Howland Reed - 291 AC
To say he was angry at Ned Stark was an understatement, he was furious, when he saw Lyanna's boy, it didn't took very long to understand that he was treated worse than even the Ironborn. He was a fucking Greyjoy and was being treated better than Jon.
He hated himself for not giving the boy to his family from the very beginning, instead he believed Ned and now the boy was suffering.
' He burst open the door and sees Eddard Stark sitting on his desk like everything was alright, he looks at him "What can I do for you Howland?" He asked calmly.
He starts walking towards him "He's coming with me" he growled at him.
Ned's eyes widened, they were with fear for a second "No" he simply answered.
"He's coming with me whatever you like it or not" Howland responded but Ned shook his head.
"No, Jon will stay here" he responded but Howland was having none of it.
"No, you promised to raise him as your own child but from what I see even the Greyjoy is being treated better than your own Nephew" he yelled at the last part, he saw guilt in his eyes and sit on his chair.
He sigh and looks on the ground for some time, "He's still staying here, I will make su" he was interrupted by a Howland slamming his fist on the table "No" he yelled and looked directly in Lord Stark's eyes.
"I'm the lord of The North and I decide where my son goes" He responded and raising on his feet.
"You seem to forget he's not your son" Howland yelled at him.
Lord Stark seemed like someone had stroke him.
"I understand why you're doing this, you blame Lyanna for your brother and father's death... and for Robert's death, Lyanna is dead so you put all that blame in her boy" he added in the end and took a step forward and looked directly in Lord Stark's eye.
"If he doesn't come with me I will tell the king the truth" he responded back and saw the fear in Ned's eyes.
He swallowed a huge breath and seemed to think what to say "You wouldn't, you understand if you do that, you will be punished too, you will never see your children again, hell he might even put someone else as lord of your castle" He responded filled Howland with dread.
"And do you think The North will stay down if their lord will lose his head, No they won't, The North will declare War followed by Riverlands and The Vale" Ned said raising his tone and threatening.
Howland takes s step back and closes his eyes and nothing but Lyanna's boy image comes to his head.
What Have I Done
He wanted to help him but he wanted to be together with his children for the rest of his days, see them grow and have children of their own. He opens his eyes and sees a grin on Ned's face. He hated himself and hoped the gods would forgive him.
"The Day will come when you think you're happy and safe, and your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth and you will know the debt is payed" he said and left the Solar. '
It has been a year since that happened, since he left he had visited Winterfell 4 more times and each one he gave him better clothes and feed him food on the room he was staying.
He had asked him many times how he was treated but Jaehearys was quiet as a grave.
But one thing he noticed is the boy didn't look like a scared child anymore, No his eyes seemed to filled with confidence and didn't take long for him to understand why.
The last time he visited, it was 2 months ago and noticed the boy was spending less and less time in Winterfell, at first he was afraid something would happened to him outside of Winterfell but he saw him going in and out of Wolfswood and each time he would return with rabbits and squirrels he found, that made Howland very happy, he didn't need the food of Winterfell anymore but in same time he asked himself, How, he was only 8 name days.
' "Jon" he called when he saw Jon coming through the gate with two rabbits, he walks closer to him, he looks at him "Howland" Jon said and hugs him and he hugs him back.
"How are you my little boy?" He asked and saw the boy nod his head.
"I'm good, I'm very good Lord Reed" he answered honestly and he could see Jon really meant it but there was something different, Jon looked happy, he remembered him being very scared to even talk to people now he looked different.
"You got two good rabbits" he said looking at the rabbits tied with a rope behind his back.
"Yes, but I was trying to capture a deer but he run away" Jon said innocently and Howland raised his eyebrows.
"Next time you go to hunt, call me I would like to come with you and I could teach you a few things" Howland suggested and Jon nodded in agreement.
"I would like to go and eat now my lord" Jon said and he walks away. He looks at him while he was walking away and wonders just what was happening here.
