Suprise! I decided to do a bonus chapter for Robin since she is also a potential bride for Chrom. It wouldn't be fair to cut her out of this series just because she got Chrom, her story needs to be told too. I don't think I can fully grasp Robin's (well my Robin's) story and the depth of her relationship with Chrom in just one chapter but at least this will be a glimpse. I ordered the Knights of Iris art book and it's supposed to come soon so I'm super excited for that. Hopefully it will help inspire me for the Chrom series. There's a lot more people for Robin then there are for Chrom so it's gonna be hard finding all their stories, but I'm gonna try. -DBSKLOVER

Robin

Robin woke up feeling her heart still racing from the dream she couldn't remember, no it was a nightmare, that much she remembered. She did't know what it was but her hands were still shaking, guilt weighed heavy in her palms.

"Chrom, we have to do something."

"What do you suppose we do," came a deeper voice. Robin's heart, that was already racing from the nightmare, began beating for a different reason. It struck a cord in her heart, the voice was familiar. Hearing the voice was like listening to a favorite song, it gave her goosebumps and calmed her heart and got it speeding up at the same time. She opened her eyes to see the source of the voice that affected her so much. When Robin opened her eyes she saw two people standing in front of her one female with blond hair and a male with blue hair. The deep voice obviously didn't belong to the younger female so she refocused her attention on the man. "There are better places to take a nap than on the ground, you know," the man teased. The joke was kind of cheesy but Robin kind of liked it. "Here give me your hand." Robin took the hand the man offered. She liked his strong grip, whatever fear that was left behind by her nightmare was all forgotten after his touch.

She must have been sleeping for a long time because as soon as she stood up her feet were a little unstable and she found herself right in the face of the man who helped her up. He looked at her smiling and asked, "are you alright?"

"Y-yes...,"she answered, even though she was embarrassed at their proximity she still couldn't take her eyes away from his. "Thank you...Chrom." The name just slipped out of her mouth, she didn't know how she thought of it but it just felt right. It turned out his name was the only one's she could remember, she couldn't even remember her own name.

The man alongside the two, who Chrom addressed as Fredrick, found it doubtful. How could someone know Chrom's and nothing else, not even their own name. Robin herself wondered this too, she stared at the blue haired man named Chrom. What was so special about him that made her remember his name if she couldn't remember anything else?

Chrom didn't know why but he found himself extremely intrigued by the female amnesiac. He didn't like how harsh Fredrick was talking to her even though he knew Fredrick was only trying to protect them. The way the woman backed away guardedly made him discontent. He had felt his heart bear skip a beat when the woman had first opened her eyes and looked at him. He had seen a lot of beautiful women in court and this woman wouldn't have really been classified as beautiful but she was pretty, she had a natural fresh face and her eyes seemed to say that she already knew everything about him. Which surprised him all the more when she said his name. A lot of people knew his name, he was the prince after all but for some reason the fact that this one woman knew his name made him surprisingly giddy inside. She know anything else, not even her own but she knew his. Fredrick saw it as suspicious but it made Chrom want to trust her even more.

She hesitated when they proposed to take her back into town. The look of trust and familiarity they shared when she first woke up was gone, she backed up cautious of them. Chrom didn't like it, he didn't like the feeling of being on different sides with this stranger. He wanted her to trust him, he wanted to trust her too. She went with them but he could still see she was guarded and he didn't blame her. Waking up in the middle of no where not knowing anything about yourself then suddenly being forced to go to some place you don't know with people you don't know would make anyone cautious. But she knew him, he wanted to be the person she could trust, the one that made her feel comfortable in all this craziness. She seemed to be clueless as to where Ylisse was, it made Chrom wonder. If she didn't know where Ylisse was then she probably didn't know him as the prince. She didn't seem to know Lissa either, he knew he should have been suspicious but whenever her glance came back to him he had to fight back a smile.

Fredrick on the other hand was ever the skeptic. He didn't believe for an inkling that what came out of the amnesiac was true. "Someone pay this actor. He plays quite the fool," Fredrick scoffed, "the furrowed brow is especially convincing..." Chrom personally found the furrowed brow quite cute but he didn't like how Fredrick was scrutinizing her. The idea that Fredrick might find her charming left a bad taste in his mouth.

