When Robin heard about the legendary treasure in the ruins a day away from the port, he hesitated. Something like that would definitely help them in the campaign against Walhart that had just started, but preparing everything they needed to board the ships and travel to the neighboring continent was more urgent. He was also skeptical about the existence and usefulness of said treasure.

It was actually Chrom who convinced him to go with a small group who could move fast and check it while he finished the preparations with the rest of the Shepherds. The treasure could still be helpful, so Robin obliged; and asked a couple of fliers, a cavalier and a healer to go with him. And barely a day later they arrived at the ruins.

The place was made with a light blue stone and there were pools of water everywhere. It was quite pretty and not nearly as collapsed as the tactician had feared. He turned to Sully, but the cavalier assured him the horse would be fine walking though there. There wasn't too much debris. He nodded, and looked around, considering their best options. Dividing the group was the fastest option, but they didn't know what could be lying around there, and with Libra as their only one healer, Robin didn't feel comfortable leaving one group without support.

But Zelcher and Sumia could fly and explore the outer parts easily; and Sumia had actually started to learn how to use staves… even if she wasn't very successful yet. She was determined to become an expert, however. Robin agreed to let both of them on their own, and leaded Sully and Libra inside the ruins.

The had descended only a couple of floors when they started hearing noise and someone yelling. They stopped for a second before hurrying into the next room. A small group of risen were fighting a dark haired girl with a dark robe. She took cover behind a collapsed wall and shoot a couple of fire spells before running away again. Robin helped her as soon as he estimated he was close enough, throwing a lightning spell to one of the risen. Sully spurred on her horse and impaled another risen. The girl saw her chance and finished off the third with a powerful fire spell.

The Shepherds and the girl stood alert, waiting for more monsters to approach. They lowered their guards when it looked like there weren't more around. Robin was going to tell them what to do next when a single yell coming from the girl they had just saved froze everyone's thoughts:

"Fatheeeeeeeeer!"

Followed by quick footsteps and a thump when the girl threw herself onto Robin to hug him so strongly he had trouble breathing.

"I've looked everywhere for you! I wasn't very sure of where I ended up, though, so maybe everywhere was just the surrounding area…"

The girl stared at him with a pout Robin would have thought it was cute if his brain wasn't having trouble processing what she had said before. He stared at her, her face staring at him with worry sightly under his chin. The tactician instinctively looked at her eyes… and he found the Brand of the Exalt on her right eye. Robin felt his breath leave his body. He nervously looked at the Shepherds in front of him.

"Uhm…" He tried to speak, his mind racing for an answer that would satisfy his daughter –I have another daughter?! – while leaving the rest of the Shepherds in the dark about… her other parent. He got paler and his hands started shaking, his anxiety rising when he realized he was unable to find such an answer. The girl stared at him, confused.

A boisterous laughter startled both of them, and Sully's arm grabbed him by the neck with a strength that should have been inhuman. "So someone will manage to get you away from those books and maps of yours for a while, eh? And who will be the lucky lady?" The cavalier grinned widely, delighted by Robin's apparent embarrassment that had left him speechless, and looked at the girl, waiting for an answer.

The girl's eyes flashed so fast to her father's face nobody noticed. She slowly let go of Robin and grabbed her chin while closing her eyes. Her expression slowly became more tense and worried until she opened them back and stared at them as if she was going to cry.

"I… don't remember! Or why I'm here! D-dad…?!" She stared at him, pleading.

Robin gulped and scratched his neck, trying to think. Then he grabbed the girl's arm.

"Okey, time out. I need to talk with her first." He said, and then left the room for one they had already explored previously, quite away from the rest. He didn't give time to the girl to answer or to the Shepherds to complain.

She followed him in silence until they found small room with most walls intact and water flowing on a pool on the furthest place from the entrance. It seemed to connect to the other water circuit they had seen while exploring the ruins. Robin let go of her arm and took a couple of steps away, turning his back on her while closing his eyes and pinching his nose, teeth gritted. The girl watched anxiously.

"I'm sorry! I didn't think they wouldn't know and-" She was shut off by a quick palm raised in her direction.

Robin breathed slowly, trying to calm down and think properly again. The girl respected it and said nothing while waiting for him to talk again.

"Alright." The tactician finally said after a few minutes. "Let's start from the beginning." He slowly turned to look at her. "What's your name?"

"Morgan." She answered. Her expression became a little less worried when she realized Robin wasn't angry at her mistake as much as stressing about how to fix it.

Robin nodded at her answer. "And you came from the future to fix it…" His daughter nodded this time.

