The walk to the car was silent. Roy couldn't really tell what Riza was thinking. When they had left the training field, she had walked briskly in front of him. Maybe he had overdone his little show and now he had to deal with the consequences.

"Riza, are you alright? Is it because of what I just did?" Roy was really dreading her answer. He had just thought it was a good opportunity to let everyone know that he didn't want people flirting with her.

Riza slowed down and sighed. "It's alright, sir. But you shouldn't have made such a big deal out of it. I wanted to come back quietly, but I don't think that will be the case."

Roy looked away in guilt. She was displeased with him. It's true that he should have just let her handle it. He had acted on impulse without thinking about what she had to deal with afterwards.

"Sorry"

"It's alright, sir. What's done is done. Just don't do that again, please."

They had a quick lunch together in a nice restaurant not too far from headquarters. Although they had spent a lovely time eating, it could have been better without his guards around.

Back at headquarters, Roy followed Riza to the administration office since he still had some free time before his next scheduled meeting. When they entered, everybody snapped into a salute, startled to see the Fuhrer in person.

"At ease everyone. Has Lieutenant Colonel Hawkeye been reinstated?" He asked the receptionist. She scurried to check through the files and said it was. She then went in the back, came back with a uniform and gave it to Riza.

"I'll go change right away, sir." Riza said and started walking towards a changing room.

"What? You want to work right now?" Roy asked incredulously.

"Of course, sir. I've wasted enough time. And I'm sure you're in desperate need for someone to help you sort out all your paperwork." She said bluntly.

Urg, she's right, Roy thought. "Alright. I'll wait here." Riza nodded and went to change.

In just one day, he had felt her slowly change back to her stoic military behavior. Roy didn't mind it at all. He had missed his serious no-nonsense aide and was pleased to see that she was still the same. In addition, he got to discover a whole new side of her that he probably would never have seen if all of this hadn't happened. He recounted through all the events that had happened and he was glad everything had ended well.

When she came back, fully dressed in the blue military uniform, he couldn't help but frown slightly. Well, I guess it's better than to have all the men stare at her. She went to stand in front of him and saluted.

"Lieutenant Colonel Riza Hawkeye at your service, sir." Roy smirked.

"Hawkeye. Tomorrow is my meeting with the parliament. It's going to be my start to make big changes to this country. I don't know how long it's going to take me, or if it's ever going to change, but I'll have to try." He paused and looked at her. She was looking at him attentively, patiently waiting for him to continue. "Will you follow me?"

"Do you need to ask me that every time, sir?"

"Will you follow me even if I'm an old grandpa?"

Riza looked surprised at his question, then she smiled and said, "Of course, sir. But I have to let you know that I'll be a wrinkly old grandma too."

Then she added, "But I'm afraid we can't apply those terms if we do not meet the conditions, sir."

"What do you mean?"

"We can only be a grandpa and grandma if we have grandchildren, sir."

"That's not a problem Riza! I'll make sure it happens!" Roy laughed out loud, while Riza promptly walked ahead.

A.N.: And that's the end of it. To tell you the truth, I had fun writing it, but I'm honestly quite disappointed in myself with the ending. It's true that I could have ended it before, but my story wasn't finished and I basically butchered the rest because I ran out of time when school started. I'm really sorry if this story didn't come out to your expectations. Well it was my first time writing a story. In my life. I don't know what got me to write this...

In conclusion, it was a good experience, but I don't think I'm quite cut out for this.

Thank you all for liking this lacking story and thank you for supporting me through it. :)

Maybe. Just MAYBE I'll think of writing something else one day. Of course it's going to be a royai fic. :)

See ya,

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