Flavia had her arms crossed while she was deep in thought. She was in a carriage heading for Ylisse. It had been nearly six months since the end of the war with Grima, and Robin had yet to answer her about the offer to be her sister.
"Damn that girl. I thought I would have an answer now." Flavia said to herself with a grunt, stomping the floor with her foot. "I wish she would have just answered me back then, at least no would have been better then what has happened." She continued to say out loud as she leaned back into the bench she sat on inside the carriage.
"Lady Flavia. We are approaching Ylisstol." The driver of the carriage called out.
"Good." Flavia said, nodding her head, as she looked out the window seeing the city coming into sight. "Just a little longer, and I can finally put this behind me."
The carriage stopped in front of the castle, allowing the Regent Khan to step out and be directly in front of the main door.
As she woman approached the they swung open to show the great knight Frederick, having pulled them open. "Khan Flavia. It's a pleasure to see you. Forgive me, but I don't remember being told to expect you."
Flavia smirked at the large knight. "You wouldn't have. This visit was spur of the moment, and it isn't to deal with politics. I just came to see Robin. I wanted to speak to her about something, that we talked about during the war."
Frederick nodded and stood to the side motioning for the khan to enter. As Flavia entered Frederick closed the large doors behind her.
"I'm not sure where Lady Robin is currently, but she would be in her study, her room, or the garden." The brown haired knight said, as he began leading the Khan through the halls of the castle.
"Why the garden?" Flavia asked curiously, having never seen Robin really care about flowers to much.
"She has been going there as of late to care for some flowers she planted. She also tends to sit on a bench in sight of them and read when she's not busy." He replied, turning down a hallway. "We will pass by the garden on the way to her office, so we can check there first."
Flavia nodded as she followed the knight, looking around the castle, having not really taken a closer look at the place last time she was here.
"Ahhh... seems I was right. There she is now." The knight said, bringing Flavia from her thoughts and pointed out into the garden where the silver haired tactician was sitting. She had her coat off and laying next to her, with a book in her hands.
Flavia smiled seeing the woman again after so many months. "Thank you Frederick. I'd like to talk to her alone if I could though." She said looking at him. The Knight nodded and left, heading down the same hallway they had come through.
Flavia watched the knight walk away, before entering the garden and heading towards Robin slowly. The khan let out a sigh as she stopped walking and raised a hand to scratch at the back of her head.
Robin looked up from her book hearing the sigh, and turned to look at who made it. As her eyes meet the khan's, her cheeks slowly turning pink. "Hel... Hello Flavia." Robin tried to greet as normally as she could, before trying the stuff the book into her coat she had laying next to her.
"H... Hey Robin. I was wondering if we could talk?" Flavia asked nicely, very unlike the khan the tactician knew.
Hearing the tone of the khan, her eyes widened thinking there was trouble. "What's wrong?" She said quick as she stood up, and looked at the khan, her eyes showing she was ready to help.
"Nothing, I just wanted to talk to you. I swear there is nothing wrong that you need to worry about." Flavia said, as she approached the woman.
Robin blinked, staring at the older woman. "Something has to be wrong Flavia. You don't sound like yourself."
"I know. Listen can we just talk? That's all I need. There is some things I need sorted out and your the only one who can do it." Flavia asked looking at the silver haired woman.
Robin nodded her head, and picked up her coat, laying it on her lap as she sat on one side of the bench so the khan had a place to sit.
Flavia walked over to the bench and sat down next to Robin letting out a hum.
"So what did you want to talk about?" Robin asked sweetly, like she always had during the war.
"What we talked about. You told me you would decide after the war was over, and i've been waiting for six months now." Flavia said, bluntly referring to her offer to take Robin as a sister.
Robin's body froze and her cheeks once again flared up, but instead of pink they turned a slightly darked. "Abo... about me being your sister?" She asked with a gulp.
"Yeah, but... I didn't come here to ask you to give me an answer to that." Flavia said leaning back into the bench.
"You didn't? Then what did you want to talk about having to do with that?" Robin asks, now completely lost.
