Day 18: Fair Game

Sansa

Sansa was sitting in a chair in front of Mya's mirror.

Mya's apartment was small but cosy with knickknacks and present from her friends scattered across the room in bookcases and on little tables.

"Are you sure?" Mya asked her while she put on the plastic gloves that came with the little box.

"Yes, I'm sure" Sansa answered while her heart hammered in her chest.

"Definitely? Because there's no coming back once I've dyed it" Mya said.

"What?!" Sansa gasped and she took the box from Mya's hands "you're supposed to be able to wash it out!"

Sansa let out a sigh when she noticed that Mya had been joking and that it was possible to wash the dye out of your hair again.

"Calm your tits, girl, I'm just messing with you" Mya said chuckling "I still think you shouldn't be doing this for Mister Baelish though"

Sansa was never planning on telling Mya why she was really going to dye her hair but the girl had refused to help her if she didn't, so Sansa had given in.

"I know" she sighed "but I'm still going to do it so let's just get it over with"

"Okay, whatever you want" Mya said and after she had mixed the dye in a little plastic bowl she applied it with the brush that came with the little box.

The dye felt cold and strange and it took Mya longer to dye her hair than she had expected.

When she was finished Sansa was too nervous to look into the mirror.

Mya helped her wash her hair and after Sansa blow-dried it she had finally built up the courage to look into the mirror.

"Oh Gods" she whispered when she opened her eyes and looked at her foreign reflection.

She looked very different and a bit older somehow.

"Do you like it?" Sansa asked Mya carefully.

"It doesn't look bad" Mya answered shrugging "it looks pretty good actually"

Sansa couldn't have felt more relieved when she heard Mya say that.

"It's really different, right?" Sansa asked her smiling and she tossed her now brown hair.

"It is" Mya said and she walked up to Sansa so they were both visible in the mirror "you kind of look like me now!"

Sansa laughed and she had to agree with Mya because now they both had blue eyes and dark hair and they were both tall.

"I look like your baby cousin" Sansa said chuckling.

"Sansa Stone" Mya said playing with Sansa's hair.

Sansa shook her head.

"I need a new name for that" the Stark girl said smiling.

"Arianne? Becca? Barbara?" Mya asked her naming some common names.

Sansa shook her head.

"What about Alayne?" Sansa asked "Alayne Stone"

"Sounds good" Mya said smiling.

Sansa liked the idea of Alayne Stone.

Someone who was a little bit tougher than Sansa and someone who would finally start to stand up for herself.

"Mya, do you think Alayne could borrow some clothes from you?" she asked her friend.

"I don't know if I trust that Alayne girl" Mya said jokingly "I heard she's bastard!"

Sansa chuckled and playfully punched Mya's arm.

"What did you just call me?" she asked her pretending to be angry but failing because of her huge smile "Alayne let's no one push her around, okay?!"

Mya laughed and ruffled Sansa's new hair.

"Okay, Miss Alayne, I might have some clothes for you after all" the girl said and she opened her wardrobe for Sansa.

Daenerys

Daenerys was walking through the fair and she saw the green ferris wheel decorated with golden flowers and carnival booths where you could win prizes.

At first she didn't want to go to the carnival but she knew that if she wanted people to vote for her, she needed to go out there and talk to people.

There where children running around the fairground, there were students from her school trying to shoot the tin ducks in one of the booths and there were people she had never seen before in her life.

The fair was organized to raise money for the school and judging by the amount of people that had come to the fair, she was convinced that they were going to raise a good amount of money.

She was trying to find a familiar face or someone who seemed friendly enough to talk to.

Suddenly she noticed a little, blue ball on the ground in front of her and she picked it up.

A little girl was looking at her and Daenerys figured that the ball must be hers.

She threw the ball in the girl's direction and the girl smiled brightly while she easily caught it.

The girl passed the ball back to Dany and she ran away smiling so Daenerys would chase her.

Dany didn't mind though because she knew what it was like to grow up without people to play with.

Dany chased the girl and when she stopped Dany threw the ball in her direction again so she could easily catch it.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" Daenerys heard someone say.

She turned around and she saw Jorah who was holding a kid's arm.

"Cutpurses" he said nodding his head in the boy's direction and Daenerys noticed the little knife in the kid's hand.

"Let him go" Daenerys said and the two kids quickly ran away.

Jorah looked older than he had done when she left him and she wondered if she had been the reason for that.

"What are you doing here?" she asked him.

