Brandon Stark; Wild Wolf – Page 2

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“I trust you will” He nodded with approval, glad that this whole debacle was starting to smooth itself out given time. “I did the right thing right? Telling you the truth?” He asked, unsure of himself in a moment of doubt which was telling for the Wild Wolf of House Stark who was so sure of himself and hardly ever thought before going into things.

“He’s always been a sneaky bastard even in our youth. I just…I worry about you and your sister.” He gave a chuckle. “No….never, do you think I’d do that again?” He asked, a mischievous grin on his face for a moment as he leaned in to kiss her cheek. “He’s a smart lad that one.” His smile turned to one of fondness and than he looked back at Cat, a look of seriousness. “Let’s get married now. Today, while everyone still here. It’s a day to celebrate mine and Eddard’s return, why not make it double the occasion and be wed after so long?”

@xladywinterx

“I could yes. But let’s hope they stay dark in color.” Brandon repeated before he gave a shrug to her words on Eddard. “Why not? At war things happen. Maybe they wanted a night together in case they couldn’t be with one another after the war and he died. Robert bedded many a woman, i’m sure on his quest for his ‘betrothed’ he whored.”

As she took the boy from his arms, Brandon gave a relieved a sigh and his shoulders slumped as the tension left him just a bit. “Eddard already knows. Benjen is going to the wall, they’re safe. Benjen more so. What would your father think? By the way Holster, I didn’t get your daughter pregneat before the wedding but this is my son whose actually my nephew, you know…Lyanna. Well she and Rhaegar, yes that Rhaegar had a child from a union and this is it” He asked, truly wondering how she would would handle her father with this situation.

“And if Lysa and Petyr are in correspondence? Lysa would tell him anything. No. I don’t trust her. You know that. “ He looked at Cat holding Jon and he gave a small smile. “You look beautiful with a babe in your arms. It’s almost natural”

@xladywinterx

“That it may…We can dye the hair if it turns to be Rhaegars hair color but luckily we know that babes of that linage don’t always have the father’s traits, Rhaegars daughter looked more Dornish than Targaryen. The babe has the eyes of a Stark and the darkness in the few wisps, I doubt they’d turn a silver blonde anytime soon.” Though he knew Cat was more than correct on her knowledge of babes but surely he also had to be right?

“Well…I mean…both our families have fertile seed. I don’t see why not. It would seem a bit odd but what am I to do? Give him to Ned and say it had been Ashara Daynes? Ruin a dead womans reputation as my sisters has been tarnished, saying she had been raped by Rhaegar when she looked only of love?” He turned sour in his tone, anger coming back towards the end. “He would try and fail. Cat I don’t know what to do. Either way someone ends up hurt. I’m just trying to find the best solution and that’s why I came to you, why I trusted you with this because unlike me you don’t rush into things headfirst. You don’t make stupid decisions that almost end in your death!”

The more he spoke the angrier he got and the louder he became, waking the boy in his arms and he immediately went to hush and calm it down and he glanced at the white tree. “Gods help me..”

@xladywinterx

A low growl emanated from his throat as she spoke about lies and he had not had a baby in his arms she would know his true wild nature. He knew she would think ill of him and think this a child of another woman, how crazy it would sound for this to be his sisters babe. “I’m not lying Catelyn. This is my sisters babe. Hafl wolf and half dragon. When she spoke of the child, of Rhaegar love was clear on her face. I don’t believe this may have been a true bastard. It was clear Rhaegar wanted a third child, to fufil that vision of his…Elia couldn’t have another, it was spread like wild-” He stopped short before he could finish, having flashbacks to the Mad King and knowing from Jaime Lannister what he had wanted to do to Kings Landing…

“What was it called again? Prince that was promised? I know one of the lines calls for a song of ice and fire…Rhaegar was noble enough to not have a bastard unlike his father and ancestors. Nobler than Robert. But I’m still having trouble knowing for certain if this child if indeed a bastard or not.” Brandon shook his head as the babe fell asleep finally in his arms and he still stayed looking at Cat. “You don’t think Eddard would lie if he was in my position? Least I am telling you. Eddard is too noble to even do that if he was married and in my position. He’d take the blame and call it his bastard to your face. Bejen, I don’t know what he would even do…” Brandon was grateful that it was he that had found Lyanna and found the babe and he cared not for Robert. “You know I do not care what Robert thinks or believes. This child will be Stark if I have any say. Least a Snow…But he will be cared for and loved and treated as any trueborn son.”

xladywinterx‌:

A month had become three and six… and a year.

