|Somewhere on the King's Road|

"So" I ask Ned as Robert is pissing on a tree "how are you doing? With your son going to the Wall?"

"Benjen promised to keep him safe" nodding his head as he drank a bit "this is what Jon wanted, Catelyn wasn't going to put up with him and I'm glad Jon is somewhere where he'll be happy"

"No matter what" I assure him "he is your son and he'll always love you"

"Gods!" Robert exclaims holding his arms out smiling as he trudged over to us, with all the drinking he's been doing over the years he's gained a lot of weight that walking up a few flights of stairs and he is out of breath. It's why the Small Council chambers were moved, also for Jon Arryn "this is country! I've half a mind to leave 'em all behind and keep going" then go, you already are mostly gone. I'm the one who technically rules since you are putting us in debt that not even all my connections could get us out of.

"I've half a mind to go with you" Ned agrees with Robert. Dear gods, if they leave this on me I'm sure my head would explode. People should call me king.

"What do you say?" Robert asks "us three on the king's road? Swords at our sides? A couple of tavern wenches to keep our beds warm?"

"No" sipping my wine "we've got a kingdom to run"

"Asked me that" Ned jokes "twenty years ago and I'd have said yes" he means he's deep in Cersei's cunt, she is very good at manipulating people into getting what she wants.

"There were women to fight" Robert says "wars to marry—never had the chance to be young"

"You mean women to marry and war to fight" correcting him, I don't know what has gotten into him now. Drinking as much as he does, not like he's doing the actual ruling  "your being young now with all the women you bed and bastards you sire"

Robert glowered at me "Watch it, you may be my brother but I have my limits" shaking my head, I eat another grape.

"I recall a few chances at being young" Ned rubs his beard cutting the silence having Robert burst out laughing. They soon laugh, I don't. Let them, from the little time I've spent with Catelyn and the most time I've spent with Cersei I've learned a few things. One: Both women are unbearable so it isn't a wonder as to why their fathers needed to marry them off to other suitors than the original ideas. Two: I need a maester to give me something to help ease my head pain. Three: Both women are complete bitches.

"What was that common girl of yours?" My brother asks "Becca? The one with the great big tits you could bury your face in?"

"Bessie?" Ned asks "she was one of yours"

"Bessie!" Robert stares off into space yelling as he smiles "Thank the gods for Bessie! And her tits! Yours was Alina was it? No" shaking his head "Meryl? Your bastard's mother"

"Wylla" Ned says

"What did she look like?" I ask, he looks at me "was she a southern girl?" How he's fucking Cersei and from the tales I've heard, he enjoys southern girls much more than northerners.

"She must have been a rare wench" Robert jokes "to make Lord Eddard Stark forget his honor"

"Or was she a regular girl" I ask "not all women are whores Robert"

"I know that" shaking his head "we've got a bunch of ladies around here!" Looking at Ned who has a somber look on his face "we were at war, none of us knew if we'd go back to our families. Your too hard on yourself, you always have been"

"She's dead" they look at me as I look at Ned "it's why you never speak of her, she's dead isn't she?"

Nodding his head "Died birthing Jon"

"I'm sorry Ned" Robert offers

"Father! Father!" We look over seeing the kids run over, Jean behind them. From what I understood she's still recovering from helping Bran Stark. That was like a full two week thing, it's why we were in Winterfell for so long. From what I understand, the servant I hired to give Cersei the tea and also to spy on for me—she told me that Cersei and Ned were together for five times a day. It was when Ned wasn't by his son's side telling him that everything will be alright.

"Father" Myrcella asks "Jean is offering us to learn to fight without weapons, like punching and kicking people hard enough to break bones!"

"Can she?" Tommen asks

Robert looks at Jean "This true?"

