Day 24 part 1: A Clash of Prom Kings

Robb

Music was booming through the mansion while Arya's rock battled Sansa's boy band crap and everyone was getting ready for Prom.

Winterfell had four bathrooms: the girls' bathroom, the boys' bathroom, their parents' bathroom and a guest bathroom that everyone always forgot about since it was on the ground floor next to the guest bedrooms.

The boys' bathroom was across from the girls' but they had locked the door so Theon couldn't see Jeyne before she was ready.

Neither Jeyne nor Theon completely agreed with this plan but everyone who had tried to change Sansa's mind about this, had been in danger of getting burned by a piping hot curling

iron.

Robb figured that Sansa was doing everything she could to give Jeyne the night of her life to make up for the things that had happened during the planning of Sansa's sixteenth birthday.

Robb thought it was nice of his sister to lend the spotlight to someone else from time to time but he wondered if Jeyne actually wanted all this extra attention.

He looked into the large mirror above the sink and fixed his grey tie.

He was wearing a grey suite and a black shirt which his mother and father had surprised him with yesterday.

Robb had been planning on wearing his usual tuxedo but he had to admit that this looked better on him.

"Should I shave?" Theon asked while he rubbed his slightly stubbly chin.

Robb checked his watch and he noticed that they didn't have that much time left.

"How fast are you?" Robb asked his friend in return.

"I should shave" Theon said searching the cabinets for his stuff.

Theon had as much of his stuff laying around Winterfell as he had in his own house and even though they had been fighting Robb hadn't had the heart to throw any of it out.

"Theon, I need some space" Jon said annoyed after Theon was blocking his view of the mirror so that he could shave.

"Deal with it" Theon said but he did move over a little bit so Jon could continue trying to fix his hair.

Robb didn't understand why his brother still bothered to since it would always look just as messy as before anyway.

They heard some noises coming from the girls' bathroom and their door opened.

Sansa left the bathroom and she held up a large towel so they wouldn't be able to see Jeyne when she left the room.

"Jeyne, is that you?" Theon asked looking over at the towel with a razor in one hand and a can of shaving cream in the other.

"Theon?" Robb could hear her ask and he saw a pale hand move to the towel so she could reveal herself to them.

"No, don't tempt her!" Sansa shouted and the hand disappeared behind the large towel again.

Sansa shot Theon an angry look while Jeyne and she went into Sansa's bedroom which was just next to their bathroom.

Lady followed Sansa closely while the direwolf seemed to give Theon the same angry look as Sansa had.

It surprised Robb to see that Sansa had let her direwolf into the house even though their mother had forbidden them to do so since they made too much of a mess.

He had noticed a change in his sister's behaviour lately anyway.

An annoyed Arya left the bathroom and she rolled her eyes at Robb to show him that she was actually glad that Sansa and Jeyne were done occupying the space.

"You're not going out dressed like that" Robb, Jon and Theon said simultaneously while she walked up to them.

Arya rolled her eyes again and Robb feared that one day her eyes would get stuck like that.

His little sister was wearing a short, black dress featuring an asymmetrical pointed hem with a yellow trim and a studded belt around her slim waist.

She wore fingerless gloves and she had dyed the red streak in her hair yellow this time to match the trim.

He had never seen his sister in such an exposed outfit before or in high heels for that matter and he had never expected to see her wear smokey eye makeup either.

"Oh please, you've seen Sansa wear much worse" she told Robb while crossing her arms in front of her chest.

"Yeah, well I just wasn't expecting... this" he said looking his sister up and down and he wondered if he needed to have a good conversation with Gendry.

"Well you're all getting dressed up so I'm allowed too" she said and Robb saw her looking at Robb and Jon.

His brother was wearing a black suite, a black shirt and surprisingly a black tie and Robb had to admit that he couldn't think of the last time he saw Jon wear colours.

Theon was wearing a tuxedo and he had been quoting James Bond, a fictional faceless man who changed his face but never his name, from the moment he put it on.

"Well just don't... I mean be safe and... just don't" Robb told his sister awkwardly while he tried to decided if he had to be the one to give her the talk.

Arya's eyes widened while she quickly stopped her brother before he could continue.

"Robb, I love you, but please never talk to me about that again!" she said and he felt sort of relieved that he didn't have to talk to her about sex but he still promised himself that he would have to talk to Gendry.

