A/N: I have spent way too much time on this story lately. I have been sick and it has been a really good like thing to keep me busy. Plus it helps I wrote the prologue, first chapter and second all before posting really. So this chapter is a little different I wanted to give Robb a chance to show his side for more than just a moment. I am trying to keep him in what we know of his character, I also never really write male povs so I hope it isn't too bad. I am also trying to show Lyrina trying, and so family tension. Who knows, anyway here you go.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything other than my charter and my plot ideas. The quote below is from the song "Hold onto me" By Mayday Parade.

"I know I've got my problems and it starts with me."

Chapter 3: Lustful Eyes.

Robb's P.O.V

After putting Arya to bed Robb knew he had to go back and find Lyrina, he promised. It felt so odd for him to call her Lyrina, but he was going to try to not make things harder for her. Making his way through all the people he found her spot at the table empty all but for her cloak.

"Theon, where is she?" He could tell Theon wasn't slowing down his drinking anytime soon, he just hoped he knew where Lyrina went.

"She went out for air and never came back. Come drink with me, no one else will make fun of these pricks with me." Robb just rolled his eyes at him, of course Theon wanted to make fun of the Lannister bunch. He couldn't blame him, they were all sitting around acting like real proper people, not having any fun. But he had other things to worry about, he wanted to find Lyrina and finally dance with her or at least make sure she was okay. Robb didn't want her to think he was treating her differently since he found out the news, but there was part of him that knew their time together was limited and he wanted to make it up to her.

When Robb made it outside he found the courtyard empty, so he had to think of where she would be. He checked the stables, thankfully her horse was still there, he checked the kennel and then last he checked the training area. Robb was never the jealous kind, he never had anything to be jealous of. Until seeing Lyrina resting her head upon his brother and leaning against him, while his arm around her. He knew in his head there was nothing going on between the best friends but it didn't stop him for imagining things. He took a deep breath before approaching the pair.

Upon seeing Robb, Jon let out a sigh and smiled at him. Robb watched as he gently removed his arm from around the girl, who just stirred slightly against his brothers shoulder.

"Can you take her up? I need to finish cleaning things up before I get to bed." Robb didn't even realize she was asleep at first.

"Did she tell you?"

"She did, I was hurt but what can we do Robb. We have known her for four years, we all knew how terrified she was when she got here." Jon was right, and Robb wasn't angry with her for lying he had wished she trusted them. But if she had she would have never stayed with them.

"I know, I am trying hard Jon. I call her by her name, but it is so hard not to call her Rena." Jon agreed with him, but once again just asked him he could take the sleeping girl.

Robb looked down at Lyrina noticing how young she looked in the moments of sleep. She wasn't much younger than himself but to him she looked younger, more delicate. Carefully, not to wake her Robb gently picked her up of the ground, surprised by how light she was.

"Make sure she gets to bed, she is going to be one cranky lady tomorrow." Robb laughed quietly at Jon's comment before turning around and heading for the chambers. As he walked she shifted a few times, he just held her closer to make sure he didn't drop her. There was something about this moment, about him holding her in his arms that made his heart beat heavy against his chest. He had felt this way before and he knew how to control it, he just needed to keep his head clear.

Robb had to stop a few times to keep adjusting the sleeping girl, scared she was going to fall. He had never carried her, he had never seen her so vulnerable. He wouldn't have any trouble but she kept squirming and shifting in his arms.

"Is that my niece?" Robb stopped in his tracks as when he saw the damned King slayer standing in front of him. Robb didn't have time to talk, he had a girl asleep in his arms.

"Yes, I would suppose she is your niece." Robb knew he was being rude, but he had no love for the Lannisters. He felt no need to be nice to someone who in his opinion had no honor. "I must get her to bed, now if you will excuse me."

Robb tried to move around him, but Ser Jaime just blocked his path. All the shuffling Robb was doing caused Lyrina to open up her eyes slightly, and Robb looked down on her for a moment.

"Robb." Her voice was barley audible and had a slight whine to it as she shifted in his arms. Robb was shocked when the sleeping girl wrapped her arms around his neck and pushed herself closer to him. He was still just looking down at her when he heard the man before him clear his throat.

"Isn't it just a little improper for you to be carrying her to bed, Lord Stark?"

