FIRE AND ICE - ROBB STARK X TARGARYEN OC

Return to the North

Jon Snow leaves the tunnel and walks out into the snow. Smoking dead bodies lie all around him,due the the previous battle fought.

As he walks into the forest he becomes surrounded by Wildlings. He has entered the Wildling camp unarmed.

"You're wearing a black cloak again." The king beyond the wall states.

"I've been sent to negotiate with you."

Mance and Jon enter Mance's tent and take a seat.

Mace begins speaking "It appears my trusting nature got the better of me. It's happened before. I was hoping your loyalty was real when you pledged yourself to us, Jon Snow, truly I was."

"The Halfhand ordered me to join your army and bring back whatever information I could to Castle Black. He made me kill him so you'd trust me. I was loyal, to him and to my Night's Watch vows." The young man tells.

"All of your vows? She wasn't enough to turn ya, eh? Were you enough to turn her?" Mace speaks clearly talking about Ygritte.

"She put three arrows in me when I escaped." Jon tells him making Mance ask if Jon saw her again at castle Black.

"Yes. I did" jon says with melancholy tone.

"And?" The wildling asks.

"She's dead." Jon reveals to him.

"Your doing?"

"No." Jon tells him, still blaming himself.

Mance nods "We'll drink to her."

Jon agrees, but is hesitant when given an unfamiliar drink. Jon accepts after Mance assures him that if he'd wanted to kill Jon, poison would be the last of his methods.

After drinking to Ygritte Mance then asks about the giant who got through the gate but never came out, and Jon informs Mance that the giant perished attempting to breach the inner gate at the hands of his friend Grenn. Mance ruefully notes that the giant was named Mag The Mighty, and he was "king" of the giants, the last of a bloodline stretching back thousands of years before the First Men entered Westeros to which Jon then glibly notes that his friend Grenn was from a farm.

"Mag and Grenn." Mance toasts.

"Grenn and Mag." Jon raises his drink.

Jon then proposes his terms to Mance. "Turn your army around and return home."

But Mance immediately counters " The Night's Watch is low on oil, arrows, and men, and when i sent my full force against the Wall the Night's Watch threw everything they had at us to repel the attack. I am guessing there are no more than 50 men left guarding Castle Black".

at this Jon lies and insists " No you are wrong. There are still over 1,000 men defending the garrison."

However, Mance calls Jon's bluff and reveals that after seeing how few men were defending Castle Black, he sent 400 men about five miles west to climb an unmanned section of the Wall, and they will attack Castle Black's weak southern side as soon as he gives the order.

Mance then changes his demeanor stating, "My people have suffered enough bloodshed and i have no intention of conquering the lands south of the Wall. We are going south to seek refuge from the growing threat of the White Walkers just as those south of the Wall are."

The wildling king then makes his counteroffer, if the Night's Watch will open the gates to the wildlings and allow them to pass through the Wall, no more harm will come to the black brothers. However, if his terms are refused, his wildling army will slaughter every last member of the Night's Watch and move south by force.