White serpent: I'm so glad you are enjoying it, your support is what gives me motivation.
Arianna Le Fay: Unlikely as they have been raised as brother and sister, I know that game of Thrones is no stranger to incest but in this case, I don't think it will work.
HPuni101: It was an error on my part, but I am still going to use Snow as her bastard name, my logic being that because she is being raised in the North she will be seen more as a Snow than a Sand, I hope you've had a great start to 2019 as well :) :) :)
The Bastards Of Winterfell
Mia Snow
Winterfell, Seventeen years later….
Mia smirks as Bran's misses the target and pierces the barrel beside her, her half-brother Jon steps over to their younger sibling as he stomps his feet in frustration and places his hands on his shoulders, "Go on" he tells the young boy, "Father's watching...and your mother"
Mia looks up to the balcony to see that her little brother is telling the truth, their father was indeed watching them...as was Lady Catelyn"
Mia turns back see Jon looking at her expectantly, she sighs and steps beside Bran "Stand upright and relax your shoulders" she tells him "It will make it easier"
Bran nods at her gratefully only to completely ignore her advice and fire straight away, he misses completely and fires the arrow over the stone wall, Jon and Mia laugh, their brother Robb smirks and young Rickon giggles from atop a horse,
"And which one of you was Marksmen at ten?" their father asks "Keep practicing Bran, go on"
Bran nods and raises his bow again "This time listen to your sister" Robb tells him "Relax your bow arm"
As Bran prepares to fire, another arrow whizzes past his head and pierces the center of the target, they all turn to see their youngest sister Arya standing a few feet away with a bow in her hands and a cheeky smile on her face.
Bran chases after the young girl, Mia, Robb, and Jon laugh as they watch the young children chase each other around the courtyard.
Mia's smile fades as she sees Rodrick Cassel talking to her father and Lady Stark, it looked serious "What do you suppose they are saying" she asks Jon.
Robb answers for him "I doubt it's a bastard's business" he answers jokingly as he walks past her, ruffling her hair in the process. Despite being over a year older than him the heir to Winterfell treated Mia as his younger sibling he even called her "little sister" and ruffled her hair, She was still shorter by a few inches, she had a strong athletic body and dark brown hair of her father and the eyes of her mother, though as the years went by the color from her eyes seemed to be fading leaving them a faded purple color. Her face was beautiful yet fierce and her skin was pale and clean as milk.
Mia responded to her to her brother's jest by playfully kicking him in his ass, Robb turns back towards her with a mock offended look on his face, he then charges her knocking her to the ground, the two spend a few moments laughing and wrestling on the ground.
"Enough!" their father calls, making the two breaks apart and jump to their feet "Robb find Bran" he commands, Mia and Jon get the horses, meet me at the gate"
As Robb runs off Mia and Jon catch Lady Stak looking at them the same way she always did, with bitterness and distaste, Jon does the same thing he always does and ignores it, but Mia returns the hateful look and clenches her fists until the knuckles crack.
An hour later outside of Winterfell….
Mia shuddered and wrapped her cloak tight around herself as the cold wind blew in her direction unlike her brothers, she had always been very sensitive to the cold, people always told her that it was her dornish blood telling her to come home, when they thought she couldn't here they would talk about how she would be dead come winter.
Two Stark guardsmen pulled forward a man of the night's watch, he was a deserter her father had told her, and he was here to face his justice.
"I know I broke my oath," the man says to her father, "And I know I'm a deserter, I should have gone back to the wall and warned them but...I saw what I saw, I saw the white walkers"
The white walkers? Mia thought, chuckling in her head, people really will say anything when facing death.
"People need to know" the man continuous "If you get word to my family, tell them I'm no coward, tell them I'm sorry"
Mia's heart softens at his words, He may be a coward but he has a family, one that seems to love him.
The Stark men flanking the deserter push the man to his knees and gently rest his head on the block, her father draws Ice the ancestral valryian steel sword of House Stark, "In the name of Robert of the House Baratheon, the First of his name"
"Don't look away" Jon tells Bran "Father will know if you do"
"King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the seven kingdoms and protector of the realm, I Eddard, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North sentence you to die" with that the great lord raises his blade and brings it down on the man's neck.
The head rolls and touches Mia's foot, she jumps away and yelps in disgust, Theon Greyjoy, her father's ward finds this amusing and laughs, she glares at the man and drops her hand to her sword, shutting him up.
