A Little Touch of Heavenly Light
The guests are drunk halfway through the feast and Lady Catelyn Stark sighs as she looks over the room. Rob's half gone and Ned is nowhere to be found. Her eyes find Arya who is slinging food at the butcher's boy and Sansa who is making goo-goo eyes at Prince Joffrey. Finally her gaze finds Dany and Jon, they are sitting beside each other. Dany is laughing, her face pink from the wine do doubt and Jon is whispering something in her ear with his hand on the small of her back.
"Young love," Catelyn jumps as Cersei speaks. "It's so honest and pure, look at the way those two look at each other." She said nodding toward Dany and Jon. "Two unwanted children finding solace in each other." She sighs. "It's small actions that acknowledge to the fact that those two are made for each other…" She takes a sip from her goblet. "Fire and Ice."
Catelyn turns to the queen and puts on a smile. "I had no idea you were a romantic your grace."
"Not many people do." She says, returning the smile. "Daenerys has grown into quite the swan a true beauty…does her personality balance it all out."
Catelyn nods. "It does, she has a great heart."
"Well you raised her well Catelyn, who knows what she would be like if she was raised around her mad brothers." Cersei comments. "I was against it at first, letting her live but after I had my first son all that hate went away. I'm glad that your soul knew she had good in her."
"Thank you, that means a lot to me your grace." Catelyn thanks.
The two women stay silent for a few minutes and in those few minutes a small scene plays out before them. A drunken Theon stumbles over to Dany and Jon and says a few words that she can hear. Catelyn watches as Jon's face falls and Dany's turn into one of anger. Jon gets up and storms out and Theon yells something vulgar. He then sits next to Dany, slinging an arm around her shoulder and Dany pushes him off and starts yelling at him. Theon rolled his eyes and grabs Dany again, next thing they know she slaps the ward across the face and yells again before storming out of the dining hall.
"There is the Targaryen rage." Cersei points out.
Catelyn shrugged. "He had it coming. "Dany takes care of herself, she always has and always will."
Cersei sighs and she finds her husband grabbing at a barmaid. "So I hear that we may have a grandchild someday." She says changing the subject.
~X~
She finds him out by the stables, a frown set on his face as he swings his mighty blade on the training dummy. Dany takes a deep breath of the cold air and perches herself on the fence. "Pretending the dummy is Theon?"
He whirls on her, face red in rage and sweat forming on his forehead. "I am just so damn tired of the hell I get for being a bastard!" He looked around wildly dropping his sword and marching over toward her, yelling in her face. "Do they think I chose this life?" Dany was silent, she didn't know what to say. "And now they are trying to get rid of me by sending me to the wall!" He exclaims, Dany can see tears in his eyes. "That's why my Uncle is here, to talk me into it, talk me into taking the black…" His shoulders slouch and his voice gets a little sadder. "Don't I get a say in this, what if I wanted a wife and a family…why didn't they give me a say?"
Dany sighed as she slid off the fence and grabbed his face in her hands, searching in his eyes. "Ease your storm Jon Snow." She murmured and Jon wrapped his arms around her small waist. "You don't have to say yes." She whispered as Jon touched his forehead to hers. "Tell Ned what you really want, deep down that man loves you and he will listen…" She paused, listening to Jon's steady breathing. "Like I said before Jon, a bastard is just a horrible title that you have to grow past. I know that you are an amazing man with a brave heart; you could take the strongest Dothraki king and live to tell the tale." She watched as a smile appeared on his face. "The Jon that I love would not let the words of some little leech upset him."
There was a long silent pause and Dany closed her eyes, listening to his breathing as he calmed down. Finally, in a soft, broken voice her uttered. "Run away with me."
Her eyes open and go wide. "What?"
"Run away with me, we can leave Winterfell tonight, you and me. We can get the horses and what we need and…" He started and Dany shook her head.
"Jon, no that is not the answer we can't just run away from our problems." Dany objected
Jon took a deep breath and looked around. "Dany do you love me?"
"Of course I do, like a brother." Dany answered with a quizzical look.
He grabbed her shoulders, gaining eye contact with her. "You know that's not what I met."
"Jon I-" She began but then turned her head at the sudden voice.
"Oh I'm sorry, didn't realize that I was interrupting something."
Jon let go of Dany and then turned around to see Tyrion Lannister walking over to them, wine bottle in hand. He raised an eyebrow and chuckled as Jon moved away from Dany. "No, no don't be bothered by me, I'll be on my way. I just wanted to catch a word with the two causes of the gossip that is going around." He took a swing of his drink. "A bastard and a Targaryen together…and I thought I have seen it all."
"Shouldn't you be inside?" Dany asked and Tyrion raised a brow.
"You have a very gentle voice," He offered. "That is not found in a Targaryen." Her eyes narrowed at the Imp. "My parent's once served your parents…in fact your mother and my mother where close. We have something in common."
Dany looked over at Jon and then back to the Lannister. "And what would that be?"
