-Interlude Chapter Four- Moments of Relaxation-

-A (Somewhat) Serious Talk-

The night following the failed Plegian ambush on the Ylisseans at the ruined capitol, Chrom and Robin found themselves sitting on the very cot they had made love to each other only the night before. This time around however, the atmosphere was one of nervousness and hesitation. While neither regretted what had happened, they also didn't know where they stood in regards to their current relationship.

'So…I'm glad Raye didn't end up consuming us in a vengeful inferno…!' Chrom finally joked weakly in an attempt to break the awkwardness.

'Y…yeah…' Robin stammered in reply, not meeting the prince's eye as he looked at her. 'Though I doubt we were in any real danger…'

The two Shepherds descended back into silence, which then stretched to almost ten minutes. All the while, they looked everywhere but at each other, both with matching red cheeks.

'Oh for…this is just stupid!' Robin finally exclaimed in annoyance. Taking a deep breath, she turned so that she was able to stare directly at Chrom, the prince instinctively mirroring her. 'We're both adults, we should be able to discuss what happened with sincerity and logic!'

'R…right…you're absolutely right!' Chrom stammered, before also taking a deep breath. 'First of all then…do you regret what happened?'

'Of course not!' Robin replied instantly. 'Last night was…probably the best night I've ever had, certainly as far as I can remember, and I wouldn't ever want to take it back!'

'I feel the same,' Chrom nodded, breathing a sigh of relief at the tactician's words. 'Well then…I suppose we should figure out…how we feel about each other…'

At this, Robin's cheeks blazed even brighter and she looked down momentarily.

'Um…well…if we ARE going to be discussing this honestly…' she mumbled, fidgeting slightly where she sat. 'If we're going to be completely honest…I would never asked you to sleep with me if I didn't in some way have feelings for you…'

'And…and how STRONG are these feelings?' Chrom asked quickly, crossing his fingers in his lap as he already knew what his feelings towards the tactician were.

Robin was silent then for so long that Chrom began to lose hope. However, he felt instant relief when the tactician shyly looked up at him and said, 'They're…at the point that I can't bear to be away from you…' She snorted then. 'Then again, those first few times we had alone kind of made me see you as something of an idiot but…I might have enjoyed them either way.' Robin frowned. 'And of course, I was far from pleased when you barged in on Lucina and I NAKED…but again, I wasn't…totally…displeased about what happened.'

'Really? You sure tried to convince me otherwise!' Chrom joked, reaching out a hand and gently taking one of the tactician's own. He smirked. 'And if, as you say, we are going to be completely honest…I may have had to 'relieve' myself after seeing you like that…'

Robin blanched. 'Really hope that Lucina didn't pop into your head at any point during!'

'Of course not!' Chrom assured her, looking embarrassed again. 'I don't know why, but as soon as my eyes started to look in her direction something in my brain screamed at me to stop! Besides, I haven't really interacted with her, before or after that moment, so I've never had a chance to see if I could develop such feelings.' He smiled. 'Feelings that I have for you, for instance.'

The tactician looked away, attempting to hide the broad smile that was slowly spreading across her face, but unable to since Chrom quickly turned her head back so that he could smile at her again.

'Robin…I'm very glad that I found you that day,' he whispered, tenderly stroking her cheek. 'And for every day that I've been able to spend with you…even those 'odd' encounters we had…'

The tactician smiled in return, a smouldering look in her eyes as she leant forward to kiss the prince lightly on the lips.

'How about you try that again?' she commented coyly, pulling back and shooting him a mock reproachful look.

Chrom rolled his eyes, smiling, and said, 'Robin…I love you…I've loved you for a while and it wasn't even because you took my first…' Robin groaned in mock displeasure at this comment but returned the smile. 'What I mean is that…you are the most amazing woman I've ever met, and I will cherish every moment from here until the day I die that I get to spend with you.'

'Wow…laying it on a bit thick, aren't you?' Robin laughed, but leant forward to meet the kiss that Chrom directed at her. As they pulled back, she shivered as she felt a tingle shoot from her mouth all the way down to her womanhood. 'Speaking of 'laying'…'

It was Chrom's turn to groan at a bad joke. 'Did you really just say that?'