Still he’d survived it all and the Tullys had come North for the wedding; instead of the ceremony being in her Riverrun’s sept it would be in Winterfell Godswood. “Brandon!” Benjen had said both his brothers would be home soon but she’d not expected it just a matter of days after she’d arrived. “Benjen sent word to Father you’d be here soon, we only just arrived ourselves.”

They’d finally be married after putting it off yet another year. Most maids married by seven and ten and she was uncomfortably closer to twenty than nine and ten.

“You’re ho-” A baby? “What is that?”

“I’m glad you are here.” Brandon said warmly as she neared her and his dark eyes drifted towards the babe and back to Cat. “It’s a baby. It’s not mine, or Eddards…I think we should speak in private.” He gave a nod to Eddard who grimly nodded back and greeted Benjen and they walked off to leave the two of them alone. “Can we talk in the Godswood?” He asked as he held on to the babe protectively, unsure of what Cat would do or say about this. He could oly imagine she thought he had slept with another woman and this was his bastard. He couldn’t blame her for anything ill she thought of him or the babe.

Once they sat at the Godswood, he stared at the face of the white tree and looked at the babe as he gently rocked him to hush his cries. “His name is Jon.” He started “He’s my nephew, Eddard and Bejen’s as well. He is Rhaegars son Cat.” He still was in shock from the very ordeal itself, not being able to save his sister. “He’s Lyannas son.” Tears welled up in his eyes as he thought of his sweet young sister. His only sister, barely hanging on as she made him promise to take care of the babe. “Robert can never know the truth. He’d kill the babe as the Mountain killed his half siblings.” He now looked at Cat “We are to marry soon…I know this is not what you had imagined, me being gone for as long as I had nor my nephew in tow. But can you accept this?”

wolfmaidcn‌:

“Well, what’s done cannot be undone, once the war is over I will honor those men,” Lyanna said stepping out onto a balcony to where Rhaegar kept his ravens.

“May these words ease his troubled mind,” Lyanna said tying her note to the Raven’s leg and sending it off. “Will you help me collect my belongings, Brandon?”

“Hope it ends this damn war” He huffed as he watched the raven leave and go where it was meant to go. “Of course, there’s no way i’m letting my sister with a babe in her belly carry all of these…” He shook his head as he gathered what he could make of what belonged to her and packed them up.

“My horse is outside, you can still ride yes?” He asked as he packed “Or is there a boat nearby? We need to get to the mainland as quick as possible, High Garden is quicker but Dragonstone might be a better…” He shook his head at the idea as soon as he said it knowing Dragonstone would be under attack as it housed Elia Martell and her children. Robert and Tywin would attack there soon. “We might not make it home in time by boat if you should give birth…”

shorthalt:

_{He had this look in his eyes
that made you wonder
just how m a n y people he’s killed.}

( _{And this…})
grin
_{that made you realize}

_{he’s probably lost count.}

rpmusings-galore:

i’ve never been one to ask for much, to make wishes

but, i beg for this one. just one.

p l e a s e

LET THEM BE HAPPY

wolfmaidcn‌:

“He did not! We ran away together, you make me sound like a damsel in distress, Brandon.” Lyanna said lowering her knife for the first time, “and this child is no bastard! Rhaegar and I are wed in the sight of The Seven, performed by a Maester of the Citadel, this child is proof of this union, a sign of a brighter future.” Pushing past her brother Lyanna searched for a piece of parchment and a quill and ink on Rhaegar’s desk, scribbling down a few words, she turned back to her brother.

“Let me send this raven to my husband, and then I will go with you since you took it upon yourself to murder my guards.”

Brandon was stunned by what his sister was telling him. She had wed Rhaegar…They loved one another and this child…His niece or nephew was royalty. There was a war going on and now there was extra urgency on everything. He couldn’t go to Robert with this news, and he was sure Ned would still side with Robert until he heard the words from Lyanna herself.

If they wanted to stop this war they’d have to kill Aerys and even than Brandon knew Robert would be an issue, despite being married to Rhaegar legally Robert would still see Lyanna as his bride to be and want to kill Rhaegar and he couldn’t let that happen, couldn’t let his sister be a widow and their child fatherless.

“If that future is able to be seen through the anger and bloodshed.” Brandon remarked as Lyanna went to the desk to write. “To be fair at the time I didn’t know they were your guards” He gave a half attempted laugh and the corners of his mouth gave a small twitch of a smile.