"Guys, are you almost ready?" they heard Cat's voice come from downstairs.

"Yeah, I'm coming, mom!" Robb answered.

Robb turned around to see if Theon and Jon were ready too and it seemed like it.

"You look beautiful by the way, Arya" Jon said "I'd ruffle your hair but I don't want to ruin it"

"That's okay" Arya said smiling and she shrugged.

Then all of the sudden she got up on her toes and messed up Jon's hair like he had done to her a million times before but unlike Arya Jon had just spent an hour trying to get it just right.

"Arya!" he shouted and he chased the girl down the hall and Robb was glad to see that she was still faster than any of them while wearing heels.

Theon

Theon, Jon, Robb and Arya were already downstairs while they were waiting for Sansa and Jeyne.

"You're going to be late" Cat said while she checked her watch "like always"

Theon had known the Starks for a very long time now and he had to admit that he understood Catelyn's struggle who always tried to make sure that everyone was on time while six Stark children were working against her and occasionally a Poole kid and a Greyjoy kid too.

Talisa was the first one to come down the large, marble stairs while wearing a dark blue gown which fitted her figure perfectly.

Theon knew that she had been pregnant for two months now but she looked as slender as she had done the first time he saw her.

He noticed his friends face light up while he looked at his girlfriend and kissed Talisa.

Theon had never seen his friend as happy as he was with his girlfriend and Theon was sure that they were going to make an amazing pair of parents.

"You look amazing" Robb whispered to Talisa but he couldn't hear what her response was.

Theon noticed that Cat's disapproving look hadn't completely vanished yet but he was almost certain that it would fade over time.

He heard a faint buzzing sound and Arya retrieved her phone from her purse.

It was still strange to see her wear a purse and a dress and he didn't think he would ever get used to it.

"Oh Gendry's here!" Arya said and she walked to the front door.

She opened the door for her boyfriend and quickly kissed him before Theon, Robb and Jon could do anything about it.

Gendry was wearing dark jeans, a black fitted jacket, a yellow t-shirt with the silhouette of a stag on it and a loose tie.

The yellow shirt explained the yellow streak in Arya's hair of course since it wasn't uncommon for girls and boys to match the colours of their outfits when they went to Prom together.

"Sansa, you're going to be terribly late!" Catelyn shouted.

"One second!" Sansa responded loudly and to be honest it couldn't have lasted any longer until she appeared at the top of the stairs.

Sansa was wearing a flowing blue dress that matched her eyes.

There was a split in the dress which exposed her left leg when she walked and the fabric shimmered when it moved.

"Lords and Ladies" Sansa said while she couldn't hide her excitement "I present to you, the Lady Jeyne of House Poole"'

Jeyne appeared at the top of the stairs next to her friend and there was a shy smile on her face.

She was wearing a short, black dress with a flared skirt.

The dress had only one strap which looked like a string of black roses and it made her look both elegant and sexy.

Sansa had curled Jeyne's hair which she had put over her exposed shoulder.

Theon remembered when he saw her enter the school building for the first time after she had just started to date Ramsay.

He didn't think he had ever seen a girl that gorgeous and sexy before but she looked a million times better now.

Jeyne hadn't been comfortable in the exposed outfits she wore for Ramsay even though she had looked confident in them at first.

Theon however knew how hollow a confident smile could really be.

This dress fitted her though and she looked as beautiful as he had always known she was and as she could never see herself.

The dress was perfect but the best thing was the elegant belt around her waist which was made out of gold and shaped into a kraken.

Theon thought he vaguely recognized the belt from somewhere and he wouldn't be surprised if it was something Asha had given to Jeyne.

"Do you like it?" she asked him shyly while she moved her hands over the golden tentacles of the kraken.

Theon took hold of her hands and he didn't think he had ever kissed her as passionately as he did then and it seemed to surprise even Jeyne.

"Wow" she said softly and a little bit out of breath when they finally stopped.

"You're gorgeous, princess" he said smiling while he rested his forehead against hers.

Jeyne giggled and she blushed a little bit.

The doorbell rang but he didn't want to take his eyes of her so he didn't know who had entered the room until he heard everyone around him gasp.

He turned around and he saw Tyrion Lannister standing in the doorway wearing a dark suite which matched one of his eyes and a blue shirt which matched Sansa's dress.

