CHAPTERS

1. CASSANA

2. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

3. JON ARRYN

4. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

5. THE KING'S ROAD

6. POLITICS

7. HOME AGAIN

8. OURS IS THE FURY

PART 1. KING'S BLOOD

PART 2. THE STAG QUEEN

9. THE BATTLE OF BLACKWATER

10. THE WILD STAG

11. RONIN

12. QUEEN CASSANA BARATHEON

13. CONQUEST

PART 1. THE QUEEN'S JUSTICE

PART 2. PEACE AND WAR

14. EURON GREYJOY

15. DAENARYS TARGARYEN

16. WAR OF THE DRAGON AND STORM QUEENS

17. JON SNOW

18. THE SACRIFICE

19. THE LONG NIGHT

20. TRIUMVIRENT RULE

CHAPTER 1. CASSANA

KING'S LANDING

The war had just ended two months ago and all that was left of the Targaryen Dynasty is fleeing across the Narrow Sea. The reign of Robert Baratheon has begun, his coronation had gone on without a hitch and now to secure his power Robert is to marry Cersei Lannister. "I'm leaving for the North after the wedding..." Eddard Stark says to Robert as he helps him to get dressed.

"I know...I wish you were staying my friend..."

He sighs, "I wish a lot of things..."

Robert shakes his head, "I hate to be you going home with a bastard to my new wife..."

"Says the man with bastards all over the Seven Kingdoms..."

"If you weren't my friend I'd punch you in the face right now..." Robert walks over to the desk, "I had this drawn up...It legitimizes your son..."

Eddard takes the document, "Hard enough I have to explain this to Catelyn...You know the words of House Tully...Family, Duty, Honor...She will not take this well..."

"I could march my army North if that will help..." They both laugh.

The door opens and in walks Ser Barristan Selmy, "My King it is time..."

The wedding is held in the Sept of Baelor and officiated by the High Septon. At the feast which is held on the tourney grounds Robert gets drunk, making obscene toasts and having drinking contests with Thoros of Myr. "Where is my wife...It is time I bed her..." He says in a loud voice. Reluctantly Cersei joins him and together they go to the marriage chamber. He rips her clothes off and throws her on the bed. "Get ready woman..." He is too drunk to notice that Cersei is not a virgin. "Oh Lyanna...Lyanna..." Robert calls out as he ejaculates into Cersei. He soon falls alseep and Cersei lies there crying.

The next day Robert goes hunting and returns desiring sex with Cersei. Later she is able to speak with Jaime in private. In tears she tells him how Robert called her Lyanna as they have sex. A few months later Cersei finds out she is pregnant. She also learns that her husband has been visiting brothels and sleeping with maidservants. "I'm going to kill it..." Cersei says to Jaime. "If he is going to sleep with other women and call me by the name of a dead woman then he will have no children by me..."

"As much as I hate to see you have another man's child...Have one for him..."

"Why? How can you ask this of me?"

"Think about it..."

Cersei had once been told by a witch that she would have three children and the King would have eighteen. Robert had two bastards already one in the Stormlands and the other in the Vale. If she had this child then she could prove the witch wrong. As she considered killing her unborn child she paid Maester Pycell to keep it a secret. When she asked Pycell for moon tea, he said, "Your Grace...I am loyal to you and I will do as you ask, but I a Maester...I am sworn to protect life...I know you are suffering with this King...But if you have this child...it may bring the two of you closer..." His words change her mind.

STORM'S END - SIXTEEN YEARS LATER

The courtyard echoes with the sound of steel on steel as two armored warriors practice with blunted swords. Both combatants have their faces covered and are wearing full armor. The smaller fighter is six feet two inches tall. The larger fighter is six feet and has more muscle. They lock swords and the smaller fighter holds up against the strength of the other. Then the bigger fighter shoulders the smaller who leaps into a twist and points the sword out.

The bigger fighter raises his sword above his head, while the smaller fighter twirls the sword from side to side. They attack at the same time, but the smaller fighter side steps at the last minute and kicks the opponent's knee forward not breaking it. Then the smaller fighter places the sword to the bigger fighter's neck.

"Dead!"

"Alright I yield! Have mercy on an old man…"

The smaller fighter backs away sword pointed out as the bigger fighter uses his sword as a crutch to stand up. He looks at the smaller fighter and removes his helm, there is a smile underneath. The smaller fighter removes the helm to reveal a beautiful young woman with long black hair and blue eyes. Cassana Baratheon is named after her grandmother on her father King Robert's side. Cassana is just as beautiful as her mother Queen Cersei and as fierce as her father.

"You're not getting old…better, but not old…"

"It is kind of you to say my dear…So your name day is approaching…"

Cassana is sixteen name days old, "Yes I am looking forward to seeing my father and having our yearly war games…" She replies putting the sword on the rack. "I am looking forward to my gifts and all my friends…"

"And what of young men?" Warren Till sword master and Man-at Arms of Storm's End asks. He had been trained in Braavosi and Western styles.

"Find one that can best me with a sword and maybe I will consider him…" They are shadowed by Brienne of Tarth. Brienne is tall and just as big as Warren. Cassana and Brienne met at a feast held by Brienne's father; an attempt to find Brienne a suitor. Cassana and Brienne have a lot in common and after a while Cassana asked her father to allow Brienne to be her guard. She also asked that Brienne be Knighted and so Brienne is the first female Knight of the realm.

From the courtyard they go the main hall for midday meal. Edric Storm is there, Cassana's half brother. She loves her brother as they have a lot in common. Then there is Gendry who is two years younger than Cassana also a bastard of her father's. Cassana discovered him before leaving King's Landing four years ago. Gendry is a very talented blacksmith and skilled swordsman, though he prefers fighting with a war hammer. On Cassana's last visit to the Capitol she stole her father's old war hammer and gave it to Gendry. Gendry's mother is dead and he was apprenticed to Tobho Mott as a blacksmith. He finished his apprenticeship at Storm's End and became a better blacksmith than Roland.

Ser Courtney Penrose Castellan of Storm's End is at meal as well. "Can I come with you to King's Landing Cass?" Edric asks he likes to call Cassana Cass.

"No not this time…" The last time Cassana bought Edric to the Capitol it caused all kinds of problems especially from her mother and brother the Crown Prince. Joffrey is younger than Cassana by two years, but as the eldest male he is heir to the throne after their father.

Afterwards Cassana helps Edric with his lessons. Then she and Brienne go for a ride in the countryside. Later Cassana goes for a moonlight skinny dip; her long hair waving through the water as she swims beneath the surface. The next morning she bathes then practices the sword against both Brienne and Warren, she defeats them both. Cassana is like her father in temperament and unlike her father she can drink and not feel the effects of Ale, Rum, or Wine.

Like her father Cassana enjoys hunting and fighting, though unlike her father she is not as promiscuous as she is saving herself for marriage and love. There was that time a young noble placed his hand somewhere he was not supposed to and received a broken nose for his presumption. The next few days preparations are made for the journey to King's Landing. The day she leaves, Cassana kisses and hugs Gendry and Edric goodbye; before mounting her horse and leaving with Brienne and an escort of fifty men.