Rs:

"Big Brother!"

I opened my big brother's room to wake him up. Lately he has been waking up late so I wanted to wake him up early today. Mother and father don't have a problem with him waking up late but I doubt they would care about anything he does now. Not since Gregory was born.

To my surprise when I open the door he isn't there. I check everywhere in his room but he isn't here.

"Lady Rosaline, what are you doing in Percy's room?"

I snap my head towards the voice that spoke to me. It was one of the maids.

"I was just going to wake up my brother but it seems like he isn't here. Have you seen him?"

"I'm sorry to say that I haven't seen him since yesterday."

Yesterday? Does that mean that he never came back home yesterday? Maybe I'm just overthinking this. Maybe today he actually woke up earlier than me. I ask the maid another question.

"What about Gregory? Has my lazy ass little brother woken up yet?"

"Language young lady. And no he has not."

"Figures."

I mutter to myself while ignoring the maid's reprimand. I leave the room and I follow the maid to my little brother's room. The maid has a look of concern on her face as I get ready to open the door.

"Please be gentle with your brother this time Lady Rosaline. He has a lot of responsibilities so letting him rest is the least we can do for him."

I click my tongue to her plea.

"Well too bad for him."

Right when I finished my sentence, the door opens.

"It's a little too early for you guys to be loitering around?"

My little brother yawned after he finished talking. The maid quickly bowed to my brother.

"I'm sorry Prince Gregory. I will take my leave."

She quickly left my brother and me alone.

"That was a little too harsh, don't you think?"

"She is a maid. She should be doing her job."

I roll my eyes at his statement.

"Whatever. Anyways I'm surprised that you're up for once."

He started to scratch his messy red hair and yawned before he spoke up again.

"Like you always say, I should learn to be more responsible."

I was surprised by what he said. Has he finally realized how much he has to carry on his shoulders? Maybe this will make Percy feel better. Hopefully.

"Well I'm going to change so can you leave? Instead of annoying me, go wake up big brother. You always yell at me but never at him."

I could hear the anger in his voice even if his face doesn't show it. I take a deep breathe before I ruffle his already messy hair. He flinched when I placed my hand on his head but sighed in relief when he realized that I wasn't going to hit him.

"That's what an older sibling does. They pester you until you become an adult."

"But it's not fair, your still 8 but Percy doesn't annoy you ever?"

"It's different with Percy. You'll understand when you're older."

"I'm only a year younger than you."

"You can learn a lot in a year. Go and get changed."

I lightly punched his head before I turn around and leave him alone. I can hear him mutter 'Ouch', before closing his door. I find it difficult to not get mad at Gregory. He has no idea what he has done but the impact is too huge to let it slide. His very existence is a problem. For Percy.

I walk outside to the courtyard and I see my mother sitting down alone. My father is probably having a meeting with who knows, and my mother is waiting for him to finish so we can all eat breakfast together. I sit down next to my mother which doesn't cause a reaction from my mother.

"Morning mother."

"Morning sweety."

"Is father still in his meeting?"

"Yes he is. Apparently there seems to be some sort of problem in the Empire. Your father heard that there might me a coup in the Empire."

Mother always tells me what the meetings that father attend are about even if I don't know what some of the words she says or who the people she is even talking about. It's her way of preparing me for the future. One day I will have to handle the politics of the Faerghus if I marry some Lord. My mother continues.

"I think he is going to the Fhirdiad tomorrow to speak with the King. I believe he will take you as well so you can visit Dimitri."

I try but fail to hide the smile forming on my face. I haven't seen Dimitri since last month so I get really excited by my mother's news. Maybe Ingrid will be there too but if she is there, then Sylvain might be there as well. Hopefully not.

"How long will we be able to stay there mother?"

"I don't know but there might be talk about your future fiance."

"I see."

I grow silent after that. Only recently did I find out that Ingrid was engaged at birth to Felix's older brother. I thought since Sylvain is always with her, those 2 would be betrothed but like mother says, there are more important things in a marriage than love. I asked her before if I was engaged to someone already but she told me not yet. I guess now is the time for that to be decided.

I don't know how I feel about it. The maids say that I'm too young for marriage and I have to be a woman to know true love. Percy told me that it's a part of being of noble birth. I don't want to marry someone I don't even know but I also don't know anyone I want to marry. Maybe I'll ask Ingrid about it since she is already engaged.

I wonder if Dimitri is engaged to someone already.

"Honey are you okay? Your face is red. Are you not feeling well?"

I try to turn away from my mother's face but in the process I see something I have never seen before.

A guard.

With blood on his armor.

He is running towards us and I start to tremble.

"Lady Celia, Lady Rosaline, I have to get you 2 out of here!"

"What's going on?"

"There is a monster attacking the city!"

My eyes open as I feel my body covered in cold sweat. It's still only been a few hours since our little party we had ended. The moonlight was washing my face when I finally woke up from my dream. In reality it was not a dream.

It's a memory.

A nightmare.

AN

Yahello! It's been awhile. I could say all the excuses that made me unable to write/post but who cares. I'm here and that's what matters. Sadly I'll probably be only be able to post 1 more time this year. Sorry. Don't worry though, I want to finish this story so just be patient with me. Even though this chapter is short, I wanted to give Rosaline more backstory since she is the only one of the three without any. I haven't touched Fire Emblem since early October so I didn't trust my ability to write the characters so that's why it's Rosaline exclusive. Hope you guys like it and hopefully I can bang out another long chapter before the year 2020. Thank you for reading and see ya later.-Omas125

P.S-Congrats on Three Houses for winning best strategy game and player's voice award. My opinion should have been Game of the year but then again I didn't play any of the nominated games so who knows.