Jon pov
We won!
Without the help from the knights of the vale it would have gone south, but all that matters was that Ramsey Bolton was tied up in one of the cells.
He pleaded to stay alive, he was without honor in every possible way. First he had hurt Sansa, then he tried to kill an innocent child like Rickon and then he begs to spare his life.
The bittersweet taste about wining, was that Lord Baelish was once again in Winterfell and near Sansa. She had told me, he all but sold her to the boltons, it was his fault that Sansa had to endure what she did. I saw him shortly after the battle on the courtyard, Rayne was glaring daggers at him.
When Rickon came running to me I lost sight on both of them, Rayne will most likely keep an eye on him.
Rickon, Sansa and me retreated to our old Family room. Rickon told us that osha, a wildlings woman, had helped him, Bran and Hodor to survive. Osha had been murderd by Ramsey as he caught her trying to set Rickon free.
We talked till Rickon fell asleep, I was about to carry him to his chambers when Sansa spoke
"Thank you!"
"What for?"
"I know you never like it here, because of how Mother and I treated you, and you didn't have to risk your live for me but you still did. So, thank you." She explained.
"Sansa, this is my Home, too. You are right, not every memory I have of this place is a good one. But still we grew up here. Now that we are together, and when Bran and Arya are back too, we can make new memorys, good ones. That is all that matters to me, to know that my family is safe. "
Sansa had tears in her eyes, and just nodded
"I will get Rickon to bed and you should sleep too. I have to send a few raven's to the Lords in the north." I said
"Close the door and lock them, and don't go anywhere without Brienne or podrick. I don't know what Lord Baelish is up to, I don't want to see him anywhere near you. I don't trust him" I ordered her.
"And you shouldn't, ever" She said as I left the room to get Rickon to bed.
I got to the tower, and send raven's off to the house in the north, with an invitation to Winterfell. We needed their help to survive the long night, I hope they will be willing to.
As I made my way down from the tower, my need to see Rayne grew bigger and bigger. I just saw her the one time on the yard and thats it. I made my way to the stabbles, as a kid she was always there. She even made herself a bed there.
The horses snorted as I enterd, I could see a figure at the end of the barn and made my way over. As I got closer I noticed the Person had blond hair, my disappointment grew, it was only Alina.
"Alina, everything alright with you?" I asked, she turned and smiled at me.
"Everything is fine, Rayne told me to wait here for you. She said to tell you that she got a new mission and you should not worry, she will be still around here somewhere, you just won't see her." She told me.
"What? What mission?" I asked her confused "And why will i not see her?"
"Jon trust her, she is trying to keep you and your family safe. She will explain it when when she tinks that the time is right. But relax, she is no danger. She is good at what she does."
I couldn't think, I couldn't talk I was so angry that she would just do something like that. How could I make sure that she was safe now?
"She should have talked to me first. I wanted her to keep an eye on Sansa because Lord Baelish is here."
"I will watch Sansa then. It's not that I have a lot to do around here otherwise."
"Promise me that nothing bad will happen to her." I said desperatly to her.
"Jon, our girl can take care of herself. And she got me as backup. Nothing will happen to her, I promise."
I looked in her eyes, and what I saw was pure trust in Raynes abilities. I made my way out of the stabbles and to my chambers. I thought I would feel Raynes eyes on me, only to see servant girl make her way to the kitchen.
I really needed some sleep.
Raynes pov
After I explained to Alina why we would have to spy on littlefinger, she showed me a massgrave. A hole in the ground with many servants, mens, women and even children were lying there, Ramsey didn't have the dignity to bury them. I took the face from a recently deceased servant girl.
"You know that Jon will flip his shit, when I tell him. Right?" Alina reminded me.
"We can switch places if it needs to be. We have already done that. If I would tell him right now what I am going to do, he would try to stop me, he worries to much." I had said back, to which she only smiled.
"That is when you love someone" I glared at her, sure Jon had feelings for me, I still remember brightly what we did the night before the battle. My face headed up at the memory, but was it love? I knew that I was in love with him, but would he return that feeling? I shook those thoughts away and mask myself with the face of the servant.
Later as I was walking over the yard, I spotted Jon coming from the stabbles, looking miserable. So Alina told him what I was doing, I knew he would hate it.
The next few weeks I changed more and more to Lilly, the servant girl. At night I would meet up with Alina and tell her everything. So that if we really needed to switch she would know what to do and to behave. Jon was busy to get the Lord to believe him that the Night King wasn't a myth but a real danger to all humans. He would train with the New mens that would arrived, and every day they got more. Sansa, now Lady stark and Rickon now Lord Stark, organized the inventories and supplies. Sansa more than Rickon.