Tyrion wasn't displaying his house colours but that didn't mean that they didn't see him as a Lannister.

Suddenly Tyrion found himself surrounded by Theon, Robb, Gendry and Arya who were all ready to punch him if he made one wrong move.

"Guys, this is my date" Sansa said awkwardly and Theon didn't know what to say.

The thought of Sansa going to Prom with a Lannister after everything that had happened during her party seemed ridiculous and the fact that Tyrion wasn't exactly the most handsome of the Lannister boys didn't help his chances at all.

"Good to see you, Tyrion" Jon said and Theon remembered that Tyrion and he had been helping that hot Targaryen girl so she might become Prom Queen.

The front door was still open when the last person of their party arrived and before Tyrion could say anything to Jon, he had already walked up to his girlfriend.

"Am I late?" the redhead asked.

She was wearing a silver dress with two glittering straps and a belt made out of rhinestones.

Theon noticed that she was the only girl who wore her hair up.

"Yes" Catelyn said before Jon could reassure Ygritte that she wasn't that late.

Theon figured that the fact that Jon's date was the last one to arrive, even though she was only two seconds later than Sansa's date, would become Cat's new excuse to be annoyed with him.

"Let's quickly take this picture, okay?" Catelyn said and everyone moved closer so they all fit onto the photo.

Theon and Jeyne, Robb and Talisa, Sansa and Tyrion, Arya and Gendry and Jon and Ygritte all smiled while Cat's camera flashed and left them seeing spots for a few seconds.

"A few more" Catelyn said while she quickly started pressing the button to take more pictures.

"That's enough, Cat" Ned said not unkindly when he walked into the large hallway with the marble stairs "they're going to be late"

"Just one more!" she said but Ned took the camera from her hands.

For a second Theon thought she was going to comment on that but no one was really ready to talk back to Ned yet since everyone was just too happy to have him back including his loving wife.

"You're right" she said sighing "have fun, guys, and behave, okay?"

"Sure, mom" Robb said and the group of teens left the hallway while waving at the Stark parents.

"A carriage?" Sansa asked surprised when she saw a carriage in front of their house that looked to have come straight from a fairytale.

"If you don't like it than we can go with your brothers in the limo" Tyrion said but Sansa's eyes were already twinkling while she looked at it.

"Jeyne, do you mind?" Sansa asked her friend who shook her head and laughed.

Sansa rushed to the carriage as fast as possible on her high heels and the imp followed after her with a smile on his face.

Theon didn't think he had ever seen a stranger couple than Sansa and Tyrion.

The carriage was the first vehicle to leave while Sansa waved at them as if she was royalty with a huge smile on her face.

Jon and Ygritte were the next one to leave on their motorcycle and after that Gendry and Arya left in the classic car Gendry had rented.

Theon opened the door to the limo for Jeyne and they entered the vehicle followed by Talisa and Robb.

There was a bottle of champagne in a bucket full of ice in the limo surrounded by a few glasses.

Talisa wouldn't drink of course because she was pregnant but that didn't mean that they couldn't.

"It's perfect, Theon" Jeyne told him and she pressed a kiss on his cheek "you're my prince"

Jon

Due to Catelyn trying to rush them and their fast motorcycle they actually arrived a bit early to the party

Only a few students had arrived before them so after they had showed their tickets at the entrance they walked onto an almost empty dance floor.

The music was already loud though while the flashing, colourful lights made Ygritte's dress glitter even more.

"You look very pretty" he told her and she smiled at him.

"You look good too" she said while she fixed his tie "though I would like to see you in a different colour than black sometime"

They laughed together and he was glad that they were having one of their good moments today.

"Do you want me to get you a drink?" he asked her.

"Sure" she said "I'll just go look around and see if I know anyone"

Jon nodded and he walked to the table with the drinks on it.

Surprisingly he found Sam standing behind the table so he could serve people their drinks if they asked him to.

"What are you doing here?" Jon asked his friend, forgetting for a second that Samwell was mad at him for convincing Gilly to give Aemon up for adoption.

"They needed people to help out so I said yes" Sam said shrugging "it's not like I had a date anyway"

Jon nodded while an awkward silence fell between them.

"You know..." Sam said eventually "Gilly called me"

"Really?" Jon asked his friend hopeful.

