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There was something about a surprise that Delirium enjoyed more than anything else in the world. She wasn't sure if it was the mixture of the good and the bad or the anticipation and the dread but Delirium savoured the feeling of joy and delight and horror and panic. Today was supposed to be a surprise, a date of surprises with Robb Stark who made her feel different. She hadn't meant to talk to him or like him or love him but she did and she certainly hadn't meant for him to talk back or like her or want to take her out on dates but he did. He had surprised her, agreeing with her for a date, he had snuck up on her- Sneaky Stark- but she didn't mind. She didn't mind at all.

"How do I look?" Del asked, twisting her fingers into her dress. She had dressed simply for him in a dress made of stormy blues and wintery grey layers. Her hair was tied loosely but neatly, spilling multi-coloured curls down her back. And she wore her family's symbols around her neck. She looked strangely beautiful. And Barnabas didn't mind telling her that with a bark. "Thank you Barnabas, you should go. I'll be okay, Robb Stark will look after me."

Barnabas barked, sharper as if to indicte he had better. Del smiled, patting her guardian before slipping the rope off her wrist and watching him as he left her. Sitting, Del bit her lip and waited for Robb. He would be here soon and then he could start surprising her all over again.

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Del leapt to her feet, the dress swishing and moving with her as she swayed towards him and bounced on her toes. Pressing her fingertips against his stomach, she flushed at the compliment and leaned up onto her tiptoes.

"Is it? I would say you could borrow it but you would probably think you would look very silly but you wouldn't because you would look handsome in anything." Del said smiling up at him. There were nervous butterflies in her stomach but she knew how to deal with them impatient things. She would teach them to fluttery and fly. Oh, yes. "Are you going to surpise me now?"

Robb laughs, taking her hands lightly. "I don't want to borrow your dress, it looks much better on you," he promises, and grins a little, sheepish. "I hope I'm going to surprise you." That's the idea, anyway. Whether he manages it, well, that depends.

"You will," Delirium said, glancing down at Robb's hand covering hers. There was that feeling again, all fleeting and wonderful in her stomach. Del smiled a little coy at first before covering her mouth. "It would look better on your floor."

Delirium laughed, smiling brightly at him. "I think I got that right. Yes?"

Robb flushes pink, but nods. "I think that's how the line is supposed to go," he allows, because he wouldn't ever actually say a thing like that himself. "Come on. Feel like going for a walk?"

"You're blushing Robb," Delirium said in a sing song voice grinning at him. Leaning up onto her tiptoes, Del brushed her lips against his pink cheeks before dropping back down again. She liked that she could have an effect like that on him. "With you? Yes, I feel like going for a walk with you. Where is Big Puppy? Is he hiding or is he with Reynald?"

Of course he's blushing; there are things Robb is used to hearing from soldiers but not, generally speaking, ladies in pretty gowns. "Hiding, I think," he answers, offering her his arm. "Or hunting. Keeping an quiet eye on us."

Del slid her arm through his, curling her fingers around his arm and tucking herself into his body. He is warm, warmer than Winter should be but she doesn't mind the heat. Not when she used to burn with the suns and stars and freeze with the wintery planets.

"He is sneaky, not as sneaky as me. Not as sneaky as my siblings," Delirium said walking with Robb slow and steady. "I'm glad you came. I wasn't- people don't come to me anymore."

The information Robb has collected about her siblings over the course of time is a bit of a chaotic mess, but he feels that he has a vague sort of picture. But it's the rest of what she says that makes him ask--"What do you mean they don't come to you?"

"I had a lot of responsibilities at home and people would come to me. They would come to me with their worries, their troubles and I would make them happy. People don't do that here, they don't let me... help." Del said softly, pressing her face against Robb's arm. Curling her hand around his arm, Del leaned against him and smiled. "I liked making people happy. I could make you happy, if you'd let me Robb Stark."

"I think," Robb says thoughtfully, "that the kinds of troubles and worries people have here, that quite a lot of the time they won't be things you can change. Or that any of us can." People disappearing, for instance. "Still," he adds, smiling at her quickly, "it's good to want to try."

"No, I know. Not like how I used to be able to affect things but I would like to try. That's why I cook that and I like cooking, I made food for my sister's party once it was fun except for the demons." Delirium said with a smile, sliding her hand down his arm to take his hand. Delirium curled her fingers around his and leaned into him. He was warm and steadying. "Do you want that? Happiness?"

That's the sort of loaded question where you know it's got to be a trick, except that this time, Robb is quite sure it isn't. "Who doesn't want happiness?"

Del smiled softly, a little sadly at him before stopping. There were far too many mortals who didn't or couldn't know it, it was why she had shifted and changed. It broke her heart and it gave her hope for him, for her, for them.

Del tugged on his hand, facing him before leaning up onto her tip toes. Brushing his cheek with her hands, Del smiled up at him.

"Let me make you happy then Robb Stark," Del said.

It was, admittedly, not always something Robb had been able to wish too hard for. But on the island, where his only responsibility is his family, it's easier to think he might get it.

For now, though, he just catches her hand, and draws her down the path.

Delirium smiled, letting him catch her hand and following him down the path.

"Are... we there yet?" Del teased, letting go of his hand to twirl before capturing his hand and pulling him on.

Robb laughs, shaking his head. "I don't think so, but maybe that's the surprise," he offers. "That we get there before realising it."

"Robb Stark, do you even know where we are going?" Del asked laughing. Biting her lip Del grinned, curling into his side and leaning her head against his shoulder as they walked.

"Not a clue," Robb answers, but he's clearly teasing, or is else very good at pretending, because he's leading in a very definite sort of path.

"You're lying, liarliar pants on fire. We should probably take them off, if they're on fire." Delirium replied grinning at Robb. He is definitely leading them somewhere but Del has no clue where. It was quite nice... not knowing.

There's a place where a little ravine cuts through part of the island on the way toward the dinosaur country; not big enough to be a major problem but just a bit too wide for most people to jump. He turns and grins at her, tugging a long braided vine rope from one of the trees. "See? No prior preparation at all."

"Robb Stark, are we going to swing across?" Delirium smile twitched into a full on grin before wrapping her hand around his on the vine. "Peachy keen."

Robb shrugs a little, almost awkwardly. "It's fun, "he says. "And it seemed like the kind of thing you might like." He takes hold of the rope and holds out an arm to her. "Hold on?"

"To you? Always, endlessly." Delirium replied with a grin. Delirium wrapped her arms around Robb's neck and bounced up, wrapping her arms around his waist before looking at him, mouthing oops. "Or did you mean the rope."

"Both, I think," Robb admits, wrapping an arm around her waist. "But you can just hold onto me if you want to."

Delirium wrapped her legs around Robb firmly, holding onto him tightly as she grinned.

"I like my vantage here for now," Del said grinning. "Maybe later I will beat you swinging."

"Maybe so," Robb laughs, taking hold of the rope with the other hand to swing them across the ravine. Admittedly, there are other ways around it, but this one is definitely more fun.

"Maybe I should just stay here with you." Del said laughing as he swung them across. Letting out a whee as they flew through the air, Del laughed happily. It was just like her brother's realm, it was just like Disney. Fun. "This is peachy keen Robb Stark!"

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