"It has been 3 months" he heard a voice from behind and sees an old man. His hair white and his white beard almost reached his eyes.
The man seemed to have noticed he didn't know him "Ser Rodrik, Master At Arms" Ser Rodrik answered.
"What do you mean by three months?" He asked curious.
Ser Rodrik walks closer and stays on his left "It has been three months since Jon started to hunt, at first we were afraid of him losing or getting attacked by wild animals but the boy always returned with animals captured, every time and he always goes alone. And the way how he's treated in Winterfell, I can't really blame him" Ser Rodrik said sadly and his head lowering.
"Maybe is better this way" Howland said and walks away.
But everything changed two days later when he went with Jon hunting together.
The keep on walking and Howland was looking around when he noticed Jon stopped walking.
He turned to him "Jon" he asked and Jon closed his eyes, he found that strange but when he opened they were conplete white.
'He's warging' Howland thought and before he knew a giant wolf was coming towards them, Howland pulls out his sword and stands in front of Jon ready to protect him "No, she's my friend" he heard Jon's voice from behind, he turns to him and saw his eyes turned to normal.
The wolf walks slowly to Jon and licks his face and his tail moving around from happiness.
Howland could't understand what was happening, how did he know how to warg.
"Jon" he asked confused.
Jon looks at him smiling like never before "My lord this is my friend, Winter" he responded and the wolf looks at him.
This was no wolf "Is he" "A Direwolve" Jon responded for him and that shocked him even more.
The direwolve was white as snow except for the part around his legs where he was black and he was looking at him with brown eyes.
"How do you know how to warg?" He asked when he realized that he hasn't asked.
To that question Jon was silent and after a few moments"I don't know, I have trained myself" he answered but Howland didn't really believe him but to him all that mattered is that he knew.
"If you want I can train you?" Howland asked but he didn't know why he even asked, Jon was able to warg into a direwolve and that was not a easy thing to do.
Jon then turns to Winter and telling something to her and the direwolve runs away.
Where he went he didn't know "Come on, My lord is time to find something" Jon said and he just nodded and followed his lead.
While walking Jon would sometimes close his eyes, they went on for some time, and then he saw a deer in front of them. Jon closed his eyes again and open them complete white, Howland then turns his head to the deer and his eyes were white too.
Then he saw Winter coming out and attacked the deer, right before he attacked, Jon's eyes turned to normal and Winter attacked him in the neck. He bites through flesh and bone, the blood coming out and the deer stopped struggling.
Howland was surprised by this, he didn't expected Jon to be so good, he then knew someone else was training him. '
He was feeling horrible, he was looking at his boy and daughter and every time he would look at them, his mind would go back to Lyanna and that Jon wasn't with his real father and wasn't happy.
He thought the same thing many times, he wanted to help Jon but didn't know how without causing a war.
I'm Sorry Lyanna
Jon Snow - 290 AC
'He was standing alone in a dark Place, he then saw a man sitting on a tree, he was very old and Jon thought he was even dead.
"Hello my child" the old man said kindly.
"Who are you and why are you standing there?" Jon asked taking a step closer.
He looked around and saw he was in a cave, it was very dark and he could hardly tell where he was.
"My name is Brynden Rivers my child" the old man responded.
Jon was surprised "But aren't you supposed to be dead" Jon responded taking a closer look at the old man who looked to be a part of the tree.
He remembered that he had read about Brynden Rivers or Bloodraven.
The old man chuckle "Maybe I should be, but I'm still here" Bloodraven answered looking at Jon sadly.
"Why am I here?" Jon asked not remembering when he came here, he was sure this was just a dream but it felt so real.
"You're here because I brought you, I want to help you" Bloodraven said.
"Help me?" Jon asked confused.
"I will help you to reveal your abilities" Bloodraven said "Have you ever heard about Warging?" He asked kindly.