Sam nodded and a small smile spread across his face.

"It was very hard for her to give Aemon up of course and she was afraid that I would try to convince her to do otherwise" his friend said and he couldn't completely hide the guilty look on his face since that was exactly what Sam would have done "the family that adopted him seems really nice and I think we're going to be okay too"

Jon smiled at his friend.

"I'm glad to hear that" he said.

"I'm happy too" Sam said smiling but then his face became more serious "I just really want to apologize for my behaviour earlier, you're still my best friend Jon but I can understand if you don't want to see me again"

"Why wouldn't I want to see you?" Jon asked him "You're my best friend too and that isn't going to change that easily"

The smile returned to Sam's face and Jon was glad that that problem seemed to have resolved itself, maybe he would finally have a nice evening without drama.

"Hey, Jon" he heard a voice call and he turned around to see Daenerys Targaryen.

Dany was wearing a long, flowing, violet gown which matched her eyes and she looked very elegant and even regal somehow.

He could definitely see why her family had run the most influential company of Westeros for centuries because she seemed as royal as the Royal Targaryen Enterprise itself.

"You look very handsome" she said while inspecting his suite and brushing a nonexistent piece of dust of his shoulder.

"Thanks" he said and he could feel a blush spread across his pale face "you look gorgeous, Daenerys"

"Thank you" she said smiling "I'm really nervous though"

Her smile looked almost shy at that moment and he remembered the time she had confided in him in the park.

The time that she had kissed him.

He could still remembered what it tasted like if he concentrated.

"I'm sure that you'll be fine" he said making sure to smile but he couldn't really do anything else after remembering their kiss "You were great at the concert and I'm sure Tyrion managed to convince some people, he's pretty good with words after all"

Daenerys nodded and she smiled again.

"I really don't know how I can ever repay you two" she said "without you guys most people wouldn't even know that I existed and now I've made all these new friends"

"You don't have to thank us" he said blushing again "you deserve this title"

"Owh, Jon" she said and she hugged him "you're too kind"

"And I'm just wondering, why is my boyfriend taking so long? Could it be that he's with that Daenerys girl again? No, I thought to myself, it's probably nothing maybe everyone decided to get a drink or something" Ygritte said sarcastically while she crossed her arms in front of her chest "I guess that I'm the stupid one"

She must have walked up to them just when Daenerys hugged him.

"Ygritte, it's not what it looks like!" he said.

Ygritte shook her head and there was a hurt look on her face.

For a moment he thought he saw tears in her eyes but Ygritte never wanted to show something like that.

"I don't care what it looks like" Ygritte said "You're always with her, either you're working on the campaign or you're just hanging out as friends, you're always with her! So if you'd rather be with her then that's what you should do because I'm fucking sick of being second place all the fucking time!"

"That's not true!" Jon said.

"You know nothing, Jon Snow!" Ygritte shouted and she turned around.

The girl stormed out of the decorated gym and he quickly followed her.

"What just happened in there?!" he shouted when they had left the building and were standing in the chilly autumn air.

He could hear her sob softly while she turned her back to him so he couldn't see her cry.

"Ygritte, talk to me" Jon said and he tried to put his hand on her shoulder.

She shied away from him but she finally did turn around.

"I just want you to look at me, like you look at her" she said softly while she looked at the ground instead of him "like I'm something special, I've never had that, Jon Snow"

"You are special, Ygritte" he said but she shook her head.

"Go dance with your Prom Queen" she said "because I'm done and you're too late"

That said Ygritte turned around and walked away from him while the cold wind howled around them and tugged at their clothes.

He knew that he could run after her but maybe he was done too.

Jeyne

Most students were already in the gym when they arrived and she had to admit that their school had at least made an effort to make the room look festive.

The loud music boomed through the hall while the lights flickered and a fog machine created a club like atmosphere or at least as club like as Stannis allowed their Prom to be.

A large crowd of students was dancing underneath the reflecting disco ball and their Prom had a certain cliché feeling to it that she just had to appreciate being one of those girls who had dreamed just as often of Prom as her wedding day.

"Robb and I are going to get drinks for everyone, why don't you, Sansa and Talisa go dancing?" Theon asked her trying to make himself audible over the loud music.