He distracted Fredrick with introductions. "You tend sheep? In full armor?" From his first cheesy joke Robin got the feeling Chrom wasn't the best with words but he had enough charisma for her to think that he was normal enough. Lissa seemed pretty normal too, Fredrick seemed a little scary but normal too. She questioned that deduction now seeing that Chrom chuckled and claimed that being a shepherd required full armor and how serious Fredrick seemed to take the job.

"My name is Robin." The words just seemed to flow out of her mouth just as it did with Chrom's name. She turned to smile at Chrom but stopped when she saw that it only fueled Fredrick's distrust. Chrom saw the smile but also saw how it dropped because of Fredrick's glare and felt a little annoyed with the knight. He was happy to know the name of the mysterious woman though. Robin, it was a light cute name. It fit her.

They were interrupted by screaming from a nearby village and Chrom and his the other two raced into the town. Robin proposed this was probably why they needed the armor, Ylisse seemed more dangerous than it appeared.

Seeing Chrom rushing ahead into danger made Robin feel uneasy for some reason and she found herself running after him. But seeing her on the field made Chrom uneasy, she seemed so small and she had just woken up not long ago. He remembered how small her hand felt in his, the same hand that now gripped the tome in her hand. He was completely taken back when she managed to handle it with skill, her pretty big eyes sharp with focus on the battlefield. It wasn't the time or place but he couldn't help just staring at this woman he had just met, it was cheesy but she seemed...magical. She had also showed ample skills with the sword and tactics as the battle moved on. He wanted her, for the Shepherds, they could use a tactician of her ability not because she had a pretty laugh.

Fredrick and Lissa sat in front of their first campfire with Robin, just staring at her with their jaws dropped as she attacked her piece of bear meat. Fredrick actually felt a little sorry for her, the woman must have been starved for her to attack a piece of meat the way she did. Chrom watched her too but with a small smile on his face. For someone so small and delicate looking she sure had many surprises for him. The woman who that morning had trouble standing up by herself, helped him protect a town and was now devouring a bear almost single handedly. They later learned that was just how Robin ate, as she devoured every meal after that in the same manner.

Chrom chuckled and wiped her cheek of a piece of the meal she had just devoured. Robin blushed and backed away trying to wipe her face herself. Now months into the war she couldn't believe she still ate like such a savage in front of the other Shepherds. She had tried to change her eating habits but as soon as she saw food in front of her she had forgotten her resolve. The only ones who seemed to compete with her was Stahl or Gaius with candy. "It's fine," Chrom had told her, "you make every meal look delicious, makes meal time more fun." That didn't make Robin feel better. For some reason after Chrom had basically told her he didn't see her as a woman, she felt a little bothered by the little actions that suggested he truly believed that.

She had tried to learn how to cook but her abilities were about par with Sully's. She felt a little jealous of Sumia, she had failed at first but now made pies that Chrom absolutely loved. Chrom often hated rhubarb but he loved it in Sumia's pies. He of course would struggle to swallow down whatever Robin cooked for him but he was a really bad actor, it was almost insulting to watch him try to tell her the meal was delicious. She knew whatever she made tasted horrible from Chrom's first bite. Especially since he would have Sumia's pie for dessert and he would exclaim, genuinely, how delicious it was. It seemed crazy but Robin feared that Sumia's pie was good enough to make Chrom fall in love with her for it. It wasn't fair, why did he see Sumia as a woman but not her. Sully tried to comfort her saying she was in the same boat but Robin was still unsatisfied. Robin never had an inferiority complex but she had caught herself wishing she was as pretty as Sumia.

Robin splashed her face with water. Why did she care if Chrom saw Sumia as a woman and not her? What did Chrom see in Sumia that made her a lady but not herself? Chrom wasn't one to judge on facial features...but Sumia did have quite a nice body... In the bath, Robin stood up in the tub to inspect herself. She wasn't as endowed as Sumia but she had to say she didn't have that bad of a body.

"Robin! ...HELLO? I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT OUR NEXT MOVE,"she heard Chrom calling for her outside.

"Chrom?! I-is that you? Er, if you could just wait outside, I'll just be a moment...", she called for him to wait and got out of the bath trying to change quickly.

