A/N- OMG! I like this story! (That sounded so sad….;;) Oh, and thank you to Iyessence for reminding me to make clear some things. First, if you haven't picked up on it already, Matthew's interest in Leila in this fic only extends as far as a sister-brother relationship. I hate rival relationships. I always end up hating the one who wins, and I refuse to hate Kent! I'm gonna add in a few other couples as well though, and hey! If either of you (Since I seem to only have you two as reviews…which is so kewl! It's like my own little community!) would like to give me some couples you'd like to see in here, if I approve (NO LYN/HECTOR! NONE! I am swy, but I just can't do that…) then I'll put it in!
Fire-Emblem-Girl I was wondering the same thing…LOL! I even held off on putting this chapter up hoping that they would review, no such luck…oh well, as long as you and Iyessence like it I'll keep writing it! LOL! Yeah, I don't think I'll be having Serra/Oswin…I never really understood that pairing…I mean, where do people get that from anyway? I say kill Serra/Oswin A support…it's just….grr…YEAH! Flutes are awesome! You should try Marching Band someday! It's really fun! .
Iyessence - LOL! I knew you'd like that part! I thought it was very Sain-like….and of course Matthew would obviously be the type to do that too! LOL! All Along the Watchtower…yeah…I just for some reason always think of Fire Emblem when I hear that song! Strange but true…Anyway, Bob Dylan rocks my world! LOL!

OK! Enough talk! STORY TIME!

And Her Name Was-?

Chapter 4

Matthew approached. He and the lady had obviously been talking about something particularly amusing, because they both stifled their laughter and tried to hold back smiles as they got close. I decided it was wise not to ask. It was also wise not to think for too long, otherwise I'd end up flirting…and flirting was not what I was aiming for today…sadly.

"Ok, Sain! We're here, now what?" Matthew asked curtly.

Damn. I hadn't exactly thought this far. My brain was starting to hurt. I was doing more planning in just this one day then I usually did in a year! "Um…well…" Ok, think fast Sain! She's there….Kent is inside…I'm out here…there's a barn…with horses…and…A LOCK! Yes! All brain thought stopped there as I grabbed the red-head by the wrist and shoved her more roughly than I'd meant to into the door of the barn.

"What the-? HEY!" She shrieked as I shut the door quickly and put up the bar to keep her in.

"SAIN? What did you do that for?" Matthew hissed at me as I locked the 3 bolts on the door.

"I don't know…" I muttered at I ran around to do the same with the main entrance, which was shut, but not yet locked.

Someone was coming down from the castle talking in a high, shrill voice and giggling periodically. No time to register who it was, there were doors to lock! Matthew was following me snapping about how I shouldn't have been so rough and how Leila was going to kill him for being involved and such. I wanted to tell him to stop whining and help me, but I was in too much of a hurry. We'd have to get up to the loft fast or we'd miss everything! And the doors had to be locked before that so that they couldn't escape. Funny, trying to lock door against a spy…but I had to at least try! Ok. Doors bolted and barred…yes…ok…now what…THE LOFT! Yes…I grabbed Matthew by the wrist and lead him over to a hay bail. I'd found on earlier accounts that it was fairly easy to reach the loft if you stood on the hay bail and then used the tree beside it and pulled yourself up into the loft.

"Seriously Sain, what are you doing? I thought you were trying to get them together, not lock them up!" Matthew kept complaining, standing on the ground while I pulled myself into the loft.

"Oh just come on!" I hissed. "Just follow me!"

Thank goodness he was a curious as I was and followed me. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to enjoy this so thoroughly. This is what we saw.

In The Barn

"Ouch…" Said the red-haired girl as she landed on the hay-covered dirt floor. She stood up quickly and reached for the door. It was already locked. Pounding on it she yelled, "MATTHEW! HEY! MATTHEW! URG! I'll kill him!" She growled, kicking the hard wooden door, causing a sharp pain to run from her toes up through her leg. 'That was stupid…' She thought.

"He….hello?" Said a masculine voice behind her. The red-head jumped. A respectable distance behind her stood a young red-haired knight. His hair wasn't quite so striking red as hers was, but that wasn't what the thief noticed first. His eyes, chestnut brown, on the edge of being red. They cut through the darkness of the poorly lit barn.

