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2 Weeks Later Early Aenary 301 AC Winterfell

"Brandon Stark, how many times have I told you no climbing the Walls of Winterfell?" Catelyn asked her second youngest son as she saw him climbing down the wall.

"But mother, I saw the King, he is coming with over a hundred men," Bran said trying to be innocent.

"I want you to promise me, no more climbing, especially while the King is here," Catelyn said firmly.

"I promise," Bran said looking at the ground as Harry walked over.

"I am not sure I trust you, you always look at your feet when you are lying, none the less, go find your father and tell him that the King is close," Catelyn said with a small smile as Bran looked at her sheepishly.

"I suppose Bran already informed you then, My lady, the King should be here in the hour," Harry said with a smile as he watched the 13-year-old runoff.

"Thank you, Hadrian, now could you do me a favor?" Catelyn asked cautiously.

"Of course, my lady, how can I be of aid?" Harry asked worried now due to her tone.

"Please watch Bran, especially while the King is here, I do not trust that he will not be climbing and come across some meeting he should not be privy to," Catelyn said kindly.

"Of course, my Lady, and I will also let Grimm know to inform me if he or Summer sees Bran begin to climb," Harry said with a smile.

"Thank you, Hadrian, now can you please gather the children so they are ready in the courtyard when the king arrives?" Catelyn asked calmly.

"Lady Catelyn I could do that, you do not need to have a knight do such trivial things as that," The Old man who was near her said calmly.

"Maester Luwin, there is no need for you to do that, when Hadrian is just as capable, besides I need your aide in the final preparations," Catelyn said kindly.

"Of course, My Lady," Luwin said sheepishly as Harry nodded and went to get the others.

"Robb, Jon how close are you two to being ready for the King's arrival?" Harry asked as he entered their chambers.

"Just about, do you know how we shall be standing, or how long until the King should be here?" Robb asked calmly.

"If I recall your mother's plans correctly, the front row will be your Father with your mother on his right hand, you will be on his left then Arya and Rickon on your left, while on your mother's right will be Sansa then Bran. In the second row will be rest of the household staff including Vayon, Jory, Rodrick, Jon, and myself, then will be the apprentices and the rest of the families that live here in the Castle Proper, behind them will be the townsfolk of Winterfell," Harry said calmly.

"Of course, and when shall they be arriving?" Jon asked sadly.

"The King and his entourage should be arriving within the next 45 minutes or so, so I am sure your father will want you down in the courtyard in the next 30minutes, now I need to go get Rickon, and your sisters," Harry said before walking off towards Rickon's room.

"Ser Hadrian, how can I aide you today?" An old woman asked as she opened the door to Rickon's room.

"Old Nan, I simply wanted to make sure Rickon would be ready in 30 minutes as the King is close and I am sure that Lord Stark wants all of his children present at the Kings arrival," Harry said as Rickon pushed the door open wider, wiping the sleep from his eyes.

"Must we, why can't we just stay in bed?" Rickon asked tiredly.

"Well Rickon, if you sleep then you seem slothful and it could make your father look bad, and have him removed as Warden of the North, and you don't want that do you?" Harry asked causing Rickon's eyes to go wide.

"No, Father is amazing and should remain here, and I don't want him to get in trouble," Rickon said quickly.

"Don't worry, Ser Hadrian, Rickon will be ready by the time given," Old Nan said with a smile.

"I trust you, Nan, I am not concerned knowing he is in your hands, I need to find Ladies Sansa and Arya now, see you two in a while," Harry said calmly before walking to Sansa's room and knocking.

"Yes, who is it?" Sansa asked hearing the knock at her door.

"Just me, Hadrian," Harry said before Sansa quickly opened the door.

"Hadrian, are you here to ravish me again, while father is busy?" Sansa asked after pulling him into the room and closing the door again.

"As much as I would enjoy doing that, my Lady, we don't have time, the King will be here soon," Harry said kissing her lightly.

"Well, could you help me dress then?" Sansa asked causing Harry to notice her lack of dress.

"I still need to find your sister, so I can help you for a bit, though I fear if I do I will get too distracted with relearning your body after a year of being away from it, and we cannot be late, perhaps another time," Harry said lustfully.

