Comment fic meme #2

[gotexchange_mod]

After the first round of got_exchange we had a surprisingly successful comment fic meme going for a while (here's a list of all the fics that were written last time), so I thought it might be fun to do this again. (Like last time, it's posted on the mod account journal because I don't want to enable anonymous comments on the exchange community.)

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Sansa, Rickon, post-series, family

[juno_chan]

Because Rickon probably won't remember much at all about his family, except for possibly Bran. Sansa tries to help fill in the blanks.

FILL: The last two Starks, Part one

[sternflammenden]

She’s not sure what to do with her baby brother when they return him to her. An heir for the Queen in the North old Manderly had blustered, trying to cover the awkward silence when the boy shied away from the stranger in the blue gown, held back, clinging to Osha’s legs. When she finally detached him with a rueful grin and a gentle jest, his face was hard, his expression dark, and he’d cried out some unintelligible phrase, running off through the newly-repaired glass houses, Shaggydog hot on his heels, snapping his muzzle at anyone who dared to stand in their path

FILL: The last two Starks, Part two

[sternflammenden]

Bran, of course, has not returned. She knows better than to ask her little brother what end he met.

She changes the subject. “Do you remember Father?” She gestures toward Ned’s statue. “And Mother? How Father would tell us about the Starks of old, and he’d even bring us down here…and how Mother would braid daisy crowns with us and sing to us?”

He shook his head. “They’re just made of stone.”

“Maybe one day you’ll remember.” Sansa does not weep, for she has done far too much of that. She sits in the dark with her little brother, the last two Starks. All they have is each other, and that is really all that they need.

Re: FILL: The last two Starks, Part two

[juno_chan]

I JUST DID SOME SERIOUS UGLY CRYING. JUST SO YOU KNOW.

Omg this was so beautiful and saaaaad and exactly what I wanted it to be. I loved Sansa's relief that Osha was staying because she's really the only family Rickon knows, she's just the 'stranger in the blue dress.' I especially loved this line: At first she told herself that it was for the connection that the woman forged between the gentle past that she barely remembered, the events transpiring between her girlhood and flight into darkness (and out again). It flows so beautifully and sums up Sansa's journey so well

Re: FILL: The last two Starks, Part two

[sternflammenden]

YOU KNOW WHAT? As soon as I started writing the passage about the statues I started to cry, typing madly, full stop. I just couldn't help it.

I thought of the crypts immediately, because I was trying to think of something that would connect Sansa and Rickon, since they're so different in so many ways, and it just ended up being super-sad and depressing, but there has to hope, right? I imagine that after this, Arya somehow comes home and maybe Bran too.

I'm so glad that you liked this and that it worked. I'm always so nervous writing young children! Sorry that I made you cry. :)

Re: FILL: The last two Starks, Part two

[juno_chan]

IT WAS JUST SO SAAAAAD, SANSA WOVE FLOWERS AND RICKON'S LYING THERE AND HE DOESN'T KNOW THEM BUT HE'S STILL LYING IN FRONT OF THEM ALL MY CREYS. ;______________;

No apologies needed! :D

Re: FILL: The last two Starks, Part two

[lainemontgomery]

Ohhhhh thissssss. SO gorgeous.

She is wracked with guilt, but even more so, she is wracked with exhaustion. There is much to do, and most of it on her shoulders.

Oh, Sansa! My poor bb. She has so much piling up on her, and now she has to add this feral child who barely remembers her. Perfect and soul-crushing.

He shook his head. “They’re just made of stone.”

And POOR BABY RICKON! OMG. I always forget how young he is when everything goes to hell- especially in the books. If he does make his way back to Winterfell at the end of the series, he really will have no memory of Cat and Ned. Sansa will have to help him build that, along with everything else.

Loved the little Sweetrobin reference too, by the way. ;)

Stunning, as per usual.

Re: FILL: The last two Starks, Part two

[sternflammenden]

Thank you! :)

I know, Rickon in the condition that he likely will be in once he returns from Skagos could potentially be the crushing blow for all that Sansa had to deal with, but I think it could have a happy ending.

& I know, he was three. That's unbelievably young, and at least the poor kid won't remember the horrors so well.

Re: FILL: The last two Starks, Part one

[lydzi]

*grasps the heart*

Oh.