The Guardian of the North (Robb Stark) Completed

See you again

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end." - Ed Sheeran

The tent was empty and abandoned. Gillian's belongings were scattered around on the inside, he had never been organized. Elena sighed deeply when she walked in.

All that stuff, the books, the clothes and weapons were no one's now. Gillian had no family left. Elena picked up an old book from the ground. She recognized it as one of the books Gillian used to read to the children in the orphanage.

A small smile found its way onto Elena's lips when she remembered it. All the children would always sit in a circle around Gillian as he read the book.

Elena put the old book into her bag where she would keep the most precious things Gillian had left behind. When she looked around the tent for more, she found a letter on the table. She stood frozen as she looked at it. It was almost too neat to be one of Gillian's yet it was placed right in the line of sight, letting her know that Gillian had intended for it to be visible. Her heart sank when she read the first letters.

Dear Elena. It said. It was unopened, nobody had read it. With nerves in her stomach Elena carefully opened the letter and found out it had been written recently. He must've written it right before the battle, right before he... Elena shook her head to try and get rid of the memory.

She sighed and closed the letter again. What if its contents would only break her even more? But what if there was valuable information in it that she had to know? Gathering all the courage she had left Elena opened the letter and began to read.

Dear Elena,

If you're reading this something must've gone terribly wrong. Or you just sneaked into my tent because you couldn't spend another second without me, which is more likely because I'm awesome...

Elena chuckled lightly.

Anyway, if something did go wrong, please don't ever start to blame yourself. I know you will always do your best to protect the people you love. You can't do more than that, nobody can.

As far as I know you're the best guardian this world has ever seen. The ones I've heard off were all boring but somehow... useful. You, you're amazing and the best protector I know. Catelyn, Eddard and all the others died but you saved Brann. You saved him when you did not know you would make it.

You know what Eddard said to me after your funeral? He said that out of everyone he met, you were the most kind, smart, brave and loyal person he had ever met. He also told me that after he had taken you in, within months he started to care for you like you were his daughter. He missed you, Elena.

Brann also did, if you didn't include Robb or me, he was the person who missed you the most. He felt guilty. But you know what? Before we left for war he said that you were the one who changed everything, you were the one who was the only person he had ever met that didn't only care about herself.

So I will tell you this one important thing: if you hadn't healed Brann, things could've gotten worse. Yes Eddard and Catelyn are dead and yes Rickon and Brann maybe too, but they believed in you. I'm sure that if you asked them, even when they knew what was going to happen, they would've only been proud of you.

Before I met you everything was always the same, my father trying to teach me how to be a lord, sneaking out of the castle, stealing things from grumpy old men. It was always the same, boring and meaningless. Then you came.

You've brightened every moment in my life since the day I met you, and I'm sure other people feel the same way. When you smile you always make others smile too, when you laugh, well, you've got the craziest laugh off all of Westeros so everyone around you will laugh too. You're amazing Elena, you might not feel like it now, but you are.