"Very well, I will hold you to that promise," Sansa said before pushing him out of her room so she could get ready.

"Where's Arya, Sansa where is your sister?" Catelyn asked half an hour later as the royal caravan came riding into Winterfell where the Starks were standing waiting.

"I don't know mother, Ser Hadrian mentioned he was going to get her when he told me to be ready half an hour ago," Sansa said with a shrug before Arya came walking over wearing a helmet with Harry right behind her.

"Hey, hey, are you going into battle?" Ned said as he grabbed her lightly and removed the helmet from her head and tossing it to Harry.

"No, father I just wanted to see the Caravan come in, and didn't want anyone to recognize me," Arya said sheepishly.

"And did a damn good job with it, just barely found her myself as she started moving this way," Harry said as he moved to stand in the second row beside Jon as Arya went and stood between Rickon and Robb as Joffery rode in behind a pair of men holding Lannister and Baratheon Banners, and a set of knights, behind whom was a chariot and then King Robert who as he rode through the gates everyone knelt down, until he signaled for Ned to stand and then everyone stood.

"Your Grace," Ned said as he bowed his head to Robert who was standing immediately in front of him.

"You have gained some weight in the past year I see," Robert said with a grin.

"Aye, I apologize if it displeases you, my King," Ned said cautiously before Robert pulled him into a hug and a laugh.

"Cat, good to see you again, how is the old dog treating you?" Robert asked after moving from Ned and hugging Catelyn.

"Exceptionally well, your Grace," Catelyn said proudly.

"Bah, stop with all of the 'your grace' and 'your highness' Eddard and I grew up together and you and I met during the Rebellion, besides I get enough of it in the capital. Amazing that I have never been here in the 20 years since I took the throne, who has been taking care of it?" Robert asked with a grin.

"I have doing what I can with it as my father and grandfather before me," Ned said kindly as the Chariot door opened and Cersei stepped out.

"Wheres the imp?" Arya questioned quietly to Robb.

"Arya, please respect Lord Tyrion and the king with silence in his presence," Robb said calmly.

"Well I believe I recognize these faces, Robb, little Arya, and little Rickon I believe, how old are you all?" Robert asked as he moved to Ned left.

"Nearly 20 myself, Arya is 13, and Rickon is 9, your highness," Robb said proudly.

"Almost as old as my own son, you are, but younger than my firstborn, who sadly passed at his birth, got myself right drunk after learning that," Robert said sadly before moving to the right of Catelyn as Jamie removed his helmet.

"That's Jamie Lannister, the queen's twin brother, I heard he killed the Mad King," Arya said to Rickon.

"Arya respect the crown please," Robb said calmly as Robert reached Sansa

"And you must be Sansa, you possess the beauty of both your aunt and mother, and you must be Brandon, named after your uncle, a great soldier, and a man," Robert said sadly as Cersei reached Ned and extended her hand to him.

"My Queen," Ned said respectfully kissing her hand.

"Take me to your Crypts, I wish to pay my respects," Robert said suddenly.

"My King, we have been riding for a month surely the dead can wait," Cersei said firmly.

"Lyanna has waited 20 years for me to pay my respects to her, Ned," Robert said firmly while the queen glared at him before noticing Hadrian

"Ser Hadrian, I had thought you had headed to the Wall?" Cersei said causing Robert to pause.

"That was and is still the plan, my queen, however I wanted to spend some time with my second family before I departed and then received word of my father's death so I shall journey south for his memorial service, unless you would prefer I simply head North," Harry said calmly after kissing her hand.

"I think that the bastard should do just that," Joffery said from his horse.

"Be quiet son, I think that it would do well for Hadrian to see his father's memorial service and act as a guard perhaps in the period he is there, now Ned to the Crypts, Hadrian join us," Robert said firmly before Ned led him and Hadrian to the crypts.

"My King, could you tell us what exactly happened to my father?" Hadrian asked as they entered the crypts.

"I truly don't know, one day he was perfectly fine the next he was ill and the following he was dead, whatever took him took him quickly. I loved that man, almost as much as I loved my uncle Ormund or James Wild," Robert said sadly.

"We both loved those three, Ormund was a friend and James was a better man than us all," Ned said calmly.