The tactician looked at him playfully. 'Are you really going to complain?' she purred as she pushed Chrom onto his back on the cot.

The sight of the tactician slowly removing her coat, letting it fall to the ground next to the cot, was enough to make the prince's mind go blank for a moment.

'Ah…no…I don't believe that there's any reason why I'd complain at this…moment…!' the prince coughed as Robin then, just as slowly, removed the thin piece of fabric that she used to bind her breasts.

The sight of the tactician's bare breasts made Chrom's body instantly react and she giggled as she looked over her shoulder to see his erect manhood poking up underneath his pants.

'Hmm…we should probably get rid of this, don't you think?' she asked playfully.

Not waiting for a reply, she quickly shifted position so that her rear was in front of Chrom's face before she almost casually undid the belt that held his pants up and lowered them down. She then reached back and pulled her own pants down so that Chrom could see every part of her lower half.

'Oops…it appears that my pants have fallen down…' she said with a mock sigh. 'I sure hope that there aren't any beasts around that might feel the need to…investigate…' Before Chrom could put his thoughts together enough for a witty reply, he gasped as he felt Robin's tongue start licking the tip of his penis. 'And what's this? I'd better make sure that whatever it might be is suitably investigated itself.'

As Robin continued to lick his penis, now working her way down his shaft, Chrom reached up and began to massage the tactician's smooth, shapely rear. He lightly smacked it after a moment, being rewarded by the sight of Robin jumping slightly at the impact. Raising an eyebrow, he smacked Robin's rear again; and again, Robin jumped, this time letting out a little moan as she sat bolt upright.

'Robin…' he asked then, slowly grinning. 'Are you by any chance…aroused by someone smacking your butt?'

'N…no….' Robin stammered in denial, even as she stroked his cock with one hand. 'Wh…who would ever be aroused by something so weird?'

'Hmm, I wonder?' Chrom mused, pretending to be curious about the matter.

'Watch it mister…' Robin tried to growl threateningly; unfortunately, her words lacked impact as she once again bent over and began sucking tenderly on the tip of Chrom's rock hard manhood, working the shaft with both hands as she did so.

At the tactician's attentions, Chrom's arms fell limply to the cot as he closed his eyes and simply enjoyed the extremely pleasurable feeling that was rushing through his body. After a few minutes of this, he opened his eyes, lust filling them, reached up and smacked the tactician's rear with slightly more force than he had before.

Robin's eyes, which had started to close as she continued sucking, shot wide open as an intense wave of pleasure reverberated from where she had just been smacked. It took only a moment for it to completely overtake her and she fell forward, Chrom's quivering penis sticking up right beside her face as she panted.

'C…Chrom…if you want me to fuck you, you have to w…wait…' she breathed. She then let out another, louder cry as Chrom began to lightly smack both cheeks of her rear. 'C…CHROM…s…seriously…!'

It was at that point that Chrom, overtaken by lust at the sight of how he had made Robin react, grabbed both of her cheeks and squeezed. This caused the tactician to let out a wail and, unintentionally, bucked backwards with enough force that Chrom's mouth impacted with her vagina. This sudden pressure only made the tactician even more aroused, something that Chrom could immediately see, judging from the slight wetness that he could feel now coming from her lower lady part.

Without pausing, Chrom gripped both sides of her waist and unceremoniously poked his tongue out and into Robin's waiting pussy. He slowly moved it around, exploring every inch of the soft flesh inside and marvelling at how sweet it somehow tasted. His tongue soon began to move faster, more insistently, and Chrom smirked into the Robin's vagina as he felt her began to constrict around it.

Robin, whose face was red with both lust and embarrassment, shakily lowered herself so that she could engulf Chrom's dick with her mouth.

'Two can play at this game!' she thought drunkenly to herself before moving her mouth up and down around the hard shaft of Chrom's manhood, using her own tongue to lick his tip as she did so.

The tactician gagged a little as she began to relax her jaw more and then began to deepthroat the prince enthusiastically. Even though her mind was rather fuzzy at this point, she had enough control of it to note detachedly that Chrom's penis was at least nine inches long. This thought soon escaped her as she felt Chrom thrust upwards and bury his cock all the way down her throat. She panicked for a moment, afraid that she would be unable to breathe, before she realised that she could simply breathe through her nose while still keeping the long, thick length comfortably inside her throat. Robin even helpfully pushed her head down, her throat resisting for a moment before allowing the hard length complete entry. She felt his tip hit the back of her throat a moment later and she choked and gagged for a moment before relaxing.

