[Roy + Riza] once bitten, twice shy
Set in the continuing adventures of theskytides universe, roughly two weeks after this log.
When Lieutenant Commander Riza Hawkeye found herself getting a message on the journal network from one Commander Hijikata Toshirou with a request to get him the first tickets back to Bellcius as soon as possible, she immediately knew that something was up. When she saw the expression that was on the younger twin's face later that day when he came over to claim said tickets from her, she knew that something really bad had happened. While she was no true genius in reading people, it was sometimes frighteningly easy how open and readable Roy Mustang's twin brother was - maybe because he had always been that honest, or maybe because the two siblings were so alike in so many ways that perhaps only she was the only one who could notice.
Regardless of the reason, it was clear that something quite bad had happened, and the following two weeks only proved it: Roy being distracted, looking at his journal half the time and seemingly looking, wanting, wishing for something. That had all been in the first week alone, and once that had passed the alchemist had started to bury himself in all his work - a coping mechanism, one would say, in order to try and forget about the pain. Still, that could only work for so long. It had already been two weeks since that day, and Riza knew that if this continued, things would hardly be good at all, be it in the short or long run.
Which was why she was outside the door to his office now, stack of papers That Needed To Be Signed in her hand as she knocked on his door. "Sir? It's me."
When Lieutenant Commander Riza Hawkeye found herself getting a message on the journal network from one Commander Hijikata Toshirou with a request to get him the first tickets back to Bellcius as soon as possible, she immediately knew that something was up. When she saw the expression that was on the younger twin's face later that day when he came over to claim said tickets from her, she knew that something really bad had happened. While she was no true genius in reading people, it was sometimes frighteningly easy how open and readable Roy Mustang's twin brother was - maybe because he had always been that honest, or maybe because the two siblings were so alike in so many ways that perhaps only she was the only one who could notice.
Regardless of the reason, it was clear that something quite bad had happened, and the following two weeks only proved it: Roy being distracted, looking at his journal half the time and seemingly looking, wanting, wishing for something. That had all been in the first week alone, and once that had passed the alchemist had started to bury himself in all his work - a coping mechanism, one would say, in order to try and forget about the pain. Still, that could only work for so long. It had already been two weeks since that day, and Riza knew that if this continued, things would hardly be good at all, be it in the short or long run.
Which was why she was outside the door to his office now, stack of papers That Needed To Be Signed in her hand as she knocked on his door. "Sir? It's me."