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They had now been with Dany for two months, at first Lyanna hadn't like the girl. She never liked anyone that held power she hated what they stood for. Yet this girl was different, Lyanna saw that now. Dany wasn't like everyone she had met in her life. She remembered telling her mother how much she hated Lords and Ladies, but Arianna had told her not to be foolish that they weren't all bad. When her mother began to slip away she changed, now she seemed crazy to everyone else but there was something about her that didn't make Lyanna see the slave woman she had grown up with, instead she saw an elegance in her mother, a presence when she walked into a room. She could see now what her mother was talking about, Dany wasn't like all those other masters she had, this woman was different she wanted everyone to make their own choices and didn't believe in slaves.
When Dany told Lyanna and Arianna her plan to return to the seven kingdoms and restore her family to the Iron throne Lyanna agreed to help, but Arianna seemed withdrawn. She remembered her mother whispering words that didn't make sense she wished for her mother to come back to her and be herself again, but Lyanna knew within her heart her mother would never be whole again.
"You were talking in your sleep." Dany said as she walked up behind Lyanna, "Calling out."
"For what?" Lyanna asked turning to the other woman.
"You kept saying Daddy." She told Lyanna, "and calling out for a ghost as well."
"Dreams anything can happen." Lyanna said shrugging her shoulders as she tried to remember what she had been dreaming about.
"The wolves." Her mother whispered looking up, "The wolves in the north. Howling in the night."
"Mother there is are no wolves here." Lyanna told her.
"She speaks a lot of wolves." Dany told her, "Does it mean anything to her?"
"Doubt it I don't think anything she says means anything." She looked at her mother sadly. "She used to when I was younger, talk about my father a bit I know she always liked wolves spoke of how strong they are especially when they fought together, no one could stop a strong pack." She shrugged her shoulders looking away, "I usually just let her ramble now is exhausting trying to figure out what she is saying. When she first started to slip away I kept hoping she was still the same, but she isn't."
"But maybe she's talking about her past, Wolves in the North." Dany told her, "You two don't look like you are from around here and you said that you came over on a boat right? I bet it was from the seven kingdoms, wolves in the North could mean the Stark family."
"Her ramblings mean nothing, don't you think if we were part of some big family, some important family they would have found us?"
Dany thought of the man she had seen in her dreams years ago, the man one of her dragons had chosen to go to. He had seemed like the type to keep his family close she doubted he would have let those he loved fall into the life that these girls had fallen to. "I suppose your are right."
"Have you ever known a Stark?" she asked the other woman.
"Yes." Dany replied softly, "My brother's son."
"But if he was your brother's son why was he a Stark?" Lyanna asked as she did she saw a flash of the giant grey wolf from her dreams.
"He was hidden away for his safety, the usurper most certainly would have killed him." Dany told her, "He was the son of a young lady who everyone called The She Wolf of the North. She was the only daughter of the Starks at the time, but she died at the boys birth."
Lyanna couldn't figure out why this story seemed so familiar to her, had she heard it before?
"I met the boy a few times when he was a full grown man. He had the loyalty of the wolves, but the fire within him of the dragon."
"What happened to him?" Lyanna asked, why did she feel her heart sink when she thought of the man Dany described.
"I don't know." Dany shook her head, "I never saw him in person, our dragons would bring us together through dreams with magic, but I haven't seen him in a long time."
"It doesn't really matter does it?" Lyanna asked, "If we were part of any family like that." She sighed, "The man you describe sounds like he wouldn't let anyone in his family fall into slavery."
"I suppose you are right, the man I met with he would have moved mountains to keep his family safe and together." Dany agreed.
"When the sun dies and the stars shine true our love with shine written so true." Arianna whispered.
Lyanna looked over at her mother and sighed softly, "I used to pretend that we did belong to some great family, but in the end we aren't anyone of importance."
Arianna walked over to her daughter and placed her hand on her daughter's cheek, "May wolf ever walk beside you, and grant you rest in his shadow. May his paws ever guide your path, and your howls be heard by all." Arianna turned her head to look next to Lyanna as if she saw something standing beside her, "Now Ghost watch keep her safe." Then she turned and walked out of the room.
