Ed woke up to someone lightly shaking his shoulder. Looking up he saw Amy "We're there. Everyone else is already off the train."

"Oh, thanks" Ed said quickly, pulling Riza up to her feet before she could fall to the side. Ed supported her until she got balanced.

"Come on let's go" Ed said excitedly.

Riza looked over to Amy "Thanks for waking us up."

"No problem. You guys do make a cute couple though." Amy said with a bright smile. She didn't think she would've had much of a chance at getting with someone as famous as the Fullmetal alchemist in the first place.

"Uh, yeah, thanks" Riza said blushing.

As Riza exited the train, saw Ed smiling. She knew his memories of this place were both good and bad. "You look rather happy." she commented.

Ed looked over and understood after seeing Riza's worried expression. "I'm glad to see Liore doing so well, and it'll be nice to see Rose. I heard she was doing quite well as well."

Riza gave a weak smile. "You want to go see her before we start?" she asked weakly.

Ed nodded, not noticing Riza's discomfort. He hadn't seen Rose since they had exposed Cornello, but from what Alphonse said she was a confident happy person now.

Riza looked at Ed. He seemed happy and she felt guilty for not wanting him to be, at least not for the reasons that he was right now.

After all if she didn't do something soon, how long would Ed stay single. Comparing him to everyone else is the office there wasn't much comparison. Roy was the only person in the office that could actually cook anything, and that always ended up being burned. Ed had his personality faults, but he was still probably the person she liked best personality wise.

Riza shook the thoughts from her head. There was no point in thinking about how much she liked Ed. She was ten years older than him, and regardless of whether he was going to die younger than her, it was still a large age difference.

She had to admit that he was both smarter and wiser than someone his age should be. People, including herself, may call him naive, but she knew that he knew that it was naive and didn't care. He kept part of his innocence that nearly everyone else in the military had lost. He paid for it, but it was still there. That was the biggest distinction from him and everyone else. He knew his naivety, knew what it would, and had, cost him and he was fully willing to pay that price. There was still that line that he would not cross.

"Riza, Rose is going to show us a place to stay." Ed said, waving for her to follow.

Looking up, she noticed the position of the sun had visibly changed. She was surprised to say the least.

"Rose" Riza called out.

"Yes?"

"What about this about desert people and sand monsters?" Riza asked, slightly surprised at how something like that didn't sound weird to her anymore.

"Oh that, if you guys are here for that I'm glad they sent you. We were originally going to deal with this ourselves, but one of the older grumpier people must have sent for you. It's some teenagers have dressed up and started breaking down some of the structures that are just being set up. They call themselves followers of Leto, which most people don't take to kindly to here."

Ed nodded understandingly "So you just want us to teach them a lesson then?"

"Maybe toss them in a cell for a few days, scare them a bit. They're just kids and it's not like they're destroying anything, just knocking stuff down." Rose replied.

"You know where they are?"

"They come out of the Church of Leto, but they don't stay there all the time. They generally avoid the place if someone camps out there though."

"They normally come out at night?" Riza asked.

Rose nodded.

"Okay, we'll start right after we put our stuff down." Ed said.

Rose smiled and led them through the streets. Most people gave a nod or waved to Ed and Rose as they passed. Riza noted that most people here seemed to respect Ed, which was understandable. She got a few wary looks, but most people seemed indifferent about her.

Rose stopped at a medium sized house. "This is where you'll be staying." she told them with a bright smile.

"Is there anyone else staying here?" Riza asked curiously.

Rose gave more downcast look "Even with how many buildings were destroyed, so many people died that, well we have houses that we can use for guests and such."

"Oh, and the bedroom is upstairs and to the left." Rose added.

Ed and Riza looked at Rose, waiting for her to continue. Rose stood there blinking, slightly confused.

"Oh, are you guys doing that like waiting till marriage thing?" Rose asked.

Both Ed and Riza turned beat red. "Why would you think we are together?" Riza asked having regained her composure before Ed.

"Well you two do look kinda cozy, but also Amy told me." Rose said happily.

"Oh well you know, if we were in the same room, no work would get done" Riza said, flustered and chuckling nervously. This caused Ed to feel like his jaw was about to disconnect when he heard what Riza said.

Rose blushed and giggled a bit "Don't worry about it. Like I said there just trouble makers and it was the bitter old people that reported it. If I can find them I can sort it out myself" Rose told them as she ushered them inside and then closed the door behind them.

Once Ed was sure Rose was gone, he looked over to Riza "What on god's earth made you say that?" he asked slightly panicked.

"I don't know, I panicked and that was the first explanation to pop into my head" Riza replied.

"Now the whole town probably know, we can play along and if we return we can just say we broke up" Ed told her.

Riza nodded. To be completely honest with herself, she didn't mind playing this little game. Ed did seem to mind, but as usual she couldn't tell what he was thinking.

"Ed, this is a serious question okay" Riza said, making sure she had his full attention.

"Yeah ok, what is it?" he asked, sounding slightly annoyed.

"Do you think it would really be that bad being with me?" Riza asked.

Ed looked over at Riza. She actually seemed worried, though if she caught on to any of what they said in the office, then he wasn't surprised. "What makes you say that?"

"Well you reaction just a minute ago, and I know that because of how I'm the one that keeps everyone in line at work, they don't think I'll ever end up with someone."

Ed sighed "Yeah, those guys aren't as quiet as they think. But no, I think you'd be an awesome person to end up with" Ed told her "Though you did seriously surprise me with what you said earlier" he added with a chuckle. "Honestly if I ended up with someone like you, I think I'd be pretty lucky.

"Ok, we'll continue this little charade" Riza said, pushing her finger into Ed's chest, "However, I expect you to take me out on a nice dinner at least once during this trip. Assuming it isn't too much trouble for the people here"

"Riza Hawkeye" Ed said, drawing out her name, "Are you asking me out on a date?"

Riza gave Ed a small peck on the lips, and then walked away giving a small sway of the hips before she ran into a room a slammed the door behind her

Ed rolled his eyes. All the composure he knew she had, had just fallen to pieces.

"Ok Riza, I'll be right back. Stay here I'll only be gone for about thirty minutes" Ed said though the door.

On the other side, Riza was trying to control her breath. She had been trying to act cool and sexy in front of Ed, though the logical side of her brain questioned that because Ed had basically already said he liked her, but through all of it she ended up embarrassing herself.

Ed sighed as he walked outside. It would take a few minutes for him to catch the kids responsible for causing trouble, maybe threatening them with a jail or even prison sentence, and then he would go and pick up some food for dinner.

Ed grinned as he thought of Riza. He was surprised enough to think he would actually have a heart attack when she kissed him, but he had almost laughed when she ran away. She had seemed so composed for the first half of it.

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Riza's eyes fluttered as she was awoken by the sound of the door.

"I'm back" Ed called out.

Riza looked around to realize she had fallen asleep, leaning against the door of the room that she had fled to. Walking out into the main part of the house and looked at Ed, who had his arms full of food.

"It wasn't to hard to track the kids. And I'm guessing that the townsfolk aren't very good at hiding or keeping the gossip down. I ambushed them pretty easily" Ed said as he put the food down on the table.

"They're aren't any real restaurants yet, so I figured I could make dinner" he explained.

Riza smiled "Sounds great."