Missing Scene from Phase 4 – Haven: Sansa's Problem

In which Sansa has a problem when she first goes off to college, and has to solve it without anyone finding out.

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Margarey tripped over the box of tampons her roommate had tossed to the side. "Remember in the beginning of the year, that big box of these that popped up in the bathroom? I didn't know you used these, I thought you used-"

"They're from my mom," Sansa said, shoving the offending box under the futon and averting her eyes.

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Sansa's family had just left, and, though she knew she would miss them, she was glad to finally be alone.

Well, except for her roommate, who was also unpacking, occasionally asking her opinion on where to place a lamp, or a poster.

"I think we can stack these and make kind of, you know, some shelves or something," Sansa commented, gesturing to a pile of computer paper boxes she had gotten from the school.

"That's a great idea! I have some spare fabric, I think, so we can decorate it..." Mags mused, digging through a bag near her bed.

Sansa smiled and tossed another box on the pile. She wasn't certain how much she could handle unpacking tonight, and figuring she should get to know the person she would be living with, she was contemplating asking Mags if she wanted to quit unpacking and watch a movie or something. However, it looked like she was very involved in getting everything organized and creating the shelf structure tonight.

Tucking her hair once again behind her ear, she began to look in the next box for a scarf to hold her hair back as she worked. Ripping tape off of the next box, she found that the contents were a care package her mother had put together. On the top was a plastic container with her favorite cookies – lemon with a chocolate kiss inside, and a note from her mother. There was also a necklace with a graduation mortarboard and rolled diploma dangling from it, and a framed picture of her family.

Biting her lip, Sansa got up and placed the picture on her desk, looking fondly at her father, immortalized on film. Rickon was clinging to his arm, Robb looked bored, and Arya appeared to be reaching up to take a bow out of her hair. After offering a cookie to Mags, she sat down with her own cookie to investigate the rest of the box.

Reaching in, she found a bag of socks with various animals on them, a container of garbage bags, a mufti-colored pack of pens, several air fresheners, several boxes of her favorite granola bars, a box of light bulbs, some new slippers, a huge bottle of lotion, a pack of highlighters, a deck of cards, a box of paperclips, face wash, a pack of washcloths, and a large unmarked box. Sansa carefully set down each item in a pile as she pulled it out, depending on where it would end up in her room, and left the washcloths with the "bathroom things" pile, then reached for the unmarked box.

Unsure, she reached in and opened the box, still inside the larger care package, then quickly shut it again, glad she hadn't pulled it out.

Glancing backwards, she saw that Mags was focused completely on the task at hand, and was busily gluing boxes together and draping different fabrics on the stack to see what patterns looked best together. Flushing slightly, Sansa pulled the large box out and shoved it in the bottom of her closet, then tossed a bag on top of it to hide it.

Why, oh why, had her mother bought her an economy-sized box of generic tampons?

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Two months later, Sansa was at her wits end as to what to do with the hulking box taking up precious space in her closet. She had been unable to set up her shoe rack because she didn't have the floor space, and she was tired of putting her shoes in a pile on the floor.

Something had to be done.

She had contemplated throwing the offensive tampons out, but that seemed like such a waste. When her first period came when she was at school, she had tried to use her mother's gift to her, but they were so comfortable she went out and bought a box of her preferred brand, and vowed to do so from now on.

That still left the problem of a large box of feminine hygiene products in her closet.

Finally, when Mags was gone for the weekend, Sansa made her move.

She made a sign, carefully disguising her handwriting. Then, at two thirty, she sneaked out of her room, large white box of generic tampons under her arm, and tiptoed to the bathroom. Glancing inside to make sure there was no one there, she set the box on the shelf above the sinks and affixed the sign she had made earlier to the box.

Standing back, she admired her handiwork.

"FREE TAMPONS!" the sign proclaimed. "TAKE WHATEVER YOU NEED!"

Now, as long as she could get to her room without being spotted, she should be rid of her problem.

As she closed the door to her room, Sansa leaned against the door and exhaled gratefully, then started to assemble her shoe rack.

Things suddenly looked much brighter.

Author's Note: So, I had mentioned before that there were several missing scenes/outtakes/alternate scenes to this story, that really didn't fit in. Well, I figured I would just go ahead and write them and put them in here, since they really wouldn't make sense on their own! Also, I've found that the other stuff I've been writing lately has been a little darker, and I wanted something a bit fluffier to balance it out.

Don't worry, Gendry and Arya will still very much feature in these. I've just had this Sansa moment in my head for weeks, and I really wanted to write it and get it out. These won't be in any particular order, but will just appear as I decide which one sounds most fun to write!