Young Lovers- Chapter 17 Royai

Young Lovers: A Royai FanFic

Disclaimer: I don’t own FMA… It is annoying to constantly write that… >.<

Chapter 17: Just Wouldn’t Listen

Crystal sighed and began tapping her foot on the grass as if waiting for them to acknowledge that she was there, so they did. Maes, wanting no trouble at all, stood up and tried his best to cheerfully greet her. However, she did not pay attention to him. Hayate came, sniffed at her feet and started barking at her. This annoyed Crystal and she ended up kicking the pup a little bit, which cause Riza to suddenly jump up and go tend to him. Roy frowned and walked up to her. “Just what is it that you want now? I thought I told you not to bother us anymore.”

“I thought that, for once, I’d listen to you and see just how long this joke of a relationship lasts.” Crystal shook her head and stomped one foot into the ground. “However, much to my surprise I find that after all this time I haven’t even noticed one true argument spark from you two. It make me so damn mad that you think she’s so important.” She cast her gaze over to Riza and turned her head away in disgust. “Just what is it about rich girls anyway?” Crystal heard a noise and could see in the corner of her eye that Riza had stood up, giving Crystal her full attention so she continued. “Is it their vulnerability or just the grand thirst to be set for life financially…? Are you used to it Riza? Letting yourself be taken advantage of just to see that they probably don’t care about you at all?”

“Stop it!” Riza shouted. Hayate whimpered and hid behind Maes. “Please, have you no bit of kindness to stop what you’re saying? I haven’t experienced that before and I know that I never will…”

Roy agreed to Riza’s outburst. “You’ve got to stop trying to put our lives down! So I dumped you! So what? Listen to yourself! Not a moment too soon if you ask me!” He sighed. “If I had known you’d end up this way, then I would never have asked you out in the first place.” Roy turned his heel, facing away from Crystal. Enough was enough and he was honestly sick of it.

Having noticed, Riza walked up to Roy and placed her hand on his shoulder. She tried asking if he was alright but he muttered something she didn’t understand. Yet, at that moment, Crystal walked up to the two of them and slapped Riza square in the face, causing her to stumble back a bit. “Quit it with your lousy baiting! It’s not just Roy that was bugging me, its you too! Your stupid family name! Yeah, I know that ‘Hawkeye’ is an important name. Here you waltz in and automatically you seem to have everything so neatly pack up for you…”

Once again, Roy crossed paths between Riza and Crystal. This time, however, there was so much anger in his eyes but also a sting of guilt. This is all my fault, isn’t it? I should’ve been honest from the start to protect Riza and now look what has happened. He took a deep breath and looked behind him, noticing that Maes was walking up beside him. Riza watched as the two stood before her, ready to defend what had happened to her. Never before had she felt such loyalty on her behalf that she was more than ready to do the same for them. “Crystal, you’ve got to realize that Riza is not some spoiled rich girl…” It was strange how Roy and Maes seemed to say it in unison.

What am I doing? I shouldn’t be letting those two fight her for me. If I plan to go further in my life I need to be able to take action… Riza picked up Hayate and walked up to Crystal until they were only inches apart. Her look wasn’t threatening thought. In fact, it looked a little sad and apologetic. Crystal was taken back a bit. Roy, along with Maes, was about to interject when Riza cut him off.

“Crystal, please just try to ignore me if I cause that much of a problem for you. Believe me when I say that I have never meant to do anything like that! However, when you simply try to put me down without even trying to make an effort to understand me, then who is the bigger fool here?” Taking a deep breath, Riza calmed down a bit and turned around to say thank you to Roy and Maes. “I’m sorry if it looks like I’m trouble.” Her friend smiled and laughed, completely ignoring Crystal. That was when she finally got fed up with it all. They were acting as if she didn’t exist.

It was finally the last straw and Crystal lunged forward at Riza and pushed her into the ground. Maes and Roy suddenly jumped into action and tried to pry Crystal off her. The whole time Crystal had her hands around Riza’s neck, trying to strangle her. She noticed the necklace around Riza’s neck and ripped it off of her, which hurt her immensely. Unfortunately for Riza, she wasn’t strong enough to get her off. Crystal’s thumbs were pushing down with excessive force. By the time they managed stop Crystal, Riza had already passed out. As for Crystal, she kept yelling about how she had it coming. She kept screaming about how troubled times would be in her life always. It was almost as if she was muttering a curse on her behalf.

Luckily for them, they saw a policeman patrolling the park and dragged Crystal along to explain what had happened. The man was shocked at first but ended up taking Crystal away to her parents, saying that it was a serious thing she had done. Roy and Maes rushed back to Riza to find that she still hadn’t woken up. Hayate was cuddled next to his master, licking her face and whimpering…

At the Hawkeye Mansion…

Riza fluttered her eyes open and noticed that she was lying down on a soft… bed? Sitting up, she realized that she was back in her room. Maes was sitting beside her bed and smiled when she woke up. “You really scared us there, Riza… Are you alright?”

One hand touched her neck and she sighed. “I guess so. That was very unexpected and a little scary. Who would have thought that she’d just attack me like that…?”

A knock came from the direction of her door and Roy stood in the doorway. “Turns out her parents are going to keep her on a close watch now. I recently went over there to give her one final piece of my mind.” He walked up to her bed and gently grabbed one of her hands. “Look, I’m really sorry that it had to turn out that way. I don’t think I’ve ever been more scared in my life.”

