III

Sansa as a Martell


"Mama! Mama! Look!"

Sansa smiled as her three year old nephew-no-"son", pointed at the seashells lying on the sand. Aaron (the false name they've given Aegon) was laughing as he ran and picked up the small shells and presented them to her and his Father.

"Pretty shells." Her son commented and both she and her husband laughed.

"Yes, pretty like Mama." Her husband said and Sansa felt her heart pounding quickly against her chest.

Aaron let out a sound of approval and ran back to his nursemaid.

She doesn't know how or why but things have changed since the night of their wedding.

Everything started out as a plan to protect Aegon, Elia's son from the Usurper and keep his identity unknown. So she claimed Aegon as her bastard son.

But she didn't expect both her brothers be furious and demand the identity of the child's Father and in panic she inadvertently named Ashara's brother, Arthur as Aegon's sire.

So now here they are and not only that she was protecting Elia's son but also Rhaegar's other son with Lyanna Stark.

She knew that she was supposed to hate the boy, his dead mother was the cause lf war and the reason why both Elia and Rhaenys are gone but she can't bring herself to loathe him. Jon, the babe in her arms, is innocent of his mother and father's mistakes and though both Oberyn and Doran are angry with her decision to keep him, she doesn't mind. The babe was now her and Arthur's son, not Rhaegar's nor not Lyanna's.

"You look troubled, are you fine?" Arthur then asked.

Sansa hurriedly shook the thoughts from her mind and smiled, "No husband, I'm fine."

"Are you sure? Just tell me if you are not well and I'll get the maester to check you and our babe." He said as his hand rested on the soft swell on her belly.

She blushed at his words and felt her heart swelling with love, who would have imagined that a kingsguard and a legendary knight like Arthur Dayne has a soft loving side?

She just nodded in response and reached out to cup his face, "I am fine." She repeated again.

He smiled and pressed a soft kiss on her lips. "I love you..." He whispered, his blue violet eyes staring intently at her with adoration.

"And I love you too..." She whispered back.