"Oh! I'm sorry!" She muttered, slightly embarrassed, but still to angry at her fellow spy to blush. This was the opportunity for the knight to notice her features. Strawberry red hair that hung over her right eye, hiding its crimson beauty from view.

"Oh…um…" He stuttered for a moment before seemingly gathering his thoughts, "Did…did Sain lock us in here?"

"Oh, was that the green man's name?"

Kent almost laughed at the girl's nickname for Sain. He was a green man! But…would that make Kent a red-man? "Yeah, it is."

"Oh. Interesting. Yeah, he pushed me in here. I suspect that it was Matthew who locked the doors though, I can't get them undone…he's always been good with locks." She said smiling.

"I wouldn't count on it. Sain's good at jamming things. We'll probably be stuck in here till someone comes with an axe if he got his hands on those locks!" He chuckled.

The red-haired girl laughed also. Then she let out a huge sigh. "Yeah, but we are still stuck in here…"

"Yeah." Kent sighed also. Then he looked up at the window above, which was the only light source that didn't shine only on the loft. "SAIN! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME YOU'D BETTER FIND A WAY TO OPEN THOSE DOORS!" He hollered.

The girl shook her head. "I wonder what got into them…" she wondered out loud.

"That's just how Sain is." Kent informed her dryly, "But I wonder how he got Matthew to work with him…"

"Well, they were yelling earlier at each other from across the room, then they left and then after a while Matthew came back to find me and asked me to come with him…"

"I wonder if that's when Sain came to talk to me."

"Probably….I wonder what they are trying to do…"

Suddenly a realization came to Kent. So this was what Sain had meant! He'd have to kill the green-man later… for now he was just going to have to a gentleman and try to help the poor lady out of there. "Well, I suppose we should try the other doors, in case they forgot one." Not that that would help. For being so random and womanizing, one thing that could be said about Sain was that he was thorough.

"Yeah…" She said, taking a step forward. At that Kent turned so that she could easily pass him without getting too close. She took the opportunity to advance into the middle of the barn. "It's big in here." She commented, looking around. "Oh! Are those horses yours?" She walked up to the two large stalls that housed Kent and Sain's steeds.

"Um, this one is mine." Kent said, pointing out his mount, "The other is Sain's. Now, I don't think there are as many locks on the east side, we could try-"

"Are they friendly?"

"What?" Kent asked, obviously unaware that the female didn't seem as keen on finding a way out as he did.

"The horses, are they friendly?"

"Oh…um…yeah, sure, you can pet them if you want…" He said awkwardly, walking over and opening the door to the stall so that she could go inside. "You can go right up to him, he's used to people."

"Wow…" She said, "He's so well kept!"

Kent's face turned about the color of his uniform, "Thank you." Then he turned back to face the east side of the barn, "Now we really should find a way out of here…"

In the Loft

Ok, so what in the name of Roland was Kent thinking? He was locked alone in the room with a stunningly attractive woman, and his only focus was to get out? Was he really that bad with women? Honestly, if I'd been stuck in a room with a woman that attractive at the very least I'd have tried to woo her! But here he is, barely even introducing his mount, which seemed to have drawn her attention and again looking for an exit! He could be showing off or seducing her or SOMETHING more interesting!
"I knew she'd blame it on me! She ALWAYS blames it on me!" Matthew muttered.

"Kent is not doing this right!" I complained. "He's supposed to be wooing her! Not trying to escape!"

"OO! What are you two whispering about?" Came a very perky whisper from behind me. Both Matthew and I froze and turned around slowly to see a pink haired monster crouching behind us.

"SERRA?" We both hissed, "What are you doing here?"

"LOL! OO! Did you hear that Erk? They're talking in stereo!" She laughed to someone down below, obviously Erk. "Come on up!" She invited him.
"Serra! Go away!" Matthew growled, "You're just going to make things worse!"

"He's right Serra." The purple haired mage said as he pulled himself into the now rather crowded loft. "We shouldn't be here."

