"Here we are again, off saving the world from mad men and would be conquerors. We weren't even able to plan the ceremony before war called us back."

"I know, but somehow this time seems a little more bearable. Besides, do you really see either of us settling down any time soon?"

Robin had to admit his fiancée had a point there. Neither he nor Cordelia were in a position to be able to leave the Shepherds. Even if they did, he doubted either would be able to deal with settled life. They had both enjoyed the thought of traveling abroad but agreed that they wanted to be close to Ylisse in case another war began. Lo and behold, another war began calling the couple into service yet again.

Virion, who was quite surprisingly the former Duke of Rosanne, had unceremoniously interrupted their cause for celebration by bringing word of Valm's invasion forces approaching Regna Ferox. Knowing that Chrom required his tactician, Robin reluctantly put his plans for marriage on hold to be the brains of Chrom's army. When he told Cordelia, Robin knew that it would be useless to try and convince her to stay behind, as she was a woman who gave her life to Ylisse long before she met him.

It was one of the few times that he was able to get away from everything and spend time with his beloved. Most days were spent in the war tent devising new strategies or on the battlefield directing the soldiers. On those odd days that he did have a moment to himself, he would rush to Cordelia's side where they often broke away from the rest of the group to watch the sunset. Looking at his beloved, he knew they still had a ways to go. It helped that they were open about their feelings for Chrom and Sumia, but nothing helped the sting of knowing that there was a portion of his heart that still belonged to her best friend.

Yet they were still able to look past it. The night he proposed to her, they both vowed that one day soon they would only have eyes for the other. The golden band around her finger was proof of their promise and Robin truly believed that it would come true in the not too far future. The gleam of the gem embedded in the band brought a grin to his face. Garnet, the same color as her beautiful hair and the setting sun in front of them.

He needed to enjoy these little pleasures as much as he could. After all, both the new recruits would cause their own special problems. One he knew would cause Cordelia distress. A death happy dark mage who always smiled was one thing, but time travelers? That would be much more difficult to swallow.

"Dear? You look like you're scheming something. It wouldn't be about the town we are scheduled to stop in tomorrow would it?"

She sure knows how to drop a hint when she so desired. "Now that you mention it, I did plan a thing or two earlier but no. I was thinking about our new recruits."

A small sigh indicated she knew exactly where this conversation was heading but she knew it had to be brought to light. "I promise that I'll try not to make Lucina feel uncomfortable in any way."

"Lucina? I was worried about Henry. I caught him playing with a dismembered risen arm earlier today. That boy is way too fascinated with death for his own good."

"Really? That's disgusting. He seemed like a nice kid too."

"He is until he opens his mouth. Although I might need him to teach me a thing or two about dark magic. I know for a fact that he didn't have a scarf with him earlier but he was strutting around in one just a few moments ago."

"Oh… Iknewthescarfwasabadidea…"

"What was that about a bad idea?"

"Nothing dear…"

Robin felt a small smirk cross his lips. He knew about the scarf. He had overheard the conversation between her and Henry. He didn't blame Henry for taking it, but it killed a small part of him to know that she had been knitting something for a "married man" but she had yet make anything for him, her fiancé. For now, he was content with making her squirm a tiny bit.

"Robin, we really need to talk about Lucina."

"I know."

"Do you think… we have a child? Will we be able to meet them?"

"I don't know… the world Lucina described, we didn't make it. Who knows if we were even able to have a child? She refuses to tell me anything about our future."

"I know. I just hope that if we did, we were good parents."

Seeing her motherly side made him regret teasing her about the scarf. Positioning himself behind her, he wrapped his arms around her chest, holding tight when she tried to loosen his hold. He knew how self-conscious her size made her, but it was just something she would have to get used to. She has so much going for her, beautiful hair, amazing legs, and a gorgeous face, who cares if she wasn't the largest of the bunch. Naga knew he didn't. "So let's say we do meet our future daughter, we've always wanted a daughter after all, what do you think she will be like?"

"Of course she will be beautiful. So beautiful nobody would be able to not look at her. She would have your brilliant mind and my dedication to better oneself. I'm sure I would have taught her to ride a Pegasus and she would be great warrior. She would also be gentle and graceful off the battlefield. I bet she would look amazing if she had both our hair colors. Could you imagine it? Long white hair that ended with red highlights. She would be such a catch that you would have to fend off suitors every day for the rest of your life."

Robin chucked at the thought of using his trusty thoron tomb to chase away young men pinning for his daughter. "That sounds nice, but I think she would also have a little snarky side to her." Cordelia looked at him in a curious glare, daring him to continue. He dared. "After all, like mother like daughter. You do have a little bite to you."

A playful grin crossed her face. "A little bite huh?" Leaning forward, she bit his earlobe, a little growl escaping through her teeth before letting go. "I only bite back."

"And when you bite back, I do this." Robin planted his lips on hers, trying to wrestle her down. Cordelia expected this however, rolled him over onto his back, seizing control of the situation. She sat up giggling, "For a master tactician, you sure are easily played."

Sitting up, he brought her in for another quick kiss. "I'm only easily played when it's a win-win situation."

"It's a good thing we arrived in the village when we did. Let's take down one more tyrant. By the way Cordelia, you find out anything about that girl?"

"Not really. All I know is her name is Severa and she is trying to get to someone who doesn't want to fight."

"Severa… such a pretty name. Is there something else? You look troubled."

"Well… she knew me. The old me, the me before I found you."

"Now that I look at her, she does look a little like you. You don't think…"

Looking at each other, their simultaneous "Nah," would become their first mistake in a long line of parental mishaps.

