I do not own Game of Thrones nor am I making a profit from this story. It's written purely for my enjoyment of the books and tv series.
The screaming new-born tried to take in its first gasp of foreign air whilst its father handed her to his trustworthy maester. The mother held her breath, waiting for the news. The maester stared at the soft skinned baby who gawked up with her mother's blue eyes and wisps of her father's black hair on her head. The maester stared at the child, assessing her, he then moved his finger in front of her. Watching her follow his movement with her eyes and fingers he nods his head in satisfaction.
"The girl's colouring is fine, her nose is good, there aren't any markings, she has good coordination and all the normal number of fingers and toes" The maester informed the lord causing the mother to sigh in relief, the father looked over his new daughter happy with her looks. He wonders what noble he could marry her to.
"However, it seems that she has a wonky eye" the maester informed her father whilst he handed the child back over to the middle-aged man. The mother screamed and wailed in protest to her husband, knowing he was going to take her baby to the tower.
"Give me my baby Ardrian! She'll grow out of it I promise! She'll be beautiful! She'll have all the nobles wanting her hand in marriage!" The mother's attempts of saving her baby were in vain as Ardrian already had the baby in his arms and slid out of the room. Outside their daughters and sons were waiting for the news, every one of them have passed the maesters observation so now they waited to see if their new sibling is joining them. His children spotted the cold expression on their father's face, which only means that the child didn't pass the test; knowing he's going to the tower. Only their oldest daughter Samatha pleaded with her father while her siblings stared away from the scene.
"Father please, let this one live. This is the fourth child in a row. Mother is starting to-" Samatha attempted to beg with her father whilst their mother's weeps echoed past the wooden door.
Ardrian stopped his daughter from wasting her breath "You know what has to happen Samatha, she is faulty. No noble in their right mind would marry her. I can't have this ugly bitch ruin my reputation." Ardrian walked up the spiral stairs which lead to the ancient watchtower. The infant was gurgling in his arms and watching innocently up at her father smiling. Finally reaching the top of the tower he walked towards the tower's window, the strong familiar wind smacked against Ardrian's body as he held his arms out of the window.
"If you had a normal eye, you could have been sleeping in your mother's arms but you look like a beast. I can't have you destroying our reputation. If you were beautiful like your sisters I would keep you. It's for the benefit of this house." Ardrian screamed at the child who was screeching like a bat at the top of her lungs trying to cling onto his hand. Ardrian gave her one last long frown and dropped the baby who was as fragile as china.
The daughters were comforting their mother who was sobbing into their chests whilst the sons were waiting for their father to request their assistants. There were sounds of murmurs and then the door swung opened, Ardrian stood in the doorway with his arms crossed.
"Dinner will be ready soon, so go to the dining room. Your brothers are clearing the mess up so they will be there shortly." Ardrian wrinkled his nose at the sight of his tearful wife. "Kyra quit your crying and get out of bed; maybe next time you will give me a beautiful child which I won't be ashamed of. I also have some news to announce." He swaggered out of the birthing room leaving his daughters to help support their mother to waddle in to the dining room while she shakes in pain.
The stone table was full of the richest foods the city had to offer; Pork, potatoes, beef, cheese, lamb, fruits, chicken, bread, duck, goat, fish and bowls full of different spices. Sixteen chairs surrounded the table for each member of the Teale house however four chairs are now empty as their son Damon is away fighting with the Teale army, which is currently removing the wildlings from the forests and villages in the Teale land. The other three seats were for their married daughters: Rhea, Shara and Ivone who are now married off to respectable lords to create alliances with the Teale house.
Ardrian sat at the far end of the table along with Leo, his heir to the Teale house, who sat on the left side of him. Kyra sat at the other end of the table along with the eldest daughter Samatha who sat on the left side of her. This left the eight remaining children to sit around the table. The youngest child, Primrose, sat as close to her mother as possible whilst all the daughters also tried to sit close to their mother; leaving the three other sons to hover in the middle.
"Before we eat I would like to announce some exciting news" Ardrian stopped his younger sons from using their hands up pick up the meat. He cleared his throat. "I'm sure you all know our lovely Juliana has flowered meaning I've had plenty of letters from suitors after they've heard about how beautiful Juliana is and I've now managed to create an alliance with the house of Bolton by marrying you off to Bolton's bastard heir." The Ardrian started to laugh. "And to think I nearly threw you off the tower when you were five, but can you blame me? You were appalling at sewing, archery, dancing, ridding and you had terrible etiquettes; no man would want a wife like you. But I knew you were going to be the most beautiful woman the kingdom has ever seen, I knew you would be married to a noble powerful and wealthy man. I nearly even got you married to Prince Joffrey seeing as the Queen liked you so much but it seems that bastard Stark managed to get the king to marry the prince to his hideous daughter instead. That doesn't matter anymore, it's their loss. I'm sure you'll be able to give the bastard of Bolton plenty of heirs to Dreadfort. "Ardrian slumped back into his wooden chair proud of himself for finally getting an ally worthy of his beautiful daughters. With this powerful ally, he will finally make Teale one of the most powerful houses within the north. With the Starks son Brandon being betrothed to his daughter Cylla, nobody will be laughing at their banners anymore.
"But father you can't let Juliana marry him! Have you not heard the rumours?" Samatha yelled while comforting her sobbing younger sister.
"I heard that he kills women, for fun." Cylla added after Samatha in a cold tone. Her twin Kemma gave a cold look to Juliana who was shaking in fear.
"I heard that he rapes the women first then lets his dogs eat them alive; a group of the Squires were talking about it." She shared the same frightened look as their mother. The room became silent when Ardrian's face became red. Suddenly a fist hit the table in fury causing all attention to rapidly be focused at the end of the table.
"I think you have all forgotten your duty to this household you selfish bitches! Do you think I would have had so many daughters if I didn't need to use you? I raised you all to be perfect wives; your only duty is to please your husband with your beauty and charm. You aren't to question their actions; you are to look at them as your master. You're to help me make the Teale house one of the most powerful houses in the seven kingdoms. This alliance will help me create a big enough army to rule every speck of dirt." Adrian threw his large meaty leg of beef onto the table in rage. The meat sent plates of food flying around the room littering the floor. The servants ran into the room and started to pick up all the mess while Ardrian got to his feet and marched towards Juliana who then grabbed her by the collar of her dress to pull her to his eye level.
"I will not have any problems with this marriage, you should be grateful. You're going to marry a man who is the heir to Dreadfort. You're going to give him plenty of heirs and I will have his support in the war." Ardrian took a deep breath trying to calm himself down before adding "if I hear you complain once, I'll make sure he treats you just like the whores he plays with."
"Now eat" Ardrian commanded his family while stomping back to his chair. His oldest son Leo glazed over to his snivelling sister Juliana quickly before his father noticed. The rest of the dinner was eaten in silence.