and tinted shop windows. The villagers didn't mind the Ishvalans coming and going because they were keen to have the Ishvalans come to their town to trade with.
Riza and Amelie both entered various shops looking for dresses for Riza to wear. To Riza's frustration Amelie kept pushing for clothes with low-cut V-necks and short shorts.
"For the millionth time, I don't want to look like a hooker" said Riza frustratedly.
"It's not slutty I swear, it's sexy, it's saying 'yes you can look but you can't have me unless you really want me' really risqué" explained Amelie.
Riza face-palmed herself and was getting exhausted from all this shopping, she looked at Amelie.
"You know what we need right now is a good coffee" proclaimed Riza as she locked her arms with Amelie's and marched her out of the shop into the nearby café, well it was more like a pub, but we don't need get bogged down in detail do we.
They both sat down at a table that looked like it had not been wiped in centuries and by the look of the patrons of this 'café' it was no surprise. Riza and Amelie just ordered coffee which came after a while and the coffee itself looked more like black ooze than rich coffee. They both stared at each other in horror.
"Yep the glamorous life of an Ishvalan teen in her summer hay day" said Amelie morosely.
"It could've been worse, they could've served us piss" quipped Riza.
They both lingered staring down at the ooze of coffee that seemed to have a life of its own until Amelie interrupted the chain of thought.
"Riza don't look now but there's a woman with blonde hair sitting across the room who is sooo checking you out" whispered Amelie.
"What! Like proper full-on 'I want to bed you' look?" asked Riza.
"Yep, I didn't know you gave that kind of vibe…..but..i guess you are kind of macho" smirked Amelie.
Riza punched her on the arm saying "should I turn around to see?"
Amelie put her arms up slightly saying "hey if you want to kop off with her then that ain't my business"
Riza slowly turned her head acting as if she was taking in the scenery when she caught the glimpse of a voluptuous blonde haired woman with stunning red dress and heels to match, most of the men were gawking at the woman as she sat there. The unknown woman looked squarely back at Riza which made her swiftly turn her head whilst whistling.
"Shit, she is staring and I think she caught me staring back. I hope she doesn't get any wrong signals from this" whispered Riza to Amelie.
"She's a beautiful woman, I mean if I was a guy I would 'you know'" mused Amelie.
"Yeah you're not helping the situation Amelie" pleaded Riza.
Amelie suddenly gasped and whispered to Riza "the creepy sexy woman's walking over to us"
"Shit, is she some kind of jilted lover whose mistaken me for someone else?" thought Riza.
As the woman approached the two of them pretended to be deep in conversation when suddenly Riza realised Amelie's eyes widen in disbelief, Riza's back was turned to the woman so she couldn't see and she didn't want to turn around due to the awkwardness of the situation.
Suddenly she heard a deep, masculine voice whisper into her ear "Long time no see Riza"
Riza froze into her seat as she recognised the voice and as she turned around the image of a stubble chinned woman appeared with hairy legs.
"ROY!" screamed Riza as the whole café turned their heads towards them.
"What, you don't find me sexy? And after all the work I'd gone through to pick the right heels damn" Roy chuckled as he smiled at her.
Riza stood up but didn't know what to do next but she suddenly felt a surge of joy and jumped towards Roy wrapping her arms around his neck whilst burying her head in his shoulders. Roy wrapped his arms around her lifting her a few inches off the floor.
They both stopped hugging each other when Riza suddenly doubled up in shock "Roy! Why are you in drag?" said Riza.
"Yeah that….well let's not talk about it here, we can go back to your place" said Roy gesturing her outside.
The three of them made their way up the mountain path, Riza and Roy had an awkward silence amongst each other as neither one of them knew what to say after being apart for so long only writing letters.
"So I suspect your 'the' Amelie I've read so much about?" asked Roy
Amelie was still teary eyed after the warm embrace between the two; she wiped her tears away saying "Never mind me, Riza's always so giddy and excited when you send her a letter I mean it's almost like she's in l-"
She was immediately interrupted by Riza who quickly changed the subject "are you looking forward to seeing the cave Roy, it's really beautiful the way we were able to build a community there and it's large enough to house thousands of people".