After a few seconds of staying in place, Robin slowly withdrew her mouth, leaving thin strings of drool and precum in her mouth's wake. She sat up, breathing deeply and wiping the stings of spit from her mouth with the back of her hand. As Robin cleaned her lips, she grinded her hips against Chrom's face, eyes closing and her head falling back as she moaned and enjoyed the eager, questing attentions of the prince's tongue.

She then bent back down, determined to finish what she had started and once again covered Chrom's penis with her eager mouth. The tactician slurped and gulped, the prince's shaft slick with her spit. She then reached down and began fondling his testicles, alternating between light squeezes and tenderly massaging them. This drove Chrom crazy, and he began to move his tongue with even greater ferocity. By now, Robin was whimpering past his dick, her head pumping up and down relentlessly as she urged the prince on to an orgasm.

Both of them didn't have to wait long as, after nearly five minutes of trying to outdo each other, Chrom let out an animalistic growl and thrust upwards forcefully. Robin's eyes went wide and she let out a whimpering gag as the prince's dick was shoved further down her throat than she would have ever thought possible. She then choked as she felt Chrom, finally, unload directly into her throat, feeling the thick semen flood down it. The tactician desperately withdrew her head even as more cum shot down her throat and let out a choking gasp as she finally surfaced.

However, soon after it was Robin's turn to climax and she did so in explosive fashion. Even as she looked down blearily to see that Chrom had shot enough semen that she had quite a fair bit of it dripping down her breasts, she froze as a slow, titanic feeling of pleasure began to rise from where Chrom's tongue was still exploring her depths. This escalated and multiplied to the point that her pussy went numb at the shock and she let out a long, drawn out wail of ecstasy before clapping her hands desperately over her mouth to muffle it. She even had to resort to biting her own fingertips as the waves of pleasure caused her to buck and spasm above Chrom.

After what felt like an eternity, the pleasure died down enough that Robin was able to crawl off of Chrom and collapse, right way up now, beside him.

'N…Naga…' she panted her heart racing as her entire body quivered. 'I…I may need a minute…'

Unfortunately for her, Chrom, who had a wild look of lust in his eyes now, ignored Robin's words and quickly flipped her over onto her stomach. Before she could feebly react, her eyes went wide and she gripped the sheets tightly as Chrom mercilessly rammed his still hard cock straight into her now very sensitive vagina from behind. She reached shakily for the pillow in front of her and buried her face into it so that she could muffle the screams that were escaping her now. The feeling of her lover, now completely consumed by the need to pleasure the both of them, inside her was so overwhelming that she nearly fainted several times over the course of the next ten minutes.

Finally, Chrom let out a guttural groan and pushed forward one last time, holding his position for several seconds before shooting another thick load of cum into the woman who he had pledged everything to. Robin pushed back forcefully at the same time and the two of them went completely silent thanks to the now very familiar feel of their bodies reaching their climaxes overriding their ability to make any sound.

'N…Naga…Naga…' Robin panted, a blissful, numb expression on her face. 'I…I don't know how…but this was even….better than last…night…'

She then drunkenly looked over her shoulder as she heard a thud come from behind her and was greeted to the sight of Chrom's legs sticking straight up in the air; the prince had apparently fainted, falling onto his back to the ground after he had ejaculated into her.

Robin shakily smiled before slumping onto her stomach. 'S…serve's him right…for fucking me…so hard…' she mumbled to herself. 'Should…have paced…himself…'

With that, the tactician closed her eyes and went into a peaceful, blissful sleep while her lover snored from his awkward position on the sand.

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Outside their tent, a frozen Lucina was crouching, very mortified, with her hands over her head; she had been asked by Emmeryn to fetch Chrom and Robin, Frederick currently being tended for a concussion he had suffered when a giant Plegian warrior had smacked him over the head with a shield. The bluenette had unfortunately arrived right before Chrom had begun driving into Robin from behind and had been unable to move due to the sheer shock and mortification that had gripped her.

