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Q. What will Catelyn Stark do to Jamie Lannister?
A) Kill him
B) Cut off his sword hand
C) Cut off his legs
D) Make a deal with him in return for his daughters
"D) Make a deal with him in return for his daughters" Jon snow said
"No, she would never do that. I would rather believe she will kill her than set him free." Robb retorted and chose option A.
[Riders approach.]
"Your Grace, milady. The Kingslayer, he escaped in the night."
The good mood went away and the sense of dread from before coming back with double the force.
[CATELYN'S TENT]
[ROBB enters, finding LADY CATELYN STARK at her desk.]
"Tell me this isn't true."
[CATELYN doesn't answer.]
Wrong answer by Robb Stark he lost the chance to answer the next two questions.
Congratulations to Jon Snow for the right answer, he wins the 20,000 Mongol cavalry.
"How could you?!" Brandon the Elder stood facing the wife of his younger brother, the woman he was going to marry if he'd lived.
"Brother-" Ned started, only to be silenced by Catelyn when she spoke.
"It hasn't happened yet" Catelyn defended, though weakly.
"Excuses! You would do the same thing now!" Brandon roared, scaring the children and making the rest jump. "Tell me you would not do the same thing if this happens again!"
"And what if I did?" Catelyn hissed, rising to her feet. "They are my children! I would do anything to save them!"
"You saved no one! You doomed them all!" Brandon roared, pointing an accusing finger at Jaime Lannister. "A Kingslayer! An Oath Breaker! And you expect he would just keep his word?! You doomed your daughters, you doomed your son who is fighting a war! What do you think will happen in his camp now? The King's mother committing treason! Your son will not punish you as a traitor should be punished and for that, he will suffer, his army will suffer, and his cause will suffer" Brandon took a deep breath. "Father was mad in thinking you'd be a good match for the future Lord of Winterfell!"
"Brandon that is enough!" Ned rose, standing between his wife and his brother. "Catelyn has been a wonderful wife, a wonderful mother, and a wonderful Lady of Winterfell and you can not speak to her like this!"
"Can't I? Has she?" Brandon laughed, loud, roaring and bordering cruel. "You built a sept in the heart of the North for her, you disrespected your ancestors and our gods for her. Do you think we didn't know that? Do you think that little piece of information wasn't passed to us because we didn't see it? Your eldest daughter is a devout follower of the Seven, who prefers the Sept to the Godswood. How do you think that happened? Do you take us for a fool?" the man hissed. "And speaking of a 'wonderful' mother! She favours your eldest daughter over her youngest, who has shown she's got more of the North than the South like her eldest! Imagine if Mother had done something like that with Lyanna, who rode with us, watched us train and even play sparred with us! Your wife has failed to show she cares for her other children when one of her sons has been the victim of a plot! She washed the responsibility of lady immediately, locked herself in with the boy and left your son, who has never performed any duties as Lord in his life, to deal with it alone! And she had a younger boy too! And then she goes on to do something so stupid that it got you killed, got your daughters imprisoned, forced your son to come to war and lose his home!"
"Brandon that is enough" Rickard cut in, his tone sharp and heavy.
"The only other child of yours that's remotely like you aren't even from her" Brandon laughed cruelly.
"Brandon no!" Lyanna stood, her eyes begging her brother to shut up.
But Brandon isn't the type to just shut up now is he. However the secret he wanted to shout out wasn't even his to tell and before he could shout it out he fell on his knees with Jon Snow covering his mouth from behind.
"That's it, you are losing control of yourself to your wolf blood uncle" Jon said loudly than he whispered the next part, "Don't you dare talk about my birth? I don't know who else knows but one thing is for sure the Lannister's and Baratheon's don't know and I would like to keep it that way do you understand "
Brandon the elder was surprised as how Jon got a jump on him and now he can't even move anything other than his head so he nodded his head only then did let go of him, "You knew!"
"I think the difference between the two of us started because I knew" Jon Snow said while motioning towards the screen.
There was a tense silence and a lot of surprise as no one saw how Jon Snow moved from his seat to where Brandon the elder was sitting.
