A/N: I just have to rant a little about season 7 and more spec. the leaked episode (7x06). There is actually more rant than chapter. I apologize for that but sometimes you just need to rant...

So SPOILER Warning (for season 7x01-06)

What is going on this season? Seriously? It's like I know Martin is no longer part of it but still. Some stuff in the first ep or two was alright, but after that I feel like just everything is stopped making sense.

1) Dany and Tyrion's plan to take over Westeros - like I get that we're all "as little casualties as possible" but taking her three dragons with some men on them and flying up to the Red Keep and being all, "surrender or I will burn the castle" would probably cause less death and problems in the end. Or just flying in and fucking melting the castle. Sure there wouldn't be an Iron Throne to sit on but heck, Dany is all "I want to break the wheel" any way. So just rule from Dragonstone after you melted the Red Keep. War over. Seriously Dany - you have dragons - how can you be losing? I get it wouldn't make for great TV if she didn't have some trouble...or maybe it would. Killing Cerci in 7x01 and having Dany take the throne would have been awesome. I mean seriously it's time for a power shift and I would like to see how Dany would handle actually being Queen. Would have made the Dany / Jon meeting more intense too since then it would be just like with the mad king calling the Starks to the Red Keep, right? And she might have been more about bringing him into the fold via marriage since the north would be the one place she didn't rule and Jon might have said yes since then she could have promised all of Westeros armies to fight the WW + Night King.

2) Then there is Jon's plan - going north to bring back a Wight. With like ten guys. WTF. We all could predict how that would fucking end. I mean seriously. You have an army at Winterfell - taking just a couple of dozen of them and horses would have been a smart move. Or even easier - simply asking Dany to fly with him on a trip to the North and showing her the masses of WW. Then she would believed you and sent her armies / taken Westeros quickly (see note above about just getting on with it) to then send her armies north to help him. Them flying the dragon together would also have given them some alone bonding time possibilities and maybe made us actually believe they were "falling" for each other.

3) Because seriously the Dany and Jon "love story" - it's not there. D&D can tell me they're fighting attraction to each other all they wan't but if I can't see it... well then it's just bad writing/ directing. And so far I haven't seen/felt ANY romantic vibes between them. Maybe for a minute during their first meeting on Dany's part when Jon is standing up to her but otherwise no. It's just too freaking quick and forced. They should just have left them as allies. There is seriously too much going on to have time to develop a good romance in the time remaining. Especially between these two who both have so much other stuff going on.

OR if they really wanted to do it someone should have suggested a marriage to ally themselves together and then had the romance happen after the wedding (or not at all. I think a political marriage between them would have been interesting.) I mean heard via spoilers even before the season started that they were doing Dany /Jon but didn't hate the idea of them until they actually met. Now I just feel like cringing when they're in a scene together. They just don't click on screen / have scenes that might be conductive to falling in love.

Which is so odd.

Because Sansa and Jon had plenty of chemistry and scenes with candles light a promises and give and takes (most of which must have been unintentional since they're clearly not doing anything with it) and I'm sure they could have manged something a bit like it with Jon / Dany. Or not. Neither one of them are really in a place where they are open or even considering a relationship. They got other shit going on, so it makes no sense for their characters to fall in love. Especially with each other since they both need appear as strong leaders to each other and are trying to do different things (take over the world / save the world). And a love-love story will most likely be doomed when when Jon's parentage is revealed and if not they're having incest suddenly be okay when that's one of the things that have been making Cerci and Jamie "bad" since it since day 1?

4) Next issue I have is Dany suddenly being the hero. I mean? I get she rode off on Drogon to save Jon because she's supposed to be falling for him and all but still. Dany has never been very heroic. She's had some heroic ideas about freeing slaves and stuff but she's never gone off to save some random people (and let's face it Jorah was the only guy she knew on the mission besides Jon who she is what? Acquainted with? Spent a couple of war meetings with). It was a seriously stupid move and cost her one of her dragons. And she did it for no good reason. It was in no way logical for her to go off and save them.