Never had the future child of Robin and Chrom ever regretted being given the chance to speak with her parents before, nor would she ever be able to burn the sounds of her parents having such passionate sex from her mind or memory.

-A mother and daughter chat (though mother doesn't know that)-

'Um…Yana…did you need some help?' Sahria asked nervously as she poked her head into the healer's tent; having found Raye asleep with Nowi in his arms, she had decided to finally do something she had been avoiding, namely getting to know her mother.

Yana looked around. 'Oh, Sahria, hello,' she greeted, smiling warmly at the teenager. 'No, I should be alright, but thank you for offering.'

Sahria fidgeted in the entrance of the tent, a sad look on her face which Yana immediately noticed.

'Then again, I suppose I could use an extra hand,' she corrected herself, gesturing for the young manakete to join her.

Sahria grinned and bounced into the tent, standing beside the cot where Yana was tending to a wounded Kellam.

'Oh hey, it's the invisible guy!' the manakete commented, noticing the knight now that she was closer.

Her mother smiled. 'It is indeed. Kellam was unfortunately injured when he protected Lissa from a Plegian wyvern rider.'

'I'm sorry…' Kellam mumbled, but Yana shook her head and smiled at him fondly.

'You have no need to apologise, Sir Kellam,' she assured him gently. 'If not for you, I may very well have lost a sister today, so for that I thank you.' She then nodded at a bucket with a cloth dangling on its side. 'Sahria sweetie, could you please hand me that cloth? I need to keep Kellam's temperature down.'

'Yes ma'am!' Sahria replied and quickly handed the cleric what she had asked for.

The manakete watched, a longing look in her eyes, as her mother dabbed Kellam's forehead lightly with the soaked cloth. She quickly shook herself into a neutral expression when she saw Yana turn her head to speak to her again.

'Thank you, Sahria,' Yana smiled and stood up. 'Now, if you want to continue helping me, Ricken needs a fresh covering.'

'Sure, whatever you need!' the young manakete replied eagerly and followed her mother as she made her way towards where the young mage was lying, with a slightly dejected look on his face, on another cot.

'Ricken, how are you feeling?' Yana asked gently as she sat on the edge of the cot.

The young mage looked up at her and sighed. 'Oh, perfectly fine I suppose…' he muttered, holding out his arm where a bloodied bandage was wrapped around it. He had been one of the few Shepherds who had been forced to retreat in the first wave of attacks, having fallen victim to a completely random arrow to the arm the he used to cast spells with.

'Your arm will heal good as new, Ricken,' Yana replied soothingly, unwinding the bandage gently. 'Sahria, could you please get me a new bandage? There should be one in my pack.' She pointed at the bag that she had set down next to her.

As Sahria rifled through the cleric's bag to find the requested item, she listened discreetly as Yana chatted away with Ricken.

'Huh, it's not my arm that hurts…' the young mage was saying, sounding disgruntled.

'No? Then what, pray tell, has you in such a down mood?'

Ricken looked upset as he said, 'It's the fact that I was the FIRST Shepherd to be told to retreat! How am I supposed to prove to Chrom that I'm a man if I always end up like this!' He waved his arm agitatedly, but winced when he felt a sharp pain lance through it.

Yana smiled kindly at him. 'Please keep still,' she said reproachfully. 'And as for your question, you should not try to become a man so quickly.' She looked sternly down at her patient. 'You have more than proved yourself in your own way, and to push further before you're prepared will only get not only yourself, but maybe those around you hurt; how do you think that will make both you and Chrom feel if that should occur?'

Ricken looked downcast as he absorbed the cleric's words.

'I…suppose you have a point…' he admitted grudgingly. He then sighed deeply. 'I've been acting like a child about this whole thing, haven't I?'

'No, I wouldn't say that…exactly…' Yana joked, eliciting a small chuckle from her patient.

The cleric then quickly wound the bandage that Sahria then handed her around Ricken's wounded arm, securing it with a small pin. She then got back to her feet and picked up her bag.

'Now, get some rest and DON'T let me see you pick at your bandages again,' she instructed Ricken sternly before smiling and moving off.

Sahria followed her, her feelings of longing now more heightened than ever after having seen the easy way her mother had interacted with Ricken.