"She had fallen asleep on my brother, Lyrina does not do well with wine. I am bringing her to bed so she can sleep, Ser. What would you have me do, leave her sleeping in the dirt?" Robb was getting agitated with the man, he just wanted to make sure Lyrina was comfortable. He wanted to see she got to her bed safely.

"I can take her." Robb scoffed, this man hadn't seen her in how long? He was not going to just hand her over to him.

"Ser, I understand she is your family,but I know where her chamber is. Do not fret I will make sure she gets there safely, Ser." Robb put on his fake smile he learned at a young age. He just wanted to make sure the man left him alone.

"So be it." He could hear the tension in the voice of the King slayer, but he didn't care. He couldn't even figure out why this man had wanted to take her in the first place. From what Lyrina had explained she was nothing but a stranger to these people.

Robb began to the trek back to her chamber once more, while she just slept in his arms. She would stir sometimes, mumbling things under her breath while getting closer to him. Robb felt himself lose his breath a few times but he had to keep himself in check.

The hardest part was trying to get the chamber door open while still keeping her in his arms. But thankfully he was able to hold her with one arm well enough to just get the door open. Robb laid Lyrina down on one side of her bed while he pulled the covers down on the other side. Gently he shifted her to the uncovered side and looked down at her. She was still dressed in her blue dress, and he began to wonder how comfortable it would be for her to sleep. He knew he couldn't undress her but, he could at least untie the back for her.

Robb sat down gently beside Lyrina who had since rolled onto her side, making it easier for him. Gingerly he began to unlace the ties on the back of her dress, careful as not to wake her. Her breathing was even, and she seemed so peaceful for the first time in the last month. Once he had felt like he had loosened it enough so she could sleep comfortably, he sat there for a moment. Robb kept staring at her with a small smile on his face, it had been ages since he had seen her so vulnerable. Absently Robb reached his hand out and ran his fingers lightly up her slightly exposed back. Lyrina didn't wake but Robb felt her shiver and let out a quiet whimper. The sound she made caused him to realize what he was doing, and for a moment he chastised himself. After a moment he leaned down and kissed her forehead before leaving her to sleep.

Robb shut himself in his chamber and threw himself onto his bed with a sigh. He needed to stop his nonsense he could not continue this. He wasn't in his room long before there was a soft knock on the door. He wondered for a moment if she had woke up and wanted to see him.

"Come in." He sat up and prepared himself to see her, but it wasn't her. The person that came into his room was none other than Theon Greyjoy. Robb let out a sigh and leaned back against his headboard, why had he even thought it would be her.

"Did you happen to find Rena?"

"You mean Lyrina" Robb had caught himself a few times today, but he knew the sooner people started calling her that the better. She was going to be forced to accepting who she is, he had to help.

"Yeah, sorry, the Princess." He didn't like calling her that either. Robb still felt off thinking she was a princess, a fucking princess. When just yesterday she was this normal little common orphan girl.

"She fell asleep on Jon, he asked me to put her to bed." Theon gave Robb a very odd look, and Robb just rolled his eyes. To the wrong people it would seem highly improper that a girl had fallen asleep on a man, but this was different. Theon sat himself at Robb's desk with a loud sigh, before looking at his friend.

"Do you think they are fucking?" Theon was always crass, and sometimes Robb didn't mind it but right now he did. He did not want to think about his brother bedding Lyrina. It was the last thought he wanted in his head right now.

"No, Jon couldn't even fuck Ros and she is a whore. He would never try to bed her, he is her closest friend."

"I know but, they spend so much time together and she isn't unattractive." He was right about that, Lyrina wasn't ugly. She was pretty enough, not a kind of pretty that men would fight over but someone that a man would want to marry. "She would have a nice body if she was a little more developed, you agree?"

Robb didn't want to discuss her body, he had spent too much time thinking about her body. Lyrina was slender, with a slight curve to her that showed she was a woman but she wasn't built like some of the girls he had seen at the brothel. Her hips weren't as defined and her chest was smaller than some girls but he didn't mind it. Thinking about caused his mind to go back to her laying on the bed when he touched her, the sound she made, the way her skin felt.

"Robb are you hearing me?" Robb looked over to Theon who he guessed hadn't stopped talking.

"I can see what you mean, but she has a nice enough body." It was no secret between the two of them that Robb had talked about feelings for her before. But that was back when she was Rena, because when she was Rena he couldn't act upon those feelings. He knew his mother and father would frown heavily on him wanting to be with someone who wasn't of noble birth. But now she was the Princess, even still he couldn't speak of them to anyone.

