Chapter 3 -

"Chrom, Emmeryn will be fine. Phila and her knights are quite capable on their pegasi." Robin said, attempting to bring the Prince some comfort as they sat in the battle tent. Both were still waiting their turn for the bathing tent.

"I know, I know." the Falchion wearing lord said, for once cursing his blades ability to resist becoming dirty. As a child he found that cleaning a sword calmed him down somewhat, but the Falchion's shine made it futile to even try. "It's just... there are so many things that can go wrong, Robin." he explained.

"I know Chrom, there are. But think, the Mad King knows of the Eastern Castle. If she were to go there, it might be more dangerous then just travelling." Robin said calmly, attempting to lessen the stress. "Now, I'm going to go get cleaned up, considering how much sweat I have and how bad I smell." Chrom let out a small laugh and waved her away, deciding shortly after to attend his own bath.

Robin ran her hand through her hair, feeling the grime, before entering the bathing tent. She walked in and took off the restricting items holding her hair into tails. Before she got any farther, she froze in place and noticed Gaius there, in his smallclothes.

"Hey, Bubbles." Gaius said, seemingly calm. Taking inspiration from the nearby bath, the bubbles floating up to the top of the water. He was always quick on the nicknames, but she took a while to figure out one.

"H-Hey, Gaius..." the white-haired tactician said, her hair long and free. Her eyes caught sight of something on his arm, a black tattoo. She recognized it instantly, but now was not the time. "So, uh... I didn't know you were in here."

"Well, I am. Was, really. Just finishing up." he said, sticking a lollipop in his mouth, having acquired more from Lissa. He finished pulling on the rest of his clothes, taking his time, and walked out, an awkward parting word exchanged as Robin shook herself out of her trance and finally got herself clean.

As Gaius walked out of the bathing tent, he let out the breath he didn't know he was holding. He began to wonder if she saw his tattoo or his... other thing, but she hoped he didn't. Most people didn't keep secrets very well unless supplied with sufficient mouth-zipping gold. He felt his heart skip a couple beats when he first saw her with her hair down, but that was probably due to the fact she scared the living daylights out of him. Or was it? He felt a small other feeling. Probably some form of arousal. He always had a thing for girls with straight, free hair. "I oughta head to the mess tent. Maybe they've got a dessert tonight." 12 days in this army, and he was without ice cream of any sort! "You'd think being rich and royal would allow some sweetness, but apparently not." he muttered to himself.

"What was that about royalty and sweetness?" asked a voice from behind him, and Gaius recognized it as the one that helped supply him with sugar.

"Oh, hey Lissa. Just wonderin' why they've got no dessert. It'd bring up a mans spirit in war time." he said, smoothing his hair out. Thankfully, the bath had washed almost all of the sticky sugar off of him.

"I guess it would! We should ask Chrom about that sometime. Anyways, have you seen Robin anywhere? I want to apologize for... revealing her. Especially in front of you." Lissa said, face turning a light shade of pink.

"Oh yeah. Forgot to thank you for that." Gaius said, plucking a lollipop from his pocket and giving it to her. "Here you go. One of my sweeter ones." he said, twirling his own in his mouth. "And she's in the bathing tents. I guess we're about even, Bubbles and I. She saw me down to my smallclothes just now, too."

"Really?" replied the healer. "I guess I don't feel too bad about it now." she said, before thanking Gaius and moving over to the bath tents.

"Yeah, that oughta be a fun conversation for Princess." Gaius said, chuckling, heading to the mess tent.

L'End

(Francais *French laugh*)

Anyways, yeah, I hope you enjoyed chapter 3. I honestly need reviews and comments and stuff from you guys, because I can't tell what's going wrong or right depending on how people generally think of it. I don't know whether something is completely wrong or not, so help a guy out, eh?

Again, hope you enjoyed, and I'll write another chapter sometime.