She searched frantically for her towel and was overjoyed when she found it. But it was too late, she froze when she heard Chrom's voice near by, too near. "Anyway, I wanted to consult with you on tomorrow's march. You see..." Their eyes met and they just stared at each other in silence. She saw his eyes roam down and up her body again. "... Er, is there any special reason you aren't wearing any clothing?"

Her brain finally started working again and she screamed for him to get out. As soon as Chrom left she crouched down hugging her body. Chrom had just seen her naked, all of her. Robin covered her face, she should have at least sucked in her gut, she had just finished a large meal that night. She paused in that thought, was she really regretting not sucking in her stomach for Chrom to see rather than be mortified he saw her in all her at all in the first place?! She broke out in a blushed, what was wrong with her?! She wasn't the type of woman who enjoyed exposing her body for men, she was a self respecting woman. She just wanted Chrom to have a good impression of her body was all. She then stopped in that thought, why did she care what Chrom thought of her body? She wasn't dumb, she was the Shepherd's genius tactician after all, she pieced all her feelings together. The reason why it bothered her that he didn't see her as a woman, the reason why she wanted him to have a good impression of her body, the reason why she loved every opportunity to talk to him even if it was just to discuss their next plan of actions. She was in love with Chrom. She blushed, she had never been in love before, or at least she didn't remember ever being in love before, but she had no doubt she was in love with Chrom. Prince Chrom, her inner tactician reminded her, and you a commoner, an amnesiac he found abandoned in the middle of no where. Her heart that bubbled at the thought of her first love sank all the way to her stomach. Chrom and Lissa were the closest thing to family she had, it was enough that they cared for her as much as they did. She was lower than a beggar and they, royalty, took her in and treated her as one of their own. Chrom especially, standing by his side, looking into his eyes, it felt like home. She couldn't ask any more from him, she would just stay by his side and do her best to serve him as a the best tactician she could be. Others called her a genius but it was only because she was trying to be a tactician worthy enough to stand by a prince's side. Other's were like Fredrick, questioning how Chrom could trust a stranger with no memory. She herself wondered that sometimes too but Chrom trusted her anyways, she couldn't betray that trust. She had to prove herself to everyone, not only for herself but for Chrom. She managed to conceal her feelings well enough and she told herself she would be content just staying by his side as long as he needed her. He claimed that they would always need her and that she always had a place with them. She felt bittersweet at the sentiment, he no doubt cared for her but not as much as she cared for him.

She noticed that he was a little nervous after the bathing tent incident. Was it really that awkward for him to see her naked, did it really put him off that much? He was cordial with her whenever she talked to him but he stopped initiating conversations with her himself. He was fine around the other women, he still joked with Sully as he used to do with her. Sully looked so right walking by his side, she was strong enough to fight alongside Chrom and he felt comfortable enough with her. Robin wasn't the only one he felt comfortable with. Then there was Maribelle who understood what it took to be a lady at a prince's side. She would often remind Chrom of etiquette that Robin had no idea about, she would be really helpful in court. There was Sumia. Robin had watched them share a pie one day, laughing together. They looked like a picture definition of the perfect royal couple. Even though Sumia was a little clumsy so was Chrom but they both were so charimatic in battle. They would look good together. She hated how jealous she felt about the other women, her friends. Robin also hated knowing in her heart, one day Chrom would marry a woman, probably one of them and she would no longer be the one who knew him best. One day, the war will be over, Chrom will marry, and she will have no place anymore no matter how much Chrom insisted she did.

She decided to distract herself from such dark thoughts by checking the inventory. What she wasn't expecting to see was Chrom, stark naked. Though she often criticized how Chrom had eyed her whole body before he came to his senses she couldn't help her eyes as they roamed down and back up before her brain began working enough for her to start throwing things at Chrom. She felt extremely guilty afterwards seeing how she hurt him after walking in on him. But she was also a little happy since Chrom was back to his usual self, he chuckled and joked how it was karma for his earlier actions.

" Partners in crime? Heh heh, I like the thought of that. Well, partner, your secret's safe with me...," Robin laughed as she left the conversation. She was a much better actress than Chrom ever was she seemed fine until she entered her tent when the blush began seeping into her face. It didn't help when she looked up and saw a naked portrait of Chrom, he was covered by a sword in the picture but it didn't help since she had seen the real Chrom in all his glory. "Chrom Wants You!" it read and Robin tore it down and crumpled it up in her hands, cursing Fredrick under her breath. She hid her face in her knees balling the paper tight in her hands. "No he doesn't," she mumbled into her knees.

