New AN: Chrom's reaction to the twins. To be honest this could've been written better as well as Sumia's thoughts and what not. Definitely marked for review later. Hope you guys enjoy regardless.

AN: Hey guys! I'm back with the next chapter! I'm so sorry about no updates in a while, I have been so busy with school and during Thanksgiving Break, I didn't quite know where I was going to take the story. So I have finally pieced together this chapter. As always since I haven't updated in a while, I will have a couple of chapters up this week. But, I won't make this too long because I'm just as excited to write this next part of the story as you are to read it. So without further wait... Story start!

*Disclaimer: I don't own Fire Emblem, Nintendo does. I just use the characters in my own creative story.

Chapter Nineteen

~Chrom~

'Father...huh?' Chrom smiled at the thought of being a father and he felt a surge of love flow through him as well as a sense of deep relief. Robin did love him, she didn't fall in love with someone else as Chrom had feared.

'Morgan and Melody are my... my son and daughter.'

Chrom watched as his children headed over to where Robin was waiting. He watched them talk amongst themselves and smiled when he saw Morgan ruffle Melody's hair. Chrom remembered that he used to do the same thing to Robin back when she had first joined the Shepherds. Chrom desperately wanted to talk to Robin about the twins and ask her why she hid this important information from him, but for now he let Morgan "introduce" Melody to Robin.

'I will help you regain your memories, my beautiful daughter...' Chrom thought and then he smiled again as he turned to check on the rest of the Shepherds.

~Robin~

Robin looked around the battlefield, satisfied that the enemy had been routed, and her eyes were now searching for the short mess of purple hair. Robin had seen a huge wall of fire go up on the battlefield near where Chrom was fighting. It looked very similar to a spell that she had been trying to perfect for months now. She didn't actually see who had cast the huge wall of flames and hoped that her son had seen the accomplished mage. Robin wanted to meet the mage and compare notes so that she could get the spell correct.

Robin continued to search the area until she finally spotted the short mess of purple hair that she was looking for. "Morgan," Robin called. "Are you hurt? We need to get all the Shepherds healed!"

Morgan looked up at her and smiled at her and started to walk over. Robin looked down and flipped through the pages of her spellbook, trying to find the spell that she wanted to perfect with the mysterious mage. She looked up when she heard laughter and had to blink a few times. Morgan was walking towards her, ruffling a young woman's hair. The young woman's hair was dark purple and longer than Morgan's hair, falling just past her shoulders with some fringes and bangs in the front. She was a little shorter than Morgan and was wearing the same coat.

'Who is that, I wonder? ...She looks just like Morgan...Is that blue I see near her ears...'

Robin gasped and exclaimed. "Melody?!"

Morgan and Melody looked up at Robin and Robin's eyes grew wide with disbelief as she took in how beautiful her daughter had become. "Oh, you are so beautiful," Robin said. The wind blew back Melody's hair slightly and Robin saw the blue earrings hanging in Melody's ears and knew for sure that this was her daughter.

~Melody~

'Is this my mother...she looks awfully familiar...Robin...I think that's her name...it sounds familiar...I get a headache when I think about it...'

Melody rubbed her head a little and said, "I'm sorry, I don't remember anything..." Melody looked to her twin for help and Morgan nodded and stepped forward.

"Mother, Melody has lost her memories," Morgan said. "She doesn't remember anything besides waking up in that field and a little bit about me I think."

"Ah I see," Robin said. "Haha, mother like daughter I guess. I had amnesia when I first woke up in that field where the Shepherds found me." Robin admitted this sheepishly with a hand going through her hair and a smile on her tilted head.

Melody looked over at her brother in shock, wondering if this was true, but Morgan had the same shocked look on his face.

"Mother, you had amnesia?!" Morgan exclaimed.

Her mother laughed and replied, "Haha yes, my memory starts the day that Chrom found me in that field." Melody watched as a look of longing flashed through her mother's eyes when she said that.

'Does this mean that mother still loves father? Why isn't mother married to father? So many questions...I wonder if I should just ask her...no...I should just leave it...'

Her mother's eyes lit up and she asked excitedly, "Melody, was that wall of flames a spell of yours?"

"Oh, uh, yeah I guess..." Melody said. "To be honest it was more out of instinct due to the memory loss."

"Can I see your tome? I've been trying to figure out that spell for months now," Robin replied excitedly.

Melody smiled and said, "Of course! We should compare the spells that we have and improve them. I definitely want to get to know you better Mother. Maybe talking over the spells and learning more about you will bring back some of my memories."

"Let's head back to camp, we can discuss in my tent, it's big enough for three people so we can share it," Robin said with a smile.

