2/17/2016: This is a newer version. I changed some things.

Some Years Later

INTERLUDE: Theon

Theon Greyjoy was always underestimated, it did not matter that for years he strove to make his guardians proud, he still fell short when it came to the heir of Winterfell: Robb Stark. Theon himself had mix feelings about the heir. Even knowing they were considered friends he still felt envious of what the Heir had, compared to what he used to have and what was his now.

After all, the childhood he spent on the Iron Islands was with a very demanding father and an absent mother. With brothers who did not care for you and a sister everyone half liked and half loathed, he was always forgotten.

The Starks took him from his family after the death of all his brothers and the defeat of his father but he still tried to fit in. It didn't work out as he hoped it would.

As everyone who treated with Theon knew, the time he did not train, he spent messing with the whores at Ross', so the times he was over on the main court not many payed him any mind.

If he were any other person, noble or not, Theon would not have noticed anything amiss yet with his mind almost always on matters better not asked, he did.

The smoldering glances he gave her. The embraces that lasted a few more seconds than appropriate, and the twitch of the lips she gave him when he did something funny. All that and more would make people think they were lovers not brother and sister.

The people would never have guessed that their beloved Robb Stark; heir to all the territory considered The North, has feelings for his bastard half-sister and even less that she reciprocated those feelings as well.

He was loath to admit but he became jealous of the attention Lysara was always giving Robb. He secretly fancied himself in love with her grace and beauty but she, like everyone else had eyes only for Robb. He hated that with a passion only rivaled by his appetite for women.

Not that Theon cared, much. After all he could still remember the times his older brothers imposed their seed on either wanton or stolen women without a care in the world. Though in one of those few moments of kindness he gets, he'll try to beat the obsession he and Robb have towards Sara by sparring and maybe, just maybe he will win this once.