New AN: Hmm... another change to make, Chrom can't seem to keep his hands off of Robin...
Old AN: To all the Guest reviews! Yes, there is more! I plan for this story to be a long one.
Yay! New chapter! I'm sorry that this is sooooo late...so much homework...cries silently inside...it looks like updates have to be every other week if I want the chapters to be long. But we will see...if I don't have much homework I will try to update weekly. I promise I will try.
Back to the story. So I decided on a quick introduction to the rest of the children so that this chapter could be the introduction to the twins! How will Chrom react when he sees the ring, the earrings, the brands...But first, back to the secret scene between Robin and Chrom.
Chapter Fourteen
~Robin~
"Well, I suppose I-" Robin started to say, when big strong arms wrapped around her waist, puling her close as he covered her back with his body.
"Chrom?!" Robin exclaimed. "Wh-what a-re y-ou doing?!"
"Robin," Chrom said softly, his breath tickling her ear.
'Ohmygosh...Ohmygosh...This isn't happening...This isn't happening...'
Chrom trailed his fingers down Robin's arms which made her shiver at how good his touch felt. Robin knew this was wrong, her mind was screaming at her to run away, to push Chrom off and give him a clear message. They were not meant to be together. His wife and daughter proved that.
'Well, there is Morgan and Melody...'
Robin cursed her thoughts for bringing up the twins, it was usually how her heart justified her feelings for Chrom. She had a place in his life because of her children. Robin furiously shook her head and reeled her mind back into the current situation, she needed to get away from Chrom before anyone saw them.
"Chrom...we can't..." Robin managed to say.
'Really? That's the best you can do...'
Chrom was silent for a moment before he spoke in a quiet voice, "...If I don't do this...you will walk away and I will feel like I'm losing you forever..." He turned Robin around so he could see her face, one hand at the small of her back and the other caressing her cheek gently. Robin sighed as she stared into those deep blue eyes, and she leaned forward and buried her head in his chest. Robin breathed in his familiar scent and just enjoyed being next to him.
"Chrom, you know I have no place in your future..." Robin said reluctantly. These words were causing her heart to break in half, but he needed to hear them.
~Chrom~
Chrom looked at Robin with wide eyes. "No..." Chrom struggled to say. He searched her brown eyes for any hesitation or indication that she was lying. Any words that he was going to say stopped on the tip of his tongue and fear struck his rapidly beating heart. The hopelessness of their situation finally hit him with a strong force similar to a silver sword cutting his heart into a million feelings. Chrom's feelings were lodged in his throat and it felt as if his body was being slowly turned into steel.
Chrom was jolted out of his trance by a small gentle touch on his cheek and he looked at Robin with a surprised look. "...Seeing you surrounding by your family...I feel like...I don't belong..." Robin said slowly. "It's better to let go now..."
"N-no..." Chrom stammered.
"We need to...while we still can..." Robin stammered.
Chrom closed his eyes and put his hand over her small one, not wanting her touch to ever leave his body. "But I still love you...so much...I don't know how to stop myself anymore..." As the prince said this his hands trailed down Robin's arms slowly and softly.
He smiled a little as he watched Robin try not to shiver with pleasure. "I know that you still love me," Chrom whispered in Robin's ear as she shook her head slowly. "I know you're lying when you try to deny it...Robin, I know you love me."
"No...Chrom...what we...had...was a mistake...we are general and tactician...friends...nothing more...we can't be anything more..."
Chrom just looked at Robin for a minute with his thoughts going all over the place. The prince was entirely at lost, his feelings weren't anywhere near under control. He thought that he had his feelings under control, that he could just be satisfied with having Robin near him and in his life. That he could love Sumia and Lucina and be the perfect prince. However, it turns out the situation was exactly the opposite, he couldn't live without Robin. He couldn't possibly survive without being able to touch Robin, to kiss her, to hold her in his arms. His heart ached for her, even though his mind scolded him every time he thought about it. He wished out of everything that he was just a normal man and not a prince. That Robin was just a normal woman and not his tactician and a possible Plegian princess.
The main thing that stopped him from giving up, that pushed him to keep talking to Robin, to keep trying to get closer, was a solid piece of information that Chrom was confident in. Robin still loved him. He selfishly wanted to keep defending the place that he had, no sill has in her heart. That's why he kept pushing her, he wanted to make her only his.
He looked at Robin again, who was staring at him with big eyes that were pleading but also full of sadness and regret. Chrom knew that he should accept her terms, but being the selfish prince that he was he blurted out, "Robin, kiss me!"
Robin's eyes stretched really wide and she jumped at his request. "Wh-what?!" she exclaimed.
Chrom stared at her with determination. "...I...I will obey your wishes Robin, but only if you kiss me, once more. Right now. Please..." He swore to himself that if she kissed him, then he would step away, even if that was the last thing that he wanted to do.