"I'd like that very much Mother," Melody replied. "Come on, Morgan," Melody said turning to her brother. "Let's go, I want see the camp! Operation: Restore my memories of being mage and my memories of Mother! Start!"

~Morgan~

Morgan smiled at his sister's enthusiasm and walked along with them back towards the Shepherd's camp.

'I'm glad that we found Melody...now our family is whole again...once we find a way to recover Melody's memories...'

Morgan paused for a moment and glanced behind him at his father, who was talking with a woman with light brown hair. His father laughed at something the woman said and then his father walked over to stroke the mane of the pegasus that was standing next to the woman.

'Who is that woman he is talking to...is she... the other woman that my father married...The one that he married instead of mother...'

Morgan quickly turned around before his father could notice him watching and started walking faster to catch up with his mother and his sister.

'That man will never hurt mother ever again...I swear it...'

~Chrom~

Chrom was deep in thought, and he couldn't help but smile inwardly at the thought of Morgan and Melody. He was so lost in his own thoughts that he almost missed the the beating of wings approaching him from behind.

He heard the wings at the last second and turned around to see his wife, landing her pegasus beside him.

"Sumia, are you okay? What about your injury?" Chrom asked, worriedly.

"I'm fine, Libra and Maribelle healed me in an instant. You should worry about your injuries," Sumia replied. "Though it doesn't look like anything major, you are covered in small cuts and nicks."

"Ah, those...the Risen gave me those when they managed to get past my defense," Chrom said. "I'd forgotten all about them actually, they don't hurt or sting surprisingly."

Sumia shook her head at him and exclaimed, "You have cuts all over your body and you somehow managed to forget they were there?! The cuts are even bleeding a little..."

Chrom laughed and replied, "I guess I got caught up in the battle that I didn't really notice them."

Sumia shook her head again and asked, "How did you defeat those five Risen all at once anyway? I saw a flash of light out of the corner of my eyes but when I looked over all I saw was you and the young woman we were trying to rescue."

"Ah, the young woman wasn't as helpless as we thought. She's a very accomplished mage," Chrom said, unable to keep the pride out of his voice, when he spoke of his daughter's talent.

~Sumia~

Even though the queen of Ylisse was known to be a little klutzy on her feet, Sumia wasn't a fool. She heard the pride in Chrom's voice and she had an idea about why but the idea itself cracked her heart in half. She had to either confirm or reject her suspicions, but Chrom wouldn't just tell her straight out. Sumia would have to try to get confirmation without actually asking the dreaded question.

"Do you know the young woman Chrom?" Sumia asked. Her husband's eyes flashed with an emotion that Sumia couldn't identify and with a fast blink, the prince's eyes were back to a neutral expression.

'Please say you don't know her...please...' Sumia pleaded in her head because if Chrom gave her the answer that she was feared he would, the queen's world would likely split into a million pieces.

"Ah, her name is Melody, and she is Robin's daughter and Morgan's twin sister," Chrom replied after the couple of seconds of hesitation.

Sumia felt a part of her heart break slowly because this fact seemed to support the solution that she was afraid of.

'I knew right away just from looking at the young man, that Morgan was Robin's son. I didn't get a good look at Melody... but if both Morgan and Melody are Robin's children, who is their father? ...I have been fearing this answer since we found Morgan two days ago... I don't want to know this answer... yet at the same time, my heart needs to know the truth... I have to ask... even if the answer is not what I want to her...'

Sumia mentally prepared herself and asked her husband, "Chrom, do you know who Morgan and Melody's father is?

Sumia saw shock and then pride and then another emotion flash through the prince's eyes.

'What emotion was that? Was it admiration? ...respect? ...no it was deeper than that...it was love... Chrom loves Morgan and Melody... or at least, he feels an attachment to them...but why? Is Chrom...is he their father? ...is it just like I feared? Did Chrom sleep with Robin...and she gave birth to twins? Or did Robin fall in love with someone else while she was away... that's probably just my wishful thinking...but I really really want the latter option to be true...'

"Ah, I see," Sumia said, trying to make sure that Chrom didn't pick up on the million thoughts and questions that were running through her head. "Come on, we should get back to camp and inform the children." Sumia faked a smile at the end of this and climbed up onto her pegasus and offered Chrom her arm to pull him up onto her pegasus. Chrom smiled back and accepted her hand and Sumia pulled the reins to have her pegasus fly back towards the camp.

Only Sumia could tell...

Chrom's smile was forced.

AN: Yay! I finally got this chapter finished... This is a lot of improvisation so it takes a lot more planning to figure out what I'm going to write. I think I know what I want to write for the next couple of chapters so I should have them up shortly. Sorry for the delay and I hope you liked the chapter. All feedback is appreciated so don't be shy to leave a review! :)