#eventually haha

The family tree gets more complicated

Some Royai thoughts, please:)

"The realization wasn't that shocking, but still pretty unsettling - lying on the concrete floor in the middle of nowhere was, in fact, the least of his problems"

, because when Riza figured out that he’d been drunk enough to get caught by their suspected alchemist-gone-wrong she’d be into the mix too, no longer watching safely from a distance, but moving in with the task force to properly complete the mission he’d just royally messed up.

Bigger than that was the problem of how much he disliked the idea of her taking a forward role in the mission. He shouldn’t twinge at the idea of her putting herself at risk (he’d made it her job to follow him into any sort of danger, after all) but he did - and he really shouldn’t.

And when she inevitably yelled at him about getting drunk, and demanded to know what he’d been thinking to drink at all at a party where they were closing in on an alchemist specialising in manipulating drinks, he’d have to look at the anger and concern on her face and know that that was for him.

And he would question himself again.

Was she angry because he’d strayed from the path they agreed on, and concerned that he might be losing sight of their goals?

Or was she angry because he got hurt and she couldn’t bear to see it, the way he was angry every time he put her in harm’s way? And concerned for him - for him, not their path?

It was inappropriate for him to even consider these things.

And then he would have to figure out how to lie to her about why he was drunk. It was because he’d forgotten not to drink and wanted to blend in so the alchemist wouldn’t notice him closing in. No, a smarter lie was that it was because he’d just been holding a glass to blend in and then accidentally took one sip. Or he wanted to test the bartender to see if he was the alchemist, and the only way was to test his knowledge of fancy cocktails.

Anything, anything, anything other than that he was drinking to forget the sound of her laugh as he teased her this morning about the hotel the group was staying at, and the smell of her hair when he’d leant over her in their team meeting to re-read the mission briefing, and the feel of her hand on his shoulder when he’d been too immersed in the alchemical process to notice he was being spoken to, and the sight of her in those civilian clothes pretending to be just a regular young woman who had never seen the horrors of war, and the oh-too-many imaginings of what she must taste like.

; Hoseok x Reader

; Genre: Smut, angst, fluff, violence, gore, horror