Just a heads up: Chrom is going to be majorly OCC. But then again, I'm about to rock his world in this chapter (And not in the friendly way either xD)

So... Stuff... Not really a whole lot to say right meow. Sane was totally knocked unconscious in the last chapter if that wasn't clear. Um... Yeah. Let's move on yeah? More emotional stuff involving Sane in this chapter, I don't know if you guys like it or not, but I want you as readers to be able to relate to her/I as much as possible of course. Just let me know if you guys think I'm focusing on her too much. If you think about it, the entire game is kind of Robin-centered.

"Hey? Hey? Wake up! Yo!"

I felt a throbbing pain in my temples and a voice calling for me to wake up.

"Your dad's calling you. Get up."

I struggled to open my eyes.

"C'mon, before your brother eats all the bacon."

"Mehrrrrrh..."

'Dad's calling... Brother eats the bacon..?'

"Your mom said if you don't wake up I'm supposed to grope you to death."

"Mrrrr... Most certainly not madame..."

I opened my eyes and looked at my surroundings. For a while, everything seemed strange and out of place. There were strange pictures on the ceiling above me and the wall beside me. The bed had a rainbow pattern on it and was piled high with blankets, pillows and stuffed animals. I could from the corner of my eye see a bedside table that had a picture of a Black Widow faerie and several miscellaneous objects.

'Where..?'

Suddenly, I felt a hand grabbing at me in a way that made me need an adult.

"Yaaaaaah!"

I flailed my arms and tried to get away from the offending hands. It wasn't until I managed to fling myself from the bed and smash face first into a box fan on top of a green tote that it occurred to me where I was.

'Holy... I'm... Home!'

I recovered surprisingly well from my sudden close relationship with the box fan and looked at the person who had been groping me.

"L-Lemeni!?"

She nodded slowly.

"What other women do you wake up in bed with?"

I derped.

"Um... That sounded extremely dirty..."

"It woke you up didn't it?"

"Well just... Combined with the groping... I thought you're not about that life?"

She shrugged.

"Anyway, we gonna go get breakfast?"

"Heck yeah, I feel like I've been eating C-rats the past... While. Hey, this is gonna sound crazy but... How long was I gone?"

She looked at the alarm on my dresser.

"Um... 'Bout four or five hours. It was around three I think when you conked out."

'Hours? I was dreaming?'

"Oh, well... Food."

We left my room and headed downstairs. The scent of bacon was heavy in the house, as well as maple syrup. From the living room were the sounds of video game gunfire, but I ignored them in favour of the food. I stepped into the kitchen with Lemeni following close behind me and stopped dead. Standing in the kitchen smiling and looking like they were having a good time was my mom and stepmom. They both smiled at me when I entered the kitchen.

"Hello."

"Morning Bunnies!"

I stared at the two of them for the longest time before slowly backing up. I bumped into Lemeni as I backed up but I didn't apologize to her. I stepped into the living room in a sort of daze. I was so in a daze, I didn't realize that my brother and sister-in-law were sitting on the couch with Xbox controllers. My dad was sitting between them. I couldn't understand how they were sitting so calmly together. They were almost touching, as if they were family.

"What... What the *heck* is going on here?"

"Hey, just because we invited you to play some Gears of Halo Theft Auto doesn't mean you're allowed to speak sailor again. Go put some money in the swear jar."

Lemeni snuck up behind me and nudged my back.

"Maybe you should step outside yeah? We have a lot to talk about."

As I left with Lemeni, I noticed the smiles on everyone's faces turned to looks of pity and concern.

"What's going on here? How is my mom here? Why the hell do my dad and brother look so comfortable with each other?"

She pushed me to the door quicker.

"Stop it, before you have to go back again..."

I pulled away from Lemeni.

"WHAT IS GOING ON? MY MOM'S DEAD, WHO IS THAT?!"

She grabbed me and forced me out the door with strength I hadn't realized she had. When we were outside my house she sighed in exasperation.

"We've talked about this before... Haven't you been taking your medicine? And you were doing so well in therapy? Why the sudden relapse?"

"Re... lapse? What are you talking about?"

She ran a hand through her hair.

"Look, I know you think nothing's wrong but... You can't stop medicine and following your therapy because you think you're better..."

She looked on the verge of tears.

"Every time this happens... You hurt everyone around you. This has to stop now."

I wrapped my arms around myself.

"I don't know what you're talking about..."

She gave me a comforting hug.

"It's okay, we'll just send you back to Dr. Pilgrim and you can get better again."

"Dr... Pilgrim..?"

"Your doctor... You've been seeing him since middle school...? Don't tell me you're drawing a blank."

I shook my head.

"I don't... See a doctor... Is he like... A crazy doctor?"

Now Lemeni was looking at me in pity.

