The lights were dim and Dany looked around at her friends. Ygritte sat, upside down with her feet over the back of the sofa, and played on the Xbox in front of her. Her green camouflage pants clashed with the redness of the seat and her face wore a bored expression as she shot at zombies on the screen. Her fiery red hair was tied back into a messy pony-tail.
Margaery was sitting on her own inflatable mattress with Sansa sitting in her lap. She had three strands of the younger girl's red hair in her fingers and was braiding skilfully. Sansa was in the middle of telling some silly story about her brothers and her eyes lit up with love for her family.
Smiling with fondness for her friends, Dany herself set down a bowl of popcorn on the coffee table beside the sofa on which Ygritte sat. She sat down next to her and watched as the zombies ganged up on the character on the screen. Ygritte bit her lip and let out a low growl from her throat. Dany's brow furrowed as she watched in anticipation. Even Margaery had turned her head to see what would happen whilst Sansa prattled on. Ygritte's fingers were bashing the keys and then suddenly the zombies surged and the screen went red with the words YOU'RE DEAD. GAME OVER. Ygritte threw the controller against the sofa cushion and looked peeved.
"You'll get 'em next time!" Margaery said as she finalised the braid she was working on. Dany took Ygritte's hand and smiled at her.
Ygritte snorted, "It's just a dumb game anyway. What say you ladies? Fuck, marry, kill?"
Danaerys laughed musically. "I'm in!" she said. Sansa had stopped talking now and had a mischievous twinkle in her eye which was different for her.
Ygritte jumped to attention and sprung herself upright. "I'll go first. Okay..." she stopped to think for a moment and then smiled. "Jon, Joffrey and Gendry."
Sansa's nose crinkled, "You mean my little sister's crush? Elgh." As if to support her words a loud cry, male and female, came from upstairs. The red-haired girl rolled her eyes.
"Arya's been inviting him over for "sword fighting practice" every day for weeks now! I begged for my mother to take them to the movie with her, Dad, Bran and Rickon but she wouldn't have it. Robb and Jon are off doing who knows what with their new "mates". I think everyone just finds the whole crush Arya has on Gendry adorable."
"Well who could blame them?" Margaery said, "The fact that your sister takes a liking to everything since you guys moved here is a miracle in itself!"
Sansa Stark considered that. The move had been hard on everyone, truth be told. Bran was just getting used to the wheelchair, Dad was making sure that Robb was well prepared to take over the family business in the fall and Rickon was barely old enough to walk. Arya had stubbornly stayed in her room when the moving trucks came. It took Dad two hours to coax her out. And Jon... Well things had been icy between him and his adoptive mother, her mother, ever since Ned Stark brought him home one cold winter's night.
"Okay if no-one is going to say it, I will. Kill Joffrey, fucking prat, marry Gendry and fuck the brains out of Jon Snow. Oh wait, I already did!" all the girls burst out laughing at Ygritte's answer. Sansa felt a little awkward because Jon had grown up as a brother to her but she tried to make it look like she was supportive of Ygritte's forwardness.
Margaery contained her laughter, looked down shyly and smiled. "You say he's a prat, and I agree sometimes, but we all have to admit that Joffrey does have his good points."
Ygritte snorted again and then noticed the look on Sansa's face. She looked green, like she was about to be sick.
Dany grinned a shining grin, "We all know that you like him Margaery, why don't you just admit it?"
"I like his money and his family's power. They're the richest family in town, what's not to like?"
That prompted one more outburst of girlish laughter, though a little less on Sansa's part. No one knew about what happened the day she moved here. What Joffrey had- no, she couldn't think of it. But no one could know. Margaery was one of the nicest people she had ever met; she was her dearest friend since Sansa moved to Kingsland. If Margaery wanted Joffrey then she could easily get him, everyone knew it.
Margaery Tyrell was the prettiest girl at Kingsland high and she knew it too. After a scandalous affair with a young teacher, Renly Baratheon, at her old school, Margaery was infamous for getting whatever she wanted in the moment that she wanted it. When she arrived at Kingsland and noticed Joffrey's status as a bully at the school she had her target. Now it was just a matter of getting him in her bed and keeping him there.
