Sansa stared at her now flame red hair in the mirror, her grey gown moving like smoke as she sat by the fire.
What am I to do now? Who am I to become?
Sansa did look up as her chamber doors opened and closed, and footsteps padded towards her until they stopped in front of her.
'' Your Grace.'' She did not look up.
'' Alayne,'' she could hear the cautious overtone in his voice.
''Sansa,'' so foreign on his tongue. One word almost a whisper, but it pierced Sansa like a dagger, leaving a familiar ache in her heart.
'' Harry,'' her husband stood solemnly in front of her.
Harry Solemn? She almost laughed at the thought. Harry was boisterous, strong, kind, but he was never solemn. He kneeled in front of her and took her and kissed it, like a knight would his queen.
But I want no knight, not ever.
'' It is done. Lord Baelish has been executed.'' Sansa leaned back in her chair.
'' I should of taken his life myself, that's what father would have wanted.''
Harry's lips thinned to form a line and his eyes flashed, his words were brittle, '' your father wouldn't want this for you-any of it.''
My father wanted me to marry a good man. That is what he wanted.
Sansa touched his cheek and his face softened.
'' Your grace,'' she flinched, '' if it pleases you I can ask the septon to dissolve our marriageā¦I can tell them that I never...that I...''
''No one would believe it.'' His face was cast down and she could no longer see his expression.
'' No one has to-it's just a signed document.''
'' Is that what you want-what you truly want.'' She could see his throat working and the hands on her skirts clenched into the fabric.
'' No.''
'' Then what do you want?''
'' What do you want?'' No one had asked Sansa that in a very long time. Now she knew how Harry had broken the walls of snow and ice that she had built around herself. She lifted his chin and pressed her lips against his. He tensed a moment before unclenching his fists from her skirts and carding them through her hair.
She whispered against his lips, '' I want us to rule together you and I.''
