but you still came back for me
Character: Roy Mustang
Summary: His fear is to be left behind.
He has been four when his parents have died in a car accident. His survival has been nothing but luck – his cousins have not wanted him to leave yet and his aunt has offered to return him to his home the next day. And then, a few kilometres away from Aunty Abby's house, Abel and Rachel have died after another car has hit them. The very first thing Roy can remember about this is the way his Aunt has looked when she has returned. She has seen the accident from her bedroom window and promptly ran across the fields to get to her brother to try getting him out of the car.
The young boy has heard from his uncle that Abel Mustang's very last words have been 'I apologise … Abbs, Roy…' and yet, this does not make it hurt any less – especially because there are scars the fire has left behind on Aunty Abby's arms and neck, scars from burns she has received when she had dragged her brother and her sister-in-law out of the burning car.
And so Roy has became an orphan and has been raised by his other aunt because Abigail has never found the strength to look at him properly again, blaming herself for her brother's death. To him, this has been the second time he has felt abandoned within a very short time and that he has been looking for people who would never ever even think of abandoning him becomes his way of coping with the pain in his chest that reappears every single time he looks at the wedding picture of his family where his parents and his aunt laugh, carefree because back then, there has been no darkness or unhappiness in their lives and they have seriously thought that they would laugh like this for the next few decades as well.
He finds his team, the people who will never ever leave him the way so many people have left him and he knows that the only way to keep them there, to keep them even against in any circumstances that might make them leave is to be as loyal and dedicated as they are – to promise them that he can and will protect them and that they can rely on him.
Kain Fuery knows who to ask when he needs someone to lead his wife-to-be down the aisle, Vato Falman knows who to talk to when he simply needs someone to share his thoughts with, Heymans Breda has someone he can always invite when he has tried out a new recipe and Jean Havoc can rely on his superior to get him out the mess they have ended up together and Riza Hawkeye has had someone to protect who also protects her ever since they have met. She is the first among them and after the war, he has feared that she might have abandoned him because is bad news – but no matter what, Riza Hawkeye will always be there when Roy Mustang needs her.