"Whose Ghost?" Dany asked.
"I don't know she always talks to him before she leaves a room I'm in, always tells Ghost to watch over me." She shrugged her shoulders, "It's like she's talking to a dog or something."
"Where's the man I used to know?" Regina growled at Jon. "Where did he go, you aren't the man I loved back then."
"Back when you forced my love?" Jon growled.
"Back then you had so much fire to you, I could feel the breath of the dragon. So wild so untamed just knowing at any second you would cut through anything for the ones you love." Regina shook her head.
"He died." Jon replied his eyes cold, "You fell for a man who was protecting those he loved, you fell in love with a man who refused to let go of his true love, and you fell for a man who still believed in love."
"Have you not learned anything?" Regina asked him trying to fight the tears that were beginning to form in her eyes. "Has life not taught you that love is real? It is stronger then any magic in the world."
"If it was then Arianna would be standing before me and not you." Jon snapped.
Regina felt as if he took a knife and stabbed it right into her heart, "I know you love her I know you will always love her, but it's time you open up your heart to more then the past, Arianna is gone, but I am here."
"You don't get it do you?" HE growled, "I used to be someone, for so long I was lost, lost in a family I didn't think I belonged to she was all I had for so long. The only light I could see." He shook his head, "No matter how much I tried to push the light from her away she was strong she always came back like the night stars."
"And you still claim you don't believe in love anymore?" Regina asked.
"I believe if we were truly written in the stars it wouldn't be this hard to figure out, it wouldn't be so much struggle we wouldn't be always separated just pushing to find the few moments in between all the bad." Jon looked away.
"Just let go of Arianna then." Regina whispered as she stepped closer to her lover, "Let go of the feelings for her and allow yourself to love me." Regina shook her head.
"If that's what you please then use your magic." Jon shook his head, "That is the only way she will be erased from my mind."
"You aren't the same when I do that." Regina told him, "I want the real you I want the love you feel for her to be mine."
"I'll say it again, the only way for me to care for you that way will be magic." He shook his head.
"My magic won't work." Regina growled, "You know that ever since you connected with that Dragon there is nothing I can do to you."
"Then maybe you should just be happy I'm sharing my bed with you once more." He growled.
"Do you always have to be so cruel?" Regina almost yelled at him, but remembered the child was sleeping near by.
"I am who I will always be, you are the one that chooses to stay here." He shrugged his shoulders, "You're the one that won't leave when you have every reason to."
"Maybe that's because I love you Jon." Regina told him.
"But I don't love you Regina and you know that." Their eyes met, "What I feel for you has nothing to do with love, but desire I long for you in my bed and that is all."
"I have no one else, no where else." Regina told him, "But you."
"Then be happy what I give you now." He told her, "And don't have false hope for a flame that will never burn again."
"I only wish for you to give me more of your heart." Regina told him softly.
"I give all which is left." Jon sighed.
"Which is no heart at all." She frowned.
"Better my body then nothing at all." Jon looked her in the eye, "The door is right there, if you want more then a body to lay with at night and security of food on the table then leave now because that is all I offer."
Regina said nothing she never thought she would come to a life such as this. She always wanted love; she always wanted to be in control yet here she was with a man that didn't truly want her. Yet she couldn't leave him as much as she tried to tell herself he longed for her and the magic she held she knew in truth she was the one stuck on him. The pleasure he felt when she used her magic on him during moments of pleasure he had learned to use on her. She couldn't give him up not now, not after everything she had done to assure that she could still have a happy ended even after Storybrook ended. This new life she had forged for herself aloud her everything she wanted, a man to love and a child. Her mind flashed to Henry and how he had chosen Snow and Emma. She had been so crushed in that moment, but when she saw an opportunity rise she knew she had to act quickly. Now Jon and Aaden were hers and her's alone. She only feared if the day should come when Jon found out just how lucky Regina had been to find herself in his arms once more.
"I'm not going to leave you." She told him looking away.
