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CASSIE

"Up with that sword" at the umpteenth stab not diverted, Cassie took Freema's wrist and pull it up "Up is here".

She had been training with that girl for hours. That day all keepers of light had been paired up. The oldest were with the youngest and more unstable, the others had to train who was younger than them.

Cassie had been paired with Freema, according to lady Eloyse she was almost ready to go beyond the Wall, Cassie wasn't sure. She wasn't even able to stop a stab.

"But you are too fast" Freema said catching her breath.

"Sorry you are right" Cassie answered pretending to think "Oh you know what? Maybe you could try and say it to the wildling who'll stab you in the head"

"Cassandra!"

"What?!" The girl turned to see Vyva, a Keeper of fourty, not far from her, shaking her head.

"I think is time for you to drink some water" Cassie passed an hand in her long black hair, before nodding with a forced smile.

"Of course" she said walking away. Cassie set with a growl next to the barrel full of cold water, her head in her hands, trying to calm herself. After a moment she felt two people sitting on each side of her.

"I can sense you are tense" the sarcastic voice of Wylly didn't made her smile this time.

"It's not about Freema, is it?" Rose said sweetly "Is it about Benjen?" Cassie growled.

Benjen had gone beyond the Wall, two days before, but he didn't choose Cassie as partner, like he had always had. Cassie didn't like that decision firstly because Ben was the man of the Watch that she worked better with and secondly because she was afraid that beyond that decision there was something more. Benjen had chosen Cinthya, one of the best old women among them. Well old.. She was thirty. But she was one of the most expert, one of the two Keepers that had gone beyond the Wall for the first time at nine years old.

Cassie had become very superstitious after her talk with Hydi, she couldn't help but feel stupid. The Others didn't exist, it wasn't possible. But now everytime she talked or thought of the other side the thought of the Others came back in her mind.

"Or maybe it's about your uncle" Cassie rolled her eyes at Wylly's words.

Her uncle was still at the Wall, it's been weeks now and he was still there and Cassie couldn't stand him now more than ever. He ate with them, he walked where he wanted, he talked of things that nobody cared. She wanted to escape but she couldn't, because she was sure he would have been there.

"Or maybe it's about Jon" Cassie stood up.

"Don't you have training to do?" She exclaimed and the two girls looked at each other with a smirk.

"You won" Wylliana said proudly to Rose, who smiled in victory. Cassie's gazed move between the girls arching her eyebrows. They were having fun, she was glad.

"It's not about Jon!" Cassie argued, but the girls just laughed "Alright, I'm done for today" she turned her back at them before walking away.

It wasn't Jon Snow, not just him anyway. Her friends didn't understand why she was so angry at him, Rose often told her to invite him to eat with them because he was always alone, but Cassie never did, they didn't even talk and it wasn't her fault if he hadn't any friends. His actions spoke for themselves.

Cassie walked to the training fields of the Watch and her gaze fall on Jon Snow who was training with Pyp. They both wore the black armor where had already fallen a bit of snow. She studied Jon's every move and it was easy to understand that Jon had been trained by a master-at-arms. He was winning and he seemed proud of it, but the others recruits looked at him with pure hate.

"He is skilled, it's impossible to deny it" she rolled her eyes when she heard Tyrion's voice.

"He is stupid" she said when Jon hit Pyp hard on the ancle making him fall on the snowy grownd with a loud cry. Cassie shooked her head.

"He has defeated him, dear niece"

"If you think that way then you are more stupid than him" she said, her gaze was fixed when she heard Thorne calling for Grenn to train with Jon. Grenn was a boy of seventeen, Cassie had seen him train, he was slow, but he was bigger than Jon. The girl's hands clanged on the wooden railing when Jon dodged Grenn's attack, it was a strong one.

Tyrion shifted next to her "He may be stupid, but you care" Cassie looked him from the corner of her eyes, his uncle laughed "For a person so honest, you lie a lot" Cassie turned fully towards her uncle ready to say something when she heard a loud screem from the field. Her eyes came back at Jon, but he had won again and beside him Grenn was holding his wrist, twisted in a strange angle, pure pain on his face.

Jon had broken his wrist.

"Idiot" she muttered before storming away.

The Wall had brought out a side of Jon that she had never noticed, he was extreamly childish. An idiot child.