"Robb you do not have sit here and say it like that. You have told me what you think about her, there is no one here to judge." Robb had told Theon pretty much everything over the years, he even told him the first day he looked at her different. Something changed for him when she turned thirteen, he will never know what made him see her differently but he just knew it was over for him then. Robb had tried to just treat her like a sister, but it always came off as him being mean to her. He didn't know how else to kill the feelings he had inside of him, which he could never act upon.

"I know, I don't prefer to talk about it too much, it complicates matters." Two years he held back the idea of her, the idea of kissing her, the idea of being with her. Sometimes he managed to go days without even seeing her that way, other days it was all he thought about.

"Robb, you are a man with needs he never satisfied. You think she is bloody attractive that is all, you can't help it. If she was anyone else I would say bed her and be on with it." Could he do that though, could Robb really just bed her and be on with these feelings? Maybe he should just bed a whore, get rid of the tension he has built up.

"I will handle it eventually, plus soon she will be gone away."

"You think they will take her back home? Would she even want to go?" He never questioned if they would take her, he just knew they would. He doubted her family would just accept that she wanted to be here in Winterfell. If her father didn't want to take her back, he was sure her mother's family would dig their claws back in.

"They will take her back home, they will never allow her to stay here. I do not know if she will run away again, I hope for her safety she doesn't" But Lyrina was impulsive and emotional, he knew if she felt she had to go she would have. "She tried to leave last night, Jon and I stopped her."

"She was going to leave so they couldn't find her here? She is bloody crazy, running away all the time. Who the hell runs away from being a Princess?" Robb knew Theon couldn't understood, he was dragged away from his own family. Lyrina left on her own, from being hurt, she had her reasons.

"She felt she had to, she was frightened. Lyrina has always acted on emotion, you know that about her."

"Makes her a bloody child if you ask me. She has as many wild fantasies as Arya, but is as childish as Sansa at times." Robb knew he was right, she was very childish. Lyrina wasn't dimwitted, but she had wild ideas of what life was supposed to be like. Which was a big surprise to Robb upon finding out she was a Princess, she knew her role. She didn't want to play her role, but he knew she would have to. Everyone has a role to play in this world, he would one day be a lord like his father whether he liked it or not.

"She will grow up eventually, she lived her young life differently. Her family wasn't always kind to her Theon, she isn't like her other siblings if you haven't noticed. One day when she is to wed, or even when she spends more time in Kings Landing she will change." He didn't want her to change but he knew it was inevitable. Here she got to be the girl she wanted to be, with all the dreams she wanted, but once she was back to being a Princess it would change. She would go to Kings Landing with the Lannisters, and they would twist her, change her into what they wanted. He was sure they would use her emotions against her, make her like them.

"Well she is one bloody annoying woman." Robb knew one of Theon's biggest issues with her was she never gave into his advances. Lyrina had always shied away from Theon's touch or any other advance he made towards her, which to him was an insult. Theon was good with women, well whores really, they loved him and he was good at what he did with them. But Lyrina was different, Robb had once over heard her tell Sansa she was glad she would be free one day to find the man she could love. Love, it was such a simple word with such a complex meaning. As a child of noble birth they would marry who their parents told them, and hope by the Gods they weren't repulsive. Robb envied her ideal of marrying someone she loved first, but he guessed that ideal was no longer a reality for her. She was fifteen, and soon she would be married off to some high Lord. He just hoped who ever that lord was, they were better than her family. Lyrina deserved at least someone honest, and kind to her, someone who would never strike her. He knew that she deserved that much, he knew she also didn't deserve someone lusting after her that was supposed to be her friend.

Lyrina's P.O.V

Screaming, crying and loud sounds were all Lyrina could hear as she approached her mothers chambers. It was late, much too late for a young child to be making her way through the corridors but she couldn't sleep. Lyrina clutched her small doll tighter in her hand as she drew closer to the chamber door, she had a bad dream and wanted her parents. She had tried her fathers chambers first, he wasn't there, so instead she went in search of her mother. The door was already half open so it was easy for the little girl to open it.

"Robert stop this." When the door opened all the way the girl saw her mother sitting on the floor by the bed, she was yelling and crying. The little girl looked at her mothers face, which was usually stoic and strong but now it was weak. She looked to her father next who was swaying on his feet, his hand still raised in the air.

