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I like to start things off with compliments so here you go: your writing is fantastic! If you're still taking prompts could you do a royai oneshot where after the promised day, Riza and Roy are married but Riza refuses to have kids with him because she thinks they'd both be terrible parents because of all they did in ishval but then she sees how great Roy is with Elicia or Elysia (however you spell it is fine) and decides she does want to try having kids with him after all?

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this was a faaab prompt so thanks for that! i hope you enjoy it as much as i did writing it uwu

“Thank you for agreeing to look after Elicia today,” Graciasmiled, handing the overnight bag, containing all they needed to look after thenine-year-old, to Must – Roy. Even after all this time, old habits die hard.

“Not a problem, Gracia,” Roy replied with a kind smile. “We’realways happy to spend time with our niece.” The edges of his eyes crinkled as hegrinned at the child, who was running over to them, a massive smile one her ownface. It rivalled the happiness in Roy’s.

“Uncle Roy!” she screeched, launching herself into Roy’sarms. Riza readied herself to catch him, should he fall, but he steadiedhimself easily.

Elicia loved Roy, and vice versa. When together, apparently theywere inseparable, according to Gracia. This was the first time, however, that Rizawould be spending time with both of them. Riza had never seen Roy properly interactwith Elicia before, never mind look after her for a whole day. He may be theyoungest General in the Amestrian military, but he was still hopeless. It was awonder he got himself through the day by himself, never mind while lookingafter a child.

At least Roy had her to help him now. In the pocket of herjacket, Riza’s thumb moved to brush against her left ring finger, the gold bandcool to the touch.

“Ready to go?” Roy asked his “niece”, who noddedenthusiastically in his arms. Roy chuckled. “Let’s go, princess.”

Elicia latched onto his hand immediately after biddingfarewell to her mother, then did something that surprised Riza. She held outher hand, looking at Riza expectantly, so she was holding both their hands asthey walked. Riza blinked, ignoring the knowing and growing smirk on Roy’sface, then apprehensively took the child’s hand. It was warm as it gripped herstightly, Elicia’s grip iron clad as she alternated swinging Riza and Roy’s armsas they walked, a bright smile on her face.

They opted to drive to the park, the walk being a little toolong for Elicia to handle at her age. It was fine in length for the adults, butthey wanted Elicia to play there, not sit on a bench in the sunshine, exhaustedfrom her walk.

“Arms up,” Roy commanded and Elicia obeyed without question,obviously used to her Uncle Roy fastening her seatbelt. “All good?” he askedonce clipping the belt in place.

“All good,” Elicia replied happily.

“Excellent. Onwards!”

“Yay!”

Riza didn’t try to hide her amusement as she watched Royinteract with Elicia.

They had discussed having their own kids, but Riza haddecided against it. They had done too much in their lives so didn’t feel likethey deserved to be happy. Their marriage was a happy coincidence. For tax reasonsit was an ideal situation, and the public would need a Fuhrer who was married andhad a stable relationship. It was a marriage of convenience at heart, howeverthey did love each other, and had done for years, so not a complete loss on boththeir parts.

Roy was happy and agreed with her decision, stating he wassimply happy to be able to express his love for her openly, but Riza knew he longed for a child of his own.Even after spending five minutes in the company of him and Elicia, Riza knewthis was something he wanted to experience with a child of his own. There wasno doubt about it.

“Uncle Roy!” Elicia cried in delight as she ran around thegrass. “No!”

Roy laughed as Riza watched them from the bench she was saton, marvelling at how happy Roy looked as he chased Elicia with a “spider” hiddenwithin his clasped hands.

“It’s going to get you!” he teased, reaching his hands outcloser towards his niece. She shrieked and altered her course, opting to sprinttowards Riza instead. Upon realising what was happening, Riza’s eyes widenedslightly in surprise as the child came careening towards her.

“Auntie Riza!” Elicia cried, laughing as she and Roy rantowards her, the latter with the goofiest grin on his face.