She turns to see her father talking to Bran, she knows what he's saying, she's heard the speech a hundred time he who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
On the way back the come across a large elk, dead from large claw marks and bites, the follow the bloody trail the creature left to see the large furry creature, also dead and bloodied.
Mia dismounts and steps towards it "Get away from it!" Jory the captain of the household guard commands
Mia ignores him "It can't hurt us It's dead.
"It's a freak," Theon says
Mia rolls her eyes "It's a direwolf you idiot" she kneels beside the wolf. Groping under the beast's head, she gives a yank and comes up with a foot of shattered antler, slick with half-dried blood.
"There hasn't been a direwolf south of the Wall for two hundred years" Theon comments.
Mia looks at the bundle beneath Robb's arm and grins "Well... now there are five".
When Bran sees what everyone is staring at his eyes widen. He moves in to get a closer look at the direwolf pup, eyes still closed, nuzzling blindly against Robb's chest and whimpering.
Robb turns to Bran "Go on" he says "You can touch him"
Bran gives the pup a quick, nervous stroke. "Here you go," Mia says as she thrusts another pup into Bran's arms"
Jory frowns "Direwolves loose in the realm"
"Not for long" Theon announces, he draws his knife and reaches for Bran's pup.
"No!" screams "It's mine!"
Mia steps defensively between Theon and her young brother "put down your prick Greyjoy!" she sneers.
"I don't take orders from bastards!" he spits back.
"Please father" Bran begs.
Ned shakes his head "I'm sorry Bran"
"Lord Stark, there are five pups," Jon says "One for each of the Stark children"
Mia backs her brother up "The direwolves are the sigil of your house my lord" she says "They are meant to have them"
Ned sighs and turns to Bran "You will train them yourselves. You will feed them yourselves. And if they die you will bury them yourselves"
Mia and Jon begin handing the pups to Bran and Robb "What about you?" Bran asks.
Mia smiles sadly at her young brother "Jon and I are not Starks" she says.
"Mia!" Jon calls, she turns to see her brother holding two more pups, one white as snow with blood red eyes, the other was an orange-reddish color.
"Two runts?" Theon asks "perfect for two Snows"
Mia takes a step towards the Greyjoy, but Jon stops her with his free arm, "Just ignore him" he says.
Mia scoffs and takes the red-orange pup.
A Month later….
Mia panted as she pulled her horse to halt, Riding was her favorite pastime, it was one of the few times she could be away from Winterfell, away from Lady Catelyn and away from being the bastard of Winterfell.
She turned as her companion rides up next to her. "You win again" her best friend Talisa laughs "I reckon you could knock any knight down south on his ass"
Mia smiles at her, she and Talisa had been friends since they were children, Talisa's mother had been Mia's wet nurse and carer for many years, despite that Talisa was eight years older than her the girls were inseparable the rode together, trained with swords and bows together, they even wore their hair the same way.
Talisa was a well-built woman, twenty-six years of age with long raven black hair and deep brown eyes, she had peach colored skin and red freckles covering her cheeks.
Mia smiles at her before turning her head to see her Direwolf Dusk in the distance, the pup had grown just up to her knee, large enough to come with his master when she went riding, as if Mia could stop him, anytime she was not in eyesight the wolf would howl until she came back.
Mia whistles "Dusk!" she calls, the direwolf sprints towards her, fast as the wind.
Talisa smirks "Only seven Direwolves south of the wall and a bastard gets one of them"
Mia smirks at her friend "Better a bastard than a Horse master's daughter
Mia's smile disappears as she notices something on the horizon, hundreds of horses, carriages, and people marching down the king's road and to Winterfell.
"Seems our glorious King has arrived," Talisa says.
Mia nods "Father has been dreading his visit"
"Talisa gives her an odd look, "I thought they were like brothers?"
"They are" Mia confirms "It is why the king is here that scares him"
"We should head back," Talisa says with a smirk "We don't want to give Lady Stark the relief of not having you there"
Mia smirks back "No we do not"
Back at Winterfell….
By the time Mia made it back to Winterfell the King's entourage was almost there and every soul in Winterfell was standing in the courtyard, Her father stood in the center with his family, he gave her a disappointed look one that told her she would be getting an earful later, two his left stood his lady wife who did her best to ignore Mia, two his left stood Robb, who gave Mia an amused shake of the head, beside him stood Sansa Bran and Rickon.
Mia dismounts her horse and runs quickly to Jon's side who stood behind Robb, "Where were you?" Jon demands angrily.
