Calamity Sophie

Cast: (Hana x Silas, Toddler Sophie)
Prompt: Hana and Silas living together, with their clumsy child

Slightly modified Birthright AU (the difference is that Silas stays in Hoshido instead of being a Nohrian knight)

CRASH!

Silas barely reacted as he got up from bed and went to find a broom. However, he was a little surprised to see his little girl had already found her way to the broom closet.

"Sophie?"

The toddler stopped and crouched down, pretending to hide. Silas chuckled. She still thought that if she closed her eyes, Silas could not see her.

"Sophie, did you accidentally knock over a vase again?" Silas asked patiently. The brown-haired girl meekly nodded. "And were you going to try to clean it up so we or Uncle Jakob wouldn't have to?" She nodded again. Silas then took the broom and tousled her hair. "Thank you for being honest, Sophie. But I don't want you touching the broken vase. I'll take care of it. Just be careful, okay?"

"…'Kay."

Sophie ran away, to Silas' chagrin. "No running, you could trip again!" He shook his head and yawned, looking out a nearby window. "Sunup already? She must get it from Hana… I might as well be awake too."

Today would be a productive day, Hana could feel it. As per usual, she woke up early and began practicing her swordplay. It would be one hour until Sakura needed to wake up, so she had some time.

Training was going smoothly. That practice dummy would think twice about hurting Lady Sakura. Perfecting the Astra technique, Hana unleashed a montage of sword attacks, with kiai accompaniment.

"Hah! Hyah! Hah! Hiyah! Haaaah!"

"Ha."

The new voice snapped Hana out of her zone. She turned around and saw Sophie haphazardly swinging a large stick (or perhaps a small branch) at another training dummy. The samurai chuckled, watching the toddler trying to imitate her mother.

"Ha."

Then Sophie prepared for a big swing, but the stick (no, definitely a branch) was too heavy. Its weight was too much and Sophie fell onto the ground. "Oof!"

"Pffffft! Hahahaha!"

Sophie looked over to her mother and blushed, making a moaning sound. Hana sheathed her sword and went over to pick Sophie up. "You're so funny, Sophie. You crack me up!"

Sophie moaned again, which just amused her mother more. Hana's daughter would always bounce back, so Hana felt no shame in laughing. She set Sophie down, but held onto her hand. "You're too young to use a sword, Sophie. You could hurt yourself."

"But mama." Complete sentences were still a somewhat new thing for her. Hana stifled another chuckle at her daughter's orphaned statement.

"I have an idea. Want to help Mom make breakfast for Lady Sakura?" Sophie merely blinked. "Oh, and we'll make you something too, don't worry!" The little girl slowly nodded, making her mother smile. "Okay, let's go!"

Today, Corrin and Sakura did not have much to do, thus they decided to have a picnic. And wherever Corrin and Sakura went, their retainers were not far behind. The siblings also decided to bring the castle's children along: Shiro, Kiragi, Selkie, Sophie and the babies, Kana and Midori.

Silas and Hana watched Sophie as she played with the three older kids. She kept falling over a lot. At one point when she tripped, she actually grabbed Kiragi's collar and pulled him down with her. Luckily, they were okay and Kiragi laughed it off.

But all the same, Silas winced at the sight of this spectacle. "Hana, have you ever noticed that Sophie is… a little clumsy?"

"Pfft! Are you saying you haven't?" The pink samurai proudly pat the hilt of her katana. "Nothing a little training can't fix! She might be a little young to train for combat, but if we get her some kinda exercise routine, I'm sure it'll work out."

Silas let out a small laugh. "Training is your answer to everything."

"Don't insult me, I can talk about other things, you know!" Hana lightly punched Silas on the shoulder, or at least that was her intent, seeing as he actually winced from the pain. "Besides, I'm sure she'd be a good fighter someday. 'Clumsy at the heels, deadly in the field' as they say!"

"What?" Silas looked over. "No one's ever said that."

"W-well maybe I'm going to make it a thing that people will say!"

Silas smiled, but then began to contemplate Hana's phrase. "Well there is a precedent for it. Felicia is pretty tough, after all. And she can't go more than three days without spilling something." He frowned. "But the war is over, I'd rather not think of Sophie as a soldier."

"Yeah… But if she was a soldier, I bet she'd be a great samurai, just like her mom!" Hana pointed at herself proudly. "Did I ever tell you how she tried to imitate me the other day?"

"Hah. That's nothing," countered Silas, "the other day she was asking me for a horse. Soldier or not, I bet she'd be a great horse rider like me. Then we'll both ride circles around you."

The samurai glared. "I'm not that bad at horseback riding!"

"Haha! You beat Subaki that one time, but you're even worse than that one incident of his you keep laughing about!"

Despite her indignation, Hana found it in her to laugh. "Haha! Maybe that's where Sophie gets it."

The knight playfully shrugged. "I guess that means you've won this one. Sophie takes after you more than she does me."

"Oh sure! Suddenly when it comes to being clumsy, she's my daughter! Is that right?"

Silas laughed, and then Hana began to laugh again.

"Mama, Papa! Stuck!" Sophie called out. The parents snapped out of their competition and found Sophie hanging by her shirt from a tree branch. She seemed mostly calm about it though, contrast her parents.

Hana and Silas ran over as fast as they could. "Whaaat? Since when could she climb trees?"

Silas carefully, yet easily, rescued Sophie from the tree branch and held her in his arms. "Sophie, how'd you get up there?"

"We were climbing. But I was stuck. They left."

Hana narrowed her eyes. "The other kids abandoned you? I'm going to have to have a talk with them…"

"I'm sorry…" Sophie pouted, surprising her parents. "I mess up a lot. Am I bad?"

Silas gasped. "No, Sophie! You're not bad at all!" He hugged his daughter tightly. "You're just a little clumsy, that's normal."

"Yeah, don't worry," added Hana, "we'll always be proud of you!" She then formed a mischievous grin. "In fact… I know someone who had some pretty bad accidents before."

"Who was it, Mama?"

"It was your Uncle Subaki."

Sophie gasped. "But he's perfect!"

The samurai chuckled and held out her arms, thus Silas passed the child to her. "C'mere, Mom's going to tell you a little story…"

A/N:

It occurs to me that a lot of the married endings (especially for Revelation) don't make sense. Or really most of the cross-country endings. Silas serves as a beloved knight of Nohr while Hana still serves Sakura? Unless this is Revelation and Sakura marries Leo or Xander, that's going to be a little tricky. So I just had Silas stay in Hoshido.

Shiro, Kiragi and Midori's mothers are intentionally ambiguous. The same goes for Corrin and Kana's genders. Sakura is Selkie's mother. Hinoka ain't got time fo' dat.

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