"Old Nan said that kings of old could see through the eyes of beasts" Jon answered from what he remembered that Old Nan told him.
Bloodraven slowly nods "That's true and that is what I will teach you" Bloodraven responded.
"Why do you think I can do that?" Jon asked wanting to know if he could do that.
"You have the blood needed for that my child blood of The First Man" Bloodraven answered.
"How should I do that?" Jon asked happily.
"When you wake up, try to warg in small animals first, like a rat, after you succeed to do that, I will meet you again" Bloodraven said and everything went dark.
Jon woke up from that dream and remembering everything, to his luck despite breaking Theon's arm, His father refused to punish him. He decided to start trying to do what the old man said in the morning.
At first he had tried with a few rats running around in the dark corners of the castle. But he failed and didn't progress for a week, even his father had asked why was spending time in dark places of Winterfell but Jon just said that he wanted to explore.
After failing he tried by feeding the rats with cheese and bread, at first it didn't work but after three days, he focused on the rat and suddenly was on him.
He was very happy to finally do that.
Then he meet with Bloodraven again.
' "Very good my child, you understand you need a strong will and a bond to warg" Bloodraven said.
"Now I want you to try a cat but remember after you are able to do that, I want you to try and warg an animal of your choosing, that you don't have a bond with" Bloodraven said '
Finding a cat in Winterfell wasn't hard but trying to warg was hard, the bigger the animal, the harder it was for Jon.
After two weeks of failure, he had tried to feed the cat and create a bond, and after two weeks he was able to warg.
He was in God's Wood, looking at the birds around the trees, he decided his next warg would be a bird. He had wanted to fly for a long time.
He looks at the bird, the bird was just standing there in the tree looking at other birds, Jon closed his eyes and tried to find the bird but instead he warged the cat, Jon moves away where he understood where he was.
And looked at the bird again, "Come on" Jon said closing his eyes but nothing. He sigh heavily and tried but failed.
Since he started this, he was spending more and more time alone, the only time he spend with his brothers and sister was when he sparr with Robb, who Jon let win. He would spend some time in the library to read. But always found time for baby Arya.
She always wanted him to read her the story of Visenya Targaryen or Nymeria, she liked stories like this and Jon was always more than happy to read them for her. Sansa on the other hand just avoided him like always but Jon didn't care to have her attention.
Jon wanted the attention of his father but no matter what he did, he never had it, Jon had stopped trying to have his attention.
Right now he wanted to do what Bloodraven told him to do.
After trying for hours, he was finally able to warg into the bird, the bird was now resting at the top of his head. "You're beautiful one aren't you" Jon said trying to look up.
He returned to the great hall for dinner, he was hungry and wanted to eat.
"Jon, where were you?" His father asked looking at him, Robb turns to him and so does Arya, while Lady Stark and Sansa avoided him.
"I was in God's Lord Stark" he answered and sit on his chair.
"You're spending too much time there" His father said concerned.
"Well is much more peaceful there" Jon answered.
His father sigh "Tomorrow, me, Robb, Ser Rodrik and Jury are going to hunt I want you to come with us" his father said surprising him.
Jon noticed the cold glares Lady Stark was shooting at his father "Yes Lord Stark" Jon answered and his father smiled at him.
After eating dinner, he returned to his bed ready to sleep.
Tomorrow
Jon was on horseback, close to him was Robb and sadly Theon was with them, his arm was better now but he hold his tongue when it come to talk to Jon and mostly just avoided Jon.
"I hope we find a boar" Robb said looking at Jon, "Maybe, I would like to find a deer" Jon responded and Robb nodded in agreement.
He then turns to Theon "What do you think Theon?" He asked and for a moment Theon looks at him but then he turns to Robb "I don't know, we might find nothing" he responded with a quiet tone.
Jon closed his eyes to look through his bird but found no animals near them. His father, Ser Rodrik and Jory were walking on horseback in front of them.
