Catelyn Stark stared out into the dark hall, her sell door was only visible thru the little light the torches gave, she stared out even as her tears fell no one knew she was there, her memory of how she arrived there took her away from her torture.

However her attention soon turned to the door again as a knight opened the door the man closed the door and approached her, Catlyn screamed she soon noticed that as the man grabbed her, he wasn't wearing any clothes, her hands felt no trousers or anything as she tried to fight him off.

She felt her stomach explode in pain as she felt a punch forcing her to stop resisting, she screamed as he went into her and spilled his seed in her, Catelyn cried until she fell asleep. The next day the man returned and attacked her again, he threw her against the wall and had her on her arms and legs, then he came the day after and the one after that, until Catelyn simply stopped fighting him.

Soon the days past and it became apparent that she had lost her will to fight, so the man ordered her to come out, she was given a warm bath and dressed in beautiful golden dress. When it was all done she found herself sitting on a large table with several pieces of paper left for her.

She read them and was left speechless, the north had been acknowledged as an independent kingdom, however everything from the swamplands to well everything else was considered separate.

But each side would keep their prisoners Jaime Lannister would stay as a prisoner of the north,while she and her two girls would stay far away from Winterfell however her eyes saw that the papers only had both Sansa and Arya Stark written on them.

The last piece of paper mentioned that everyone thought she was dead, no it said she was lost a fancy word used by noble houses to distance themselves from man or woman they wanted nothing to do with.

When she turned the piece of paper and sat down on the nearby chair, she saw the drawing of a man and a woman doing what men and woman was clear that everyone knew what had been done to her and had chosen to stay away from her.

A knight took her by the arm and directed her to a nearby window and she saw why the deal had been struck and why she had been casted aside. Snow was falling none stop, Winter had finally come.

The world had become silent and Catelyn was moved to a separate room one that had a minister and a man who she never heard of , Catelyn only heard that the man had been made lord of a large pie of land, a worthless scrap of land filled with hills and near to no farmland.

She was wed that day and the man took her in his bed.

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The man had short black hair, he had light tan skin and dark brown eyes, however he had hardly any muscle at all and it was more than obius that he would never win a battle against any truly skilled knight.

The night was empty even as he laid claim to her, yet she didn't feel anything even as the warmth of their bodies mixed, yet her body only acted even as she tried to keep herself from doing anything.

Slowly she realized that she had been taken to a carriage and that she noticed she was being taken somewhere for a brief moment Catelyn thought about escaping but where would she escape to.

As things stood anyone that was found wandering around alone would be either killed or taken away by bandits and desperate people, however for the briefest of moments Catelyn thought that death was the best option but quickly dismissed the thought hoping that one day her son would rescue her.

Then there were her two girls.

Again she slept and when she awoke she soon found herself at the entrance of a large mansion, nowhere near a castle only slightly larger than true house of a somewhat important lord.

She felt her hand be grabbed by her new husband he was trying to comfort her, the warmth of his touch briefly mixed with her hands,Catelyn didn't really care her hands had become so cold that they were almost numb. He blew on to them trying to warm them up again.

The few knights that accompanied them, walked two ahead and two remained behind to guard the entrance to the mansion, the last two simply attended to the horses.

The mansion was large and dark, the knights explored the inside and soon returned saying that it was safe, a few torches were light and what little firewood was used in order to keep them warm.

For the first time Catelyn took a good look at the man she had been forced to wed, she noticed that the man was significantly younger than she was, he looked around the age of fifteen or perhaps slightly older.

She looked at him and noticed that the man's eyes were filled with worry, his eyes were kind and gentle, yet even as he looked at her Catelyn felt nothing. The man walked up to her and planted a light kiss on her right cheek.

Catelyn didn't return it, the man's eyes only saddened.

''Do I have any village under my control or anything?'' atelyn heard the man ask.

A knight nodded and took out a sheet if paper, there was a small village it didn't even have a name.

''I'm going to go look at the town, do you want to come or dou want to stay.'' the man asked her and Catelyn could only answer weakly.

''I want to stay.'' her voice was low.

''Keep her safe.'' the man ordered, the two knights before leaving.

Catelyn simply sat there looking at the fire, she couldn't bare think or even feel anything, the man returned his footsteps sounded heavy.

''Greate I have a river that has no fish and what little crops that grow are now being harvested, there are plenty of trees everywhere and I will bet anything that the roots are tangled all over the place.'' the man said to himself.

''My best bet will be animals and not the grass eating kind, I need to make a real road to the river and if possible use the trees near the edges of the hills and pray to God that we have wild animals.'' the man said to himself as he tried to plan.

The night ahd quickly come and with it he cold winter winds, all that Catelyn had was a light coat and her dress as cover, the fire was all that truly kept her warm even as theman gave her his coat and she used it as a makeshift blanket.

All of the men were inside trying to stay warm, Catelyn finally slept but it was a dreamless sleep.

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The days melded together, the man left early in the morning and would return close to sun down, for over a month they all slept on the floor with only the fire truly keeping them warm. The bottom of the mansion was made of stone with walls here and there, Catelyn would walk into each one of them ad imagine her boys and girls running around,Arya fighting with Sansa and her boys chasing one another.

She would climb the stairs to the second floor and see all of the unused rooms, then she would do the same with the best floor and the floor after that, until she finally reached the roof and watched the snow covered hill.

Catelyn would imagine herself back in Winterfell, one day the man returned with a woman and her children, no doubt his basterds, during their first month together he would cook for her and the knights, most of the food was nothing but fish.

Now his mistress did it for him.

One day the man returned excited he had found something, but when he told her his expression saddened, Catelyn simply ignored him.

Soon the mansion began to fill with people, cowardly knights that had ran one battle or another Catelyn would smile and laugh t herself whenever she would see a man or a woman that was crippled in someway.

These people would never win any battles.

The mansion was now filled with beautiful furniture and Catelyn soon found herself sleeping on a warm bed with blankets painfully woven with the utmost delicacy. She soon discovered that she was pregnant, the man had laid claim to her when they first arrived sending his few knight's away during that time.

Now however he hardly buisited her.

When he heard she was expecting he thru a great feast yet all Catelyn could think of was the child she had lost, when the two boys were born they shared their fathers brown eyes, Catelyn couldn't stand the sight of them.

They were not Eddard's, they were thilty abominations that just looked like infants.

''I've done everything I can, I know you don't want anything to do with us. So I decided to undo our marriage and I will send you to the place you want to go.'' he told her.

Catelyn simply answered '' North to Winterfell.''

''One thing, the boys stay here.'' he told her and Catelyn said yes without even hesitating.