Be here waiting, hoping, praying this light will guide you home
is a Game of Thrones fanfic where Ned, Catelyn, and Robb Stark are brought Back from the Dead under mysterious circumstances between Seasons 6 and 7.
Tropes that appear in this fanfic:
- Abdicate the Throne: When Ned, Catelyn, and Robb return to Winterfell, Jon yields his crown to Robb.
- Back from the Dead: The premise is that Ned, Catelyn, and Robb Stark are resurrected late in the show's run and have to adjust to the changing events.
- The Bus Came Back: Bran returns to Winterfell in Chapter 4.
- Catharsis Factor: In-universe, Ned admits a feeling of satisfaction about watching Littlefinger be executed by Jon.
- Death by Adaptation: Littlefinger was executed by Jon before leaving south.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Littlefinger's throat was cut in the show. Here he was decapitated.
- In Spite of a Nail: Jon heads south with Davos to seek out Daenerys Targaryen on Dragonstone.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Catelyn admits privately that she would have done the same thing as Jon had in the Battle of the Bastards: ride out to rescue Rickon.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Since Ned, Catelyn, and Robb were brought back after Season 6, those who died before that point are still dead.
- Robb's child with Talisa perished with her at the Red Wedding.
- Rickon was killed by Ramsay Bolton as in canon.
- Put on a Bus: Jon has gone south to seek out an alliance with Daenerys Targaryen.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Bran's direwolf Summer is still alive.
- You Remind Me of X: The look on Sansa's face when Robb tries to assert that he is the King in the North indicates that he reminds her of Joffrey. For Catelyn, it's quite unnerving.
