Castle Darry
"Tell me something."
The Queen turned to her twin as he dressed himself after the session they had. She pulled the sheets to cover her chest and rose herself a little on the bed.
"What do you mean?" She asked and looked into his eyes, they looked jealous and she sighed.
"Why are you so interested in the Arryn boy?, I've seen you speaking with him four times since he joined the company." She smirked as he wondered and it involves two reasons.
Jon Arryn might have brought her and Robert together in marriage, but the old man never felt friendly to them and it got worse in his final days, she intends to bring House Arryn to the fold through its lord, she would like the Arryn's to be more loyal to her side rather than the Starks. The second would be because of the small attraction she may have, mostly due to him resembling her other half, his hair is fair and gold like his and face chiseled like a god like her brother.
Its some few weeks since they have departed from Winterfell and so far its been relatively peaceful.
"Well. Get dressed, I need to go before someone notices my missing." She said and took a few minutes to dress herself and left her brothers chambers that the Lord Darry had leant them when they arrived.
They have been here a day whilst they should have been on the road, she would tell Robert but the whoremonger would ignore her and say he wants to rest, she left in anger for her brother then and so that's where she is now, walking among the halls of Darry to have supper with Sansa and Lady Darry, she invited the Lady Arya but doubts the child will appear and hopes she doesn't.
Now that the red haired girl came to mind, she is both okay and not okay with the match. She is a beauty and to a point would suit her son but the blaring fact remains that the child is Eddard's daughter, a wolf. Her husbands obsession with the family of Winterfell stems from Lyanna, that wolf bitch that ruined her marriage even after she had died, Robert hadn't forgotten her and that was proven on their wedding night where he whispered the woman's infernal name in her ears.
When she showed signs of pregnancy she hoped it would cause the warrior king to finally move on, but the day of her birth her hopes were dashed like the baby Aegon's head when the black haired child wouldn't move or cry, just lied still and it was the second time she wept so hard, the first being from when her mother died bringing that monster into the world. After that day she had accepted her marriage to Robert would forever be hostile and so she resumed her relationship with Jaime, giving birth to three children, Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen.
She could only imagine her son. Loved and feared by all and a great ruler, she would make sure of it.
For the remainder of the day she did what she intended to do, she had supper with Sansa and the girl proved as graceful as she had thought. She was in the wheelhouse braiding her daughters hair when disaster decided to strike. Her son, escorted by Sandor and with a bleeding arm, by a dire wolf. In her rage she ordered for the wolf that did it to be hunted down and killed whilst she tended to the wound, offering five-hundred gold dragons to the man who brings her the pelt.
It wasn't long before her men returned and instead of a wolf, they brought Eddard's daughter, Arya and the blasted child wouldn't reveal where it went.
"Tell where it went child?!, your beast had bitten my son shortly after you and that boy harmed him." She accused and the girl choked but didn't answer. She would have said more if not for Roberts interference.
"Quiet woman!, I will wait for Ned to come and get this straightened with." She seethed on the inside by that, what will Eddard do? His son was brutalized and he wants to wait for justice, she sent a heavy glare upon Robert who ignored her like usual. So they all waited and a few moments later the Quiet Wolf entered with his searching party, Arya ran to her father and the older wolf embraced his daughter with worry and panic on his face as if the child was in any danger, she was being punished for attacking the Crown Prince!
Next that entered was the Lord Arryn and one of the Royce brothers, he looked confused and half dressed with a shirt, trousers and boots on. The scene unfolded and everyone got to the bottom of what happened despite it being quite clear to her, it wasn't until her husband told Arya to tell the truth and she gave a terrible story that her boy was harassing them and scarred the butchers boy named Mycha, it was a rubbish tale and shouldn't be given any credit.
"Where's your other daughter Ned?" The King asked and Eddard said she was fast asleep. She smirked and nodded for her brother to bring her in.
"No she isn't. Sansa, come here darling!" She called and the child looked absolutely frightened about what has happened. Eddard looked confused and angry and so were the rest of his mutts for guardsmen, whilst the Falcons seemed just as confused until one her men informed him of the matter.
