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Cersei was playing on the bed with her little girl, while her husband watched them with a small smile on his lips. The sight of Cersei and Sansa soothed Ned's nerves. King's Landing was not a place Eddard Stark liked, he loathed the place. It was nothing more than a pit of snakes. Lies and schemes stank from every corner. A Stark family received the invitation to the capital due to the Tourney on Prince Raymont's first name day. King Robert insisted on coming in his letters to his old friend, they have not seen each other since Baratheon was crowned after Rebellion. Her husband was not eager to come, he said that Sansa was only three years old and she was definitely too young for such a long trip. Cersei got Ned to come eventually, explaining to him that she wanted to see her dear brother and aunt.

"You should go get boys. They probably tired Jaime and Tyrion out with their briskness." Cersei turned her emerald eyes towards Ned. Their sons met their uncles for the first time a few days ago and they were literally obsessive with Jaime and Tyrion. Robb even guarded King's chambers along with Jaime yesterday. Robert Baratheon laughed so hard, that he ordered seamstresses to sew him a white cloak.

"They make up for five years of absence." Ned laughed and tickled Sansa, whose laugh filled the chamber. Cersei rolled her eyes and slapped him playfully in the arm. Her husband gave her apologetic smile.

"Your wish is my command, my Lady. I go get our sons." Ned stood up, kissed Sansa's hair and exited their chambers sending Cersei a grin. She knew he would be in no hurry.

"Your papa can be so rude sometimes." Cersei muttered under her breath, looking at Sansa.

"But ladies cannot be rude, mama." Confused Sansa furrowed her eyebrows.

"But your father is no lady." Cersei laughed lightly while her daughter nodded convinced by her mother's words.

Cersei would have never imagined she would be so happy with Eddard. Sometimes she thought about sending her father a letter, where she thanks him for marrying her off to Ned.

Cersei Lannister wedded Eddard Stark during the Rebellion. Her father aligned himself with rebels. Initially Eddard Stark was not convinced about that, they were the Lannisters. Always cunning and plotting. Tywin Lannister as a proof for his loyalty, married his daughter off to a Stark. How furious Cersei was when her Lord Father told her about it. She had screamed at the top of her lungs in her bedchamber and cried hysterically, until aunt Genna came and calmed her.

It pained her that she couldn't say goodbye to her only love as Jaime was in King's Landing, protecting The Mad King. Her father sent her North only with aunt Genna, Tywin did not bother to be at his only daughter's wedding. She has became a Stark, taking a marriage vow in the Godswood in front of the Heart Tree. Then her husband left her with his seed in her belly and went South to war. Winterfell was unfamiliar and cold to her. Aunt Genna made that place tolerable, making Cersei aware that she was now Lady of Winterfell. She had a power. It was everything she had always wanted. When her aunt departed Winterfell she knew Cersei was at the right place.

Distrust from the Winterfell's household passed as she ruled the castle with her powerful female hand. Maester Luwin helped her making decisions and taught her thinking like a Northernmen. He also brought her through her pregnancy. The baby growing inside her made Cersei happy, but she felt like she was betraying Jaime. Jaime was the only one she loved, she missed him terribly and sometimes she wanted nothing more than lay in bed and cry. But Cersei was strong and determined to forget about her love to her twin brother. It only brought her pain and despair. She was able to do it. Cold and harshness of her new home made her skin thick. Cersei was a Lioness of the North.

Nine moons later Robb Stark was born. He came to the world screaming and kicking during one of the coldest nights. Cersei was overjoyed with her son. Robb made her days warmer and brighter, even though he gave her restless nights. Robb was just like his father; dark brown hair, long face and grey eyes, which sometimes flickered with green shade. She loved when he giggled every time when he saw her face or when she cuddled his little body feeling loved like never before. Cersei was glad that she has already given Eddard a heir. A Young Wolf.

Robb was two moons, when Eddard Stark got back home. He was not alone. He brought a bastard to Winterfell. Cersei was furious. Honorable Eddard dishonored her and he dared to bring a illegitimate son. He asked about her forgiveness. Firstly she would only glare at him, her emerald eyes burning with hatred. But then she understood. It was a war, he wanted to forget, maybe he was afraid that he would die and only woman's body would help him. Eddard didn't love her and Cersei didn't love him. They didn't even know each other. Thus she decided, she would forgive him, but she had one condition. Cersei hated compassion, she would not bear pity stares towards her because her husband was unfaithful.

Fortnight passed and she came to his office. It took a lot of her nerves, energy and humiliation to ask him about the bastard. Cersei asked him frankly if someone knew about his bastard. Her husband was speechless and confused. Eddard said no one, but Howland Reed from the Neck. She asked him if Reed would keep it a secret that the boy is a bastard. He nodded and waited for her explanations. Cersei said then with a firmness in her voice, 'I cannot bear the thought that people would look at me with compassion that my Lord husband dishonored me and brought a bastard to my home. They would consider me as a weak woman. And I am not weak nor miserable. I am a Lannister. You have no idea how much it pains me to say it, but name the bastard as our own son. He and Robb are very alike. We could say that they are twins. You know that not every twins are identical, it could work. Write to Robert, write that your Lady wife bore you twins. Two sons whom name is Stark. Do it for me. Do it for your trueborn son, that in the future he would not feel ashamed of his unfaithful Father.' Eddard Stark looked guiltily at her and promised to do it.

