Ned's control

Chapter one – Sansa's dilemma

Sansa

Sansa Stark lay awake staring at the ceiling thinking over the actions that lead to her younger sister being lost in the wilderness alone. She could not get the image of her perfect prince snarling at her with such ugliness and trying to attack Arya with real steel. He could have killed her! Of course, Arya was not blameless, hitting the prince with her wooden sword, but that was Arya. Not worth being killed over! Sansa believed Joffrey was her perfect prince and they would live happily ever after like mother and father but how could she love someone who could look at her with such venom in his eyes for trying to help him.

Her train of thought was interrupted with a loud knock at her door. Sansa quickly pulled on her robe and opened the door a crack. "Stark. The Queen requests your presence immediately." The Lannister guard turned quickly expecting her to follow. Sansa looked at her clothes and was worried they were not acceptable for meeting the Queen, but she had no choice as the guard turned the corner at the end of the corridor. Sansa hurried after them holding her robe together to hide her legs that could be seen underneath her nightgown.

The guard lead Sansa directly to the queens chambers and knocked twice before walking off. Sansa stood there uncertainly for several moments until she heard the queens' voice. "Come in Sansa." Sansa entered to find the queen lounging in the same clothes she had been wearing that afternoon with a wine glass almost empty in hand. Queen Cersei smiled at Sansa but she could tell there was no warmth in her eyes when she did so.

"Sansa come sit with me." Cersei gestured to the couch opposite her and Sansa sat being very careful about her posture at all times. "Your Grace, you summoned me?"

"Yes. I need to make sure you understand what happened today."

"Your Grace I know what happened I was there." Sansa replied confused.

"Well I was under the impression that you and my Joffrey had been drinking and therefore you might misremember the attack on him." The Queens gaze intensified and Sansa could feel herself shrink back into herself with the weight of the Queen's expectations.

"Yes your grace we had drunk some wine before the incident." Sansa said slowly.

"Attack."

"Attack, yes."

"But you saw that butcher's boy defy my boy? Your prince, Your betrothed." Cersei demanded of Sansa and Sansa knew her relationship with her future good mother was at stake.

"Yes, your grace he was rude to Prince Joffrey." Sansa said confidently.

"And your vile sister she set her wolf on him didn't she!" The queen shouted, getting off her couch and sitting down rather close to Sansa.

"No, Nymeria bit him after Joffrey tried to hurt my sister." Sansa stated, shifting on the couch to create further space between her and the drunk queen.

"My dear sweet Sansa I think you misunderstand." Cersei gripped Sansa's hand painfully between her own, Sansa gasped feeling Cersei's long nails press into the skin of her palm.

"Your sister and the butcher's boy deliberately attacked Joff and he did nothing back as he is a gallant prince. Then once they both attacked him she called her wolf who savaged him as they laughed." The pressure on Sansa's hand increased and Sansa found herself nodding along.

"Yes your grace that's what happened, I'll tell everyone what happened." Sansa exhaled in relief as the queen let go of her hand and stood, brushing down her skirts as she did so.

"Good. Now go to your room and tell nobody of this meeting." Cersei turned towards the window and dismissed Sansa without a backwards glance.

Sansa walked slowly back to her rooms thinking over the conversation with the queen, she was disturbed. Sansa had never seen this side of the queen before and it scared her. Before the queen had been kind and welcoming and after seeing the change in Joffrey earlier that day she now knew where he had got that behaviour. Sansa was also worried about if she did as the queen asked, she didn't get on with Arya but it was still her sister! And if she told the queens version of events people would believe she had beaten up a prince, Sansa knew the repercussions of that. She could not do that to her sister or her family so as she reached her room Sansa was resolved to tell the truth to her father, regardless if she was no longer betrothed to the prince afterwards.

It was hours later when there was once again a knock on her door with a Lannister guard outside. "My lady the queen demands your presence in the great hall. Your sister has been found." Sansa was quiet on the walk to the great hall with the argument on what she planned to say warring in her mind. She always wanted to be queen and the prince had been kind to her up until this incident, what if it was only a one off? But then again it was her sister and if she were found guilty of attacking the prince she would be punished maybe even killed.

