Quick Info~

This game, man... Welcome to my first fic for Fire Emblem: Fates! I'm super excited to share this with you guys! After having an internal struggle over who to marry in Conquest (I'm talking A-supporting with almost all of the guys just to figure it out) I finally decided on Laslow/Inigo. He's such a sweetie and, despite my love for Fates, nothing will surpass my love for Awakening. So that's how these drabbles were born. I'm not sure how many there will be and I'm hoping to switch up the POV's depending on the chapter. However, they all will be connected :) I hope you guys enjoy this first installment! Feel free to leave feedback on what you liked, what you didn't, what you're hoping for in the future, etc.

Drabble 1: Try Again Tomorrow

"It's just tea," I said, frowning as Odin and Selena eyed me disapprovingly.

"You don't understand," Odin said, draping one arm around my shoulder and dramatically extending the other in the air. "You don't know what darkness could engulf our parents' futures if you fall in love with someone in this world."

I laughed, shrugging Odin's arm off. "I don't think tea is going to completely collapse the time stream."

"Yeah, but we can't afford to think. We have to know," Selena jeered, flicking one red pigtail behind her shoulder and scowling at me.

"Fine," I said, rolling my eyes. "Then I know tea won't completely collapse the time stream."

Selena sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose in between her fingers. "You're such an idiot sometimes."

I grinned, tipping her chin towards me. "Don't be jealous."

"Ugh! Yeah, like I'm jealous," Selena scoffed. "I could have my fair share of Nohrian men if I wanted. And, speaking of that, have you considered that Lady Corrin might turn you down for someone else?"

"Of course," I said, frowning. "One of my nature isn't a stranger to rejection."

"Perhaps Lady Corrin's heart has been swiftly taken from your grasp by the very man you claim to serve?" Odin added.

"Guys, I'm not trying to take her heart. I just want to treat a beautiful woman to tea," I said, waving away their worries with my hand as I began to walk out of Odin's quarters. "And just so you know, saving our parents is more important than anything else. I would never jeopardize that."

"What do you mean 'no'?" I asked flatly.

"Just what I said," Corrin replied. "No, I won't go to tea with you."

"Lady Corrin," I said, taking her hand and pressing it to my lips before giving her the best puppy dog eyes I could muster. "You never know what tomorrow might hold! What if I never get the opportunity to ask you again?"

"Again? So this is going to be a daily thing, then?" Corrin asked, smiling coyly.

"Indeed!" I said, flashing her a wide smile. "Every day until you say yes."

Corrin laughed dryly. "Then let's ask Xander if you can go on a special mission to the front lines tomorrow."

"You wound me," I said, clutching my chest and feigning hurt. "But if I do get the chance to live another day, wait for me to ask you again, okay?"

Her expression softened and I could've sworn that I saw her genuinely smile. The smallest quirk of her lips managed to light up her entire face for a single second.

"Sure," she said, dropping her gaze to the floor and swiftly turning on her heel to leave.

"I'll count the seconds!" I called as she disappeared into the castle.

I thought about going to brag to Odin and Selena about my partial victory, but my heart was pounding so loud that I wasn't sure I would even be able to get the words out.

Was it all because Corrin had smiled at me? She smiled a lot, probably too much, and that was coming from the King of Smiles. But it was always strained, like it took every muscle in her body to control one simple movement.

I was certainly out of practice if a simple smile made me turn into a pile of immovable mush. I shook my head and headed towards the Cafeteria, hoping that forcing down some inedible rations would paralyze the butterflies in my stomach.

"Peri," I started, moving a sticky pile of mashed potatoes around on my plate. "Have you talked to Lady Corrin recently?"

"I saw her in the hot springs earlier," Peri replied, tipping a can of tomato juice to her lips and smirking at Leo who was enviously eyeing it from across the room.

"Oh, yeah?" I asked, swallowing as I tried to stammer nonchalantly. "Did she happen to say anything about, oh, I don't know, her day, the weather… me?"

"You?" Peri asked, repeatedly stabbing a stale piece of bread with a knife on her plate. "Yeah."

"Oh, okay. Interesting," I said, dropping my gaze to the plate in front of me and feeling my cheeks begin to heat.

Blushing was, much to my misfortune, a trait I undoubtedly inherited from my mother.

"Hey, Laslow?" Peri asked, turning to me with a serious expression on her face. "Do you think stabbing a person like I did with this piece of bread would be fatal or only tortuous?"

"So what did Lady Corrin say about me?"

Peri frowned, her bottom lip protruding into a fat pout. "You didn't answer my question!"

I rolled my eyes. "I don't know, Peri. Probably fatal, I guess. But what did Lady Corrin say about me?"

Peri sighed. "You're no fun. And it wasn't much, lover-boy. Just that you asked her out to tea and that she's planning on repeatedly saying no."

Ouch.

"Looks like I'll just have to keep trying harder then," I said, clenching my hand into a fist and pounding the table with pure determination. "A true gentleman would never give up so easily!"

"A true gentleman would also avoid splattering mashed potatoes on his comrades," Peri said, flicking the white mush off of her wrist and back at me.

"Oh, sorry," I said awkwardly, noticing that my fist must've landed in my lunch.

"Just don't be this much of an oaf when you talk to Lady Corrin again," Peri said, shaking her head and resuming mutilating the piece of bread.

"Another beautiful day! The birds are chirping. The breeze is gently blowing through the trees. Not to mention, it isn't as drearily dark as it usually is," I said, leaning against the trunk of a tree and eyeing Corrin seductively.

"Someone is in a good mood," she said, brushing past me.

"You noticed!" I said, stepping in front of her and grabbing both of her hands. "That's because it is the perfect day for tea."

"Let me know how it tastes," she said, standing on her tiptoes and patting my head in a degrading manner.

I quickly recovered, and moved one hand to cup her cheek. "How about you find out for yourself by accompanying me?" I asked.

"Ah, this again," Corrin said. "Hmm, let me think. No."

"Another rejection. Perhaps Selena was right after all. Is your heart taken by another? What man is it? Kaze? Don't tell me it's Odin?!"

"No, it's not like that."

"Then maybe it's a woman? I know that Lady Camilla is your sister, but you are adopted so I'm sure there are ways around that," I said, placing my hand underneath my chin in thought. "Alright. That settles it. I would never want to step out of line, but if I have to fight for your heart then so be it!"

"Laslow—"

"I'll spar each suitor. I'll fight better, dance better, even sleep better if I have to. Anything is worth—"

"Laslow!" Corrin yelled.

"Hmm?" I opened my eyes and watched as Corrin looked at me visibly irritated.

"How many other women have you told this to?" she asked.

My smile faded and I clasped my hands in front of me, utterly embarrassed. Out of all of the questions she could've asked, why that one? I was a flirt. I was an unabashedly huge flirt. But I was not a liar, so I knew I had to answer with complete sincerity.

"Just today?" I asked.

Corrin's eyes widened and she shook her head. "You're ridiculous," she said, pushing past me.

"So no tea then?" I asked.

"Try again tomorrow!" she responded, and the lilt of her voice made me believe that she wanted me to.