Chrom began avoiding her after that, he didn't even attempt to try small talk with her anymore. Robin's worst fear came to mind, had he discovered her feelings. It was becoming time, he wouldn't need her anymore. She had ruined their relationship with her useless feelings for Chrom. Her self pity was put aside when they discovered Exalt Emmeryn was kidnapped by Gangrel. She tried to calm Chrom, telling him everything would be fine that they would be able to save Emmeryn. But they didn't. She couldn't face Chrom after that. The best she could do for Chrom was be the tactician that he needed but when it mattered most she couldn't do it. Robin went back to her tent looking over and over the plans thinking of all the different ways it could have gone. How if she had only thought of an alternative plan of action sooner that Emmeryn would still be alive. She wiped the tears that streamed down her face as she looked at maps. She looked at future maps, they would get Gangrel. She couldn't fail that mission. She couldn't let Chrom down more than she already did. The guilt in her heart became heavier, how could she expect him to trust her again now. She had managed to keep all the Shepherds safe but not Chrom's gentle defenseless sister, she had proved nothing in her name. She might as well have been branded a traitor.

"Robin..." Robin shot out of her seat the sheer speed that she did so dried most of the tears from her eyes.

"Chrom." He stood at the entrance of Robin's tent. She was genuinely surprised, Chrom had gone straight to his tent after the battle and no one bothered him. They left him to mourn and everyone even Robin thought he would be mourning till the next battle. And there he was, standing in front of Robin, his eyes clear of tears. He walked towards her slowly keeping his eyes on her the whole time.

Robin was a confused and began stepping back as Chrom stepped forward, still keeping eye contact with him the whole time. She looked away for a fraction of a second when she felt the back of her legs touch her bed. Before she could look back Chrom had engulfed her in his arms pushing both of them back on the bed.

"Chom?!" She tried to look at his face, he was acting really out of character. She sucked in a breath when she felt warm tears on her neck and then she felt his body heaving from sobs as he clung to her. Her lip began to quiver as she held him in her arms stroking the back of his head gently. She looked at the ceiling of the tent willing herself to be not to cry, for Chrom. No one else knew but Chrom had spent the entire night in Robin's tent. Robin was the first to wake up and felt Chrom breathing softly on her neck and felt his arms loosely around her waist. She tried to move out of his arms slowly but his arms tightened.

Robin looked at Chrom to see that his eyes were open. "Let us stay like this for just a little longer, please." Robin didn't say anything, she just relaxed in his arms stroking his hair. They laid that way until they heard others begin to wake up. "Thank you, Robin." She didn't say anything, she just smiled. She didn't know where their relationship was anymore but she was just happy to see he still sought her out out of everyone he knew.

They managed to exit the tent without being seen because everyone was in the tactics tent trying to plan their next course of action. Everyone thought their new Exalt and tactician would be too much in grief to plan that day, so they were surprised to see both walking in ready to avenge Emmeryn. And avenge her they did, they took down Gangrel with no more loss of lives.

While everyone was celebrating the end of the war Robin was in her tent planning the route home. The war was over but her job wasn't done until she got Chrom and Lissa back to Ylisstol safely.

"Robin..." Robin had a sense of deja vu as she shot out of her seat again.

"What's wrong, Chrom? You look so serious." She scanned him up and down worried something was wrong again.

He came to apologize for bringing her into the war. "All I've been thinking about is stopping Gangrel, no matter the cost. Even my own life would not have been too high a price to pay." Just the thought of Chrom sacrificing himself made her heart drop. "I've been thinking a lot lately, about everything. And about you, Robin." Robin's heart jumped back into her chest. "In many ways, you're the best fighter I've ever known...and the best friend. You are a special woman, and I..." her heart was drumming in her ears so fast she felt as if she was going to go deaf. She almost missed his question, "I wonder if you think of me as more than your leader?"