Dany had to admit that somewhere deep inside she was glad to see him but she hadn't forgiven him for betraying her just yet.

It turned out that he had been working with the people who used to blackmail her father and he had been providing them with information about her.

She knew that he had only been doing this because he wanted to be able to return to Westeros safe and she knew that he had stopped providing them with information when he got to know her better but she still couldn't forgive him which was why she had left him in the first place.

"I wanted to see how you were doing" Jorah said "Illyrio told me that you would be here, he also told me that you probably didn't want to talk to me"

He added the last thing with a guilty look on his face.

"I guess I can't trust anyone to keep his mouth shut" Dany said and she could see that her words hurt him, maybe she was being too hard on him but the Targaryens were known for their fiery temper.

"I'm sorry, Khaleesi" he said "you know that I would never let anyone hurt you"

"Sure" she said slightly sarcastic and she shrugged.

Dany turned around and strolled past the different carnival booths while Jorah walked alongside her.

She didn't tell him to go away but she didn't talk to him either.

He had called her Khaleesi which was what her Dothraki friends had called her.

It was the term for the female leader of a group Dothraki which was what she had become by dating Drogo.

No one had called her that in a long time but it would always sound familiar to her.

"Did you make any new friends here?" Jorah asked her to break the awkward silence that had fallen between them.

"Who wants to know?" she asked him.

The hurt look returned to his face and she couldn't help but start to feel sorry for him even if he didn't deserve it.

If she kept this up than he would leave again and she didn't really want him to.

It was kind of nice to see a familiar face again.

"I actually did make some new friends" she said softly and Jorah immediately smiled "You'd never believe it, but I'm running for Prom Queen"

"That's amazing, Khaleesi" he said and he tried to put an arm around her shoulder but she moved away from him.

Jorah nodded to show her that he understood that she wasn't ready for physical contact yet.

Suddenly they heard some people shouting and a crowd was gathering near the ferris wheel.

"What is going on?" Daenerys asked Jorah.

"I don't know" he said "let's check it out, stay close to me, Khaleesi"

Robb

Robb helped Talisa get out of his car which had finally been repaired.

"It's good to be out of the house" Talisa said with a smile and Robb linked arms with her.

He had asked Talisa to go to the fair with him and she had agreed eventually after hours of persuading her.

He knew that she needed some distraction from her studying or else she would go insane.

"Oh look they have a ferris wheel!" Talisa said.

"We can check it out if you want to?" Robb asked her with a smile.

"That would be great" she answered.

There was music playing and there were a lot of people at the carnival.

It smelled of greasy food and sugar but a fair shouldn't smell like anything else.

He thought of the times his parents had taken him and his siblings to the fair and how much fun they always had.

Robb remembered how scared Sansa had been in the ferris wheel and also how Arya had started to rock the little cart just to scare her even more.

He remembered how Bran would beg him to go with him into the haunted house again and again and again and he remembered how Theon had once won almost every single price at the archery booth to impress some girls.

"Do you want me to win you a price?" he asked her when they passed the Milk Bottle game, where you had to knock over all the bottles with tennis balls.

"Sure" Talisa said shrugging.

"That's a pretty girl, is that why you ditched Roslin?" Tion Frey asked him.

Talisa gave him a confused look but he was glad that she didn't ask him anything out loud.

He would explain everything to her afterwards.

"Let's keep walking" he told Talisa and he wanted to walk past them but another Frey boy grabbed Talisa's arm.

"You don't really need two girlfriends, do you?" Willem Frey asked Robb with a meaningful smile "I'll just take this one, okay?"

"Get your hands off her" Robb said with a clenched jaw.

"Or what?" Willem asked him and Robb punched him in the face.

Before he knew it they were surrounded by Freys.

Luckily Robb still had friends so it wasn't long before Umbers, Maderlys and Karstarks started to show up too.

"What's going on here?" Someone asked and the Frey kids parted so Jaime Lannister could get through.

"Your family can't keep their hands of my girlfriend" Robb said looking at Willem Frey who he knew was related to Cleos Frey who was Jaime's cousin.

"Why are you touching his girlfriend?" Jaime asked lazily as if he couldn't care less and he probably really couldn't.

"He was supposed to go on a date with Roslin" Willem said "so he doesn't need another girlfriend"

"Seems fair to me" Jaime Lannister said shrugging and the Freys laughed.

"Well what about my sister's birthday?" Robb asked Willem and the other boys "wasn't that punishment enough?"

