On Wings Of Love

by Cyberchao X, in case you still weren't sure. XD

Disclaimer: Darn, I'm out of ideas. By now you've no doubt realized that I always try to make my disclaimers interesting. But there are only so many ways that one can say, "I do not own these characters or the game they are derived from!" Maybe I'll have another good idea by the time Chapter 6 comes around.

Chapter 5

I wonder what she was talking about, Kent thought. Ever so carefully, he opened the door that Farina had spoken of.

"Who's there?" Fiora asked.

"My apologies, Miss Fiora," Kent replied, embarrassed. "I was only trying to figure out what Farina had meant when she said 'third door from the left.'"

"So, I was right. Farina and Florina have gone off. Do you know what they're doing?"

"No," Kent replied, "but I know where they are. I can take you there if you'd like, Miss Fiora."

"Hey."

"Yes?"

"What's with the formality all of a sudden?" she asked, "If I didn't know better, I'd think you liked me."

"Heh, well, actually..."

"We'll talk about this later. For now, I'd like to know what's going on. Lead the way, 'Sir Kent'!" She laughed.

"Yes, of course."

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"They're coming this way," Farina warned.

"Say, what are you doing in there that requires a lookout?" Sain added. His job was to make sure no other knights walked in on them.

"You don't want to know," Lowen deadpanned, and Farina and Sain instinctively turned around.

"You're right. We don't," Farina replied. "Stop staring, Sain!"

"You're a pig," Florina said.

"No, I think he's just jealous that I got you and he didn't," Lowen replied.

Sain rolled his eyes. "Of Florina? Yeah, she's pretty, but that's about it. I'm not that one-dimensional."

"Really?"

"Yeah, they also have to be willing to play rough. No offense to the two of you, of course."

Facefalls all around. "What just happened here?" Fiora asked as she and Kent entered the room.

"Sain said something incredibly stupid," Kent replied, before anyone could say what it was. "You wanted to know what was going on?"

"Please hold on," Sain and Farina replied, hurrying them away while Lowen and Florina conferred.

"So? Are we still keeping this a secret?" Florina asked.

"I...I don't know..."

"We shouldn't. We need to bring it out into the open! After all, we are serious about this, right?"

"Well, yeah, that's why we needed a lookout..."

"We're not going to tell them about that part," she insisted.

"Of course not. But still...you're right. You could stay here...and I doubt you'd be the only one staying. You could join the army, and—"

"They're getting impatient!" Sain shouted.

"You'll wake everyone up if you keep shouting like that," Lowen told him, "Very well. For quite some time, I have been too worried about fulfilling my knightly vow to take on any lasting relationships, but ever since the war, Florina and I have been deeply in love."

"Very deeply," Florina added, grinning.

Farina finished, "So you can stop worrying about Florina and concentrate on—" Sain shot her a meaningful glare, "—yourself."

"You planned this, didn't you?" Fiora asked Farina sharply.

"No, they really are in love. And it was your idea to come to Pherae, remember?"

"Well...I suppose...You're right. I do need to concentrate on—myself." Farina thought she saw her sister wink. Had it already gone according to plan? Now that Fiora was happy again, she'd be free to be happy, and it would all...no, it wouldn't be like before. She had her own affairs to set straight. Though that may not necessarily be straight up and down... She stopped and chided herself mentally for thinking such thoughts.

Suddenly, a cry of anguish interrupted everyone's slumber. Florina was caught by surprise. "What was that? What's happening?" she asked nervously.

"It means it's finally time," Kent replied, "We got back here just in time."

"Does it really hurt that much?" Florina asked.

"I don't know," Lowen replied, "I've never had a baby before."

"Oh, right...no one here has, have they?"

"I'd think if they had, you'd know about it," Fiora replied, "considering that we're the only ones here. Unless there's something Farina's not telling us," she said with a smug grin.

She replied, "I, for one, have very high moral standards."

"Are you insinuating I don't? You should know better than that. And of course, Florina wouldn't have—"

"Sounds like she's really in pain," Florina interrupted. "I'm scared."

"She'll be fine," Kent reassured her. Lowen and Sain exchanged glances, knowing what she was really scared of.

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"It'll be okay, honey," Wil continually reassured Rebecca.

Rebecca didn't care. "It hurts!!!"

"I know that. I'm hurting right along with you."

Rebecca rolled her eyes. "Believe me, it's nothing compared to what I'm feeling. I know that because you're still standing up," she added before he could ask how she knew.

"Yes, of course. Just think about how nice it will be when you're done. The pain will stop, and we'll be parents!"

"How can you be so cheerful at a time like this!" she demanded.

"I'm not the one bedridden with pain. Though of course, I wish I were, if it meant you were not."

"Come here."

Wil did so. "Why?" he asked.

"Because, I—" a contraction interrupted the lovely moment, "just want to thank you for all you've done for me." She grabbed him and held him close.

"Later, okay? Right now, we need to concentrate on giving birth to this baby..." Rebecca gave another scream, louder than all the others. "There it is!"

"It's over?"

"Unless you're giving birth to a disembodied head, no. But it's started!"

"Is it a boy or a girl?"

"Dunno, that part hasn't come out yet," Wil replied. "Sorry, right, not in the mood for jokes."

"Exactly." A few more pushes, and it was confirmed to be a boy. "He's...so..."

"...messy. We should really clean him up before talking about how beautiful he is."

"He could be a chicken and I'd say he was beautiful; I just gave birth to him! Oh, I'm sorry..." The new baby had begun to cry.

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"The screams have stopped," Sain said. "She must've had the baby. We should go see them."

"They're probably not exactly ready for company yet, if you know what I mean," Kent replied.

"Like I said." Sain grinned.

Kent hit him. "You're disgusting."

"You're right, there are better things to do right here." He shot a covert wink at Farina, who received it well.

"Actually, perhaps this isn't the best place," Lowen said. "Some place more private, I think."

"That's why we got three bedrooms," Farina replied casually.

Fiora smacked her. "What happened to 'high moral standards'?"

"Hey, I'm just trying to accommodate the two of you. Fine, the two of us will merge."

"No, go on. I don't particularly want to room with you. Florina, perhaps, should; it'd give you a reason to keep in line."

"NO!" Lowen, Sain, Florina, and Farina protested at once.

"You don't need to cater to her," Fiora insisted to Florina.

"Cater to me?" Farina screamed, "I'm catering to her!"

"Don't just assume that everyone is like you, Farina," Fiora chided.

"I'm not like that! And besides, I'm not making an assumption. We were the lookouts to make sure no one walked in on them, right before you got here."

Everyone else facefell. "You're not...supposed...to say that," Florina muttered.

"Well, you obviously weren't going to put her in her place, so I had to."

A/N: Okay, the chapter's over. I'm not sure if I'm keeping it PG or not, but I'm going to assume I am. I watch television. There's some stuff rated G that's about this level of humor, and by level I mean level of vulgarity. You've gotta watch those old sitcoms! Well, not old, per se; I hardly call the late eighties and early to mid nineties old, but...Whatever. I'll stop talking now.

One more thing: The only one in which the game actually gives any names for the children is the Lyn/Eliwood one, which leaves me grinding to a halt with this new one. HELP!