Ned, how would you feel about marrying Elia Martell?
“She’s a beautiful woman, but I suspect her husband might have something to say on the matter.”

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@nevercouldlie
Ned, how would you feel about marrying Elia Martell?
“She’s a beautiful woman, but I suspect her husband might have something to say on the matter.”
❝ It’s a terrible night. ❞ (Nevercouldlie)
The storm rages, and Ned’s voice tears his gaze from the window. “Do you think storms so terrible? I find them to be beautiful.”
“I don’t mind them much so long as the power holds,” Ned admitted. “Though the sight of you standing in front of this window is one that I could get used to,” He smiled and offered him a drink. “And this ought to keep us warm.”
"I'd rather marry no one!" Lyanna shouted as she rolled her eyes. "But I would settle for someone who didn't whore himself and have half a dozen bastards."
“He has one bastard and he treats her very well,” Ned countered. “He will stop that when he is married. You will be hard pressed to find a man who has not known another. Fight with Father. I have no say in this.”
"Ned...You're my brother and I love you, but I don't think I've ever hated a man more than you at this moment." Lyanna spoke firmly. "How could you want me to marry someone like Robert Baratheon?!"
“You hate me so for thinking it would be a good match for you to marry Robert? He is not so brutish as you think,” Ned shook his head. “He will take good care of you. Would you rather be married to a stranger?”
"If Robert ever found out, he'd kill me." Stannis whispered, hands cradling the other man's cheeks before he kissed Ned.
“I don’t plan to announce it anytime soon,” Ned confessed savoring Stannis’s kiss. So many spoke of Stannis as if he was lacking in warmth and feeling, but Ned had never known him to be so. “Our secrets are ours and our couplings so few and far between that I do not wish to discuss your brother when we are together.”
“North?” He asks softly, hands resting on Ned’s hips as the request is made. “Your wife is north.” He points out, “And I do not know any wife would be alright with being cuckholded by another man.” Selyse was at Dragonstone, recovering from their second lost pregnancy while Stannis hid in King’s Landing and lost himself in Ned Stark.
“What excuses could we use?” Long fingers slowly slide up into Ned’s shirt to stroke the warm muscled waist and chest beneath.
“My wife is in love with the ghost of my brother,” Ned reminded Stannis. Though Stannis was right. It would be unfair to her to make love to Stannis in their home.
Ned hummed at the feel of his fingers, closing his eyes and leaning against the wall behind him, “It is hard to think clearly when you’re touching me like this. There is good hunting in the North and it is wise for the King to send a surrogate to check on his lands beyond his reach. I could suggest it to Robert.”
"If Robert ever found out, he'd kill me." Stannis whispered, hands cradling the other man's cheeks before he kissed Ned.
“I don’t plan to announce it anytime soon,” Ned confessed savoring Stannis’s kiss. So many spoke of Stannis as if he was lacking in warmth and feeling, but Ned had never known him to be so. “Our secrets are ours and our couplings so few and far between that I do not wish to discuss your brother when we are together.”
Ned was correct. Stannis could only claim official business so often to see the other man in King’s Landing, but with Robert gone away hunting Stannis was able to see Ned a little more often. There were still prying eyes and listening ears so they had to be discreet.
Stannis began to relax again, letting his eyes slowly open to look at the other man. “He controls so much of my life already.” He murmurs, pressing Ned up against the door to lean his body against the others.
Ned let Stannis move him about. He enjoyed the feel of it, the way Stannis occasionally took what he wanted. “He doesn’t control me no matter what he thinks or who he thinks he is,” He said firmly. “You’ve never had to ask me to defend you when you were in the right and that would be true even if you were not here now.”
Ned stole a kiss. “Come North with me. We’ll find out excuses for it, but we could have more privacy and you’d have an excuse to stay for a time.”
"If you tell Robert about Jamie and I, then I will tell him, and all the kingdoms, about Stannis. We will be destroyed together Lord Stark, what would your children think?"
“What will yours think? You really think two lords taking comfort in one another on occasion would be taken as poorly as you putting your brother’s bastard children in line for the throne?”
"If Robert ever found out, he'd kill me." Stannis whispered, hands cradling the other man's cheeks before he kissed Ned.
“I don’t plan to announce it anytime soon,” Ned confessed savoring Stannis’s kiss. So many spoke of Stannis as if he was lacking in warmth and feeling, but Ned had never known him to be so. “Our secrets are ours and our couplings so few and far between that I do not wish to discuss your brother when we are together.”
It’s the reassurances he needs, hates that he needs them, but desires them all the same. One thing in this world that was truly his beyond the love of his daughter, but something that Robert could easily take from him - like his honor, and his dignity have already been taken.
Stannis sighs and closes his eyes, “I am so weak that I require these comforts.” His body began to tense and go rigid as if he was to pull away.
“We take them rarely, Stannis. You seem to do just fine when we are parted. This is not weakness. I occasionally fancy it might be love,” Ned didn’t mean to sound gruff, but he knew that forcing Stannis to stay if he did not want to rarely made things better for either of them. He loosened his hold on him just a little.
“Don’t run from me, Stannis. We have only a few more nights together and how much time to separate us? Don’t let Robert have control over what you do when he is no where to be seen.”
"If Robert ever found out, he'd kill me." Stannis whispered, hands cradling the other man's cheeks before he kissed Ned.
