And I'm back! Damn... Honestly thought I would get this one out a little sooner rather than waiting and procrastinating. Oh well... Shit happens! Oh and guess what? I respond to reviews!
Sugouxxx: Thanks man! And don't worry. This fanfic is gonna be mostly about Robin, with Chrom and Olivia and possibly their children being the main side characters. Everyone else won't get much screen time and would more than likely only mentioned in this fic. I'll flesh out the other pairings in other possible projects (IF I have the time XD)
Anonymous: I'm not against your idea but I don't want to end up making this into just a massive chick fight over who gets Robin. I like the idea so I might imply it into another project, just not in this one (though there is one part I do like ;)). Thanks for the idea though!
Onto the fanfic!
As the Shepherds arrived to Regna Ferox, Chrom, Robin, Frederick, and Lissa, entered the East Kahn's throne room. They all find Flavia conversing with Virion and with a strange red-headed woman that no one has seen before. Robin takes great interest in her as they all walk in."Listen, Virion..." exclaimed Flavia in a rather harsh tone. "You better tell me all you know about this Walhart guy and I might reconsider driving a sword through you after trying to hit on me." Virion chuckles nervously and holds his hands up defensively. "N-no need. I'll tell you everything I know."
Virion talked to Flavia and the red-headed girl stands there with an obedient smile, her hands behind her back as she waits for the two to stop talking. Who is she..? thought Robin as she looks at her. The woman catches his gaze and sweetly smiles at him. Robin blushes softly and looks away to hide his blush. Thank the gods that no one has seen the blush, except for maybe the woman, or else Robin would never hear the end of it from anyone.
"So a crazed conqueror is trying to take over his entire continent and now he is trying to take ours? He is either cocky, a military genius, or just plain dumb." Flavia says after Virion has exclaimed everything. The woman softly chuckles and takes a graceful step foreword. Robin bit his lip as he watches her. By the gods she makes walking so beautiful... Robin thought to himself. "Not quite the entire continent," She speaks smoothly. Her voice was like sweet music to Robin's ears and he smiles softly. "There is a resistance from Chon'sin lead by the princess. It is surprisingly quite effective at being a pain in Walhart's side." Virion smiles and looks at the red-head. "Why thank you, Cherche." Robin blinks a few times, hearing the name. What a beautiful name...
Chrom spoke up, breaking Robin's train of thought. "Flavia, we will immediately walk to the harbor and take it back for you. If Walhart wants to conquer the continent then we might as well give him one hell of a fight to keep him out. Lissa, Frederick, you both go back to camp and get everyone ready for battle. We'll march to the harbor as soon as possible." Frederick bowed and Lissa whined to herself. Frederick sighs and picked up the princess, carrying her to the camp as Lissa complained more.
"Allow me to help. This may not be my country, yet we are fighting for the same cause." Cherche spoke up as she looked over to Chrom. The exalt nods and she was off, moving with grace and purpose. Robin couldn't just keep her off of his mind... "Robin, I hope you have an idea on how to take them down." Robin smiles and looks at Chrom, almost in a cocky yet competitive way. "I always do, Chrom. What else do you expect? I plan for everything." Robin told the lord. The last half was almost a lie to himself. I sure as hell didn't plan for Cherche to be here. What a thing of beauty, she is!
After Chrom and Flavia converse about the harbor and the kind of troops there, lord and Dark Knight/tactician walk back to camp. Chrom looks towards his friend. "So... That Cherche girl." Robin looks at him confused as they continued to walk. "What do you mean?" Chrom smirks and nudges Robin playfully. "Don't you try to hide it. I saw how you looked at her. I think you fell for her at first sight." Robin blushes brightly and looks away, walking to camp a little faster. Chrom chuckles and sighs. "I know you better than you think I do." Robin smiles softly and the two of them enter camp together.
Robin almost immediately starts looking for Cherche. I have to find her... And talk to her without choking up. The tactician walks around camp, looking for her. He smiles when he sees and walks towards her, pausing after seeing another figure with her. Oh no...
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Lon'qu responded to a question that Cherche has just asked him. "But... I talked to the family and they said-" Lon'qu immediately cuts her off and walks away from her. "Forget it. Plus you have the wrong man." Cherche winces and watches him as he walks away, a pained look in her eyes. Robin blinks a few times and walks up to her. "Hey... You alright..?" Cherche nods and hugs her arms to her chest. "Yeah just... Just needs some time alone to think." She walks off and Robin bites his lip hard. His chance, ruined. He wanted to comfort her but he doesn't know exactly how to. Reading it in books is completely different than performing the action itself in person. Plus Robin was... He was shy. He was insecure. He was reserved to himself. He sighs and walks away, trying to think of a way to get the girl to talk to him.
And there you go! Chapter two done and done! Oh how I like this one... Though how I also hate it. All it really did was set everything up for the real big stuff. Oh well... Next one might be up by the time the weekend rolls in! Biah!