Sadly they didn't give Jon or Robb any bow to use, they came more to just watch.
"Remember boys, when you go hunting is important to not make noises, if you see an animal, you want to kill, you need to be quiet and when it comes to firing a bow, if you fail, there's no second chances, the boar or whatever that you're hunting will run away, if you hit him, chances of running away are smaller" Ser Rodrik said with a strong tone.
"Yes Ser Rodrik" Robb said immediately.
Jon saw a crow standing high in a long tree, for a moment Jon wanted to try to warg but he didn't wanted the others to know about this.
After hours, the found a boar, and Jory shot him in the neck causing the boar to bleed out.
They returned in Winterfell and Jon noticed his father was looking at him sometimes and Jon didn't know why.
After 9 Months
Jon was hunting alone in the woods, he saw a rabbit standing there, Jon was very far away for the rabbit to hear him coming. Jon closed his eyes and warg into the rabbit, Jon returned to his body and shot the arrow right in Rabbits chest. He stands up and starts walking towards the dead rabbit when he hears a sound, Jon turns to his right to see a giant wolf walking closer to him.
Jon started shaking, he sees him getting closer and for a moment he thought he would die here. Jon knew he couldn't run away so he closed his eyes, Jon found him and the direwolve started struggling to get him out.
But Jon didn't wanted to give up, he couldn't give up, after what felt like forever, Jon took control of The Wolf.
Jon returned and saw the direwolve sits on the ground looking at him, Jon grabs the rabbit and pulls out the arrow, and throws him the rabbit. The direwolve starts eating immediately and just devoured it. Jon was smiling looking at him.
The direwolve then looks at him and gets closer and starts licking his finger "Your name will be Winter" Jon said and chuckle and couldn't believe he has a direwolve.
Now - 291 AC
Jon was in the forest again, close to him was Winter, right now Winter was as large as a horse, there were many times Jon thought to ride him but he wasn't sure if she would like it.
It has been 7 months since he start going regularly in the forest to hunt, his father had asked him many times why he was doing that and telling him he was still a child but Jon just wanted to go away from Winterfell, he couldn't bear the cold looks of the people of Winterfell.
Some people of Winterfell has even start calling him 'The Hungry Wolf' making Lady Stark despise him even more not that Jon cared that much anymore about her looks.
Jon would bet she made his food salty again but Jon didn't care anymore about the food of Winterfell. And neither for his people except Arya and Robb.
It had been 4 months since Bran was born, Jon was happy for a new brother. But he only saw three times since he was born. Arya would beg him to take her with him when he went to The Forest but she was still only 3 name days.
Robb now barely ever spend time with him, he spend all his time with The Ironborn, the heir of Winterfell has an Ironborn for best friend Jon thought with a chuckle, he was still only a child but even Jon knew Ironborn and The North hate each other, hell no one in the seven kingdoms loved them. And to think his father sees nothing wrong with that.
It has been 2 months since Bloodraven hasn't been in his dreams, the last time Bloodraven told him to try warg in five different animals, Jon was able to do that after a month but Bloodraven didn't come.
Jon had asked him why was he training him but Bloodraven only told him he needed to prepare. Prepare for what Jon had asked but no answers.
Ned Stark
He was doing his work but his mind would often go back to Jon, the boy was not really staying in Winterfell anymore, only sleeping here but most of the time he spend in God's Wood and in the Wolfswood nearby hunting.
Catelyn was happy for it and Ned knew she wished him to just never return.
Ned thought about what Howland said to him and now he was tired of it.
It has been 8 years but everytime he looked at Jon, he reminded him of Lyanna, how she betrayed them, how she betrayed Robert and got their father burned and their brother strangled, And Robert started a war for her and died for her.
He hated Rhaegar Targaryen the most, it was his fault, he was already married and had kids and lusted after a woman that didn't belong to him.
