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The hall jumped in shock seeing Rhaegar's outburst. The man in question stood, glaring daggers at his sister.
"How could you let your dragons be stolen?!"
He was gripping her arm now, yanking her to her feet and shaking her violently.
"Stop it! You're hurting her!" Elia snapped, and the man's ire turned to her.
"She let her dragons be stolen! Three dragons, the three heads! Those dragons were there only hope of fulfilling the prophecy and defeating the White Walkers! And she let them be stolen."
A strong hand gripped the man's shoulder and turned to find Jon Snow standing there, glaring at the man.
"You will let her go" Jon Snow ordered. Rhaegar stared at his son and tried to argue
"You don't understand! The White Walkers-"
"You will let her go" Jon Snow insisted, his voice cold and harsh.
Rhaegar let Daenerys go, running his hand through his hair after which Jon Snow let go of his shoulders.
"If you are so worried about the dragons than hatch them yourselves and take care of them on your own, those dragons have been raised by Daenerys herself so you aren't the one more worried than her" Jon Snow snapped at Rhaegar Targaryen.
"Are you okay?" Elia whispered. Daenerys nodded, gently rubbing the bruise that was forming on her arm. She looked up at Jon Snow, who turned towards her and offered a small smile.
"I am sorry you and the one on the screen are different and I shouldn't try to lash out on you over it after all your situation will be way different from her" Rhaegar Targaryen said after he calmed down a little.
Daenerys Targaryen nodded her head but Rhaegar saw that she was a little afraid of him from his early outburst.
"How about you sit beside me for a while?" Jon Snow asked to which Daenerys accepted and sat beside Jon while holding the box of serum Jon gave her yesterday.
"Couldn't you have overpowered him, after drinking the serum" Jon Snow asked curiously.
"I don't know there are still 3 serums left that I haven't drank yet and I don't know if I am strong or not" Daenerys said
"Okay, than today how about I teach you how to use your strength so that you are not in the same situation as today." Jon Snow asked which Daenerys accepted with a small smile.
[WINTERFELL]
[THEON dresses down BLACK LORREN while DAGMER watches.]
"A cripple? You let a cripple escape? The boy can't walk, but somehow he slipped past you?"
"The giant must have taken him."
"The giant? Hodor? Oh, that's all right, then. You let a halfwit escape with a cripple. And Rickon, too? The little one?"
"Gone, along with the wildling woman. The one you were fucking."
"Halfwit men for a moron of a 'Prince'. Truly the Gods made the right matches" Tyrion snorted.
[THEON punches BLACK LORREN in the jaw, who falls to the ground. THEON shakes the pain out of his fist. He then kicks BLACK LORREN repeatedly.]
"Right. Get the horses and the hounds."
[WOODS OUTSIDE WINTERFELL]
[Leashed dogs chase the scent of the fugitives. Mounted riders follow. The dogs seem to have picked up a scent and they pause.]
"Please no" Catelyn whispered, gripping Bran's hand this time. The boy was afraid, stiff and silent.
[The riders stop.]
"Enjoying your first hunt?"
"So far, hunting seems very similar to riding, my lord."
"How could he? I trusted Maester Luwin" Arya hissed, tears in her eyes.
"Maester Luwin has no choice" Brandon the Elder explained to his niece. "He made an oath to serve the Lord of Winterfell. Sadly, the stain over there is the Lord of Winterfell."
Said stain stiffened and glared at the man, only to cower when Brandon glared back with twice as much venom and a promise of pain.
"With hunting, there's blood at the end."
"They're little boys."
"I was a little boy when I was torn away from my home and brought here."
"Torn away because your father was stupid enough to think he'll get away with rebelling. You were lucky to not have been beheaded" Renly countered. "Stole the man who saved your life's home. Very Iron born of you. We do not sow" Renly said the house words mockingly.
If not for King Robert glaring dagger at him, Theon would have said something in reply.
"So I kept my word. I never ran away. If I find them soon enough, I won't hurt them. Well, I'll hurt them, but I won't kill them."
"Even a hair on their heads is harmed and I will flay you like a Bolton. Future event or not" Robb snarled, held back by his uncle Brandon.
Theon did not reply, nor did he look.
"Those boys are of far more value to you alive than dead."
"They have no value to me missing."
"Robb will have sent a force to retake Winterfell by now."
"Robb's in the Riverlands. My sister's in Deepwood Motte. She'll get here long before they do. And Ned Stark always said 500 men could hold Winterfell against 10,000"
"Five Hundred Northern Men who know the terrain well. Ironborn stand no chance of doing that, no matter how well they are manned" Ned Stark declared boldly.
"We shall see, Lord Stark" Yara replied with a smirk. The North had no way of getting back Winterfell now, even with Bolton's bastard coming to fight. Theon had done a ballsy thing for sure.
"The hounds have the scent. Come, Maester, don't look so grim. It's all just a game."
"We'll see how much you like games when your life is on the line" Lyanna snapped.
"Try me" Theon challenged.
Lyanna stood but was pulled back down by Catelyn.
Theon snorted.
[THEON rides on. MAESTER LUWIN follows.]
[WOODS OUTSIDE WINTERFELL]
[The direwolves walk along a stream. HODOR, LORD BRAN STARK, RICKON STARK, and OSHA follow.]
"We should have taken more food."
"We couldn't risk going to the kitchens."
"Those people all love you. They would have given you whatever you needed."
"And if Theon found out, he'd hang them."
"Smart boy" Rickard muttered softly. The boy had a good heart and a working brain too. Ned's done good with his children.
"The boy can't survive on walnuts"
[RICKON cracks the walnut he holds.]
"We've been walking since before sunrise. Even Hodor will tire."
[The party crests a small rise. The sounds of children shouting playfully can be heard in the distance.]
"Wait, I know that farm. I sent those two Winterfell orphans there."
"Jack and Billy. They'll give us some food."
"How does Rickon know them?" Ned asked.
Catelyn shrugged.
"We can't risk it. If Theon tracks us here, he'll torture them until he finds out where we are."
"Billy climbs a tree better than anyone."
"He knows the boy well it seems" Ned frowned.
"You've never seen me climb a tree, little man."
"They'll be after us with hounds."
"We got a good start on them, but we can't outrun hounds forever."
"Best not to stop and keep moving" Brandon the Elder whispered.