GoT AU: The Heart Wants What It Wants

22: Jitters

Ages:

- Talisa, Willas, Ygritte – 30; Robb, Jon, Gendry, Meera – 28; Sansa – 27; Arya, Alys – 25; Bran, Jojen, Myrcella – 24; Rickon, Shireen – 20

BRAN

The biggest news they got all-year was that Robb's engaged to Talisa. Robb had explained that it's going to be a spring wedding, also quoting a literal seasonal metaphor about new beginnings. And now they're getting married in three weeks.

So far, Bran had graduated from ATU along with his bestfriends Jojen and Myrcella. And once he completed the apprenticeship his Uncle Edmure and his Mom, Catelyn had negotiated with Patrek Mallister, Bran and his sister Arya had loaned for a capital from Stark Industries with the approval of their brother, Robb to create a subsidiary.

The subsidiary was an architectural, design and construction firm. Stark Architects, was the first name Bran had pitched as their official company and brand name, but Arya wanted one memorable word for the it so she came up with Starkitects.

That's not even a word, Bran had argued. No, Arya said, but it's memorable.

After a few months, Starkitects was a thriving architectural, design, and construction firm based in King's Landing. And since then, Robb had assigned all the creation of the new Northerners' Brew coffeehouse chain, Brynden's Burgers fast-food chain, and Butterwell restaurant chain branches in their hands.

Since the firm was in King's Landing, their parents had allowed them to purchase a four-bedroom penthouse apartment at Visenya Hill along Steel Avenue, which is literally just several blocks away from the Great Sept of Baelor. He shared the penthouse with his sister, Arya. But she's rarely there, since she mostly stayed with her boyfriend, Gendry Baratheon, who's apartment was also several blocks away from theirs.

So, basically, Bran lived there alone with Arya occasionally visiting or staying at times when they got unfinished work to do or if she and Gendry are fighting.

Whenever he was free, usually on a Friday, he would meet with Jojen and Myrcella in the capital and hang-out like they used to.

Jojen was now working at the Highgarden Research Institute's Botany department after serving as an intern for about six-months. They liked him so much that they cut his internship contract and hired him as a full-time botanist of the research institute. It was part of his work experience before taking over Reed Berries Co. And he was also currently living with his girlfriend, Alys and his sister, Meera in Brightwater Keep.

Myrcella, however, was appointed acting CEO of Baratheon Corp. by her Dad. The position was actually Gendry's, but he doesn't trust anyone who'll handle Baratheon Engineering in his absence, so he's waiting for Tommen to graduate so he can take over the subsidiary. She had admitted once that she never liked being head of a multi-company corporation. The position will be all Gendry's when he ready to take over, but in the meantime, since she had a business degree, she was the only one qualified and her family trusted to take over.

As for the Baratheon family drama, according to Myrcella, her Mom Cersei went back to Casterly Rock in the Westerlands. She hadn't contacted any of them until about a month before their graduation. Only then did Cersei came to her senses, swallowed her pride and apologized to everyone in the family, and finally accepted Tommen's sexual orientation.

Now, three weeks into the wedding, Robb had invited his siblings over to Stark Manor on a Saturday for lunch before they're going onto some bonding time with the would-be in-laws.