And it's debatable if it even makes sense timeline wise.

5) The time line hasn't been making a lot of sense lately (ever?). Getting to Dragonstone from Winterfell between one episode. Getting from Dragon Stone to Casterly Rock (spelling?) on the other freaking side of Westeros with ships in like one and a half episodes. Like WTF? I get that we don't have time to golollygagging about in the woods like in earlier seasons and so I might be able to forgive them for that but SERIOUSLY this last episode takes the cake. How does Gendry run to the Wall, a raven flies all the way from the wall to Dragonstone and Dany get there before the ice froze on the lake again? I mean just from the Wall to Winterfell it's 600 miles by raven which would take 1 day for a raven to fly. And it's maybe twice that to Dragonstone so it would have taken at least 24 hours for the bird to reach Dany then it would have taken another day for her to fly up there with her dragons (or at least half a day if we say they're a lot faster than the birds). It makes no sense at all. Because you know TIME!

6) Benjen randomly showing up to save Jon. How did he know Jon was there? HOW? Did he sense a whole bunch of WW gathering and thought "Wow I really want to die today I'm going to go check it out". Even if he does have magic WW powers (he found Bran and Merra totally randomly too it seemed so maybe he does have some sort of magic WW sensing power from being kind of dead) it was still kind of random. Like here I am, coming to save you and BTW take my horse so you can return just as Dany was giving up on you...and now we have to take your clothes off so Dany can see your 'took a knife in the heart scars. Bad and sloppy writing D&D.

7) Speaking of bad. Let's go to my next WTF. Arya. What is going on with our favorite assassin psycho girl? I have several issues with Arya. The first rather minor one: her beating Brienne. Arya hasn't really had that much fighting practice. Not enough to beat the arguably best fighter in Westeros. The Faceless Men were all about stealth, poisoning etc (even though there was some staff fighting going on too). The Hound didn't train her. The only real fight training she's had was with Syrio back in season 1...for like four episodes and the training she did on her own after that. So while I feel like I'm sure she could handle herself in a fight the whole her fighting + beating Brienne isn't really making 100 % sense, but I can see why they did it. It was cool. That's all.

Number two; acting like a little kid. About beheading people that spoke out against Jon. About blaming Sansa for liking Nice things. About the note she found. About freaking Sansa out with the whole wearing her face. I get that Arya likes Jon best and felt betrayed by her sister for lots of things from back in season one. LF clearly sensed that and took advantage but still, come on Arya. You're not a little girl anymore. You might have been a tomboy with a sword, but was princess I-love-embroidery Sansa supposed to try to free their dad with knitting needles? Even through that anger of all that's happened between, she must have been able to figure out Sansa was under duress and doing her best to survive when she wrote that letter.

Further threatening to show the note to the other Northern Lords was stupid since it might very well have caused some of them to doubt Jon's decision to put Sansa in charge and if Arya is on Jon's side she wouldn't want that, now would she? I know it's mostly amped up to give us some drama at Winterfell and hopefully end Little Finger once and for all but there are plenty of other things they could have used to cause conflict. Something that actually show cases who the sisters are now rather than old stuff. I feel like they both need to share what they've been through - Arya needs to see that Sansa got a pretty rotten deal and Sansa needs to understand just how much Arya has been through. I'd have rather had Sansa having a nightmare and Arya coming to her "aid" thinking someone is trying to kill her and then have them share a bit about what they've both been through than all this none sense. I know that's not very game of thrones but still. Even them arguing about what to do about the food shortages or something would have made more sense.