"Hey Sansa?" said Dany, breaking the young girl out of her trance. "Are your brothers seeing anyone?"
"No, I believe Bran and Rickon are saving themselves for that one special lady" everyone giggled and Sansa was proud of her joke. She made the popular girls laugh!
"No, no!" Danaerys couldn't contain her giggles, "I mean your older brothers. I mean we all know that Ygritte has something going on with Jon... But what about Robb?" Ygritte looked over at Dany quickly as if a secret, which actually wasn't that secretive, was revealed.
"Oh he's a dreamboat!" said Margaery, "are you interested Dany?" she wiggled her eyebrows.
Danaerys bit her lip, "well I'm not uninterested" she looked at Sansa now. "You think you could talk to him for me? Chat me up a bit?"
Sansa nodded, if a little hesitantly, and said; "Sure, but Robb's under a lot of pressure at the moment with Dad and the mentoring and everything. The animal shelter's going to become his in a matter of months and one of our wolves just had puppies. There's a lot going on."
Dany nodded like she understood but deep down her heart was pounding. The day Robb Stark moved to Kingsland was the day her entire outlook on guys changed. Her brother had always called her a slut which was completely out of line since she had never looked at boys that way. Viserys couldn't talk anyway. He had girls walking in and out of his life every week!
On her way to Mr Clegane's health class she was running late and her small feet broke into a sprint. People moved out of the way as the new girl ran down the corridor and looked on in curious amusement. All of a sudden something, which felt like someone's foot, placed itself in front of her next step and Dany fell on her face. Her eyes stung with tears of embarrassment. Things were simpler back in the country. She was home-schooled, she had Silver, her mare, and she had Drogo. He was the only guy she had ever dated until he… no- she couldn't think of that. It was time to move on.
All of a sudden a pair of striking blue eyes met her and drew her to her feet. Her scattered text books were on the floor but Dany couldn't look away from the hand that, after helping her to her feet, held hers still. Robb Stark looked at her, then her books, and laughed. He let go of Dany's hand and gathered them up and handing them to her. She still couldn't speak. No-one in this town had been this nice to her. Soon enough they had introduced themselves and then gone their separate ways. That was that.
Once again she looked around at the other girls. They had resumed their game of 'Fuck, Marry, Kill' and were now laughing at something that Dany's thoughts wouldn't let her hear. They had all wanted someone in this town. Sansa was the innocent and naïve girl with nothing yet everything to lose if she just had the courage to put herself out there. Ygritte put on a badass exterior and used it and her seemingly meaningless sex with Jon Snow, as a shield against people thinking she was weak. She barely talked about her family. Dany guessed that maybe she didn't have one. The only one of them that really had everything figured out was Margaery. The girl just seemed to know her way around boys. Dany envied her. She wished she had that courage. Come to think of it she wished a whole bunch of things. But mainly, she wished for Robb to notice her again. At least one more time.
"Okay, so they have no idea right?" Robb said. Surrounding him were his new friends and brother, Jon, Joffrey and tag-along Loras Tyrell. Robb pitied the last boy. Loras had no real friends and had kind of invited himself along on this daring tirade across town.
"Ygritte isn't answering my calls which means she's in what we like to call "girl mode". They're completely clueless." All boys chucked quietly.
"So what's the plan?" Joffrey's smug face was alight with mischief and glee. Nothing appealed to him more than breaking the rules.
"No plan really" said the husky voice of Jon Snow, "we'll put on the masks, climb the drain pipe, sneak through the upstairs and then Loras hits the button on the CD Robb snuck into the stereo and we blow the roof off the place. They'll never see it coming."
Joffrey looked at Loras, "And you're sure Margaery is still single?" he asked urgently. The other boy nodded slowly.
"Right that settles it. You all have your targets. I'm after Ygritte, Joff takes Margaery, Loras you're on Sansa and Robb takes Danaerys. Hold off on the making out until Spin the Bottle. Lads, any questions?"
