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I know this chapter is short but I feel like it drops a couple major bombs and set things up. I hope you like it.

Hours before the company was planning on departing Cersei paced in the old tower in Winterfell. Jaime arrived taking in his sister. She looked even more worried than she did before in King's Landing.

"As your brother, I feel it is my duty to warn you, you worry too much," Jaime joked.

Cersei turned and regarded him. The look on her face stopped Jaime in his tracks. There was real fear in her eyes. This went beyond worrying. Something had scared his sister beyond anything he ever saw before. Jaime walked over taking Cersei into his arms. She rested her head on her brother's shoulder.

"What has happened," Jaime asked.

"Joanna knows," Cersei whispered gravely.

"You don't know that," Jaime tried to reassure her.

Cersei paced out of his arms. She turned and looked at him. She walked over to the window where Jaime had pushed Bran Stark from. She spied a spot where forest met the ground of Winterfell. That was where Joanna had to come from. Jaime came over placing his arm around her middle. She looked over at without moving her head.

"She confronted me," Cersei confronted.
"I thought you said she would not be a threat. It was the reason that Stefan had to go. But Joanna was a little fawn a doe. I told you even then that a lioness lurked beyond her doe-like look. She would be dangerous. But you loved her," Jaime raged.

"I loved them both. I love all my children. It killed me to be separated from him. I nearly lost her once too or do you forget that what our son did to her," Cersei roared.

"Your son, not mine," Jaime said. He paused for a moment. He looked at Cersei. He realized what had to happen. Cersei looked at him shaking her head. "How is that we still breathe then," Jaime asked.

"She has given me until she returns to King's Landing to leave King Landing with "my children" for when she returns regardless if I am there or not she will tell her father," Cersei told him.

"She loves you. You know what has to happen," Jaime told her.

"She has to die," Cersei said with tears in her eyes.

"No, Seven Hells even if we plan something like that to happen on the road. She has a guard who will protect her with his life. I've seen him fight Cersei. No man could best him. Short of maybe the Mountain and we cannot send him for Father would know something is up. And he cannot know of this plan. He loves her more than maybe even us. She is the second coming of his wife. No, she needs to be controlled or imprisoned," Jaime told her.

"We cannot imprison her Jaime use your brain. Robert would never allow that," Cersei spat out. Cersei paced away from him. Jaime watched her for a long moment. Cersei turned and looked at him. "Which leaves marriage but to who," Cersei said.

"A Lannister, maybe Ser Daven Lannister," Jaime suggested.

"You really think Robert will agree to a marriage between his precious doe to another in words Gods forsaken Lannister," Cersei laughed.

An idea dawned on Jaime one that could work. It would unlikely but it would put Joanna far away from the capital. It could work but he was unsure how Cersei or Robert would react to the idea. Cersei looked on verge of hysterics.

"Hear me out, what if we marry her off to Ser Aeron Dayne. His home in Dorne… Starfall if I'm correct. They seem close enough. She would be still alive and have no claim to the throne once she is married to a knight," Jaime suggested.

"That could work," Cersei said as she thought about it.

Jon Snow walked heading over a horse with a saddle over his left shoulder. They were preparing to leave. Ned, Sansa, and Arya were leaving to head to kings landing with the royal party. Lyarra was most likely also going with Joanna. Jon was heading to the wall to take his vows. Robb came over to Jon as he walked.

"You've said goodbye to Bran?" Robb asked looking over to Jon. Jon had just come from doing so. He nodded his head. "He's not going to die. I know it" Robb stated.

"You Starks are hard to kill," Jon said.

"My mother?" Robb asked.

"She was very kind" Jon answered.

"Good," Robb said.

Jon placed the saddle on the horse. He turned and looked at Robb.

"Next time I see you, you'll be all in black" Robb commented.

"It was always my color" Jon joked.

"Farewell, Snow," Robb said

"And you, Stark," Jon said.

They both looked at each other for a moment. Before, they both embrace. They had grown up together and this was goodbye for them. They let go of each other. Robb turned and walked away. Jon turned to tighten the saddle.

Tyrion stood outside of Joanna's room Ser Aeron stood outside the door. He had been summoned by her for some reason. Aeron opened the door, Lyarra and Marleina bowed exiting the room getting ready to leave for the Wall. Tyrion spied his eldest niece sitting by the fireplace drink a goblet of wine. Meraxes was by her feet. She looked over to him. There was something in her eyes that reminded him of his sister. She motioned for him to take the seat next to her. She poured him a goblet of wine. He took a drink of it. He knew something had changed in his niece. She looked like she had the weight of the world on her shoulders.

"Jaime tells me that you are coming to the Wall and not heading to King's Landing," Tyrion said.

"Yes, I wish to see all of the realm," Joanna said.

"I know you, Joanna. What has happened?" Tyrion asked.

Tyrion looked at her. She took another large drink of her wine. She had tears in her eyes. She looked at the flames for a long moment. Before, she turned and regarded him.

"You will be on my side no matter what right Uncle," Joanna asked.

"You know I am," Tyrion replied.

"Good, because something tells me I am going need family on my side soon. And I have lost my mother," Joanna paused.

Tyrion looked shocked. Cersei loved her children. Something major must have happened if Joanna thought she lost her mother. She felt like she was alone.

"I'm sure you will have your father and my father on your side no matter what, after all, you his dark-haired lioness," Tyrion told her.

"What I am about to tell you cannot leave this room," Joanna paused. Tyrion nodded his head. She took a deep breath. Reaching down and picked up Meraxes. She started to pet her lioness to calm her nerves. "I confronted my mother, with the truth. I know that Joffery, Myrcella, and Tommen are not Robert's children. They are Jaime's children. I told her that she has until I return to King's Landing to leave with her children. I don't care where she goes or how she leaves. Because I will tell my father with her there or not… I saw them Tyrion. They pushed me into this crazy game. I don't know how to win it but I know I have too. I need you on my side please tell me you are on my side," Joanna pleaded at the end.

Tyrion took a large drink of his wine. He looked at her as he started to put the pieces together. It all started to make sense to him. As that dawn on him, it also dawned on him that would make Joanna the sole heir to the Iron Throne. She would be a queen. And she was asking for his mind on her side.

"You have me niece. All I ask if you can make so Myrcella and Tommen are not harmed I will grateful," Tyrion said.

"I never have them hurt. They are innocent in all this. I love them," Joanna replied.

"Good, good, I help you any way I can Joanna," Tyrion told her.