A/N: Don't you just hate it when someone decides to steal your laptop that had the other 3 chapters of this story and your COMPLETED NOVEL. Luckily I still have the original notes and paper writing, if any of y'all see a book named The Tears of Caroline on bookshelves... well it probably doesn't matter. It's a shody story anyways onto the story!

It was about a month and a half before Silas had returned to the Northern Fortress. Corrin was happy none the less considering that Xander and Camilla had not come to the Northern Fortress in recent weeks having important business in the capital. Corrin hugged his friend tightly when he saw them at the gates.

"Whoa, calm down Corrin! I'm not going anywhere" Silas said, as he squirmed in his friends grasp. He broke loose and hugged his friend not as tightly. They immediately went over to Corrin's room to play with the little figurines Corrin had.

"Mmm ok so then I'd move my Wyvern rider and kill all your Axe men." Corrin said as he moved a small figure of a wyvern rider.

"No fair! I had my archer over there!" Silas complained as Corrin took his axe men. Silas moved his mercenary to Corrin's cleric and used his archer to take Corrin's wyvern rider." Silas grinned widely as Corrin continued to move. This continued on for a few minutes before both boys conceded a draw.

"Hey Silas Leo taught me how to play chess, wanna learn?" Corrin asked as he brought out a chessboard Leo had gotten him as a gift for finally learning. Silas nodded.

"Ok, ok so you set up the piece like this, with the king and queen in the middle." He said as he pointed to the pieces. Silas kept moving his gaze from his side of the board to Corrin's side back to his side. After some confusion and some poor explaining Corrin got Jakob to explain the rules.

"The rook moves in all cardinal directions, bishops move in diagonals, knights move in a L shape The queen moves in all directions and the king may only move one space. The game ends in a checkmate when the king has no option of escape." Jakob explained, Silas nodded and face Corrin ready to play.

"Uh I think I got checkmate" Silas said looking down at the board. Corrin frowned as his king was cornered with a rook ahead of it a knight to his side and a queen diagonally. Corrin sighed

"Ok you win but only cause I let you win!" Corrin said crossing his arms and pouted. Silas chuckled at his pouting friend.

"You know I heard that the Hoshido has a game like this, I dunno what it's called though." Silas said as he played with the knight piece.

"Really? Leo told me that chess was really popular and only existed in Nohr" Corrin told Silas looking at his with a look of surprise.

"Yeah... but that's chess, not... um Hoshido chess?" Silas said uncertain, running his tongue along his cheek as he thought on what the name for Hoshidan chess was.

"You seem to like the knight and you used it a lot too." Corrin noted, Silas looked at him and put the piece down.

"Yeah I really like knights, knight are like super cool with horses and lances and stuff! They're the coolest in the army!" Silas said standing up and pretended to wield a lance in one hand and hold the reins of a horse in the other. Corrin laughed

"I think beign a wyvern rider would be better, you get to ride a dragon and smash people with an axe, big sis Camilla had a wyvern named Marzia." Corrin said.

"Nah one arrow and your wyvern goes down with you on it." Silas said with a cocky smile. "Horse can take an arrow better. I wanna be a knight when I grow up and I'd want my kids to be knights too!" Corrin looked at him.

"Kids? But we're kids... why are you talking about kids?" Corrin asked, Silas pretend to jab things with his imaginary lance.

"My parents were talking about finding a 'suitable wife' for me so I can have kids to continue the legacy or something like that" Silas said. Corrin blinked and tilted his head.

"Really? Nobody talks about stuff like that here, not my big sister or little bro or even Xander." Corrin said, Silas looked at him.

"Really? My parents said this is something the royal family is probably already considering." Silas said as he sat down again. Corrin clicked his teeth and stared at the ceiling, lazily tossing chess pieces into his box.

"We don't... I don't think we ever will. Even if you have a kid what would you name them?" Corrin asked. Silas pondered it for a while.

"Mmm Avel! No... for a girl, Sophie!" He said excitedly

"And for a boy?" Corrin asked

"Uh... um I'll tell you later" Silas said and as if on cue his stomach growled. Corrin laughed at Silas until his stomach growled as well louder than Silas' stomach did and the boy blushed. Both boys laughed and stood up heading to the kitchen to have Jakob make them lunch.

By the time dinner came around Silas had to leave.

"Promise to come back soon?" Corrin asked as Silas' parents tried to urge him out. Silas nodded

"I promise! I'll try to stay over next time, okay?" Silas said as he was finally pushed out the door. Corrin waved and then raced up to the tower to see his friend leave with his parents.

"Hope to see you soon." He whispered

A/N: I originally intended this to be four chapters and then I decided to make it six and wrote those chapters and then my laptop got stolen and said fuck it I'm keep it at four chapters. Well not like anybody reads this garbage fire. But if you don't you won't have to wait 3000 years for the next two chapter (plus the bonus Nina chapter) for much longer. I have them half finished somewhere on this computer.