"Oooh, Daddy, buy me this one. And that one. Eek. This one will go great with my hair. Oooh I love this one. And it's on sale too. Aren't I such a considerate daughter?"

Robin could hardly believe how much his daughter loved shopping, having only known her for a few days. Sure, she came from a desolate future where people most likely had better things to do than make clothes, but still, she emptied four stalls and was working on the fifth.

"Daddy? Don't tell me you're getting tired already. We only just started. Or are you trying to tell me you don't want to spend time with your own daughter? I just wanted to get to know you better." She looked up at him giving her best puppy eyes. "I was so young when you left but you never came back. Are you really going to deny me the chance to be the daddy's little girl I've always wanted to be?"

Damn. She really knew how to lay on the guilt, didn't she? Wonder who she got that from. It was difficult to have a father daughter day when she was holding the abandonment card over his head. "Well… Daddy did promise his little princess whatever she wanted, and a promise is a promise." Somehow, he just couldn't say no to her.

"Look at that hairpin, it's so gorgeous. We are so getting that. Can we go get cake after this? I saw the cutest little bakery earlier."

"I'm sure I'll find the coin somewhere," patting down his one of his many pockets hidden throughout his coat.

"Eek. I hope they have chocolate." Robin took note of the glazed eyes and drool forming at the corner of her mouth. His daughter is a chocoholic. That was something he didn't have to wonder about. Like mother, like daughter after all. He should probably pick up a small gift for Cordelia, provided he didn't have to work off his daughter's shopping debt.

"Daddy, look over there. Lucy is over shopping with her mother. Let's join them. If Lucy tries to pick anything out for you, change the subject. Just trust me on this."

Lucy? Did she mean Lucina? "Severa, I'm sure they are having a mother daughter day similar to us. We should leave- And she's gone." Groaning, he braced himself for the upcoming conversation.

"Lucy! Fancy seeing you here. Find anything good?" Severa looked back at her father and lightly shook her head. Looking past her, Sumia had a look of fear in her eyes. The pair suddenly became two squealing balls of girly energy. Watching the two giggling girls, something in his head didn't make sense.

"It's good to see you two get along so well. I was worried after hearing that tongue lashing you gave Lucina earlier."

"Gosh Daddy. Did you really think I had no friends? Our mothers are best friends, our fathers are best friends, so wouldn't it make sense their daughters are best friends? Give me a little credit. Besides, I only talk to her like that because I care. When everyone called her the perfect little princess, she needed someone to bring her back down or else she might have challenged Grima by herself, isn't that right Lucy?"

Stealing a glance at the princess, she had the most awkward smile he had ever seen. His daughter had that effect on people. His gaze then moved to Sumia. She looked magnificent today, the colors of the store only adding to her- Wait, what was he thinking? He was engaged to Cordelia. He didn't want his own scarf incident weighing down on his mind. He knew he had to say something before things became uncomfortable between the two, but they haven't held a conversation since before her wedding.

"So Sumia, it has been a while since I've borrowed anything from your collection of books. Read anything that I might be interested in?" Books? Really? Was that really the best he could come up with?

"Well, I have been reading something recently I think you might like. The Noble of the Plains, it's about the lone survivor of a tribe of nomads who finds out she is the granddaughter of a nobleman. She gets a magical sword and falls in love with… I probably shouldn't spoil it for you."

Thinking to himself, "Did she really just buy that?" Robin gave her a sad little smile, remembering the evenings they spent discussing their latest bound adventures. Severa caught the look on her father's face, wondering what it was.

"So anyway, there are some battle scenes with some tactics you might be able to use. I'll let you borrow it once I'm done."

"Sure, that sounds great." Robin could feel the love-struck tone in his voice and quickly tried to prevent himself from blushing by looking towards his daughter. For the strangest reason, she looked like she was upset with him. Before he could ask why, his daughter took him by the wrist and started to pull him away.

"You know Father; we should really leave them to their shopping. They don't need us ruining their bonding day."

"Okay, sure… I guess we will talk to you two later," shouting out to the confused pair they left behind. "I guess you really wanted that chocolate cake, huh sweetie?"

"I don't want cake anymore. It isn't easy keeping a figure like this. I just wanna go back to camp."

"Huh? Okay… yeah… we can go back to camp." Robin couldn't help but wonder what caused his daughter's latest outburst. As they were approaching camp, he could feel something was wrong, and if he had just taken three steps forward to look at Severa's face, he would have recognized a face that was all too familiar to him.

I salute the characters I'm about to screw over (Authors Notes): I'm going to call this the "IT'S SO FLUFFEH I COULD DIE" chapter. All I had were sunsets and shopping trips but I can honestly say I love this chapter. Severa is one of my favorite characters & I'm hoping I'm doing her justice. Then again that goes for everyone but still, Severa. And I don't know about any of you but I can just imagine Cordelia and Severa being HUGE chocoholics. It just seems like them in my opinion. I had writers block for a second there trying to figure out how I should get Robin to talk to Sumia one on one after so long. For the longest time, all I could think of books because that was what their supports were about. I thought that was stupid. But then I thought "What would Owain do?" References for the win. XD Lucky I was able to find my way out of the fluff long enough to say what I needed to say. In order to prevent spoiling too many appetites, I'll just say this. I'm gonna bring down the happy little house of cards I built with the wrecking ball that is tsuntsun incarnate. I'm droppin the S-Bomb. I'm gonna make so many people miserable and I'm gonna enjoy every second of it. Then I'll go back to my usual pattern and end with the sickly sweet stuff.

Disclaimer: Do I really need to keep doing this? Go look at every chapter before this.