Arianna stood out on the balcony alone looking to the stars breathing in the night air. She tried to focus her mind to understand what was happening around her, but no matter how hard she tried she couldn't help growing confused. She knew the stars were important she knew that some how they would help her, sometimes she could see a face among the stars smiling at her. She tried to focus on the stars, but her mind kept jumping around one moment she would see the stars and the next she wanted to look at the trees, yet something kept pulling her back to the stars in the night sky. She closed her eyes trying to focus long enough to find a true meaning among them. Once again she could see his face looking at her, she felt reassurance wash over her upon seeing his face. Arianna knew he was important, but before she could remember why she was focusing on a few men that walked below the balcony. She didn't know how long she watched them before her mind snapped back to the stars and back to the man she saw. Who was he? The wind blew her hair back a cold gust of wind far colder then one should be in the desert. She closed her eyes as the wind washed over her she could see trees covered in snow she could hear laughing. A giant white wolf ran among the trees free and graceful a beauty to watch. It almost felt as if she was standing among those trees the wind was so cold, but it didn't send her back into her room instead it made her feel at home. 'Jon' the wind seemed to whisper to her. Arianna's eyes snapped open how had she forgotten Jon. The events of the past ten years seemed to flash through her mind.
"Lyanna." She whispered knowing she had to get to her daughter she had to explain everything before she was lost to the darkness that filled her mind.
"Mother." Lyanna's voice called as she entered Arianna's room. Arianna didn't even need to reply for Lyanna hurried out to her. "What are you doing out here?" she asked, "You could get hurt or fall, mother please come inside."
"Lyanna." She whispered again trying to fight the tears that filled her eyes. "All this time." She told him.
"Mother just come inside." Lyanna replied with a tired sigh.
"You must find him." She said softly, "You must find him." She could already feel her mind growing confused again.
"Find who?" Lyanna asked.
"Jon." Arianna smiled, "Or he will find us." She frowned, "He always found me, always found his way back."
"Who's Jon?" Lyanna asked, "Someone important?"
"Yes." Arianna took a step closer to her. "He found me. He made me remember him. You were there. Why don't you remember? The clock tower? Storybrook?"
"What?" Lyanna asked then shook her head, "Maybe you should rest now mother I think you're tried."
"No!" Arianna tried to argue with her daughter, but nothing was making sense once more. Then almost as if someone flipped a switch everything that had made sense in her mind seemed like a jumbled mess once more. "Gone. Gone." She whispered shaking her head.
"Alright mother lets get you inside." Lyanna said softly as she led her mother inside.
Arianna took one more glance out to the stars and whispered, "Find me." Then turned and followed her daughter inside.
"Father." Aaden asked as he walked up to his father, "Who was that woman?"
"What woman?" Jon asked looking down at the boy.
"The one from the market." He told his father, "She said she knew mother."
Jon sighed, "She was-" he stopped himself, "A friend."
"So she did know mother?" He asked, "They were friends?"
"We were all friend once." Jon told him, "The girl, her husband, your mother, and I."
"Good friends?" he asked.
"Her husband was my brother." Jon continued, "But we don't really talk anymore."
"But why?" Aaden asked, "If they are family why don't we talk to them? Why did you get mad? Why did she seem so happy and you weren't?"
"Because she wants us to go home." He told him.
"And you don't?" the little boy frowned, "Why?"
"We can't go back with Regina she isn't welcome there." Jon told him, "She doesn't get along with my brother or Red."
"But Regina is so nice!" Aaden stated.
"Yeah, they just-" he paused trying to think of the right words, "They just don't get along well. You see they loved your mother so much they can't accept anyone else that is her."
"But mother is gone." Aaden told him, "You looked for her, and you can't find her."
"They want me to keep looking." Jon sighed, "They don't understand how much of a dead end looking for her is."
"Where is home?" Aaden asked.
"A place in the North." Jon told him, "If I tell you, you must promise not to let anyone know the name."
"Why not?" Aaden asked.
"Promise me." Jon demanded.
"I promise father." Aaden sighed.
"A place called Winterfell." Jon told him, "Do you know it?"
"Yes, it is where Lord Robb lives the Lord of the north." Aaden told him, "Regina taught me all about the Lords of the land. Why can't anyone know?"