Nodding her head "Yes, even Alora can learn—her hits won't be as hard since she's so young but she'll learn and that's important"

"And Joffrey?" Robert asks

"Little shit doesn't deserve my help" I cough on my drink, with how Robert is at times you don't know if it's good or bad. I feel something wet on my fingers, looking down it's Jean's red direwolf  Phoenix. She's a beautiful creature "plus he has that body guard"

Robert waves his hand "Alright, go ahead"

They leave but Phoenix stays by my side jumping up into my lap, she looks between me and food. Giving her some meat, she eats it and licks my face.

"Such a beautiful wolf" I stroke her fur

"I swear" Robert looks between us "if I weren't your king, you'd have hit me by now like that Davis always wishes to do"

"That's the worse thing about your coronation" Ned shakes his head "never get to hit you again"

"Trust me" he says "that isn't the worse part" How would you know? I know I'm complaining so much, but what do you expect? The guy who people chose as king long ago isn't acting like a damn king and he's putting the realm in debt! "This came in" Robert tosses the letter I also got from Jorah Mormont, to Ned. Robert promised Jorah Mormont pardon for his crimes if he spies on Daenerys for him.

Ned reads it then recites what it says "Daenerys Targaryen has wed some Dothraki horselord, what of it?"

"I said the same thing" agreeing with him when Robert came to tell me "but Robert is completely terrified"

"Should we send her a wedding gift?" Ned asks

"A knife, a sharp one" Robert says "along with a bold man to wield it"

"She's little more than a child" Ned reminds him

"Soon enough that child will spread her legs" Robert says "and start breeding"

"If she does have children" I say "what makes you think she'll come here, she's only ever known Essos and the only person who actually wants the throne is Viserys so end him"

"Tell me we aren't" Ned begs "actually speaking of this"

"Oh?" Robert demands "this is unspeakable to you?! What her father did your family? That was unspeakable! What Rhaegar Targaryen did to your sister the woman I loved! I'll kill every Targaryen I get my hands on" even every Baratheon, bastard or true born? We all have Targaryen blood because of our grandmother who was a Targaryen.

"You can't get your hands on this one" I say

"This Khal Drogo" Robert complained "it is said he has a hundred thousand men in his horde"

"Even a million Dothraki" Ned shakes his head "are no threat to the realm"

"They won't cross" trying to assure my brother "the Narrow Sea, it's water and the Dothraki are afraid of that"

"There are still those in the Seven Kingdom's who call me usurper" he reminds us of the Targaryen sympathizers "a Targaryen boy crosses with a Dothraki horde at his back, the scum will join him"

"You probably would have more support" he never agrees to this "if you gave Gregor Clegane to the Martells for ending Elia Martell and her children, they could be on our side if that day comes when Viserys decides to cross with that Dothraki army"

"For the last time" Robert snapped "No! I will not hand over that beast to them!" Phoenix leaves then and rushes off somewhere.

|Time Skip|

"Did you see umble?!" Alora asks me as Cersei is complaining to Robert about how Phoenix and Nymeria attacked Joffrey and how the children beat him up. I'm finding it hilarious, I mean the boy had bruises all over his face and body.

"I see" rubbing her back as she's in my arms, Myrcella and Tommen are beside me as Arya is behind me. All of the wolves are in the stables.  Jean is beside me with her arms crossed looking rather annoyed.

"Move!" We look over seeing Ned arrive pushing people past one another, I doubt Cersei is even going to fuck Ned anymore so I'm calling that servant off. But I'll have her spy on me for other reasons, in King's Landing you need spies or to know not to trust anyone.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Arya apologized to her father crying.

"Are you hurt?" He asks, she shakes her head no and he looks to Robert demanding "What is the meaning of this? Why was my daughter not brought to me at once!"

"How dare you speak to your king in that manner" yeah that fucking is over.

"Quiet woman!" Robert snapped. She scowls staying by Joffrey's side "Sorry Ned, didn't mean to frighten the girl. But we need to get this business done quickly"

"Your girl" Cersei glared at Jean who is now pouring herself some wine "that butcher's boy and my ungrateful children were tricked by that witch to attack and beat up my Joffrey! Those animals nearly tore his arm off!" If that were true, there's be bigger scars near his shoulder.