"I'll go with you guys" Tyrion said "I'm not really one for dancing"

Sansa waved at Tyrion and Jeyne gave her friend a meaningful look.

"You've got some explaining to do" she said while crossing her arms in front of her chest and pretending to be annoyed.

"Later" Sansa said rolling her eyes at Jeyne before a smile spread across her face "now we're going to dance or perky, little asses off"

"O-okay" Jeyne said before Sansa dragged both her and Talisa onto the dance floor.

The three girls managed to find a place for themselves among the crowd where they could at least move a little bit without being crushed by other people.

Jeyne laughed and smiled while they danced to the club music that was so bad, it was good.

They got some attention from the boys surrounding them but they chose to ignore that for the most part.

Jeyne spun around and she accidently bumped into someone.

"Oh My Gods, sorry" she said quickly before she realized who she had actually bumped into.

Roose Bolton was looking at her with those pale eyes of his which looked just like Ramsay's.

There was an almost unnoticeable smile around his thin lips but all emotions looked the same on Roose's face which made him even more dangerous than his natural son.

"No need to apologize" Roose said in his usual soft voice which was surprisingly audible in the loud gym as if even the music feared him "I was simply in your way, Miss Poole"

For a second she had held the hope that he might have forgotten her face but she had always been unlucky.

"I understand that your relationship with my son has reached its end, am I right?" he asked her but it sounded more like an accusation.

"Yes, sir" she answered while a blush spread across her face.

Jeyne was afraid of what he might do to her now she had gotten his son arrested.

Ramsay had been a beast in human skin but she didn't doubt the fact that his father could be even crueller.

The thought of the room in the Dreadfort where the Boltons supposedly kept the flayed skin of their enemies crossed her mind and gave her goose bumps.

Roose's hand moved to her neck and if she hadn't been so scared she would have ran away.

"Your friend is rather good with makeup" he said while his cold fingers brushed across the bruise Ramsay had given her and Sansa had tried to hide underneath layers of foundation.

It was one of the few that hadn't completely faded yet.

Jeyne shivered and Roose pulled back his hand while he studied her face with his pale eyes.

She felt like those eyes were undressing her right there in the gym.

"I told him that his behaviour would get him into trouble, Jeyne" Roose said and he seemed to frown for a second "it is his own fault that they caught him, don't you think?"

She didn't know what to say.

She felt like giving the wrong answer would be the end of her.

"I don't know" she said eventually while looking at Roose's shoes instead of his face and even they seemed to be judging her.

Jeyne heard a soft chuckle and she wondered if that had come from Roose's mouth.

She looked up but even if he had smiled for a second every sign of human emotion was now gone.

"I hear that you're dating Theon Greyjoy now, is that correct?" he asked her.

"Yes, sir" she answered again and a part of her felt like she was cheating on Ramsay somehow, but she had to remind herself that Ramsay didn't own her and that he didn't have any power over her anymore.

"Let's hope that this time things won't end as unfortunate as they did between you and my son" he said and she almost shivered again due to the ice in his voice.

"Yes, sir" Jeyne said one more time and she guessed that by now Roose must suspect that she was too simple to come up with a different answer.

"Well I have chaperone duties to attend to" Roose said and he finally took his pale eyes of her "take good care of yourself, Jeyne Poole"

"I will, sir" she said and Roose Bolton finally disappeared into the crowd again.

It felt like she could finally breath again and she quickly searched the crowd for Sansa and Talisa so they could help her forget about her encounter with Roose Bolton.

Arya

Arya and Gendry were standing just outside of the school building so they could quickly smoke a cigarette.

Arya had changed her attitude since she had come back home; she had gone to all her classes, she had at least attempted to do all of her homework and she hadn't talked back to a teacher in two days now.

She had also promised herself that she would try to quit smoking but she thought she deserved at least a few cigarettes every now and then after acting like a saint all day.

Gendry had given Arya his jacket so she wouldn't be could and his yellow T-shirt with the stag on it seemed to glow in the dark.

Even though they weren't in the gym anymore, where their Prom was held, they could still hear the loud music and feel the vibration of the bass' notes in their chests.

"I was wondering..." Gendry said shuffling his feet nervously "what did you think when I asked you to wear yellow and black?"

Arya shrugged and she had to admit that she never wondered why he asked her to wear these colours.