"I know you have problems admitting you have... Problems, but pretending you're sane won't make you any less crazy."

'But I don't pretend I'm sane... I am Sane...'

Something about the name Pilgrim sounded familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere before.

"Dr. Pilgrim... First name Billy?"

Lemeni nodded. Something about our whole conversation was off. I knew the name Billy Pilgrim, and he wasn't a mental health doctor. If this was the Billy Pilgrim I was thinking of...

"And he has a wife, Valencia. And a son and daughter Robert and Barbara?"

"See, you know him. You can stop pretending you don't now."

"Yeah... I do know Billy Pilgrim. More than you do. You don't know Billy Pilgrim."

Lemeni frowned.

"I drive you to the appointments, yeah I know Dr. Pilgrim."

I shook my head.

"You're gonna have to do better than that... Way better."

Lemeni cocked her head to the side.

"What are you talking about?"

Her voice was laced with apprehension.

"The name Billy Pilgrim... How did you think I wouldn't recognize it? If you're trying to mess with someone's head, you can't pick a name they'd know."

"I don't know what you're talking about, you're worrying me..."

"Billy Pilgrim, soldier who served in Dresden, he became unstuck during the war because of the Tralfamadorans... Really, Tralfamador was the password to my laptop, how did you think this would go unnoticed by me?"

Lemeni shrugged.

"The hive mind must draw from itself."

'Hive mind... Where have I heard that?'

"You wanna go back inside?"

I looked down at my feet.

"Is my mom going to be in there?"

"We can't ignore our past, we have to deal with it in little doses. Time for your next little dose."

I rolled my eyes.

"You're visiting me in my dream and I'm not even getting some love? What kind of fantasy is this?"

She chuckled.

"The one where if you hurry you might have time to go punch Shawn before it's over."

I shook my head with a smile.

"Naw... Let's get this ovah with."

I opened the door to my house and stepped inside. It was quiet, and the smell of bacon and maple syrup was gone. My mom was sitting on the couch with what looked like a Sudoku book. She looked like she was the picture of health, nothing was wrong. She didn't have tubes sticking out of her, her eyes weren't rolled back into her head. It looked like she could stand up and start Time Warping at any moment.

'But, she looked fine the day she dropped me off too, until...'

"Hi Bunnies! You having fun hanging out with your friends?"

I sat beside her on the couch.

"I guess."

"You guess? Gets pretty boring without your video games doesn't it?"

"Yeah, how'd you know?"

"You eating right?"

"As well as I can I guess. No canned veggies floating around."

"And you're going to bed at a decent time?"

"I'm up at the butt-crack of dawn every day. I have to."

"That's nice."

We were quiet for a long time. My mom would occasionally look at her Sudoku book and mark something into the cell, then look back to me. She had a smile on her face and seemed relaxed, like I always imagined her.

"You're my brave girl, you know that right?"

"I know."

"Sometimes we're faced with impossible tasks, but the funny thing is,"

My mom wrapped an arm around me and hugged me.

"We have no limits except the ones we place on ourselves. Now, go be brave, but don't be brave for someone else's sake. Be brave because that's who you are, not who you think you have to be."

She pointed to the door behind us.

"Go on, get back to your friends. Be careful, that first step's a doozy."

The door swung open of it's own accord. Outside was nothing but darkness.

"Do I have to?"

Before I could receive any sort of answer, some invisible force pushed me into the darkness.

My first instinct was to scream, but by placing a hand over my mouth I was able to remain quiet. I was falling for what seemed like an eternity in perfect darkness and silence before everything stopped. I tried to move, but some phantom weight held me down. I didn't struggle against the darkness, figuring that I'd be able to move when the time was right. I began to hear quiet voices trying to reach me through the darkness. They were too soft for me to initially make out, but the more they spoke the easier it was for me to understand them. Eventually I was able to hear them and tried to speak.

"Muurrr..."

I could hear the voices whispering frantically to each other and struggled to open my eyes and see them.

"Mrrryah... My head..."

Finally opening my eyes I was blinded by bright light. I as my eyes adjusted I was able to make out the vague shape of faces and things around me. Dressers, curtains, chairs.

'Am I in someone's bedroom?'

"Sane? Try not to make any sudden movements alright? You were hurt pretty bad, it's a miracle you're still alive at this point."

The voice talking to me was familiar, belonging to a certain blue-haired Ylissean Prince.

"Chrom, don't tell her that, you'll scare her!"

"Well, she needs to know not to move doesn't she?"

I began to pull myself up, using the furniture around me for support.

"Yeah, that backfired!" Lissa snapped.

Chrom must've decided it was better to simply help me up than fight with me, because he rested his hand against my back for support and helped me turn so my feet were resting on the floor. Everything was still a little shaky and vague, but I could at least make out most of my surroundings.

"Is Emmeryn alright?" I asked.