He had thought about the attack some more and it had seemed more and more obvious to him that the Lannisters and Freys must have had something to do with it.

His mother had been right when she accused Cersei of planning the attack because it was really out of character for her to just help someone without expecting something in return and he didn't think the Freys were above helping her if that meant they could punish him for "ditching" Roslin.

The Frey boys couldn't hide their guilty looks and the only one who still looked relaxed was Jaime Lannister.

"I don't know what you're talking about" he said.

"So I guess it was your whore sister who planned that, right?"

Before he knew it Jaime Lannister charged at him and a left fist hit him hard.

Everyone started fighting and he couldn't see Talisa anymore while he tried to protect himself and while he tried to take Jaime down.

"Stop this now!"

Renly

"This is amazing, Loras" Renly said while he looked around the fairground "I can't believe that you managed to pull off all of this!"

Loras shrugged and smiled at him.

"Being filthy rich has its perks" he said with a cheeky smile.

Renly put an arm around Loras' shoulder while they walked past the carnival booths.

The only bright side of being fired was that he no longer had to hide his relationship with Loras.

He saw a few people staring at them but they would have to get used to that.

Most people didn't seem to mind though.

"Do you think we will raise enough money?" Renly asked him.

"Just trust me, okay?" Loras said laughing "it will be fine, just have fun"

Renly laughed and he pressed a kiss on Loras' forehead.

"Thank you, love" he said.

Loras blushed a little and Renly loved that he could still make him do that even if it was only on rare occasions.

"What do you want to do?" Renly asked Loras.

"We could-" Loras started until they heard people shouting.

"What's that?" Loras asked and they walked in the direction of the shouting.

Two large groups of teens had formed and it looked like they were about to start a fight.

Renly recognized Robb Stark and Jaime Lannister who seemed to be the center of the two groups.

Renly had seen Robb grow up since Ned always took his son with him when he visited Renly's older brother.

It wasn't a coincidence of course that Robb was named after Robert Baratheon since Renly's older brother and Ned Stark had always been best friends.

Once upon a time they had hoped to unite the two families into one when Robert had been hitting on Ned's sister Lyanna but that didn't work out.

She had died a few years after that and Renly still felt sick when he thought about it because she had been so young.

Renly had seen Ned's daughter Arya a few times and she looked more like Lyanna every day.

She also had the same free spirit as her deceased aunt.

Suddenly Jaime charged at Robb and the two groups of teens started to fight.

Renly looked at Loras to see what he would do about it but Loras just stared at the fight with his mouth open.

"Stop this now!" Renly shouted loudly and the teens stopped fighting except for Robb and Jaime Lannister.

Renly pushed past some of the kids until he reached Robb and Jaime and he pulled them off each other.

"What in the name of the Seven do you two think you're doing?" he asked them angrily.

The two boys started to talk loudly at the same time and Renly quickly cut them off again.

"You know what?" Renly asked them "I don't care, I am so disappointed in the both of you, is it honestly too hard to behave like civilized people?"

"He called my sister a whore!" Jaime shouted.

"And I'll do it again!" Robb shouted and they tried to hit each other again.

Renly broke them up again.

"Okay, I'm done with this" Renly said "I'm giving both of you detention"

Jaime snorted.

"You don't even work here anymore" he said.

Renly looked the Lannister boy straight into his emerald eyes.

It took a while but eventually Jaime looked away.

"That's what I thought" Renly said "and now I want both of you to leave the fair and don't even think about coming back, I want people in this school to start behaving civilized because this kind of behaviour will no longer be tolerated"

He heard someone clap and when he turned around he saw Loras and soon other people started to clap too.

Renly couldn't help but smile, maybe Loras had been right about the fact that people listened to him.

Theon

Theon walked back into his bedroom after having returned from the bathroom.

Jeyne was standing near the window wearing nothing but one of his shirts which hung loosely from her body.

A pale ray of sunlight peered through the curtains and shone on her.

She looked beautiful.

Jeyne had stayed over at his house and she had spent the whole night in his arms.

They hadn't done anything else because he knew that she wasn't ready for that yet especially not after what she had just been through.

Theon had loved to hold her like that because he knew that she was safe and sound.

"Good morning" Jeyne said softly when she noticed him.

"Good morning, beautiful" Theon said smiling and he walked up to her.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and he loved the fact that she had to stand on her tip-toes to kiss him.

Suddenly the door swung open with a loud *BANG*.

