"I'll fucking destroy that son of a bitch and his entire line!"
The chair went rolling until it crashed into the wall, making a few people jump.
"Brother..." Lyanna put a hand on Brandon's shoulder.
"They killed them, Ly. They killed them while they were guests under their roof!" Brandon exclaimed.
"I know," she said gently, before motioning behind her with a tilt of her head.
Brandon's rage-filled eyes looked to where she was motioning and they softened. Here he was the one making all the ruckus, breaking things and promising vengeance when the people it directly involved were right there.
Catelyn was sobbing into Ned's chest. Brandon was not cruel enough to say this was her fault, not when that weasel Frey had besmirched the Sanctity Guest Rights and that no good flaying dog fucker Bolton stabbed them in the back. She had her fault in the lead-up to this, but this was not her fault.
Nor could he blame Robb, who was silent and broken. He broke a vow and insulted a 'great' house, but this was all on Frey and Bolton. And Lannister too. Brandon did not doubt that Tywin fucking Lannister was behind this too.
"It's all my fault!" Catelyn wailed into Ned's chest. "H-had I not been stu-stupid and captured T-Tyrion... had I not re-released Ja-Jaime-"
"This is not your fault," Ned told her gently but fiercely.
"But it is!" Catelyn countered harshly. "It is my fault!"
"The fault is mine."
The voice was so void of emotions, so dead, that it sent a shiver down both parents' spie. They both turned and found Robb staring, a blank look in his eyes.
"Had I kept my oath... had I not done as I wished... had I been a better King... half my army would not have deserted me... none of this would have happened."
Ned and Catelyn were at their son's side, the mother embracing her boy while the father put a hand on his head.
"Walder Frey broke Guest Rights. This is his fault" Ned said viciously.
"And I made it happen" Robb replied blankly. "Had I kept to my oath, had I acted as a King should have and kept a better eye on my prisoners and been a better king-"
Catelyn flinched into her son's shoulder. It may not have been said, but the message was there.
Had Robb punished Catelyn for releasing Jaime, had he acted as a King instead of acting as a Son, the Freys would have never done it.
"Good, you're all learning" Rickard's cold and rumbling voice made them all turn to him. Robb flinched at his grandfather's gaze and Catelyn couldn't meet his eyes.
"Father-"
"Is this not why we are here? To learn of things like this before they happen... so you may learn and not repeat them. Is that not why we are here? Why you are here?" Rickard asked. "Mistakes were made, but the vileness that Walder Frey has done, that is not on any of you, not a single one of you no matter how many mistakes you made led to it. Am I understood?"
Robb and Catelyn nodded, but neither of them looked any better.
"So are we just going to live with it? Knowing what they do to Robb and Mother and look them in the eyes when we return?" Arya asked angrily, her eyes red from crying.
"No," Ned said simply, his tone cold and with a hint of finality. "There is no doubt that more of those involved will surface. Other turncloaks, backstabbers and the like. Every single Northerner involved in this... I will make them all pay. I don't care whether they've done it or not, I will make sure none of them live. I will eradicate their entire bloodline if I have to."
Ned's declaration was met with... mostly fear. None of them had ever heard the Lord of Winterfell speak in this manner, never heard him ever utter such words. Hearing them from him felt... off. It felt out of place coming from his mouth.
There was a knock on the door before anyone could say anything in reply.
Jon went and answered the door, finding Theon standing there.
"What do you-"
Theon pushed past before Jon could finish his sentence. Large eyes scanned the room until they fell on Robb.
Robb stared back, but there was little in terms of reactions and emotions in them.
"You are not welcome here" Brandon the Elder growled out.
But Theon did not care for it. He barrelled past the Starks of Old and tackled Robb into a tight hug.
"I'm sorry" the boy whispered, clinging tightly to Robb as if letting go would mean Robb would vanish.
Robb did not react, not even when Theon's grip on him tightened further.
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For next few days none of the Stark's went to the theater room as they were still processing or were too angry o continue to watch.
Jon Snow on the other hand was busy sparring with Mya Stone, Daenerys Targaryen and Arya Stark.
Mya Stone needed to learn to control her strength and lao learn how to use that strength to fight. Dany and Arya on the other hand needed thier body to get used to their skills that they earned from the system.
For few hours Jon would fight with Danerys and Arya getting their body's nerves and muscles to adapt to their movements, thanks to the enhancement serum both of them were already halfway there and with time both of them would be able to use 100% of their skills.
The problem though was Mya Stone unlike Jon and the others she didn't gain fighting skills so she has the strength but no technique.
"How long do you think it would take me to become strong enough to not worry about my safety" Mya Stone asked as she swund her sword horizontaly.
Jon ducked under the swing the brought his own sword in na upward slash that Mya blocked, "You can already protect yourself Mya, thanks to the spider sense even ambushing won't work against you but you haven't really fought before so all this fighting is to get you used to your new senses."
Mya nodded than asked, "Jon, what do you think if I come to North as well!"
"Huh! What happened? Hasn't Jon Arryn tried to talk to you to bring you to Kingslanding." Jon Snow asked as he stopped the fight.
Mya also stopped and nodded her head, "Yeah, he has been trying to get me to talk to Robert Baratheon but that man still doesn't have it in him to come himself and talk to me why do I have to go to him as if I need him now after 17 years of my life. The only reason that they want me there now so that they can use me and my power, I asked Gendry if the king or his hand approached him to talk to him guess what they haven't."
"Maybe it's because Gendry already lives in Kingslanding so they don't have to talk to him about that" Jon Snow said
Mya shook her head, "Whatever the reason maybe I don't want to go to Kingslanding where I would become a pawn for there games"
"If that's what you want than sure come to North, though I have to tell you that if you meet me out there we won't be behaving like this." Jon Snow stated
"What do you mean?" Mya asked in confusion
"Well both of us has spider serum in our body. Me male and yours female, so I asked the system of it would affect us in any way and his answer was yes it would affect the two of us but as long as we are here it won't affect us" Jon Snow explained
"How would it affect us?" Mya Stone asked
"Don't know about that?" Jon Snow stated
"Can't we ask this room to changed the way as if we are back in real world" Mya Stone days as she really wanted to know how it would affect them and if it's dangerous or just inconvenient.
"That's.... Not a bad idea wait a second" Jon Snow said as he closed his eyes and changed the rooms features to be of the real world.
"Hisss" Mya Stone hissed in surprise as her sider sense flared with Jon's spider sense flared as well.
But that was just the beginning as both of them felt the unnatural attraction towards each other.
"Ahh shit!"