The Guardian of the North (Robb Stark) Completed

Escape

"I'm already gone." Elena whispered, looking at Sansa. Her head began to hurt extremely, her hands flying up to hold it and try to ease the pain.

"Elena?" Sansa panicked, grasping for Elena's shoulders to make her look up at her again. Elena's eyes were fully black, even the white was dark.

Sansa shrieked and fell backwards, crawling away from Elena's protesting and screaming body. Sansa's heart thumped wildly and her eyes were widened. She didn't know what the hell was happening, she didn't even know for sure if it was even happening. She started to doubt her own sanity after seeing the black in Elena's eyes.

"Elena?!" Someone landed right in front of Sansa, ignoring her completely as he bowed down next to Elena's squirming body. It looked like she was fighting against something that wasn't actually there.

"Who are you?!" Sansa yelled, grasping the first object in her reach to defend herself. She stood up on her feet and held the rock in the air.

"A friend." Aidan said curtly after glancing at Sansa and turned towards Elena again. He laid his hand against her cheek whilst the other pushed her shoulder down to the ground.

"Elena, listen to me." Aidan said clearly. "You can't let it in. You can't give up now. I know everything seems lost, I know that this seems like a simple way out of everything. But you've got to fight it."

Sansa calmed down slowly, lowering her hand with the rock and stepping towards Aidan.

"Elena, listen to me. Concentrate on my voice." Aidan continued and looked up at Sansa when she sat down on the other side of Elena's squirming body. "Don't let anything inside except for my voice. Listen to me carefully. It will try to enter your mind and when it does, you won't be able to put it out. It will control you forever just like it controls your brother. You can't let that happen, not now. Robb is here and he believes in you, you can't let him down."

Aidan looked up at Sansa hopelessly when Elena continued to whimper and protest, her eyes still pitch black. Aidan mouthed help me at Sansa.

"Elena?" Sansa started, her voice shaking in doubt. "I don't know what's happening to you and I don't know what to do."

Sansa swallowed the lump that was growing in her throat when she looked at Elena. "You were always there for me when I was angry or afraid. I want to do the same for you, if you let me."

Aidan nodded at Sansa, ensuring her that she was doing well. They both noticed that Elena's protests had become somewhat weaker and her breath steadier.

"Remember that one time when Arya and I were in a fight again, that time that I was so angry that I ran into the woods on my own?" Sansa said, softly stroking Elena's bloody hair out of her face. "You followed me in there, you sat down beside me when you found me. We had never really talked to each other, we didn't' know one another very well. Nevertheless you took me into your arms and stroked my hair whispering that you'll always be there for me."

"When I didn't want to return, you took me to the stream you always talked about. We swam together the rest of the day after you had finally convinced me to just jump into the water. You helped me forget all of the troubles at home, remember? And when we came home all soaked and wet, my father only looked at us. Do you still remember what he did?" Sansa smiled, Elena's body was calmer than before. Now she was only moving slightly as a small whimper sometimes fell off her lips. "He laughed it off and so did we. Ever since then we'd go to that stream every week. You and me together, with no one else. We called it our girl's day."

"Sansa." Elena whispered as she closed her eyes, her body finally stopping the protests. She breathed in deeply and opened her eyes, the green back in them.