A/N- Hey! This is so much fun! I love writing humor! It's a great change from angst. You don't have to make yourself cry, you can make yourself laugh instead! . So kewl!

Hey, thanks to Iyessence and Fire-Emblem-Girl for your awesome reviews!
Iyessence- Thank you! ;; I went back in and changed that…I can't believe my spell check didn't pick that up… yeah, it's just you two so far, oh well, it's still fun to write! ;;

Fire-Emblem-Girl- Oh yeah! Hair falling in Kent's eyes is VERY sexy! LOL! At least…in my mind….Gotta love the man! Hey, you play flute? Same here! Are you in a marching band? Woodwind's kick brass any day! .

And Her Name Was-?

Chapter 3

Yes, Matthew. Honestly, I'd have rather found a way to do without Matthew. But he would be completely necessary. Him and his bright red cape. One of these days I'd have to point out to him that his cape is brighter than Kent's armor. I wonder if that would have any effect on him? Probably not. He tends to be a rather stubborn fellow. If he weren't so short and cute his stubbornness would probably get him into trouble. But looks really can get you out of anything. After all, if they couldn't, I admittedly would be dead by now.

There were two ways to approach this situation. I could walk over calmly as if nothing was happening and explain the situation quietly to him and ask for his assistance. Or I could be me.

"MATTHEW!" I hollered from across the room.

"WHAT?" He called back. The room went silent, staring at the two of us screaming at each other from opposite sides of the room.

"COME OVER HERE!" I yelled.

"WHY?"

"YOU'LL SEE!"

I heard Lady Lyndis let out a long, hard sigh, "Geez. You'd think they could at least act like civilized people with all the new people around…you know, for once?"

"Indeed. They sound like Hector!" Lord Eliwood put in with a laugh.

"What? Hey!" Lord Hector growled. The various conversations resumed, mainly focused on Matthew and myself now. Said spy began to cross the large room to join me on my side.

I give him this; he is very good at blending in, scarlet cloak or no. I lost him several times among the bouncing heads of other groups. But I could always find the thief again as he took his time, flickering from one clump of chatter to another. He was certainly annoying about it though. Most people would have taken a few seconds to cross the room. He was already passing five minutes and I was still standing there waiting. Call it A.D.D., but I was getting bored…fast.

To yell again, or not to yell again? Lady Lyndis had already voiced her distaste in my extremely effective means of communication, and if Kent was here he'd have already killed me for not acting all gentlemanly like a knight should. But if this was going to take any longer I wasn't sure if I'd last. My brains were beginning to melt out of my ears.

"You called?" Said a voice from behind me. A hand was suddenly rested on my shoulder. I let out a 'EEP!' and spun around in response, throwing the owner of the hand off balance and forcing him to adjust him footing quickly to recover. Matthew. Did he really have to sneak up on me? Rhetorical. Yes, he did. Same reason I had to yell from across the whole room.

"Um, yeah!" I said, "Come on! Let's talk on the way!"

"On the way to where?" He asked.

"You'll see!" I said, grabbing his arm and dragging him off in the same direction Kent had gone earlier. Now, if my memory didn't fail me for once and I could remember the way to the stables…well, if that was really where Kent was…and if he'd gone to the same stables where his and my horses were kept…yeah, if all that worked out then I'd be able to pull this master plan of mine off!
Once we were far enough away from the hall that I was sure no one would hear us, I let Matthew in on my observations, and my plan. Or rather, I started the interrogation that would lead into the revealing of the plan. "So, who's the red-haired lady?"

Matthew blinked stupidly for a moment, cute, but not as cute as an angry Kent. "Oh!" he exclaimed, coming to a realization at last, "You mean…her..oh, ok. She's from Ostia."

"Another spy?" I asked, a bit disappointed.

"….yeah…."