'You're…pretty good at the whole 'people person' thing…' she finally said as Yana sat down on Sumia's cot; the pegasus knight had been knocked out when she had fallen from her pegasus after a wind spell had wounded out. Thankfully, both mount and rider where saved from permanent injury by the fact that Virion and Vaike had managed to kill the Plegians that had attempted to finish her off.

'I have to be, being a cleric,' Yana replied as she put her hand to Sumia's forehead. To the pegasus knight, she asked, 'And how are you feeling, Sumia?'

'B…better…' the pegasus knight mumbled. 'You and Lissa have definitely helped and my headache's pretty much disappeared now.'

'Good to hear, I was worried when I saw you and your pegasus fall,' the cleric admitted.

As Sumia blushed, a distraction arrived in the form of Lucina stumbling into the tent, making her way to the nearest empty cot and collapsing onto her stomach onto it. Yana frowned and half-raised herself from where she had been sitting, but Sahria quickly interrupted her.

'I'll do with this,' she assured her mother.

'Alright…just tell me what's wrong with her if you find out.'

Nodding, Sahria then quickly made her way over to where Lucina had now rolled over onto her back, staring listlessly up at the ceiling of the tent.

'Yo, Lucina!' she announced herself. 'You alright?'

Lucina glanced at her and Sahria was surprised to see that the bluenette's face was completely red with embarrassment. She could also smell it too, now that she closer.

'Er…what happened to you?' she asked, sitting down next to the future princess.

It took a while of coaxing, but Sahria was finally able to get the reason for Lucina's current condition from her.

'I…er….I may have…been party to an….unfortunate moment between our commander and tactician…' Lucina choked out before covering her face and bursting into tears.

It took a moment before Sahria realised what Lucina had meant. When she did, her own face quickly changed to match her friend's.

'O…Oh…!' was all she could muster before patting Lucina sympathetically on the shoulder.

She stayed there for the next few hours, comforting Lucina but still slightly sad at the fact that she had now been interrupted from getting to know her mother.

-The Exalt and the Voice-

'Are you sure that you are comfortable with this arrangement?' Emmeryn asked for what felt to Tiki like the twentieth time in as many minutes.

'Yes, your highness, I am perfectly fine with sharing a tent with you,' she sighed from where she was sitting delicately on the edge of the cot that she had been provided.

'Are you sure?' the Exalt persisted anxiously. 'I mean, I would make no complaint if you wanted to share a tent with your brother or niece!' She had already been told that Nowi was Tiki's niece by Chrom.

'Considering that I'm still slightly embarrassed by how I conducted myself when I reunited with big brother, I'm fairly certain that he would resent it if I pushed to share his tent,' Tiki sighed, a little sad now. 'Best if I let him be for now.'

'Oh, I'm sure Lord Raye forgives you!' Emmeryn assured the Voice.

'Remember, it's just 'Raye', your highness,' Tiki joked gently and Emmeryn blushed.

'R…right…' the woman replied. She then frowned as she realised something. 'I'm still wondering what has happened to everyone; I am quite miffed that they've all missed the meeting that I had planned.'

The tips of Tiki's ears went slightly red; with her enhanced hearing, and despite the care that Robin and Chrom had taken, the Voice had still managed to hear them in the throes of lust.

'I'm sure that they were just too tired to attend, not that they were deliberately shirking their duties,' she said quickly. She then quickly blew out the candle that had been illuminating the tent. 'Something that I can certainly understand! So if it's all the same to you, good night…'

'Yes…good night, La…Tiki…' Emmeryn replied, settling herself down comfortably.

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A quick little chapter this time, comprising mostly of the awaited 'chat' and final realization between those two crazy kids on their feelings for each other.

The section between Sahria and Yana was something that I had been trying to find a place, only succeeding now since Raye was unconscious for the first time this entire story. Really, he should have a chat with his apprentice and encourage her to speak more to her mother (which he will).

Finally, the short section between two characters who would have a suitably awkward interaction, due to Emmeryn holding Tiki up as the holy being she is, was included purely to round out the chapter and give Emmeryn a little moment at the spotlight (she will get more, rest assured).

Anyway, as with the last chapter that had an intimate moment, I am anxious to know how you felt that went down (pardon the pun) and if it was a little bit of an improvement on the last one, or not at all.

Ciao for now!