All boys shook their heads and Jon smiled.
"Alright, let's go get some girls." He said.
As quietly as they could they snuck out of the bush they were hiding in and looked at the Stark house. It was huge, built like a fortress honestly, but they were three able-bodied boys (and Joffrey) and their plan was relatively simple.
Jon lead the group to the drainage pipe and all four boys looked up at the window they were headed for and then glanced at each other.
"Joffrey, you first" he decided.
"Why me?" whined the blonde boy.
"Because Loras has to go last and you're the slowest" Robb said. He glared a little at Joffrey and Jon could feel his brother's hatred of the boy even in the darkness of the chilly night. It took a lot for Jon to convince him that Joffrey had to come if they were to have even numbers to the girls. Bribed with the promise that Jon would help him join the fencing team, Robb complied.
With high-pitched grumbles, Joffrey began his ascent up the drain pipe. Precisely fifteen minutes later, Jon followed prior to Robb and then Loras.
Once inside, they nodded silently at each other and then proceeded to tiptoe to the railing directly above the living room. Loras remained nearby to the stereo with his finger prepared on the button. Below them, in the living room, the girls burst out laughing to something Margaery said. Excitement bubbled in the bottom of all boys' stomachs, Loras' for different reasons, and Jon exchanged a glance with Robb. He smirked and nodded. Jon looked over at Loras and passed on that nod, signalling that he should hit the button.
One second of silence... and then…
INSS INSS INSS INSS INSS.
The loud electro music thumped from the stereo and Robb manically ran over to turn the volume knob as high as it could go. Joffrey and Jon gave loud whoops of glee, slipped their masks over their faces, and leapt off the bannister and onto the floor below. They landed just off centre of the living room, onto the tiles separating the huge dining room and the living area. Loras looked on with wide eyes and Robb gave him one last look of encouragement before following his brother's suit. The music hit him squarely in the back and made the excitement in the bottom of his stomach churn like someone had pulled the plug in a bathtub. Him and Loras, after slipping on their masks, climbed onto the bannister and leapt off into the chaos below.
Jon already had Ygritte on his shoulders and the two of them were bouncing to the heavy bass beat. Joffrey was grinding on Margaery and she pressed her waist into his pelvis seductively. Joffrey held it there with sweaty hands and the two moved together in sexual harmony. Soon enough the other two landed and Robb looked around for Danaerys. The music had quieted into a bridge and the airy voice of whatever DJ had composed it rallied out of the stereo. He spotted her then, sitting back on the sofa looking up at the commotion with wide and excited eyes. His heart leapt as if it itself had just jumped from the second story onto the first. Robb peeled his mask off his face and advanced towards her.
He grabbed her small hands in his and pulled Dany to her feet. She went willingly just as the music thumped into its second electronic instrumental break. All the other masks were soon discarded onto the floor. In the corner of his eye he could see Jon and Ygritte making out feverishly (despite Jon's own rule about waiting till Spin the Bottle) and was urged to get a move onto the girl that he wanted to be with in this moment.
Cheekily, Robb led Danaerys onto the makeshift dance floor and began to sway his hips to the beat. Back and forth, seductively. Dany was thankful that it was too dim for him to see her blush. Soon enough the music did its work and hit her too and she lost all sense of rational thought. All she knew was that Robb was here in front of her and she wanted him, even in this chaotic mess of music and bodies.
Even Sansa and Loras were doing their best to act like they were enjoying it. Eventually someone, Dany didn't know who, turned the lights off and they were plunged into darkness. She was still aware of Robb and her bodies moving together and she started to sweat. There was nothing else but him.
Dany felt his body up and down, blind in the darkness. She felt his face, his stubbly cheeks dewy with sweat. The bass dropped and Danaerys took the plunge. She led Robb's lips to hers in the dark and kissed him hotly.
A chance she had been waiting to take since she arrived in Kingsland.
Hi guys, let me know if you want a part two to this fanfic. I've had such a blast writing it and I've certainly got more up my sleeve! Don't forget to follow, favourite and leave a comment! Love ya's xx