Arya was just glad that he had made the decision for her because she wasn't really looking forward to going on an seemingly endless quest to find the perfect Prom dress.

This way she could eliminate most dress without having to give them more than a single glance.

"I didn't really think about" she answered eventually.

"Then what do you think about my shirt?" he asked her and Arya was starting to get annoyed.

She didn't like it when people were vague or kept secrets from her, especially if it was someone she spend as much time with as she spend with Gendry.

"Why are you asking me this?" she said throwing the cigarette butt onto the ground and stepping on it to make sure that it stopped burning.

"Your dad visited my house yesterday" Gendry said "and he told me about.. about my real family or my real father at least"

A blush spread across Gendry's face and he had continued to stare at his shoes throughout their whole conversation.

"Seriously?" she asked him surprised.

Gendry nodded and he finally looked at her again with his blue eyes.

"Yeah, he thinks my father is Robert Baratheon" Gendry said and he almost seemed ashamed.

Arya guessed that he probably was expecting her to laugh at him or that she wouldn't believe him, but she had known Robert Baratheon her entire life and it wasn't so hard to believe that he had a few bastard children here and there.

"So that's why you're wearing a stag on your shirt" she said "and why we're dressed in Baratheon colours, right?"

Gendry nodded and he looked embarrassed again.

"I mean, it's not certain yet" he said "they're going to do a DNA test next week, but he already told your father that he will recognize me as his son if it's indeed a match, I'll still be Gendry Waters but just one with a brighter future"

"What do you mean?" she asked him confused.

Gendry took hold of her hand and looked into her grey eyes.

"This way I might be able to go to a good college and get a job at Baratheon Industries when I'm older" he said "I'd still be a bastard, I know, but at least I'd be a better match for you"

A disgusted expression appeared on Arya's face while he spoke those last words.

"A better match?!" she asked him appalled "do you have to give my father six cows and a goat so you can marry me or something? I'm still Arry Underfoot, okay? I honestly don't give a shit if you're a mechanic or a CEO of some boring company as long as you're happy with whatever you're doing for a living!"

Gendry chuckled softly at that while he put his arms around her waist.

"I'm happy as long as I'm with you" he said.

Arya rolled her eyes at that and gave him a quick kiss.

"Stupid bull" she said lovingly "or should I call you stupid stag now?"

They laughed at that and he kissed her again before they went back into the decorated gym.

Daenerys

She had waited all night for this moment and it had finally come.

Dany could feel butterflies flutter around in her stomach while she clenched her hands into fists and she couldn't help but smile.

Stannis entered the stage with the DJ booth on it and he walked to the microphone.

The music stopped and every student turned his attention towards their school's headmaster.

"Will all the nominees, please, enter the stage" Stannis said and his solemn expression already showed how excited he was for the coronation of the school's new Prom King and Queen.

Daenerys guessed that Stannis wouldn't even have a Prom if he wasn't pressured into it by students and parents.

She thought he seemed like the kind of man that never got nominated for Prom King, even though deep down he always really wanted to.

Daenerys walked to the stage and Robb Stark lend her a hand so she could easily climb onto it.

She thanked him softly before she took place next to Margaery Tyrell.

The candidates for Prom King and the candidates for Prom Queen were standing at the opposite sides of the stage and Daenerys guessed that had to do with the fact that she was nominated without a King.

Dany studied the faces of her candidates and she wondered if she stood a chance against them or if their work had all been for nothing.

Even if I don't win, it was worth the try she told herself.

Cersei Lannister was wearing a gorgeous and extravagant red dress whit a split that showed off one of her long legs and a golden belt with a lion's head on it.

Cersei had definitely lost some of her followers along the way due to her outbursts but she had ruled the school for years and it didn't exactly hurt that her last name was Lannister which was still one of the most powerful families in Westeros and people always tend to follow a famous name.

Margaery was standing next to her in a beautiful green gown which showed off more cleavage than Stannis usually would have approved of and there was a delicate tiara in her hair which seemed to be made out of golden roses.

Daenerys knew that Margaery was popular but Cersei's stunt with the posters had done a lot of damage to her reputation too.

Sansa was the last candidate in their little line-up and even though she had announced that she wasn't going to actively try to become Prom Queen, Daenerys knew that her brother had tried twice as hard instead.