Riza blushed and shook her head. “Don’t worry about it. There only thing that matters is that we’re all okay. I would never want anything to happen to the two of you. You can count on that…”

Back at School…

Crystal was absent from school for about three days before she came back. Things were different. To put it bluntly, she looked like a mess. Nobody even dared to say hello. They heard about what had happened and starting fearing the worst. More and more people opened up to Riza as a result. They soon found out that she was really a sweet girl and it was obvious that she and Roy were fixed on each other. It took a few weeks before things settled back down around campus.

During that time, Roy and Riza continued to spend meaningful time together. They even started talking about the future. Riza was still set to enlist in the military, which didn’t really please Roy very much. However, she assured him that her skills have not dulled and that she would be just fine. Roy sighed and explained that he was still worried regardless of how well she could take care of herself. For the moment, they ignored the subject and continued to talk about their goals in life, rather than the paths they were going to take in order to complete them.

There was never much to do in that town but it had always surprised them how they managed to see the world from just one spot. At one point, Riza had received a letter that her father somehow disappeared from his post and has been gone for a few weeks. Something told her she should worry and yet her instincts told her that he was fine. There was a little voice in her head that said Alex was not in any danger. Other than that, there were no other crucial incidents in her life for the time being.

One day, Riza was walking back home with Roy when she spotted a familiar black car near the gate of her house. She paused and took the time to study it. Roy also stopped and asked if there was a problem with a car being parked there. However, she assured him that it was nothing and both walked up to the house. Riza suddenly yawned so they both walked up to her room. Before she could take a nap, Riza and Roy sat down to do the homework they had for that night…

The butler walked into Riza’s room when it was getting a little too quiet. The situation he found them in was better than he had feared. Both of them were passed out on the floor. By the looks of it though, they had completed their homework. Taking in a deep breath, the butler walked over to the phone near Riza’s bed and informed Roy’s father about the snooze his son was taking. There was a pause and then a laugh on the other line as Mustang said that he wouldn’t worry so much now. Before he left, the butler took two blanket’s out of Riza’s closet and covered each of them with one so they wouldn’t get cold.

That night, in the black car…

“There haven’t been any signs of that guy coming back here. But it seems like that girl is starting to get a little suspicious about us being here.”

“Are you crazy? It’s just a black car she saw in the same place twice. How is she going to figure out anything from that?”

The same two men who were deployed to retrieve Alex were back on post outside of his house. There was always the notion that he would really come back but it seemed like a bad tip at the time.

“What are we going to do if he shows back up here? I doubt he’d be so polite about it for the second time.”

“We’ll need to… convince… him to come along with us. We’ll have to use whatever means necessary…” The man sitting at the driver’s seat pulled out a cigarette and light it. From that point on, neither of them talked. There wasn’t anything important going on until 2000 when the dark haired boy was leaving the house. They remembered him coming in with the girl and paid him no attention.

The rest of the night seemed to go without incident. However when it reached 0230 the next day, they heard something. One pulled out binoculars and tried taking a peek around. He finally managed to catch sight of a shadowed figure walking within the mansion’s walls and making its way towards the house. He grinned, the man was finally making his move. All that was left was to take action…

In Riza’s room…

Roy and Riza had woken up around 1800 and had a quick dinner. Afterwards Roy left, saying that he didn’t want to stay too long or else his father would get very curious about his late stay over. There was already suspicion regarding the time he spent the night. In all honesty, nothing had happened no matter how much Roy wished there could be. In fact, they spoke about it once and agreed that it was something they didn’t want to risk doing until they got older. Therefore, Roy dismissed himself and said that he’d come by again soon and was gone with one final kiss on the lips.

Riza went back to her room when he left. She collected the homework papers she had lying around and sorted them back into her book bag. Even though it was only 2000 when Roy left, she was still pretty tired. The nap she took earlier was still taking over her body. If she tried staying up any longer then she’d never be able to go back to sleep. She slipped out of her uniform and into her night clothes and immediately got into bed. Reaching over, she turned off the lights and started to drift to sleep.

She fell asleep pretty quickly and didn’t stir even once. However, late into the night, something woke her up. Someone was nudging her shoulder and softly whispering her name. She muttered something and tried flipping over. It didn’t stop the person though. By the time she decided to sit up, she understood how dangerous it was when someone she didn’t recognize was in her bedroom. She leaned towards her lamp. Her hands were shaking but she managed to reach over and turn the light on. It took a few seconds for Riza to get used to the light and clear her vision. When she saw who it was, she nearly fainted. The letter was right and so were her instincts.

“Riza… I’m sorry if I scared you… How have you been?” Alex reached a hand out to touch her face. He was worried that he was only dreaming that he was there. Nothing else mattered at the moment so long that he was able to see his daughter again. Alex grabbed her and pulled her into a hug. Whispering in her ear, he would apologize for his absence and plead that he would try his best to make it up to her. He heard no response from his daughter, only the tightened grip she had on him was present…

Author’s Notes: I’m so surprised that I managed to finish this so early. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I really like writing it. The reason why should be pretty obvious don’t you think? X3 I have to inform you people that there are only three chapters left to the story: 18-20. Things are coming to a close so pay close attention since I’m gonna try to link it back to the series itself. In fact, I’ve been thinking about writing another Royai fanfic that runs along with Roy and Riza in the military. I dunno if that sounds interesting to anyone… We’ll just have to see right? Reviews are always welcomed and very much loved! I really hoped everyone enjoyed reading Chapter 17. Onward to Chapter 18: Breaking Apart!

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