Duncan Stark

The Letter From Jon Arryn

Ned I am writing this letter to you in response to your request to keep Duncan in the south for another five years and I must warn you that if you keep the boy here any longer it will poison him. You need your son back Ned.

Duncan is not the same boy that came to me from the north. Nor is he the same son you knew.

At the age of ten he is beating men twice his age, I've never seen such a raw talent before, not even Ser Arthur Dayne is capable of the feats Duncan has achieved. I've never seen him be defeated before and it is frightening most of the nobles at court to see him. He plays the game well and too well. He is addicted to power and the fear he inflicts on others. Him and Joffrey go around the city terrorizing other children. Duncan left a boy crippled and broken just last week and the month before that one of the servants daughters had the left side of her face bruised and mutilated by someone unknown but everyone knows it was Duncan.

The worst of my fears is that he may be plotting against the royal family themselves. The smiles and laughs he shares with Joffrey are all fake and a mummers act. Duncan has even caught the princesses eyes, Myrcella. He flatters her irregularly and gives her false assumptions that he is in love with her. There is talk of a marriage between the two to be announced with your approval and I must implore you not to accept.

Please Ned take back your boy so he may be cultivated by the north once more and be rid of the venom of this snake pit.

Jon Arryn.

Blood red eyes looked at the letter in his hand. The letter he had stolen from the rookery last night. Duncan's feet were up on his desk and he was leaning in his chair. Duncan smirked at the stolen letter from Jon Arryn. The man he had been fostered with for the last six years of his life. Ever since he had broken his brother's nose and humiliated him.

Duncan's father sent him away to foster with Jon Arryn as punishment but it was a blessing in disguise. During the journey to King's Landing all Duncan wanted was to turn back and go home to Winterfell. But the moment Duncan came here to King's Landing and saw the Iron Throne, the sheep that call themselves lions that rule it he knew what he really wanted.

He wanted all to bow before him. To kneel and call him King of everything. No crime would happen under his just and sovereign rule, no corruption, no petty rivalries between houses, no one would starve, there would be no more war if there was no more land to conquer. If it was all under one banner. His banner.

It was his dream and reality all in one. Every time he stepped into the training yard it's like he willed himself to be unbeaten, every time he played civasse it was like he willed himself to win, every time he saw a flaw in the King's rule he willed himself to mentally correct it. The world seemed to bend to his will, because he was no man, no, he was a force of nature, a demon. The Demon Wolf.

Duncan put the letter over the small glowing flame of the candle that sat on his desk and watched the paper take light. He watched the growing violent intensity of the paper's flame take shape and turn whatever plan Jon Arryn had for him to return north into ash. Once the flame burnt out and the thing that had once been ink and paper was scattered to the winds he forged a new letter. One that sang a very different song than the one Jon Arryn had tried singing.

He knew he couldn't keep up this act for long. And soon Jon Arryn will have to be dealt with. Permanently.

(A/N) Jesus Christ I've made like five different drafts for this new version and everyone of them didn't pan out but I love this one. It has taken all my effort away from Silver Dragon Sorry. Don't worry I'll get to updates for that story soon. Basically Duncan gets sent to King's Landing to foster with Jon Arryn instead of the Martells. Duncan makes it there but he soon finds himself obsessed with being King of everything and the intoxication of power. Duncan will be far more cunning and cruel. Also assume nothing about Duncan. He will either condemn his family or save it.

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