✅️ The Last Velaryon - Robb Stark

8 - The Truth of Jaime Lannister

Soft knocking on my chamber door woke me up from my peaceful sleep. Shifting myself up from the pillows I brushed my hair out of my face. "Who's visiting me in the middle of the night?" Tossing the covers aside I climbed out of the bed.

Creaking open the door I peaked my head through the doorway seeing it was Antler standing in the hallway. "Haelsa, I apologize for the late visit. But it's Chezney."

"Chezney. What's wrong with her?" I asked instantly, feeling nervous.

Antler simply answered my question. "I'd grab some shoes and a robe. It's better to show you."

Scrambling around my room I grabbed a blue cloak and some slippers following on the heels of my father's most trusted guard. We swept through the castle hallways until we reached her chambers door and I burst inside not bothering with knocking. "Chez! What happened?"

"Hael! I need your help." She cried from the corner of the room holding onto a pot. She throws up in the pot hair getting in her mouth until I came over to help.

Holding her hair out of her face I asked even though I had a guess of what was happening to her. "You're pregnant aren't you?"

Her and Antler were both extremely close friends of mine and by some crazy miracle they ended up falling in love with the other. A lays in waiting and a top officer of the guard, what could possibly go wrong. "Haelesa, you can't tell your father please. Pretty please he will likely execute Antler for this." Chezney slides around on her knees grasping the fabric of my nightgown in her hands.

"Chezney could be sent out of the castle too. Including her mother too." Antler added on ,standing guard by the door in case someone else can enter.

Intertwining my hands with hers I lowered myself down on my knees to be level with her. "I would never do such a thing and do you both to the fate of death or banishment. We are best friends after all."

"Thank you, Haelesa." She threw her head against my chest and I held her against me. Burying my face into her hair I sighed heavily in relief. The three of us in that moment were horrified by others knowing, unfortunately she lost the baby in the span of only two months. But I kept my promise that I would always guard her secrets and she would mine.

Pushing the tent flaps away with my hands I saw that Chezney was leaning against the wooden post that was one of the support beams of the tent. She had her hair tied up in a crown pattern, wearing a simple blue gown with some brown boots. "Are you ever going to let the young wolf see you in a gown?"

"We have been transported from one war camp to another. Dresses aren't suitable for that environment. Therefore when Robb or Jaime wins the war then and only then shall I wear a ridiculous gown."

Chezney tilted her head to the side, she clasped her hands together. "So are you ever going to tell him what you wrote in your letter to Joella?"

"You mean the letter that you were supposed to send before we left?" I snapped thinking she had sent it out the morning before we had left Kings Landing with a band of men and Lannister flags.

She shrugs her shoulders in response. "I was simply thinking it would be a conversation starter."

"Chezney Ally, I swore to keep your secret years ago and you swore the same to me. The contents of that letter or any future letters to Joella are meant to remain privately between us."

My best friend gestures her head in a different direction causing me to follow her gaze and see that the young wolf was striding over to us. "Well you better think of something to say to him if you won't tell him your feelings."