Rieka Stark never thought she would leave the north. Never thought her best friend would betray her with a smile. Knew she could never could never forgive him but the guilt was eating Theon up inside.
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"There is a wall in my life built by you. Y...
"You are my sister, but I am king now." Jon reminded Sansa.
"Will you start wearing a crown?" Sansa sassed
"When you question my decisions in front of the other lords and ladies, you undermine me." Jon breathed back in agony.
"He said mama. Mama! His first words mama! Oh my... my baby! My baby! Oh my baby boy!"
"Mama mama mama!" Robbie repeated. Once he got started, he couldn't stop he loved saying mama he loved his mama.
Theon rubbed a hand over her back as she beamed down at Robbie.
"Hes making your day." Theon realized.
"He really is." And somehow past the babbles of mama She heard shouting from the throne room.
"Sansa be nice to jon."
" you don't even know what's going on."
"I don't care. You were always the one starting things with him. So Too bad, be nice to jon." RIeka demanded. "Listen to him, he's the king of the north, you were there when they demanded it."
"You-" Sansa tried again.
"Too bad." Rieka repeated.
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"You're good at this, you know." Sansa remarked softly after she pulled a pouty gaze away from Rieka.
"At what?" Jon questioned.
"Remember what I said, be nice please." Rieka added. Sansa rolled her eyes to Jon. "Yes mama is good at bossing people around. Yes she is." She cooed down to robbie.
"At ruling." sansa clarified. But Jon sighed, no he wasn't. He was a bastard he wasn't meant for this.
"No." he corrected.
"Better than most." Rieka agreed leaning into him. Jon wrapped his arms around her and Rieka relaxed into him. "Robbie said mama."
"Mama mama mama-"
"I hear." Jon agreed touching robbies little head.
"Mama mama mama!"
"You are. You are. They respect you, they really do, but you have to--" Sansa began but he chuckled stopping her. "Why are you laughing?"
"What did father used to say? Everything before the word "but" is horse shit." Jon informed her.
"He never said that to me." Sansa corrected.
"He said it to me." Rieka agreed. "Mainly when I was trying to get away with playing with you boys and not listening to mother." Rieka admitted Jon kissing her temple.
"No. No, he never cursed in front of his girls. Just Rieka apparently and the boys." Jon agreed.
"Because he was trying to protect us. He never wanted us to see how dirty the world really is, but Father couldn't protect me and neither can you. Stop trying." Sansa begged
"All right, I'll stop trying to protect you and you stop trying to undermine me." Jon agreed and Sansa scoffed.
"I'm not trying to undermine you." Sansa declared grabbing his arm and turning him to face her. "You have to be smarter than Father. You need to be smarter than Robb. I loved them, I miss them, but they made stupid mistakes, and they both lost their heads for it."
"Don't define their lives based off of those mistakes because they did a lot of good. They tried to do a lot of good sansa " Rieka declared.
"RIe-"
"They were smart. They were brave." Rieka rasped. "They werent just foolish, they were good. Don't diminish them."
"And how should I be smarter? By listening to you?" Jon spat back at sansa seeing the pain in RIeka's eyes. She was always closest to their father. Rieka loved their father and Jon most in the world, she always had.
"Would that be so terrible?" Sansa hissed.
"A raven from King's Landing, Your Grace." Maester wolken remarked. He handed a sealed note to Jon, then bowed and left. Jon sighed as he unraveled the note.
"Cersei of House Lannister, First of Her Name, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Protector of the Seven Kingdoms--" Jon read off.
"Queen." RIeka stepped forward reading over his shoulder.
"What does she want?" Sansa countered
"Come to King's Landing. Bend the knee or suffer the fate of all traitors." Jon informed them.
" You've been so consumed with the enemy to the north, you've forgotten about the one to the south." Sansa informed him pompously.
"I'm consumed with the Night King because I've seen him. And believe me, you'd think of little else if you had, too."
" We still have a wall between us and the Night King. Theres nothing between us and Cersei." Sansa spat.
"There's a thousand miles between us and Cersei." Rieka corrected. "Winter is here. The Lannisters are a southern army."
"Plus They've never ranged this far north."
"We have to deal with her eventually." Rieka countered.
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"Jon please..." Theon begged catching up.
"What Theon?" Jon demanded. Theon's lip quivered.
"I..." THeon didnt know what to say, there were not enough words. Jon marched off before Theon opened his mouth again.
"Theon." Rieka whispered. "You will have the words to tell him how you feel just as you had the words to tell me, when the time is right."
"The time is past due to tell him how sorry I am yet... sorry is useless." Theon countered.
"THe words will come." Rieka assured. "Because you are a changed man, Theon. I know it. I see it in you. So does this little babbling mamas boy."
