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Well, as promised, here it is! Chapter 8!!

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Chapter 8: Roy's apt. in the Night

Roy was in his room, changing in to his pajamas and Riza was in his living room. It was a small room, with a few lamps and dim lighting and off white walls with pictures hanging from them. Riza, currently, was on a red-stone colored, baggy couch. In front of her was a fairly neat table that had an unfinished chess game on it. Besides that, there were a few magazines, some sketching paper, and some pencils.

"Kinda weird decorating, eh?" said Roy as he walked in to the room and plopped down on the couch next to Riza. He was wearing a blue sleep shirt and blue sleep pants. He smiled at her. "You're cute, cat." Riza blushed. She wasn't used too having some one (let alone her superior officer) call her 'cute'. When was the last time some one had called her cute? 'That was a looong time ago..,'thought Riza.

"Did you notice the piano?" asked Roy, interrupting her thoughts. He pointed to a small black piano tucked away in the corner of the room. Riza looked at Roy. She didn't know that he had a piano. Did he even play? Roy got up from the couch and walked over to piano and Riza followed him. He sat down on the piano bench and cracked his knuckles a few times. "Just warming up." He slid his fingers over the keys. Roy looked back at Riza then looked back at the piano and started to play a few notes. He was quite good at it- swiftly moving one finger from a key to another key and making the notes sound evenly.

"You know," said Roy "my sister taught me how to play the piano. It was a long time ago, and I don't play very often, but it just stuck with me throughout all these years." He continued to play the piano.

"…Not many things can do that…not even most people can do that…but sometimes," Roy slowed his pace and his eyes started to look sad. "sometimes, there are people like that…they stick with you no matter what happens, or no matter how stupid you can be, they'll stick with you till the end." Roy stopped playing the piano and just looked at it.

'..Is Roy...having a moment?' Riza thought as she stared at Roy. He looked really sad. Did he get sad often? He never seemed sad at the office…

Roy looked up at Riza and smiled at her. He was hiding something and Riza wanted to know what it was.

"Would you like to see the rest of my apartment?" Roy picked up Riza (which she didn't really like) and placed her on his shoulder. It was hard to balance on at first, but Riza soon got the hang of it. From there, Roy showed her his kitchenette, a small hall way that led to his room and finally, his room.

It was small, with a double bed that was against the wall and had a window right next to it. It had a black comforter with black sheets and a black pillow case. Besides the bed, there was a chest that looked a lot like a treasure chest, a small desk, and a door that led to a tiny closet. There was a full-length mirror behind the closet door, and on the small desk was a radio.

"It's small, but it's my favorite room in the house." Said Roy. He looked very proud just to have that room.

'I wonder why?,' Riza thought sarcastically 'Of coarse it's his favorite room! It's were he has se-'

"It's my favorite because of the view that the window gives me!" Roy happily jumped on to his bed with Riza clinging onto his shoulders thinking 'WHAT?!'

"See? Look out there!" Roy pulled Riza from his shoulder and held her up to the window. From what she could see, there was the down town part of Central. What was so special about that? Then she recognized her neighborhood. She could see her house from here! 'But is this why this is his favorite room? Because he can see my neiboorhood? What does that mean?'

"This is great! You can see all of my subordinates places! Look," Roy happily pointed to a house that wasn't in Riza's neiboorhood. "Fuery lives there! And over there," Roy pointed to an apartment building near Fuery's house "Havoc lives there! I don't know why, but Havoc goes to Fuerys place- a-lot. I guess they're pretty close! Anyway, over there," Roy pointed to an apartment building away from Havoc's and Fuerys places "Breda lives there! And about ten blocks away, Falman lives in that apartment building! And..am I forgetting some one? Oh yeah, and Hawkeye and Hayate live in that neiboorhood some where!" Roy happily pointed to Riza's nieboorhood.

'Wait..Hayate..HAYATE?! I FORGOT TO COME HOME!! I FORGOT TO FEED HIM!! DAMN!!'

"Hmm?" Roy looked down at Riza "Is something wrong?" Riza shook her head furiously. She hated her self for being so stupid.

'I have to make Roy go to my place tomorrow. He'll see that I'm not home and that Hayate needs food and a walk—but won't he get suspitous?' Riza's eyes began to grow big. 'What if Roy does enough searching and finds out that I've become a cat!?!?' Riza mentally slapped herself. 'Riza- get a hold of yourself woman! Turning into a cat was the most random thing that could have happened! No way will Roy ever guess that you've become a cat, even if some one told him!' Riza sighed in relief. 'Whoooo…right. I'll worry about getting Roy to go to my place tomorrow, but in the mean time-' Riza looked over at Roy, who was still staring out the window. 'I need to know more about Roy. There's so many things that I don't know—and he's hiding something from me and I want to know what's bothering him.' Roy noticed Riza was looking at him and he looked back at her. After some more staring, Roy said "I need to give you a name. I mean, you must not like being called 'cat' all the time. Let's see…," Roy thought for a moment then said "What about Grace?" Riza shook her head. It was a nice name, but not the name for her. "Christine?" Riza shook her head again. She loved that name and she wanted to name one of her children that someday, but that name for her?

"'No'? Really?" Roy scratched his head. "I really like that name…ah, well, what about Madeleine?" Again Riza shook her head. Too classy for her.

"You're hard to please, cat." Roy pouted and crossed his arms. "Kitty?" Riza stared at him then shook her head.

'NO.'

"OK…aahh..I can't think of anymore. I guess we're back at square one again. What about the name 'cat'?" Riza nodded. For some reason, she liked being called that. It made her feel special.

"Really? You don't mind being called 'cat'?" OK." Roy laid back on his bed and rolled over so that (to him) Riza was upside down. "Tomorrow, we need to go over to Fuerys place. I need to barrow some things from him and return some things back and….there's something else.."

Riza lightly pushed Roy with her paw.

'Don't leave me guessing Roy. I want to know what the something else is!'

Roy picked Riza up and held her above him. "Nuh-uh! It's going to be a surprise!"

Roy put Riza back down and turned off the lamp that was conveniently in his room. Darkness. Roy climbed under the covers and picked Riza up again. He put her down gently on the bed and held her. Riza blushed but she was starting to get used to all of this affection that Roy was giving her. She was on the brink of sleep when she realized something.

Earlier today, when she was just about to take her nap at the office, she started to think about who she would rather sleep with, but she cut herself off saying to herself that it would never happen.

Well, she got her wish.

Impossible and never are the words that a coward uses, but Riza was no coward.

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Once again, I find the ending cheesy and I'm real sorry that this took such a long time to update! ;;;;

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