Well, that was a long break. This was last updated this April, and now it's nearing the end of the year. Talk about slacking off.

But no. I really have been busy. In the months of April to June, I've been sorting out my documents for my university and US visa, among other things. And in August till now, college has taken a huge piece of my life. Of course, I have some free time, but most of those times have been used between sorting out things here that needs sorting, like my driver's license for example, reconnecting with my family and friends back in the Philippines, which would sometimes take up the entire day, or simply just relaxing and winding down from all the hectic college stuff. It's kind of hard, being an international student.

I don't really know how I did in this chapter, since it was written in pieces, with long periods time between segments of it. I tried my best to make some sense. I hope it does.

Well, enough of my rant. Let's get to the long awaited story, shall we?

S-Support

"Oh, hey, Chrom..." Robin called out when she saw Chrom, but as soon as Chrom saw her, he immediately turned around and went the opposite direction, as if afraid to meet her. "Well, how polite of him."

Robin sighed. It's been a while since the second bathing tent run-in incident, and she thought that everything was resolved between the two of them and that the two of them have grown closer than ever, but it doesn't seem like it, considering how Chrom has been avoiding her for the past few days.

"Whatever it is, he must have a reason for avoiding me. Maybe I'll just let him be, and he'll eventually tell me the reason for all this soon enough. Robin sighed. He still talks to her whenever needed, like during meetings and such, but that's how far their conversations go. If it isn't necessary for them to speak, Chrom would evade her at all costs, and she could feel uncomfortable constrictions in her chest whenever that happens, just like what happened a while ago.

"Or maybe I should tell him how I feel...? No, I don't think so. Our positions simply wouldn't permit it, and it would probably trouble Chrom even more. Besides, thinking about such things while we're at war is unbecoming of me." Robin sighed. For a while now, she's been feeling strange whenever it comes to Chrom. His smiles could brighten her day no matter how depressed she felt, his voice has begun to have this distinctness in which she could always hear him even in a crowded marketplace or on a battlefield, especially when he calls her name, and it hurts a lot more than a physical stab wound in the chest when he wouldn't talk to her and wouldn't tell her why. Robin wasn't stupid enough to not realize that this feeling is even more intense than just pure friendship, and at the same time she has realized it, she decided that it would be best to repress those feelings. "If I inhibit it, we could still stay as friends with no awkwardness between us, and I guess that's enough. At the very least, until this war is over."

Robin let out a loud sigh once more and headed to her tent. When she went in, however, she was shocked, to say the least, when she saw a poster of the man she was just thinking about, wearing absolutely nothing. She didn't even take note of the words at the bottom of the poster as she forced down a shriek that was about to go out of her mouth and immediately ran out of the tent. "Okay, whatever that was, I DID NOT need to see it. And why the hell would they post that in my tent?!"

~o~O~o~O~o~O~o~

"One more to go." Chrom said as he panted. He just ran across camp, from tent to tent, in order to rip off the poster of his naked image Frederick just hung in each tent. "And gods, it's Robin's tent. Let's just hope she hasn't seen it already. Well, not that it matters, since she's already seen me, uh...but anyway, I better hurry."

Chrom made sure nobody was inside and around before entering the tent. As soon as he entered, he spotted the poster almost immediately and he ran to it to pull it off. "Good, that's the last of it. Now all I have to do is burn it and everything will be alright again."

Before he exited the tent, though, he took a good look around the place. When was the last time he came here? Right, it was when he unintentionally insulted Robin and he came over to apologize to her. He could still remember the conversation they had like it just happened yesterday and he could feel the corners of his lips rise. After a while, he remembered why he was there and quickly left the tent in case he ran into to Robin. Without anybody noticing, he left the camp and went to somewhere far so he could safely burn all those posters. However, even when he was watching the pile of papers burn, his thoughts were filled by a certain tactician, and the hurt expression on her face as she saw him avoid her kept on replaying in his mind. In a way, it was hurting him, too. He didn't want to see that kind of expression on a woman he feels so special about, but then, it's his fault in the first place.

