Chapter 5: Honeymoon is over
Naida watched from the distance as her husband was ruining his sword on the tree and cried in agony as the news of his father beheading reached him. She wanted to go to him but he needed his space. Men were not used to showing emotions. He needed to let out all the anger and sadness that he was feeling. If he was ready he will come to Naida and she will be there for him. She will be his rock. She watched at mother and son bonded in their pain and left them to get some privacy and went back to her tent. All the Lords knew Lord Stark and respected him therefore it was a time full of sorrow for all of them.
It was near late in the afternoon when Robb came back to their tent his eyes red and puffy and his had was bleeding.
"Robb are you all right? What happened to your hand?" she asked taking a his hand and examining it. He took it away from her.
"It is nothing i cut myself the wound is not deep." Robb said and was about to leave the tent when Naida stopped him
"It is not nothing. It could get infected let me look at it." Naida said getting her disinfectant ready.
"I said it was nothing!" Robb shouted at Naida making her jump. She looked at him with wide eyes not knowing how to react. He never was like that with her. Robb closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"Check on my mother. I do not think she is fine. Get her to sleep." Robb said and left Naida in the tent. She looked where her husband stood and let out the breath she was holding. She looked at the things she had in her hands and they were shaking. She did not know if it was from fear or anger or the fact that her husband rejected her for the first time. She put the things down and took a deep breath. She needed to calm down. Her husband is in pain. It will all blow over soon. She looked in her back and found the draught she made herself when she was still working in the healing wing. A couple of drops in the water and your anxiety attack is calm. A couple of more drops and you sleep.
She went into Catelyn's tent and the scene scared her. Everything was upside down the table the dresser the cot. Everything. In the middle of the mess was Catelyn on the floor crying her eyes out. Naida felt so sorry for her mother. She did not know how to help her so she went over to her and held her as she cried. Catelyn held onto Naida like she was her life line and together to Stark women cried for hours. It was nightfall when Catelyn calmed down and she was exhausted. But she was so grateful for her new daughter and that she was with her.
"Thank you for comforting me. I just needed someone with me." Catelyn said wiping her eyes. Naida helped her up from the floor and sat her down in a chair. She gave her a washcloth to wipe her face.
"No need thanking me. I am here for you mother, when you need me to." Naida said holding her hand and Catelyn squeezed them.
"I am so glad that my son has you. You are a strong one and he needs a woman like that." Catelyn said.
"Thank you mother. I am glad to be a a part if this family." Naida said.
"A family you have yet to meet. My girls are held captive in the home of the snakes. How will they survive? If they killed Ned they can kill them as well." Catelyn said crying again.
"Mother listen to me, Rob will get them. He will get them soon and you and them can take back home. To Winterfell. I trust Robb and his abilities." Naida said and Catelyn nodded.
"Me too Naida, i just want my girls back safe with me then he can kill them all. Every last one of them who put a hand at killing my Ned." Catelyn said her eyes turning hard and cold. Naida did not know what else to say.
It was nightfall and the night was pitch black when Naida and Catelyn sat and listened to Lords and Robb discuss their next plan of action. Should they ally and support Renly Baratheon or Stannis Baratheon's claim to the throne. As they were discussing it she tuned them out and thought about other thing mainly her husband/
"My Lord here is what i say to those two kings." Greatjon said and spit on the ground. The men cheered. Naida listened to the man now. She wanted to see what he will propose.
"Renly Baratheon is nothing to me. Nor Stannis either. Why should they rule over me and mine from some flowery sit in the South. They know nothing of the North and its people. Even their Gods are wrong. Why shouldn't we rule ourself again?" Them man draw his sword and pointed it at Robb and shouted " There sits the only King i will bent my knee to! The King in the North!" Naida's eyes went wide and she held onto Catelyn's hand.