"Everyone thinks you're Katerina's daughter… except for the Shepherds." It was the only thing that made sense. Robin had trouble believing someone would slip in such a way unless they thought there was nothing to hide. Specially coming from his daughter.

Morgan nodded again while staring at him. She looked like she was going to cry, the tanned skin of her face getting a reddish tone around her nose. Robin sighted.

"Okey. Well, since they already know you're my daughter…" I have another daughter! "the best option right now is to hide you're Chrom's daughter…" He thought about her fast reaction from before. "The amnesia idea is not a bad one. We can keep it up until I…" Robin deflated and pressed his lips. "tell the others…" He shook his head and stared at Morgan, trying to smile at her to reassure her, but not succeeding completely.

It wasn't that he didn't trust them… but the prospect made him nervous. Like when you're still nervous when confessing to someone even if you know that person reciprocates your feelings…

"Ok, amnesia then!" Morgan agreed while clenching her fists and smiling, determined.

"Should I pretend I forgot everything, or maybe leave some memories…? Since I'm already not 'remembering' my 'mother', maybe I could pretend I don't remember the rest of Shepherds…?"

"It's not a bad idea." Robin approved. "Lucina told us she came with some friends. You could still say you remember them, since you're probably closer to them than to us."

"Luci's with you already?!" The girl grinned, and Robin couldn't help but smile at her obvious happiness.

"Yes. She joined us about a couple of weeks ago. But don't go around calling her sister…"

"I won't!" She promised. "Ok, so friends. Something else?"

"How about something general about the future, but you have holes with most details?"

Morgan nodded again, but Robin didn't fail to notice she was less enthusiastic than before. Something clicked inside his head, and approached her.

"Well, then we have a plan. We should be fine as long as we stay away from the capital, we'll think about something else later. And now…" He softly grabbed the confused girl's shoulders. He felt a strange satisfaction realizing she was only a bit taller than him. Lucina turned to be almost as tall as Chrom. Knowing his other daughter was actually a little more like Robin was… nice. He didn't know how to describe it exactly -this is suspicious, and bad, and someone could notice, and– but he liked it.

"Are you alright, Morgan?" He asked softly. She stared back blankly. "Lucina told us about the future you experienced."

Morgan's smile dropped and she looked away. "Sure!" She said, but her voice sounded strained. She tried to smile again, but she just managed to form a strange grimace while tears formed on her eyes. Robin blinked in surprise at her sudden change.

"Morgan?" He asked, worried.

"It was horrible!" She yelled, failing to not sob while tears started to stream from her eyes.

"You left… and father… and n-never came back…!" Her sobbing didn't let her speak anymore and she just threw herself on his father's arms. Robin hugged her back, trying to comfort her despite being taken by surprise at her sudden change.

Robin let her cry until she managed to calm down. Then cleaned the tears on her face while she closed her eyes, exhausted at the outburst, while still grabbing one of her hands to show his support. "Better?"

Morgan sniffed and tried to smile. "Y-yeah."

"You've been through something so hard I can barely imagine it, and cross the sea of time to stop it from happening. But you and Lucina are my daughters," His heart leaped when he said that. She was his daughter. He hugged her a bit tighter. There were few times where he could say that… too few… "and I know if there's someone capable of it, it's both of you."

He smiled at her, trying to reassure her. She sniffed one more time and nodded, breathing deeply to regain her composure. Robin gave her some time and then proposed they went back with the others. They still had more ruins to explore. Morgan, agreed, excited.

Despite his best efforts to focus, Robin remained distracted while inside the ruins. He couldn't stop thinking about Morgan. Or, more precisely, he couldn't stop thinking about how she looked. Her hair was a dark brown neither him or Chrom had, and her skin was definitely darker than her parents'. It wasn't too dissimilar from Katerina's skin and hair tone, actually, but Robin had noticed several Plegian features in her, which Katerina definitely didn't have, so she couldn't be her biological mother. Chrom's blood had proven to be strong once again, and they were things you probably couldn't find unless you knew where to look at, but she clearly looked a bit more like Robin than Lucina.

But Robin's skin and hair weren't dark at all, and yet, she seemed to have inherited them from him. She looked like the child of an average Plegian and a average Ylissean; darker than most Ylisseans but lighter than most Plegians. She looked how she should have in case Robin wasn't pale as snow. She looked entirely normal, which left Robin with a single, unsettling conclusion.

He wasn't. He didn't look like he should. There was something wrong with him, within him, that manifested as having a weird appearance. It was probably related to the brand of his hand, which he tried very hard to not think about, and was always hidden under gloves or black mittens, even when he was alone.