"Just a little bit longer..." Chrom whispered as he stared into the raging fire.

~o~O~o~O~o~O~o~

A few more days passed and Chrom still seemed reluctant to face Robin. In fact, during those few days, Chrom seemed to be completely avoiding her. He still appears during strategic meetings, but he barely talks and spaces out most of the time, as if thinking long and hard about something far more important. It was distressing to Robin, and more than once she tried to talk to Chrom about it, but what can Robin do when the man in question doesn't seem to like the idea of coming within a thirty-feet radius to her?

During a particular meeting, where Robin and Chrom discussed the routes to safely reach Plegian plains, Chrom was the same as always. He would offer sound suggestions and acted how the leader of an army should act, but as soon as the meeting was over, Chrom immediately excused himself, eager to leave as soon as possible. It wasn't unusual for Robin anymore, but she did notice that he was even edgier than usual, which concerned her.

"Hmm? Wait a minute...this route..." Robin noticed something on the map. "This isn't good. I should go tell Chrom about this." Robin said as she stood up and took the map with her.

By this time, Chrom was already heading towards his own tent. He was, as Robin guessed it, far more nervous than before, only because today is the day he decided that he would do it. But before that, he needs to make the necessary preparations. Said preparations included calming himself down before he gets a nervous breakdown and being unable to go with the plan. As soon as he entered his tent, he anxiously paced back and forth while playing with the ring on his finger. It was a ring that bore the crest of the Ylissean Royal Family, a ring his parents specifically made to commemorate his birth, and a ring he long ago decided to...

"Alright, calm down, Chrom. This is nothing to get so nervous about. I just have to give this ring and...a-and... Argh! Dammit! Just thinking about it is enough to give me a heart attack!" Chrom had to control his volume lest somebody outside might think he's gone mad. "But what if she rejects me? I mean, after all those cold shoulders I gave her, it's enough reason for her to hate me, right? That is, assuming that I can successfully ask what I want to ask without hyperventilating. Or maybe she doesn't see me that way? But I've already made up my mind that I'd do it today! I can't just back out! But then, just proposing out of the blue is kinda...what if she gets weirded out by me? Marriage is a huge and life-long decision, after all... I imagine it would be a terrible feeling, this heartbreak. I suppose I could still get over it. B-but... Gods! Why can't I calm down?!"

"Chrom! Just the man I wanted to see. We need to talk." Robin suddenly entered his tent without so much as a greeting and startled Chrom.

"Robin?!" Chrom turned to face Robin. For a second there, he thought she heard him speaking to himself about his "plans", but he gave a silent sigh of relief as soon as he saw that she was holding a map and on it was the route they just discussed and drew a few minutes ago, though something tells him that she isn't here for the sole purpose of strategizing. As Robin laid the map out in front of them, all Chrom could think about was this perfect chance to execute his plan, even if he wasn't ready to face her just yet.

~o~O~o~O~o~O~o~

"You are the wind at my back, and the sword at my side. Together, my love, we shall build a peaceful world, just you and me." Chrom took Robin's hands in his own and held it close. Robin's bashful face was a sight he would never forget, and he stared into her eyes, trying to etch her face into his mind as he pulled out the ring.

"That ring..." Robin said as she watched Chrom pull his ring off his finger. "Isn't that..."

"It's a ring my parents ordered to be made when I was born." Chrom said as he slipped the ring onto Robin's ring finger.

"And it also bears the Ylissean Royal Crest! Surely I can't have such a..."

"No. I've decided to give it to that special woman I would want to call my wife, so You should keep it."

"Chrom..." Robin couldn't say anything else, so she brought her arms around Chrom and hugged him tight. The warmth of the broad chest against her cheek and the strength of the arm that held her was reassuring, and Robin cannot recall any moment where she could be happier. None of them said a word, but each other's presence was enough to fill the silence.