What was she supposed to say."I think of you as a great man," were the words that came out of her mouth. They were true but that wasn't all she felt. She fought with herself if she should tell him about her feelings, it was now or never. She lowered her eyes and barely managed to whisper, "and...dear to my heart."

The room was silent. Robin began to panic, she regretted letting those words slip out of her mouth.

" I never want to let you go, Robin." Robin's head shot up and she met Chrom's eyes. They were smoldering, she couldn't look away. She could feel the veins pulsing in her neck. "Does that make me selfish?"

" If so, then let me be selfish, too. I would be with you, always" She was surprised she had her voice enough to say that. She was so overwhelmed by the whole situation she almost missed the most important question.

"Will you marry me?" Robin was genuinely amazed her heart had not died out yet.

She was in a daze, wondering if the whole situation was real or not. She snapped back when she realized Chrom was still nervously waiting for her answer. "...Yes." Chrom scoped her into his arms the instant she answered spinning her around kissing her cheek repeatedly. Robin couldn't control her laughter. She never thought she'd be this happy. "I can't help but think back to the day we first met... Strange, isn't it, the way fate brought us together?" She touched Chrom's cheek. " I am a lucky woman to have met you, and luckier still now." Her life had started when she met him in the field and she would have it no other way. He was the only family she knew and she was more than fine with it. She now accepted that she could be good for Chrom. Robin wasn't as physically strong as Sully but she would fight to the death at his side and offer him as much emotional strength as he needed. She wasn't a lady like Maribelle but he could teach her the way of the court and she in return would offer the eyes into the life of the common people, someone they could relate too. And though she wasn't similar to Chrom as Sumia but she filled in what he need and he filled in her holes. She caught him when he was tongue tied and he showed her it was okay whenever she made mistakes. She couldn't see it either but she and Chrom fit each other. It wasn't a physical thing, anyone who saw could see they were in a world with just the two of them whenever they were together. It didn't make you feel excluded, it was nice to look at. It made you feel like the world could be an okay place, that there was a thing called true love, and that it was right in front of their eyes.

Chrom held the hand on his cheek and smiled gently up at her. " I'll do everything I can to make the castle a happy home for us...my love." And he did. Two years after the war they had rebuilt the kingdom and Chrom and Robin had a habit of running of and hiding together avoiding royal parties, preferring the single presence of each other. Soon after with an addition of a little Lucina. They didn't get to spend much time with their little daughter when they were yet again in another war against Valm.

Little Lucina was the last of her happiness. In the war she had found out she was Validar's daughter. She and Chrom had never trusted the man and now she learned she was his daughter. Did that in turn mean Chrom couldn't trust her? It turned out to be true when Validar betrayed them using Robin herself in the process. She couldn't look at Fredrick when they returned to camp. He was right about her from the start. Later the future Lucina had called her out alone to talk to her. Robin had a clue what Lucina wanted to do but it still hurt when Lucina told her she planned to kill her. Her own daughter didn't trust her, Robin didn't even trust herself and knew it was best that Lucina didn't trust her either but it still hurt. Looking into Lucina's eyes, the same eyes as the little daughter she held in her arms not long ago on the opposite end of the blade pointed at her. Robin got no satisfaction when Lucina couldn't find it in herself to kill Robin and even worse when Chrom came out to say he still trusted Robin. She didn't trust herself , knew it wasn't safe and he saw so himself so why did he still trust her?

Robin sat alone in her tent that night staring at the mark on her hand. The ugly mark of Grima. She loved tracing Chrom's mark of the Exalt, it was so pretty, so calming. The mark on her hand was so ugly, how had she not notice how ugly it was? It made her sick remembering the times when Chrom would kiss her hand, not knowing his was kissing the mark of Grima. The more she stared at it the more she became frustrated with it, all the eyes staring back at her, she picked up the letter opener ready to try and remove the offending mark. A hand had grabbed hers before she could do harm to herself. She looked up to see the angry face of her husband.

"What were you planning just planning to do just now," he demanded. Robin didn't know how to answer, she could only just look up at Chrom and cry. All anger left Chrom's face and it contorted into a face of worry. He held her in his arms as she cried. He made her promise not to try to hurt herself again, she in return made him promise to kill her if she every became controlled again, before she could hurt him or anyone else. He hesitated but promised her with a heavy heart, anything to prevent her from hurting herself again.