Riza wasn’t entirely comfortable with that title, she barelyknew Elicia – they hadn’t spent much time together at all over the years – but acceptedthe warm welcome into her life nonetheless. As Elicia said, “you’re Uncle Roy’swife now, so that makes you my Auntie Riza!”.

She also didn’t expect to see Roy so happy. He was so differentwith Elicia than he was on a day-to-day basis. Oh, he was happy now that they weremarried and the homunculi and Bradley were finished, but it was only with the Hughes’daughter that he looked so carefree.

It reminded her of the teenager she once knew before war andthis country had corrupted him.

Elicia leapt into Riza’s surprised arms. “You won’t hurt her!”Elicia smiled triumphantly.

“Oh yeah?” Roy asked, a mischievous smirk on his face.

“Yeah!” Elicia replied, although there was doubt in hervoice. “You love Auntie Riza, so you won’t scare her by putting a spider in herhair!”

Elicia’s child logic was so innocent that Riza stopped,readjusting the grip on the child as she wriggled out of her arms to stand onthe bench beside her.

Roy sighed dramatically. “I suppose you’re right. You winthis round, Elicia,” he added, his tone disappointed. Elicia giggled and hoppeddown, racing away once more in case her uncle decided to pull that stunt again.

“You okay?” Roy asked, pausing and turning around to facehis wife with that smile she loved. It was the one where he looked at her withsuch love and wonder, leaving Riza to question every time what she did in thislife to end up with someone like him to love her. She certainly didn’t deserveit after the life she had lived.

“Yeah.” Riza coughed to clear her throat. “Yes. I’m fine.”

Roy paused, turning to completely face her. He grasped herleft hand gently, his thumb and forefinger running across her wedding ring, andsmiled. “Good.” He bent down, kissing her lips softly.

“Uncle Roy!” Elicia wailed, ready for his attention to be turnedback to her. He chuckled against her lips, a smile spreading across his face.Riza got an up close and personal look at it as he pulled away a fraction, justenough so he could look in her eyes.

“I think Elicia is demanding your attention,” Riza murmured.

“I think so too,” he agreed, laughing as the child shouted forhim again. “Duty calls!” With a quick peck on her cheek, Roy turned and joggedover to her.

After dinner Elicia was out like a light. Their day had obviouslybeen an exciting and tiring one, evident in the way her head kept droppingcloser and closer to the top of the table, almost landing in her plate of food.

“She’s completely out,” Roy whispered as he sat next to Rizaon their couch. His thigh was pressed against hers and she revelled in thewarmth he provided, leaning subconsciously into him. The book she was readingwas more of a prop at this point, her mind too distracted to focus on any ofthe words the pages offered up to her. Today had given her a lot to think aboutand as Roy put Elicia down for the night, Riza had focussed on those thoughtsinstead of losing herself in the novel. Riza placed it down on the arm of thecouch, giving up reading all together.

“I understand why,” she replied, stifling a yawn. “I’mexhausted.” Roy wrapped an arm around her shoulders, rubbing her upper arm ashe chuckled. “I don’t know how you did it all day.”

“For that kid I would do anything,” he replied. “Even if itmeant propping my eye lids open with tooth picks to stay awake and entertainher.”

Riza smiled to herself, a warm feeling pooling in her gut.It made her ruminations of the evening solidify in her mind, however she neededto discuss it with him first.

“Dramatic, but a fair assessment. That much was clear aftertoday.” Silence reigned after Roy laughed at her comment. “How do you do it?”Riza asked quietly.

“It’s easy,” he replied. “Once you get more experience at it–”

Riza shook her head. He had misunderstood. “No, how do youdo it, be so happy with her all the time?”

Roy finally understood and he sighed. The air in the roomappeared to have turned colder, thanks to Riza. Gone was the warmth from the pleasantday they had just spent together. In its place was the reminder of their pastwhich always loomed over them.