"I was riding" Mia answers casually.
Jon shakes his head in disbelief "You knew what day it was" he says "You knew you had to be here"
"Yeah I'm sure the king came all this way to see Ned Stark's bastard daughter," she says sourly.
"That's not why-"
"Let it go Jon" Robb interrupts without looking at them "You know our sister does whatever she wants, some would think that she was lord of Winterfell"
Jon gives a sigh of defeat.
"Where's Arya?" Lady Stark asks "Sansa where's your sister?"
Sansa merely shrugs in response, of all her half-siblings Mia liked Sansa the least, she was an entitled and spoiled little brat, and although she did not treat Mia and Jon as badly as their mother, she still thought of them as embarrassments to the Stark family.
Finally, Ary runs towards them wearing a soldier's helmet far too big for her small head, "Hey, hey, hey" Ned exclaims as he catches his youngest daughter "what are you doing with that on?" he asks removing the helm "go on"
Mia snorts trying to contain her laughter as Arya grumpily shoves aside Bran. at that moment the royal party enters the courtyard, first a man dressed in the white cloak and golden armor of the kingsguard. Behind him rode a boy no older than sixteen, with golden blonde hair, Joffrey Baratheon she guessed by the way Sansa was gawking at him.
Behind him rode a large brawny man with a hound shaped helmet. The royal carriage came next and finally two more Kingsguard and a large overweight man with dark hair and a bushy beard, King Robert Baratheon himself.
Mia kneels along with everyone else as two squires help the king off his horse, he marches directly in front of her father gestures for him to stand, the rest of Winterfell stand with him "Your grace" he says.
"You've gotten fat" the king snorts.
Mia sees her father try to maintain his stony decorum but soon he does something Mia had rarely seen, he laughs.
The king joins him and the two embrace in a brotherly hug, as they break apart he turns to Lady Stark, "Cat!" he exclaims happily hugging her.
"Nine years," the king says turning back to Ned, "Why haven't I seen you? Where the hell have you been?"
"Guarding the North for you your grace" Ned answers "Winterfell is yours"
"Where's the Imp?" Arya asks.
"Will you shut up" Sansa snaps.
The king turns to the Stark children, "Who have we here?" he asks stepping towards Robb "You must be Robb"
Robb simply nods and shakes the King's gloved hand, Robert then steps towards Sansa "You're a pretty one" he mutters before moving on to Arya "and your name is?"
"Arya" the girl answers.
Finally, he steps towards Bran and smirks "Show us your muscles" Bran flexes and the King chuckles "You'll be a soldier"
A beautiful woman in her mid-thirties with beautiful golden hair towards woman steps towards them, Ned's smile disappears as he reluctantly takes her hand and kisses it "My queen" he mutters.
"Take me to your crypts" The king commands "I want to pay my respects"
"We've been riding for a month my love," Queen Cersi Lannister says. "Surely the dead can wait"
The King ignores her "Ned come"
The Two men stroll off towards the Crypts, Mia knew where they were going, of course, she had heard all the stories about Lyanna Stark, the girl who was kidnapped by Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and how her father and Robert Baratheon raised their flags in rebellion.
As the Royal party and the Residents of Winterfell break away from the courtyard, Mia walks alongside Robb and Jon "The great hall is going to be full tonight" Jon comments.
"Yeah about that" Robb says hastily, he steps in front and turns towards them "My mother wanted me to tell you that...that you will not be dining in the great hall tonight"
Mia frowns "What?" she demands.
Robb sighs "She is worried that your presence will offend the royal family"
Mia puts on a false smile "So Jon and I are to eat outside while the King treats Winterfell as an Inn"
"Watch your tongue" Robb whispers cautiously"Some of these people won't put up with your Brazenness"
"You think I give a damn what those southerners think?"
"No Mia" Robb answers "I don't think you care what anyone one thinks, that's why you do whatever the hell you what you want"
Mia laughs"What I want is to be a Stark" she exclaims "What I want is to stand with You, Arya, Sansa, Bran and Rickon, What I want is to live one day in peace without your mother reminding me what a Humiliation I am, but I can't have any of that because of something the honorable Ned Stark did before I was born"
With that she storms off, leaving Jon and Robb behind.
I know that it seems to be a copy of the show, but It will change eventually besides this is just a side project, down below, is probably the only fan cast I will do, as I don't plan on adding many OC's.
Mia Snow: Jane Levy