~Robin~
Robin had been extremely shocked at Chrom's suggestion. Okay, so yes, maybe that was her deepest desire, to kiss the man she loved most one more time, but her mind kept her in check.
"B-but what if someone sees?" Robin asked desperately, even though she knew those eyes that Chrom was looking at her with. She wasn't going to be able to change his mind.
"Robin, you're just stalling now, you know that there's no one around...Robin..." He touched his forehead to hers and his breath tickled her nose. "Kiss me..." he said slowly, running his fingers down her arms for the third time that night.
Robin stood there as she thought about her options at this point. Chrom was a man of his word, and if a single kiss, just one last time, was enough to allow them to forget... to allow them to become general and tactician...friends...even if she wished for the complete opposite, this was how it was meant to be.
So the tactician reached her decision and she grasped the cloth of Chrom's shirt and pulled him down into a deep kiss. She poured all of her hidden feelings and love for Chrom into this kiss and then started to pull away.
~Chrom~
Chrom was surprised that Robin agreed to his demand so quickly and he was shocked when her lips pressed against his. He melted the minute her soft lips touched his but before he could fully realize the incredible sensation of kissing Robin after so long, he felt her begin to pull away.
The prince firmly held Robin's waist and brought her lips crashing back to his as he made this second kiss, even more passionate. He keep giving Robin kiss after kiss and barely stopping for air. He had waited way too long for this moment, to feel Robin's lips against his again. He let Robin catch her breath while he tenderly kissed her neck.
"hmph...Robin..." Chrom mumbled.
"C-chrom..." Robin mumbled back.
Chrom could feel his body heating up whenever it touched hers and he felt a bulge in his pants and he knew that Robin could feel it too. She knew how much he wanted to do it, right now. He felt her smile against his lips and he shivered as she ran her fingers down his chest lightly. Chrom groaned, hating that Robin knew exactly what to do to make him a fumbling mess. Her hands trailed downwards and brushed her fingers across him teasingly which caused to prince to moan with pleasure.
These light touches caused Chrom's hold on Robin's waist to loosen and before Chrom could pull her back in for another kiss, Robin stepped away.
She laughed lightly at his disheveled appearance and Chrom looked at her sadly. He pouted a little and whispered in Robin's ear, "So cruel...Robin...ending it like that."
Robin smiled back and melded her lips to his one last time and then stepped away. "Chrom...I'm sorry...you know that I love you...I always will...but it ends here...I'm sorry..."
Chrom nodded even though he wished he could never let her go. "I know...I will always love you too..."
Robin turned around and ran back toward the direction of the camp. Chrom watched her disappear and fought the urge to run after her. As he started to walk back to his own tent he tried to prepare himself to let go of his love for Robin.
'I guess this is all my fault...I kept pushing her...goodbye my one and only love...I will always love you.'
~The following weeks~Robin~
Over the next two weeks the Shepherds were extremely busy either preparing for the voyage to Valm or searching for Lucina's companions. It had taken the Shepherds a while to wrap their heads around the fact that Lucina was Chrom's daughter from the future. Although many of them were very excited when they learned that Lucina had traveled back in time with the other children of the Shepherds.
Lucina was bombarded with questions about who had children and what they were like. She insisted on keeping quiet so she wouldn't ruin the surprise. So since it was going to take a while to pack the boats, small teams of Shepherds set out to find the future children. During these two weeks they had found, Tharja and Libra's daughter, Noire; Sully and Vaike's daughter, Kjelle; Miriel and Kellam's son, Laurent; Cordelia and Stahl's daughter, Severa; and Nowi and Ricken's daughter, Nah.
All of the "new" parents were super excited to meet their children and often spent a lot of time getting to know them and training with them. Robin looked at the families wistfully and she felt a pang in her heart as she thought of her young children, Morgan and Melody. Robin wished that she could just see her children, it had been about two months since she had seen them, but to Robin, it felt like two years. She wished she could see them grow up, see them grow taller and become young adults. But Robin knew that this was where she needed to be, helping Chrom. Not only was it too dangerous for her to even consider bringing Morgan and Melody with her, she couldn't show her children to the Shepherds. The shock when she returned was already enormous, so showing up to the castle with her two children would just make everything explode.
Even though her children's hair was a darker purple and their eyes were a darker blue, it would just take one person to make the connection. To realize that if they put Chrom and Robin together, they would get the appearance of her children. And if even one person saw Morgan's or Melody's Brand, it would all be over. So Robin just sat in her tent and continued to work on her strategy while thinking of her beautiful children.
~The next day~
Robin could've never imagined what happened that day, it all started with the Shepherds' hearing of a powerful relic locating in some northern ruins that had a mysterious power. Robin and Chrom reasoned that they needed all the help that they could get so they sent out a small party of Shepherds to go retrieve the relic.
AN: Ahhhh! I'm sorry! I know i haven't been on at all lately. I promise i will have multiple chapters up soon. I wanted to make this chapter longer but decided to shorten it just to get something published. Morgan and Melody enter next chapter! :)