Game of Thrones: Unexpected Bonds
Chapter 12 of my Game of Thrones story, enjoy.
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Disclaimer: Game of Thrones belongs to George R.R. Martin.
Chapter 12
Joy smiled as she woke up the following day along with the other girls.
"Morning girls, sleep well?" Margaery asked with a grin.
Shireen smiled. "Yeah, what about you?"
They all answered affirmatively before leaving the room, they soon joined Podrick and Tommen as they headed down for breakfast. Podrick blushed as he saw Sansa in her pyjamas still, she blushed too, biting her lip. Joy smiled lightly at that and soon they joined Tyrion and Shae at the table.
Shae smiled widely. "Good morning all; how are you?"
Joy smiled. "Good thank you."
They all smiled and confirmed Joy's reply.
Margaery grinned. "We're fine thank you ma'am. Hope you don't mind us staying for breakfast."
"Not at all." Shae replied.
So they all started breakfast and began making plans for later in the day.
"Oh, that's right." Sansa said suddenly. "Joy, there's a family gathering up at Winterfell tonight, do you wanna come?"
Joy grinned. "That sounds great, sure, I'll come."
The others all smiled and soon arrangements were made, as Pod would be driving up anyway, he offered to give Joy a lift, which she gladly accepted. Afterwards everybody got dressed and Joy said goodbye to the girls as they all left, soon it was just her, Pod, Tommen and Myrcella. Tyrion approached them, smiling.
"Cella, Tommen, I just got a phone call from your mother. She should be here soon."
They both nodded and Tommen replied. "Good; wonder what happened to Joffrey, I've never seen mum so mad."
They all shared a look at that; all curious.
It was about twenty minutes later when Cersei finally arrived. Tommen saw her first as she entered and grinned.
"Hey mum." He greeted her with a smile.
She smiled happily, her smile widening as the others joined them, including Myrcella who Cersei immediately hugged.
"Cella, I am so sorry; I should have been more aware." She said softly.
Myrcella shook her head. "It's okay mum, none of us knew, Joffrey was sneaky about it."
Tyrion smiled and nodded. Joy was curious however and asked.
"What's happened with Joffrey?"
Cersei sighed deeply before finally revealing. "It was hard, but I saw no other way, his actions were deplorable. I've sent him to the Wall."
The others grimaced at that and Tyrion gently shook his head. "You did what you had to do Cersei, it's the best place for him."
"What's the Wall?" Joy asked, confused.
It was Pod who explained things to her. "The Wall is a military school, far in the North, it's well known for its strictness and discipline procedures."
The others nodded and Joy grimaced as she understood what this meant. In a way however she was relieved.
'It's a good thing in the end, After all, Joffrey can no longer torment me, or any other girl now.' She thought to herself.
She smiled softly; relieved that things seemed to be okay at last.
Joy smiled as she sat in Podrick's car. They were on their way North; while she knew many of Sansa's family from school, there would be others there that she hadn't met, or had the chance to know that well.
"You okay?" Pod asked her, noticing her discomfort.
Joy nodded. "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, I'm just nervous."
He smiled softly. "I was too, the first time I went to see the Starks, Sansa and I had only just got together at that point."
Joy nodded. "I guess."
They soon arrived and got out of the car. They made their way up to the door and Pod knocked on the door. Sansa answered and grinned broadly.
"Pod, Joy, glad you could make it, come in." She said.
They both smiled and stepped inside; Pod and Sansa kissed and soon they headed through to the living room. The very first people Joy ran into were familiar to her.
"Arya, hi." She said with a grin.
The younger girl turned to her and also grinned. "Hey Joy, good to see you. Sansa told me what happened, are you alright?"
She nodded. "I'm fine…So, you're Gendry?"
The tall muscular man next to Arya smiled and nodded. "Yeah, nice to meet you properly."
Joy smiled and soon found herself mingling with the others, getting to know them well.
Joy was talking with Bran and Rickon, also getting to know Sansa's older brother, Robb too. She smiled as she continued to speak with them when she heard someone say her name. She turned and saw two people approaching her.
"You must be Joy, correct." The woman said.
She nodded as Rickon spoke to them. "Hi mum, dad."
They smiled and introduced themselves, the woman was Catelyn Stark and the man her husband, Eddard Stark. She smiled warmly.
"It's nice to meet you both, I've heard a lot about you."
Eddard smiled kindly. "That's good. We've heard about, well, everything that's happened."
Joy nodded slowly, knowing what they meant, not just the Joffrey incident, but the issue with her father too.
"Yes…" She said hesitantly.
Catelyn smiled gently. "If ever need anything, you only need to ask, we're more than happy to help."
Joy smiled gratefully. "Thank you, I'll, I'll be sure to remember that."
They smiled at her, Joy couldn't help but consider that everything she heard about the Starks seemed to be true, they were kind and certainly friendly. It was later on that Joy was introduced to another member of the Stark family; Jon Snow; Eddard's nephew from his sister, Lyanna.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Joy, Joy Hill." She introduced herself.
He smiled kindly and replied in kind. "Pleasure, Jon Snow, nice to meet you too."
They shook hands and got to talking; Joy was surprised when she noted that Jon actually had a similar backstory to her, his parents weren't married. She got to talking to him and before long they were friends. Joy smiled; happy that things were at last getting better.
End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.
