Daenerys III
The marriage was over, but Dany and Jon decided to stay in the godswood longer. Eventually, they fell asleep, their heads next to eachother, resting on the weirwood tree. That night, Daenerys dreamed. She found herself in the Lhazareen plains again, and she saw a village. She walked through the village, and saw villagers doing their daily lives, children playing with eachother. Some people were staring at her, as if they knew she was here, but she looked to be a mere stanger in their eyes. She walked into what looked like a temple, and saw her : Mirri Maz Duur. She seemed to be praying, and out of a reflex Daenerys decided to wrap her arms around her belly, as to protect her unborn child. She found herself no longer in her dress she took for the North, but in her same clothes than when she was Khaleesi. Was she in a dream? Or has everything since Drogo raided this village been a dream instead and she was still carrying Rhaego? Rhaego or Eddard, she wouldn't give her child's life to the witch.
"Khaleesi." The Maegi simply said. "Come closer, you have nothing to fear from me here."
"I trusted you once, I won't make that same mistake again. This child will be born." Daenerys replied swiftly.
"That's a good thing." Mirri Maz Duur said. "Even if I wanted to kill this one I wouldn't be able to, only your husband's gods have power here."
Dany didn't want to listen to the Maegi and simply reminded her of what she had once told her.
"When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, when the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves, when your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before. You lied, I'm pregnant."
"If dragons are as fiery as the sun, and they left the east and rose again in the west, then the sun rised in the west and decided to set in the east. When the seas go dry, like the Dothraki sea who's now dry from Dothrakis and mountains blow in the wind likes leaves, or when the pieces of the wall blew in the wind. Does it seem so strange for you to be pregnant? If there's one thing, it's that I'm not a liar." The witch said.
Dany reflected on what she had just heard. She is right, all of those things happened, why is it so strange that I bear a living child. But if all those things were true, then would it mean Khal Drogo would come back?
"Drogo... Does that mea-" Dany started before being cut by the witch.
"Drogo is dead and will never return, you burned his body, and now it's ash. You asked me when your sun and stars would return, when someone you love would return and warm you. Have you loved anyone since Drogo Khaleesi?"
"Jon Snow." Dany murmured "But I fell in love with him before getting pregnant."
"It matters not. Your love for him made the rest of the events possible."
"You say you don't want to kill this one. Why?" Dany asked.
"Both of your children were blessed by gods. Different gods. Your first child's father was a rapist who enjoyed killing, he burned down villages, men and women feared him. The children he captured were enslaved, never learning joy, growing up and dying like slaves. He wanted to give this fate to everyone in the world, and his god blessed your child so that he would inflict this horror and blood upon the world. Drogo might have done you no harm, but he would have inflicted harm upon everyone else. If I had to do what I did again, I would gladly do it, even as I am dead. Men and women would have shouted his name in fear." This was said much to Daenerys' frustration and sadness, though she didn't cry. Dany saw a vision of a man that looked like Drogo with silver-hair on the iron throne, and everyone around him was in chains, except for his Khalasar. The vision faded and she was back in the temple.
Mirri then pointed at Dany's belly.
"But this child's father would never touch a woman unless he loved her" The witch said as around them the vision changed to the top of the wall, and she saw Jon, kissing a red-haired woman, on the wall and as she looked in another direction she saw him and her, kissing in the ship, the first night they made love.
"He saved thousands of people, and might save many more, men and women love him." Now the vision changed to a village, where as people fled into the sea to escape a threat, Jon remained and fought it. Then it switched to a battle, with a giant and the same men and women he saved charging into battle to save Jon.
"He saved many children from horrible fates, they learnt joy, and might grow up free like their fathers if they survive the Long Night." She saw wildling children in the a rowboat back in the village Jon saved.
"He wants to save as many people as he can, even if that means dying himself." The vision now turned to a castle, at night, where Jon was surrounded by men, on his knees, bleeding, behind him stood a cross on which the word "traitor" was written. A child then came from the crowd, stabbed Jon in the heart and said "For the watch." And Jon laid there dead. Dany rushed to his body but as she touched it, the body vanished. The vision then changed, people were around Jon's body. Daenerys recognized some of the people, the wildling she helped rescued beyond the wall when Viserion died, Ser Davos, Ghost sleeping next to a table, man in black she couldn't recognize and the red priest that told her about Jon. They all looked over Jon's body, with sadness, leaving the room one by one, until only Ghost and Jon's body remained. Ghost then woke up, walked over to Jon's body and Jon started breathing again. She couldn't believe it, even after seeing the scars, that he died.
"His gods blessed your child so that he will be loved and cheered around the world." The vision then changed to the iron throne, someone was sitting on it with a blade Daenerys recognized as Longclaw in his hand, having planted it in front of the throne, with the court in front of him or her cheering. She could not see the person's face, only a shadow from afar but the banners in the red keep were a marriage of the Stark direwolf and the Targaryen dragon.
"Jon Snow will do you no harm." The vision changed to Jon, in a Dark Night, alone, blue eyes surrounding him, he had something in his left hand she couldn't see, and his blade in the other. He took Longclaw and planted it into the object. He pulled it out and the blade was ablaze. He pointed it at the sky and fire surged out, and the night was set ablaze. "And he would have sacrificed more than anyone would have to save his people." After that, men in black clothing with swords and torches came to slaughter the army of dead men behind Jon, and he led them into the dawn, with his sword, not Longclaw, at least not anymore. It was the red sword of heroes, Lightbringer. And above him she saw Drogon and her riding him, fighting a blue-eyed Dragon, Viserion. She then only saw the night, illuminated by red and blue. Fire on one side and Ice on the other. It was the battle for the dawn, The Song of Ice and Fire.
"If this child was in danger and I could do something to save it I would gladly do it. Men will shout his or her name with love and admiration." Mirri Maz Duur said to Daenerys. Now Daenerys, was in a room, with no one else, no one but the babe in her arms. Her child. She looked at it, amazed. It was her and Jon's child. The child had a violet gaze, like her own, it had not grown any hair yet, but to see its violet eyes only filled Daenerys with joy, even thought the vision wasn't real, she had find the determination to fight for it to be real, no matter the cost.