Her father would laugh at her. Raising her husband's bastard as her own, but it would be worse if Tywin Lannister knew about Jon Stark. Disappointment and all fault would be on her side. Tywin would say that she was useless and could not even keep her husband in her bed. He would probably told her to kill the boy, whom she loved now as much as Robb. Maybe she was a weak woman, loving a bastard, but she could not look at him and blame him for what his father did. Funny thing was that Robb and Jon Stark truly looked like twins.

Cersei let Ned come to her bed three moons after he wrote to the King Robert. It was hard to accept that he dishonored her, it took her some time and he waited patiently. They both longed for other person's touch. It all happened when Robb started crawling. Cersei was so overjoyed that she left her sons with a nursemaid and quickly ran to inform Ned about their son's little success. She opened his office door and smiled at him widely. He was alone, going over some papers. Ned laughed when Cersei told him about Robb's crawling. She looked so happy and girlishly, she beamed with a pride. Ned kissed her cheek and she blushed. No one has kissed her since their last night before he went to war. She parted her pink mouth and stared at him with her emerald eyes. His eyes grey eyes darkened. Ned bent and kissed Cersei gently, but they saw it was not enough. The fire and longing burned inside them. Cersei realized that night that her husband was complete opposite of icy and grave man she once had thought him.

Robb and Jon had a great deal of energy. Cersei had a lot on her plate taking care of them. Before she had a chance to explain to them that they could not sit in the mud, they usually had already done that. Biting each other, toying with food and tugging her hair also came into the picture. Her sons were like wolves. Idea of having another child was impossible to Cersei while she had these two pups.

Maester Luwin confirmed her assumption. Cersei was with child. Ned was happy and eager at the news. He hugged her and kissed her deeply like never before. He strutted proudly through the Winterfell corridors. Cersei was glad her husband was with her during her pregnancy. She was amazed at his reaction when he felt the baby kicking for the first time. Cersei had no idea that man could be so joyful. Her father was cold and impassive, she only knew men like him and she thanked the Seven for a man like Eddard Stark was.

Sansa Stark had golden hair and emerald eyes. She was the loudest of her children and her birth was definitely easier than Robb's. Ned thanked her eagerly for giving him a precious daughter. Cersei refused to let her husband be in the chamber when she would deliver their baby. She did not want him to see the mess like birth was, but he stood next to her and held her hand while she was screaming and calling him names that it was his fault that she was pregnant. Ned despite being petrified, laughed out loud at her epithets towards his person. Looking at her husband holding carefully their daughter, she felt warm feeling spreading in her chest. Cersei knew something changed in her that day.

Eddard would spent his every free time with their children. Robb and Jon were so much alike, that it pained her sometimes that Jon was not her own son. The first time when he called her 'mother', Cersei burst into tears. Only Ned could calm her. She did not know why she had reacted like that. Perhaps she was shocked that she accepted Jon so quickly, that she loved motherless child and did not feel hatred towards him. She took care of him because she wanted to hold back that her husband humiliated her, but it boiled over into pure motherly love. She loved her family. Once selfish Lioness turned into protective She-wolf.

When Cersei told him that she loved him she was pregnant with Sansa. It slipped from her mouth accidentally. She was so sleepy and tried that when he put her to bed she kissed his neck and said these three words. The next day he looked smugly at her and she did not even know why. Cersei simply did not remember what she had said. When he made her aware that she confessed her love to him, she slapped him in the back of his head and said that he was talking nonsense. Utterly nonsense. Eddard Stark never laughed so hard in his live before. Ned knew that she loved him. Otherwise she would not sit with him in the Godswood pretending to pray.

Her sons ran into the room breathless. Cersei took Sansa in her arms and fixed Jon and Robb with a stare. They looked at her with big smiles, dirt visible on their clothes.

"Pray to tell me where have you been?" She furrowed her eyebrows and looked at the door. Ned appeared in the their bedchamber holding Robb's torn cloak.

"Uncle Jaime and uncle Tyrion took us to the armory!" Robb exclaimed and Jon added. "And dungeons! We have seen dragon skulls, mom!"

"They are huge!" Robb said impressed.

"I assume you like your new uncles?" She smiled as they nodded. She bid maids to take boys to bath, her sons protested but one stern look from their father was enough to end discussion. Sansa yawned widely and stretched her small hands to hug her father around his neck.

"I want to go home, daddy." Sansa mumbled sleepily and wrinkled her nose. "It stinks here."

Cersei and Ned giggled. Indeed, King's Landing did not belong to the best smelling places. When Winterfell smelled like fresh and sharp air, the capital smelled of wine, sweat and horse piss. Cersei could not believe she once wanted to live here. She closed on her husband and stroked their daughter's back.

"Tomorrow we are going home." She assured her.

It was the first time when she thought of Winterfell as her home, not Casterly Rock. Because Winterfell was the place where she belonged. She had her pack of wolves there. Who would have dreamt that?