I could see Chrom and Lissa nod.

"She's fine right now, she's talking to our new allies. Sane, how did you know about Gaius?"

I shrugged.

"Lucky guess."

I saw Chrom look at Lissa, then nod his head towards the door. Lissa nodded in return and left. Chrom sat beside me on the bed and lightly gripped my shoulders.

'Oh geez... I've read enough fanfiction to know where this is going.'

"Sane, I've trusted you in the past. And I want to continue trusting you. But in order for me to fully trust you, you're going to have to be honest with me. I'm not asking you to spill your entire life story. Just tell me how you knew Gaius would be an ally."

I bit my tongue in thought.

'Yeah, I'll tell you. But would it be better to tell you the truth you'll never believe? Or a lie I know you'll accept?'

"I... I'm sorry Chrom, you ask too much of me. I can't explain it... I... I don't know how."

Chrom frowned.

"I heard from Frederick you ran off after Marth. What did you say to her?"

'Bwah, how much can I tell him?'

"Chrom, I can't tell you everything, I don't know how that will affect things yet to pass. But I'll tell you what I can. When you found me in that field near Southtown... I lied about having no memory."

The grip on my shoulders tightened.

"Why would you do such a thing? How can I trust you knowing this entire time you've been lying to us?"

"Because I knew you wouldn't believe me if I told you I was from the Outrealms."

His hands fell from my shoulders and he looked at me in confusion.

"How can you be from the Outrealms?"

I shrugged.

"I don't know. I fell asleep in my world and awoke in this one. You were supposed to find someone else in that field, a youth by the name of Robin who truly lost his or her memory."

"His or her?"

"Yeah... It's never the same twice."

"What do you mean?"

"I've seen events of this world unfold from my place in the Outrealm. But I've never been in control before, I've only been able to observe. Now suddenly I'm here in place of Robin. I think..."

I paused, feeling my throat and chest tighten as if I were about to cry.

"At first I thought I was dreaming. Where I'm from there's no magic and mystical realms, just everyday life. So suddenly seeing you, Frederick and Lissa, who in my realm are nothing but fictional characters, made me think I'd lost my mind."

"So you call yourself Sane..?"

"As a joke, yeah."

He rested his chin in his hand and shook his head slowly.

"This can't be happening... How do I believe you?"

"I could tell you something that only you could know. Something you haven't told anyone else in the world."

"Go on then, try it."

"When you find someone whom you wish to spend the rest of your life with in marriage, you plan on giving them the ring left to you by your mother."

Chrom was silent for a long time. He stared at me, but somehow I felt his eyes were looking through me, not at me. He then stood up and walked towards the door.

"If you're feeling better, you should get up and move around. Tomorrow morning we're leaving to escort Emmeryn to the eastern palace before we march into Plegia to settle this conflict once and for all. You might want to talk to our new allies."

Chrom's voice changed dramatically. It picked up a cold and distant edge.

'I just shattered his trust in me... So much for playing the roles we're given.'

"Chrom, we musn't take Emmeryn to the eastern palace. Her life will be in danger."

Chrom spun around and fixed me with a glare that sent ice through my veins.

"How am I to trust you? You've done nothing but lie about who you are from day one. You give us little tidbits of knowledge when it suits you, and the rest of the time you watch as we run around like chickens with our heads cut off! I notice you couldn't be bothered to say anything about Vaike, was his life not as worthwhile as Emmeryn's?"

He strode over to me and towered above me, looking down as if to belittle me.

'Was..?'

"Chrom... Is Vaike alright?"

He sneered.

"Is he, observer? You seem to know everything else that's going on. I assumed you knew that Vaike is dead."

Chrom's words stung.

"No... How?"

"Validar killed him. Probably with the same tome he used to attack you."

'*No*...'

Losing a unit in the game always sucks. By the time you've had most of the units when they die you get to see their story and the kinds of people they are.

'This isn't a game...'

I knew the kind of person Vaike was. Not the brightest, but he tries to keep his heart in the right place. And he was funny... Sort of...

"How could I..."

Chrom turned to leave again.

"Oi! You're just going to tell me someone died then walk away? What the hell?"

"I assumed you knew it was going to happen."

He didn't turn around as he spoke to me. He just casually walked towards the door and opened it. Lissa was waiting outside. She looked at him as he walked past, but the two made no verbal exchange. I stood, partially in shock, in the room and Lissa walked over to me.

"What did he want to talk to you about?" She asked.

I shook my head.

"I... Need to sit down..." I said quietly.

My voice wavered like I was under water. Tears began to spill from my eyes and I tried to wipe them away before Lissa noticed. But I couldn't.

"Hey, what's wrong Sane? Hey..."

Lissa hugged me.

"Don't cry..."

