Robin stared up at the ceiling, a smile on his face. He was back! Two years had passed since he’d sacrificed his life to kill Grima, and he was back. Two years… he still couldn’t wrap his mind around it. It had both felt like only a few seconds had passed and like an eternity between when he’d vanished and awoken again in the same field Chrom had found him years before.
Exactly five years to the day, nonetheless.
Smiling deeper, Robin turned his head, gazing at the woman nuzzled at his side. Lucina. His return had brought many tear-filled reunions, none as important as when he’d embraced his wife once more. They hadn’t had time to truly take it all in then, celebrations with all his other friends having taken up most of the day. It was only after that the two of them had been able be alone in their room, spending much of the night in celebrations of a more passionate kind.
As they lay there Lucina idely traced a finger across his bare chest, her eyes fixed on him. He could tell she was fighting against sleep now. Occasionally he would see her eyelids flutter and head droop as she began to slip into unconsciousness, only to jerk awake once more.
“Lucina, you should get some rest. It’s late,” he told her, reaching out place a hand against the side of her face.
Lucina placed her slimmer hand over his, holding it in place. “I don’t want to. I’m so happy. I’m afraid this is all a dream, and that when I wake up you’ll be gone again. I don’t think I could bear it.” Her voice wavered.
Robin pulled his hand away, suddenly feeling hesitant to touch her, the full weight of the pain he’d caused her crashing down on him like a tidal wave. “I’m sorry, I’d known my decision wouldn’t be easy for you, but I never imagines...” he trailed off, words failing him.
A moment passed in silence before Lucina spoke, her voice hollow. “After you were gone… I tried to tell myself I should be happy, that what had happened was for the best. I’d done what I’d set out to do, accomplished my task beyond my expectations. Grima wasn’t just sealed away, he was gone forever: never again would my future come to pass, never again would he hurt anyone else...” Lucina blinked, fighting back the tears glistening in her steel blue eyes. “In my future so many died for the greater good, I had to learn long ago that sacrifices were necessary. How dare I be selfish then, putting my own happiness over what was best for the world. But I-”
Her voice faltered as she choked back a sob. “But I couldn’t do it, I found myself wishing desperately that things had occurred differently. That I’d been selfish, begged you not to give your own life and damn my duty.” Tears fell down her face now, glistening trails of silver in the pale moon and starlight that streamed in through their room’s window. “I never even told you how dear you were to me. Never told you how- how you were my biggest motivation to save this world, to have a chance to be happy with you. To be start a family… to grow old together…”
“Hey,” he said, putting his hands gently on her shoulders. “I’m here now, and I have no intention of ever leaving you again. When I said I was going to support you for the rest of my life, no matter what happens, I meant every word.” He smiled softly at her, adding, “you mean too much for me leave you alone.”
Lucina buried her face against his chest, wrapping her arms around him. “I was so lonely,” she whispered, nuzzling in closer as she spoke.
“You saved me, you know,” he whispered, holding her tighter.
Lucina lifted her head, surprise at his words clear in her eyes. “What do you mean?”
“When I… when I was gone, I was nothing. I didn’t even exist anymore,” Robin explained, choosing his words carefully. “As I drifted in the void, I felt my bonds with everyone tugging on me, they were the only thing left that tied me to the world. But they weren’t enough, I was slipping away, falling deeper and deeper into nothingness.”
He leaned down, resting his forehead against her’s, speaking softly now. “Then I remembered your voice, heard you crying out for me stay with you, for me not to go. I remembered your face, remembered all the moments we shared. You pulled me back from the brink, Lucina, you gave me meaning. I remembered not only how much you needed me, but how much I needed you.”
Robin was silent for several long moments, considering his next words carefully. Words had always come easily to him, knowing exactly what he needed to say. But this, this was important, what he said now had to be perfect. They had to convey his every feeling. “I would fight through hell and back, suffer through any torment if it meant returning to your side.” He felt tears of his own pool in his eyes, a mist seeming to fall over the world. “You are my light, Lucina. Whenever I lost faith or faltered, you were there to pick me up, to give me reason to keep fighting. Without you… I would have failed long ago. Whenever I feel weak or helpless, I think of you, how after all you suffered you still remain strong and kind, how you are the glimmer of hope against a world of hopelessness.”
Lucina shifted, loosening her head from under his chin and meet his gaze with her own. “I missed you so much, Robin. I never said it enough before but… I love you beyond all else.” She leaned up, pressing her lips against his in a long, gentle kiss.
“I know,” Robin answered as they at last broke away. He wrapped his arms around her just as she clung to him, pulling her into a warmer embrace. “Come on, lets go to sleep. I promise I’ll be there in the morning. I’m here now, and I’ll never leave you again…” he whispered. Nuzzled together the two soon drifted into a deep slumber, contented smiles on both of their faces.
Together they were complete.