Dany knew that if people were going to follow a famous name than there was a good chance too that they would vote for the Starks.

Too be honest it was almost impossible to predict who was going to win so all she could do was hope against hope that Stannis would speak her name.

"Now the moment you've all been waiting for" Stannis said and he started opening the envelope.

Everyone seemed to be holding his or her breath while Stannis read the small note that had been in the envelope.

Stannis' face turned even grimmer than usual and she could hear him grind his teeth.

"This is ridiculous" he said shaking his head.

"Who is it?" Cersei asked quickly and Daenerys had to admit that if the Lannister girl hadn't asked him she would have done it herself.

She couldn't wait any longer, she just had to know now!

"Renly and Loras" Stannis said when the doors to the gym opened and the two boys entered the gym.

Daenerys didn't understand what was going on while rage spread through her body like venom.

She had worked so hard on this.

Tyrion, Jon and she were going to bring chance to this school, they were going to make a difference and now suddenly all of that had been taken away from her.

"What?!" she shouted louder than she had meant to "This is ridiculous! You were supposed to vote for me! I was going to be a new leader, I was going to bring freedom, I was going to be your KHALEESI AND YOU CHOSE THEM OVER ME?!"

"Why in the name of the Seven would anyone ever vote for you?!" Cersei shouted while she shot Dany a disgusted look "I have ruled this school for forever and I am the rightful Queen, I should have been voted Queen!"

Margaery laughed bitterly at that.

"Forever is a nice word for it, love, just admit that you're getting old" Margaery said while she looked Cersei up and down "I would have made a better Queen than you could have ever dreamed of being, just admit it for once!"

"NEVER!" Cersei shouted.

"Stop this now!" Renly said while he entered the stage.

All three of the would-be-Queens stopped shouting and they looked at the Baratheon boy.

"I'm sorry that I've stolen your title, girls" Renly said "but something more important is going on and I needed to get my brother's attention somehow"

Stannis crossed his arms in front of his chest while he looked at his younger brother with narrowed eyes.

"I'm giving you five minutes before I'll throw you out of this school for good" Stannis said "and that's just because the students seem to like me"

"that's the point!" Renly said looking at his older brother "they like me and they should be liking you too because you work your ass off for them every single day! Let them like you, Stannis, the only thing you have to do is trust them"

"What are you talking about?" Stannis asked his brother and he seemed to get more nervous by the minute.

Daenerys could see that Stannis Baratheon was someone who like to have control over everything but his brother was something he absolutely didn't have any control over.

"Guys, what would you do if the school needed money?" Renly asked the students.

"Raise money" Daenerys said shrugging.

"Oh we could have a baking sale!" Margaery said quickly.

"We could have an auction and everyone can sell some of their stuff" Cersei said "I have some designer dresses I don't wear anymore anyway"

"We could wash cars" Robb Stark said.

More and more people starting shouting ideas which varied from good ones to terrible ones but at least everyone was trying.

"See?" Renly asked Stannis while the students were buzzing with excitement while they kept coming up with ideas to hypothetically save the school "they love this school as much as you do"

For a second Daenerys thought she saw tears in Stannis's eyes but the strong man managed to conceal them for anyone noticed that he had human emotions too.

"Let me have the plastic Prom King crown, I don't care" Renly said "but if you like it or not these students look up to you as their headmaster and they want to help you, you only need to let them"

"Fine" Stannis said eventually "but you'd better hold onto those ideas, because we're going to need them"

"We will" Renly said "but for now, let's dance!"

That said the music went back on and all the students started to party again while Renly and Loras wore their crowns.

Everyone seemed to have forgotten about the nominees on the stage and she couldn't help but feel stupid about her outburst.

Suddenly she spotted Tyrion and Jon near the stage and she quickly went to them.

The three friends looked at each other for a while until Tyrion spoke in an unusual high-pitched voice.

"I should be your khaleesi!"

"Oh shut up" she said and she playfully punched him.

Even though she wished that she would have won, it didn't matter in the end because she had made some amazing friends along the way.

All of the sudden the loud music stopped and a slow dance song started to play.

"Uhm would you like to dance?" Jon asked Daenerys awkwardly.

"Sure" she said blushing and the two teenagers went onto the dance floor where they never saw that Tyrion paid the DJ a few silver stags because the man had played the song that he had requested for Dany and Jon.