"You may not remember your past, but we can still create new memories, together." Chrom said as he let go of Robin and cupped Robin's cheek with his hand. "And I'm sorry I avoided you for the past few days. I didn't want to, and I know it hurt you, but I just..."

Robin leaned against his hand, savoring the warmth. "It's alright, Chrom. Everything's forgiven. How can you expect me to get mad towards the man I love most? And I will never, ever forget these new memories we create, especially today, the day you've made me the luckiest and happiest person alive."

"I could say the same." Chrom smiled warmly as he leaned in, closing the distance between them, and their faces so close they could practically taste each other's breath. Just a little more, and they'll...

"FINALLY FOUND YOU TWO! Do you guys have any idea how long we've been searching?!" Lissa's voice surprised the two. She came just in time to see the two jump back from each other with flustered blushes on both of their faces. "Oops, did I just interrupt something?"

"L-Lissa?! Did you...?!" Chrom and Robin immediately let go of each other as Chrom's sister entered the tent.

"Hmm, it certainly looks like I did." Lissa smirked. "But never mind that! Chrom, we're out of supplies! We need some money to buy stuff at a nearby town ASAP!"

"Huh? But I thought we already stocked up on the supplies a few weeks ago, and Frederick himself said that it was enough for us to last another week." Chrom frowned.

"Well we just found out that the person who was supposedly in charge of it messed up with his report, and now we're running out of food to feed the hungry soldiers." Lissa rolled her eyes. "I need your permission to take out some money from the treasury so we could go to the town right this instant or else all of us will be eating tree barks tonight."

"Fine, here it is." Chrom wrote on a piece of paper and signed it before handing it to his sister. "Mind telling me who caused this?"

"Oh, you don't have worry about that anymore. Frederick already gave that guy the punishment he deserves. Safe to say that he won't be making the same mistake ever again." Lissa snorted.

"Frederick, you say? I'm suddenly feeling really bad for that man." Chrom sighed. "Anyway, call us when it's time for dinner."

"Got it." Lissa said as she went out of the tent and left the two of them to themselves.

Once Lissa was gone, both Chrom and Robin collapsed on a chair, exhausted. They never expected Lissa, or anyone else for that matter, suddenly barging in when they were in the middle of...something. In fact, Chrom noticed that Robin's face was still beet red.

"That...surprised me." Robin quietly said as she covered her face with her palms.

"Me, too." Chrom chuckled awkwardly.

They sat in silence as they took in what had just transpired. Suddenly, Robin bent over with a hand on her lips, trying to control her laughter. "Pfft...hehehe...hahahaha."

"What's so funny?" Chrom gave her a puzzled look.

"It's nothing...just that, I was remembering the words you said to me. Your confession and proposal."

"Oh gods, now that I think about, I just said some of the cheesiest lines I never imagined I'd say." This time it was Chrom who buried his face in his palms in embarrassment.

"Not only that, but you were also gasping like a pregnant woman in labor, and the 'wyvern in heat'...pfft." Robin couldn't keep it in anymore and hugged her stomach as she laughed hysterically while trying to keep her voice down. "I mean, I wasn't even thinking of wyverns until you said it..."

"I might just die of embarrassment right now..." Chrom sighed. "Ah well, at least you're happy."

"You'll feel embarrassment now, but in the future it will be just another memory for us to look back to." Robin stood up to sit beside Chrom and leaned on his shoulder. "But...what do we do now?"

"What do you mean by that?" Chrom said as he savored the warmth coming from his right shoulder.

"Well, obviously we need to break the news to the crew, but I don't think that would be a good idea with the war raging and all that."

"You're right..." Robin pulled Chrom back to reality, and that sent him thinking. "I suppose we should end this blasted war as soon as possible, then."

"And emerge victorious, so we are able to do as we please." Robin agreed, putting her hand over Chrom's, her hand where she wore the ring Chrom gave her.