Crap. Oh well! Jobs and countries couldn't stand in the way of true love! This…was…true love…wasn't it? Oh well, I'd just carry out my plan and let Kent find out about that for himself. Then I'd play dumb as if I didn't know. It was perfect! Well, mostly perfect…it would be perfect till the part where Kent realized I was lying and strangled me. Oh the thanks I get for my hard work! Sheesh!

"Ok, so spill, what do you need me for and how does this involve Leila?"

"Who?"

"Wha-? I mean…you don't-? …Never mind."

Oh I minded. I minded a lot! He's just revealed her name, hadn't he? Curse my selective hearing…But I could always ask Kent later, once I had them together.

"Oh alright." I sighed. If he knew I minded he'd just play guessing games, and that was my job. I liked to rack people's brains for useless information. Not have my brain racked for semi-useful information! Maybe Kent was right when he's said Matthew and I were too much alike at our last parting…

"So, what's the big deal?"

Here I explained the strong suspicion I had that Kent had fallen in love with the red-haired spy. This was greeted by "Kent? You mean, the knight Kent? Red head Kent? The Kent who's stiffer than the Ostian palace guards?" To this I nodded, while laughing…loudly.

"Let me get this straight." He said. We were outside, approaching the stables now, "You want me to get L-um…the other spy over here and help you lock her in the same stable as Kent? Isn't that just a call for death?"

"Ah! He'll thank me later!" I laughed. Now…which stable would he be in…

"Ok, I guess…I'll go get…her…then… You're sure about this?"

"Positive, and hold on a sec, let's make sure I know where he is…"

Matthew let out a long, hardly even attempted to be concealed sigh. So what if the master thief didn't like my plans? He was going to help me whether he liked it or not! Well…ok, so it's not like I could force him. But if he didn't, what would I do? The lady wasn't going to come down here with ME just because I asked her to! I needed connections. And Matthew seemed to be the only connection.

We'd reached the barn where Kent and my horses were held. We were higher ranking officers, so our horses were held separately from the others. (Actually, it was supposed to just be Kent's horse in here, but it was so big, and I complained so much that eventually he let my horse join him. Besides, they get along as well as myself and Kent do!)

I motioned for Matthew to follow me around the back. I wish I'd had light clothing like his, with all my armor it was very VERY hard to achieve the deadly silence he had. We both pressed our ears to the back door. Inside there was rustling. The sound of horses, obviously he's brought our horses back, how thoughtful of him! I might have forgotten about them otherwise. He must have been grooming, I could hear the brush against fur sound that I'd grown used to.
"You want me to go get her?" Matthew whispered. I nodded. He was gone like a shadow in daylight.

Pushing my ear up harder to the door I could hear Kent's muffled voice. He was talking softly to his horse. I couldn't make out any of the words, just the soft sound of his calm voice and the sound of the brush stroking the bristly hair of his horse. Almost like a harmonious melody... The brush and the words. If I hadn't been so anxious it might have put me to sleep.

"Ok, well, I'm sure Milady will be wanting to discuss the situation soon. I should go back." I heard him say in an audible voice. My first thoughts were 'Oh, ok. He's done brushing.' Then as I heard his hang up the brush and close the stall door I suddenly realized, 'Oh crap! He's actually going back! Not good, not good, NOT GOOD!' what to do? Stall him. That was my only chance! I'd have to keep him in there till Matthew came back with the girl. Yes. That was my only chance!
I swung the door open hard and stepped inside. Kent stiffened and, drawing his sword, spun around to meet me. "Um…hi?" I said ((This would be a sweat drop moment .)) hands up in a surrendering pose.

"Sain?" He asked, lowering and sheathing his blade. "What are…what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be back at the castle?"

My first thoughts were, 'Shouldn't you?' But that would just ruin everything. I had to keep him here. "Oh it's no problem! Besides! You needed company!"

"Well, I was just about to head back…"

"Nonsense! Stay a while and talk with me! It's such a long walk back I really should rest before I begin the journey again!" For that Kent gave me one of his 'You're kidding, right?' Looks. Ok, so that had been a bad excuse, considering I walked out to this stable every couple of hours ever day…

"Sain? What are you trying to keep me away from?"

