Game of Thrones: In Desperate Times
Chapter 1 of both my newest Game of Thrones story and also, the beginning of a new Game of Thrones Marathon, starting from now and lasting until the end of this year, enjoy :)
Disclaimer: Game of Thrones belongs to George R.R. Martin.
Chapter 1
As the family came down to breakfast, they were expecting just a normal day. Indeed it seemed a normal day for the Stark family at their mansion of Winterfell. All seated around the table in the kitchen, they began to eat their breakfast. Of the Stark family, Eddard Stark and his wife, Catelyn, both in their forties, sat at the head of the table.
Eddard, or Ned as Cat affectionately called him, looked every inch a true Stark, with brown hair, grey eyes and a long face. Meanwhile, Cat showed the traits of her family, the Tully's. She had auburn red hair, blue eyes and high cheekbones.
Two of their children were already old enough to have their own places to live and were attending college, but had come home for a visit. Their eldest son, twenty-two year old Robb Stark and eldest daughter, nineteen year old Sansa Stark.
On the other side of the table was their younger sons, still in school, sixteen year old Bran Stark and eleven year old Rickon Stark. While inheriting a few noticeable Stark traits, the children all took after Cat the most, Sansa especially, who seemed to be a younger version of her mother.
"So, how is everyone this morning?" Cat asked with a smile.
They all chorused the same reply, good. Then all laughed and soon began making small talk, passing time, eating their breakfast.
However, in only a moment, their lives would be changed and the day would take a sudden and dramatic turn. The change began when Ned began to read the morning edition of the newspaper. It was Sansa who noticed it first; while reading, her father suddenly froze, eyes wide.
"Dad?" She asked, drawing everyone else's attention.
They all turned and saw his expression, Cat immediately became concerned.
"Ned?"
He put the newspaper down and pointed out the main story.
"Look..." He whispered. "That address..."
They all gathered around and began to read, all suddenly realizing what had caused his distress. The news story was about a fire which had destroyed an apartment building, but, as Ned said, the address is what caught their attention.
Cat trembled; horrified as she whispered. "Gods...Arya."
For the address of the building that had burned down, was indeed Arya's address. Arya Stark was the middle child of the Stark family, the youngest daughter, at seventeen years of age.
"God, is she…?" Sansa gasped.
Ned shook his head. "There's no mention of any deaths, but..."
He didn't need to finished they were all fearing the same thing, the apartment building had burned down, but what about Arya, what about, the others.
The others being Arya's boyfriend, Gendry Waters and their children, nine month old twins, a boy and a girl named Rickard and Alyssa respectively.
'Gods, could this be…?' Cat wondered in terror. 'Oh, Arya, please don't be…?'
Her fears came from the current issues within the family. They had all been shocked and, in her own case, as well as Ned, Robb and Sansa's, outraged by Arya's relationship with Gendry, a man five years her senior, then came Arya's teen pregnancy and things just exploded from there, resulting in Arya shocking them all by moving out of the house into an apartment with Gendry.
Cat shuddered. 'They aren't even married and, and all this stuff happened and now, this...Oh what if Arya is? What if the last thing I said to her was, to argue with her about her life, her choices, her pregnancy...'
She looked around and the others and saw they were all thinking and feeling the same thing. All fearful for Arya, and in Ned, Robb and Sansa's case, fearful that their last words to her had been part of an argument.
"Shouldn't we..." Sansa began.
Robb sighed. "We need to find out what happened, to see if Arya is..."
Bran quickly spoke up however. "We don't even know where to begin."
"Yeah, especially after, after what happened between Arya and you guys." Rickon pointed out.
They didn't argue, they knew he was right. It did however, leave them all feeling terrible and worried.
Their worries remained as the time passed, until suddenly, a few hours later, there was a knock at the door.
Surprised by this, Ned went to answer it. When he opened the door, he stood, frozen, eyes wide.
Standing there, thankfully, alive, were Arya, Gendry and the twins.
End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.