The Prompt:how about one when Robb realizes he's falling for Sansa but she only has brotherly feelings towards him?


It had started small. It had progressed slowly.

Sort of.

One day Sansa was his sister, sometimes his partner-in-crime, and then one day he found himself noticing Sansa as something else. He noticed her as he would any girl he might find pretty. He'd always known his sister was exceptionally pretty, but when he began to really notice her…

He knew he was in trouble when he got hard after seeing her in a bikini while sunbathing on the porch. He'd had to rush to the bathroom to jack off, her name on the tip of his tongue as he came.

He started to dream about her. Started to fantasize about her. He looked for her in the halls at school and went out of his way to check on her. She was a freshman, he was a junior, and he was just doing his job as her big brother. That's what he told himself.

He started dating quite a bit. And, being that he was a hormonal teenage boy, he had sex when it was offered up. He wanted to feel about someone else the way he was feeling about Sansa. So far, he wasn't having much success.

He was home early one afternoon from a doctor's appointment and heard the bus stop outside the house. His heart started to race, and his palms started to sweat.

Sansa was home.

His reaction to her was certainly that of a boy with a crush, wasn't it? He'd had crushes on girls before, he knew what they felt like and this felt like the same damn thing.

He was in the kitchen getting something to drink and hunting for a snack when the door opened. Sansa came bustling in, dropped her backpack at the door, and kept her head down as she went right for the stairs. She was trying to hide her face, he'd seen her do that enough times to know that's what she was doing.

"Sansa? What's going on?" he called out to her.

She kept going and Robb went after her. He caught her just before she got to the stairs. He grabbed her arm. "Sansa, stop."

"I just want to be alone, Robb," she said.

She was crying. Or had been and was trying to keep herself contained.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Loras was picking on me on the bus," she said, and he could hear the tears coming.

He turned her gently to face him and he tilted her chin up. Her big blue eyes were full of tears and Robb felt simultaneously the urge to comfort her and to pummel Loras into the middle of next week. "What did he say?" he asked evenly.

"He took my backpack away from me and snatched one of my notebooks. There was a page in there where I'd written 'I heart Harry' and of course he knew exactly who that was and started passing my notebook around to show everyone. They were all laughing at me, Robb."

She was full out sobbing now and Robb pulled her into his arms. She sobbed into his shoulder. "And then some of the kids ripped pages out of my notebook just for fun and I lost my notes for my English text next week!"

Robb hated to see Sansa cry. He especially hated that some stupid punk being an immature douche bag had made her cry. Loras was going to going to find out exactly what happened when you messed with Sansa.

He also didn't like this new development with Sansa now having a crush on Harry. It didn't seem like that long ago she'd told him that she didn't have a crush on him at all. And now she did? Okay, well, that was something to think about later. Right now, he needed to comfort his sister.

"Loras is a dick and I will take care of him," Robb told her.

She shook her head and pulled away from him. "You can't, Robb. You can't go around punching everyone that does shit to me."

Wanna bet? he thought. "Fine."

"Promise."

"I promise," he said.

"Thank you," she said and wiped at her tears.

"Hey, why don't we go do something?" he asked. "Just the two of us."

She sniffed and looked at him in question. "What do you want to do?"

"How about we get some dinner? And then we could go play mini-golf."

"You hate mini-golf."

He smiled. "I don't hate it; it's just not my favorite activity. But you like it and we can do whatever you want."

She broke into a smile. "Really?"

He nodded. "Yes."

"Let me just wash my face," she said and turned to run up the stairs. "I love you!"

He smiled as he watched her run up the stairs. He liked making Sansa happy.

xxxxxxx

"So, Harry, huh?" Robb began later while they were driving over to the mini-golf place.

Sansa groaned. "Robb, I don't want to think about that right now."

"Yeah, but you didn't tell me you liked him."

"It's new."

He wondered how new it was if she was writing "I heart Harry" in her notebooks. He was going to have to keep an eye on this development.

"Can we get ice cream too, Robb?" she asked as she looked over at him.

He wanted to put his hand over hers where it rested on her thigh. But brothers didn't do that.

"Sure," he said and gripped the steering wheel a little tighter.

Robb felt more like himself when he was with Sansa. She was the one that knew him better than anyone, even his friends. He knew this wasn't always the case for siblings since while he loved the rest of his family, he wasn't as close to them as he was to Sansa.

He wasn't sure if it was the fact that they were only a couple years apart or if it was something else at work. Something else that maybe explained these feelings he had for her.

Tonight, as they made their way through dinner and then a round of mini-golf, Robb felt ten feet tall whenever Sansa laughed or smiled at him. He wanted her happy all the time, and he wanted to be the one making her happy.

When they arrived home Sansa thanked him exuberantly and gave him a kiss on the cheek and a hug before running upstairs to her bedroom.

Robb popped his head in the living room to say hello to the rest of the family and then headed up the stairs. He sat down on his bed and thought about the night with Sansa. How much he'd had, how he loved making her laugh, how he liked who he was when he was with her, how goddamn beautiful she was...

He swallowed hard. He was in love with his sister. Completely and utterly in love with her.

"Hey, Robb, can you give me a ride home tomorrow after school?" Sansa asked as she appeared in his doorway.

He looked up at her. At his sweet, beautiful Sansa. "I have football practice after school," he said, staring at her.

She smiled. "I'll wait!"

She bounded off again and Robb just stared at the spot she'd vacated for a long time wondering how he'd managed to do the unthinkable.

xxxxxxx

The next afternoon Robb managed to corner Loras in the boy's locker room and shoved his head in the toilet.

Loras gave Sansa a wide berth after that, and if Sansa figured out that Robb had done something to Loras, she never said.