He came in drunk off his ass Jean informs me when he pulled his sword out and started swinging it around nearly taking off someone's head if Joffrey wasn't in trouble, he will be "That isn't true!" Arya exclaims "He nearly killed Alora! Phoenix and Nymeria were protecting her so they bit him hard enough to drop the sword!"

"Joff told us what happened" Cersei lies, I know when she's lying "he was protecting his siblings when those beasts tried to mall them!"

"That isn't wasn't happened!" Myrcella and Tommen yell.

"Yes it was!" Joffrey yells "you even threw the sword grandfather gave me in the river!"

"He never should have given you one" Myrcella snaps "you ungrateful piece of shit!" Jean was covering Alora's ears when I held Myrcella back from attacking.

"Shut up!" Joffrey yells as Cersei slapped Myrcella.

"Enough!" Robert's voice booms out "he tells me one thing! She tells me another! Jean, what happened?!"

"I was teaching the children self defense moves" Jean tells us "Prince Joffrey came in drunk off his ass with Sansa also drunk, he started laughing about how girls can't fight and pulled out his sword saying he wanted to see what I've been teaching his siblings. He swung at me and I dodged his every move, he got angry and in a blind rage started swinging at random cutting the Butcher's boy on the face, cutting Arya's arm as you can see" we see the bandage on her arm "and nearly hurting Alora who was crying and refusing to move scared" I hold Alora close that I notice she's asleep "Nymeria and Phoenix arrived pouncing onto Joffrey biting his arm, Phoenix kept Nymeria from killing Joffrey since Nymeria was protecting Arya since Nymeria saw Joffrey as a threat. When Joffrey got him, he grabbed a rock and threw it at Alora telling her to shut up and Myrcella and Tommen attacked, started to punch him along with Arya while I told Mycah the boy to go and get Sandor who was ordered away by Prince Joffrey to grab said prince while I tried to get the children off since as you know my powers have been severely depleted. If you try to get Sansa who was a crying mess over it all, she's just going to lie since she wants to marry Joffrey. Doesn't take a mind reader to know that"

"I want her punished!" Cersei snapped "she never should have even been teaching my children how to fight! Who even gave you permission?" We look at Robert who rubs his brows "How dare you"

"Enough!" Robert looks at Joffrey scowling "Dammit! Children fight! It is over!"

"Joffrey will bare these scars" Cersei snapped "for the rest of his life"

"Good" Tommen says "he deserves the ass whooping we gave him" I notice Robert looking at his two youngest kids proud.

"Why" Robert stops Cersei from hurting Tommen like she did with Myrcella "let me go!"

"Enough!" Robert screams, looking at Joffrey who is wincing as his arm is being stitched since those wolves bit him good "Joffrey hopefully will have learned his lesson, the Hound could have stopped this if you didn't send him away. I am allowing Jean to teach the children because they asked and they are Baratheons! Baratheons are warriors not cowards like this poor excuse of a Baratheon, as for that sword—you won't get another one until I say so. You pull another stunt like the one you did and your going straight to the Wall. Am I clear?" Joffrey doesn't say anything "Am I clear?!"

"Yes" Joffrey is close to crying

Robert shakes his head scoffing leaving but Cersei demands "What about those wolves?"

"Your grace" Jean speaks up, they look at her "the wolves are innocent. They protect their pack, the Starks's wolves are the wolves pack. Just like Phoenix and I are a pack. They defend their own—that is all they were doing. Don't punish the wolves simply for having protective instincts. Any dog whether big or small, a direwolf or a regular dog had protective instincts and will do whatever to protect who they love"

"The wolves better be on leashes" Robert warns them "I see one wolf without a leash on its own roaming around, I'm having it killed"

"That is unacceptable!" Cersei screams before falling unconscious.

We look from her to Jean who's nose is bleeding "Had just enough to get her to sleep"

"Your bleeding" going to her side having her look at me, handing her a cloth for her nose.

"Some rest and I'll be better" she assured me