CHAPTER 1 - PROLOGUE

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Promise me Ned, promise me.

Aye, those words were Lyanna's last. I still imagine the pool of blood on top of her belly. I imagined the two twins that came from her and that damned Rhaegar Targaryen. Everything he did was unwise, he made everything worse for everyone and the whole realm!

I can't betray Lyanna now, I'll pass them as my own. I went to King's Landing, a city where everything crumbled into pieces, a symbol of the end of the Targaryen regime. I had to stop there as Robert demanded to see her body one last time.

I unsaddled from my horse, to see Robert who was now in a position of immense power. We're even more doomed. Aye Robert's a good soldier, but he wouldn't make a good king. I stood tall and proud before finally bending the knee.

"Get the bloody fuckin' up Ned," Robert said. "Where is she?"

Then I looked up, and then Robert looked to the front, where a cart was pulled up by a white horse, a cart with the corpse of Lyanna Stark. Robert looked down at her corpse and closed his eyes, mourning.

Then behind the cart was Howland Reed, who was riding his horse, with another cart that seated women. Robert nodded at the crannogman, then looked annoyed at the other women who just bowed to him.

"Ned," he said angrily, "who are these wenches?! Can't they see I'm mourning?"

"Forgive me Your Grace" Ned said formally, "These are the women we found in the Tower."

"However, the wet nurse works for me."

Then Robert looked at the wet nurse, who was holding two small babies in her arms, the babies were too small. Robert walked over to the nurse who defensively move a step back. The nurse looked at Ned, who gave her a reassuring look.

Then the nurse nodded at Robert, "Your highness," the nurse greeted.

Robert looked angry, angrier than ever. His face was red, and there was a vein on his forehead. He looked back at Ned and grabbed him by the collar.

"These babies. Who. Do. They. Belong. To?" Robert hissed, making Ned only gulp silently.

"ANSWER ME YOU PIECE OF FUCK!"

"The boy belongs to me. He's my bastard," Ned said.

"What about the other? I'm assuming it's a girl," Robert spat.

"The girl-," Ned started.

"Belongs to Brandon of House Stark. Another bastard," Howland Reed declared.

Ned looked at Howland Reed, surprised, unsure of how to react.

"That's madness!" Robert said.

"It's true!" Ned shouted, decided to go along. Then Robert looked in his eyes, his blue eyes were filled with rage and fury.

"Lying to a king is punishable by death," Robert threatened.

"And telling the truth isn't," Ned said, then Robert let go of him.

"Please, let me tell you the whole story," Ned said.

Robert and Ned were walking in the Red Keep, looking over at the smoke and fire from the aftermath of the battle.

"I can't believe it's over," Robert said, "Gods damn this. I was supposed to go home, with Lyanna, and we'll be safe."

Ned frowned, he disagreed with Robert. 'Lyanna wouldn't be happy with you,' he thought.

"Winterfell's her home," Ned said, "We'll bury her in our crypts, she'll finally be at peace."

Robert felt sad, so he shook his head.

"Brandon told me before he left," Ned started, "that he had a baby, with a daughter of a trader from Lys."

Robert looked at Ned, squinting his eyes. Ned could feel the pressure to deliver the lie, but he had to do it, for Lyanna.

"She was a beauty, silver hair and blue eyes. I remembered he told me that she was not like any other he had ever seen. Then he got her pregnant, so he married her in secret and promised to take the mother and the babe when he returned, but he never did," Ned said bitterly, gulping down his wine. "So, he made me promise him, to take the babe if anything happens to him."

"That still does not make any sense, the babe looked fresh out of a woman's cunt Ned!" Robert roared.

"She's weak Robert," Ned said defensively, "can't you see that she needs her wet nurse?!"

"Well if you put it that way, don't you think her mother would be better than a wet nurse?" Robert challenged Ned.

'Shit,' Ned thought. What if Robert know that he's lying?

"Her mother is a commoner, she wouldn't be able to live the way she did before if she brought that babe with her, she'd end up in a brothel. I offered to take my niece with me," Ned said slowly.

"And what about your boy?" Robert questioned.

"That's my son. I made him," Ned said, trying to look like he had made a huge mistake. Robert tried to cut through the things Ned said, but he was finally convinced.

He scoffed before drinking a glass full of wine, "how are you going to explain that to Cat?"

Ned laughed sadly, "I have no idea Robert, I have no idea."

"So, you have… err- what's their names again?" Robert asked, his cheeks flushed from all the wine he's had.

"Lara, that's what my brother's wife named her. She's a stark," Ned said. He could've told Robert that she's his and she would bear the name Snow. But in Westeros, there was no place for a bastard lady, so it's better of that she's a Stark. He had Howland Reed to thank for that.

"And my boy would be Jon, Jon Snow."

"How about Winterfell? Isn't she supposed to be in your place now?" Robert said.

"You're drunk! Seven hells Robert, how is a baby going to rule over Winterfell," said an annoyed Ned, shaking his head at his drunk old friend.

Suddenly, some men had entered the room they are in, they were Robert's sworn men, and a few sworn to Tywin Lannister. Robert looked like he just met an ugly whore, so he rolled his eyes and grunted.

"Well now that's out of the way," Robert said, "Piss off Ned, I have a coronation to plan."

"Aye, and I have Winterfell to run," Ned said, bowing to Robert before he exited the room.

As Ned got out of the room, he let out a long breath. He got away with something big, something that only Ned and Howland Reed could know. Ned vowed that he would never tell a single soul as he lived, and that he would protect the twins from any harm and from any knowledge of their true parentage.

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