She watched as a man after a man draw the sword and and laid it at Robb's feet and went down on his knee for him shouting The King in the North! Over and over again. Naida felt a fear grow in her heart. Now that he is proclaimed King he is in more danger, he will have more enemies that will want to kill him. Naida stood from there and walked a few yard away as a realisation hit her. She cannot lose him. She is in love with him. She looked at Catelyn who lost her husband only now understood her pain. She will lose a part of herself is she losses him. Stop it Naida, stop it! You will not lose him. He is Robb Stark and he will win this war. He will be fine. She closed her eyes and prayed to the Old Gods and the New to keep her husband safe from any harm.
She was back in her tent now and was washing her face when Robb came to the tent. He stood there awkwardly and she did not understand where this was coming from.
"Naida i am sorry about this morning. I was a bit harsh with you." Robb said and Naida looked at him with a small smile.
"It is fine Robb you just lost your father. Your emotion were all over the place. It is forgiven and forgotten." Naida said taking of her dress and putting on a night dress.
"How are you feeling with me being King." Robb said and Naida looked at him.
"I am afraid Robb. This means more enemies and more threat." Naida said and Robb walked over to her and took her hand in his.
"I will be fine Naida. Do not worry about me." Robb said. Naida took his face in her hands.
"I will worry about you, you are my husband and my King. I do not want to lose you." Robb took ahold of her wrist and took them away from her face.
"You will not lose me Naida. I have to go, my Lords and i need to talk about our next move. Do not wait up for me. I may not come back tonight." Robb said and left the tent. Naida looked after him and fought the tears that wanted to spill from her eyes. Her husband rejected her twice now. She took a couple of calming breaths. It was not his fault his father had died. He did not want to be comforted, he wanted to kill and get his vengeance, she thought but why was her heart hurting so much?
The next couple of week passed in a hurtful blur for Naida. She barely saw Robb anymore. He barely came to the tent anymore. He was fighting more and more battles and when he was here he spent his time with his men. When she did see him he only spoke a word or two to her and was gone again. It was hurting Naida, it was hurting her very much but she had too much pride to talk to her husband about that and she will no cry over a man. No she will not. She was cranky all the time and hated the fact that they called her Queen now. She was the Queen of the North. When she wrote to her sisters they were very exited and wished her all the happiness yet she was not happy. How can she be happy when her husband ignored her and she sat in the tent all day.
Right now she was looking through her bag to find something for the splitting headache she had when she spotted the cloths she had there that she would need for her moons blood. She scrunched her nose and thought when she would need them. She thought when was the last time she had her moons blood and she gasped when she realised that she missed her last one. Her moon blood were always regular and this one not coming means only one thing. She was with child. She touched her breast and they did feel bigger and tender. She touched her belly with a smile and let tears of happiness fall. She had Robb's child in her. They had made that babe together. She was going to be a mother. She laughed as the tears fell from her eyes. She looked up and thanked the Gods that they have granted this miracle onto her. She needed to find Robb now and tell him. Maybe this will bring happiness into his eyes. Maybe things will be as they were between them.
She ran out of the tent to find Robb at once. It seems like they had won another battle because the men were happy and drinking wine and ale. As she passed them they all bowed down to her ad called her your Grace and she gave them a smile. She was so happy and nothing could bring her happiness down. Nothing. She was going to be a mother and that thought filled her with so much happiness that she might explode. But what she saw made that smile leave her face. She saw her husband talking to another woman and he was smiling a smile she did not see since his father passed away and his eyes twinkled. Her heart broke at that sight. The woman was a beauty to behold. She had a willowy figure with beautiful olive skin, dark long hair and dark eyes. She stopped in her tracks and looked at the pair. There was a calm aura around them.
"Robb." She called out to him and he looked at her with a face like she had caught him doing something. He gave her a tight smile and it broke her heart a little more.
"Who is this?" She came and stood next to them giving a death glare to that woman. She needs to be put in place. No woman will touch her husband if she has a say in it.
"Naida this is Lady Talisa, she has been helping with the wounded. She has been very helpful." Robb said and put a hand on her back and all she wanted to do was to rip it off and slap his face.
