Resurfacing the forgotten

Chapter 1 :The beginning

Riza woke to the feel of sunlight on her face. Exhausted she pushed herself upwards and glanced around her surroundings, here eye's squinting. The curtains were open a crack and she lay alone in a double bed. The dent from where Roy slept was still evident. His uniform that hung up over the wardrobe was gone. He had gone to work. She felt slightly guilty. Last night she had practically forced him to stay awake and cater to her unusual cravings and give comforting back massages where the tattoo and burns were aching. They fell asleep late but he still had to get up at the crack of dawn for work. A small scrap of paper was left beside her bedside. Riza quickly picked up the piece of paper and read it quickly, blinking away her droopy eyes.

Riza,

Sorry I didn't wake you up when I went to work, but you just looked too tired last night. Beside the more sleep the better, right? Try not to strain yourself and make sure you remember to eat! I left breakfast covered up in the kitchen. See you later tonight.

-Roy

She smiled briefly and placed her ringed hand subconsciously over her heavily swollen belly. Roy had practically forced her to take maternity leave. That day had been weeks ago and the due date had drawn closer and closer. In fact it was next week. Riza prayed that there would be no complications and the baby would be perfectly healthy and well. She thought about the day she told Roy she was pregnant.

It was the beginning of winter and they had been married for at least 3 months due to the reform of the fraternization laws. Couples were allowed to stay under the same command but were evaluated monthly to ensure relationships had no affect on their productivity. Also Roy had reluctantly handed over management and organisation of Ishval back to the Ishvalens since reconstruction was nearly complete, thanks to the massive numbers of volunteers, donations and alchemists willing to assist, particularly Alphonse Elric after his recovery. Therefore giving them back their independence and enabling them to live their lives the way they wanted to. As much as he wanted to carry on atoning for his sins, he had to respect the wishes for independence the Ishvalens wanted. Of course Roy would visit every so often to ensure that everything was okay and run fairly and assist in any way possible, he had become more like an advisor to newly promoted Colonel Miles. Since then, he had duties at Eastern HQ as the new commanding officer.

She had visited the doctor with Rebecca several weeks ago, where she found out she was pregnant. It had taken her weeks to get up the courage to tell Roy, she was finally going to tell him after they got off work.

Imagine her surprise when she walked into work that day and poppers went off in her face and a banner was hanging from the ceiling of the office. "Congratulations" She looked baffled at them, the whole team including Mustang sat in his usual seat with a big smirk on his face. She then spotted Rebecca in the corner.

She stomped up to her. "You told them!" Rebecca amused shook her head.

"They were already planning this when I got here."

Roy got up and planted a hand on Hawkeye's shoulder. "I've known for weeks Riza." He smirked as she looked at him surprised. "You don't know how excited I've been. I've just been waiting for you to say it." He widened his eyes in encouragement and the subordinates leaned forward in anticipation.

"I'm having your baby." She said nervously, and with that she was picked up and swung around, a small applause coming from the subordinates.

Later that evening Roy had forced her to relax whilst he did housework to the best of his ability and immediately afterwards he firmly planted his ear against her stomach and spent the rest of the evening rubbing his hand over and over his stomach.

She rubbed her belly slightly and felt a kick. It was about time she ate something, the clock said 12:30, Roy would be eating at this point. Riza felt a chill and moved to put on one of Roy's oversized shirt on top of her pyjamas. She ran her fingers along her stomach as Hayate came into her room. Using her other hand she rubbed his head a muttered a good morning. Then slowly stretched and stood. Riza slowly began wobbling towards the door as she opened it, a loud knock came from downstairs. She moved quicker to answer the door, fumbling down the stairs.

Riza pulled open the door to find two rather burly looking men and a smaller shorter mousey looking man, two brunettes and a blonde. Quite frankly they looked like bunch of thugs, despite being dressed in military uniform. She instinctively narrowed her eyes and placed a hand protectively over her stomach. She deeply regretted leaving her guns upstairs now.

"Captain Riza Mustang right?" The one in the middle asked. Riza nodded suspiciously, she had insisted at work that they continued to call her by Hawkeye to avoid confusion.