"Kneel child. Tell us what happened?, tell it all and tell it true for lying to a King is a great crime." This was the one thing she enjoyed about her husband, when he would toss aside that foolhardy ego of debuchery for the face that made him the King in the first place. Sansa sputtered and spouted an excuse of not remembering what she had seen and that it all went too fast, the little beast besides her acted rashly and began pulling on her sisters hair and it took Stark to break them up.
"She's as wild as that animal of hers, I want her punished." She demanded with a wide smirk on her face and the King, Starks, and everyone else looked at her with a expression of shock.
"Are you mad?!, would you have her whipped through the streets!, children fight and it's over!" Her smirk left and was replaced with a thin line as she attempted to hold back her anger at that moment, "Ned. Discipline your daughter, and I'll do the same with him." She could only sit back and watch the matter go without consequences, she marched at Robert as he began walking away and thought of the only thing that will bring her satisfaction.
"What of the Direwolf?, what of the beast that savaged your son?!"
The room became quiet. The Stark men tensed along with their lord and Robert stopped in his tracks, sighing in a frustrating matter about the mess.
"I forgot the damned wolf... " her husband said lowly and turned to his guard who shook his head.
"We found no trace of it your grace."
"No?,Very well then- " I will have my Justice she thought as he resumed to walk away until she smiled triumphantly again, she won this time.
"They have another wolf. Chained up and alone."
Her eyes gleemed as the scene of House Starks futile attempts appeared to have no affect and she had thought she won the matter as Robert told Eddard that he should get the girl a dog and that wolves aren't pets, that Sansa will be better for it, she was victorious. Until a lone voice broke out and stopped whatever was going to happen with his interference. She turned her eyes onto the young Lord Arryn who spoke up for the Starks.
"Is this what my father made you King for?, to punish a child for the actions of the others pet." His words made a chill run up her spine as he spoke so sternly, not like one the age of twenty but one who is a Lord Paramount, his voice a little reminiscent of her father's when she was a child. Robert blushed a little like a child being scolded. "Let it live and send it back home. If her grace would have the real culprit then I will have it hunted myself." She saw he didn't care whether she had satisfaction as he showed sympathy towards the weeping Sansa held by her father.
Eddard didn't look pleased at his friend for picking the solution against both sides despite not knowing about it. Robert stayed silent for a long moment before saying "Make it happen." Before taking his leave with his eyes to the ground, shamed and a little humiliated no doubt about being talked to by the son of the man who was a pillar to bringing the Targaryen Dynasty to its knees, if it wasn't for House Arryn then the dragon family would still rule the the Seven Kingdoms. "Robar, Waymar. Offer 800 dragons for the wolf's capture to any man around the vicinity, if it isn't found tonight then it will be a long wait for justice."
Once this business was finished and everyone was all but gone besides her, Jaime, and Rodrik. "Go on Jaime, the King might need you." She said, not looking at her twin, Jaime looked betrayed but she sent him a amused look and he huffed and left with her two guards following as they were dismissed, lastly was Rodrik who attempted to go but she halted him "Would you remain for a moment?, Lord Arryn." She begged and the Lord stood right where he is and turned to her, his blue eyes staring and waiting.
"Why assist me?, Eddard is your friend." She questioned and for once the Lord of the Vale huffed and straightened himself in a manner of a young man, his true self surfaces.
"I did not help you. I woke to panic about the Crown Prince being harmed and went to see what had happened, now that I had I couldn't stand by and let an innocent of any kind be killed in place of another. I might be the new Lord Paramount of the Vale and Warden of the East, but I was first a Knight and hold to a knights values. Goodnight my Queen." After that the Falcon showed a little bit of his ferocity, and as for herself she went to sleep that night thinking that the new Lord of the Vale was a fool, but a fool who knew what he was doing.
Another couple of weeks pass before they arrived back at the city of King's Landing. The smell of piss and shit and sex filled the air and penetrated her nostrils, it was almost a welcomed smell after everything that had happened in the past two months. Her son betrothed to Sansa, Eddard and Rodrik in city, and Robert never felt happier to have his friends back into his home. She got a creeping feeling that the Wardens of the East and North will only cause problems with her family as that always happens when a man from another family becomes Hand of the King, two or now three factions will be made, whether the Starks or Arryns play the game, she wont be intimidated.