Jon/Ygritte school AU
I couldn't resist I was looking at phone cases and I JUST HAD TO because I favourited Tormund, Jon, and Ygritte. I loved Ygritte and Jon so much and she was just such a great character and honestly she might just have been my favourite. Also, head cannon, Grenn and Tormund would've been friends. Just saying.
So anyway, a short AU for you to tie you over until I finish the second chapter of Targeryen, Starks, and everyone in between - which will be up shortly! And heads up, there will be time skips in this fic. Chapters will be short, and there should be about 6 I think :D
Enjoy!
Note: I do not own Game of Thrones, nor the characters. I bless G.R.R Martin for them daily.
Jon's first day at his new highschool was nothing like he thought it would be.
He had woken up to a cold day in a strange bed. He still wasn't used to living with his uncle, close as they were. Jon's father, Eddard Stark, had sent his son to live with his brother Benjen in Sweden.
Both Benjen and Eddard had been born in Sweden, but when their father, sister, and brother had been killed in a drunk driving accident, Eddard and Benjen had both dealt with their grief in very different ways. Eddard had moved to the United States, and finished his studies there. He started a law firm with his school friend Robert Baratheon, and they did decent. That is, until they took on the Lannister case, and won. The Lannisters were being sued by their workers for fraud, horrible work conditions, and embezzling money. The case had garnered them international success, and skyrocketed them into the lime light (as well as the million dollar neighbour hood they now both lived in).
Benjen, on the other took over his father's business - running the family bar. The Night's Watch had been started by their father, and Benjen didn't see why it should stop with him. A bachelor, he had been more than willing to let Jon stay with him, as long as he didn't mind the nights when Benjen had to work at the bar late.
Of course Jon hadn't minded that one bit. He loved his uncle, and had always felt very close to him. The whole reason he had to go to Sweden, though, was because his step-mother Catelyn had felt uncomfortable with him there (Jon didn't know why now of all times she had spoken up, with only one semester left in grade 12). Jon had grown up with his half brothers and sisters, and never before had she risen a fuss.
While Catelyn was Jon's stepmother, and the only mother Jon had ever known, he could never truly feel as if she loved him like a son. Jon's birth mother had been his father's girlfriend when he had lived in Sweden. With the death of his father and siblings, and his sudden move to America, Eddard had broken up with her quickly. As soon as he had gotten to America he had started dating Catelyn Tully, a girl he had met in school.
It was on one of this trips back to visit Benjen, Eddard had met up with Jon's mother again, and they had had a… rekindling of their relationship for his time there. When he had gone back to the US, Jon's mother hadn't been able to tell him that she was pregnant. Unfortunately, around this time, Catelyn had gotten pregnant with Robb.
Jon's mother had died in childbirth, and so Benjen had become the proverbial stork to bring him to Eddard. Needless to say that Catelyn had not been impressed when she had come home that day from her job at her father's law firm (the partnership between the Baratheon & Stark Law office had merged with smaller firms, the Tully's being one of them) to find that her husband had two children instead of one, he had had an affair, and she had a step son.
Growing up with his siblings had been fun. Robb was only a couple months older than Jon, and as they grew up they were basically twins. Same grade, same friends (them and a boy in their year, Theon, grew thick as thieves as they went up in grades). At one point in time, they had even shared a room. He had gotten along well with his other brother Bran, and he adored baby Rickon. Sansa he had never been especially close with, but then again she wasn't especially close to anyone but their neighbour Jeyne.
Jon's best friend though was his sister Arya. When she had been born, Jon had been the first to enter the room (Robb had been in the washroom). Eddard had seen him come in, and smiled.
"Here Jon, meet your little sister, Arya."
Jon had never felt happier than when that little bundle was put in him arms, and she had smiled up at him. (Jon had a sneaking suspicion that Catelyn had never truly gotten over the fact that he had held Arya before one of her children).
From that moment on, they were nearly inseparable. Jon read to her, got her blankets and clothes, played with her. As she got older, he taught her about bugs, science, and minor bits of martial arts. He told her about ancient knights and legends of warriors. They were joined at the hip. And now, there was no one Jon missed more.
So here Jon was. Starting at a new school, the second term of grade 12. There was possibly nothing he was dreading more.
So yeah, this was just like setting up the new world that we'e in haha. You didn't need to read it if you didn't want to.
I'll put up another chapter later today! And the rest should be out within the week (I currently have another 3 or 4 ready :D)
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