She was about the same size as me, height wise at least, maybe an inch or two taller. She was definitely thinner than me but with her poofy clothes it was hard to notice unless you were against her.

"I know why you're upset. But, these things happen... Just be thankful that others are alright."

I wanted to push Lissa away, but another half of me was glad she was hugging me.

'Hugs are like safety... All the safety in the world.'

"He's mad at me..." I sobbed.

"Who's mad at you?"

"Chrom... He thinks it's my fault..."

"No no no no... Sane, nobody is blaming you."

'Chrom is.'

"I bet he's glad you're alright. He just... Seems upset because Vaike was a good friend of his."

"My fault..."

Lissa pulled me over to the bed and had me sit with her. I don't know how long we just sat there, but it was long enough for me to stop crying and think clearly again.

'I've read enough fanfictions...'

"Lissa? Is it alright if I go now? I feel kind of weird."

"Sure, sure."

Lissa gave me one final hug before scooting me towards the door.

"Try and talk to Chrom again, please? I know he's not mad at you."

"... I'll try."

I left the room and wandered around the castle. I didn't really know what time it was, but the light still seemed to have a morning hue to it.

'Maybe I can ask Stahl when lunch is? That should give me a good estimate of the time.'

I decided to search the training grounds. It took me awhile to find them, but when I did there were several people there. But no Stahl.

'Oh well... Maybe I can get in some practice?'

I had just picked up a training sword from out of the corner of my eye I saw Chrom viciously attacking a training dummy. At the rate he was going, the poor thing would be broken in a matter of minutes. Scattered around Chrom's feet were chunks of wooden swords and other debris.

'Oh my, he's been here awhile.'

"And there she is now, the star Tactician."

Gaius came casually strolling up to me with a smirk on his face.

"How'd you enjoy your power nap? I've been knocked out before myself, gives you the most interesting dreams."

"What do you want?"

"Who said I wanted anything? Other than talking to you that is."

He leaned against the wall holding the training equipment.

"I've got a secret interest in dwarfs you see..."

'Oh it would be so easy to toast you...'

"We prefer the term 'Little People', thank you very much."

He chuckled.

"I've got an interest in chicks with a sense of humor too, now tell me that you love sweets and I think I just found my soulmate."

I rolled my eyes at him.

"Laying it on kind of thick, aren't you? You're not supposed to throw yourself at the women."

"I'm not throwing myself at you. You're tiny, I'd knock you over."

"I've carried someone bigger than me before!"

"Oh? So does that mean you're gonna give me a piggyback ride?"

"No."

I tried to ignore him as I looked for a suitable practice sword, but between his talking and Chrom in the background murdering the dummy I couldn't focus to save my life.

"Go away, will you?"

"Wow, people weren't exaggerating about your social skills."

I huffed.

"What are you talking about? I have excellent social skills."

"Right, because Chrom being mad at you is proof of that."

"How did you know Chrom was mad at me?"

"I'm a thief, I have to notice these things."

I heard a particularly loud shout from Chrom's general vicinity and looked over at him in time to see the training dummy go sailing through the air.

"Holy cow, what's up with Blue? How did you get him so pissed?"

"I didn't do anything. He asked me a question, I answered. He didn't like my answer."

"Well, that sucks."

"Yeah."

"Did you tell him you don't swing his way?"

I derped and looked at Gaius.

"You're crude. Go away."

I tried to walk away from him, but of course he had to follow me.

"Hey, I'm just trying to find out what kind of person you are. Easiest way to do that: Freak them out."

"Go away!"

I was almost jogging to get away from him, but he still followed me.

'Man, at least he's not a quitter.'

"Why don't you go find someone else to bother yeah?"

I went around the corner and bumped into Panne. The impact knocked me down, but she just stood and took it like a boss.

"Oh geez, I'm sorry Panne, I didn't mean to bump into you."

I almost expected her to help me to my feet, but of course she didn't. She never seemed to be hostile to Robin based on the conversations, but considering this is the first time she's been with us there might be some hostility.

"Having trouble, man-spawn?"

I jerked my thumb at Gaius as I stood.

"How'd you guess?"

He put his hands up in self-defense.

"Hey, just tryin' to make some new friends."

Panne glared at him and leaned forward like she was about to phase.

"Make friends then, elsewhere. I have business with Sane."

Gaius shrugged his shoulders, but left thankfully. Panne turned to me and gestured out of the training grounds.

"Let us talk, Sane."

Lot of emotion, lot of anger, and a look at Sane's past. (Recent past if you must know.) I know some of the characters might have been really out of character, but oh well. As writers, we must mold our materials to our needs, yes? So, Chrom's officially pissed at me now. He's gonna be for awhile. I'm planning on him and Sane getting into an all out swords and spells fight later. But, I almost get the feeling that Sane and Chrom couldn't fight without Sane crying and being all babyish. Oh well, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.