Chapter 1
It was just another day. Light made its way through the cracks of the carefully obscured window in a darkened room. The room slowly illuminated, revealing item after item. The room was quite bright in paint, the walls shining a golden kind of yellow, flower patterns decorating it here and there. A lone Teddybear sat in a corner, looking quite worn, as if it had been used quite a lot. Some tearstains are visible on the brown plush, giving the illusion of the toy crying. In fact, a lot of the items living in the room have tearstreaks on them. Flowers, pillows, photographs.
Photographs of a happy family. An adorable blonde girl in a wedding dress, accompanied by a quite dashing looking white-haired boy in a traditional wedding suit. The newlyweds seemed so happy...
A lump on the blue flower patterned bed began to shake. A head popped up, revealing a messy haired blonde and unhappy girl, the same one who had been smiling on the photograph of two years ago. All traces of a smile seemed to have vanished. Even as she made her way to the bathroom, wearing blue nightclothes, no signs of feelings were visible.
Brushing her teeth mechanically, the unhappy girl's thought strayed from the thing she thinks every day: Her duties as the princess. Instead, her mind travelled back to memories that should have been locked away.
"Maybe we will meet again in a better life"
Crack!
She bit through her toothbrush. Paying it no heed, she threw it away, like all the happiness she ever felt.
The day went on like usual. Boring paperwork. A lecture from her friend Maribelle, criticising her lack of passion. Why even bother? All is meaningless after all. Maribelle went on talking about her family life, not catching the unhappy girl's looks of disdain.
Without a word, the unhappy girl left her table and went outside to catch a bit of air. It seemed like such a long time since she left the castle. An eternity. But if that felt like an eternity, her time together with Robin was two eternities ago.
Robin. That name crossed her mind ever so often, but she had always discarded it right after. Now she didn't feel like pushing him away. Memories of a happy past poured into the unhappy girl's grey mind.
Their first meeting...
"Chrom, we have to do something."
Their first battle...
"Wow, magic and swords AND tactics? Is there anything you can't do?"
Their ... special day.
"Wow! This ring is huge! Oh, we'll have such a great time together!"
Only it didn't turn out to be a happy life. Sometimes the unhappy girl wished she had never met him at all. This blink of a though alone managed to make her heart ache.
His final moments...
"ROBIN!"
"I hope we'll meet again in a better life...Lissa."
The unhappy girl was standing in front of a river in a field devoid of flowers, instead filled with grass. Her feet carried her there against her orders. This was the place...
"Chrom, we have to do something", whispered the unhappy girl in sadness, reliving that first meeting.
"What do you propose we do?"
With a gasp, Lissa's head moved towards her brother who followed her in worry of his sister. He looked as if in shock, but then smiled.
Lissa's eyes followed his gaze and landed on a man lying on the ground.
"I...I don't know!",she cried out, unbelieveing of the sight in front of her feet. He looked just like the first time they met him, robes and all.
Robin's eyes opened. Chrom smiled gently and lowered himself, holding out his hand.
"I see you're awake now."
Lissa giggled.
"There are better places to take nap than on the ground, you know",continued Chrom, completely re-enacting the scene from years ago.
"Give me your hand."
As Robin's hand reached out to grab Chrom's, Lissa noticed that mark of Grima, a mark that had caused him so much sorrow, has dissappeared. Lissa smiled again.
Robin dusted himself off and looked around in confusion.
"Welcome back. It's all over now",said Chrom, referring to the end of the Grima war.
"Yes!",Lissa almost screamed. "We can be a family again, Robin!"
Lissa still couldn't believe it, but Robin is here now. Lissa's smile shone as bright as the morning sun.
Robin's eyes locked on Lissa's.
"Excuse me, but who are you people?"
The unhappy girl's smile shattered into a million pieces, her heart following soon after.