#that last moment when anyone ever smiled. look at these two. they are two people whose marriage was born out of utter tragedy and necessity. they never knew each other never wanted each other and everyone they loved basically died in order to cause their marriage. but here they are so many years later and they are so fucking in love. they have beautiful awkward children and a beautiful home and a beautiful rule over a place called winterfell where everyone things that ned is an A+ ruler and that cat is the hbic of everybody’s shit. they are happy and the work together and they’ve built a life that they would be happy to lead until they die. they want to grow old together. they want to hold each other. they want to have another child even. and here in this moment is the last time that any of that might be possible. the last time that things could go right. the last time that ned could step back and say that he wants to stick with what he has because what he has is perfect. sorry robert. sorry robert. that’s all he has to say and they could have grown old together and died in each others arms and been buried side by side in the same crypt. they could have been visited by their children and seen bran into a knight and sansa in to a lady and arya into an amazing swords woman. they could have watched rickon gain a personality. they could have watched robb grow in to his future title of lord of winterfell. they could have kept calm and carried on and been able to smile for a long long time.