Fullmetal Alchemist, Roy Mustang/Riza Hawkeye, 2/7: Gamble, "Illustrious Future"
Title: Illustrious Future
Author: Sofipitch
Set + Theme: Set 2, Theme 7: Gamble
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing(platonic or romantic)/Character/Threesome: Roy Mustang/Riza Hawkeye, Romantic
Rating: G
Genre(s): General really
Warning(s): None
Word Count: 389
Disclaimer/Claimer: When pigs fly.
Summary: She’ll follow him, whether she actually meets him or not.
The Amestrian military is rather enormous. And Riza knew there was a chance that she would never see him, despite her enrollment. But a part of her kept faint hope that she would find him, follow him on his path to a better safer Amestris.
She wouldn’t have ever believed that she would end up enrolling into the military if she had been told when she was younger. But after hearing Mr. Mustang’s testimony as to why he want the code to flame alchemy, after countless night of him analyzing, a light in his eyes that couldn’t be described with any word other than courageous, it enchanted her. Most woman swooned over Mustang for his looks and charm, but his heart and willingness to help people, that part of him is what Riza had come to love. So while applying for a job at the Central bank, a military enrollment poster caught her eyes and reminded her of him. And suddenly, it hit her like of wave: What was she doing to benefit other people and her country? Mustang’s dreams of bettering the country with his own hands and will, suddenly it was something beautiful to her. So she stopped the applications and followed him.
She didn’t really know what to look forward to, and a part of her knew the experience would bring sacrifice, but in a troubled country such as Amestris, moving forward would require determination. Hers brought on by a childhood crush, as she looked at the people around her filing in for the physical evaluation, she couldn’t help but wonder what where their reason’s and intentions for enrolling. War in the east? Lack of education? Family tradition? But each of them had a reason to lay their lives down, and for that she felt as if she were surrounded by a sea of heroes.
Maybe one day, Riza thought, she will do something that will make her father proud of his daughter and student. He’d have to take back his words of hate for the military, in acceptance for what they were to do. Riza hoped that even if she didn’t, Mr. Mustang would be able to make the difference he dreamed of. And she would help him. Directly or indirectly, it didn’t matter, as long as she was there, she was by his side.