Prompt #9- Still in love: You can easily fall in love with a person, but the most difficult thing is to stop loving.

AN: Hello lovey readers, this prompt is more on the drabble side, and also rather sad as well. Even made myself sad when writing this, people who have read all of my prompts so far know I am more on the fluffy side so this might not be the best and I apologize for that. This one is a drabble as well, at least if you ask me. In all honesty I have no idea what a drabble exactly is, personally I think it is is just a short one shot. Not quite sure. This one inspired by a post on the vk page I follow that is dedicated to Gerda and Rollan, it is awesome! Without further ado, on with the show.

There is a saying, "You don't know what you have until you lose it." Gerda is quite familiar with it, losing her family at such a young age really had a great impact on her even though she was just a toddler and hadn't realized it at the time. When finding and losing her brother she was able to experience just how horrible it was as it happened, doing whatever she could to get him back.

The point of the saying being itself being until it's too late do you realize what you had, and by then it is nearly impossible to get it back. That became truly apparent to Gerda when it came to Rollan and him betraying her.

Meeting him she instantly found herself attracted to him, and getting to know him only furthered that attraction. When he offered her a way to get her parents back, she jumped at the chance as she could finally get her family back together and she had no reason not to trust Rollan, he has been so kind to her so far and perhaps her crush might have blinded her slightly.

Through out there adventure together he continued to be kind and help her, charming her whether it was by accident or on purpose. He kept reassuring her everything would be fine, that they would both get out of this and be alright, and get their family's back in the end. He continuously helped her and when she felt herself nearly all gone, he told her he was with her, and perhaps that is the moment the she truly fell for him, at least she became aware she is in love with him now.

That's where everything went wrong.

He didn't keep his hand on the stone, he had kept his powers revealing he wanted to be a legend, whether it be the hero or villain in it. She didn't want to believe it, she chalked it up to the fire king controlling him, that had to be it. She tried to convince him to stop, pleaded and begged, in return he burned her hands than left her to burn in the lake of lava.

Her brother and friends got her out, and they went to stop him. At first it seemed he was unstoppable, but then they had a breakthrough. But as they were so close they ran out of luck, he gaining the upper hand once more. She was able to stop him once and for all, getting him into the lake with the ice train car he admired so much, leaving him to drown in the sacred troll lake.

It took long after how easily she fell for him, despite how it ended she believed he truly wanted to help her and was kind and genuine in his actions, just let his own dark desires take over. She easily fell for him, but trying to forget and stop loving him, the hardest thing she has ever had to do, impossible. No matter how much she knows that he was a bad guy and nearly killed her, she couldn't stop herself from loving him.

After all the chaos she went to get her coat that she had left in the gondola they rode, when returning back through the temple, she noticed in the corner his back that he had discarded. Despite rational reasoning, she brought it with her. She never went through it, just kept it. It was probably wrong and stupid, but it is all she has left of her beloved.

For he was gone, and she knew she would never stop loving him, no matter how hard she tried.

AN: This takes place between the third and fourth movie, Gerda basically grieving Rollan because if you ask me, he should have at least been mentioned once before his appearance in the fourth and after he "died" in the third, it's like if he is not around he doesn't exist which is disrespectful if you ask me. Sorry this is out so late in terms of the day, literally an hour to spare. For those who have been reading my author's notes I am having migraines and have to track them, today I wasn't feeling well so decided to take a nap after school. Sadly I had to wait an hour because I had to do chores which aren't too bad, but I never get paid and I usually end up smelling funny after them. So I took a nap around 4:30 and didn't wake up until 9:10, had dinner, relaxed a little, stressing over life, and we are here. The next prompt, I honestly have no idea, expect something short honestly while I get my bearings back. Enjoy and have a snowy day, continue reading!