Hey guys! Second fanifc, this one I do plan on continuing later. I feel this is a pairing not too common, but hey I like it. Kthanksbye!

Robin stood outside Cordelia's tent, his head pointed towards the ground as he nervously tapped his index and thumb together. He had developed this habit a few days after fighting the first batch of Risen just outside Southtown. Chrom nagged him about it, but Robin simply brushed off his teasing. Living in his palace for over two years does that.

Robin took a steadying breath, readying himself for the upcoming trial. He hadn't been this nervous since the failed attempt to save Emmeryn's life. Sometimes he was still haunted by his only failure., often staying late up into the night.

Robin shook his head, he was getting distracted. Plus it probably looked strange for him to be lingering outside of the Knight Captain's tent for so long. Robin swallowed and softly cleared his throat. "C-Cordelia?" he asked hesitantly, now praying to Naga that she was out training or patrolling the campsite.

"Robin?" Her voice danced from inside the tent, making Robin blush. It was true he did have a slight crush on her, but what Shepherd didn't? Well save for Chrom. That man was quite dim when it came to women., after all he proposed to Olivia only days after meeting her.

Cordelia's head poked out between the flaps of her tent, surprisingly shorter than Robin remembered. Robin supposed riding a Pegasus and looking down on everyone gave him the effect that she actually was tall. Damn it Robin! Focus! He chided himself, hoping to just get this whole thing over with.

:May I come in?" Robin asked quietly, to which Cordelia simply stood to the side and held the tent flap open. Robin slipped past the red-haired knight into the very neat and well-organized tent. The bed neatly made, weapons sparkling on the rack, and, unsurprisingly, an open book of Make Him fall for you in a fortnight sat upon her nightstand.

Robin questioned the presence of the book, since Cordelia- "Umm Robin?" The knight asked, taking a seat on her bed. Robin blushed and sat in a chair opposite her.

Once seated, Robin began to wring his hands together awkwardly, the silence continuing between the two. "S-So umm..." Robin trailed off, mind desperately searching for the words he needed. Cordelia cocked her head to the side, waiting patiently for the tactician to finish his thoughts.

"So I-I was wondering if I could have your hand in-" Robin said slowly spoke before being interrupted by the knight. "Robin! You know that Vaike and I..." The knight blushed, at a loss for words and thoroughly confused to the man's actions. After all, she didn't peg the tactician for one to be a home-wrecker. She thought that the man was far better than that.

"NO! That's not...ugh." Robin sighed as he palmed his equally red face. He did it again. A simple mess up ruined his chances...

"I wanted to ask for your blessing..." Robin said softly, his voice muffled by his long sleeves. 'M-My blessing?" Cordelia stuttered. He couldn't mean what she thought he meant did he?

"Y...y-yes. I want your blessing to ask for Severa's hand in marriage." Robin muttered, finally looking up at the pretty Pegasus rider. Cordelia, for the first time in a long while, did not know what to do. The described "perfect," woman was at a loss for words, she simply worked her jaw up and down slowly.

"Robin..." Cordelia finally began after a long and awkward silence, "Shouldn't you have asked Vaike about this?" Robin let a small smile grace his lips, "I did, he told me to ask you. Then he gave me a thumbs up and asked to the best man." Cordelia chuckled lightly at her husband's antics.

"Then I had to tell him that he would be walking Severa down the aisle, so he couldn't be the best man anyways." Robin continued, "He then threatened me with his axe. Which I dodged and made my way over here."

Cordelia shifted a little in her seat, still wondering why had the Grandmaster of Ylisse chosen her daughter. If anything Robin could have married into Chrom's family or even into Say'ri's dynasty. It was no secret Robin had a certain charm about him, and before many of the female Shepherds had gotten married and introduced to their future children, they had often spent some nights talking about the enigmatic man.

"Well Robin..." Cordelia began. She looked up at the eyes of the great man who kept them all alive over the past war and the current one they fought in against Walhart the Conqueror. This man, who had slain men and Risen alike, who fought for each Shepherd, who was so selfless to take an arrow to the shoulder for her, who was...Robin. She smiled.

"Severa needs someone like you...I can only open up her heart so much as a mother..." Cordelia spoke happily. "You have my permission and my blessing to marry my paradoxical daughter from the future past." Cordelia proclaimed happily, to which Robin's smile could have fallen off his face.

Robin hugged Cordelia briefly before heading out to find the very woman who they spoke of. Somewhere across the great sea and in the ruins of time, a girl with blonde hair and an oversized tactician's coat awoke.