Summary: At the right angle, in a line of sight, one might wonder why he never stopped staring at her for so much as a second.
Theme: 094. From Yesterday
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Angles
094. From Yesterday
It is the anniversary of the death of her father.
"I still love him."
Riza tells Roy, quiet but truthful. He remembers seeing her back in their teens, the alchemical code she had hated so much; the burden of a knowledge she could not understand and hating her father for it. But still loving him, despite the pain and anger she held towards the man. He knows how now, he is the only one to understand it, and still she is almost wary of this. She knows he will not misuse the alchemy as her father had, but still the pain is raw. When she asked him to burn it afterwards, it had been necessity; protection from what she did not want to know, and still now avoided. She kept no mirrors in her home.
"What he did was wrong, but we all love our parents."
Roy, of course, had barely known his own. Maybe this is why he understands her a little more than others. He pats her head demeaningly, and she gives him a cold look. She hates to be treated as a child, but sometimes he feels that this is the only way to keep her around. To distance her is to keep her close, because if she got any nearer than she already had he would not be able to prevent himself from telling her everything. As much as he wants her to, she could not forgive him everything. Of this much he is certain.
"Nature is cruel that way."
He should hope not. He places one hand protectively on her stomach, thinking that of all the women he had ever met; she is the only one he could stay with, the only one he would ever even consider a family with. One day, he wants a child, a girl with her dark eyes and his black hair and a smile just as pretty as hers; and he does not want that child to despise him for anything. Not that he would tell her that.
"Love is human nature."
He tells her, and she looks up at him; unhappy but smiling thinly because he always knows what to say. He was there when it begun, and he will be there when it ends; and telling her otherwise would do nothing to alter that fact. Of course, if love is human nature; loving her is only normal. Anyone would.
He just hopes that one day their child will forgive him for not telling her sooner.
I cannot imagine Roy wanting children with anyone but Riza. Maybe it's the affinity.
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