As Sansa entered the hall she could see her sister before the king looking dishevelled, well more than usual, but what shocked her more were the tear tracks upon her sisters face. Arya never cried. Not when she scraped her knees nor when she was sick. To see these tears Sansa knew Arya was terrified and straightened up sure of her decision. She glanced at Joffrey covered in bandages up to his shoulders and thought inside her head, goodbye my prince. Sansa deliberately did not look to the queen as she knew the gaze would cause her to lose her nerve. Sansa was not brave like Arya or Rob or Bran but for her pack, for her sister today she would be. Sansa remained quiet as Arya told the truth about what had happened with courage Sansa was impressed by and once she had finished Sansa watched with disgust as Joffrey told the king the lies Cersei had told her to say.

When her father asked her to come forward Sansa was trembling, keeping her head down low she began to speak. "Your grace, my sister told the truth. Prince Joffrey and I were walking and came across Arya playing sticks with a butcher's boy. He then went on to cut the butchers boy cheek when Arya told him to stop. He then… He then went to hit my sister with his sword and that is when her wolf came and bit his arm. But it wasn't a bad bite I saw it." Sansa looked up and felt the queen's stare as if it were fire and Joffrey had a look of disgust upon his face.

"The girl is obviously confused Robert. Her and Joff were drinking wine. Your son will be carrying these scars for the rest of his life." The queen was incensed.

"What would you have me do woman? Whip her through the streets? Kill her? Children fight and that is that. Maybe if you did not coddle the boy so much, he wouldn't have been beaten by a nine-year-old girl!" Robert stood over Cersei red in the face.

Sansa could see Cersei blush with anger as she stood to face her husband. "I will raise MY SON as I see fit. If you do not punish that little beast then I will, I am the QUEEN."

Sansa was shocked when Robert pulled back his hand and hit Cersei across the face knocking her to the floor. Nobody moved until Robert looked up and spoke, "and I am the king. I think my wife needs to learn her place. She will be leaving our company to visit her father at casterly rock for a year." Robert stomped from the hall not looking back at his wife. Sansa saw Jamie Lannister, the queens brother stop to pick his sister up and escort her from the hall.

The next morning everybody in the castle heard the commotion as the queen was forcefully put into a carriage bound for casterly rock without her children. Surprisingly, to Sansa at least the queen was also aghast that it was not Jamie Lannister who was to accompany her to her childhood home but the hound her sons bodyguard. Once the carriage rode out of the gates Sansa let out a sigh of relief and began to get ready to break her fast.

Once in the hall she sat quietly as her father and the king were in a deep discussion.

"Ned, I just don't know where I went wrong. I mean my son, MINE, being beat by a nine-year-old. You saw what I was like at his age. At least your sons can hold a bloody sword." Robert commiserated already well into his cups.

"Your grace you have enough constraints upon your time running your kingdom. Joffrey needs a firm hand,"

"Yes." The king shouted. "A firm hand just like his mother."

Ned stuttered. "Not quite, your grace. I meant guidance. I would be happy to take him under my protection. A kind of fostering like Jon did for us. Only we would stay in King's landing to do it."

The king jumped onto this idea. "Perfect. You turn him into a king. A king for your Sansa." Sansa looked down in embarrassment. She did not want to be his queen anymore, she just wanted to disappear. Sansa quickly stood and Lady was immediately at her side, as she was leaving the hall ready for another day travelling Joffrey stopped her.

"You bitch. I knew you were stupid, but I clearly did not know how much. You got my mother sent away and for what. Your dumb sister and a butcher's boy. When we are married that is it your mine. And my mothers." Joffrey sneered at her and walked away careful to leave a large gap between him and Lady. Unfortunately for him both of there fathers had heard his comments.

"BOY, don't you ever speak to a lady like that. Your mother was sent away because she thought she was above me. She is not. You are not. Nobody is and its about time both of you learned that. Ned has suggested and I agreed that he is going to foster you."

"I am not going back to that wasteland filled with savages!" Joffrey scoffed.

"That wasteland is my home. The home of your future wife. And the biggest kingdom that you will one day control. Its about time you showed some respect. But no, we are not going back there. I promised your father I would become hand of the king and I will stick by that promise." Ned turned to Robert. "Have those papers drawn up your grace and his education will start when we reach kings landing." With this her father escorted Sansa from the great hall and to the waiting carriages to continue the long journey.


Hello to anybody reading!

This is my first attempt at A song of Ice and Fire fanfiction so I'm not sure how it will progress. I have 50 chapters planned out with the potential of more.

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