But he was always afraid of the day The Royal family finds out about Jon, No I can't let that to happend he knew if that ever happens, that day would be the day House Stark losses their seat as Lord of The North.
No Robb would rule after him and his children after him, he loved his children and wanted them safe and happy.
Jon will soon be 10 name days maybe the wall is the only option in which The Royal Family never finds out. Howland would't be able to tell anyone without risking his own seat and his family.
294 AC
Ned was looking as Robb and Jon was sparring, Eddard Stark was no Arthur Dayne but even he could tell Jon wasn't even trying against Robb, No he was fighting like this was the first Robb ever grabbed a sword.
How can he be so good? Ned asked himself.
Robb swings at Jon but he blocks him and pushes him away. "Come Snow, there's no shame losing against a Trueborn, stop dancing around" Robb said mockingly.
Catelyn was by his side watching them. Ned noticed the little smile on Cat's face when Robb said that. Ned looks back at the training yard and sees Jon swing again but this time with more strength and much faster.
Robb blocks the first two swings but he starts struggling to keep up, Jon swings at his right shoulder and Robb's sword falls in the ground and Jon raised his sword towards Robb.
"If that's true Stark, then imagine the shame loosing to a Bastard" Jon said and he noticed Catelyn tense close to him. He could see the rage building up in her "How dare he?" She growled.
Ned sees as Jon puts his sword and leaves.
He sigh and decides to talk with Jon.
Eddard Stark was in his solar when the door opens and Jon comes inside.
Ned looks at him and could see he was growing up but Jon wasn't the shy boy anymore, he had changed and now acted more like a grown man.
"Lord Stark what can I do for you?" Jon asked coldly like he was talking to a man he didn't know and had no intention to know.
"Jon, I saw you today in training yard, I should say I'm impressed" Ned said and he was truly impressed with his abilities with a sword.
Ned had no doubt if Jon continue like this he will be Sword of The Morning Reborn after 10 years.
"Jon, have you thought about what you will do with your future?" Ned asked.
"I don't know my lord, I might go south" he answered and Ned felt himself getting tense.
"Why there?" Ned asked trying to not to show it.
"Why not? I'm sure is warmer than here and probably, if I become good enough I can become a knight and maybe if I have the chance I will become A Kings Guard" Jon answered.
Ned felt his blood turn cold as ice, he never thought Jon would wanted to become a Kings Guard, No that simply can't happen.
"What about The Night's watch?" Lord Stark asked a bit tense.
"What about it? Why should I Waste my life among rapist and thieves?" Jon asked coldly.
Ned sigh "Benjen is coming here, he will stay here for two weeks and then return to the wall" Ned said and to his surprise, there was barely any reaction from Jon, like he already knew that.
"That's good Lord Stark, Is been some time since I have seen my uncle, I'm sure he will be happy to see me" Jon answered happily.
Then Lord Stark noticed that Jon not once called him father, he knew he never did when Catelyn was around but why not now.
"Jon, you. . . You know you can call me father in private" Eddard Stark said a bit afraid.
Jon looks at him "So far, you haven't show to care for me, so why should I call you 'father" Jon said and before he could say anything Jon left the room.
Jon Snow
' He saw him again, after so long Bloodraven was here again "You seems better my boy" Bloodraven said looking at him.
"What should I do next?" Jon asked.
"Better question is where you should go?"
"Should I go somewhere?" Jon asked.
"Yes my boy, I want you to go to The Wall, there's someone there, who can help you?" Bloodraven said.
"Help me about what?" Jon asked thinking that he must be talking about Uncle Benjen.
"About who you are my boy. When you go there tell the master of Castle Black these words.
' The Seven Kingdoms needs to be ruled by an Aegon not an Egg, Kill The Boy Egg and let Aegon be reborn' " .
Howland Reed
He was standing in his desk and in front of him a letter.
he swallowed hard and started to write.
To Rhaegar Targaryen King of The Seven Kingdoms..