“I don’t plan to announce it anytime soon,” Ned confessed savoring Stannis’s kiss. So many spoke of Stannis as if he was lacking in warmth and feeling, but Ned had never known him to be so. “Our secrets are ours and our couplings so few and far between that I do not wish to discuss your brother when we are together.”
“We must be as discreet as possible.” He whispers, the warmth and solidity of Ned’s body pressed against his own a comfort. Blue eyes stare down into the other man’s, and he leans his forehead to Ned’s own. “If I had met you before he had…if I could’ve made you mine…”
“You have made me yours,” Ned held him close, fingers sliding through Stannis’s close-cropped hair. “I would not be here if I was not yours. If the world was a different place, I would not want it to be a secret. You need not fear jealousy for Robert. My friendship with him is far removed from the depth of what I feel for you.”
"If Robert ever found out, he'd kill me." Stannis whispered, hands cradling the other man's cheeks before he kissed Ned.
“I don’t plan to announce it anytime soon,” Ned confessed savoring Stannis’s kiss. So many spoke of Stannis as if he was lacking in warmth and feeling, but Ned had never known him to be so. “Our secrets are ours and our couplings so few and far between that I do not wish to discuss your brother when we are together.”
"I love someone else." (from nevercouldlie, Ned marries Cersei while Robert marries a not dead Lyanna?)
“Good for you.” Cersei muttered as she pulled the fur her aunt Genna had gifted to her closer around her, how did anyone survive this cold? How did this happen to her, she was meant to be the queen!
@nevercouldlie
“We shall see.” Cersei repeated as she put her arm around her new Lord’s husband and allowed him to lead her around. “Perhaps, in time at any rate. It is…an impressive castle I must admit, not as grand as Casterly Rock however.”
“I trust your sister will be happy, she is to be the queen after all.”
“You will be glad for thicker walls when winter comes,” Ned pointed out, but he didn’t doubt that even in a world where that was not a concern that his home would be far different from any place Tywin Lannister would wish to call home.
“I hope that she will be as I hope Robert will be. I do not know that crowns bring happiness, my lady.” He led her inside the castle and into the hall.
Arthur nodded his head in agreement. “Lyanna will be well cared for at Starfall.” he added, hoping to reassure the young Stark. “Your family shall always be welcome there.” He continued. “I won’t keep her from her family.” Arthur reached his hand out to shake Lord Stark’s.
“And you at Winterfell,” He agreed and took Arthur’s hand shaking it firmly. “We were neither expecting to serve as the Lord’s of our houses and yet here we are,” He spoke honestly. Arthur knew his few secrets including Lyanna’s darkest one. “I suspect we could both use all of the allies that we can have.” He paused. “Lyanna has always been brave and daring, but I looked into her eyes when we found her. I know she is more broken than any of us wishes to acknowledge.”
"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it awhile."
“I fear what believing such things will do to you one day, Sansa, should you find that it is not true.”
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"I love someone else." (from nevercouldlie, Ned marries Cersei while Robert marries a not dead Lyanna?)
“Good for you.” Cersei muttered as she pulled the fur her aunt Genna had gifted to her closer around her, how did anyone survive this cold? How did this happen to her, she was meant to be the queen!
@nevercouldlie
“You may call me Cersei and I shall call you Eddard, I will not be calling you Ned. You are a lord and it is undignified.” Cersei said in a way that made it clear to him he would not change her mind.
“Now, would you please escort me to my room so I may unpack and change and then perhaps you can show me my new…home.”
“Yes, my lady,” Ned was not Robert. He knew the value of choosing his battles. Cersei’s temper was well whispered about and he knew that she looked down on the North. It was no secret that she had wanted Rhaegar for his crown if not anything else. He offered her his arm. “I hope you will come to like it here. I do not wish to make you miserable and I hope that is not something that would please you to do to me.”
"I love someone else." (from nevercouldlie, Ned marries Cersei while Robert marries a not dead Lyanna?)
“Good for you.” Cersei muttered as she pulled the fur her aunt Genna had gifted to her closer around her, how did anyone survive this cold? How did this happen to her, she was meant to be the queen!
@nevercouldlie
Cersei pursed her lips together for a moment before she sighed heavily, she was tired and she missed Jamie but she knew that for the moment at least there was nothing she could do, being thousands of miles away from him.
“I am your wife Lord Stark and I am away from everyone I love, your offer is kind and I thank you for it but I would not hold my breath…Still, we shall see.”
Ned had never much cared for the Lannisters. He knew that Tywin saw him as the best opportunity for his daughter and his influence over Robert now that the King had married Ned’s sister, but Ned was unlikely to bend to Tywin.
“Perhaps you may at least see fit not to call me Lord Stark,” There was a hint of amusement in his voice, but at the same time, he dreaded a life to be spent with such formality. “I assume you do not intend for me to call you Lady Stark?” He questioned.
"I love someone else." (from nevercouldlie, Ned marries Cersei while Robert marries a not dead Lyanna?)
“Good for you.” Cersei muttered as she pulled the fur her aunt Genna had gifted to her closer around her, how did anyone survive this cold? How did this happen to her, she was meant to be the queen!
@nevercouldlie
“I do not wish for you to be unhappy,” It was true, just as it was true that he did not wish to be unhappy either. “I do not intend to expect anything from you that you do not wish to give,” And he would not promise his heart to her. “But the one I loved is dead and I am willing to try to learn to love you if you think you might do the same.”