"Oh come on Erky! You know you want to see what's going on!"

"No. You do. And somehow you tricked me into coming. I should be back at the castle with-"

"Oh who cares about her!" Serra snapped, tossing her pigtails haughtily. "You should be protecting me anyway!"

"You don't need protecting." Erk and Matthew said at the same time.

"Heehee!" She giggled, "Stereo again!"
I sighed loudly, but not loudly enough that Kent would hear me, if he hadn't heard or suspected that we were up here already. Which was unlikely. "Can't you be quiet? I'm conducting research!"

"Research?" Erk asked pointedly, "Since when do you do research?"
"Sain, you're acting so droll today!" Serra grumped, "What are you watching anyway?" She looked over the edge of the loft and down on the scene below. "Wow! What is Kent doing down there with…wait, isn't that-?"

"NO!" Matthew hissed.
"Yeah, well, I know she's from Ostia!" Serra laughed quietly. "And now I know that her name really IS Leila!"

Matthew grabbed and yanked hard on her pigtail causing her to squeak in pain. Erk quickly slapped a hand over her mouth to silence her. It was then that I realized she'd just said the red-haired spy's name. What had she said? I'd have to ask. Once again, CURSE MY SELECTIVE HEARING!

"What did you say her name was?" I whispered.

"Oh!" The pink haired cleric began, but both Erk and Matthew slapped their hands over her mouth again at the same time and she was cut short. Why didn't they want me to know anyway? I sighed. Oh well, I'd just have to get back to watching Kent. This was rather boring actually, but it was better than nothing.

"Ack!" Erk let out a small cry of surprise as Serra seemingly licked his hand to get him to remove it from her mouth. She burst into a fit of giggles.

"Why can't you be quiet?" Matthew hissed, trying also to turn his attention back to the red haired couple below.

This would have been a good time to woo the strange, hyperactive cleric, but Kent was probably struggling with his blooming relationship and I should really have been trying to help. Of course, what did he expect? I'd gotten them together, it was supposed to be up to him to seduce her. But it was becoming obvious that further intervention was necessary.

"Serra, why don't we leave?" Erk asked.

"Because! I wanna see what Sain is planning!"

"You're so…um…" He seemed to rethink his statement, "You're going to get your dress dirty."

"It can be washed!" She growled stubbornly, "Besides, I was running out of things to gossip about…"

Matthew's eyes got wide; he leapt to his feet, hitting his head on the low ceiling. If Kent hadn't heard us by now he must have gone deaf. I was going to be so dead when this was all over… "SERRA! You can't-"

"Why not? And keep your voice down!" She whispered.

"Erk! Stop her!" Matthew said, glaring at the purple haired mage.

"I tried. She's like a goat." He sighed. Geez they were being noisy! Why did I drag them along anyway?

"A GO-!" Serra practically screamed. All three of us slapped out hands over her mouth. Her eyes were large and filled with fire.

"Erk!" Matthew growled, "Why did you have to say that!"

"Yeah, make her be quiet!" I said, still attempting to restrain the now thrashing cleric.

Erk took a deep breath, "Ok, on the count of three move your hands, One…two…three!" A small squeak escaped the cleric's mouth as our hands moved just before Erk brought his lips to hers, silencing and stunning the girl.

"Nice!" I laughed quietly. Erk sure had a way with women! I'd have to take a leaf out of his book!
Serra's eyes slowly closed as she began to kiss back. Matthew looked away, as if annoyed. I kept watching, knowing that the mage wouldn't let this last long. He pulled away and held her by her shoulders a half an arm's length away. "Now will you be quiet?" He asked.

"Ok…" She breathed, nodding slightly.

I laughed softly, so the day wasn't a complete waste! Erk's true feelings were realized! Maybe I was a good matchmaker after all! Despite the fact that I hadn't done much…Now if only Kent would do the same…

Jaerel YEAH! Kitty is finally using her muses! I'm here to say, sorry that took so long to get up! ;; I hope you liked it! Kitty was worrying that she'd gone a bit OC for a while….heh…heh…Please review! And give her some more ideas for couples you'd like to see! We've still got room up in the loft! .