"Because we didn't just live there, we were part of it, part of the north." He told him, "The blood of the Stark's flow within our veins."
"I don't understand." The boy frowned, "You were a lord?"
"And your mother a lady." Jon told him.
"And now we are commoners?" Aaden asked.
"Yes. Fur traders, living in that life." He sighed, "I couldn't do it without your mother by my side. I've denied you that life that you were born into, but if you want to live there, if you want your birthright, we could travel back and I'm sure Robb and Red would welcome you with open arms."
"Would you live with me?" he asked, "And Regina?"
"No, we couldn't stay, but you could. You wouldn't have to travel and you could ride horses in the meadow, Robb also has a wolf just like Ghost named Grey Wind and my younger sisters and brothers each have one as well."
"But you wouldn't be there?"
"No."
"Then I don't want to go father, I want to be with you." Aaden told him.
Jon smiled, "I will support what ever decision you make."
"Can you tell me one thing?" he asked, "Please."
"What?"
"Anything about mother I just want to know her." Aaden said softly.
Jon smiled, "Alright. What do you want to know?"
"About her, and about you Regina always talks about love stories, did you love mother?"
"With all my heart." He told the boy, "It seemed no matter what since we were kids everything would pull us back together. You see I didn't believe I deserved anyone or any kind of love, but no matter how much I pushed her away your mother she was strong willed once she decided she wanted something she got it she never cared how long it would take." He smiled as he glanced at the fire they sat around keeping them warm. "We were separated many times, but we always would say that the stars would lead us to one another. And for a long time, many times we always did find a way back together, except this last time."
"Maybe she will come home." Aaden told his father, "Maybe the stars are just a little slow."
"No." Jon shook his head, "Not this time. I never doubted in the past that I would find her, I never doubted we would end up together, this time is different I don't feel it anymore."
"Feel what father?"
"Hope." Jon looked over at the boy.
"Dinner's ready." Regina said as she walked up handing them both some stew. "What are you boys talking about?" she asked knowing all to well she had been listening to their conversation.
"Nothing." Jon grumbled as he ate his stew.
Regina sighed knowing Jon didn't want her near him right now he was still upset over their conversation from last night. She never really got the feeling Jon wanted her around except at night. A few times during the day he would be kind and she could pretend they had a real relationship. "I'm going to go for a ride, mind if I take Star?"
"Do what ever you please." Jon mumbled.
Regina put Stars bridle on, but didn't bother with a saddle, an image of Daniel flashed into her mind as she felt tears fill her eyes. She wished more then anything she could simply be the stable boy's wife this very moment. If her mother had just allowed them to live peacefully she wouldn't feel the way she did right now. She swung up with ease onto the horse and urged it forward away from the fire where she heard Jon and Aaden talking once again about Arianna.
Regina felt her blood boil every time she thought of Arianna, how did that woman still have a hold over him after all this time? She had hoped with Arianna's disappearance that his love for her with fall away with time. That perhaps the longer she stayed by his side he would learn to love her. Yet after all this time here they were every time they got into a fight he would just tell her to leave. He didn't want to fight for her; he didn't want to keep her around. She felt tears fill her eyes she had always wanted someone to fight for her the way Daniel had once she wanted to create it again. No matter how many times she tried nothing worked out the way she wanted.
"My queen." A voice called out as she slowed her horse down to a walk. She turned her head to see Thomas stepping out from behind a tree.
"What do you want?" She asked.
"It's about the lady and the young wolf." Thomas told her.
"What about them?" she felt her heart race, "They are gone for good. Right?"
"They are far away, far from this place where his magic can't reach them." Thomas told her, "But-"
"But what?" she asked.
"Her magic it grows stronger." He told her.
"Whose magic?"
"The young wolf." Thomas looked up. "She's stronger then we thought."
"She has no memories this time." Regina told him. "She won't ruin my plans this time."
"But Arianna she grows stronger the spell to break down her mind it grows weaker." Thomas's voice began to show hints of panic. "She still remembers."