"That's great especially after all that happened, it's good to see things looking up" replied Roy
They finally arrived in the cave, as they entered there were hysterical giggles and odd looks as Roy the cross-dressing drag queen strutted into town. They eventually reached Riza's tent, she shooed away Amelie who tried protesting but unsuccessfully. The two of them entered the tent, Roy positively beaming with a huge smile and Riza trying to hide her embarrassment of the state of her house.
"I know it doesn't look great at the moment or even at any moment but I make do" said Riza nervously.
"Riza darling this is positively grand, I love it, who did it for you darling please you who have to tell me" swooned Roy as he put on a mock high pitch posh accent.
Riza rolled her eyes and smiled knowing this was the same Roy she knew all that time ago, her Roy.
"You know what, what you just said might've not been too creepy if you weren't turning all trans-gendered on me. What is it, new man in your life?" retorted Riza with a grin.
Roy laughed saying "WOW! How did you guess?"
They both stood there laughing and it felt like old times again.
Roy cleared his throat and said "I should be serious, the only reason I'm wearing this is because I have to disguise myself so no Amestrian soldier will recognise me and plus who'd suspect such a luscious lady as myself hmm. Well there were downsides like being harangued by rat-assed men in bars on the way here."
"You sure that was a downside, knowing you, you can't turn down a good flirt even if it's a bloke" asked Riza smartly.
"At it again are we? Always bringing me down at every opportunity" Roy smiled at her "what would I do without you, actually I'd be probably doing the same thing" said Roy as they both laughed while Riza punched his arm.
"I better get changed I suppose" said Roy
"Sure, just go into my bedroom and change" she replied.
Riza changed in the bathroom into her home comfort clothes which were a pair of shorts and a tank top, whilst he was in her room changing into a pair of jeans and t-shirt.
They walked into the living room as Roy jumped on to the couch before Riza could sit on it; he stretched his legs out so there was no room. Riza had almost forgotten his usual antics and she was about to get familiarised again.
"Get up you fat ass, I own this shit-hole so move your legs" she demanded.
"Come on lovely lady don't you want to sit on my lap" he said cheekily.
"Sure" she replied as she jumped on to his outspread legs and sat onto to it.
"AAAAAAA! RIZA OK I GIVE UP" he screamed as she slowly got up and he moved his legs to make space.
Roy sat up, looked at her and smiled saying "geez, it's been so long since I've seen you…you…err..look different" his voice trailing at the end.
Riza budged up closer to him "what do you mean 'different', I'm ugly?" she asked horrified.
"NO! It's just…..let's say you've blossomed… oh! To hell with it, you look beautiful" said Roy as his cheeks burned bright and he looked around nervously at inane objects like a women's institute magazine.
"AWW! Roy you're such a softy, thank you and the same goes for you" she replied whilst beaming.
"So what's it been like in Central city?" she asked him.
"Well, nothing much really most of my days are spent behind a desk coordinating raids on rogue alchemists but apart from that it's been pretty crap since you left four years ago." He replied
She looked guiltily down at the couches threads which she was picking at nervously.
"I'm sorry….." she said sadly.
Roy smiled saying "bloody hell Riza, I didn't ever begrudge you for leaving. I actually understood why you did and you had to find yourself as a person but I won't lie it was bleedin' boring on my own without you to smack me upside the head"
Riza laughed as she reminisced about those heady days.
She gently leaned towards Roy and rested her head on his shoulder as he wrapped one arm around her. She closed her eyes and took in the moment with just the two of them, finally she had her best friend here to laugh, hold and cry with whenever she needed him.
Roy lied down on the couch and Riza snuggled up against his arm as a cold draught howled through.
"Riza, you know I can feel your tits on my arm but I'm not complaining so don't be in a rush to move them" said Roy as he grinned.
Riza still had her eyes closed but spoke "I don't give a damn, I'm f'ing tired so don't move I'm using you as a warm blanket. However, if you think of trying anything freaky I know where your balls are"
Roy felt his eyelids getting heavy too but not before he made one remark "So you're using and abusing me are you, I feel like a hooker that's poorly paid ACTUALLY not paid at all, more like a sex slave" he mused as usual.
Riza's eyes were closed but her eyebrows furrowed as she said "Shush! Sleep now child mama's got work tomorrow" Roy chuckled at this and did as he was told.
To be continued
This is officially the romancing stage of Roy and Riza so expect a lot of corny dialogue in the coming chapters SHIPPERS REJOICE! Please review.