the prince and me | a modern Jonerys fic
Rating: Explicit
Chapters: 4/4
Summary: Dany is focused on studying for her graduate degree at Queen Alysanne's University in the North when she meets her attractive neighbor and fellow student Jon and his sweet dog Ghost in her apartment building, striking up a friendship and maybe something more. Dany's not one for gossip rags so she knows nothing about the North's royal family or even Jon's association...which he is keen not to share, and looking back, there were signs...
Tease:
Dany knew that there were royals in the world, particularly in Westeros, where among the Six Kingdoms there were lords and ladies, highborn houses part of the House of Lords in their Parliament, but it was the mysterious North, walled off after a bitter war ages before that maintained its monarchy, led by the King of Winter, they called him, Eddard Stark. They had a ruling council who oversaw the day-to-day responsibilities of running the kingdom, but there was the Stark family and its extended branches, some married into other noble families of Westeros.
Dany never paid attention to them. She never entertained gossip rags going on about Prince Robb Stark and his penchant for fast cars and beautiful model women, before he married Lady Margaery Tyrell, who was the granddaughter of the Dowager Duchess of Highgarden. Or Princess Sansa Stark and her arcane beliefs on the Northern rule and isolationist politics, even though it was her designer fashion that got her most noticed Even the blogs and the gossip sites managed to follow Prince Brandon and Prince Rickon, the two youngest of King Eddard’s children and naturally all eyes were on his wife, the Queen Consort Catelyn Stark, who was formerly Lady Catelyn Tully, Countess of Riverrun.
She knew most girls fancied becoming the likes of Margaery or Catelyn, marrying into a royal family. Except that was all fantasy, best suited for romance novels and movies of the week. A nice little film to stream with a bowl of popcorn and her best friend on a Saturday night. Not life, no, certainly not life, especially not Dany’s life. She had to work hard for everything she wanted, nothing was ever given to her.
Except there were love stories, love stories of the common girl meeting the prince, falling in love, and becoming a princess. Things little girls dream of. Just not Dany.
So it certainly surprised her when she met a real-life prince.
And he was nothing at all like a prince.
No, nothing like that at all.
She looked back on it with affection, wondering how she hadn’t realized it. There were signs of course, signs that there was something just a bit off, except she always thought it was just, well, him.
Looking back, Dany laughed now, she really should have seen it.
Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23188822/chapters/55508734
Note: this one was fun to write at beginning of my quarantine in March, haha. It also managed to drive away an annoying passive aggressive Jon obsessive commenter with something in chapter three so bonus for that. Sometimes I think of returning to this universe. Enjoy!