"Mama, Papa.." Her voice was quiet, she was surprised anyone could hear her but they did because both turned to look at her. Her mother just stared at her with concern while her father came running toward her scooping her up off the ground.

"M'lady, it is time to wake up." Lyrina's eyes slowly opened from the dream she was having, as she was greeted with the sight of a pretty young woman. Lyrina didn't know how she had gotten from sitting in the training area, to her bed but right then she was more concerned with the woman in front of her. She didn't know her, she was short, with light brown hair and brown eyes, but she was no one that was around Winterfell.

"I am sorry, I do not believe we have met."

"I am Val,Princess. You're mother has requested I come and help you get ready this morning." Lyrina hadn't even spoken to her mother yet and she already sending her handmaidens. Lyrina may have been a princess by birth but she didn't need any of this.

"Val, I thank you kindly but please I can get ready myself." Lyrina smiled at the woman, she didn't want to offend her or get her in trouble she just didn't need any help getting ready. Val just nodded her head and quietly left the room, leaving Lyrina in peace. She didn't know what today had in store for her but she knew she should get ready.

As Lyrina got dressed, she realized her dress from the night before was already untied and she couldn't remember doing it. Had Jon taken her to bed and untied her dress? Had he gotten someone else to do it? Lyrina was much too tired from last night to think upon it, she silently cursed her inability to handle wine.

When Lyrina was finished dressing there came a knock on her door, silently she hoped it wasn't the handmaiden.

"Come in." Lyrina had wished for that moment it was the handmaiden, because instead it was the Queen. Lyrina let out a deep sigh and began to just brush her hair while sitting at her vanity.

"My sweet daughter." Her voice was quiet, not like Lyrina had remembered it, but as she had seen in her dream maybe her view was messed up. Lyrina didn't respond or make a move to look at her, she just brushed her hair. Her mother didn't speak again just approached Lyrina and stood behind her as she brushed her hair.

"May I?" Lyrina didn't want to fight, she was much too tired for that. She handed her mother the brushed and hoped it would end soon. Cersei was humming softly a tune Lyrina could scarcely remember as she began to brush her hair. Lyrina wasn't comfortable in the least, she hadn't seen her mother in eleven years, and she was nervous.

"You have grown into such a beautiful young woman Lyrina. Your hair is so beautiful, so much like your fathers."

"Wasn't that something you disliked about me most mother, or was it my eyes?" One day Lyrina had over heard a few handmaidens that accompanied her to Casterly Rock talk about her mother. They were talking about how she was shipped off because her mother couldn't stand the sight of her. Lyrina wasn't like her older brother, who was the exact image of their mother.

"Lyrina, it was not supposed to be like this." Cersei just kept brushing her hair, slowly running her fingers through some spots. Lyrina didn't know how to take all of this, she wasn't sure if it was real. "Lyrina you are my child, and it was never intended to keep you away for this long."

Lyrina was sure nothing that had happened in the last eleven years was anyone's plan. She was sure her father intended her to be a ward at Winterfell for a few years, her mother intended her to hide away with her Grandfather till she could be married. No one had planned this, no one knew this was to be.

"Then please mother, do tell me the plan. I seem to have messed it up, I am dearly sorry." Lyrina was much too cranky to deal with this, she had wished to make her meeting with her mother slightly more polite. She had wanted to at least be in a situation where her emotions couldn't control her but right now she was on edge.

"Lyrina, I wanted you home for your thirteenth name day. I was informed then that you had been stubborn and not taken well to your lessons, my father told me just to wait a few more years." Lyrina didn't believe her, she didn't want to. It didn't matter if her mother intended to bring her home. If her family wanted her home they would have brought her home.

"We should get to breakfast." Lyrina got up abruptly and walked out of her away from her mother. She didn't know what to think of everything that had gone on in the last day, she just needed to time think.

Lyrina found the hall was empty all but for her siblings, and her mothers brother. She had only met her uncle Jaime as a child, and a few times at Casterly Rock. Anytime he came to visit he made no effort to see her, and she made no effort to see him. She didn't want to sit with them, but she felt like if she sat alone it would be rude, and cause more issues then it was worth.

