Versailles// Game of Thrones

•Chapter I•

Alaena sighed as the wheelhouse rattled over a bump in the Kings road. She didn't want to go on the long journey up North but Cersei said she wouldn't be able to bear being in the dull North without Alaena there to support her. The ever loyal Alaena then decided that if she was going North her husband, Tytos and their children would come with her.

"Mama I'm bored. Are we there yet?" Her darling daughter questioned. 
"Not much longer my sweet. And I know your bored. Why don't you go and talk with Myrcella, it will pass the time."

So her daughter toddled over to sit beside her cousins Princess Myrcella and Prince Tommen. The little ones started chattering cheerfully. Alaena smiled at Cersei and hugged her sleeping son closer to her.

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At long last they arrived at Winter after what felt like years of being trapped in a wheelhouse. Alaena was helped out of the carriage by a Knight and then lifted her children out. The way her precious children looked around at the North in awe warmed their mother's heart.

However she was filled with bitterness when King Robert humiliated his wife by asking to see the Northern whore's tomb and brushing of Cersei's request. Couldn't he see what a beautiful wife and Queen he had and stop pining over a foolish Northern bitch who died for her idiocy and never loved him anyway.

One of the Stark's servants escorted her and her children to their rooms. In Alaena's opinion they were adequate. The bed looked comfortable and had rich furs and thick quilts to keep it warm. The dark wooden panelling and the matching furniture were well carved with wolves and stags. However it lacked the light and opulent atmosphere that her rooms in Kings Landing had.

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Cersei had demanded that Alaena be sat beside her during the feast and so She would make it much more bearable. They passed the time by talking politely with Lady Catelyn, gossiping and drinking wine for Cersei and hot tea for Alaena. Lady Catelyn had always impressed Alaena, even when they were young she had always appeared to be so calm and composed. Also she was undeniably beautiful still, she had aged excellently.

When Robert was fooling around with the maidservants Cersei gripped Alaena's hand under the table and Alaena picked apart the poor girls flaws to make her dearest friend feel better. She commented on her blemishes or how lacklustre the girl's hair was in comparison to Cersei's flawless complexion and radiant hair that was like spun gold. And though Cersei was seething she couldn't help but be amused by Alaena's bitching and the fact that her friend would so willingly beat another woman down just to lift Cersei up.

Alaena looked up when lady Sansa was called over. The girl was undeniably stunning with flaming hair and sharp features and though she looked completely a Tully trout there was no doubt that fierce wolf blood ran in her veins. Alaena could tell that if the young lady grew out of her naivete and realised that life was not like a song she could stop being weak and start being a key player in the great game. But till then she would be easy to manipulate and could become anyone's puppet. When Alaena had heard Sansa was to be Joffrey's bride she prayed he wouldn't break her, prayed she wouldn't suffer for she knew the extent of the boys cruelty. Alaena supposed that inbreeding meant that the children would be messed up. The Targaryens proved it, every one of them was mad in their own way and it was a relief that they were extinct.

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When Cersei got a bit too drunk Alaena summoned Jaime to take his sister and lover to her chambers. Before they left she whispered a warning not to do any funny business here in the wolves den into his ear. The last thing any of them needed was the relationship between brother and sister to be found out.

When Alaena's husband Tytos stumbled into their bedchamber tipsy and horny, Alaena grudgingly pleasured him till he fell asleep. Afterwards she sighed and rolled over. Their relationship has been getting worse as she hadn't been able to birth him anymore children and every miscarriage, every stillbirth widened the rift between husband and wife. Alaena knew he had a mistress and he was convinced she had a lover.

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