"Brother, I have returned!" Asha shouted loudly.

She looked at Jeyne with a surprised look on her face.

"Who's this?" Asha asked.

"This is Jeyne" Theon answered "she's my.. my girlfriend"

Jeyne blushed when she heard him call her that and a small smile appeared on her face.

"Your girlfriend!" Asha shouted with a huge smile and she ran up to Jeyne and hugged her "Theon's girls never stay the night and he has never ever called one of them his girlfriend before!"

Jeyne awkwardly hugged Asha back and she shot Theon a confused look.

"I want to know everything about you" Asha said looking deep into Jeyne's brown eyes "Where are you from? Are you always this adorable? Do you know the address of the person that gave you these lovely bruises so I can beat him up for you? What's your favourite colour?"

"Uh" Jeyne just said and she gave Theon a meaningful look telling him that he needed to help her.

"The guy who gave her the bruises isn't around anymore" Theon said and he put a protective arm around Jeyne's shoulder "I made sure of that"

Asha nodded and her expression became more serious.

"Good" she said "by the way did you introduce her to dad yet?"

Theon had never introduced one of his friends to his dad, except for Robb, let alone a girlfriend and he didn't know how he would react to that.

"I thought he wasn't home" Theon said.

Asha shook her head.

"We arrived here together" she said "he is in his office"

Theon nodded and he decided that Jeyne deserved to meet his father.

He didn't want her to feel like he was hiding her from anyone.

"I don't have to meet him if you don't want me to" Jeyne said looking at him with big brown eyes.

"Of course I want you to meet him" Theon said smiling.

Jeyne smiled back at him and her face lit up.

Jeyne and he got dressed properly before they went downstairs and to his father's study.

Jeyne was wearing a light, blue dress and she had braided her hair like she had done the first day of school.

He could see that she was nervous but he couldn't deny that he was nervous too.

Theon knocked on the door of his father's study and suddenly he realized that he hadn't done that in years.

"Yes?" he heard his father say from the inside and Theon opened the door.

Balon Greyjoy's study was a large and light room and one of the walls was completely made out of windows providing a view of the beach and the sea.

"Dad, there is someone I'd like you to meet" Theon said "this is my girlfriend Jeyne"

He felt his heart hammer in his chest when he noticed the annoyed look on Balon's face and he hoped that he would like Jeyne.

Jeyne walked up to Balon and stuck out her hand so he could shake it.

"Nice to meet you, Mister Greyjoy" she said with a smile.

Balon got up from his chair walked around the desk and shook Jeyne's hand and for the first time in a long time Theon saw him smiling.

"It's lovely to meet you too, Jeyne" his father said and both Asha and Theon didn't know what to say.

Theon thought that he saw tears in his father's eyes even if it was just for a second.

"What's wrong, dad?" Asha asked him.

"Sorry, Jeyne" Balon said and he looked away from the girl "you just remind me of someone I knew a long time ago"

Asha mouthed the word "mom" to Theon and he nodded.

Jeyne didn't look that much like his mother when she was young except for the fact that they both had brown hair and brown eyes but it was understandable that his father thought about her at a moment like this.

Theon had never thought about how much his father must miss his mother and how lonely he must be.

"Well, you're always welcome here" Balon told Jeyne "if you'd excuse me now, I have a call to make"

Balon left his study and he left the three of them behind.

"Wow" Asha said "I wasn't expecting that"

"Me neither" Theon said shaking his head "but I guess it went better than expected"

Asha nodded.

"Definitely better than when I brought one of my boyfriends home" Asha said laughing "I thought he was going to kill him"

"Yeah, but wasn't that some dude from Lys who didn't even speak the common tongue?" Theon asked chuckling.

Asha started laughing again.

"How am I supposed to know? I didn't understand a thing he said except for fu-" Asha started before Theon interrupted her.

"Asha, as strange as this may seem to you, I am not interested in the details of your sex life and neither is Jeyne, so if you'll excuse us we're going to the beach" Theon said.

Asha looked a bit hurt by the fact that no one seemed to be interested in her sex life but Theon knew she was just joking around.

"I can show you my boat if you want to" Theon said to Jeyne who smiled at that.

"Don't do it, it's code for his dick!" Asha shouted.

"Okay, now we're definitely leaving" Theon said and he took hold of Jeyne's hand and lead her out of the office.

"Your sister seems nice" Jeyne said when they left the house and entered the beach.

"You have no idea" Theon said chuckling