The Lions Protégée

Chapter 1 of a new story I've come up with, a crossover story featuring Game of Thrones and one of my favourite video games, Beyond Two Souls. Basically the whole ideas started out as a random thought in my head, regarding one part of Beyond Two Souls, and how it could have been different if it had been a certain character from GOT who found Jodie. After discussing it with other readers, namely Boris Yeltsin and Marina Ka-Fai, the story I am now uploading is the result of our shared thoughts and ideas.

Disclaimer: I don't own Game of Thrones, Beyond Two Souls or the characters from them.

Chapter 1

The snow billowed heavily through the air as the streetlights dimly lit up the city streets, the snow as thick on the ground and deep. Driving slowly due to the adverse weather, a police car made it's way down the road, through the night. As it passed a doorway a figure was briefly illuminated in the headlights, but they didn't stop, driving on.

Luckily the police in this city had received any wanted notices as such, they didn't realize the significance of the young woman huddled in the doorway, was a young twenty-two year old woman named Jodie Holmes.

Clad in badly worn jeans, a green turtleneck with yellow stripes and a black T-shirt underneath, a brown parka coat, red gloves, a red and white knit hat and black boots, she was still finding it hard to cope with the cold. Her shoulder length brown hair was loose and thickly matted, almost black while her eyes had deep dark shadows under them. She had been living on the streets for weeks now and was struggling desperately.

She had been on the run, from so many people it was hard to keep track anymore. But the police were the least of her problems. To make matters worse, after so many years, the Entities, dark malevolent spirits that had plagued her childhood, were back, plaguing her at night.

They no longer attacked her, merely circled her and let their malevolent presence sap her strength. Even Aiden; a strange entity that was tethered to her through some ethereal bond, was too weak to keep them away for longer than a few seconds now.

With everything looking bleak, Jodie felt like giving up. She had been feeling this way for a long time now. She just wondered what was the point any more; shaking her head she tried to stand, it was a real struggle.

But slowly she managed and, arms wrapped tightly around herself, she began to walk down the street, trudging through the snow, the Entities swirling around her, making things even colder. As her breathing grew more ragged, Jodie stopped walking and then, after a brief hesitation, slipped the last of her money into the nearby payphone and dialled the number.

"Hello?"

"Nathan." She burst out, her voice airy and breathless.

"Jodie..." He gasped. "Jodie where are you?"

She choked the words out. "They're back...they're all around me..."

Nathan panicked hearing this. "Good God, Jodie, what's happening?!"
"I'm tired...so tired..." She choked out, already tears were falling. "I don't think I'm gonna make it..."

"Tell me where you are, I'll come!" Nathan cried out, pleading. "I'll come right now, Jodie...Jodie..."

But Jodie hung up, she knew there was nothing Nathan could do, besides, going with him meant turning herself in and that would never happen, she couldn't allow it. Not matter how much Nathan meant to her, as the father figure he had been during her life from ages eight to eighteen.

She was done being manipulated and lied to. Turning she began to walk down the street again, but she felt weaker than ever before, light-headed, dizzy, finally, a few paces away, her strength left her and she collapsed onto the snow.

Leaving and locking up the office of her father, Harys Swyft's, business where she had volunteered to work after hours to help settle the accounts, Dorna Lannister smiled lightly.

'I just hope Kevan and the children are okay, especially Lancel.' She thought as she looked around. 'The snow is getting worse and he was on his way to visit us...'

Shaking her head, trying to clear her worries; if she didn't get back to her car quickly it would soon be impossible for her to drive home. She began making her way to her car, but as she drew closer she stopped, eyes widening at what she saw.

'Gods, what…?' Her mind raced.

For she had just come across a frightening sight, a young woman, in her early twenties at the most, around Lancel's age, was lying face down in the snow. Dorna hurried up to her.

"Miss, are you…?" She spoke softly; but got no response.

Worried Dorna gently reached out, checking on the woman. She gasped, the poor young woman was freezing; yet she could see her breath, and now could just about hear it. She had felt a pulse too.

'She's alive, freezing and weak, but...alive.' Dorna realized before looking around. 'It doesn't look like she was attacked, so how did she…?'

Dorna quickly pushed those thoughts away, this woman was clearly in a dangerous situation, there would be time to think about all that later.

Right now, what mattered was getting her safe. So it was that Dorna, despite her light build, lifted the woman off the ground, the woman herself was quite light, yet Dorna had a nasty suspicion that some of it wasn't natural. Pulling one of the woman's arms around her shoulder and holding onto the wrist, Dorna, holding her car keys awkwardly, while trying to support the young woman, began making her way to her car. Once she reached it she managed to unlock it.

"Alright, here we go." She whispered.

Getting the woman into the passenger seat and securing the seat belt had been easier and soon Dorna was seated in the car, her own seat belt on and she began to drive for home. It was the only thing she could think of right now, given the inclement weather, she had to take care of this unfortunate young woman.

So she decided, the best place for that, was in her own home.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.