When Lyrina sat down, the whole table became silent and very uncomfortable. She could feel them all staring at her, as if waiting for her to say something but she couldn't. She had no words for these people, she barley knew any of them. She ate her bacon quietly and drank her water until her mother had found her way into the great hall.

Lyrina took the chance to finally look at the woman in all her glory. Some have said she was the most beautiful woman in the seven kingdoms, that wasn't how Lyrina had remembered her. But now that he mother was there standing in front of her, she couldn't really argue with them. Her hair was golden like the lions mane on the house banner, her body was slender like Lyrina's but she was more of a woman than herself. Lyrina remembered a time when she was so young, while in Casterly Rock she wished she looked like her mother. She knew in her heart that if she had that golden hair, those green eyes her life would be better. But now, she wouldn't trade who she was for anything.

"Lyrina, I am glad you could join us."Her mother acted as if nothing had happened her room. Lyrina just bowed her head to her mother and continued eating. She just wanted to get trough this.

"Are you our sister?" Lyrina looked up when the little Myrcella spoke to her, Lyrina never got to meet her. Her mother was going to give birth to her soon after they sent her away.

"I am, young one." Lyrina didn't know what else to say to her. What could she say to someone she had never met? She decided to just go with what she was feelings in the moment, which was sadness. She felt sad for never having the chance to know her siblings, like she knew the Stark children. "I got the raven for both you and your brothers births, I was very sorry I couldn't make it."

"It's okay, you are here now. You're coming back with us right? I want a sister." Lyrina felt her heart break a little, she did not want to leave Winterfell it was her new found home but hearing her sister say that hurt.

"She is coming back with us, you two can spend a lot of time together." Her mother spoke for her, but in that moment Lyrina didn't care because she was thinking about her siblings. What would it have been like to be their older sister, one who was there? Could she make up for lost time? Or was it all to far gone? Lyrina could see the smile on Myrcella's face when her mother told her she would be coming home, Lyrina wished she could smile too.

The table got quiet once more and Lyrina just focused on the food until the door to the hall opened. She looked up to see Theon and Robb come walking in slowly. She smiled up at them, and they gave her a half smile back before they sat at a table. Lyrina noticed that both men looked as if they had been up all night drinking.

"How was it he came to taking you to bed last night, niece?" Lyrina looked up at her uncle who was looking over at Robb. Had Robb been the one to take her to bed last night? She really could not remember anything beyond talking to Jon.

"Lyrina, don't you think it is just a little inappropriate for him to put you into bed?" The last Lyrina needed was her so called family getting involved in these matters.

"Mother, Uncle Jaime, if he was the one to put me to bed it was because I had fallen asleep outside. I do not drink wine often, and when I do I tend to fall asleep easily." She did not want her mother to think Robb was some kind of scoundrel, he was a good man. He had never made an improper pass at her, he had never looked upon her with lustful eyes.

"I had offered to take you, but he insisted." Uncle Jaime informed her.

"He would have had his reasons,I am sorry if he had offended you." She needed to keep the peace, that was all she could focus on. She needed to keep the peace for her own sanity. "Myrcella, Tommen, would you two like to come with me to see the Stark children? I would like to spend sometime with you."

"Yes, please." Lyrina smiled before standing up and taking her younger siblings hands.

"Let's go ask Lord Robb where his little siblings have gotten off to."

The closer Lyrina got to Robb she could tell how tired he was. His blue eyes were blood shot and she could see dark circles around his eyes. Had he stayed up all night? When she reached the table she bowed to him, mostly to show her siblings it was polite.

"Lord Robb, could you tell me where your sisters and brothers are?" It felt so odd to her to call him Lord, but she had a laugh as she said it. He smiled at her younger siblings and bowed his head in respect to them.

"Would the young Prince and Princess like to meet them?"

"We would very much, Lord Stark." it was Myrcella who replied to Robb, and Lyrina could see a small blush upon the young girls cheeks.

"Well I know Bran, Rickon and Arya are outside, I believe Sansa was trying to find your brother." The young ones thanked him before pulling Lyrina out of the Hall. As they were exiting the hall, Lyrina looked back at her mother who had a small smile upon her lips. For a moment Lyrina thought maybe today was the start of something better, but she knew that nothing ever stayed good here.

A/N: It is slightly shorter than my other chapters but that is because I spent most of it doing Robb's pov. Anyway I hope you all liked it. Thanks for the favorites ^. ^