"Impossible." Regina told him, "Her memories were stripped when she found a way to return here, before she could tell Lyanna."
"She can't express her thoughts anymore. Even her daughter has written her off as a woman fallen to madness." Thomas explained, "But I can feel her breaking through I can feel the young wolf growing stronger."
"No matter how strong she grows she is far from the north far from Jon. They both are. I have my family now and you are paid to make sure they stay away from my family." She growled at him.
"It's not just that. She has found Daenerys." He warned.
"Who? Should that name concern me?" Regina turned her horse to leave.
"Yes." Thomas said quickly, "She is the sister of Rhaegar."
Regina could feel her heart rate begin to pick up upon hearing the name. "How?"
"She bought Arianna and Lyanna as slaves." Thomas explained, "It's not just that my queen."
"What else?" she hissed.
"Daenerys has the dragons she is the one Jon reached out to when we were in Storybrook."
"And what of Jon's dragon?" she didn't want to even think what could happen if Jon could simply fly with his dragon to his wife's open arms.
"No one has seen it." Thomas explained, "Not even the mother of dragons."
"You go back and do everything within your power to keep them away from here. If need be you kill them."
"But you said it yourself, Jon would know if they were killed." Thomas reminded her, "You said it could break him, release everything you feared."
"That is something I have to risk, my magic only needs to be strong enough to hold his back." Regina replied as her mind raced.
"I'm only doing this because you promised you could keep him safe." Thomas told her, "I won't jeopardize his safety so you can keep your family."
"You will do what I say." She hissed, "Don't you forget who I am."
"I remember exactly who you are." Thomas told her, "I promised his father I would protect him and I will."
"No you promised you would protect Lyanna Stark and you betrayed her to me. You are the reason she is dead, you are the reason Rhaegar is dead." She smirked, "Don't try and pretend you want to protect Jon you are doing this for yourself."
"Yes I betrayed them, and that is why I will protect Jon with everything I have."
"Remember you are the one that took his wife and daughter from him, He will kill you if he ever finds out." She narrowed her eyes.
"I did it only because you said it would keep him safe so you could stay by his side and keep his magic from eating away at him." Thomas told her, and then he began to gasp for air.
"You do what you do out of fear for your own life." She told him, "Don't fool yourself you are no knight you are a coward." She let him fall to the ground before she spoke again, "You take care of Arianna and Lyanna make sure they stay away from Jon and away from this land." She kicked Jon's horse into a gallop and left Thomas gasping for air as fear gripped her.
"Father wait!" the little girl yelled chasing after her farther. "Wait!"
"I must go." the man said as he knelt down.
"But Father what if you don't come back?" she asked.
"Little Wolf I will always come for you." He told her kissing the child on the top of the head.
"But what if you don't?" she asked as she began to cry.
"Don't think like that, your mother and I have been through so much and always found our way back to one another." He smiled, "Look at everything our family just went through. Our story doesn't end apart."
"But father something bad is coming." She told him.
"No winter is coming to an end." He told her, "Remember what we have always said?"
"The Starks will endure." She whispered, "No matter how hard the winter may be."
"Not just the winters little wolf, our family will endure what ever is thrown our way." He stood up and turned to walk away. "Be strong little wolf look after your mother, I will return when the battle is over. Winter will come to an end on this day"
"I will." The child said softly.
"I love you." He smiled.
"I love you too father." She said as she ran into his arms embracing him in a hug.
Lyanna opened her eyes she had that dream again, the dream about a child and her father. What had he called the girl, little wolf? She looked and saw the sun was rising. It was strange how real it seemed almost like she could really smell the man it was as if she was the child.
"Are you alright?" Daenerys asked as she stepped into the room. "You fell asleep and started to call out for your father."
"I don't even know my father." Lyanna told her, "I never met him."
"Are you sure? Because it sounded like you didn't want him to go." Daenerys told her.