"General Mustang ordered us to retrieve you and take you to the command centre. So come with us." She eyed them up. They didn't look like any of Roy's subordinates, and she and Roy had both sat through hours of interviews before deciding who else would join their unit. She thought she saw a another man behind the three men in front, but she couldn't be sure.

"Might I ask why?" She remained firm and blunt.

"Terrorists have planted a bomb in the building, the General wants you to remain safe at the command centre." So they wanted to get her to leave her home.

"Then why didn't the General send Havoc or Breda."

The three looked between themselves uncomfortably, the smallest one shifted his feet slightly.

"Havoc and Breda are both busy with paperwork."

"Then why didn't the General come himself." Whatever these guys wanted, she wanted them to leave quickly. Roy wouldn't send just anyone.

"He is also busy with paperwork." Riza was tempted to laugh.

"That's not possible, considering it's lunch time and Roy never works through lunch." The tallest of the men glanced quickly to the side in discomfort. "So mind telling me what your business it?" Her eyes narrowed more.

They acted quickly. But then again so did Riza.

The three men tried to grab for the door but was met by Riza slamming the door quickly and applying the bolt. Uncoordinatedly she pushed the side table down in front of the door to block it. She then clumsily headed quickly toward upstairs so that she could retrieve her gun Hayate followed behind her.

She was about half way up the stairs when the door fell with a crash. They had had a battering ram prepared. Riza's eyes widened as the men burst through and began to chase after her. Without hesitation she and ran to the panic room which was furthest down the hall. She shut the door behind her once Hayate had gotten inside. Panting slightly she sealed all the locks and leaned her back against the steel door as she slid to the floor. She was now surrounded by an entirely steel room, there was little chance of the thugs getting inside, but then again she wasn't sure what they really wanted. Did they want her? Or did they want to find something?

This panic room was built by the previous owners of the home and Roy insisted that it wasn't demolished when he and Riza moved in. Now she understood why. She scooted over to the safe, unlocked it quickly to pull out a shotgun she had stored away. The only other thing inside were Roy's old gloves, that he didn't really need any more since he could transmute without.

The baby in her belly randomly kicked, and Riza patted it reassuringly. Black Hayate on the other hand explored the room and went deeper inside. His nose sniffed a red button covered in dust, emphasizing the age of the house.

"What've you got Hayate." Riza whispered loudly as she could still hear voices on the other side of the door. The dog jumped and smacked his head against the button. Four screens flickered and turned on. The images were in black and white but Riza could still see clearly this was her house. The camera showed her bedroom, living room and hallway. Surely Roy hadn't installed them, after all they had only been living here for 6 months and the video footage was old fashioned, it looked like some form of alchemy.

But despite this she was grateful, she could see where the thugs were and what they were doing. They were currently stood outside the door to the panic room. A sudden banging against the door made Riza jump as the vibrations travelled along her back.

"Captain Hawkeye please open the door, we need to take you back to the command centre. It's for your own safety." Riza decided not to reply.

"Think about the safety of your child. The general would rather you two be under his protection than here." Again she remained silent.

"Dumb Bitch! You know we're only doing what's best for you. Those people who said you were stubborn were right on the money."

"We know you're there, just open the bloody door." Riza cocked her gun loudly.

"Get the hell out of my house!" She shouted, one hand still clasping her stomach.

"Why you bit-" She could see the men on the screen. The largest one placed a hand on top of the one speaking.

"We'll deal with her later, we've still got a job to do." The smaller one nodded in return and she saw the three walk away from the door and could hear the footsteps leaving.

Each one split up and began searching in all the rooms. The one that searched her bedroom emptied out the closet and all the drawers before taking a knife and slashing the mattress and pillows. It was plainly obvious they were looking for something. But what was it? Had Roy made the enemies recently or was it one from the past? Whatever they were looking for Riza just hoped they wouldn't find it.

I'm back! It's been ages. So my writing style has deteriorated =.= but trust me it improves.

This fic will probably be my last multichaptered fic for a while.

Anyway I hoped you enjoyed it! Let me know!