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Theme 1 of Hayffie week is Forced Proximity so here have a snow storm in 12 post war book!verse.

A Bubble In Time

Effie had had a lot of preconceived notions about what living in Twelve with Haymitch would be like.

She had expected it to be difficult on a good day and properly awful on bad ones. She had thirteen years of experience sharing a penthouse, after all. The couple of months they had shared a room and then her apartment after the war somehow didn’t seem to count. She had only been half there in her mind and Haymitch had been walking on eggshells, desperate to take care of her in any way he could to assuage his guilt about what had happened to her during the war.

Or at least that was what she had thought.

She had run to Twelve because she had been out of options. Out of air, really. The only alternative she had been able to see at the time was of the more permanent nature and the thought of actually hurting herself had been tempting enough that it had properly scared her. She had jumped on a train and she had never looked back.

She had expected it to be difficult or awful.

Pls enjoy this shitty comic of Wyman Manderly prepping his wedding pies as all my other wips are disasters rn 😅

Sansa Stark before:

Sansa: “Poor Jon. He gets jealous because he’s a bastard.”

Arya: “He’s our brother!”

<< Later on, she gets b****-slapped by reality. Her very gallant betrothed, Prince Joffrey ordered to cut her father's head, abused her, and he later broke off their  betrothment and married her to Tyrion Lannister. Her mother and older brother were slaughtered at the “Red Wedding”. Her younger sister, Arya is trained as a Faceless Man at the House of Black and White in Braavos. Bran goes beyond the Wall searching for the three-eyed crow, Rickon goes to the Island of Skagos, and Winterfell is taken by the Boltons. >>

<< Let’s not forget that her friends, Jeyne Poole, was forced to work at Petyr’s whorehouse and later married her to Ramsay Snow/Ramsay Bolton, disguised as “Arya Stark”. And Beth Cassel remains a captive at the Dreadfort. >>

“There are no heroes ... In life, the monsters win.” 

“The Hound is right ... I am only a little bird, repeating the words they taught me.” 

Sansa Stark now:

“No one will ever marry me for love. But lying came easy to her now.”

“Jon Snow was the only brother that remained to her. I am a bastard too now, just like him. Oh, it would be so sweet to see him once again.”

P.S. btw, Arya is the best Starkling for me. Despite knowing that Jon being a bastard son, she has a very close relationship with him. She is not a judgmental person like Catelyn, Sansa, and even perhaps Robb. Arya considered herself an outsider in the family because of how she behaves and her Stark looks. And at one point, she feared that she’s also a bastard, like Jon, and out of her parents and trueborn siblings, it was Jon who comforted her.

And Sansa, now disguised as Alayne Stone is betrothed to Harrold Hardyng/Harrold Arryn and at some point insults her status as a bastard (just like she did with Jon. And it took her a very long time to empathize with her bastard brother.) unless Petyr reveals her true identity as Sansa Stark in the next book which may or may not be finished.

But right now, Voldemort was gone, Harry was alive, and that was enough.

I can’t post it directly bc it’s not mine, so can only link but GO HERE FOR SOME GORGEOUS DANATOLE FANART (based on book canon).