"It was just a dream about a child and her father, had nothing to do with me. There was snow everywhere and it was so cold there is no place anywhere near here with snow." Lyanna thought for a moment. In that dream she had felt as if she was the child she knew the man loved the child. She wished she knew someone like that she wished she had like him in her life. A father someone that could have protected her and her mother. But she knew her father wasn't anything like that man in her dreams. While her mother often rambled about a man she had once loved. Lyanna knew that in her mother's mind she may have thought she loved the man that fathered her, but a slave didn't have the chance to find love or chose who was the father of her children. She bet her father was some rich slave owner of her mother's past. Not the kind man that seemed to be more then a simple man, he seemed to hold so much hope. In her dream just looking upon the man she couldn't help but smile she couldn't help but think everything was going to turn out all right.
"Every dream means something." Daenerys told her, "You never know maybe it was important."
"Saying good by to a man about to ride off into battle." Lyanna smirked, "I don't think it has any meaning."
"Little Wolf." Arianna said as she looked over at them.
"What did you just say?" Lyanna asked her mother she head never heard those words before, yet they were in her dream and now Arianna spoke them.
"Little Wolf." Arianna smiled as she walked over and took her daughter's hands in her own. "That is what he used to call you."
"Who?" Lyanna asked.
"Your father." Arianna frowned, "You don't remember? Why doesn't she remember?" she turned to look behind Lyanna, "Why doesn't she remember?
"Mother?" Lyanna looked behind her who are you talking too.
"Lyanna of course." Arianna told her. Then her attention went back to a woman standing behind her daughter.
"She can't see me, none of them can." The woman spoke, "I'm in your head."
"But you found peace you found Rhaegar." Arianna told the woman.
The woman smiled, "Yes, but we couldn't find peace not while our son suffers. Not while any of you suffer."
"What can I do, how can I find them?" she asked.
Lyanna looked behind her again to where her mother was looking but still she saw no one. It was as if her mother was having a one sided conversation.
"You already found the path." The woman told her, "You already found her." She looked to Daenerys. "Follow her she will bring you home. She is a Targaryen after all." Then the woman vanished.
Arianna looked over to Daenerys to see the woman looking back at her.
"What do you know of Rhaegar?" Daenerys asked the woman she had heard the name of her brother spoken by the mad woman.
"My queen." Arianna bowed to Daenerys, "We will follow you home." She then looked the mother of dragons in the eyes, "But once your battle is won we will go north, we will go home."
"Mother you don't even know where home is." Lyanna told her, "We will stay with Daenerys after everything she has done for us."
"We don't belong in the south." Arianna frowned, "No, no not at all." She began to mumble words to herself as she walked away to sit by herself.
"I'm sorry." Lyanna told Daenerys.
"Don't be." She smiled as she looked over at Arianna, "Your mother knows things, things that are locked away in her mind. I wonder if she holds more then we think she does."
"It doesn't matter what she used to know, there is no way for her to tell us in a way we could understand or even know if she spoke the truth. She's lost." Lyanna looked to her mother sadness in her eyes.
"Your mother holds on to something." Daenerys told her as she studied her, "That is not the first time she mentioned my brother's name."
"Who was your brother?" Lyanna asked, "Was he important?"
Daenerys looked at Lyanna surprised, but let out a soft smile, "He was the next in line to be King of the seven kingdoms, the Iron throne was to be his."
"Iron throne?" she frowned, "That is where you want to go you want to reclaim the land because it is your birth right."
"After my brother died I believed I was the next in line to take the throne, but there was another." Daenerys looked away, "My brother's son."
Arianna looked up, "Son of the Wolf and Dragon."
"Yes." Daenerys said surprised, "Not many know about him."
"So why are you going there now?" Lyanna asked. "If he is the rightful heir."
"I lost contact with him, I don't even know if he is alive." Daenerys told her, "I can't sit back and wait for him to make his move, our lands suffer and need help they need a true King or Queen. Either he is dead or doesn't want to stake his claim on the throne."
"And you think my mother knows important things from the seven kingdoms?" Lyanna asked.
"Why else would she know my brother's son was the son of a wolf and dragon, no one knows of this for his safety he hadn't known about it until well into his adult life." The mother of dragons turned to look at Arianna. "I don't think she is as mad as we believe she is, yes maybe she can't express her thoughts in a way we can understand, but if we learn the meaning of her words she can help this cause."