Lord Baelish on the other hand was busy to undermine Jons reputation. He would talk badly to the Lords of the vale and the others about Jon, but thankfully it wouldn't work out for him. Everyone knew his reputation and that he had betrayed Lord Eddard Stark, not one of the Lords believed a word he was saying. He also was trying to badmouth him to Lady stark, who wouldn't listen to anything he had to say at all.
I had made sure, that I was the only one to serv him. That gave me the opportunaty to be in his chambers and search for everything and nothing. I had already found a few old Messages, they were all from Sansa. It was from her imprisonment in Kings landing, I was sure he would try to use them against her. I would have to make sure that those Messages would disappear. He would hide them at roof of his wardrobe, as he caught me dusting it of he got furious. Frightened to be caught.
"What are you doing there?" He had asked.
I played the suprised little servant "I'm dusting your wardrobe of, my Lord."
I had bowed to him. He came onto me and grabed me around my neck and pressed me to the wall behind me.
"I don't like it when people snoop around my things." He said harshly, "If I would still be on the court in Kings Landing i would give you to some brothel, to show you a lesson. I would bet some lords would still pay a good price for a beauty like you." He threatend me.
If I wouldn't just play my innocent little servant role I would have killed him right there. "I am sorry my Lord, I thought you would want a clean chamber." He was looking me straight into the eyes, so I pressed some tears out.
"No one would want me, my Lord. My uncle was a mean drunk, he left some ugly scars on my back. No one would pay for damaged good".
He let go of me and sent me off, with the Order to ask him everytime I would work around in his chamber. After that little stunt I would always play the little scared servant around him, I was beginning to became invisible to him. But he still had hiden the messages somewhere else, his mattress.
I also caught a few conversations to the other Lords of the vale, everytime he made sure that they would support him if he was to strike.
I think I've got enough dirt on him now, finally I can get back to being me, and being with Jon again. I was longing for him, I would give Alina our sign that I, Rayne, was coming back, I had to accidently ran into her. So she would know to be ready so we could strike before littlefinger could.
As I was on my way to Alina, I was told to attend to the great Hall because Jon called all Lords and Ladys into a big meeting.
"A raven from the citadel arrived this morning, it says that in the caves under Dragonstone would be an huge occurence of Dragon glass. We need Dragon glass to kill the whights, so I will travel with a few man to Dragonstone and get the Dragon glass back here, for our smiths to make weapons."
Everyone was talking now, it was absolut Chaos.
"My Lords and Lady, please! We don't have time for that" He roared through the Hall and everyone was getting quiet.
"Jon you can't just leave here, you have to stay here and help us to be prepared for the long night." Sansa said, totally suprised by his Plans.
"Lady Stark, if we don't get our hands on that Dragon glass we don't have to prepare for anything. I am no Lord here so I'm the best choice. "
"I hate to Interrupt you" Lady Mormund began "You may not be an Lord, but you are a son of Eddard Stark. And we want you as our King of the north." She said.
I was smiling so widely it began to hurt, finally he got the Respekt he deserved from everyone.
"Lady Mormund, that is very generous of you. But I can't be a King, I wasn't born high for that. I'm just a Bastard, Lord Stark sits over there. He should become your King. " He answered her.
"I don't want to be the King, I am to young for that, i don't have the experience that you have, Jon. I talked to the Maester I will lay my responsibilities to you" Rickon said, with a bright smile.
Rickon had always liked and trusted Jon, my heart swelled with pride. Here he was his opportunaty to become someone as big as his father and he wouldn't grasped it because the rules for heirs says otherwise.
"I say we take a vote, should Jon Snow the bastard of Eddard Stark, who grew up under his fathers eyes and learned from him become our New King in the north? I say, yes!" Lady Mormond said and turned to question the Umbers, The Karstarks, the Manderlys, the Glauers and the Reets. Each and everyone said yes.
"So I will announce ..." She began only for Sansa to interrup her "Lady Mormond can I? " She asked.
"I will announce you the King in the north, King Jon Snow!" She said and the Hall errupted in cheers.
As I made my way to serv the Lords I caught view of Alina. She was making her way to a table. I quickly made my way over to her and accidently stumbeled into her. "I am so Sorry my Lady, did I hurt you?" I asked her, so she would know that it was our sighn. And that she would tell Jon, that I would visit him, soon.
"It was my fault I didn't watch where I was going. Everything is alright, dear." She answered so we wouldn't get to much attention.
That evening, Lilly died. And Rayne was back at full force, so watch out Lord Baelish!
