"Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word."-Elizabeth I

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Chapter 3 Feast of King and warnings

There were music, dances, laughter and the Banners hanging on the walls. Lysa is spending much time with her siblings as much as she can. Robb talked about their times together. She was sitting next to her brother Robb Stark as they both were talking about their childhood and memories. Her eyes would wander as she blindly gazes them in the hall.

Theon is whispering in her ear as she giggles a bit. Lysa heard a big commotion and asked Theon. "Well, Lysa the King is getting on with one of the waitresses."

Theon laugh out loud. Lysa sighs, but did not bother to involve herself. However, she felt someone was looking at her and not very well. She is not sure who is staring at her, but Lysa refused the acknowledgement.

She took the already cut meat and eat it from her fingers.

Yet oddly enough another eye is set upon her, but more like deep resentment.

Lysa already have a feeling this might happen. Southerner's would travel to the north in the pilgrimage and offer their fortunes to be told. They even bring gifts for her.

Eddard Stark was blocked by Jaime Lannister.

"Pardon," he excuses himself, but Jaime wouldn't let him. "I hear we might be neighbors soon," Jaime says. "I hope it's true."

Eddard acknowledge, "Yes, the king has honored me with his offer."

"I'm sure we'll have a tournament to celebrate the new title, if you accept," Jaime points out, "It's a pity that your first daughter is blind. Surely, that is the reason why she is not marrying my nephew first."

Eddard clenches his hand into fits. "We, Starks are hard to kill. A simple blindness never stops my daughter from finding her way home."

Jaime smirked, "Well said." He walked away from Eddard.

All of the sudden….

WHACK!

Arya catapults her spoon that is filled with pigeon meat and aimed at Sansa's cheek.

"ARYA!" Everybody laughs at Arya's antics. However, Sansa is not amused.

In the bedroom at Winterfell….

The party ended without a hitch and everyone has fallen asleep. The king being a fool he has taken a maid to his bedroom. No doubt that a Snow will be born from him. Ned can't believe it! Robert change a lot for these few years. He has gotten fat and he shamed his queen more often than he thought.

'I guess any man would change, knowing that their only love is dead.' He saw how his mother's death affected his father. Making him only half-man to live while his wife just died. He misses his mother, but after her death his father became an ambition to join houses in the South instead of the North. Ned guesses why that he never like to play the Game from the South because it destroy his family.

He is glad that his family remains in the North and he wants nothing to do with the South. And now Robert wants him to be Hand of the king. Now that would help resort the tension by having a Northern as Hand and his daughter Sansa would marry Prince Joffrey. Binding them together as a unity between the House of Baratheon and Stark.

"I'm a Northmen," he says quietly. "I belong here with you, not that down to the South within the rat's nest they called Capital…"

His wife saw the conflict in his eyes.

Cat said to him, "I won't let him take you."

"The King takes what he wants. That's why he's the king."

Catelyn similes and cheekily poked his cheeks, "I'll say, Listen, fat man, you are not taking my husband anywhere. He belongs to me now."

Eddard chuckles at the humor.

"How did he get so fat?"

"He only stops eating when it's time to drink." They both laugh that thought of it.

They were interrupted by the door knocking.

"It's Maester Luwin, m'lord."

Ned got up and put on a heavy robe to cover him. "Send him in."

It is Maester Luwin that came from the other side of the door.

"Beg your pardon my lord, my lady." Luwin showed them a scroll. "A rider came in the night from your sister."

Ned watch Luwin gave the letter to his wife. "This is an Arryn seal and was sent by Eyrie. What is she doing at Eyrie? She hasn't been there since her wedding."

He saw his wife eyes reading it fervently; her eyes widen at the words and without saying a word of what did her sister said in that letter. Cat turned to their fireplace and throws the letter into the fire.

"What news?"

"She's fled from the Kingslanding," Cat told Ned. "She says Jon Arryn was murdered. By the Lannister! She says the King is in danger."

Ned was in shocked by this not only Lysa Arryn is accusing Lannister.

"She's a fresh widowed," Ned tries to reason her. "She doesn't know what she is saying."

Cat denied his response, "Lysa's head would be put on a spike right now if the wrong people found that letter. Do you think she risk her life, her son's life, if she wasn't certain that her husband is murdered?"

Ned doesn't know what to think. He looked to Luwin for advice.

"If that is true that the Lannister done this, then the king is in danger; who will be the hand to the king in order to prevent this?"

Ned is stunned but doesn't show it. That means he'll have to leave the North to go to the Capital.

Cat won't allow him to go. "They killed the last Hand. What makes you thinks they won't do it again?"

Luwin looks at his wife in sympathy, but point out her facts. "The King rode for a month to ask Lord Stark help. He's the only one he trust. You swore the Oath to King Robert, my lord."

Catelyn won't let this down without a fight. "He spent half of his life in fight Robert's wars. He owes him nothing. Ned, your father and brother went to the Kingslanding once by the King's demand. And they never came home again!"

Luwin placed his final words, "A different time. A different King."

Ned must resolve this.

Plus, he knows that he will never forgive himself if something were to happen to Robert. But honor be damned! He must do this. Even it means that secrets can get him killed.

Okay updated chapter. I am thinking Sandor with Lysa or Jaime with Lysa. So, give me reviews and comments.