"During the last conversation, you told me you misunderstood my original meaning, into a more romantic form. You believed it was for marriage and not adoption right?" Flavia asked, not daring to look at the woman beside her.
Robin swallowed a lump in her throat as she nodded. "I did, but..."
"But it was my fault for now I came about it. I mean I even brought you flowers when I asked, so thinking about it still i'm not surprised you took it that way. I'm not mad about it by the way, but ever since i've been thinking more about it." Flavia said, turning her head to look at Robin.
Robin stared at the khan. "Wha.. what have you been thinking about?"
"You..." Flavia flatly stated as she reached forward and grabbed Robin's head. She pulled the smaller woman towards her and crashed her lips against the younger woman's lips in a passionate kiss.
She slowly pulled back from the kiss, seeing Robin looking at her wide eyed and out of breath.
"In these last months, i've been thinking about you all the time." She said standing up from the bench and going to stand in front of Robin. "Robin, last time you misunderstood what I was asking you. This time I won't make the same mistake." She said kneeling down in front of Robin, and reaching up under her shoulder mounted shield to pull out a small box. "Last time you thought I was proposing marriage when I meant to adopt you as a sister, this time though. I want no confusion." She said opening the box to show a elegant golden ring, with the royal crest of Regna Ferox. "Robin... I don't want you as a sister anymore. I want you as my wife. I ask you here. Will you come back to Regna Ferox with me, and stand at my side as my equal in life. I love you Robin, please will you marry me?" The Regent Khan asked, kneeling in front of the tactician.
Robin continued to try and catch her breath as she listened to the khan speak. She had never kissed anyone else in her life and yet the kiss she had just shared with the Khan had just felt perfect, like nothing else would ever be the same. She stared at the khan hearing the khan propose to her with nary a doubt that it meant something else.
"Fla... Flavia... why? I.. I thought you loved me like an adopted sister?" Robin asked able to get her breathing under control.
"I did, but these months i've thought about my mistake and couldn't get the thought out of my head about how my life would be if I had you as a wife instead of a sister. You are beautiful, kind and caring Robin. At one point, yes I would've been happy being sisters, but not anymore." Flavia said, still having yet to get up from her kneeling position.
Robin lifted herself up a little so she was sitting straighter on the bench. She looked down at the coat that was in her lap and giggled.
Flavia blinked hearing the woman start giggling. "Are you mocking my affection? Here I am pouring my heart out to you, and you are giggling?" FLavia asked, her voice raising not able to control herself from getting slightly angry that the woman before her would do such a thing.
"No... No it's not that Flavia... It's just.." Robin says slowly, her blush brightening as she reaches into the coat and pulls out the book that she had stuffed in it, holding it out to the khan.
Seeing the cover of the book Flavia's eyes widen as she read the cover. 'How to show a woman you love her.'
"I... I haven't been able to stop thinking about you either Flavia. And I know i've been waiting a long time to come talk to you, but I didn't want to give you an answer that I would regret later." The younger woman said, standing up from the bench and kneeling down in front of the Khan. She lifted her hands and cupped the taller woman's cheeks so she could look into her eyes. "I won't regret this answer though. I love you, Flavia and yes, I will marry you." Robin says happily smiling widely.
Flavia smiled even wider wrapping her arms around Robins waist and standing up, pulling the girl with her, as she spun around holding Robin against her body.
"Oh happy day. The whole kingdom shall rejoice, and I most of all my lovely fawn." Flavia said, as she finally stopped spinning, and setting the woman on the ground, but keeping her arms wrapped around her and holding her close.
Robin giggled, having shifted her arms from the khans cheeks to wrap around her neck. "I think you mean 'we' most of all, since today I'm the luckiest woman in all the realm."
From the doorway leading into the garden the blue haired future princess could be seen smiling as she watched the two woman.
"You always asked if you ever fell in love, and I could never answer you for I didn't want to change it. I know you and Khan Flavia will be happy, just as you guy were in my time." Lucina said smiling, as she turned and walked away, leaving the two lovers unaware of her presence.