Whatever it was wrong with him, at least he could be sure it hadn't passed onto Morgan, nor to Lucina. She looked a lot like Chrom, her paleness was likely thanks to that, and she still wasn't as pale as Robin anyway. She had probably inherited so much blood from Chrom whatever affected Robin didn't develop in her.

That's what he hoped, at least. His memory was still a mystery for the most part, but he remembered the persecution he had suffered from the Grimleal. The great majority of Grimleal were Plegian, and he was a Plegian that looked weird, always being hunted by them.

It couldn't be a coincidence. Robin felt afraid.

Robin was anxious. He wanted to talk with Chrom first before telling the Shepherds about Morgan, but he wasn't supposed to have a particular reason for that. The group probably thought it was a good idea to tell everyone soon so they could help them locate the mysterious mother Robin didn't know of yet and Morgan didn't supposedly remember. So Robin just prayed Chrom was really busy with something that would make him stay away from most Shepherds while Sully dropped the bomb.

It worked, somehow, and the canteen where most where reunited to have dinner lacked the presence of the Exalt, his sister, his retainer and his daughter. Robin literally couldn't believe his luck, and completely ignored everyone else's prompts about Morgan's mother, a couple of bets, and an insistence from many that the mother was Miriel, despite her cold denials about any kind of romantic relationship. The lack of interest and embarrassment from both of them convinced them Morgan was unlikely to be fruit of their relationship. He sat next to Morgan to eat, wanting to be around in case Chrom arrived.

He didn't eat much, and when the door of the building opened and the ruler of Ylisse crossed it, he had trouble not jumping from his seat and going to speak with him immediately. He had already thought of using the old spear found in the ruins as an excuse, but he thought that maybe acting like he was in a hurry would be suspicious, so maybe he could wait a few seconds before approaching him and-

"Hey, Chrom! You're not gonna believe it, but Robin is actually gonna have a kid!"

Or he could kill Vaike sending him against the biggest group of sword fighters he could find in Valm. It was an option, too.

Robin stared at his food with a frozen smile, blinking slowly and trying to find reasons to not throw his spoon at the blonde axe fighter. He didn't find any, but his brain decided to be less confrontational, and he simply turned his head slowly towards Chrom group, gave them a forced smile and shrug.

"Yup." He pointed at his daughter next to him with his head. She waved enthusiastically at them.

The newcomers stared at him, unblinking. Lissa had at least put her hands in front of her mouth, but Chrom's mouth had become a tempting place to explore for any nearby fly. Lucina looked positively angry, and Morgan flinched and stared down when she met her expression. Frederick was the only one able to regain his composure fast enough. He cleared his throat.

"So, she comes from the future as well."

"Yeah... but I don't remember much." The girl answered quietly, looking down. Robin didn't know if it was because she feared not sounding convincing, or if she was been way too convincing.

"Then she's got amnesia too? She's clearly your daughter!" Vaike laughed again.

"Sure." Robin said, rolling his eyes. He got up. "Well, I'm going to sleep. See you all tomorrow." He lazily waved at the Shepherds and left before someone could say something else.

The bad thing about staying at inns was that he rarely, if ever, could enjoy the privacy of his own tent, unlike whenever they set camp. The good thing was that he usually shared with Frederick. Proper bed aside.

He sat on his bed and stretched, cracking the joints at his back. He was more tired that he had realized, and the anxiety hadn't helped on the way back. While he waited, he took his bag and grabbed the spear of the ruins. It had some rust in several parts, but Robin could feel some magical power emanating from the metal. It could be quite useful, but it needed a clean-up, and they wouldn't stay in the port town for long. He briefly wondered if it wouldn't be better to just sell, but it would still take time to find a collector willing to buy it for a high price.

The door opened forcefully, startling him and making the spear fall to the floor. He blinked in confusion, staring at who had entered through the door. It was just Chrom, Lucina and Morgan.

"I messed up! I'm sorry!" Morgan whined.

But Lucina's serious expression didn't change. "I told you to be careful! What were you thinking?!"

"I'm sorry! I was just... so excited..."

Robin sighted and got up. "Alright, alright. Let's calm down, it's not the end of the world…" he approached both of them and touched their shoulders softly. "We need to focus on Valm, so we'll pretend she's amnesiac for a while. Alright?" He looked at Lucina.

His daughter sighted and nodded. Morgain kept staring at the floor, feeling guilty. Chrom just kept staring at them. Robin gave him a tired smile.

"Congrats on your second fatherhood." He said.

Chrom sighed and put a hand of his face. On the list of things he wasn't expecting, having a second daughter was almost as high finding out Lucina came from the future.

And another one!

A million thanks to my beta, DestructionDragon360. I wouldn't have been able to come so far without your help!