Catelyn on the other hand swole as if insulted that the bastard tried to protect her honour.
"All my children have the North in them!" she snarled, "just because the bastard looks like him doesn't mean he is the only son of Ned"
Robb was angry that his uncle would say something like that, Sansa wide-eyed and confused about what to say. Bran looked close to tears while Arya was insulted for her siblings, she hadn't been brought into how unlike their Father she was like her sibling.
"That's enough!" Rickard Stark shouted.
"Brandon apologise to Catelyn, you are not a parent so you don't know what she was thinking and even if she is wrong you can't insult the children's like that." Rickard said as he glared at Brandon
Brandon was still angry at the idiot Catelyn Stark but he still respected his father and decided to apologise for his words against the children.
"And Lady Stark, being the wife of Lord Paramount of North means that you need to think about the whole North as yours not just your children but the children of the whole North." Rickard said to Catelyn after which he sat back on his seat.
Catelyn wanted to argue but one look from Ned Stark was enough for her to shut up and sit back down.
Seeing that no one was going to out the secret of his birth Jon Snow also went back to his seat.
[RIVERLANDS WOODS.]
[A white horse gallops over a small hill, riderless. Nearby, LADY BRIENNE OF TARTH pushes SER JAIME LANNISTER off his mount, hooded and chained. She sends the horse off. She helps him up. She takes off his hood and helps him stand.]
"You're much uglier in daylight. What's your name? I'm Jaime Lannister of Casterly Rock, son of Tywin."
"Gods" Joanna muttered, massaging the bridge of her nose. She knew exactly how she sounded, like a whining brat! But her children were so... infuriating.
"What" Lyanna Stark shouted on surprise as Brandon just told her that Jon Snow knew his birth secret.
"Geezs lady Lyanna aren't you reacting too much" Oberyn asked with a teasing smile.
"I am sorry let's keep watching ' Lyanna said as she ignored the looks she got and stared at the screen.
[BRIENNE leads the chained JAIME forward.]
"A captive knight has a right to know his captor's identity."
"Brienne of Tarth."
"Tarth, Tarth, Tarth. Crescent moons and starbursts. Lord Selwyn Tarth. Your father. Do you have any brothers and sisters, my lady? It's a long way to King's Landing. Might as well get to know one another. Have you known many men? I suppose not. Women? Horses? Ah."
[BIRENNE forces him down to his knees on the riverbank. A canoe sits nearby.]
"I didn't mean to give offence, my lady. Forgive me."
"You don't mean that" Tyrion whispered.
"I do not mean that" Jaime parroted with an easy smile.
"Your crimes are past forgiveness, Kingslayer."
"Why do you hate me so much? Have I ever harmed you?"
"You've harmed others, those you were sworn to protect, the weak, the innocent."
"Has anyone ever told you you're as boring as you are ugly?"
"You will not provoke me to anger."
"I already have. Look at you. You're ready to chop my head off. Do you think you could? Do you think you could beat me in a fair fight?"
"Can she?" Tommen asked.
The fact that the boy was talking to him at all surprised Jaime into silence for a moment before he hummed thoughtfully.
"She was skilled enough to beat Ser Loras. I'd say she would put up a valiant fight" he answered with a smile.
Tommen smiled back and Jaime felt a tug in his chest.
"The answer is no. There are three men in the kingdoms who might have a chance against me. You're not one of them."
"All my life men like you have sneered at me. And all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust."
"If you're so confident, unlock my chains. Let's see what happens."
"I don't think provoking her to do that would work. For one she doesn't have a male ego to pamper" Yara drawled.
"Perhaps" Jaime shrugged. She certainly looked like she might titter between the genders.
"Do you take me for an idiot!?"
[JAIME enters the canoe and lies down. BRIENNE boards as well and sits in the stern.]
"I took you for a fighter, a man Pardon. Woman of honor. Was I wrong? You're afraid."
"Maybe one day we'll find out, Kingslayer."
"Wouldn't that be a sight" Jaime mused to himself.