DISCLAIMER: Hi, everyone! I am letting everyone know that I do not own Game of Thrones (obviously). I would also like to inform everyone that I write for and by choice. My writing is not professional, nor is it edited by anyone other than me. Feel free to inform me if you see something incorrect (in either a grammatical or informational sense), but unnecessary rudeness will not be tolerated.

WARNING: the content in this fanfiction may be triggering to some people. Contains [Rape, sexual violence, violence in general]

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(A/N: many of my trade ideas were inspired by JustAnotherFan217's fanfiction "Just Another SI" which inspired my love of this type of fanfic!)

Hermione had spent the entirety of the afternoon with Rickon in the Glass Gardens, using the herbivicus charm Hermione was able to increase the speed of growth rapidly.

Alright, firstly let's see what we already have hmm?

The fruits already growing in the gardens consisted predominantly of stone fruit. Peaches, plums, dates, apples and avocados. Ah! A mango tree, how wonderful. In terms of vegetables, the gardens were better stocked. Beets, turnips, radish, lemons...are lemons vegetables? Probably not… mushrooms, asparagus, lentils and spinach. Very good. Alright so now I have to expand the growing space.

Using an extension charm, Hermione began to rearrange the gardens to optimize space.

"Ma, mama what you doing? What is the stick do?" Rickon's voice broke her out of her concentrative trance. Looking down at the little boy on her hip, she could see that he was both tired and interested.

"Sweetling? This is my wand, it allows me to do magic. Are you bored? How about we give you something fun to do?" as she said that, Hermione pointed her wand towards an empty barrel, transfiguring it into a large stack of blocks, all in different colours and shapes. Rickon's eyes lit up and he began to squirm until he was let down. Transfiguring a soft blanket for him to sit on, Hermione felt comfortable turning away from him and continuing to improve the gardens.

Along with extending the size of the gardens, Hermione decided to add a second level. Expanding the gardens, Hermione planted a variety of new plants. Tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, potatoes, broccoli, kale, peas, red chillies, ginger, garlic. Perfect! Alright, berries as well. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, oh! I have pears as well. Perfect. Herbs as well, mint thyme, rosemary, ginger, garlic, turmeric.

After planting her newly introduced vegetables and fruits, Hermione decided to use the herbivicus charm to increase growth. Quickly using transfiguration, Hermione transfigured the empty wine barrels into large harvesting baskets, then used the accio summoning charm to gather the fruits and vegetables ready to harvest. She repeated the three-step process until she had filled up the harvest buckets. Next, using the swamp spell that Fred and George invented in their fifth year, Hermione summoned a swamp to plant the rice in. after that, she once again repeated the three-step process in order to fill up 12 barrels full of rice, using a stasis charm to make sure water or moisture would not instigate mould.

Right, well the average person should eat 171 grams of rice a day. I'm going to say that Westrosi men eat more like 341 grams. Each barrel can hold about 201 kg of rice, so about 2307878 grams, which means this could feed the entirety of Winterfell for half a year. If I replenish this every few months Winterfell will have perfect emergency stocks.

Turning back, Hermione found Rickon sleeping, curled like a wrap in the blankets, and drooling. Chuckling, she moved to pick him up and place the sleeping toddler on her hip, still wrapped in his new blanket.

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As Hermione walked towards the kitchens with Rickon on her hip, she sees Jon and Robb sparring in the courtyard. Quite far off to the left was Theon, looking on at them in what looked like lonely jealousy.

"Theon," Hermione called out, immediately turning the head of the boy in question, "would you accompany me to the kitchens? It has been a long time since the last I've been here, I may need the assistance."

Theon perked up a bit at that, pulling himself to his feet and rushing over.

"Hello my lady, I would be honoured to accompany you."

"Mm, I am not you lady Theon. You can call me Hermione, or aunty, or Mother, and Rickon as so taken to doing. I am quite certain that I am not the lady Catelyn."

"M-what? Mother? You would allow Lord Stark's ward to call you mother?" Theon's face scrunched in disbelief. "Would Lord Stark allow that? Would Jon?"

"Neither Eddard nor Jon have any such control over me and what I allow others to call me. And everyone needs a mother at times."

There was contemplative silence for a while as they walked. Then Theon turned to her and nodded. "I, if you are alright with it, I would like to have a mother again."

"Then you do, now come we're walking at the pace of snails. Let's get to the kitchens."

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Walking into the kitchens with Rickon on her hip, once again awake and excited, and Theon trailing closely behind her, Hermione took a deep breath.

"Well, the kitchens are quite large, but they are very messy." pulling out her wand, Hermione cast a scourgify over the entire room. "Oh my, look at that. Much better. Oh Theon, I know I interrupted your lessons with Ser Cassel. I may have essentially adopted you, but that doesn't mean I'll let you skiv off your classes."

"Alright..mother. I shall see you later today." he reached out and squeezed her free hand, before exiting the kitchen and heading back to the courtyard.

"Well, now sweety," Hermione Directed at Rickon, "Let's once again get back to work.

Walking through the kitchen and opening up doors, Hermione was able to find what she was looking for. Finding the pepper, salt and sugar, Hermione multiplied all three using the genimo curse. Stopping it once she believes that she had made a decent amount. Once again casting the stasis charm, Hermione put everything back in their place and headed out towards the Great Keep, Hermione set her course for Ned's Solar. They had much to talk about.