Had to get Rhaenys reaction to everything. Hope you enjoy thanks for reading let me know what you think! Next time we will see the Lannisters.
"King Aegon is dead!" The messenger bursted into the war tent. Room had been sitting at his map looking it over SmallJon umber Robbs dear friend held Jacaerys and Dacey Mormont played with the babe. Robb's eyes went right to his wife who stood on the otherside of the table she had been talking with him a moment ago but she just looked at the messenger and got very white Robb got up, her eyes rolled as she fainted Ser Selmy caught her handing her to Robb as he ran to her.
Rhaenys came back screaming. "No! NO! NO! this has to be a mistake!" She cried.
"All reports say he fought bravely." The messenger told.
"Fetch my mother!" Robb said. She was being held for her crime but this was important.
"He is dead! I don't care if her fought bravely, I would rather him be a coward and alive then a brave deadman!" She cried. She knew it would never happen Aegon had been without fear even as a boy. He even had a smile that said everything would be okay. He knew of duty and honor and he was good and kind. He didn't deserve this to die young for no real reason, his glorious life ended before it even began the kingdom lost the best king it could ever have before he had the chance to rule her heart ached and tears fell freely down her face their was a sharp pain in her stomach thinking of her baby brother dead on that miserable island. Robb held her close and rocked her softly rubbing her back but all she could think of was how happy and comfortable she was with Robb and she should have been suffering through this war with Aegon she should have died with Aegon.
"My lady if you are going to claim the throne you need to do it now, if you are differing your claim to your son you need to do it now!" Selmy told her as Catelyn came in she had been informed.
"My s-son." She cried. "Jack is just a baby." She said softly, Jack was the nickname Robb had given their son that seemed to stick.
"Baby or not he is male and many will want to see him on the throne over you." Catelyn said honestly.
Robb looked to his baby who knew nothing was going on. Jacaerys seemed to be a good name for him, Rhaenys had been panicked he was all stark but in truth when his hair came it was white like her fathers, his eyes were blue like robs and he had fair skin like Robbs but he looked much more Targaryen then Stark Rhaenys joked he looked more Targaryen then she did. He was just a babe.
"We were never fighting for the throne, it was to be Aegon's we were fighting for the North." Robb reminded.
"We cannot leave Joffrey on the throne he is the product of incest, he is a bastard, he killed your father, he killed my father, they killed my brother where does it end!" Rhaenys asked.
"What of Dragonstone?" Robb asked the messenger.
Neither of them were yet twenty years, they were children doing their best for their murdered fathers, dead brothers and the future they longed for their son to have. To be safe and secure, it seemed like a far off dream.
"Dragonstone has not yielded yet but without a king it is only a matter of time." The messenger said.
"Is ser Arthur alive?" Rhaenys asked.
"Yes princess." The messenger told her.
Selmy shook his head for poor Arthur, they both out lived their boys a horrible existence and Aegon was everything to Arthur he kept Elia alive for Arthur.
"Then Dragonstone will not fall." She promised Arthur would never forgive the people who killed his king and he would never give them Dragonstone Aegon's castle to his murderers.
"Still everyone will want to know who we are fighting for." Catelyn said and Rhaenys just got up walked out of the tent she couldn't do this anymore her brother was dead. She couldn't think about this stupid war. She thought of poor Aegon dying in a thousand different ways, she would never know she supposed and all anyone talked about was wars and the thrones. She went back to her tent Ros looked at her worried but Rhaenys dismissed her without a word.
She did not have to turn around to know Robb came in behind her. She held her arms out and he put Jacaerys in them she held her son tightly looking at his silver hair atop his head so fine they hadn't noticed at first.
"I'm sorry, he has turned out to be all Targaryen." She said smiling at her baby in her arms she had no idea how it happened.
"Why are you apologizing?" He asked wrapping his arms around her waist.
"I assumed you would want a northern looking baby to be the Lord of Winterfell." She said softly.
"I never really thought about it." He admitted kissing her shoulder blade. "I just wanted him to be healthy…...and a boy." He said making her smile for the first time since she heard her brother died from his boyish honesty.
"Not even because I wanted an heir, just because Sansa and Arya could be such pains and the boys are so easy and fun like…." Robb stopped frowning, Rickon and Bran were burned to death by his eldest friend. Between the two of them they had three dead brothers and that realization set in.
"We have to live for them." Robb said.
"We have to fight for them." Rhaenys said slowly.
"You don't have to do this." Robb told her softly she shook her head.
"What kind of son would you were not trying to avenge your fathers enemies? What kind of daughter would I be if I did not save my fathers throne from usurpers, my brothers throne." She looked at the squirming baby in her hands. "Our sons throne."
"Maybe it's a good thing he looks Targaryen." Robb said softly.
"I don't like the idea of being ruling, but I am very glad you will be by my side." She told him as his arms wrapped around her.
"Always" He promised.
"I will of course name you hand."
"I don't know if I will be any good at that, I'm struggling enough as warden of the North since I lost the kingslayer." Robb admitted.
"We may not be perfect but we are all that is left." She said softly.
"I have a plan but we will need more men." Robb said.
"I will write Stormsend and Dragonstone."
Robb hesitated, "For who." Robb asked softly.
She looked down at her baby.
"For our son. Everything I do until my dying breath will be for my son. It is his throne we have to safe guard it for him." She said simply.
He nodded. "I can get more men from my uncles Banners in the Riverlands, the Freys have men."
"Weren't you suppose to marry his daughter."
"I was already promised." Robb said simply. "He cannot hold onto that as a grievance."
