Being Lady Stark was not easy. For one, the cold has lost its charm after several moons. It was beginning to creep deep into her bones. There were days that she wanted to ride a horse and go to the nearest port and sail back to Tarth. She still had nightmares about what had happened a year prior. Sometimes, she'd find her husband snaking his arms around her, sometimes, she'd find a cold, empty bed when her lord husband was on a trip to the Wall. Those days she would sit huddled on her favorite window sill and read.
It was easier when she bore her first child, Katniss Stark. She had Haymitch's look- ebony hair, steel eyes. There was almost no ounce of Euphemia in it except for the light freckles that dotted her skin that would be almost invisible due to her slightly darker complexion. Even as little Katniss grew older, she fancied running around and playing in dirt rather than being a lady. Wolf blood, Haymitch said. Rough around the edges, Euphemia argued. It only got worse when Gale Karstark became a ward of Winterfell. Effie was gone for two years for some business in the South and then in Tarth. When she returned, she was shocked at her eight-year-old daughter's steely looks. Luckily, she had sweet Primrose, her second born.
Two years born after her elder sister, Primrose Stark was Lannister-Tarth just as Katniss was Stark. Prim had pale, unmarred skin and had the Lannister golden locks and the Sapphire eyes of Tarth. She was sweet and lady-like when Katniss was wild and stubborn. Everyone who cast their eyes on sweet Prim would do anything for her, she knew, and that included her older sister. Although these two seem like a contrast, Katniss and Prim shared a deep bond.
Things were well. As well as they are in the Stark family.
Of course, things happen. And old enemies resurface- stronger and wiser.
Author's Note: Awww The End!~ I know it's short LOL. That's why I posted this about a week than a month.
That cliffhanger dough. :P I have a general idea on what happens to them to be honest but I don't think I can take writing complicated war strategies and politics and fighting without wanting to jump off a cliff (to behonest, I almost did with this fic XD) cause I'm a perfectionist. I'm no George RR Martin (sadly). But I might write random short stories for this universe hahaha. I wrote a thing where Jaime was dying and Effie and the kids with Cinna and his kids, which was the original epilogue but it didn't feel right to be the epilogue. So I came up with this short thing instead.
Let me take this moment to say thank you to all the readers whether active commenters or not. (Lol this author's note is gonna be longer than this chapter but whatever) Multi-chapter has never been my strongest suit but I'm glad to have finally delivered a finished multi-chapter and you have no idea how much of a big ego boost it is to me knowing that I can write multi-chapter (even if it's only 8-ish parts). To those who commented, thank you for your kind words and encouragement. They really mean so much to me. To those who left faves, votes, kudos, thank you for your wordless support. For the silent readers, thank you for reading, you are appreciated nonetheless. For those who probably read the story and didn't manage to continue because you didn't like a certain element of it, thank you still for taking time to read to whatever point you got.
I hope to deliver longer and better multi-chapters in the future.
I eagerly await your thoughts. =D