Game of Thrones - Season 8 / New Future

Council Meeting

DRAGONSTONE

They were lying in bed together. The night was dark but so silent. She could have sworn the weather was warmer day by day. Or those were just her hormones. But that bothered her the least that night. She was finally in his arms. He was holding her close, and they fell asleep together. He stayed there in her room after he had avoided her for days. For too many days. They did not make love that night, just snuggled closer to each other, caressing each other in silence. They both needed those peaceful moments. She waited until he fell asleep and escaped from his arms. It was too warm. She couldn't sleep. 

It was the middle of the night when Dany woke up because he was shouting and panting. His forehead was sweating. She turned to him and caressed his face.
"Jon?" she whispered his name 
"No. NO!" he was still dreaming and started tossing and turning. 
"Jon" she whispered his name again and leaned closer to him. Hugging him close to her body. "It's alright. Everything is alright." she continued talking to him and holding him in her arms. "Shhh." even if she couldn't wake him up, she tried everything to reassure him. The nightmare slowly passed and his breathing became normal again. She sighed and turned to the window. Her mind was racing. She wanted to help him. She wanted him to feel better but he was too noble and too good. That thing... what he thought he have done killed him inside. She understood, but she was also sure it was not his fault. She hoped Bran is coming with Sansa, meanwhile deep in her heart she was almost sure he won't be there. That was their last chance to make him feel better. Suddenly she felt how the baby kicked her belly. Her mouth smiled instinctively and she placed her other hand on her belly. First, in her life, she really has a family. A real family. With so much love, she intended to keep that family. No matter the price. She will chase away the dark clouds from the path of her happiness. She gave a kiss on the top of his head and closed her eyes. 

When the sun rises and its first rays reach his face he wakes up. His eyes stopped on the beautiful woman, who was sleeping next to him. Calmly. She was breathtaking and she was in love with him. He was the luckiest man... still he felt doomed in a way. He got everything he ever wished for, meanwhile he did a horrible thing. Yet she was still there. Next to him. Support him, and be his crutch. Even in his darkest days. He smiled a bit and just stared at her. He did not sleep well in the past few days. He usually woke up in the middle of the night, and he couldn't even sleep back. That night was different. He remembered that he had some nightmare or something, but he did not wake up. He slept through the night finally. In her arms. Next to her. Maybe she was right, and the worst thing he could have done is to avoid her. But does he really deserve that peace? That question runs through his mind. 

"Hey." she opened her eyes and immediately pulled her mouth to a smile. 
"Good Morning." he returned her smile and caressed her arm. 
"I was... " she bit her lower lip "I was afraid that you won't be here in the morning," she admitted. 
"Where else would I be?" he narrowed his eyes and slid his hand to her cheek and moved a bit closer to her. 
"I don't know." she shrugged. "I ... have no idea where you spent the previous nights so..." she did not want to argue or hurt him, meanwhile that hurt her so much. That he did everything to be away from her. 
"I was here with you." he took a deep breath and turned to his back. Pulled her with himself and placed his arms around her. "At the first night. You were sleeping but I came inside and ... laid down next to you." he continued and Dany was listening to him in silence. "Then I woke up. I ... saw those pictures again in my head. In my dream. How... King's Landing was burning, how people were burning alive and ... when I woke up I thought it is better if I ... don't wake you up." his hand was running up and down on her arm. "So I ... was walking around in the castle, and I found an empty room. I... I spent my previous nights there." he confessed. "But no matter how I tried I couldn't sleep ... " he swallowed "except tonight." he lowered his head and she raised her eyes at him. 
"It seems I have a good influence on you." she tried to make him smile but his eyes were still so sad. No matter how he pulled his mouth to a small smile it was clear to her. He did not answer.  "I don't want to get up." she put her face back to his chest and caressed his wound with her fingers. The deep wound on his chest. 
"Me neither." he grabbed her hand and breathed a small kiss on it. "I didn't want anything else. Ever. Just ... some peace and happiness. Maybe a family. Even if I resigned to have one when I joined the Night's Watch, I always wanted a family." he was talking quietly. "A son. Or a daughter. Or both. Live happily ever after somewhere. In peace. Without wars, without conflicts... without constant danger." he was playing with her hand and he smiled a bit. 
"And what about the woman who gives life to those children?" she pulled herself up to her elbow and looked into his eyes. He frowned and it was clear he did not understand her question. "I mean... you... did not think about... ahm... to your wife?" she lowered her voice and avoided looking into his eyes at that moment. He just gently raised her head up by her chin and leaned closer to kiss her. When his lips touched hers he felt how that good feeling fills his whole body. The happiness, the joy, the ... the sense of perfection. That rare and unique thing that they had. As if it always should have been in that way. As if ... everything led them to the arms of each other. At the moment he gave himself to that feeling he reminded himself, that his life is not a fairytale and he was still a murderer. He stopped with the kiss and sighed. He did not deserve her, but no matter how noble and strong he considered himself... he was not strong enough to leave her behind. He had no life without his love. Without his family.