"Of course." Chrom said as he traced the ring on Robin's finger. Then, he kissed Robin's head before standing up. "So that means we have to keep this a secret to everyone else for the time being, right? I don't like keeping secrets from them, though..."

"I don't like it either." Robin shrugged. "But at least this will give us another motivation to win the war. Besides, it's not like this is the first secret we're keeping. Imagine the looks on their faces if we told them that we've seen each other while the other was bathing..."

"But this and those are different things!" Chrom said, face going slightly pink as Robin reminded him of those incidents.

"Chrom, Robin? You guys alright in there?" Ricken poked his head into the tent. "You guys aren't having another disagreement, are you?"

"O-of course not!" Chrom denied, albeit a bit forcefully. "Everything's fine here!"

"Oh...alright then." Ricken seemed taken aback by Chrom's sudden outburst. "By the way, Frederick was in the main tent looking for the both of you; says he needs to know our plans for tomorrow."

"Alright. We'll be there in a few minutes." Robin said, and Ricken nodded before leaving. "Well, looks like we're back to the normal routine again."

"Looks like it...wait a second. Why are you taking off the ring I just gave you?"

"Idiot, if we're going to keep a secret, don't you think the ring will give everything away?" Robin rolled her eyes. Her husband-to-be may be the general of an army and prince of a nation, but he can be dense sometimes. "Don't worry, I'll still keep it on me at all times."

Robin took out a small chain from her pocket and slipped it through the ring.

"There we go. Now it's a necklace, and I can hide it under my shirt so nobody will see it." Robin said as she lifted the make-shift necklace. "Can you help me put it on?"

Chrom took the necklace and proceeded to fasten it around her neck while Robin pulls her hair up to make it easier for Chrom.

"Damn, this thing is so small..." Chrom said as he tried to get clasp to open.

"Right, Prince Chrom of Ylisse, he can't even put a necklace on a person." Robin said playfully.

"Hey, I'm trying my best here! Just a little bit more..."

"Chrom?"

"What?"

"Don't breathe so much, you're tickling my neck."

It was then when Chrom focused on her nape, and just realized how slender and smooth it was. Swallowing hard, he tried even harder to put the damn necklace on Robin.

"Are you done yet? My arms are starting to hurt..."

"Almost." Chrom said. "There we go."

Robin felt the weight of the chain on her neck as Chrom finally succeeded in putting it on her. "Thanks a lot..."

"Just one moment." Chrom quickly planted a kiss on her nape right before she could turn around to face him.

"Kyaa!" Robin placed a hand on where Chrom's lips touched and pushed him away. "What was that for?!"

"S-sorry, couldn't help myself..." Chrom looked away in embarrassment.

"Well, from now on, try to control yourself, you wyvern." Robin said, feeling some heat rise up to her face.

"Will do." Chrom said as he watched Robin march out the tent, and slyly smiled at himself before exiting as well.

Notice the chapter name says "part 1"?

That's right, there's still a part 2, which will come out soon, I hope. There's a long list of fanfics that are waiting for me to get back to, so I don't know how long it will take for the next chapters to come out.

Again, noticed I said "chapters" with an "s"?

Yup, after part 2, which is supposed to close this fic, I'm planning on writing one other chapter, about the special confession right after chapter 12 (or was it 13?) and maybe a tidbit of how Chrom and Robin's married life might be like after the war and Grima and all that.

I also hope I didn't make any grammatical mistakes in this one. I tried. I really did.

Anyway, that's it for today. I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter.

Leave your thoughts on the review section, thank you very much! *bows deeply*

Edit: So, the plan of pumping out a part 2 for this chapter has been cancelled.

I thought about it for a while, and I decided that it would be best if I left this chapter as it is. After all, this story only focuses the befores and afters of a support event, and it feels as if it would be too much if I stretch it any further. I'm sorry.

However, the extended support for the special support conversation that happens at the end of chapter 11 of the game is still due to come out soon. Also, I'm thinking of doing a extended beach support for this adorable couple. Stay tuned!