Busted. Why did I think I could fool Kent? Why? An excuse! I needed another excuse! "Keeping you from? My dear friend, why ever would you think such a thing? I'm not keeping you FROM anything?"

"So why are you keeping me here then?" He asked pointedly.

Double busted. I 'ummed' for a few moments before he took a deep breath and said;

"You know Sain, you are a horrible liar."

"Well…heh…heh…yeah….funny thing that…I was just….CHECKING ON THE HORSES! Yes! I was worried…and when I didn't find them outside…" Man I was reaching. Give me a woman any day. Kent was just too hard to deal with.

"Sain. Please, why do you want me here and can I please leave. Lady Lyndis may be needing my assistance with something and I should be getting back."

"No! No, Lady Lyn in fine! She's with…Lord Eliwood! Yeah, and Lord Hector! So there's no need to go back! Please, stay and talk with me!" You'd think I'd be used to lying to Kent by now, but when he stares at you like that you feel your legs turn to jello and your heart rate goes up. I'm not sure if it's because of his authoritive nature or his damn cute looks, but one way or the other this was not going well.
He let out a long sigh and then gave me a small smile. I felt my heart leap; he was going to go along with it! YES! "Ok, you win Sain. What do you want to talk about?"

Ok…what did I want to talk about? Oh! He played dirty….I needed something to engulf his attention…something like… "What do you think about women?"

"….WHAT?" Ok, so he wasn't expecting that one!
"Yes, women! Got your eye on anyone in particular right now?" I expected him to blush of something, but instead he frowned that cute frown of him and looked at me like I was crazy.

"Do you think about anything else, Sain?"

No. "Of course! I was just wondering, don't you ever think about it? I mean, who are you going to spend your life with after you retire?"

"Re….retire?"

He'd seriously never considered retirement? He couldn't just be a knight his whole life! What kind of one-track mind did he have? "Yes! Who are you going to spend your life with after you are no longer in the service of Caelin?"

"Sain…" He leaned on one of the stall walls, "I'd seriously not considered that." Obviously. "I've always imagined myself dying in the service."

"What?" Ok, that's when you know for sure that a knight needs a woman. When he's actually planning to die in service. "Kent, my dear, dear friend! You cannot be serious!"

"Why not? I mean, with all that's happening in the world…"

"Kent. You are serious? But, why? You could easily get a woman! You're good looking and kind, any woman would jump at the chance to be with you! I'm sure of it!"

"If you haven't noticed, I'm not a womanizer like you are Sain."

Well DUH I'd noticed. Wasn't like he tried to hide it or anything… "Kent, really! All you need is just the opportunity. Even Lady Lyn seemed interested in you when first we met her! I'm sure she still is! If not for all the complications with rank…"

"Sain, I appreciate that you are trying to help, but I'm sure I'm not interested. Really."

I let out a long sigh and gave him my best hurt-puppy look. He let out a laugh and stood up straight again.

"Let me guess, you had a woman all picked out and you were going to set her up with me."

Wow. Was he psychic? "Well…"

"Sain!" He gave me a stern look, "You didn't!"

"I'll…um…be right back!" I said, heading for the door. On an after thought I added, "Stay here!" I quickly exited the barn. This…was not good.

Behind me I could hear him laugh and say, "I can't believe it." I could!

Coming down the path from the castle were Matthew and the red headed spy-lady. As long as Kent stayed there for five minutes all would turn out ok. Right? Hopefully… There was only one chance at this, it had to work!

A/N- Wow…that was longer than the other two…hopefully the chapters will keep getting longer progressively.
Hey! Has anyone heard 'All Along The Watchtower' by Bob Dylan? Just try to tell me he didn't write that with FE in mind! . LOL! It's so kewl! Someone should write a songfic to it! Use Legault! LOL!
Please R&R! It really encourages me to keep going!