They were on the back of Grima and things appeared to be going well. They were making their way across Grima, they would win! But as Chrom was about to land the last blow that would kill Grima, or more like send it into a deep slumber, Robin remembered Naga's words. If she killed Grima herself it would all end but she would be killing herself in the process. Robin looked around the battlefield, they were all fighting valiantly but they were getting tired, she could see. She saw her children Lucina, Morgan, swinging their blades watching each other's back as she was watching Chrom's. She couldn't risk letting Grima ruin their future and before she could stop herself her arm was extended sending the last hit that killed Grima. Chrom looked back at her eyes wide, with a look almost like a look of betrayal. She remembered the horrible feeling she got when she thought of Chrom dying for them and felt sorry that she was doing that to him.

"Robin! No!"

She saw herself disappearing the same way Grima was. She was a little scared but she felt no pain. "Thank you, Chrom. For...everything...," she turned to Chrom tears in her eyes but she tried to smile, for him, to reassure him everything was going to be fine. "Tell the others...my last thoughts were of them..." Chrom began running towards her and the desperation on his face tore her apart but she still didn't regret her decision. She knew he wouldn't make it to her in time so she tried to give him the her brightest smile over all her tears. "May we meet again in a better life..."

"Robin! No!" He was still desperately running towards her, tears welling in his eyes. He wanted to be able to touch her at least one last time. "Ah gods, NO!"

And Robin was gone.

"Chrom, we have to do something." Robin heard Lissa's voice.

"What do you propose we do?" That voice, she felt like crying. Was she in Heaven? Was this what Heaven was like, would she be able to live relive her life with Chrom again. She opened her eyes and nearly cried at the sight of Chrom. He offered her his hand again and her heart stopped when she looked at her hand and saw no mark. She looked up at Chrom with tears in eyes. This wasn't a dream? "Welcome back, it's over now." She reached out slowly and touched his cheek, just to make sure he was real. She jumped a little when she made contact and he held her hand in his, kissing the hand now without the mark. She openly sobbed into his neck as Chrom held her. He swallowed hard, holding back tears of relief and happiness. Her felt her lashes lightly flutter against his neck, oh how he missed the feeling. Fredrick even did an uncharacteristic jump for joy when he saw Robin walking by Chrom, though he was immediately embarrassed and greeted her more formally with a bow.

"See, I told you she'd be where we found her first," Lissa said smugly, "if you had listened and came here first it would have saved us the months of trouble." But Chrom and Robin weren't listening, they walked back to town hand in hand with Chrom catching her up on what had happened after she disappeared. Lissa sighed frustrated but smiled walking alongside Fredrick to give the couple time to catch up.

Around a year had passed, and Chrom apologized for not finding her sooner. He had to take the role of Exalt and help rebuild the realms after the war. Robin explained that she understood and began asking about Lucina. She feared that Lucina would not recognize her own mothher after being away for so long. Chrom hushed her fears, telling of how Lucina had already began walking and speaking. "She always calls for mama," Chrom said and Robin felt tears in her eyes as she smiled, "well when she isn't trying to grab onto Falchion."

Robin was hesitant to enter the room when Chrom had tried to catch the little Lucina's attention. Little Lucina had turned away from trying to grab the swords off the wall and saw Robin. Robin held her breath, scared her own daughter wouldn't recognize her, after all, Lucina had only seen her as an infant. Lucina smiled at Robin with a look saying that she knew exactly who she was, "Mama." Robin ran to her daughter holding her tightly in her arms, the tears freely flowing from relief. Chrom smiled at the sight, he couldn't be happier. They couldn't be happier.

That's what he thought. Until little Morgan joined their family a year later.

There it is, Robin's chapter! Sorry I got a little rushed near the middle-end part. I could have written so much more for Robin but I hope this'll do for a chapter limit. Also, sorry if it was a little perverted at part but what do you expect when people in love see each other naked. And my Robin is a little impulsive for someone who's a tactician isn't she. She tends to blurt out things without thinking about them, kind of like Chrom LOL but that's how she came to me in my head. I don't make their character up they just come to me in my head the way they are and I try describe them in words the best I can. Well this is officially then end of this series, hope to see you guys again when I start up the Chrom series! -DBSKLOVER