JON ARRYN

The time had come and Robb decided to save Jon Arryn by nudging his mind to a certain level of suspicion about his wife and Petyr Baelish. He had to use the weirtree to amplify his power because of the distance. One day Jon Arryn was observing the way his wife acted with Petyr Baelish. It got him thinking about how she begged Jon to make Petyr Baelish Master of Coin. His mind also went back to their wedding night. Lysa Arryn was not a virgin when he lay with her.

Next was his son Robin, the boy was nothing like Jon Arryn. The same way the Queen's children were nothing like Robert at that age. Robert, all Baratheons in fact were black of hair and blue of eyes. Prince Joffrey, Princess Myrcella, and Prince Tommen were not fathered by Robert. But then who was there father. Robert began to suspect the Queen's brother, Ser Jaime Lannister of the King's Guard. He set the thought on the side for the time being and focused on the boy Robin Arryn.

The boy was still feeding at his mother's breast. He had no interest in the things Jon did at his age. Things like reading, art, and study of things to further the mind. He decides to summon his wife's handmaiden. "Whom do you serve?" Jon Arryn asks.

"Your wife m'lord."

"You serve me…You serve House Arryn. My wife dismissed her last handmaiden…I didn't think of it at the time. But now I do. I want you to spy on my wife. Watch her and get some of the other servants to help you." He hands her a bag of gold, "Here to enlist their aid."

"Yes m'lord I will do as you ask."

After meeting with the handmaiden Jon summons the Master of Whispers Varys. They meet in secret at night in the old Dragon Tower. "A clandestine meeting Lord Arryn. This is not like you."

"Perhaps King's Landing is having a negative effect on me."

"What can I do for you My Lord."

"My wife's last handmaiden. Her name was Ethel…Find out what became of her."

"Very well then."

While Varys searched for the handmaiden Jon Arryn had come to a decision about Robin. He summons his wife, "My son is six name days old. And he still feeds at the breast. It is not healthy. So I am sending him to a ward with Lord Stannis."

"By the seven you will not!" She says raising her voice. "He's my son!"

"Our son!"

She falls to her knees, "Jon please…" She begs, "…You know how hard it was for me to have a child. Three still born children. Please…I…I promise to stop breastfeeding him."

"Get up woman!" He picks her up by the arms. "You smother the boy. By his age I could wield a sword and shoot a bow."

"I have heard you say many times, that life is more than just learning to wield a sword or shoot a bow."

"My mind is made up. That is the end of it!" She runs from his Solar in tears. A few days later Jon meets with the Handmaiden.

"After she left you my lord she met in private with Lord Baelish…I could not hear what they were saying, but I did see them share a kiss."

"Where did they meet?"
"In the catacombs beneath the Keep. I have a man following Baelish."

Two days later Lysa brings Jon some tea. It is late in the evening and Jon is going over the finances for the crown. "I wanted to apologize for my behavior. You are right…Robin is the future Lord of the Eyrie and Warden of the East…Warding with Stannis will be good for him."

Jon is about to drink from the tea when the Handmaiden bursts into the solar, "My Lord I have news!" She yells running up to the desk and knocking over the tea.

"Alyne! What in the name of the Seven is wrong with you? You spilled Lord Arryn's tea!"

"Forgive me M'Lady…M'Lord…But they found poor Holland dead in an alley."

"Good gods…I'm going to check on Robin." Lysa nervously says and leaves.

"I'll clean that up M'Lord."

"Alyne…when you are done I need to speak with you."

"Yes M'Lady…" When Lysa is gone and the door closed to a crack. Alyne shoves a note into Jon's hand. It reads; The Tea is poisoned. "Will that be all M'Lord?"

"No actually I need you to do something else before you attend my wife." He goes to the door and shuts it all the way. "How did you know?" He asks in a whispered voice.

"I found this in your wife's jewel box. I searched her room after she left. Myra says she saw a man give your wife that bottle. I was on my way here, when I heard two Gold Cloaks talking about how they found Holland dead. He was following Baelish."

"Addyson!" The Captain of Jon Arryn's House Guard enters. "Fetch Grandmaester Pycell and bring here without fail."

"Yes My Lord."

Pycell confirms that it is poison. Tears of Lys, then two days later Varys meets with Jon Arryn. "She is working as a whore…Against her will mind you in one of Baelish's brothels here in the city."

"Addyson take twenty men and bring the girl here unharmed."

"Yes My Lord."

He returns with Lysa's former handmaiden Ethel. "Why were you dismissed from my wife's service and how did you wind up working in a brothel?"

She bursts into tears, "It…it…was your wife m'lord. Lady Arryn and Lord Baelish…I caught them being intimate. You had gone hunting with the King. She accused me of stealing. Then Baelish's men took me to the whore house and…" She starts crying unable to finish.

That very moment Jon draws up an arrest warrant for Petyr Baelish and hands the document to Addyson. "Take forty men, find Baelish no matter where he is and bring him to the dungeons. I want him under guard at all times."

"Yes My Lord."

Then Jon Arryn summons the High Septon and has him write up annulment papers and papers disillusion of heirship. "I bought you some tea." Lysa says entering the office. She sets it down in front of Jon and sits, "I think we will have to dismiss Alyne…I believe she is stealing from me." Jon coldly stares at her. He picks the cup up and pretends to bring it to his mouth. Then he dumps the tea on the floor.

"Why did you do that?" Jon answers with a snap of the finger. Both Alyne and Ethel enter the room with six guards. Lysa stares horrified. "I don't know what these women said to you, but they are liars and thieves."

"The only liar around here is you. A lying, plotting, adulteress whore!" He sets the bottle of poison on the desk. Then he shoves the papers across the table, "Sign them."

"What is this?"

"Annulment papers…Papers of disillusion of heirship. I know Robin is Baelish's son." She tries to deny it, "Don't fucking speak…Just do me the courtesy of signing them."

"And if I refuse."

"I will drag your name through the mud. I will bring you before the court and expose you for the lying bitch you are. Then I will have you executed."

"Where is Petyr?"

"In the dungeons…Awaiting execution."

"Did you ever love me?"

Jon does not answer right away. He thinks long and hard about their life together. "I tried to love you…I tried to make you happy."

"Then do me this one kindness…Spare Petyr…For Robin's sake."

"You must be out of your fucking mind! You and Baelish plotted to kill me. It is out of respect for your father that I haven't removed your head. Now sign it!" With a teary face and shaky hand she signs the document. Lysa and Robin are sent to Riverrun, her childhood home. Baelish is shown the evidence of his plot and is executed.

"Damn! I never liked that bitch." King Robert says in his solar drinking with Jon. "How did you figure it out?"

"I saw Lysa with Baelish one day and I did not like what I saw."

"Well I am glad you figured it out before it was too late."

"So am I."

"Let's turn our attention to more pleasant things and the future."

"How do you mean?" Jon asks.

"Lyanna was meant to be mine. That bastard took her from me. Eddard is like a brother to me in all but blood. Well he has a daughter and I have a son…I will head North and ask for Ned's daughter Sansa Stark."

Jon tries to keep his face emotionless and not show disapproval. He couldn't allow Robert to betroth a bastard to Eddard Stark's daughter. Ned was as much a son to Jon as Robert. At the same time he couldn't tell Robert the truth. He would lash out and kill both Cersei and Jaime Lannister. And after how Robert reacted to the dead Targaryen children he could not risk Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen. They were innocent in all this.