“It’s simple. Elicia doesn’t need to be touched by the darknesswe hold within us.” The hand on her arm rose to her shoulder, giving it a quicksqueeze. “We promised we would rise to the top to protect the next generation,so that they would never have to go through what we did. That’s why I can be sohappy with her, because I know I fought tooth and nail – and almost lost everythingin the process – and succeeded. Elicia may not have her father, but she’sgrowing up in a world where she can be truly happy and doesn’t need to worryabout a growing conflict in the east, or a southern border war. All that isbehind us now.”

Riza was silent as she processed his words. He was right andthat was the reason why they hadsacrificed themselves, to protect the likes of Ed, Al, and Elicia.

“What have you been thinking about?”

He knew her too well.

“I was thinking about us… and our family.”

“Riza, we talked about this,” he reminded her gently.

Se nodded. “We did., but after seeing you today, I know how much you wished that was ourchild.”

“It’s not –”

“Please, let me finish?” she asked, desperate, turning her gazetowards him.

“Of course.”

Riza stared at the hands clasped in her lap. One of Roy’s handsfound its way in, covering both of hers. “Before, when we discussed it, I thoughtwe didn’t deserve to have kids, and, in a way, I still don’t think we do. Butthen I look at Hughes.” She felt Roy stiffen beside her. “He did the same asus, murdered the same as us, yet he got to go home from the war and have a family.He found happiness.” Her hands tightened their grip on each other. “Is itselfish for me to say I wish we had too?”

Roy also tightened the grip on her hands. “Never. We justchose a different path. We made it to the top instead. There… There were timeswhen I wished it was different. It comes in moments – every day, in fact – but wedid what we did, we chose our path in Ishval, and now we pay the price.

“You and I are different people than Hughes. We chose dutyover family because of who we are as people. Can I be honest?” he asked,bringing his hand up to her chin and turning it to face him.

“Always.”

“I wouldn’t have wanted anyone else by my side throughoutthis journey.”

Riza’s hand brushed along his jaw, angling it so she coulddraw him close to kiss his lips.

“It’s selfish of me to say, I know that, because I wouldn’t havewished any of this on you. However,if we started stretching like that, we could just go to blaming it on ourparents for giving birth to us in the first place.”

Riza laughed quietly to herself, her sadness seeping out ofher slowly.

“Yes, I would like a family,” Roy began slowly and Riza felther chest tighten involuntarily in fear. “However, for the longest time myfamily has been you, even if we weren’tallowed to show it. If I’m with you then I’m happy. If you don’t want kids, that’sfine.” His smile was so full of love for her. “I already feel like the lot I endedup with was far more than I deserved.”

“Uncle Roy?” Elicia asked quietly from the doorway. One ofher eyes was covered by her fist as she rubbed it tiredly.

“Yes, princess?” he asked, turning in his chair to facebehind him, the conversation between them ended for the moment.

“I had a scary dream,” she mumbled, breath hitching.

“Come here, Elicia.”

She ran over as soon as the words were out of his mouth andclambered into his open arms. Roy sighed and rubbed circles on her back, whisperingin her ear that everything would be all right.

“Do you want to talk about it?” Elicia shook her headvehemently. “Okay, don’t worry. You don’t need to.”

He was a natural born father.

“What…” Riza trailed off, picking her next words carefully. “Whatwould you say if I changed my mind?” Riza whispered, leaning towards him so Roycould hear her.

His head craned around slowly to look at her, holding hisbreath as his lips parted in surprise and anticipation. Riza’s gaze flickeddown to Elicia – and how he comforted her with his hug – before returning toRoy’s, giving him a small nod, telling him that yes, today might have justswayed her towards adding a new member to their family.

With him.

It would be terrifying, but Roy had been with her throughthe majority of all the terrifying aspects of her life. He would help her throughthis as well. After today, Riza could see he was a natural at being a father,like he was born to fill the role.

It would take some time to figure it out, but perhaps now shecould do that.

Roy leaned in, kissing her softly, giving her his answer.

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