A/N: thank you Vykktor for being my first reviewer, and for being so kind. You're right, it seems a lot of stories resort to unnecessary, out of place smut. I do try to stay away from it. :)

Yours will be

FeMuxChrom, LucinaxGerome

Robin returns home only to witness a departure.

The night Robin returned to her family after killing Grima, she couldn't sleep. Wandering the drafty halls of her castle home was helping little, and she was starting to miss her sleeping husband and the warm bed they shared.

Her memory must have been fragmented by her sacrifice, because earlier she'd remembered nothing. The important bits were coming back to her, who she was, what she had done, her family. Smaller things, like the exact layout of her home, for instance, were still foggy.

A soft voice melted through the door next to her. She opened it gently, and realized with a jolt that she must have circled back around because she was standing in the nursery connected to her bedroom.

That's...my baby.

In the corner sat a wooden crib, above it a mobile of stars that flickered in the candlelight. Inside the crib was a tiny, blue-haired girl of two. Robin smiled, remembering earlier when she was reintroduced to her daughter. The girl shouldn't have known, but upon seeing Robin she immediately exclaimed, "momma!". Robin had cried, and Chrom explained that the two future children had been teaching her.

Perched on a stool beside the crib was a young woman, her hair no less blue than the infant's. The details surrounding her were still hazy in Robin's mind, but she knew that this girl was also her daughter, all grown up.

"Gerome thinks I'm silly for doing this. He thinks I shouldn't even be talking to you. Perhaps he is right, but I...I don't see the harm. You're sleeping, after all. Honestly, I hope your Gerome is less...like mine. But, I suppose, if you grow up anything like me you'll love him all the more for it."

The watching Queen smiled from the doorway, and made a mental note to take baby Lucina to visit Cherche's family.

"Then again, I hope you don't have to grow up like me. I had to grow up too fast to cope with the worst loss anyone could suffer...but you, you'll grow up with a father who will spoil you like crazy and train you, and a mother who will set him straight but spoil you in her own way. And hopefully soon you'll have a little brother to look out for. Try to keep him away from bugs, for mother's sake, okay?"

Lucina reached a hand into the crib, brushing blue locks away from the baby's forehead and giving her a melancholy smile.

"In short, my life has not been easy. My future...well, I'm not complaining. I've got Gerome, after all, and I know I will always have a home here, but..."

She became quiet and rested her head on the bars. Robin touched a hand to her own cheek and realized she was crying.

"...yours will be."

They had been almost completely silent, but the princess' whispered words had been heard. She looked up, and the two women's eyes met across the room.

"Mother."

Robin held her arms out, beckoning her daughter toward her. Lucina ran and fell into her arms, suddenly crying.

"I'm sorry, Mother. I never meant for you to know."

"Why couldn't you have told us, Lucy?"

Lucina hugged her Mother tightly. She grasped for an answer, but found none.

"I...I don't remember everything, exactly, but I know that you have a home here, always. Because you're my daughter, just as much as she is."

"No, I...I I did not want to be a burden. I did not want you to constantly have to explain my presence."

"Why would I need to do that?"

The princess pulled away, and saw confusion written all over Robin's features. She didn't seem to understand how having a mysterious woman from the future around would complicate things. She only saw Lucina though the eyes of a mother.

"...but it doesn't matter. I won't force you to stay here if you're uncomfortable. No matter what, we will always support you. Just remember that you have a home here."

Robin pulls her back in for a hug, and Lucina smiles. She had missed her Mother, and now that she was back she knew that everything would be okay.