He had beated every recruit of the Watch with ease, umiliated them, and even being proud of it. He wasn't being friendly with anyone, but not because he was shy. And then he got surprised when Thorne had given him the name Lord Snow. He acted like he had been forced to go to the Wall. She had talked to Wylly about the possibility for him to go back, since he was a volunteer, but she reminded her that once there, he was like all the others, he couldn't leave. Ahead of him there were just the vows of the Watch.

Cassie went in the armory to gave back the training sword she had taken before. The armory wasn't huge, but it was full of weapons, all of them without edge of course, the dangerous once were in another side of the castle.

"You are early today, m'princess" Cassie smiled at the voice of their blacksmith Donal Noye.

"I'm no princess" she answered turning to him "Not here, anyway" Donal Noye had been a blacksmith in Storm's End, the castle of House Baratheon in the Storm's Lands. Cassie had seen it and she had loved it. The walls were dark, not shiny like King's Landing's, and outside the waves of the see moved with costant fury against the rocks.

Ours is the fury.

She wondered if the words of house Baratheon had come from that water.

"How's your father?" Noye asked taking Cassie's sword in his hand.

"I don't think you would recognize him" Donal had known Cassie's father and apparently he had been the one to forge Robert Baratheon's hammer, the one that killed Rhaegar Targaryen during the war. Even Noye had fought but he lost an arm, so even before Cassie was born he left the Storm's Lands and went to the Wall, but he had always remained loyal to Cassie's house and he always treated her gently, so she did the same.

A loud crash made them turn, Cassie followed the noise to arrive in one of the cells near the armory, she looked inside and she saw that Grenn, Toad, Wanker and another young man had surrounded Jon. Todder and the young man had stopped Jon twisting his arm behind his back.

"Was your mother a whore, lord Snow?" Jon soon freed his arm in rage and punched Wanker across the face. Cassie shooked her head.

"Boys and their games" she said stepping in the room. All of them stopped and turned to her, with different expressions on their faces. Wanker looked at her with anger, but he took a step back, Todder and the other man looked down, Grenn's face was twisted strangely, probably because of the pain and Jon looked at her surprised.

"I'm pretty sure that you have to be on the field to fight" she added taking another step.

"It doesn't concern you, witch" Wanker said making her smirk. Has he just called her witch?

Her hand move so fast that in a blink of an eye it was on his neck, everyone gasped at the scene before them. Cassie was looking him in the eyes, he was petrified by the fear. Her hand was trabling, begging her to reliese her power.

"Sometimes I think that it would be better to subjugate some of you" she said in a growl "To make the others understand how to behave" he was shaking under her touch "But then I remember you would die and even in a quick way" then she smiled "No, I prefer see you change your behavior slowly and painfully out in the cold" Cassie let him go and he seemed to breath again "Go in your cells!" She exclaimed and all of them moved to the door, when she noticed Grenn passing by she spoke again "Go to maester Aemon, he will help you with it" he nodded his head before exit the room. Turning she noticed that Jon hadn't moved from his spot, they looked at each other before Cassie moved to the door.

"Thank you" she stopped at Jon's words.

"What?"

"I just wanted to thank you, for helping me" he said again, she had almost hoped that he would have taken is mouth shut.

"You are an idiot" Cassie said walking to him, he frowned at those words "Whose do you think is the fault for this?"

"They are all jealous because I beated them" Cassie laughed at that and at how strongly he seemed to believe in it.

"Congratulations, son of a lord, for having beaten twenty farmers" she exclaimed "Do you think that here we are all up to beat the best of the class? You are not the first good sword Lord Snow"

"Don't call me that!" He argued angrily.

"Why not?" She said in a challenging tone "It suits you. You don't care about them, you don't care of getting them hurt. You have skills for becoming a ranger" she admitted "But you are going to die on your first mission" he shook his head "No? Who do you think will cover your lordy ass out there?" How could he not see it? In Winterfell everyone loved the Starks because of how they treated their people. Hasn't he learnt anything? Respect was all it was about, it wasn't needed to love your companions, you just need them to trust you and for them to be trusted. Jon fought to win, not for training. If the edge of that sword had been sharp all the other recruits would have been dead. How could they become brothers in that way?

"You are a child" she said and he looked at her but he wasn't angry, not for this at least "And maybe you realized it too" when she moved to the door he spoke

"Nobody told me it would have been like this"

"What did you expect, Jon?" Cassie asked calmly "That because your father is a lord they would have treat you better here?"

