A/N: Welcome! As the description says, this will be various one-shots or small arcs, as the title says, before or after the game's main plot. THERE WILL BE SPOILERS for pretty much anything main game related and with second generation units, especially with the episodic nature of the story. If this story really kicks off there may be minor Fates content as well, but seeing as I haven't beaten either main path of Fates yet, only Awakening for now! So, enjoy! Also, if the text formatting seems a little off, it's because I'm trying to figure out Doc Manager as I'm a newbie to it.

Brandon: Build 1/Face 1/Hair 1/Hair Color 9/
Brianna: Build 1/Face 4/Hair 5/Hair Color 9/

Prologue
Reunion

It was fitting that the last thing Brianna saw was her family. They meant the entire world to her, and all of a sudden she chose to leave their lives.

To prevent the fell dragon Grima from terrorizing the land in a millenia, their life had to be cut short by their own hand. Brianna, being one of the only two who could do it, previously stared down the scarred, tired body of her future-past self. Her husband, Chrom, was moments from putting the beast to sleep before he was stripped of his holy weapon. She had also thrown away her own weapons to summon the only one she needed...a small spear of pure crackling electricity, much like the one she barely saved Chrom from dying at the hands of...and the one her future self failed to hold back in her time. She drove it exactly where Chrom had been struck before, this time at full power.

She remembered the sight of her future self, how she had been quite literally shocked at the turn of events. As Grima's death roar rung out, his influence over the future Brianna vanished. For a moment, she smiled back at her, mouthing a very faint "Thank you" before passing on. Brianna's own body began to fade, as Naga had warned would happen should she finish Grima off herself. She told her family how much they meant to her and how much she loved them back. She saw how each of her family reacted, the images frozen in time...

Her children, Lucina and Morgan, reaching out crying for her. Her niece and nephew, Morgana and Owain, looking just as upset. The latter pair's mother, Lissa, leaning on the shoulder of her husband...Brianna's brother, Brandon. Her brother's face of shock stuck out almost as much as her own husband. He was her only living connection to their past family, and her sacrifice would mean he'd be the only one remaining of it. Chrom, however, was the complete opposite of everyone. He was smiling directly into her eyes, knowing the last of Naga's warning: If her bonds with her friends and family were enough, she may yet return. He was confident that she would, knowing how much they had practically cheated death already.

And so it was that Brianna barely felt anything but the joy of Chrom's smile. She didn't feel hunger, thirst, fatigue or anything like that, not physically anyway. Mentally, her mind desperately wanted to rest. It clung onto that feeling of hope and love for a long time and begged, no, SCREAMED to stop. But if Brianna had proven anything, giving up was a completely foreign concept to her.
Eventually, she heard voices. She was finally given her cue to rest. The image of her family had vanished...
...to be replaced with feeling.
"We have to do SOMETHING!"
That line sounded familiar...
"What do you propose we do?"
"I...I dunno!"
For a moment, Brianna wasn't sure if she should be relieved to hear these voices or to be scared that everything seemed to start over. It was better to find out then lie there, so she opened her eyes. The sunlight was blinding to her, making her unable to see her saviors.
"I see you're awake now."
"Hey there!"
Brianna tried to speak, but she ended up in a coughing fit, likely due to her revival not letting her recover her voice.
"Easy there. There are better places to take a nap than the ground you know. Give me your hand."
She reached up to the male voice, taking note that the Mark of Grima was absent from her hand.
"Welcome back."
All of a sudden, tears rushed to her eyes hearing that. Her hand was one thing, but hearing that...
"It's over now."
Even more suddenly than her tears, Brianna threw herself at the man, about to kiss the one she had recognized as the love of her life. However, there was only one problem...
"M-MOM, WAIT!" That voice wasn't Chrom's after all.