I also feel like Arya's whole "you wanted to be a queen and sit by your young king husband's side" and "I wanted to be a knight" - neither one of us is getting what we want was stupid. Sansa might not be married to Jon but I think we all remember her sitting right next to him as Jon was crowned, and now she does rule as a Queen almost (and Jon will probably be fine with handing over the north to her once the WW threat is over with since he doesn't really want to be king). Sansa did sort of get what she wants, even if it's not permanent (yet). Arya too has become something other than a little girl and while she isn't a knight, she sure as heck isn't a defenseless proper lady. The whole bit about wearing Sansa's face and getting a feel of everything Sansa has was also weird because Arya claims not to want to wear pretty dresses or have power - she just wants revenge. And would Arya really kill her sister? Even with everything I'm thinking No. She is still a Stark.

Over all I would have been happy with no Winterfell at all during the two last episodes. Arya coming home and their being a little tension would have been enough. Because what's happening at Winterfell isn't really relevant to anything else anymore. It's all White Walkers and Dragons now. The politics that was so important back in the earlier seasons are no more. All we got now is two super powerful ladies making war and a guy who wants to save the world from WW.

8) In fact it's like we're no longer even playing Game of Throne at all. Not since Cerci blew up all the players leaving us with with her, Dany or Jon (maybe Gendry) as the only possible "winners". Jon isn't really into being king. And Cerci is the bad guy. So what we have Dany and everyone vs the WW and then everyone vs Cerci. And even though she will put up a good fight, we know Cerci doesn't really stand a chance against Dany, even if D has been losing some battles. But Dany is going to die too since she's the biggest war maker of them all and Martin is all "war is bad" so she won't be the Queen in the end. So we either have Jon, who might be the true heir (it sure seems so) but has never wanted to be king. Or Gendry, the bastard blacksmith who I'm not sure would make a good king either. At this point it seems maybe Little Finger (if he can keep his head for the next few episodes) might just have a chance to sit on Westeros most uncomfortable chair. Really, for a show named Game of Thrones, there seems to be more straight out war than any kind of political gaming going on...

Sansa

Sansa couldn't believe he'd come. Through the snow storms and foot high drifts. He'd come. It didn't bode well. Not at all.

"Your Grace," she said, curtsying for Tyrion as he came forward from the royal carriage.

"My Queen," he said in his normally cheerful voice. But was there an edge to it? She couldn't be sure. "It's been too long."

The scene felt somehow reminiscent of the time the royal family had come to visit Winterfell all those years ago. Except there were no Stark children lined up, just her and behind her servants and Winter Town citizens come to see the Imp King. And there was snow and biting cold. Winter was here. That gave her some comfort. Father always promised.

"We have a feast prepared for you," she said, "If you please."

"As long as there is plenty of wine," he said and she felt herself smile. But there was still a nagging worry deep in her chest. When Tyrion had sent word he would come to her, coming north despite the season, she hadn't yet to discover what lay beyond the cave in.

She had now.

Her worry to nag at her, all through the night, even though everyone but her seemed to be having a grand time. Tyrion had drunk more than his fair share of wine and was over at one of the long tables telling a group of Lords some story about a honeycomb and a jackass. Sansa was uncomfortable; too warm and the baby kept moving and kicking, which was both welcome odd feeling at the same time.

How she wished to be in her chambers, the lord chambers, which she'd taken over from Jon, without the noise and people. She'd be able to think of him and them. She let herself do that more freely since her discovery in the crypt. She told the baby stories of Jon, the king in the north, the battles he'd fought. Told her son too even though she wasn't sure he could hear her or understand. Maybe it was as much for him as her own peace of mind.

"A raven has arrived for you My Queen," Morwell said, coming up behind her as she sat in the high chair next to Tyrion. "From the citadel."

The took the two scrolls that were provided for her. She opened them with shaking fingers, knowing that what she'd find written in them would not only change her life but change all of Westeros.

Proof of marriage.

Jon Snow was not a Snow at all.

He was Jon Targaryen.

The only remaining Targaryen, and of all the men and women in Westeros, the one with the best claim to the Iron Throne.

Urg, this was supposed to be a one shot...