Duty or Desire // Jon Snow // Robb Stark

33. Did we win?

'If I'm going to lead this army I'm not going to have my mother doing the bargaining for me or are you Odetta.' Robb told them

'I agree.' Catelyn said 'but I will go so she went to meet with Walder Frey.' She insisted, 'I know him, he knows my family he will listen to reason.' Robb agreed, all they had to do was wait.

'I urge you to open your gates to my Lord son, Robb and his Bannerman.' Catelyn pleaded with Walder Frey 'and beyond their way.'

'And why should I listen to you?' Walder questioned wanting something in return. Nothing was ever free.

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'Lord Walder has granted you were crossing, his men are ours as well.' Catelyn said but she didn't look to happy about it.

'What does he want in return?' Robb questioned

'When the fighting is done you will marry one of his daughters.' Catelyn told him and Robb looked Odetta she looked curiously back at Catelyn

'We are already married.' Odie reminded her.

'Yes but he does not know that and he does not need to know that until we past the bridge... then we can give him a different option.' Catelyn suggested

'I don't know that we should be lying to a man that's going to help us.' Odie said nervously, she didn't like this.

'do you consent?' Catelyn asked ignoring Odies complaints.

'Can I refuse?' Robb asked looking to his wife before turning to his mother. Catelyn shook her head, no. 'Then I guess I consent.'

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'Wake up your missing the fight.' Bronn said barging into Tyrions tent.

'What are you doing? What do you want?' Tyrion questioned drowsily, an arm still wrapped around a whore named shae's naked body.

'You are sleeping through the war.' Bronn told him

'What?'

'They got to jump on us in the night they already are approaching.'

'Get my squire.'

'You don't have a squire.' Bronn called leaving the tent

'If I die.' Tyrion told her as she lay back against the pillow 'weep for me.'

'You will be dead how will you know?' shae reminded him before falling back asleep

'I will know.' Tyrion said as he armored up

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'I'm alive?'

'youre alive.' bronn agreed

'Did we win?'

'we wouldn't be having this conversation if we didn't.' Bronn reminded him

'how did our tribesman do?' bronn nodded over to the tribesman beating an opposing soldiers already on the ground 'well its nice to see them getting along.' Tyrion noted.

'You're wounded' Tywin noted riding up to Tyrion.

'How good of you to notice... I hear we won,' Tyrion said laying on a wagon

'The scouts were wrong they were 2000 stark banner men not 20,000' tywin said atop his white horse.

'Did we get the stark boy at least?' Tyrion questioned

'He was not there' tywin spat.

'Where was he?'

"With his other 18,000 men,' Tywin said riding off

'And where are they?' Tyrion called after him.