Wolf Queen

chapter four

[A/N: I am speeding up to Ned's death. I'm a fairly shitty writer and I cannot come up with things to write as a filler. So, please, just go with it. Thanks.]

Months later

Sansa never forgave me for what happened with Lady. Ash lives, and he is huge. She does talk to me now though.

King Robert has died, from what I do not know. All I know is that my father is in trouble and in the cells. I tried to get Sansa to convince Joffrey to release him, but she would not.

I run past tons of lords and ladies, them muttering an, 'excuse you'.

"Varys!" I shout and he turns. I quickly run up to him, trying to catch my breath as I do so. "Can I see my father?"

He frowns. "I'm afraid I cannot let you do that."

"Please," I beg, "the least you can do is tell me what's to be done with him."

Varys exhaled loudly. "I have heard that they will give him mercy, but nobody is for certain. You know how Joffrey is."

I hoped and prayed to the gods that Joffrey gave him mercy. Varys frowns. "I will tell him you asked for him."

"Tell him that I love him." I say before running off.

Later that day

Father was going to confess his treason in front of everyone. I squeeze my way through the hundreds of people. I could not even see Father.

To my left I see a platform with a statue on it above everyone else. Like Bran, I could climb. I made my way over to it and climbed it.

I keep my eyes on Joffrey. Everyone is screaming hurtful things at my father. Joffrey raises his hand into the air.

"My mother wishes me to let Lord Eddard join the Night's Watch, stripped of all power and titles and serve the realm in permanent exile," Joffrey says and looks to Sansa, "and my lady, Sansa, has begged mercy for her father." Joffrey looks away and back to Father. "But they've the soft hearts of women. So long as I am your King, treason shall never go unpunished. Ser Ilyn, bring me his head!"

My stomach dropped. No, no, this cannot be happening. Sansa begins to yell and I keep staring at my father.

Ser Ilyn brings out a long sword. My father looks up at me, hurt in his eyes. Tears were now streaming down my face.

I watched as his head was cut off. I turn my head away, now crying harder than ever. Jumping down off the statue, I run off in no direction particularly. All I did was run.

Running got me nowhere. I eventually ended up lost in the woods. That is exactly what I was. Lost.

The image of my father's head being cut off kept replaying over and over in my head. I buried my face into my knees and kept crying until I had made myself get a headache.

Knowing Arya, she ran off, probably lost.

I cried and cried until I fell asleep.

•

I try and open my eyes but they were too heavy. Someone was carrying me. Leaves crunched under their feet, so I am assuming I was still in the woods.

"W-Where," my throat was dry, "w-who.."

"Don't worry," a man's voice says calmly, "you'll be alright."

"W-Who are you?" I ask weakly as I try to open my eyes.

"King Robert's bastard."

Robert has a bastard? Of course, when Father came back with Jon, Robert had a son too.

Father. I had completely forgotten that he had died. I had not realized that I had began crying again.

"What's wrong?"

"My father was beheaded, orders by Joffrey." I tell him through my sobs.

"Joffrey?" He asks, "Joffrey doesn't have that kind of power."

"He does now," I look up at him, "he's king."

The man's face drops. "You're Eddard Stark's daughter."

"I'm sorry about your father." I say.

The man shrugs. "I never knew him."

"What's your name anyway?" I ask as I wipe my tears away.

"Gendry."

I see King's Landing in the distance. Gendry stops, still holding me in his arms.

"Will you be okay?" Gendry asks.

I nod and he puts me down easily. I dust all of the dirt off of my dress.

"Thank you for finding me." I say with a smile.

"It was no problem," he smiles back.

"Do you live here?" I ask.

He shakes his head. "I'm actually going to join the Night's Watch."

"Oh," I say, "well if you see Jon Snow, tell him I said hi and that I miss him."

"Is he your brother?" Gendry asks.

"Yes."

Gendry stares at my sword. "Did he give you that?"

I look down at it and smile. "Yes, right before he left."

"It has a clever name, I'm sure."

"Silencer."

Gendry smiles. "Make sure to silence Joffrey for me."

I chuckle. "I will. Make sure to tell my brother hi for me."

"I will." Gendry says and I turn and walk away from him.