"How?"
"She knows of my nephew, maybe she knows what happened to him." She told him, "And his dragon."
"He had a dragon as well?" Lyanna asked an image of a mighty green dragon flashed into her mind.
"Rhaegal." Arianna whispered, as she looked him. "The savior of the north. Dragon's fire brought end to the winter."
"The north?" Lyanna asked.
"That was where he was." Daenerys told Lyanna, "He lived among the Stark family the blood of his mother they raised him."
"Starks?" Lyanna asked remembering the name from her dream.
"No matter how hard the winter.-" Arianna started.
"-The Starks will endure." Lyanna finished frowning as her mother looked up at her with a smile.
"Yes." The woman agreed.
"But what does that have to do with you getting the kingdom back?" Lyanna asked.
"I can't do it alone, but I believe the Stark's can help me, even if my nephew is no longer among them I think they will help me."
"Khaleesi they were against your family in the war." Jorah told her.
"Only due to lies and miscommunication. If only they had known the truth then they would have fought by our side." She told him.
"You don't know that." He began
"I do." She told him frowning, "They will help us if we ask. The wolves of the north will join the dragon's to right the wrongs of the past."
"Yes we will." Arianna whispered, "We will fight."
"You saw him?" Robb asked his wife, "Really saw him? Where?"
"He's long gone now." Red sighed, "I'm sorry I just couldn't stop myself I had to go see Aaden make sure he was ok."
"I know." Robb told her, "You raised him for three years like one of your own."
"I just don't see why Jon has to be like that." Red frowned.
"Regina has a hold on him once more, while her magic haven't taken his mind because of his bond with the dragon she still has a hold on him, we always knew this." Robb shook his head.
"Then maybe we can move past this." Red told him, "Just allow Regina in Winterfell."
"No." Catherin told her as she walked into the hall, "That witch can never be welcome here."
"I know she has done some awful things-" Red started.
"It was her who ripped this country apart if it hadn't been for her Lyanna and Rhaegar would have been happy together. She created an unnecessary war." She sighed, "She killed Lyanna."
"I know." Red started, "But can't we look past it to bring Jon back?"
"Even if we did." Robb sighed, "He would find another excuse to not come back."
"But why?" Red asked, "Why must he turn from his family?"
"To many reminders of what he's lost." Robb told her, "The last time he was here when he came to pick up Aaden remember how he scanned the crowed? He was searching for her."
"Then why didn't he look up to where the ladies and children stood?" Red asked, "His eyes didn't come up to us."
Robb grinned, "Lyanna never waited there for him she could hardly contain herself after he had been gone for so long. She joined the commoners and the moment he dismounted his horse she would always run into his arms." He frowned, "In that moment I knew he wouldn't be coming back after he retrieved Aaden, I saw the pain in his eyes, this place I bet you everything reminds him of Arianna, of Lyanna. He just can't bare to see this place and know they aren't here."
"My lord." One of his banner men walked into the hall, "I need to speak to you."
"Of what?"
"The Targaryen woman her army still grows, she is searching for a ship." He told him.
"They have been trying to find ships for as long as I can remember." Robb told him, "Why should this worry me now?"
"She has two dragons you saw what Jon's one dragon could do, what do you think two could do?" he asked.
"She will head south to the Iron throne, not here not to the north." Robb thought of his aunt and the late prince, they had been in love.
"The Starks were part of the rebellion against the Targaryens" the banner man told him, "How long before she comes hunting for your blood?"
"She won't" Robb forgot not many knew of Lyanna and the late prince, but this princess had to know right? After all one of her dragons had come to Jon's aid and he was a Stark. "Just trust me, when and if she does come we will pledge our loyalty to her."
"You want us to beg for our lives?" the man frowned.
"No." Robb told her, "We will aid her in her attempts to win back the iron throne."
"Yes." The man muttered, "What ever it is you wish my lord."
AN- I know the story is kind of slow, but send some reviews and help inspire me. I know where I want this story to go so now its just about figuring out how to get it there.
For a time line just want you guys to know that Lyanna is now 18 years old and Aaden is 10.