[August 4] [Fullmetal Alchemist] Acid

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Title: Acid
Day/Theme: August 4/ She left her life on Monday
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Character/Pairing: Roy Mustang/Riza Hawkeye
Rating: PG

acid

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She met him on Sunday.

But he looked sad like a church on a working day.

He bared her of pretense in a moment -he stripped her of every hope her family had for her, the promises to her friends, ambitions and dreams she knows now never were her own; he is acid and erases everything until there is only muscle and soul, corrosive and pitiless, and there is only herself in the mirror.

It was not his smile -a bit smug at the edges, just like everybody had warned her: but it´s all a defense mechanism, Roy whispers later, when she is long asleep, you have to know it.

It was not the way his hands felt like sandpaper and sea-waves when they were introduced and she saluted and it wasn´t enough for him.

It was the way he could draw a line on the sand (he is the desert and the water underneath, he is the starts and the clouding storm that´s coming) and here is the Riza that used to be -there was just that playfulness on his lips, and this time she remembered something heard in dreams- and on the opposite side, a figure that casts no shadow, no ghost behind, there was the other Riza, the one that was alone, the one that was with him, the one new and old.

The things that seemed so important not so long ago, the choices she never really made -he captured the lies and sucked out the poison, he helped Riza learn how to write her own name again, the letters from a new alphabet...