"Yeah, they never had to teach you much, always so honorable, but me, remember at 16 all I wanted to do was crack skulls and fuck girls, still do just want to do that, to be honest," Robert said with a laugh.

"Uh-huh," Ned said with a laugh.

"They taught me, not their fault I never listened, sometimes feel bad for Cersei though, but since my firstborn died she has been distant, and after Myrcella's birth I have only been with her once a year, just so the Septons don't declare our marriage void," Robert said with a sad smile.

"Why so rarely, if I might ask?" Harry said cautiously.

"I don't know to be real with you, I enjoy the daily whore or two, which is part of the reason I came up here, I need you, Ned, down in Kings Landing, not up here where you are no damn use to anybody, Lord Eddard Stark I would name you the Hand of the King with Ser Hadrian Rivers as the Witness," Robert said calmly causing Ned to kneel in front of him.

"I am not worthy, my lord," Ned said calmly.

"I'm not trying to honor you, I need you to rule my kingdom while I eat, drink, and whore myself to an early grave, and perhaps teach me how to be more honorable like you are," Robert said the last bit barely more than a whisper.

"But," Ned started.

"But nothing, you helped me win the Iron Throne now I need your help to keep the Damn thing, you know as well as I do that I don't want it, but someone has to sit on it or the realm will erupt in war, besides we grew up together we should rule together I realized, after Jon died, besides if your sister had lived and not been kidnapped by the filthy dragon we would have been bound by blood," Robert said calmly.

"Are you not still related, as the great houses I had thought were all intermarried," Harry said confused.

"Except for this bloody house, they have always been aloof and away from the rest of us, but that can end, I have a son, and you have a daughter, or if you have already promised your oldest I have a daughter and you have a son and we can have them join our houses. Now where is Lyanna's tomb, I wish to honor her?" Robert said firmly causing Ned's eyes to go wide.

"Right this way, my king" Ned said before directing Robert to the Statue of Lyanna.

"Why did you have to bury her here, she should have been buried on a hill where the sun could shine on her always as she did for others," Robert said coldly.

"She was my sister and the Starks have always been buried here," Ned said firmly.

"I kill him every night in my dreams you know, every single night," Robert said coldly.

"It's done, there gone," Ned said cautiously.

"Not all of them, as Hadrian knows there is at least one of them still alive and until every member of that cursed family is dead she will not be avenged," Robert said coldly.

"The exiled princess is no threat to you or your power, she is the wife of a group who refuses to cross the sea," Hadrian said firmly.

"But until she is dead her children may come and steal my throne and reinstall their filthy beliefs on our society, I still want her dead, and I hope you may aide in her demise," Robert said glaring at Harry.

"Hadrian, could you go and tell Sansa that we will consider marrying her to Prince Joffery?" Ned asked hoping to diffuse the tension in the air.

"Of course, Lord Stark, by your leave my King," Harry said and once Robert nodded quickly left to Sansa's room where Catelyn and Sansa were at, with Catelyn helping Sansa get ready for the evening meal.

"Ser Hadrian, what happened in the crypts?" Catelyn asked kindly.

"The King has asked Lord Stark to be his hand has suggested that Sansa and Prince Joffery could be married," Harry said smiling when Sansa visibly recoiled in disgust before changing into a fake look of awe

"Really, the King would have me marry his son, mother when will we be married?" Sansa said feigning excitement at the thought.

"My dear, please do not treat me as a fool, I know of you two's encounters in the Red Keep, like I also know about how Jeyne was the one who told you, I know you have no desire to marry the prince so while here do not act as you want it," Catelyn said causing Sansa and Harry's eyes to go wide.

"What are you talking about mother, the only man I have ever had eyes for was the prince, do you think he thinks me ugly?" Sansa asked in shock.

"Sansa, my dear, you are not the only one who wanders the halls of the Red Keep at night and when I found your chambers empty during the tourney I investigated, don't worry your father knows but also loves you both enough to not say anything," Catelyn said with a smile.

"Of course mother," Sansa said with a reassuring smile.

"Your father will unlikely say no, however, but now I should go and see Jory, I believe I am taking his place as a guard for a while, along with Jon," Harry said before walking away.

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