AN: Alright heads up, this is gonna a little less humor and more on the dramatic end of things, my apologies in advance. It feels like I had to put up this chapter but hey it's more Robin centric at least.

Anyways final FINAL hint on who Chrom's wife will be.

Chapter 8: The Dark Secret

Robin stood off staring unto the setting sun. Her shaking hands were keeping her heartbeat uneven.

"W-What have I done!" she cried out.

Validar, the leader of the Grimleals and her own father, manipulated and controlled her. The man had the darkest laugh when he revealed Robin's heritage to them all. Robin knew the man was her father for a while now, ever since Lucina joined them. However she kept it a secret and laughed it away with her usual jokes. She hoped she never had to meet the man ever again, but she was wrong.

"Why did I fall in love with him?" the tactician asked herself.

There was no tactic require to see how someone would not love the king of Ylisee. He was friendly, a man of good intentions and he thought of others before himself. Her small crush of his grew into more the day they met at that field. As they worked together, Robin realized the man's important status to his own people. At that time she was a nobody compared to the prince, at that time. Even after he got married and became king her unconditional love for him grew, but it ached. So she concealed it when she joked around with the man.

"I guess Chrom and I are never meant to be." she sighed as tears threatened to fall down.

She hid her love for the man with her jokes and teases, yet the feelings grew when she spent more time with Lucina and him. Robin knew the conflicts between their heritages but she couldn't help it but love Chrom. The man ignored all what Validar revealed to him, all he did was smile at her despite the revelation. Chrom believed in her and that's his sole and important reason. The woman had a smile from the mere memory.

"Then that other me is..." Robin muttered in realization.

It was creepy enough when they met for the first time but when Validar introduced the Hierophant, it was like staring into a mirror. Hierophant looked exactly like her but the woman's eyes were cold and distant. She felt more evil within her than her own father.

"No way it can't be!" she denied.

Validar told them how he wanted the perfect vessel for the dark dragon Grima. Her lookalike told her she knew her more than anyone else. She can only conclude where her other self came from.

"So in the future I get possessed?" she asked herself as tears slowly fall down. "Then that means, oh gods Chrom dies by my hands."

The mere thought of doing a dark deed scared her. She could no longer hide her fears with smiles and jokes.

"Robin." Lucina approached the shivering tactician.

"Lucina." she said so solemnly. "I know what I will do in the future."

Lucina was disturbed at how calm Robin seemed to be. She wasn't giving our her teasing comments and such.

"In the future you did your best on helping the Shepherds survive," the princess started. "Though at that time your already bear your child."

"I have a child with Chrom?" Robin wondered.

"Yes a lovely sibling." Lucina nodded with a soft smile. "However you kept to yourself and I believed the guilt and secret ate you away."

She remembered the other Robin who helped raised her. She was a kind and lovely woman but she had to keep secrets for their sake.

"Grima took advantage of that guilt and was able to possess you." Lucina continued on her revelation. "Though at the time aunt Lissa cried out you committed suicide by drowning."

Robin can only shiver at the mere thought of taking her own life.

"It was strange for Grima to destroy his own followers but it made more sense now." Lucina concluded. "You love my father with all your heart and the mere fact he died by your hands, you turned that despair against all of the Grimleals."

"T-Then what?" Robin wondered.

"Grima took over and began the destruction of my world." Lucina answered with a grim tone.

Robin knew now what has to be done. The answers is standing right in front of her.

"Kill me." Robin requested suddenly.

Her eyes widened at her own request, but she knew it had to be done. If she became successfully possessed then she will destroy this world she swore to live in. Her one single death will save millions, a sacrifice she would gladly do.

"W-What?" Lucina asked full of shock and horror.

"If I die right now then the Hierophant would cease to exist." Robin explained.

One of Lucina's original plans when she arrived at the past, was to kill the one she believed would be her father's murdered. However she get closer to the mothers of all her siblings and she simply abandoned it. It would be a last resort plan instead.

"I request this as a friend Lucina." Robin stated calmly.

It was frightening to see the tactician in a state of pure calmness. During battles her tone and mind was kept in check to prevent her from losing her cool but she still held worry as she ordered her friends. This Robin seemed different than the one Lucina would usually see.

"I-I can't!" she shook her head as tears began to fall down. "When I see you, I see the Robin within my timeline! We may not have the same blood but you are a mother as much as the other's in my eyes! Your other self raised and took care of me with all her love. Despite what she did she kept a strong smile to never let me worry!"

"I'm sorry but I can never be that Robin." the tactician apologized.

It was alright for her to be compared to other folk, but the mere thought of being compared to her future self seemed pressuring. She wondered how much the future Robin was different from the present Robin.

"Grima killed her the moment he possessed her body." Lucina said. "If I kill you here then what?! What if the Grimleal makes another host?!"

It always was another possibility but Lucina knew it would take years again to breed the perfect body for Grima. However, like her father, she now wanted a solution where it won't cost anyone's life. She desired an answer where everyone would be happy.

"We'll solve this another way." Lucina proclaimed with a smile.

"You sound just like your father." Robin tearfully smiled as she wiped away anymore tears.

"W-Well someone here loves to point out how much of a daddy's girl I tend to be." Lucina joked.

"At least you didn't inherit his bluntness on things." sighed Robin as she laughed along with the girl.

Now there moods have been lightened up, despite the previous scene. Everything seemed so normal but Robin's eyes show a little fear than before.

"Prey tell what did he say to you?" Lucina wondered.

"I'm not a lady." answered Robin.

"What?!" Lucina shrieked in shock.

"Oh uh Lucina I can explain!" Chrom revealed himself, he was hiding behind a nearby tree. "Oh gods what are you doing with your Falchion?!"

"Teaching you proper etiquette, Father!" Lucina shouted as she chased him. "I thought Mother drilled it into your brain!"

"I-I'm sorry!"

Robin stared at the father and daughter scene right in front of her. An uncontrollable laugh came out of her mouth. Then she realized one of the children was her's and Chrom's! A blush came out but it was overshadowed by her laughs, which were covered the by the shouts and yells of a daughter and father.

End AN: On c'mon after this chapter you guys should NOW easily figure out who Chrom's wife is. Fine I'll say it...it's-nevermind. I just hope you guys don't get mad at the pairing. -_-

Well I did say the story is more inclined to Chrom and his twelve children than his wives. So after the children's interaction are done, you guys got any ideas at all on events or festivities they would participate in! Comment or message me ideas. I already got ideas but I want to know what YOU guys want. (Then again it is my story...but they're giving me so much love from the comments and people following and favoriting it!)

Wow inner thoughts way to make me look like...Grima's backside. (H-Hey what with the G-rated and Fire Emblem curses?) Arrghh!