"Your Grace." She bowed to down and Naida gave her a small smile.
"Well I hope you are successful in saving lives. I shall take my leave. My Lady, My Husband." She said with a smile and walked back to her tent. She was shaking with anger when Robb came to the tent she turned away from him.
"Naida it is not what it looks like." Robb said and came closer to her but she turned around and looked at him with a death glare.
"What it is supposed to look like. You clearly want to spend time with her rather than your own wife, who you barely seen in weeks." Naida shouted at his face. She was not going to back down.
"Naida please, it was a stressful time. I barely had any to come and see you." Robb said trying to touch her hand but she moved away.
"Yet you clearly had time to speak with your friend out there." Naida spoke. She knew she was too loud and that anyone who passed them could hear her but she did not care. She was too angry but she needed to know one more think.
"Did you fuck her?" She asked and Robb made big eyes.
"What?" She said with disbelieve in his voice. He could not believe that she would think that low of him. Although what she said was right.
"Was I not speaking to clearly I asked did you fuck her." Naida was afraid of the answer. She did not want to hear it but she had to. If he did that would be last time he would see her. She would not stand if her husband bedded other women, she was not like any other Ladies.
"Off course not. How could you think i would do such thing." He asked and Naida closed her eyes and let out the breath she was holding.
"If you bed that woman you will regret it greatly. That is a promise i will make to you." She said with a dangerous voice.
She was about to leave the tent when Robb called her.
"Where are you going?"She looked at him with sad eyes.
"I need some air Robb and some space. I am going to take a walk" She heard him call after her but she did not care. She could not look at his face right now. She walked up a small mountain and watched as the sun set. She was at a loss now. She knew that their marriage was political and that there was no love between them at first but things were going to great between them. Naida fell in love with him but clearly he had not. She wondered if he had feelings for that woman and if she was the only thing that was standing between them. Well their fate was sealed and they will have to spend their lives together. There in no turning back. Naida touched her belly and looked at it.
"My sweet i will make sure that you will marry for love." Naida said before standing up and went back to their tent.
Robb did not come to see her for three days and she was getting angrier by the day. He was making a fool out of her. How dare he. When she sees him he will know it is not wise to mess with Naida Frey. She went to ask one of the guards where was her husband.
"Your Grace a few of the men and Lady Talisa went to the Crag to negotiate their surrender." Naida's nostrils flared.
"Why did Lady Talisa had to go?" She asked unable to keep her voice calm.
"She needed to restock her medical supplies your Grace." He said and she went back to her tent angry like she never have been before. She looked at her two bags full of medical supplies. Why did they not ask he if she had any. She tried to calm down she really did but the anger she felt was just to much. She began to destroy her tent all of it and her strength left her she fell to her knees and began to cry. Cried because she loved a man that could not love her back. She looked at her things and began to pack. She will not stay here another minute. She will not be made a fool. She was just about to finish when one of the men came to her tent covered in blood with a wound on his head.
"Your Grace we need your help, some of my men are deeply wounded and all of the medics went away with the King to his battle." Naida was not have to be asked twice. That was what she was born to do. She took her medical supplies and ran after the man. In the tent there were five. One had his arm broken and his bone was sticking out another had an arrow in his neck and the other three were not greatly injured.
"You need to stabilise his arm until i can get to him , i need to take are of the man with an arrow first." She said as she washed her hands. The man nodded an was on it.
She looked at the man who had a arrow in his neck who was a boy. He was in pain she could see and he was panicking.
"Can you tell me your name please." She said as she touched the arrow and moved it just a tiny bit to see if it hit a bone.
"Please i do not want to die. Please." the man cried and Naida touched his face.
"You will not die, i promise you will be fine. Now please tell me your name." She asked him as she took her scissors out to cut the arrow.
"My name Is Henry." He cried out.