"You've never talked about the Wall, how it is like" he argued. Cassie's eyes widened in anger.

"Don't try and blame me" she said "You made a choice, it was yours. Nobody jumped with joy at your idea, but you didn't care. Do you want to prove something, Jon? Proove that you are man enough to take your responsabilities" Cassie then stormed off of the room.

That idiot, that child! How dare he? If he hadn't been so focus on cry after lady Catelyn now he would have been at home, were his real brothers needed him, where he had a life.

It was almost dinner time and that meant that she had free time. She set on the wooden steps watching the snow falling from the sky, dancing slowly in the wind. It was a calm night, the wind wasn't blowing harshly and it wasn't too much cold, for her skin anyway. Men of the Night's Watch and Keepers of the light were talking and walking, everyone was calm and her eyes diverted on the wall of ice behind her. The Wall had been built at the end of the Long Night, she wondered how long the next winter would be since the summer had lasted almost eleven years.

"Sorry, if we angered you today" Rose said sitting next to Cassie "But you're welcome for covering for you with lady Eloyse. If she asks, you had a terrible headache" Cassie smiled looking at her feet.

"It is not exactly a lie" she answered.

Silence fell between them "Cassie what's going on? Wylly and I are getting worried" Rose asked "I know you don't like talking about yourself, but this time there is something" she was right, Cassie hated to talk about her worries, she wouldn't talk about how tedious having her uncle around was or the fact that one day they would have found Jon Snow stabbed in his bed.

"Do you believe in old stories?" Cassie asked suddenly.

"Depends on which" Rose replied looking Cassie closer.

"Do you believe in the Others?" Cassie added looking Rose in the eyes, the girl eyes blinked in fear and confusion.

"I don't want to believe in those" she answered honestly "Why?" Cassie didn't know if it was wise telling Rose since she seemed so scared. Maybe she was scaring her over nothing.

"Just curious" Cassie answered shooking her head.

Suddenly quick steps and a joyful laughter echoed in Castle Black. Cassie stood up when she recognized Jon Snow. He was going down the stairs that lead to the Old Bear chamber.

What was he so happy about? Cassie wondered, looking at his big smile.

When Jon saw her, he run to her and hugged her. Cassie felt paralyzed unsure of what to do. He was laughing in her ear "He's awake. The gods gave him back to us" Cassie eyes widened and looking him in the eyes she saw tears.

"Bran?" She asked carefully. He nodded without stop smiling. Cassie screamed in joy before trowing her arms around Jon's neck and immediately he hugged her close again. She couldn't believe little Bran was alive, she preferred not to think about him afraid he would have died.

Maybe the gods existed after all, Cassie thought. Then she broke the hug putting her hands on his shoulder, they looked in each other's eyes with joy. She had missed smile with him.

"I've talked with Noye" he said "And you were right, I've been acted like a child" she laughed.

"Every man was a child once" Jon laughed too, then he turned. Cassie fallowed his gaze to see Grenn, looking at them. Well everyone was looking at them, even Thorne. Jon walked closer to Grenn, but he step back.

"Stay away from me, bastard" Cassie frowned, how could someone be so afraid of the shy and gentle Jon Snow? He really didn't know how to make good first impressions.

"I'm sorry about your wrist" he said kindly, he hadn't been that kind since he came at the Wall "Robb did the same to me with a wooden sword and it hurted like seven hells. Maybe I can show you how to devert it" Cassie looked proudly at him when she saw Grenn nodding lightly. Jon had understood that he needed to team up with those men not beat them.

"Lord Snow wants to take my place now" Thorne roared in a laughter. Cassie rolled her eyes ar his comment. How come no one had ever stabbed him in his bed?

"I would have an easier time teaching a wolf how to juggle, than you teaching him how to fight" were they supposed to laugh at this?

"I'll take that wager, Ser Allyser" Jon said "I'd love to see Ghost juggle" Cassie eyes widened while everyone around them gasped. Silent fell. Only a laughter was heard and it came from her uncle Tyrion's mouth. When Tyrion started laughing soon he was joined by all the men and women around.

Cassie would have laughed too and maybe even be proud of Jon, if Ser Allyser wasn't so vicious and his master-at-arms.

Thorne eyes never left Jon, his hands curled into fists "That was a grievous error, Lord Snow" he said while everyone was still laughing. He had never been mistreated by his men.

What the fuck, Jon, she thought looking at her friend next to her.