The Imp shrugged his shoulders. "We are both killers." Jon took a step forward. "Calm yourself Snow," He said offering a glance at him. "I'm not insulting your woman, I'm just saying that we both killed our mothers at birth." He then nodded to Dany. "At least no one blames you for it because you are the only Targaryen that holds the name left." She blinked and the Imp turned to Jon. "But she is right you know, running away from what haunts you is not the answer, you two must wear your titles like armor show it proudly and then, in time, you will do something so great that people will forget that you're a bastard and you're broken."
"Why are you telling us this?" Jon asked at Tyrion went to walk away. "Why do you care?"
Tyrion shrugged. "I don't know, maybe it's because I have a place in my heart for bastards, cripples and broken things."
That did not sway Jon. "What would you know about being a bastard?"
"A dwarf is a bastard in their father's eyes." He gave them both a nod. "Goodnight."
They watched as Tyrion turned the corner and Jon turned back to Dany. "You still didn't answer my question."
Dany turned red as she looked to the ground. "There is no need to, you already know the answer." She looked up and saw Jon un-moving. "I'm going to bed."
Jon watched her walk away and then sighed as he went to pick up his sword he wasn't sure if he messed up or made things better.
"Jon?"
He stopped, it was his uncle.
"I would like a word"
Jon nodded and turned around, dragging himself over to his Uncle, knowing what he was going to talk to him about.
~X~
The conversation had been short and surprisingly his uncle didn't try to talk him into joining the wall. He just told him that there was honor in taking the black but he would also miss out on a wife and children. His uncle had also thrown in that it would make his father proud and that just feels like a slap in the face. So Jon just told him that he would think about it and then walks down the hall to his chambers. When opens the door he is surprised to see Daenerys standing by his window in her night dress.
"Dany?" he questions and the silver haired girl looked up at him. "Dany, are you…is everything ok?"
She doesn't answer him. Instead she strides over to him and before he can even blink he feels her lips on his. He doesn't respond at first because he is honestly surprised and as long as Jon would live on this planet, he would never understand a woman's actions. But his senses slowly come back to him when he feels her tongue brushing against his bottom lip. Jon quickly recuperates the kiss and wraps his arms around her waist, pulling her flush against him. Eventually, they break for air and Jon looks into her clouded lilac eyes before attaching his lips to the soft, warm skin of her neck. She swings them around and backs him to the bed, his knees buckling when they hit the edge. She gently pushes him down and pulls her nightgown up so she can straddle him.
"Dany?" He asks again as she pulls as she takes off his shirt. "Are you sure?"
She blinks and licks her swollen lips. "I love you Jon," this time it sounded different, filled with emotion and truth. "It's the only thing I'm sure of."
Jon smiles and leans up to kiss her again. "I love you to Dany."
She sucks in a deep breath at his confession but then smiles when the words finally sunk in and she saw how his eyes were on the strings of her nightgown. She gave him a wordless nod and his hands moved up to untie them. This was all he needed to decide where he truly belonged, with her.
~X~
She wakes up before him the next morning and dresses as quickly as she could. She was careful to make sure she didn't wake him up as she quickly braided her hair and slipped out the door. She didn't know why she was worried about him waking up, it took an army of people to wake Jon Snow up. The man slept like the dead.
Dany quickly shut the door behind her and looked up and down the hallway before attempting to escape.
"Dany?"
Dany cringed at the voice of Arya Stark, she slowly turned around to see tomboy Stark girl looking at her with a confused look. "Hi Arya."
Arya tilted her head and Dany thanked the gods that she was still naïve. "Why are you sneaking out of Jon's chambers in your nightgown? Because I'm pretty sure my mother makes us dress before leaving our chambers, you know because it's not lady like."
She could feel her face heating up and her heart pounding in her chest. "I was sleep walking Arya."
"Sleep walking?" She asked, her tone confused.
Dany nodded furiously. "Yes sleep walking, I do that sometimes after I have wine." She smiles. "You know that Rob says that I am a lightweight."
The girl seemed puzzled. "Ok well my mother sent me to look for you and Jon. She wants for me, you, and Sansa to join her and the queen on a walk." She looked at her state of attire. "But you are going to have to get dressed first.
"Of course, I'll go do that right now." She started to walk off and was halfway down the hall when she turned to ask. "Why does she want Jon?"
"My father wants him to join in on the hunt, why do the men get to have the fun?" Arya asks and Dany shrugs.
"I don't know because they think they can." And with that Dany turns the corner and then races up the stairs. She knew at some point she would have to face Jon but she wasn't exactly ready to do that now.
TBC
A/N- Ohhh, it happened and she left him to wake up alone. So will Jon be mad or just confused, stay tuned to find out!
I don't know why but I seem to get the writing bug at night as I am trying to write a paper for my class. I swear one of these days I am going to send my professor a fanfic and she will be wondering what it has to do with children oh well.
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