"Okay Henry i need you to listen to my voice. You will be perfectly fine. What will you o after the war?" She asked at she cut half of the the arrow off. She needed to distract him.
"I have a small cottage and my wife is with child." She said and Naida closed her eyes. There is a half a change that this arrow is the only thing keeping him alive. If the arrow cut a vein inside of him he will die. She prayed to the Gods that he will survive it. She pulled the arrow out and the man cried out. Blood came out of the wound but it was not shooting out and she thanked the gods for it. The man will live.
"You will be fine Henry. You will see your wife soon and your child." She said as she put the silk in her needle. She cleaned the hole where the arrow was. When she did she cleaned the wound again and looked at the man.
"Henry you did a great job. Drink this it should help you with the pain and it will let you sleep." Naida said and let him. She needed to take care of the other.
"I need half a dozen eggs and a bowl, and a couple of splints." She said to the man that came to her. He nodded and was out of the tents.
She looked at the man and the bone was sticking out and she would need to set it before disinfecting.
"I need you to drink it." she gave the man the milk of the poppy but he shook his head.
"It will hurt you very much." Naida said and the man looked at her.
"I do not want this. I would scream if i have to." Naida nodded and took the man's arm and stretched it out to see where the break. As she put the man's bone in place the man screamed, but it was his choice. She was in her zone. Where she felt like she belong. She quickly disinfected it with alcohol before putting a clean bandage. She the splinter to stabilise as she put egg white soaked bandages on his arms. She finished quickly and left the man. She treated a burn and she stitched another. When she finished she was exhausted. She wad covered in blood so she began to wash her hands first when Robb came into the tent and stopped when he saw her. He ran to her and looked for any harm.
"What happened to you." Robb asked fear on his face.
"Nothing, some men needed medical help and there was no one here so i did." Naida said. She did not want to talk to him. He was ignoring her for weeks now and now he shows concern.
"How could you treat them, we had nothing here." Robb said confused.
"If you would have asked me i would have told you that i had two bags full of medical supplies but you would rather go with Lady Talisa." She said with a hint of jealousy in her voice.
"She needed medical supplies that is why she went with us. She would know what she needs." Robb said.
"You seem to forget dear husband that i am a healer as well and she could make a list and i could go with you. I am stuck in this tent for weeks. You seem not to care about that but you care about about some strange woman." Naida said with a defeated tone. She had no energy for that.
"Naida you do not have to worry about her. You are my wife and she is a healer." Robb said.
"Yet you rather spend time with her than me. Do you blame me for your father's death? If you did not stop for the wedding you could have saved him." Naida closed her fearing the answer. Robb put his head down and sighed. Naida laughed and shook her head. Off course he did.
"I never blamed you personally but i did blame the wedding. That it stopped me and i have lost time but then i realised that the two days would have not not made a difference and my father would have died either way. Then i just could not face you i was ashamed of me feelings." Robb said and Naida let her tears fall.
"So you left me in the tent for weeks and could not come and sort it out with me. I am your wife Robb. We are going to spend our life together if we cannot sort things out now how will we go on." Naida said and Robb stood next to her and put a hand on her cheek
"I am sorry about it. It will never happen again. I promise." Robb said but Naida moved away from him.
"You left me Robb, left me. You did not even come to our tent yet I see you with another woman what am i supposed to think. Did you go to her tent? Do you have feeling for her?" Naida said but her vision became very blurry. She felt very lightheaded. Robb looked at his wife who was sway on her legs. She saw her eyes roll back to her head.
"Naida!" She shouted as he caught her just in time before she hit the floor.
Well there was a lot of angst in this chapter. Naida seems harsh but she is a very prideful creature and she will not let anyone degrade her now that she left her fathers home and she is in love with him so that hurt her as well. Well she is pregnant but Robb does not know and will not know for some time. What do you think. Did Robb sleep with Talisa? Did he have feeling for her? What will Naida do? Will she tell Robb that she is pregnant? If we can get this story to 30 reviews then you will find out. Until next time.